Calls for Submission
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Posted July 19
Minnetonka Review accepts fiction, poetry, and non-fiction that engages, entertains, and provokes thought in fresh and creative ways. Submissions accepted Oct 15 - May 15. An Editor's Prize of $150 will be awarded to one contributor for prose and one contributor for poetry in each issue.
Green Mountains Review published out of Johnson State College in Vermont seeks stories about shame and/or glory for an all-fiction double-issue, Shame and Glory, due in the spring of 2009. Submissions should be postmarked between April 1, 2008 and January 2, 2009. See web site for mailing information and to read more about Green Mountains Review.
Posted June 17 (back to top)
Yellow Medicine Review is seeking submissions of poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, plays, memoirs by indigenous writers, English translation of works written in indigenous languages, reviews, as well as cover art from indigenous artists. The fall issue, edited by Keff Kenner, will focus on Tibet, Myanmar (Burma), and everywhere else in between. Works from this stated region will be given preference, but not exclusively. Deadline Aug 1
In the Mist inaugural issue seeks submissions from women who play, or write about playing, in the mist: poetry, fiction, nonfiction, photography, and artwork about being outside. From doing yoga in the park to walking your dog to bombing down the Anasazi Descent in Durango, Colorado or sailing from California to Hawaii in a kayak with outriggers. Deadline Aug 31.
Posted June 10 (back to top)
Green Mountains Review seeks stories about shame and/or glory for an all-fiction double-issue, Shame and Glory, due in the spring of 2009. Submissions should be postmarked between April 1, 2008 and January 2, 2009.
Hayden’s Ferry Review is looking for translations that pay close attention to cultural bodies, the way they identify themselves, interact, and maintain their distinctions. HFR’s international section wishes to explore these living arrangements as perceived by the inhabitant writer. Our intention is to provide a venue for writers who have not been recognized by the dominant literary communities; workers outside of tradition, or so deep in tradition that what they do no longer fits the literary mold.
upstreet: literary annual’s fifth issue seeks quality submissions with an edge—fiction, poetry, CNF. First four issues feature interviews with Jim Shepard, Lydia Davis, Wally Lamb, Michael Martone. Distributed nationally by Source Interlink, Ubiquity, Armadillo, and by Disticor in Canada. Payment in author copies. Deadline: March 1, 2009.
Posted May (back to top)
The King’s English, three-time winner of the Million Writers Award for Best Publisher of Novella-Length Fiction, is an international online literary journal seeking long fiction and personal essays. TKE has published Pushcart nominees and work selected for Dzanc Books’ Best of the Web 2007 anthology.
Apple Valley Review accepts submissions of new poetry, fiction, and essaysare accepted year-round via e-mail. We prefer work that has both mainstream and literary appeal. All work must be original, previously unpublished, and in English. Please do not submit genre fiction, explicit work, or anything particularly violent or depressing. Also, please note that we do not accept simultaneous submissions. All published work is considered for our annual editor's prize. Deadline for Fall 2008 issue Aug17.
Main Street Rag seeks short fiction for two anthologies: (1) unique small town characters and (2) eccentric women. No deadline—when enough to fill an anthology, will close submissions. For details, send SASE to Main Street Rag, P.O. Box 690100, Charlotte, NC 28227-7001 or visit website.
Nimrod is currently accepting submissions for two different issues, to be published in spring 2009 and spring 2010. The first deadline will be Dec 1, 2008. The upcoming issues will be: Climbing Mountains, Finding Pathways: Afghanistan and Pakistan; and Mexico: “The Plumed Serpent”.
Cezanne’s Carrot is accepting submissions for upcoming issues of the journal. Current needs: fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, and visual art. No poetry, please. Deadline for Fall issue: Aug 21.
Posted March - April (back to top)
Thema's premise given must be an integral part
of the plot, not necessarily the central theme but not merely
incidental. Upcoming deadlines/themes:
Unprepared for adventure,
July 1 and In Kay’s
Kitchen, Nov 1. Accept fewer than 20 double-spaced
pages of prose, 3-5 poems and black and white illustrations.
From Hamline University, Water~Stone Review seeks fiction, creative non-fiction and poetry submissions for the Fall 2009. Submissions accepted from Nov 1 through Dec 15, 2008. Sim/sub ok.
Issue #30 if RATTLE includes a tribute section featuring poetry written by Cowboy/Western poets. Also want a series of short essays on different aspects of Cowboy/Western poetry, or a longer introduction to the history of its literary tradition. Deadline August 1. Future issues plan to feature: African-American Poets, Psychologists/Psychiatrists, New Formalists, Chapbooks, Humor and Epic Poems.
New Madrid Winter 2009 theme issue: "Intelligent Design": the legacy of Darwin, the impact of the evolution-vs.-creationism debate on the public schools, the cosmological argument, etc. Also works that let their structures show: poems in received forms or nonce forms, fiction and non-fiction utilizing unorthodox narrative devices (for example, frames within frames), works that consider design issues from the perspective of other disciplines (for example, architecture, quilting, graphic arts, the natural sciences, etc.). Submission dates August 15 — November 1, 2008.
