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The end of January has hit parts of Michigan with cold weather and an elusive thing called snow. This means here in our neck of the woods, especially with the forecast for February starting out quite cold, it’s the perfect time to wear your favorite sweater, grab your favorite hot beverage, and dive into some great literature.
If you’re in need of said great literature, did you know NewPages has a Guide to Independent Bookstores in Canada and the US? Yes, yes we do. So if you want to venture out to find your next great read, do check out our list for your state and if you see your favorite store is missing, let us know!
If you are also experiencing some of the crazy or cold winter weather and want to catch up on your submission goals, we’ve got a lot of new opportunities for you below! Also, if you’re looking to promote your latest book, NewPages offers mailing lists to help you out. We are currently running a special where you can buy select lists as data files and get a second list free!
Let these awesome literary magazines help chase away some winter weather blues. On the Magazine Stand you can find a full list of literary and alternative magazines with new issues available for the month of January. Learn more about several issues on this list including Issue 32 of Posit which offers much to cozy into with new work from Michael Brosnan, C Culbertson, Elisabeth Adwin Edwards, Sean Ennis, Peter Gurnis, Dennis Hinrichsen, Andrew Levy, Rahana K. Ismail, Jean Kane, and Julie Marie Wade.
Celebrate Months to Years 5-year anniversary with their Winter 2023 issue which consists of ten pieces of nonfiction, twelve poems, and four visual works exploring both the universality and unique-to-each-person aspects of death, grief, and loss. Issue 13 of Palooka features work by Jake Harrell, Shome Dasgupta, Michael Loyd Gray, Rachel R. Baum, Joel Peckham, Pamela Manasco, Sage Ravenwood, Naomi Rhema Edwards, Avery Bursey, and cover art by Tomislav Silipetar.
Love learning about new literary magazines? Discover New Note Poetry which is a “riff on Blue Note Records” a popular jazz record label that was Editor Nathan Nicolau’s biggest inspiration. Learn more about this journal that seeks to add a “new note” to poetry with experimental, avant-garde work. Keep an eye out for another New Lit on the Block post about Intrepidus Ink publishing later this week. You’ll also find new issue announcements from The Kenyon Review and Steam Ticket.
Our Book Stand features new and forthcoming titles from independent and university presses and is a great opportunity to find new books to add to your Must-Read list for 2023. Currently available to own, discover the Field Guide to the Human Condition by Adrian S. Potter which explores how one rebuilds oneself after grief, heartbreak, and challenges. John Lantigua’s In the War Zone of the Heart: Willie Cuesta Mystery Stories is a collection of twelve stories centered around PI Willie Cuesta. This collection illuminates the histories and issues of the numerous Latin American communities that call Miami home.
The long out of print Black Women Writers at Work edited by Cladia Tate is making a comeback for the new generation. This anthology features candid interviews with Maya Angelou, Toni Cade Bambara, Gwendolyn Brooks, Alexis De Veaux, Nikki Giovanni, Kristin Hunter, Gayl Jones, Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, Sonia Sanchez, Ntozake Shange, Alice Walker, Margret Walker, and Sherley Anne Williams.
Linda Lerner’s Taking the F Train see a NYC poet riding the F Train through the final years of the 20th century into the 21st century. The anthology Tending Iowa’s Land: Pathways to a Sustainable Future is edited by Cornelia F. Mutel. In a straightforward, friendly style, Iowa’s premier scientists and experts consider what has happened to the land and outline viable solutions that benefit agriculture as well as the state’s human and wild residents.
Coming in February 2023 discover Rooja Mohassessy’s When Your Sky Runs Into Mine, the winner of the 22nd annual Elixir Press Poetry Award. This is Mohassessy's debut collection. Space Cowboy Books is releasing the Complete Poems 1965-2020 by Michael Butterworth bringing more attention to a less-heard voice in modern poetry. George Choundas’ Until All You See is Sky is a collection of essays that serve as a report from the front lines of a first-generation American life.
Don’t forget to stop by the Book Stand throughout the week to discover more new titles from Lisa St. John and Joseph Hutchison.
NewPages Blog
Stay caught up at our blog. There you can take in short reviews, contest & book award winners, book & literary magazine news, new issues of literary magazines, new and forthcoming titles, and cultural & political news.
Get even more reading recommendations from our reviewers. Regular reviewer Kevin Brown tackles three different titles. First is Chuck Kosterman’s The Nineties: A Book which “helps redefine how we should view the nineties.” Next up is Jem Calder’s Reward System which is a collection of interlocking short stories following a group of British Millennials.
