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Calls, Contests, & More
Here are the latest and featured calls for submissions and writing and book contests. Please note the ads featured here are paid listings. As a NewPages subscriber you receive early access to ads before they are posted to our site.
Submit for Interim's Print Issue
Deadline: September 1, 2022
Interim is looking for poems, art, essays and short fiction devoted to music for the 2022 Print Issue. We’re interested in work that is not so much “about” music, but rather enacts or composes, it. Send 3-5 poems, an artwork, essay, and/or short fiction to Claudia Keelan, Editor of Interim through our Submittable.
CHESTNUT REVIEW Invites Submissions Year Round
Chestnut Review (“for stubborn artists”) invites submissions year-round of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, art, and photography. We offer free submissions for poetry (3 poems), flash fiction (<1000 words), and art/photography (20 images); $5 submissions for fiction/nonfiction (<5k words), or 4-6 poems. Published artists receive $120. Notification in <30 days or submission fee refunded. We appreciate stories in every genre we publish. All issues free online which illustrates what we have liked, but we are always ready to be surprised by the new!
Consequence’s Fall Reading Period Now Open
Deadline: October 15, 2022
The reading period for Consequence Volume 15.1 is now open. As always, we are after any and all literary work or visual art that deals with the human consequences and realities of war or geopolitical violence as experienced by combatants, victims, or witnesses. We are especially interested in works of translation and fiction this time around. We also strongly encourage BIPOC and people from other under-represented communities to submit. Please spread the word. Have questions about what work we’re inclined to publish and/or how much we pay? Visit our FAQ. To submit, go here.
BreakBread Magazine Looking for Work From Young Creatives
Deadline: Rolling
BreakBread Magazine is a magazine for all young creatives between the ages of 13 and 25. We are always looking for vivid, timely poetry, nonfiction, short stories, comics, and visual arts (photography, illustrated narratives, and hybrid work) that explore new directions in arts and letters. Submissions are always free. Visit our submissions manager to send us your work. Check out our website for more information.
Cherry Tree Now Open for Submissions!
Deadline: October 1, 2022
Cherry Tree: A National Literary Journal would like to read your fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction through October 1, 2022. All accepted work is also considered for our distinctive Literary Shade section. Contributors receive $20 and 2 copies of the issue in which their work appears. Our $3 reading fee helps us to pay contributors and 10% of those fees will be donated to Minary's Dream Alliance, a community nonprofit organization with strong mentorship programs for at-risk youth. (The editors make a matching donation.) For more about what we're looking for and to read our guidelines, please visit our website.
Qua Magazine Seeks Submissions for Fall 2022 Issue
Deadline: October 2, 2022
Qua Literary and Fine Arts Magazine is a student-run publication of the University of Michigan-Flint. Founded over 50 years ago, we invite submissions of Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Poetry, Visual Arts, and Photography from anyone living in the state of Michigan. No submission fees. For the Fall 2022 issue, all submissions must be made by October 2, 2022 here.
Woodcrest Literary Journal Open for Submissions
Deadline: November 1, 2022 (or until we reach our limit)
Woodcrest is pleased to announce an open reading period. Submissions are now open and can be sent through Submittable. The literary journal of Cabrini University, Woodcrest aims to publish work that surprises and challenges the human experience. Please read our recent issue to familiarize yourself with our journal. We accept work from around the world and we want to hear from you. Visit our Submittable account to learn more and submit!
Syncopation Literary Journal: Volume 2, Issue 1
Deadline: November 1, 2022
Syncopation Literary Journal is an online publication that amalgamates music and literature. We are seeking poetry, flash fiction, and short stories for Volume 2, Issue 1. Theme: Speculative Fiction. Submissions should relate to music. We publish new and emerging writers. Find full submission details at our website.
Atmosphere Press Reading Book Manuscripts in All Genres
Deadline: Rolling
Atmosphere Press currently seeks book manuscripts from diverse voices. There's no submission fee, and if your manuscript is selected, we’ll be the publisher you’ve always wanted: attentive, organized, on schedule, and professional. We use a model in which the author funds the publication of the book, but retains 100% rights, royalties, and artistic autonomy. This year Atmosphere authors have received featured reviews with Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, and Booklist, and have even appeared on a giant billboard in Times Square. Submit your book manuscript at our website.
