Where to Submit Roundup: November 17, 2023

42 Submission Opportunities including calls for submissions, writing contests, and book prizes.

Happy Friday! NewPages is back with our weekly roundup of submission opportunities just in time for some bad weather rolling in, so the perfect excuse to keep you indoors and accomplishing those submission goals. Plus, you’ll find even more opportunities and goodies in our November 2023 eLitPak Newsletter!

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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.

Sunspot Lit. Supernova. Very long-form fiction, nonfiction, poetry, graphic novel. $10 fee. Deadline: November 22, 2023.

Black Lawrence Press. Open Reading Period. Full-length, chapbook-length, novella-length fiction, nonfiction, poetry, cross-genre, translations, anthology proposals. $14 fee. Deadline: November 30, 2023.

Blueline: A Literary Magazine Dedicated to the Spirit of the Adirondacks. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry. No fee. Deadline: November 30, 2023.

Fleas on the Dog. Issue 15. Fiction, poetry. No fee. Deadline: November 30, 2023.

Third Street Review. Fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, art, photography. $3 fee. Payment: $25. Deadline: November 30, 2023.

Tint Journal. Spring 2024 Issue. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, cross-genre, art, photography. No fee. Deadline: November 30, 2023. *Open to ESL writers only.*

Big Wing Review. Inaugural Issue. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, cross-genre, art, photography, audio. No fee. Payment: $25. Deadline: December 1, 2023.

Jelly Bucket. Issue 14 General Submissions. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, art, photography. $2 fee. Deadline: December 1, 2023.

Kitchen Table Quarterly. Nonfiction, poetry, art. No fee. Deadline: December 1, 2023.

Superpresent. Winter 2024: Provocations/Instigations. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics, cross-genre, drama, graphic narratives, translations, art, photography, audio, video. No fee. Deadline: December 1, 2023.

Sunspot Lit. Longform fiction, nonfiction, graphic novel, poetry. $8 fee. Deadline: December 2, 2023.

Jelly Bucket. Issue 14 Neurodivergent Special Section. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, art, photography. No fee. Deadline: December 15, 2023.

RCC Muse art + literary journal. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry. No fee. Deadline: December 15, 2023.

Rejoinder. The Archival is Political special issue. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics, cross-genre, drama, graphic narratives, interviews, art, photography. No fee. Deadline: December 15, 2023.

Sunspot Lit. Flash fiction, poetry, graphic novel, art. $5 fee. Deadline: December 15, 2023.

Sunspot Lit. Short stories, nonfiction, graphic novel. $6.50 fee. Deadline: December 15, 2023.

Club Plum. January 2024 Issue. Flash fiction, flash nonfiction, lyric essays, prose poetry. No fee. Deadline: December 25, 2023.

Girls Right the World. Issue Eight. Poetry, prose, visual art. No fee. Deadline: December 30, 2023. *Open to girls and young, gender-expansive writers and artists, ages 14–21.*

Valley Voices. Spring 2024: The Southern Crossroads. Poetry, creative nonfiction, critical essays. No fee. Deadline: December 30, 2023.

Doubly Mad. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, photography. No fee. Deadline: January 1, 2024.

table//FEAST Literary Magazine. Issue 3. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translations, art, photography. No fee. Deadline: January 3, 2024.

great weather for MEDIA. Annual Anthology. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, cross-genre, dramas. No fee (Tip Jar Submissions available). Deadline: January 15, 2014.

Allium, A Journal of Poetry & Prose. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, craft essays. $3 fee. Deadline: January 31, 2023.

Kings River Review. Spring 2024 Issue. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, screenplays, art, translations. No fee. Deadline: March 15, 2024. *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.

Emerald City. Fiction, cross-genre, graphic narratives. No fee. Deadline: Year-round.

New Verse News. Current events 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. Poetry, essays. No fee. Deadline: Year-round.

The Sucarnochee Review. Spring 2024 issue. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry. 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.

Baltimore Review. Winter 2023 Contest. Flash fiction, flash nonfiction, prose poems. $8 fee. Prize: $400/category and publication. Final Judge: Marion Winik. Deadline: November 30, 2023.

The Upper New Review. Global Essay Contest – A Sense of Place. Nonfiction. $10 fee (youth), $25 fee (adults). $1500 total in prizes awarded. Deadline: November 30, 2023. *Must be 13 years or older to enter.*

The Writing Salon. 2023 Jane Underwood Poetry Prize. Poetry. $15 fee. Prize: $500, online publication, featured reading invitation. Final judge: Craig Santos Perez. Deadline: December 1, 2023.

Writer Advice. 2023 Micro Fiction Contest. Fiction. $5 fee. Prize: $20+ per published piece. Deadline: December 2, 2023.

Interim. Test Site Poetry Prize. Unpublished poetry manuscripts. $25 fee. 2 Prizes of $1,000 and book publication awarded. Deadline: December 15, 2023.

The Twin Bill. Second Annual Baseball Lit Contest. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry. $10 fee. Prize/genre: $100, engraved baseball trophy, and publication. Deadline: December 30, 2023.

The Headlight Review. Poetry Chapbook Prize. Poetry. $18 fee. Prize: $500, book publication, 25 copies. Final judge: Valerie A. Smith. Deadline: December 31, 2023.

Press 53. 2024 Award for Short Fiction. Unpublished short story collection. $30 fee. Prize: $1,000 cash advance, publication, 53 author copies. Judge: Claire V. Foxx. Deadline: December 31, 2023.

Stanford Libraries. 2024 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. Fiction, nonfiction. $50 fee. Prize: $5,000/genre. Deadline: January 31, 2024. *Books must be published between January 1, 2022 and December 31, 2023. Writers cannot have published 4 or more books.*