Other (non-sponsor) listings
Posted July 17 (back to top)
Women’s Studies Quarterly: Mother. Deadline Jan 1.
Packingtown Review. Poetry, prose, drama, translations, art. Deadline Aug 1.
Holocaust Memoirs Wanted: Previously Unpublished or Unavailable Memoirs by Survivors of the Shoah.
Parlor Journal online – poetry, prose, drama. Deadline Aug 15.
Saw Palm poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, art, photography, and book reviews. Deadline Oct 1.
Boiling River online poetry mag. Deadline May 1 – Sept 1.
Beltway Poetry Quarterly online seeks poems for a themed issue celebrating museums. Deadline Aug 1.
Ghost Factory online literary magazine reading for Issue 3 starts July 1.
The Sylvan Echo online literary magazine. Deadline Oct 18.
GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies: “Sexuality, Nationality, Indigeneity: Rethinking the State at the Intersection of Native American and Queer Studies.
Umbrella online poetry and poetry-related prose. Deadline Aug 15.
Our Truths – Nuestras Verdades – Humor Issue: how humor helped with experience. Deadline Aug 18.
Submissions from Practicing Librarians (U.S. and Canada) for The Published Librarian: Successful Professional and Personal Writing (American Library Association). Guidelines: smallwood@tm.net. Deadline August 30.
Lion Hunts Rabbit Online Literary Magazine writers, graphic designers, musicians.
Collective Fallout. Queer genre fiction/poetry.
Shelf Life online magazine – articles, fiction, poetry.
Global City Review includes stories, poems, memoirs, interviews and essays. Theme: "Nothing Is Simple" Spring/Summer 2009. Deadline Oct 1-Dec 1.
Fiction International. “The Artist in Wartime.” Deadline Sept 1 – Dec 15 only.
Anthology: Phat Girls in Search of a Pretty World: Hot Lil’ Fat Chicks Speakin’ Out! Deadline Sept 1.
Barn Owl Review literary magazine. Deadline Nov 1.
The Broome Review annual print lit & art mag. Deadline Dec 31.
Posted June 17 (back to top)
Keyhole Magazine "anything literary" written BY HAND. Deadline July 30.
Keyhole Magazine monthly flash fiction/poem postcards.
Baton Rouge Community College annual conference "Writing Matters: An Exploration of the Diverse Nature of the Composition Classroom." Abstract deadline Nov 21.
Copper Nickel “Women Writing the West” fiction/non-fiction. Deadline Mid-August.
Tupelo Press open submissions book-length poetry collections (48-80 pages) during July only.
Tupelo Press fiction (including novels and short story collections) and creative nonfiction year-round.
The online journal Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice (TALTP) Winter 2009 Issue Theme: Teaching Genre Fiction. Deadline Oct 31, 2008. Spring 2009 Issue Theme Reading Between, Beneath, and Beyond the Text. Deadline Dec 31, 2009.
IN SHORT short films, music videos, commercials, You-tube/viral videos, video art, etc. Deadline Aug 5.
The Raymond Carver Review essays that explore the literary and cultural significance of this American writer.
Girls Doing Boys Doing Boys: Japanese Boys' Love Anime and Manga in a Globalized World. Edited by Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry, & Dru Pagliassotti. Proposals by July 31.
Posted June 10 (back to top)
95Notes, Chicago State University, poetry, fiction, essay.
The Pedestal Magazine online poetry and fiction.
The Teacher’s Voice online poems, short stories, creative nonfiction, and essays.
r.kv.r.y online quarterly poetry, fiction, and literary or academic nonfiction on the theme of “Recovery”.
The Farallon Review is accepting short story submissions for its second issue.
Earth’s Body: An Ecopoetry Anthology. Coeditors Ann Fisher-Wirth and Laura-Gray Street solicit submissions for an international anthology of ecopoetry. For info: afwirth – at – olemiss.edu or lstreet – at – randolphcollege.edu. Deadline Dec 15.
Terrain.org online poetry, essays, fiction, articles, reviews; “Understory/Overgrowth, Symbiosis” and “Borders & Bridges.”
Glossolalia online flash fiction journal seeks submissions for first issue. Theme: Deviation Deadline Aug 15.
Pilgrimage Magazine: nonfiction/poetry theme: deep democracy. Oct 1.
Posted May (back to top)
Kore Press: Write a blog entry for Persephone Speaks or a profile of a remarkable writer and email it to shannon-at-korepress.org with the subject line "Blog" or "Profile."
Languageandculture.net online seeks original and poetry in translation.
Fawlt Magazine online quarterly short stories, poems, essays, and artwork on human flaws: Perfectionism (Deadline Aug 1); Apathy and Arrogance (upcoming).
Online monthly 5th Gear poetry of any style and (virtually) any length; we like at least a little bit of everything.
Mademoiselle's Fingertips online literary journal poems of any length, form or style.
Relief: A Quarterly Christian Expression fiction, poetry, and essays, creative nonfiction.
Midway Journal online poetry, fiction, plays, essays, multi- or cross-genre. Deadline: Dec 1.