Literary Events & Writing Programs
The Daphne Review Mentorship Program (Rising Seniors Only)
Deadline: Rolling; Event Dates: Session II: September 5-26, III: November 7-28, 2022; Location: Virtual. Mentorship Program (Rising Seniors Only)! Both mentee and mentorship are now open! Apply to the 2022 Daphne Online Mentorship Program! We will be selecting 5-7 students to work with professional writers on a 1on1 basis. Our students have benefited greatly over the years. They’ve used the time to work on their existing body of work to get them published by literary magazines, win awards at Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, PYAA and gain acceptance to top colleges! Recent Daphne mentees have been accepted to Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Stanford, Columbia, and top creative writing programs, e.g., Iowa, Kenyon, Juniper, and Emerson!
Writing & Book Contests
$1500 each plus Publication - Poetry & Short Story
Extended Deadline: August 31, 2022
Kallisto Gaia Press sponsors two annual prizes of $1,500 each and publication in Ocotillo Review. Zoë Fay-Stindt will judge the Julia Darling Memorial Poetry Prize; Jen Knox will judge the Chester B. Himes Memorial Short Fiction Prize. Submit up to three poems of no more than 65 lines each or a story of up to 4,200 words with a $20 entry fee, which includes a copy of Ocotillo Review, by August 31. Visit Submittable for guidelines. Proceeds are donated to the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Disease and the MD Anderson Foundation for Breast Cancer.
Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest
Deadline: September 30, 2022
20th year, sponsored by Winning Writers. Win $3,000 for a poem in any style and $3,000 for a poem that rhymes or has a traditional style. Total prizes: $8,000. The top two winners will also receive two-year gift certificates from our co-sponsor, Duotrope (a $100 value). Both published and unpublished work accepted. Winning entries published online. Submit 1-3 poems for a $20 entry fee. Length limit: 250 lines per poem. Judged by S. Mei Sheng Frazier. This contest is recommended by Reedsy. Winning Writers is one of the "101 Best Websites for Writers" (Writer's Digest, 2022). See past winners, advice from the judge, and submit online at our website.
The St. Lawrence Book Award for Debut Poetry and Prose
Deadline: August 31, 2022
Each year Black Lawrence Press will award The St. Lawrence Book Award for an unpublished first collection of poetry or prose. The St. Lawrence Book Award is open to any writer who has not yet published a full-length manuscript in any genre. The winner of this contest will receive book publication, a $1,000 cash award, and ten copies of the book. Prizes are awarded on publication. For more details and information about how to submit your manuscript, follow this link.
$1,000 + Publication: New Letters Editor's Choice Award
Deadline: October 17, 2022
The New Letters’ Editor’s Choice Award is now accepting entries for experimental work that crosses the traditional boundaries of genre and form. Enter your hybrid work—your lyric essays, prose poems, short-shorts, collages, micro-memoirs. . . whatever you’re doing that’s experimental, that defies easy categorization. The maximum word count is 8,000 and entries must be previously unpublished. The winner will receive $1,000 plus publication in New Letters. Visit New Letters' website for guidelines and to enter online via Submittable.
Button Poetry Seeks Video Submissions
Deadline: August 31, 2022
Button Poetry is now accepting entries for the 2022 Video Contest. We are looking for brave poetry that crosses borders or effaces them completely, work that enters into larger social conversations, work that lives in the world, work with a strong, unique voice and palpable energy. The winner will receive $500 and be featured across our social media, which collectively has 5M+ followers. Finalist Judge: Sabrina Benaim, author of Depression & Other Magic Tricks. The contest closes August 31, 2022. Find guidelines at our website.
MAYDAY Creative Nonfiction Prize
Deadline: October 1, 2022
$1,000 award and publication. Deadline: October 1, 2022. To submit, send an essay (2,000–7,500 words) exploring the theme of “Disappearance” (of people, places, things, etc.). Final judge: Darin Strauss, bestselling author of several books, including the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning memoir Half a Life and most recently the acclaimed novel The Queen of Tuesday: A Lucille Ball Story. Reading fee: $20. Online submissions only, please. Complete guidelines: www.maydaymagazine.com/contests.
Whitefish Review's "Montana Prize for Humor" Judged by Garrison Keillor
Deadline: September 30, 2022
Think you’re funny? Know someone else hilarious? Submit your humorous fiction, nonfiction, and poetry for a chance to win the Montana Prize for Humor and $500 in each category! Legendary writer and funny man Garrison Keillor is the final judge! Have your writing published in Whitefish Review, a nationally acclaimed journal published twice yearly from Montana to illuminate the landscape of the human condition, our connection to the natural world, and the confluence of art and science. It features distinctive voices of both well-known and emerging authors and artists. All are welcome to submit! Submissions Here!
