NewPages April 2025 eLitPak
Catch Up on the Latest Literary Opportunities: Submission Calls, Deadlines, Contests & Events
The NewPages eLitPak includes digital flyers from literary magazines, creative writing programs, writing conferences and events, and independent publishers. Discover calls for submissions, writing and book contests, application deadlines, upcoming events, new releases and issue announcements, and more.
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Reserve Now to Join Our Next eLitPak
Reserve your spot in an upcoming NewPages eLitPak. Reach our 6,000+ newsletter subscribers and have your flyer promoted on our blog and on our social media to our 30,000+ followers. Now accepting reservations for our May 2025 through April 2026 eLitPaks. Flyer order in the newsletter is based on order of reservations.
Livingston Press Changing Light Prize for a Novel-in-Verse
Deadline: May 25, 2025
Livingston Press announces it is seeking unpublished manuscripts preferably between 90 to 160 pages for its annual Changing Light Prize for a Novel-in-Verse. Past winners include Nicelle Davis and Michael George. No fee to submit. See flyer for more information and a link to the Livingston Press website.
$1,500 Tusculum Review Fiction Chapbook Prize
Deadline: June 15, 2025
Gordo author Jaime Cortez will select one story for this three-part award: a prize of $1,500, publication of the story in The Tusculum Review’s 21st volume (2025), and creation of a stand-alone chapbook with original art. The winning author will be celebrated at our live chapbook launch. See our flyer and website for guidelines and past contest winners, publications, and events.
Tremont Writers Conference in Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Application Deadline: May 15, 2025
Applications are open for the third annual Tremont Writers Conference, taking place this October inside Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Join renowned authors Crystal Wilkinson, David Joy, Karen Spears Zacharias, and Maurice Manning for an intensive five-day retreat for writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Financial aid is available. Learn more and apply at our website.
Welcome to Strangelove Country
“I have always enjoyed dealing with a slightly surrealistic situation and presenting it in a realistic manner. I’ve always liked fairy tales and myths, magical stories, supernatural stories, ghost stories, surrealistic and allegorical stories. I think they are somehow closer to the sense of reality one feels today than the equally stylized ‘realistic’ story in which a great deal of selectivity and omission has to occur in order to preserve its ‘realistic’ style.”—STANLEY KUBRICK, “Kubrick Country”
View flyer to learn more. Get your copy here.
Birds & Muses Literary Mentorship for Women & Nonbinary Writers
Deadline: Rolling
Realize your vision with acclaimed novelist, memoirist, editor Kate Moses, as invested in your story & your growth as you are. Taking writers under her wing for 3 decades. Recent mentees have won Pushcart Prize, Narrative Prize, Independent Book Publishers Association Medal, finalists for Greywolf Nonfiction Prize, Next Generation Indie Book Award. Substack: The Museletter with Kate Moses. For more information view flyer or visit website.
Last Syllable Book Awards in Poetry and Prose
Deadline: September 1, 2025
Open now until September 1, 2025! Last Syllable wants submissions of books of poetry or prose published in 2023-2025. Prize includes $1,000, travel expenses to San Diego (up to an additional $1,000), and a headlining feature in the PLNU M.A. in Writing program’s Visiting Writer Series. $25 entry fee. View flyer for more information. Full submission details at our website.
9th Annual Taos Writers Conference
JOIN us for SOMOS’ 9th Annual Taos Writers Conference, in beautiful Taos, New Mexico, July 25th—27th, 2025, featuring keynote speaker, memoirist, & poet, Nick Flynn (Another Bullshit Night in Suck City). Over twenty workshops in every genre. Conference includes receptions, keynote reading, lunch roundtable discussions on publishing, faculty readings, and book sales. FYI: view our flyer, visit our website, or call 575-758-0081.
Be Sure to Consider Stone Circle Review for Your Poetry
Deadline: Rolling
Stone Circle Review publishes a new poem every Saturday and Sunday on a website designed to foreground each poem on the page. We will respond within 28 days, and we make it as easy as possible to submit. We prefer poems containing striking imagery and language that are unexpected without being indecipherable. You will find more information at our website.
Pictura Journal: Online Submissions
Deadline: Rolling
Pictura Journal is open for submissions of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and visual art. General submissions are always free, and expedited responses are available for a small fee. We pay $5 per contributor; issues are available online and in print. See our website and our flyer for guidelines and more info.
Join Summer Words Writers Conference in Snowmass Village, CO!
Registration Deadline: June 1, 2025
Join us June 22-27 in Snowmass Village, CO! Three different workshops to ignite your creativity. Generative Writing to prompt the writer in you. Book Branding for guiding authors through a successful launch and beyond. Readers Retreat for the book lover. A week full of panels, community and inspiration. All in a beautiful, rocky mountain location. Open flyer to scan QR Codes for more information.