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It seems that November just started and is already half over. Before you know it, Thanksgiving will be upon us and the next thing you know 2022 will be over and we’ll be starting a new year.
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Speaking of submission opportunities, there are a ton of mid-month deadlines coming up! Like don’t forget Carve’s Prose & Poetry Contest ends on November 15.
Looking for a literary refreshment? Stop by the NewPages Magazine Stand to catch up on the latest issues of your favorite journals. New Letters’ Summer/Fall 2022 issue opens with Editor Christie Hodgen exploring Nikolai Gogol’s “The Overcoat” as well as Frank O’Connor’s analysis of it in relation to what the journal looks for in their submissions selection. Meanwhile Bellevue Literary Review’s latest issue is themed “Recovery.” Editor-in-Chief Danielle Ofri comments “Literature can never offer a ‘how-to’ manual for recovery—that we’ll leave to the strategists of the world. Rather, it offers an opportunity to grapple with the individual strands of our lives, teasing out one tiny aspect to ripple slowly through our fingers.”
Focusing on the experiences of disability through literature and the fine arts, Kaleidoscope’s Summer/Fall 2022 issue contains nuggets of contentment and acceptance from contributors Marcia Pradzinski, Nancy Deyo, Troy Reeves, Kirie Pedersen, Evelyn Arvey, Sylvia Melvin, Cristina Hartmann, John William, Kale Bandy, Jen Eve Taylor, Doug Tanoury, Dina S. Towbin, Mary Wemple, Colleen Anderson, Levi J. Mericle, and Sandra J. Lindow. Issue 24 of The Common gives readers the chance to explore the creative possibilities of disaster; ponder the responsibility of telling others’ stories; and reflect on the power dynamics that arise along racial, religious, and regional lines.
Online literary magazine Sky Island Journal’s Fall 2022 issue features work by Adrianna Sanchez-Lopez, Amanda Leal, Amy Marques, Angela Williamson Emmert, Barun Saha, Carly Taylor, Christian Knoeller, Cristina Legarda, Daniela Paraguya Sow, Doug Jacquier, and Erin Olson, to name a few. Join in celebrating a quarter of a century of publishing with the release of Water~Stone Review’s 2022 issue. Executive Editor Meghan Maloney-Vinz writes they are grateful for their long ride which is a rarity in a world saturated with a myriad of different places and ways to publish.
The Fall 2022 issue of LILIPOH: The Spirit in Life includes articles on educator self-care, safety in storytelling, implicit requests from young children, hypersensitivity, and so much more. As Veteran’s Day was last week, what a perfect time to read the November 2022 issue of The Wrath-Bearing Tree - a journal established by combat veterans and maintained by a diverse board of veterans, military spouses, and writers compelled by themes of social justice and human resilience.
Looking for some great literary titles to pick up to devour during the upcoming holidays? Stop by the NewPages Book Stand to discover your next read. And the best part? It’s calorie free so no guilt!
Now available, enjoy Ohio Poet Laureate Kari Gunter-Seymour’s second full-length collection Alone in the House of My Heart which features candid, lyrical poems about Appalachia’s social and geographical afflictions and affirmations. Dolore Minimo is Giovanna Cristina Vivinetto’s first collection which charts the course of her gender transition. This volume is translated by Gabriella Fee and Dora Malech. W.H. New’s In the Plague Year reveals how from March 2020 to March 2021 people coped with the threat of the pandemic and is filled with love and death, laughter and loss, the price of isolation, and the cost of staying alive.
Due out this month, discover The Contemporary Leonard Cohen: Response, Reappraisal, and Rediscovery edited by Kait Pinder and Joel Deshaye. This book examines the diversity of Cohen’s art in the wake of his death, positioning him as a contemporary, multi-media artist whose career was framed by the twentieth century and neoliberal contexts of its production. Coming next month is Ansgar Allen’s The Wake and the Manuscript which recounts the story of a nameless man who attends a funerary wake with no other distraction than papers that once belonged to the body on display.
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Below are this week’s writing contests, calls for submissions, and literary and writing events. Enjoy more than 20 opportunities to get your work published or to enhance your writing craft. Paid subscribers get first and early access to these opportunities every Monday afternoon. Free subscribers receive access to these opportunities the following Monday.
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. Subscribers with paid subscriptions receive early access to ads before they are posted to our site.
RCC MUSE art + literary journal – poetry and prose submissions open
Deadline: December 15, 2022
MUSE is especially looking to publish work from under- or misrepresented groups, such as people of color, disabled people, LGBTQ+, present/formerly incarcerated people, and others from a culturally and linguistically diverse background. Through DEC. 15: submit one short story or CNF 1500 words max; up to three poems. Mail to RCC MUSE, Riverside City College, 4800 Magnolia Avenue, Riverside, CA 92506 or email muse@rcc.edu. If email, send as attachment with “Last Name – Genre – Title of Submission” in the subject line (e.g., Smith – Prose – “In Summer”). Please include contact information. See full submission guidelines at the RCC Muse website.