Chloé Cooper Jones shares with readers the physical pain and how others see her and how she sees herself with her congenital condition in Easy Beauty: A Memoir. “While her writing and travels help her develop an idea of beauty that includes her and her view of the world, ultimately her relationships help her find the beauty she already possesses.”
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Calls for Submissions
Driftwood Press – Anthology & Book Manuscript Submissions Open Now
Deadline: Year-round
Driftwood Press is happy to share a plethora of submission opportunities for writers and artists! For our yearly print anthology, we are looking for poems, short stories, comics, and visual art that will wow our readers, accepted as both contest and normal submissions. We are a paying market, and our published writers also get to take part in bespoke interviews about their work! Driftwood is also on the hunt for amazing book-length titles to grow our catalogue. If you have a novella, poetry collection, comic collection, or graphic novel manuscript, we would love to read it! If you have any writing or art that fits the above call, Driftwood Press would be honored to read it. Visit us here for our Submittable page, and we encourage you to follow us on social media (@driftwoodpress) to learn about even more submission opportunities!
Open Call for Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, & Craft Essays
Deadline: March 15, 2023
Allium, A Journal of Poetry & Prose publishes three issues each year: two online issues (Fall and Summer) and one print issue (Spring). Allium accepts simultaneous submissions, requests a maximum page length of five pages for poetry, fifteen pages (3,750 words, double-spaced, using a 12 pt. Times Roman font) for craft essays, fiction, hybrid, nonfiction, and creative nonfiction, and does not seek previously published work. We publish diverse creative voices, BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and neurodiverse communities that have been underrepresented in literature, and recognized and emerging writers. Our submission period begins October 15 and ends March 15. Visit Submittable.
Applause International Undergraduate Literary Journal Open For Submissions—Paying Venue
Deadline: February 14, 2023
Applause Issue 33: The (In)Evitable Ending. Evitable; adj. That admits of being avoided; avoidable. Applause is looking for the most interesting angles we can find as your work approaches its “evitable ending.” We begin knowing there’s an end, but the ending doesn’t have to be inevitable to satisfy the reader. Sometimes the end of “what actually happened” is really the poem, story, or essay’s beginning. Sometimes the piece decides the end. We’re looking for original poems, stories, essays, and visual art that showcases what happens when we avoid the avoidable. Imagine the ending. Avoid it. Send it to us.
Kings River Review Call for 2-Year College Student Submissions
Deadline: March 15, 2023
The Kings River Review publishes artwork, creative nonfiction, short fiction, and poetry of current 2-year community college students. Submission Deadlines: March 15 for the spring issue and October 15 for the fall issue. Submission Requirements: up to 5 pieces of artwork and photography sent as .JPEG files; creative nonfiction and fiction of up to 3,000 words; and up to 5 poems. Go to our website for full submission guidelines.
Dark Onus Press seeks Unsolicited, Micro-sized Manuscripts
Dark Onus Press is an experimental, independent publishing house which produces short volumes of poetry, short stories, flash fiction, and artwork. We are open year-round, read blindly, do not charge reading fees and do not charge you for your first batch of books if you publish with us. We are a micro-publisher of experimental work, publishing print books and ebooks. Our response time is two months. It is our mission to stay small and stay afloat for many years to come. We are self-funded and independent, intending to publish new and established authors and artists. Submissions now open. View submission guidelines.
Dark Onus Lit is seeking Submissions for Inaugural Issue
Dark Onus Lit is an experimental literary magazine which puts out micro-issues of poetry, short stories, flash fiction, audio and artwork. We are open year-round, read blindly, and do not charge reading fees. We appreciate dark-themed work. Our response time is 3 weeks. Please review our Masthead and Submission Guidelines pages for our leanings. We are looking for experimental, challenging work for our inaugural issue.
Heron Tree: Call for Found Poetry Submissions
Extended Deadline: February 15, 2023
Deadline extended to 15 February 2023! We are accepting found poems composed from sources published in or before 1927. We are interested in any and all approaches to found poetry construction and erased or remixed texts. Accepted poems will be published weekly on the Heron Tree website starting in February 2023 and will be included in a free, downloadable PDF volume available later in 2023. No fee. For detailed submission guidelines, visit us at our website.
