Where to Submit Roundup: August 16, 2024
21 Submission Opportunities including calls for submissions, writing contests, and book prizes.
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Calls for Submissions
Don’t forget to check out our Guide to Submission Opportunities where you can get more information about these calls for submissions. And if you have young writers from elementary to high school age, don’t forget to check out the Young Writers Guide.
Walloon Writers Review. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, photography. $6 fee. Deadline: August 30, 2024.
Dulcet. Issue 1. Fiction, poetry, art, photography. No fee. Deadline: August 31, 2024.
South 85. Metamorphosis-themed issue. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry. $3 fee. Deadline: August 31, 2024.
Superpresent. Fall 2024 Issue: Road Trip. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics, cross-genre, drama/playwriting, graphic narratives, translations, art, photography, audio, video. No fee. Deadline: September 1, 2024.
DuFrank Lit. Fiction, flash fiction. No fee. Deadline: September 30, 2024.
Rockvale Review. Issue 13. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art. $3 fee. Deadline: September 30, 2024.
Club Plum. Literary Horror Issue. Flash fiction, nonfiction, prose poetry, art. No fee. Deadline: October 1, 2024
Kings River Review. Fall 2024 Issue. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, screenplays, translations, art. No fee. Deadline: October 15, 2024. *Must be a 2-year college student.*
Magazine1. Issue 3. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics, cross-genre, drama, graphic narratives, screenplays, translations, art, photography, audio, video. No fee ($5 tip jar available). Payment: $40 bookstore gift card. Deadline: November 15, 20024.
Blueline: A Literary Magazine Dedicated to the Spirit of the Adirondacks. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry. No fee. Deadline: November 30, 2024.
The Awakenings Review. Spring 2025 Issue. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, photography. No fee. Deadline: Year-round. *Must write from experience with mental illness in yourself, family, members, or friends.*
Blue Mountain Review. Prose, poetry, music, visual art. $5 fee. Deadline: Year-round.
The Fictional Cafe. Fiction. No fee. Deadline: Year-round.
New Verse News. Current events poetry. No fee. Deadline: Year-round.
NOMADartx Review. Theme: Perspective. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, cross-genre, interviews, reviews, translations, art, photography. No fee. Deadline: Rolling.
Palooka. Chapbook manuscripts, fiction, poetry, nonfiction, art, photography, graphic narratives, comic strips. $3 fee (magazine submissions); $8 fee (chapbook submissions). Payment: Copies. Deadline: Year-round.
Wallstrait. Fiction. No fee. Payment: $25. Deadline: Rolling.
Writing Contests
If you’d like a little more information on several of the contests below, don’t forget to follow our Guide to Submission Opportunities throughout the week. Find even more contests in our vetted Big List of Writing Contests. NewPages also vets and curates a list of contests for elementary through high school aged writers in our Young Writers Guide.
Peter White Public Library. 3-Day International Chapbook Contest. Theme: Room for Love. Poetry. No fee. First Prize: $500, publication, 50 copies. Final Judge: Diane Glancy. Registration Deadline: August 23, 2024 5PM EST.
The Masters Review. Summer Short Story Award for New Writers. Fiction, nonfiction. $20 fee. First Prize: $3,000, online publication, and agency review. Judge: Colin Barrett. Deadline: August 25, 2024.
Frontier Poetry. Debut Chapbook Prize. Poetry. $25 fee. Prize: $2,000 and publication. Judge: Nancy Miller Gomez. Deadline: September 1, 2024.
The Missouri Review. Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry. $25 fee. Prize/genre: $5,000, publication, and social media promotion. Deadline: October 1, 2024.