The Fourth River accepts nonfiction, short fiction, poetry, and young adult/children’s short fiction (without illustration). Reading period: Aug 1, 2008 – Feb 15, 2009.
Motes Books of Louisville seeks all genres for first in Motif anthology series: Music. Deadline: Aug 5.
Evening Street Review poetry, fiction, non-fiction, reviews.
Feed Yer Mind/Cirque regional journal (North Pacific Rim); short stories, poems, nonfiction, translations, plays, reviews, artwork for inaugural issues. Deadline Dec 21.
FRiGG, a quarterly online journal featuring fiction and poetry, is accepting submissions for upcoming issues.
Melusine, or Woman in the 21st Century online seeks art, poetry, short fiction, and essay. Deadline: Dec 15.
Kartika Review fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, essays, poetry and visual art by Asian American artists.
Beeswax Magazine fiction, poetry, nonfiction and visual art; open to cross-genre and/or unclassifiable work, too.
Siblings and Autism Anthology: essays exploring dynamics of growing up/aging with a sibling who has autism; essays that span generations, cultures, and ethnicities. Send sub/SASE by June 15: Deb Cumberland, English Dept., Winona State University, Winona, MN 55987, or Bruce Mills, English Dept., Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, MI 49006. Inquiries: dcumberland-at-winona.edu or bmills-at-kzoo.edu.
Arktoi Books, an imprint of Red Hen Press, seeks fiction manuscripts from lesbian authors. Deadline Aug 1-Dec 1.
Steel Toe Books will publish 1–2 book-length poetry manuscripts submitted during the month of June.
Plain View Press collaborative process, activist orientation, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, environmental protection, peace, and gender, racial, and economic justice.
The Danforth Review online publishes four new short stories every three months (i.e., in September, December, March and June).
The Cupboard quarterly pamphlet of creative prose 5,000 and 10,000 words, one piece or multiple pieces.
PALABRA: Magazine of Chicano & Latino Literary Art seeks short stories, flash fiction, poetry, novel excerpts and short plays; Chicano & Latino writing.
Other Voices accepts fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry and visual art by Sept 1 for fall publication.
Harlot of the Arts collective invention and discussion through multimedia and traditional texts, creative pieces, artistic works, blogs, and wiki pages.
Reed Magazine general submissions fiction, non-fiction, poetry, art. June 1 – Nov. 1.
Open Face Sandwich invites prose, art, found lit, poetry written as prose. Deadline for the 2009 issue: Oct. 1.
New Verse News online journal seeks current events poetry.
The Earth Vision nature writing contest 2008: short fiction, creative non-fiction, poetic prose, or poetry.
Anthology: Interfictions II published by the Interstitial Arts Foundation. Pay and copies for accepted works. Submissions Oct. 1 – Dec. 2 only.
Fairy Tale Review is accepting submissions of previously unpublished fiction, poetry, drama, and non-fiction to its fifth issue, The Aquamarine Issue, from April 15 - Sep. 15.
TravelingMamas.com is in search of true uplifting, funny, inspirational, and touching stories with a travel theme for an upcoming anthology series.
Open Submissions for The Versus Anthology a collection of works based on the theme of pitting iconic characters or forces against one another (for example, “Jesus VS Thor” or “Adolph Hitler VS Grendel”). Versus is edited by Josh Woods and is set for release in the spring of 2009 by Press 53.
Posted March - April (back to top)
West Coast Line seeks works that are experimenting with or expanding the boundaries of conventional forms and contexts. Art, prose, poetry, essay. June 1 - Aug 31.
Anthology: Can I Sit With You? Stories about schoolyard social trauma and triumph. August 31.
52nd City showcases writers/artists who live in the St. Louis metropolitan area or have spent significant time there. Upcoming issues/deadlines: CRUEL & UNUSUAL Sept 1. Prose, art .jpg, no unsolicited poetry.
Freight Stories publishes contemporary fiction: stories, shorts, stand-alone novel excerpts, and novellas. Submissions March-September 2008.
Anthology on Prostitution - prose, prose poems, poetry, creative non-fiction, short stories, micro-fiction, memoir, diary, multi-genre, and art works for anthology that addresses the harm resulting from prostitution. To be published by Achiote Press. Deadline September 15.
Glass: Journal of Poetry online. Accepts submission September - May for publication in March, June and December.
Arktoi Books (Red Hen Press imprint), seeks fiction manuscripts from lesbian authors. Aug 1 - Dec 1.
One Less accepts poetry, prose, artwork. Deadline July 31.
Passager. "Pass It On: Firsts." 250wds/less. January 1 - September 15 (postmarked date). Open Issue For Writers over 50. June 1 - September 15 (postmarked date). Poetry, Short Fiction, Memoir.
Essay Press. Essays. Submissions June - September.
Pebble Lake Review is accepting submissions of poetry, creative nonfiction, and fiction for an upcoming theme issue on illness. Deadline: December 15.
Glass: A Journal of Poetry seeks new, original poems for its second issue, due out in June of 2008, and the third issue, due out December 2008.
Big Pulp online genre lit actively seeks submissions of prose, poetry, photography, artwork, and comics. Next deadline: December 2008.