Seeking Positive Stories of Sexual Intimacy after Abuse
Extended Deadline: February 28, 2023
Submit to submissions@celebrationsofhealing.com by February 28, 2023. Are you a writer and survivor of sexual abuse? Since you began your recovery, have you begun to experience moments of meaningful, joyful, sexual or sensual intimacy and exploration? Celebrations of Healing would love to hear your stories of sexual awakening and/or reawakening. We want to publish them to inspire other survivors and give hope to those who are just beginning their recovery journeys. All sexualities and genders are encouraged to submit. Stories can be published under pseudonyms to protect privacy. Deadline extended to February 28, 2023. For more information, see the Celebrations of Healing website.
Plant-Human Quarterly Seeks Poems and Essays for Upcoming Issues
Deadline: Year-round
Plant-Human Quarterly reads year-round. We seek unpublished or published poetry and essays that explore the myriad ways writers manifest their relationship to the botanical world—whether through heavily researched pieces, keen observation, or more intuitive ways of knowing—that attempt to communicate across boundaries and approach a plant’s-eye-view of the world. Send no more than 5 poems or an essay of no more than 1500 words (flash essay or essay excerpt) in a single word document. Past contributors include Ellen Bass, Forrest Gander, Kimiko Hahn, Brenda Hillman, Jane Hirshfield, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Pattiann Rogers, Scott Russell Sanders, Arthur Sze. Submission guidelines at our website.
Humana Obscura Open for Submissions of Nature Poetry, Prose & Art
Deadline: February 28, 2023
Humana Obscura is now accepting submissions of poetry, prose/short fiction (<1,000 words), and art with a nature theme for its 2023 Spring/Summer issue! Submissions will remain open until the end of February 2023. See our complete submission guidelines, as well as past issues, on our website.
Consequence Reading Period Now Open
Deadline: April 15, 2023
The reading period for Consequence Volume 15.2 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. 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. Thank you. View submission guidelines.
Third Street Review Open for Submissions
Deadline: March 24, 2023
The Third Street Review, a new quarterly literary journal, is open for submissions until March 24, 2023. We are looking for fiction, nonfiction, and creative nonfiction of under 1000 words, as well as poetry, art, and photography. We are a paying market looking for under-represented and new creators. Send us your wild, weird, uncanny and unclassifiable, or more traditional work. Situated in Laguna Beach, CA, we are literally on the edge. View website for more info.
Qua Magazine Seeks Submissions for Winter 2023 Issue
Deadline: March 5, 2023
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, Photography, etc. from anyone living in the state of Michigan. No submission fees. For the Winter 2023 issue, all submissions must be made by March 5th, 2023 here. (Art by Ra-Londa Southwell, published in the Qua Winter 2022 issue)
Palooka Seeks Chapbooks, Prose, Poetry, Artwork, Photography
Deadline: Year-round
Palooka is an international literary magazine. For over a decade we’ve featured new, up-and-coming, and established writers, artists, and photographers from around the world. We’re open to diverse forms and styles and are always seeking unique chapbooks, fiction, poetry, nonfiction, artwork, photography, and graphic narratives. Submissions open year-round. Visit our website for more info.
Woodcrest Magazine Call for Submissions
Deadline: March 10, 2023
With the events that occurred earlier this year regarding the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe vs Wade, we’ve had to participate in some difficult conversations regarding human rights, bodily autonomy, and protecting historically marginalized communities from being violated. We at Woodcrest invite you to participate in the conversation as we continue to navigate these issues moving forward. Please send us your poetry, prose, art, and photos so we can elevate the voices who have been affected but not heard. Please submit via our Submittable page.
Wordrunner eChapbooks seeks Fiction, Memoir/CNF, Poetry for Themed Anthology
Deadline: February 28, 2023
For our Spring 2023 anthology, we welcome fiction, memoir, creative nonfiction, poetry or prose-poems on the theme “Salvaged.” Submit your best work—a short story, personal narrative, novel or memoir excerpt (up to 5,000 words), three flash fictions (750-1000 words each), or three poems (up to one page each). Our preference is for emotional complexity. We are not interested in genre fiction unless it transcends genre. Work should not be previously published. Deadline: February 28, 2023. Publication of our 48th online chapbook will be mid-April. Submission fee: $3. Authors are paid ($10 to $25). Editor's Choice prose piece receives $50. Complete guidelines and submittable link at our website.
Clinch (Now a Paying Market) is Open for Submissions!
