Happy August! It’s officially the last full month of summer. Hopefully you have time to enjoy yourself and catch up on some great readings (lit mags and books from indie presses, anyone?) while also keeping your submissions goals going strong. The first of the month always means lots of new opportunities, so don’t forget to check those out below. Also, don’t forget to check out our Big List of Writing Contests for those with deadlines this month.
Our blog has some new clothes. Hopefully you are enjoying the redesign and all the great new titles and new issues of literary magazines featured on it. Included recently on the Book Stand, find the Colored page by Matthew E. Henry - “a visceral meditation on the multi-layered experience of a Black body in educational spaces”; Intimacies in Borrowed Light - Darius Stewart’s first book-length collection of poetry; and Whistling to Trick the Wind by Bart Edelman which focuses on what it means to live a full life as the countdown nears the end.
Coming in October is Ron Rindo’s Breathing Lake Superior which follows Cal Franklin who uproots his wife and teenaged children to a ramshackle subsistence farm following the death of his youngest child. Don’t forget to stop by our Book Stand throughout the week for more new book announcements.
In literary magazine news, enjoy the penultimate issue of Crazyhorse. The Spring 2022 issue features the winners of the 2022 Crazyhorse Prizes in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry. Their final issue under the name Crazyhorse will be forthcoming this Fall. After that, their next issue will be under their new name swamp pink. Speaking of Spring 2022 issues, grab your copy of The Iowa Review’s spring issue which includes a portfolio on Poetic Black Resiliency.
Also available, dive into Sky Island Journal’s Summer 2022 issue to enjoy well-established authors alongside fresh, emerging voices and Hippocampus Magazine’s July/August 2022 issue featuring creative nonfiction by Kathy Davis, Sally Johnson, Terrie Lewis, Lotus May, and more. Swing the by the Magazine Stand throughout the week to discover more of the latest issues from great magazines.
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Calls, Contests, & More
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Kings River Review Call for 2-Year College Student Submissions
Deadline: October 15, 2022
The Kings River Review publishes artwork, creative nonfiction, short fiction, and poetry of current 2-year community college students. Submission Deadlines: October 15 for the fall issue and March 15 for the spring 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.
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.
Palooka Seeks Chapbooks, Prose, Poetry, Artwork, Photography
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 website to learn more.
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.
Pensive Seeks Submissions for Spring 2023 Issue
Deadline: November 15, 2022
Pensive: A Global Journal of Spirituality & the Arts, innovative online publication from Northeastern University, welcomes unpublished poetry, prose, visual art, translations. Visit our website; submit via Submittable February 1-May 15 or August 1-November 15. No fee. Historically underrepresented and international voices encouraged. Recent contributors include Baca, Bruchac, M. Collins, Chess, Cording, Espada, Glancy, Hoffman, Lea, Marchant, D.S. Martin, MEH, Metres, Piercy, Samaras, Sholl, and more. Spring issue is opened-themed, with special section on spiritual responses to current events & voices from "inside” and “outside" (e.g. incarcerated, homeless, refugee communities, and their allies).
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. (Art by Ra-Londa Southwell, published in the Qua winter 2022 issue)
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.
Plus more calls for submissions at our website:
Spring 2023 Issue of Valley Voices Seeks Work on Goodbye
Fleas on the Dog is Open 4 Submissions
Club Plum Seeks Literary Horror & Other for October 2022
Works Progress Calling for Fiction Submissions
About Place Journal Call for Submissions: Center of Gravity
Literary Events & Writing Programs
The Daphne Review Mentorship Program (Rising Seniors Only)
Deadline: Rolling; Event Dates: Session I: July 25 - August 15, 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!
Register for Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop (in person or virtually)
Deadline: October 1, 2022 (or until sold out)
The nationally renowned Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop will feature celebrated comedians and authors, including "Cathy" cartoonist Cathy Guisewite, "Saturday Night Live" legend Laraine Newman, New York Times' bestselling authors W. Bruce Cameron and Adriana Trigiani, screenwriter Cathryn Michon, improviser Dion Flynn, and award-winning author Katrina Kittle. Your registration includes meals, keynote talks, choice of dozens of workshops, and a complimentary virtual package of the keynotes and Pitchapalooza. Learn more about in-person and virtual options and join us for a long weekend of laughter and learning!
Writing & Book Contests
Cleaver's Summer Flash Contest—Deadline Extended!
Extended Deadline: August 15, 2022
Enter Cleaver's Summer '22 Flash Contest judged by Meg Pokrass. Open theme, any topic for flash fiction and nonfiction up to 500 words. Deadline extended until August 15. $500 first prize; $250 second prize, $100 first prize. Prizewinners will be published in Cleaver’s Winter Issue, December 2022. Finalists may also be offered publication.
$1500 each plus Publication - Poetry & Short Story
Deadline: August 20, 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 20. 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.
Plus more writing contests at our website:
Puerto del Sol's 2022 Poetry and Prose Annual Contests $1000
The Coniston Prize from Radar Poetry - Deadline: August 1!