The Missouri Review's 32nd Annual Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize
Deadline: October 1, 2022
The Missouri Review invites entries for its 32nd annual Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize. Winners receive $5000, publication, and promotion. Fiction or nonfiction entries up to 8,500 words, poetry entries up to 10 pages. Regular entry fee: $25. All-Access entry fee: $30. All entrants receive a 1-year digital subscription to the Missouri Review and a digital copy of Missouri Review Books’ sixth offering, Hello, I Love You, featuring previous contributors. All-Access entrants receive the same plus access to the past decade of digital issues of TMR. All entries considered for publication. Guidelines and further info here. Deadline: October 1.
Fifth Annual Open Book Prize—$1,500 and Publication
Deadline: November 1, 2022
Our fifth annual open book prize is accepting manuscripts. If you have a manuscript or know someone who does, please give us a shot. Open to any poet writing in English regardless of previous publication record, the prize seeks to represent the best contemporary writing in high-quality editions of enduring value. Prospective entrants are encouraged to familiarize themselves with Conduit, which champions originality, intelligence, irreverence, and humanity. Previously unpublished manuscripts of 48-90 pages should be submitted through our Submittable page or via the USPS. Please visit www.conduit.org/book-prizes for details.
Find more great calls and contests on our website:
Planisphere Q Seeks Flash Fiction, Vignettes, Character Sketches, and Poetry
Hole In The Head Review Now Accepting Submissions
Gemini Magazine 14th Annual Flash Fiction Prize
Puerto del Sol's 2022 Poetry and Prose Annual Contests $1,000
The NewPages Classified section is updated throughout the week giving you news and info on the latest contest and calls.
News from NewPages
If you enjoy discovering new literary journals, you’ll love Denise Hill’s New Lit on the Block series. Recently featured is oranges journal which “continues to expand the boundaries of style and content, responding to the changing world around us and venturing into new territories.”
Speaking of journals, don’t forget to check out our Magazine Stand for the latest from your favorite digital and print journals. Recently featured is Feminist Studies Volume 48.1 in which they celebrate 50 years of publication. Posting this week, find the Spring 2022 issue of Zone 3 which offers readers an “eclectic mix of writing with the common denominator of stunning opening lines that won’t let go” while Issue 34.1 of The Gettysburg Review features paintings by Carrie Moyer along with writing by Holly Beth Pratt, Anne-Marie Thompson, William Olsen, Leila Mohr, and many others.
Did you know Southern Humanities Review offers several pieces from each issue to read online? While you’re checking that out, don’t forget to grab a copy of Issue 55.2 which features work by George Estreich, Saran Hanning, tano rubio, MimiPrint, and more. If you’re working on submissions to Cherry Tree’s next issue, do grab Issue 8 which features work by Anthony Aguero, Su Hwang, Elaine Wang, Jose Hernandez Diaz, Denise Duhamel, and more. Months to Years Summer 2022 features creative works of twenty-five writers, poets, photographers, and artists with a range of voices and perspectives. They offer a digital flipbook, downloadable PDF, and a web-based experience of each work available for free with glossy magazine copies available via Blurb. Get a full list of new magazine issues here.
If you’re also looking for some great new books to add to your reading list, don’t forget to drop by the Book Stand for new and forthcoming titles from indie and university presses. Currently available to own, enjoy Salem Revisited by Charles K. Carter which examines homophobic and transphobic violence in the United States; To Sleep With Bears by Steve Nickman which offers up poems about “praise and amazement, as well as connection and the loss of it”; Fantasy Kit by Adam McOmber featuring strange and sometimes horrific stories; and Unlettered Longings by Abin Chakraborty in which the poems “are reflective of such longings, at times foolish, at times desperate, at times mundane, but always authentic.”
Ann V.Q. Ross’ Flutter, Kick, which plumbs motherhood, migration, childhood, and the cycles of violence and renewal that recur in each, is due out from Red Hen Press in November while you can get Ron Koertge’s I Dreamed I was Emily Dickinson’s Boyfriend from them in October. Koertge’s latest collection solidifies his reputation as a poet who is both very funny and also very serious. Featuring this week: Creature Features by Noel Sloboda which draws on inspiration from several sources with the majority centering on classic monsters.
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