Where to Submit Roundup: March 24, 2023
Spring has officially sprung and while weather has been a little less winter-like in our neck of the woods, it’s still not the warmest. If you’re weather forecast is just as fickle as ours, here are some great submission opportunities to use as an excuse to stay put and indoors this weekend.
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Let’s dive into our weekly roundup of submission opportunities without further ado.
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.
Third Street Review. Inaugural Issue. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, photography. $3 fee. Deadline: March 24, 2023.
Barrow Street. Poetry. $3 fee. Deadline: March 31, 2023.
Club Plum. April 2023 Issue. Prose poetry, flash fiction, flash nonfiction, lyric essays, dreamy art. No fee. Deadline: March 31, 2023.
Long Hauler Publishing. Long COVID Anthology. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry. No fee. Deadline: March 31, 2023.
Rockvale Review. Issue 10. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry. $3 fee. Deadline: March 31, 2023.
Sky Island Journal. Issue 24. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, cross-genre, translations. $4.99 fee. Deadline: March 31, 2023.
Split Rock Review. Issue 20. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, photography, cross-genre, reviews, interviews. 200 free submissions available. Deadline: March 31, 2023.
Sunspot Lit. Flash, poetry, graphic novel, art. $5 fee. Deadline: March 31, 2023.
Sunspot Lit. Short stories, nonfiction, graphic novel. $6.50 fee. Deadline: March 31, 2023.
Clinch—A Martial Arts Literary Magazine. Issue 3. No fee. Payment: $15. Deadline: April 1, 2023.
Book of Matches. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translations. No fee. Deadline: April 7, 2023.
About Place Journal. On Rivers themed issue. Poetry, fiction, nonfiction, drama, screenplays, cross-genre, comics, reviews, interviews, translations, audio, video, photography, art. No fee. Deadline: April 15, 2023.
Blink-Ink. Waiting for a Friend. Fiction, nonfiction. No fee. Deadline: April 15, 2023.
Consequence. Volume 15.2. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, photography, cross-genre, translations, interviews. No fee. Paying market. Deadline: April 15, 2023.
Wholeness: A Wising Up Anthology. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry. No fee. Deadline: April 15, 2023.
Cloudbank. General Submissions. Fiction, poetry. No fee (postal); $3 fee (electronic). Deadline: April 30, 2023.
Anther. Fiction, poetry, art, photography, reviews, interviews, videos. No fee. Deadline: May 1, 2023.
LIGHT. Issue 2. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art. No fee. Deadline: May 1, 2023.
Nzuri. Spring 2023 issue. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, photography, comics, cross-genre, interviews, audio, video, digital storytelling. No fee. Deadline: May 10, 2023.
Speckled Trout Review. Spring 2023 Issue. Poetry. No fee. Deadline: May 10, 2023 (or until filled).
Minerva Rising. Issue 23 – Subversion. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, photography, cross-genre. $15 fee. Deadline: May 15, 2023.
Gold Man Review. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry. No fee. Deadline: June 16, 2023. *West-coast based writers only.*
Able Muse. Winter 2023/2024 Issue. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, photography, cross-genre, translations, reviews, interviews. No fee. Deadline: July 15, 2023.
Kings River Review. Fall 2023 Issue. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, screenplays, art, translations. No fee. Deadline: October 15, 2023. *2-year community college students only*
Awakenings Review. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, photography. No fee. Deadline: Year-round. *Must have personal connection to mental illness*
Blue Mountain Review. Prose, poetry, music, visual art. $5 fee. Deadline: Year-round.
Decolonial Passage. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry. No fee. Deadline: Year-round.
Delve Books. Full-length nonfiction manuscripts. No fee. Deadline: Rolling.
New Verse News. Current event poetry. No fee. Deadline: Year-round.
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.
Plant-Human Quarterly. Nonfiction, poetry, translations. No fee. Deadline: Year-round.
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.
Able Muse Press. Book Award. Poetry. $25 fee. Prize: $,1000 and book publication. Final judge: David Yezzi. Deadline: March 31, 2023.
Cleaver. Form & Form-Breaking Poetry Contest. Poetry. $15 fee. First Prize: $500 and publication. Judge: Diane Seuss. Deadline: March 31, 2023.
Fall for the Book. New American Voices Award for Immigrant Writers. Published books of fiction and nonfiction. $20 fee. Grand Prize: $5,000. Deadline: March 31, 2023.
Gemini Magazine. 14th annual Short Story Contest. Fiction. $8 fee. First Prize: $1,000 and publication. Deadline: March 31, 2023.
Nervous Ghost Press. Book Prizes for Poetry & Prose. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, screenplays. No fee. Prize: $1,000, book publication, author copies, California reading tour. Deadline: March 31, 2023.
Prime Number Magazine. 2023 Awards. Fiction, poetry. $15 fee. First Prize/genre: $1,000 and publication. Judges: Felicia Mitchell, Dennis McFadden. Deadline: March 31, 2023.
Sand Hills Literary Magazine. National Contest. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, cross-genre. $12 fee. Prize: $250/category. Judges: Latria Graham, Ashley Jones. Deadline: March 31, 2023.
Sunspot Lit. Geminga 2023. Tiny fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, graphic novels. $10 fee. Prize: $500 and publication. Deadline: March 31, 2023.
The Headlight Review. Anthony Grooms Prize in Short Fiction. Fiction. $12 fee. Prize: $250 and 25 free copies of their story. Deadline: April 1, 2023.
Nimrod. 2023 Literary Awards. Fiction, poetry, $20 fee (postal), $23 fee (online). First Prize: $1,000 and publication per genre. Deadline: April 1, 2023.
Orison Books. 2023 Orison Prizes. Fiction, poetry. $25 fee. Prize: $1,500 and book publication per genre. Judges: Pádraig Ó Tuama & David Heska Wanbli Weiden. Deadline: April 1, 2023.
The Missouri Review. 2023 Perkoff Prize. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry. Fee varies. Prize: $1,000 and publication per genre. Extended Deadline: April 2, 2023.
First Pages Prize 2023. Fiction, nonfiction. $20 fee ($35 for extended deadline). First Prize: $2,000/genre, tailored edit up to 100 pages, consultation with an agent. Deadline: March 1 to April 10, 2023 (April 24 extended). *Open to unagented writers only.*
University of Utah Press. Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry. Poetry. $25 fee. Prize: $1,000 and book publication. Judge: Joan Naviyuk Kane. Deadline: April 15, 2023.
Barrow Street Press. 2023 Prose Book Contest. Nonfiction. $30 fee. Prize: $1,500 and book publication in 2024. Judge: Mary Cappello. Deadline: April 30, 2023.
Bass Clef Books. Inaugural George Drew Sophomore Chapbook Contest. Poetry. $15 fee. Prize: $500, publication, and 12 author copies. Deadline: May 15, 2023.
New Letters. 2023 Literary Awards. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry. $24 fee. Prize/genre: $2,500 and publication. Deadline: May 22, 2023.
Autumn House Press. Full-length Prizes. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry. $30 fee. Prize/genre: $1,000 honorarium, $1,500 travel/publicity grant, and book publication. Judges: Toi Derricotte, Pam Houston, Jenny Boully. Deadline: May 31, 2023.
Grist. Imagine 2200 Climate Fiction Contest. Fiction. No fee. First Prize: $3,000 and publication. Judges: Paolo Bacigalupi, Nalo Hopkinson, Sam J. Miller. Deadline: June 13, 2023.
