NewPages Guide to Calls for Submissions
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Kings River Review Call for 2-Year College Student Submissions
Deadline: Rolling
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 kingsriverreview.com for full submission guidelines.
Club Plum Seeks Works for January 2025 Issue
Deadline: December 25, 2024
Club Plum seeks flash fiction, flash nonfiction, creative nonfiction, prose poetry and art for our January 2025 issue. We like strange, beautiful and meaningful work. We like sad. We like lyrical. We like surprising and scary. We like political when it is your personal. We have published award-winning authors alongside those who have never been published before. We want your pain and your beauty, crafted with precision and love. We are particular and discerning creatures who like good company. We like small spaces that contain tortured worlds and glimmers of hope. Please read our guidelines before sending: clubplumliteraryjournal.com/submit/.
Call for Metamodern Submissions
Deadline: February 1, 2025
Jokes Literary Review is seeking stories, nonfiction, or poems that could be considered metamodern. Any work that oscillates between modern enthusiasm and postmodern irony qualifies. We’re especially seeking works that challenge or help to clarify this relatively new way of looking at the world. If you’re not sure if your piece is metamodern, go ahead and submit and let us decide! For more details, see our submissions page or send submissions directly to: [email protected].
ISSUED: Call for Submissions
Deadline: January 15, 2025
ISSUED, a journal of veteran and military-affiliated creative writing at Arizona State University, is looking for poetry and flash prose by active-duty military, veterans, and family members that expresses the spectrum of experiences within military life—e.g. gender and sexuality, BIPOC experiences, physical and mental health, combat, enlisting and separating, family and relationships, and reintegration into society. Submit up to 3 poems, 1 piece of flash prose (1200 words or fewer), or visual art in any genre, to [email protected] by January 15, 2025. Please include a bio (100 words or less) that includes your military affiliation. issuedjournal.com
Call for Submissions: Jewish Fiction
Deadline: Year-round
Jewish Fiction (www.jewishfiction.com), a prestigious literary journal, invites submissions for its Winter and Spring issues. Jewish Fiction (formerly Jewish Fiction .net) is the only English-language journal, either print or online, devoted exclusively to publishing Jewish fiction. We showcase the finest contemporary Jewish-themed writing (either written in, or translated into, English) from around the world, and in our first 14 years we have published 600 stories or novel excerpts, originally written in twenty-one languages. Our interactive website allows readers to search these 600 stories by theme, original language, and author, and we are proud to have published such eminent authors as Elie Wiesel, Savyon Liebrecht, and Aharon Appelfeld, alongside many excellent, lesser-known writers. We are a truly international journal and we have readers in 140 countries. For submission details, please visit our Submissions page at bit.ly/47MDwtV.
Call For Submissions From Girls Worldwide
Deadline: December 31, 2024
Girls Right the World is a literary journal inviting girls and young, gender-expansive writers and artists, ages 14–21, to submit work for consideration for the ninth annual issue. We believe girls’ voices transform the world for the better. We accept poetry, prose, and visual art of any style or theme. We ask to be the first to publish your work in North America; after publication, the rights return to you. Send your best art and/or writing, in English or English translation, to [email protected] by December 31, 2024. Please include a note mentioning your age, where you’re from, and a bit about your submission. girlsrighttheworld.com
The Study at Lyme House Seeks Craft Essays and Articles
Deadline: November 20, 2024
The Study is looking for educational articles and nonfiction essays on literary craft. They may range from the technical (such as suggested tips and how-tos) to the personal (like experiences and reflections). We want work that celebrates our collective pursuit to be better. Connect with us as writers and as students of writing. For technical articles, experience in creative writing education is a plus (and should be highlighted in your author bio) but we happily consider the work of anyone on the path to literary improvement. lyme.house/the-study/
Black Lawrence Press November Open Reading Period
Deadline: November 30, 2024
Send us your manuscript! Now through November 30, Black Lawrence Press is holding an open reading period. We are looking for poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and hybrid work. We accept both full-length and chapbook-length submissions in all the aforementioned genres. Also, we’re open to anthology proposals. All Black Lawrence Press authors receive comprehensive marketing support and national distribution. Established 20 years ago, Black Lawrence Press is home to over 400 titles written by a diverse slate of authors. We look forward to reading your work! blacklawrencepress.com/submissions-and-contests/open-reading-periods/
Sky Island Journal: Issue 30 Call for Submissions
Deadline: December 31, 2024
Sky Island Journal is an independent, international, free-access, quarterly literary journal publishing the finest poetry, flash fiction, and creative nonfiction. Accomplished, well-established authors appear side-by-side with fresh, emerging voices. We provide over 150,000 readers in 150 countries with a powerful, focused, advertising-free literary experience that transports them: one that challenges them intellectually and moves them emotionally. Our average response time is 9 days, and every submission receives a respectful response detailing what we appreciated. We have a family of over 1,000 contributors; this year, two of them won the Pushcart Prize and the BOTN. Enjoy our previous issues for free, and submit to our stunning Issue 30 before December 31st. www.skyislandjournal.com
Third Street Review – Submissions Open!