Deadline: April 1, 2023
Clinch—A Martial Arts Literary Magazine is now open for Issue 3 submissions AND is now a paying market! Clinch is now paying a $15 compensation to contributing artists upon Issue 3's publication. So send us your work that encompasses martial arts virtues in some way (doesn't have to be about martial arts explicitly, but it certainly can be!) to submissions@clinchlit.com. Visit our website for more details and happy submitting!
Split Rock Review Seeks Submissions for Issue 20
Deadline: March 31, 2023
Split Rock Review is an online journal run by volunteers that love literature, art, and the wilderness. We feature poetry, short creative nonfiction and fiction, comics, hybrids, interviews, book reviews, photography, and art that explore place, environment, and the relationship between humans and the natural world. We invite writers and artists to submit their work for consideration in Issue 20 (Spring/Summer 2023). We offer 200 FREE submissions this reading period. Tip Jar and Expedited submission options are also available for a nominal fee. Simultaneous submissions are OK. We encourage you to read past issues to see if we’re a good home for your work. We only accept submissions via Submittable. More info and guidelines visit our website.
Feminist Magazine Looking for Submissions about Dating and Relationships
Deadline: February 10, 2023
In the world of phones and apps, sexism in the dating world is quite apparent. From catcalling at bars, to sending dick pics without consent, to people lying to get phone numbers, to people stalking on social media, to queer people navigating apps designed for straight couples—dating in the modern world can be trying. It is full of people who still believe they have the audacity to not call someone back, or that they can be inappropriate because of the internet. They Don’t Call Us is a place for gender minorities to talk about their struggles while dating and revel in their successes with self-love and self-care.
Rockvale Review Seeks Submissions for Poetry, Short Fiction, and CNF
Deadline: March 31, 2023
We're reading for Issue Ten now and would love to see your work! We publish poetry, short fiction, and CNF. We're looking for writing that is bold and has an edge but is balanced with vulnerability and beauty. We read blind so no names on your work. This issue will be published online in May. Please read the full guidelines on our website.
Sunspot Lit Seeks Diverse Works
Sunspot Lit is one of the few journals publishing micro length up to longform fiction and nonfiction, graphic novels, and poetry alongside art. Our current open calls accept works of prose, including scripts and screenplays, from 4 words up to 29,000 words. Please note that while poets can enter up to three single-page poems and flash can be up to 2 pieces totaling 1,000 words, collections are not accepted. Send in your work through Submittable or Duotrope soon; longform calls close in February.
Main Squeeze Submissions Call
Deadline: February 17, 2023
We want prose with steel-toed boots and grandma candies in its pocket. Poetry that molds soft bellies into something with feet for brain walking. Nonfiction with a shovel in its car for ease of burying the body. Just make it brutal and beautiful. Human Condition, yes. Sacrificing everything at the altar of intensity, yes. Freakifying of work, yes. No ghosts. No fantasy that the only thing interesting is fantasy. Defamiliarizing the familiar, yes. No sky poems (unless it works). No breakups. No dead dogs. Relentless attempts at taking off readers’ heads, yes. Now until Feb. 17. View our full submission guidelines here.
College Newspaper Seeks Submissions for their Literary & Arts Section
Reading Period: September 1 to May 1
Submissions for the Anther are chosen by Visions Staff and Advisors from Passaic County Community College. Submissions are accepted primarily during our academic year and are open to PCCC students, NJ residents or students attending NJ colleges. Please include a short biography of 1-2 lines that includes your town or school of residence. For the month of February, we are focused on accepting work on the theme of "love" for Valentine's Day. See our website for full guidelines. Anther Journal responds to acceptances only within a 3–4-week window. Please be sure to include contact information that you check regularly. Submissions should be e-mailed as word documents or jpegs if art/photo to: Visions@pccc.edu.
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
An Intensive Online Writing Workshop Customized for You
Application Deadline: March 13, 2023
Event Location: Online. Have you ever wished you could attend your own private writing workshop that would teach you exactly what you need to know, at the right pace for you, and provide feedback and guidance in extensive one-on-one sessions? That's Your Personal Odyssey Writing Workshop. It's an intensive, personalized, one-on-one online workshop experience for writers of fantasy, science fiction, and horror. Your Personal Odyssey combines advanced lectures, expert feedback, and deep mentoring. You choose your pace (6 weeks, 12 weeks, 18 weeks) and choose which topics you want to cover. Among Odyssey graduates are award winners and New York Times bestsellers. View website for more info.