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.
Call for Submissions - great weather for MEDIA
Deadline: January 15, 2023
great weather for MEDIA seeks poetry, flash fiction, short stories, dramatic monologues, creative nonfiction, and cross-genre for our annual print anthology. Our focus is on the unpredictable and experimental. Please visit our website for guidelines. We look forward to reading your work.
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.
Third Street Review
Deadline: Rolling
Third Street Review is a new online literary journal for flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, art, and photography. We are a paying market and welcome work from writers and artists from all cultural backgrounds and experience levels. For complete submission guidelines, please visit our website.
Seeking Stories of Sexual/Sensual Exploration and Discovery Post-Abuse
Deadline: December 20, 2022
Celebrations of Healing is seeking autobiographical stories of meaningful, uplifting, sensual and/or erotic moments of intimacy and discovery written by people of all genders, sexualities, abilities, and ethnicities who have previously experienced sexual abuse. People who have not often seen themselves reflected in the existing discourse about sexual recovery are especially encouraged to submit. Submissions are due December 20, 2022. For more information, please see Celebrations of Healing website.
Faith Journal The Unmooring Seeks Nonfiction & Art
Deadline: December 1, 2022
The Unmooring Journal is open for submissions of writing (essays, articles, liturgies), art, and photography from women and female-identifying contributors for Issue 5—which is not a themed issue—and we will accept pieces covering a broad range of faith topics. All published pieces receive $50 stipend. Submission fee of $3 waived if financial need. Submit at our website through December 1, 2022. For more on The Unmooring’s (a 501c3 organization) mission of amplifying the voices of women of faith, go to our website. International contributors welcome.
iō Literary Journal: Submit to our Second Open-access e-book!
Deadline: December 31, 2022
Submit your work to our second open-access e-book is open! See flyer for prompt and instructions on how to submit. Visit our website.
Book of Matches Seeks Submissions
Deadline: December 1, 2022
In an age dominated by our worst tendencies for tribalism, it's more important than ever to celebrate the best in humanity through the very real magic of words. Book of Matches is always interested in protest—interested in protest against the unknowing alive in human existence, in protest against the knowing, too. In essence, Book of Matches celebrates what burns in the dark, and too the assurance of how little this illuminates before going out. Send your most meaningful lies, real lives, and poetry of both that we may see a bit more clearly the stormy seas around us all.
Textual-Sexual-Spiritual: Art and Ritual as Queer Becoming
Deadline: December 15, 2022
This issue of Rejoinder addresses the relationships between text/artwork, sexuality, and spirituality to navigate tensions of being and becoming. The idea of ‘‘queer becoming” involves not only never “straightening up” and “flying right,” but also the possibility of “one’s becoming something other than queer” (McCallum and Tuhkanen 2011, 10-11). How do our approaches to “becoming” allow us to cultivate community, extend work, shape praxis, guide pedagogy, and beyond? We invite interdisciplinary contributions (nonfiction/fiction, poetry, and artwork) that use a queer feminist lens. More information and submission information at our website. Guest Editor: Dr. Jocelyn E. Marshall (Emerson College).
Club Plum Seeks Strange, Beautiful, Profound and Political Works
Deadline: January 1, 2023
Club Plum has published works from award winning writers and artists from around the world as well as works from never before published creators. We look for beautiful and surprising writing, strange writing from small, tortured spaces, and writing that bridges the personal and political. Send us your prose poems, your flash fiction, your lyric essays and your dreamy art. Please join us as we kick off our fourth year in January 2023. See our guidelines at our website.
Exploration and Catharsis: Mental Illness and The Awakenings Review
Deadline: Year-round
The Awakenings Review is an award-winning literary magazine committed to publishing poetry, short stories, nonfiction, and photography by writers, poets, and artists who have a relationship with mental illness, either self, family member, or friend. Located in the Chicago area but international in scope, our hardcopy publication, soon to be published biannually (beginning in Spring 2023), is one of the nation’s leading journals of this genre. At The Awakenings Review, our aim is to provide a forum and liberating experience for our contributors and a vehicle of insight for our readers. Refer to our submission guidelines 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
Apply Now for the Looking Glass Rock Writers' Conference
Deadline: December 15, 2022 Event Dates: May 18-21, 2023 Event Location: Brevard, North Carolina. Located in the mountains of western North Carolina, the May 18-21, 2023 Looking Glass Rock Writers’ Conference will explore the theme “A Sense of Place” with faculty Camille Dungy, Jamie Ford, and Margaret Renkl leading workshops on poetry, fiction, and nonfiction writing. A partnership between the Transylvania County Library and Brevard College, the annual conference consists of writing workshops for select participants and community readings by the workshop leaders. Workshops are limited to 12 participants and scholarships are available. Acceptance is competitive and based on manuscript evaluation. There is no charge to apply. For more information visit our website.