Deadline: November 30, 2024
Third Street Review, a quarterly online literary journal is now accepting submissions through November 30! We publish fiction and creative nonfiction of up to 1000 words, poetry, and we are also looking for art and photography. Please check out our website for complete details. We are a paying publication and seek to support creators at all stages of their careers and from varied backgrounds. If you have something for us, we can’t wait to see it! third-street-review.org/submissions/
Dulcet Literary Magazine’s New Call for Submissions
Deadline: November 30, 2024
Dulcet Literary Magazine is excited to announce its next call for submissions, November 1‐30th. We will be curating works of fiction, poetry, and visual art for our second issue, set to be released in February 2025. Theme: Dusk & Dawn. For fiction, send literary short stories that pack an emotional punch with nuanced depth and uplifting undercurrents. Stories that dive deep into the complex center of things and untie the knots. For poetry, send poems that draw connections to readers by writing truths. Words that move. We also want eye-catching and impactful photography, paintings, mixed media, digital art, collages. All visual art submitted will be considered for the cover. See full guidelines and submit here.
LIVING OUR BLESSINGS: Aging, Mortality & Gratitude, Wising Up Anthology
Deadline: November 30, 2024
Age is a strange place—filled with abundance and scarcity, more fixed and fluid than imagined. Our bodies teach us it is now or never. But our hearts won’t stop growing, revisioning. Was all that angst really necessary? Did all that will and drive narrow our focus unnecessarily? Savoring can become a call, a necessary rebalancing. LIVING OUR BLESSINGS: Aging, Mortality & Gratitude, A Wising Up Anthology Guidelines: Electronic submissions, Word or RTF. Stories, poetry, memoir, nonfiction. Prose ≤ 5,000 words. Poetry ≤ 5 poems. No A.I. Payment in copies. Submit electronically. Submissions: 10/1/24 to 12/31/24. Submit to: [email protected]. Full Guidelines: universaltable.org/wisingup.html
The New Verse News Seeks Current Events Poetry
Deadline: Year-round
Since 2005, The New Verse News has covered the news of the day with poems on issues, large and small, international and local. It relies on the submission of poems (especially those of a politically progressive bent) by writers from all over the world. The editors update the website every day with a poetic take on a current and specific headline. See the website for guidelines and examples. Then paste your non-simultaneous submission and a brief bio in the text of an email (no attachments, please) to nvneditor(at)gmail.com. Write “Verse News Submission” in the subject line of your email.
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. palookamag.com
AMERICA’S FUTURE, 2025 anthology from the Washington Writers’ Publishing House
Deadline: December 31, 2024
The Washington Writers’ Publishing House’s 2025 anthology, AMERICA’S FUTURE, seeks poetry and prose (fiction or CNF up to 2,500 words) from writers from DC, Maryland, or Virginia, or anyone with a connection to the DMV area. Poetry or prose in translation that fits the prompt/guidelines are encouraged as well. Submittable fee: $5.00. Payment for contributors: $25.00. AMERICA’S FUTURE celebrates the Washington Writers’ Publishing House’s 50th anniversary. We are the longest, continuously operating nonprofit, cooperative literary press in the United States (established in 1975). We are not going back. Show us the way forward with your poetry and prose. Deadline: December 31, 2024. Complete anthology guidelines, including prompts, at www.washingtonwriters.org.
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: otherwisecollective.com/phq-submissions.