Scotland Writing Immersion in Edinburgh
Deadline: March 15, 2023
Event Dates: May 21-25, 2023. A generative and adventurous writing retreat on the Royal Mile Facilitated by memoirist-novelist Carolyn Dawn Flynn and poet-writer Jona Kottler. Let a city that loves writers embrace you as you immerse yourself in Edinburgh, Scotland, for five days and four nights of inspiring craft talks, mentored support, and a vibrant writer community. For writers of fiction, creative nonfiction, screenplays, and poetry, featuring mentored craft support and vision-making as well as Muse-dates all through the writing landscape of Edinburgh. Visit our website for more info.
Story Catalyst Writing Craft Classes
Deadline: Rolling
Our writing classes are cataclysmic! We deliver classes live, virtual, and on demand, and we wrap the classes in a dynamic writer community that is intellectually rigorous, vision-powered, and emotionally supportive. All classes include a free membership in the Story Catalyst community on Mighty Networks. Access by the class or sign up for all classes in the Story Catalyst track. Membership in the Story Catalyst track includes: 10 monthly classes and First-pass access to premium classes. We don’t believe in writer’s block. We believe skills + vision = happy writers. Join our warm and welcoming community. Visit website for more info.
Writing & Book Contests
The Anthony Grooms Prize in Short Fiction
Deadline: April 1, 2023
The Headlight Review Presents: The Anthony Grooms Prize in Short Fiction, a literary award honoring the work and literary contributions by former Kennesaw State MAPW Director, Anthony Grooms. Winning Entry will receive $250 and 25 free copies of their story (5.5” x 7.5”, saddle-stitch binding). Runners Up will be offered publication in The Headlight Review. The winner and runners-up will also receive a signed copy of Grooms’ book, The Vain Conversation. Entry fee $12 (via Submittable, payable by debit/credit card). Submission period: February 1 to April 1. For more details, go to our website.
Essay Collection Contest, judged by Maggie Nelson
Deadline: January 31, 2023
The 2022-2023 Fonograf Editions Essay Collection contest is for an author’s first or second essay collection. (If you have published more than one essay collection you are ineligible for this contest.) We are looking for innovative work that interrogates what an essay is or can be circa the 21st century. We like to be surprised. We like to be pleasantly stymied. We like directness and indirectness and everything in between. Maggie Nelson will be the final judge for the 2022-2023 Fonograf Editions Essay Collection contest. The winner will receive publication with Fonograf Editions, an honorarium of $1250, a standard royalty contract, and 20 author copies. We will announce our decision in mid- 2023. The winning book will be published in 2024. Visit website.
Driftwood Press — Fiction & Poetry Contests Deadlines This Month
Driftwood Press is happy to share a plethora of submission opportunities for writers and artists! Our In-House Fiction & Poetry Contests, in which every work submitted is considered for publication as winner or runner-up, is ending soon! For our yearly print anthology, we are looking for poems, short stories, comics, and visual art that will wow our readers, accepted as both contest and normal submissions. We are a paying market, and our published writers also get to take part in bespoke interviews about their work! Driftwood is also on the hunt for amazing book-length titles to grow our catalogue, so if you have a novella, poetry collection, comic collection, or graphic novel manuscript, we would love to read it! Visit us here for our Submittable page, and we encourage you to follow us on social media (@driftwoodpress) to learn about even more submission opportunities!
Prime Number Magazine Awards for Poetry and Short Fiction
Deadline: March 31, 2023
$1,000 first prize in each category plus publication in Prime Number Magazine. Two Runners-up in each category also published in Prime Number Magazine. Reading fee $15. Poetry judged by Felicia Mitchell, author of Waltzing with Horses. Short Fiction judged by Dennis McFadden, author of Jimtown Road: A Novel in Stories, winner of the 2016 Press 53 Award for Short Fiction. Open January 1 to March 31. Submit online through Submittable. Details at the Press 53 website.
Etchings Press Contests for Novella, Prose Chapbook, and Poetry Chapbook
Deadline: January 31, 2023
Etchings Press, a student-run publisher at University of Indianapolis, welcomes submissions for its annual contests for chapbooks in poetry and in prose and a novella. Students are interested in editing and publishing authors in our region within 370 miles of campus. Mixed genre and multiple author manuscripts are welcome. UIndy students will serve as judges and choose the winners in each category. They will then edit, design, publish, and promote the two chapbooks and the novella by May, 2023. Check eligibility and read contest guidelines on our website. Deadline is Jan. 31, 2023.
