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Missouri Review’s Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize Deadline Extended!

Extended Deadline: October 21, 2024

The Missouri Review invites entries for the 34th annual Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize. Winners receive $5000 in cash, publication in the Spring 2025 issue …
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Submit to Ploughshares! Our Reading Period Is Open Until January

Deadline: January 15, 2025 at 12PM EST

Ploughshares is dedicated to finding and promoting the best contemporary voices in literature. Send us your poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and longform works by January 15, …

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Magazine Stand :: Blue Collar Review – Summer 2024

This issue encourages readers to “work to best effect the system we have in our own defense while building the next system beneath it.”
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Where to Submit Roundup: October 4, 2024

36 Submission Opportunities including calls for submissions, writing contests, and book prizes. It’s officially October! Now is truly the month of spooky season! Spookiest thing of all…? I still have made no headway on my goals of submitting. I hope you are doing better on this end of things. Need …

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