Writing & Book Contests
RCC MUSE literary journal – Holden Vaughn Spangler Award for a poem about a child or childhood
Deadline: December 15, 2022
MUSE is especially looking to publish work from under- or misrepresented groups, such as people of color, disabled people, LGBTQ+, present/formerly incarcerated people, and others from a culturally and linguistically diverse background. Winner receives $200 and publication in Spring 2023 edition of RCC MUSE. $5 submission fee, by check payable to “RCC MUSE” or Venmo @RCCMUSE. Submit up to 3 poems about a child or childhood, through Dec. 15: Spangler Award, RCC MUSE, Riverside City College, 4800 Magnolia Ave., Riverside, CA 92506. Also accepting submissions at muse@rcc.edu. Please email attachment (prefer .doc) with "LastName – Spangler Award – Title" in the subject line. Do not put submissions in the body of the email. Please include contact information. IG: @rccmuse. See full submission guidelines at our website.
2023 Press 53 Award for Short Fiction
Deadline: December 31, 2022
2023 Press 53 Award for Short Fiction is awarded to an outstanding, unpublished collection of short stories. Reading Fee: $30. Award: $1,000 cash advance, publication, and fifty copies (35 softcover/15 hardcover). Enter: Submit online with Submittable or by mail from September 1–December 31, 2022. Press 53 short fiction editor in chief Claire V. Foxx will serve as the only judge. Winner and finalists announced by May 1, 2023; advance review copies sent to major reviewers and outlets; publication in May 2024. Complete details at Press 53's website.
2023 New American Poetry Prize
Deadline: January 15, 2023
2023 NEW AMERICAN POETRY PRIZE. $1,500 and book publication. Final judge: Jamaica Baldwin, author of Bone Language (forthcoming 2023). Deadline: January 15, 2023. Minimum length: 48 pages (no maximum). Reading fee: $25. Online submissions only, please. Complete guidelines at the New American Press website.
Interim Poetics: The Test Site Poetry Prize
Deadline: December 15, 2022
Interim will choose two winning books for the series—one title publicized as the winner of The Test Site Poetry Series and the other as the Betsy Joiner Flanagan Award in Poetry. Both winners will receive $1,000 and their books will be published by the University of Nevada Press. Submit by: December 15. Visit Interim Poetics website.
Carve Magazine 2022 Prose & Poetry Contest
Deadline: November 15, 2022
Carve Magazine's Prose & Poetry Contest is open October 1 - November 15. Accepting submissions from all over the world, but work must be in English. Max 10,000 words for fiction and nonfiction; 2,000 words for poetry. Prizes: $1,000 each for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. All 3 winners published online in Spring 2023. Entry fee $17 online only. Guest judges are Maurice Ruffin for fiction; Thirii My Kyaw Myint for nonfiction; and David J. Daniels for poetry. See our site for more information.
4th Annual Short Short Story Contest to Support Literacy
Deadline: January 15, 2023
Flash Fiction Contest. Write a story using 100 words on one of four topics: dogs, ocean, umbrellas, or winter. Grand prize: $200. 6 Other Prizes: $100 including a Youth Prize for writers 14 years and younger. Publication in an e-magazine. No geographical restrictions but story must be written in English. The Contest supports Ethos Literacy, a nonprofit providing free reading, writing and ESL tutoring to adults. Fee: $12.
Sandy Crimmins National Prize for Poetry
Deadline: November 30, 2022
The Sandy Crimmins National Prize for Poetry is an annual national poetry prize featuring a first place $1,000 cash award. Three runners up will each receive a $250 cash award. The winning and runner up poems are published in the Spring issue. These poems and honorable mentions appear online. The Crimmins Prize celebrates risk, innovation, and emotional engagement. We especially encourage poets from underrepresented groups and backgrounds to send their work.
I-70 Review Announces the Bill Hickok Humor Award for Poetry 2023
Deadline: February 28, 2023
I-70 Review announces the Bill Hickok Humor Award for poetry. The winner receives $1,000, and the poem will appear in I-70 Review 2023. Submit one to three poems with a $15 entry fee to i70review@gmail.com. Reading period: January 1 to February 28. No submissions before January 1. Submissions will be eligible for publication in I-70 Review. The judge reader is Christopher Buckley. For more info email us at the above-stated email address.
The Blossom Contest - BIPOC Writers Only; No Fee
Deadline: January 1, 2023 - 5:00 p.m.
table//FEAST Literary Magazine's major contest is The Blossom Contest which is for BIPOC writers only. There is no fee to enter. One Prose winner will receive $200.00 USD and one Poetry winner will receive $200.00 USD. We prefer to do payouts with Venmo or PayPal. There is no specific theme. "This year's mission is about nourishment & resilience. What breaks through soil & hardship - what blossoms into the light. People of color will not be stopped. We as a magazine will not be stopped. We will all grow." - The Editors of t//F
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