Cleaver's Form & Form-Breaking Poetry Contest
Deadline: March 31, 2023
Judge: Diane Seuss. $500 First Prize; $250 Second Prize; $100 Third Prize. Deadline: March 31. Show us your poems that hold up the perfect iambic pentameter of a Shakespearean sonnet or crash it on the rocks of free verse. Show us a villanelle with textbook patterning or show us the villanelle who just crashed her car. The one requirement is that your work engages with a form of poetry; whether it gets married to that form or breaks up at the last couplet is up to you. Prizewinners will be published in Cleaver's Fall Issue, September 2023. Finalists may also be offered publication. Visit website for more information.
2023 New American Poetry Prize
Extended Deadline: February 15, 2023
2023 NEW AMERICAN POETRY PRIZE. $1,500 and book publication. Final judge: Jamaica Baldwin, author of Bone Language (forthcoming 2023). Extended deadline: February 15, 2023. Minimum length: 48 pages (no maximum). Reading fee: $25. Online submissions only, please. Complete guidelines at the New American Press website.
New American Voices Award for Immigrant Writers
Deadline: March 31, 2023
The $5,000 post-publication book prize from Fall for the Book and the Institute for Immigration Research recognizes prose works that illuminate the complexity of the human experience as told by immigrants. Two finalists each will receive $1,000. All finalists will appear at the Fall for the Book Festival in October 2023. Past winners are Sindya Bhanoo, Patricia Engel, Lysley Tenorio, Melissa Rivero, and Hernán Díaz. $20 entry fee. Visit website.
Georgia Author of the Year Awards
Deadline: March 15, 2023
The Georgia Author of the Year Awards (GAYA) celebrates the best literature by Georgia writers. Published authors from or currently residing in Georgia are eligible for nomination. Awards in a variety of categories are announced and presented in June at the GAYA ceremony. We are interested in the following categories: Biography, Children's Book, Cookbook, Detective/Mystery, Essay, First Novel, LGBTQIA+, Graphic Novel, History, Inspirational, Literary Fiction, Memoir, Poetry Chapbook, Poetry Full-Length Collection, Romance, Science Fiction, Short Story Collection, Specialty Book, and Young Adult. Visit website for more info.
The Nimrod Literary Awards in Fiction and Poetry
Deadline: April 1, 2023
Submissions are open for the Nimrod Literary Awards, the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry and the Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction, with prizes of $2,000 and $1,000 and publication, as well as Awards Ceremony readings. Finalists and selected semi-finalists will be published and paid $10/page. For poetry, submit 3-10 pages; for fiction, one story, 7,500 words maximum. Manuscripts may be mailed or submitted online. Each entry must be accompanied by a $20 entry fee (additional $3 for online submissions), which includes a one-year subscription. Open internationally. Email nimrod@utulsa.edu or visit our website for complete rules.
2023 Able Muse Contests :: Submit Now (Poetry / Fiction / Poetry Manuscripts)
Deadlines: March 15 (Write Prize) & March 31 (Book Award)
2023 Able Muse Contests :: Submit Now—Write Prize (poetry & fiction): $500 each + publication. Final Judges: Chelsea Rathburn (poetry), Terese Svoboda (fiction); $15 entry; deadline: March 15, 2023. Book Award (poetry): $1000 + book publication. Final Judge: David Yezzi; $25 entry; deadline: March 31, 2023. Enter now—go to our website for details.
First Pages Prize Opens March 1st!
Deadline: April 10, 2023 (April 24 extended)
First Pages Prize invites you to enter your first 5 pages of a longer work of fiction or creative nonfiction. Prizes in both fiction & creative nonfiction. Open to un-agented writers worldwide, the prize supports emerging writers with cash awards, developmental mentoring, & an agent consultation. Prize closes April 10th (24th extended). Fee to submit. Visit our website.
The 2023 Orison Prizes in Poetry & Fiction
Deadline: April 1, 2023
The 2023 Orison Prizes in Poetry & Fiction offer $1,500 and publication by Orison Books for a full-length manuscript in each genre. Judges: Pádraig Ó Tuama (poetry) & David Heska Wanbli Weiden (fiction). Entry fee: $25. Entry period: December 1, 2022–April 1, 2023. For guidelines visit our website.
Wanted: Poems and Flash Fiction
Deadline: February 28 2023
Cloudbank awards a $200 prize for one poem or flash fiction in each issue. Deadline for Cloudbank 17 submissions is February 28, 2023. Full guidelines—and more—at the Cloudbank Books website. Revive us with your fire!
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