NewPages Guide to Calls for Submissions
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Call For Submissions From Girls Worldwide
Deadline: December 31, 2025
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 tenth 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, 2025. Please include a note mentioning your age, where you’re from, and a bit about your submission. girlsrighttheworld.com
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National Baseball Poetry Festival Call for Submissions
Deadline: Noon, March 27, 2026
The National Baseball Poetry Festival invites submissions of poems that deal with any aspect of the gamesmanship, nature, and atmosphere of Baseball and/or Softball, for example: opening day, ballpark food, childhood memories, first pitch, athletic heroes, uniforms, ball parks, Little League, dugout chatter, the season of the game, etc. No restriction on form. Poets may submit one (1) poem for consideration, which should fit on a single page. The thematic views of baseball/softball and the game will be given wide interpretation by the judge(s). Submissions are free. For full submission guidelines, please visit baseballpoetryfest.org.
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Jewish Fiction Call for Submissions
Deadline: Rolling
Jewish Fiction, a prestigious literary journal, invites submissions for its 2026 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 40 issues, we have published 640 stories or novel excerpts, originally written in twenty-two languages. Our interactive website allows readers to search these 640 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.
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ISSUED: stories of service: Call for Submissions
Deadline: December 31, 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 or 1 piece of flash prose (1500 words or fewer) by December 31, 2025. Please include a bio (100 words or less) that includes your military affiliation. Submission info and link at www.issuedjournal.com.
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Muleskinner Journal Sixteen Open For Submissions
Deadline: December 15, 2025
Muleskinner Journal is open for submissions. Our theme for Journal Sixteen is: Sabotage! Why? Because it’s so fun to say. Because it thumps like a shoe dropped into the gears. Because it smolders like a slow fuse lit under the floorboards. Send us your beautiful wreckage, your quiet detonations, your elaborate ruses, and your betrayals of self. We’ll listen for the sound of gears grinding, the machinery silenced. Our submission guidelines are here. Do your worst.
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RABBLE REVIEW: Open Submission Call for Issue No.10
Deadline: November 23, 2025
RABBLE REVIEW is now accepting submissions for our tenth issue. We are looking for creative fiction, poetry, CNF, hybrid forms, essays, criticism, & all types of visual art that critically examining the capitalist societies we live in. For our complete submission guidelines visit us at: rabblereview.com/submissions.
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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.
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Made from Midnight: Delirium Anthology Call for Submissions
Deadline: January 16, 2026
Poets in the Pines is now open for submissions for the second anthology in the Made from Midnight series. Now including poetry, flash fiction, hybrid prose, original artwork, and experimental structures, both emerging and established writers (and artists) are encouraged to submit unpublished works for our second anthology, Made from Midnight: Delirium. Contributors will receive one free pdf copy and the opportunity to purchase author copies at cost. A portion of proceeds goes to charity. Options for editors’ feedback upon small donation available. The deadline for submissions is January 16, 2026. Visit www.poetsinthepines.com/call-for-submissions for more info and a link to submit.
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Road Writing Wanted for Next Issue of Midnight Mind Magazine
Deadline: November 3, 2025
Have a tale to tell from the wide-open roads of America? We are looking for nonfiction, essays, travel journals, fiction, and poetry that gives a point of view: Poetry that makes you want to drive, travel stories that put wind in our hair, essays about the good, or bad, of today’s road trip landscape. Is the American road trip dead? Do people still hitchhike? Does Kerouac still inspire? We want to explore car culture’s history, and the future of America’s limitations on the freedom that the road once promised. Is the promise dead? Or just different? Submission info at midnightmind.com/submissions/.
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Modest Paying Lit Mag Seeks Submissions for Fifth Issue
Deadline: January 1, 2026
As a literary magazine, table//FEAST curates our issues as if they are a seasonal based menu. The literary work we publish, and feature is the feast. The table is the issue. Sit, consume, and take your fill. We are not a food magazine or recipe outlet. We seek literary work in poetry (translations as well), fiction (generally short stories or flash fiction/ translations as well), and creative nonfiction (essays or memoir-esque excerpts/ translations as well). Please understand that we do not want to focus on food themed work. This issue is in print and is then later archived online. tablefeastlitmag.com/trypartakesubmissionsguidelines
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Cultivate Radical Joy With Thorn & Bloom Magazine
Deadline: November 15, 2025
Thorn & Bloom Magazine invites submissions for its fourth edition, “Radical Joy We Cultivate.” Following our explorations of self-care as a form of liberation, breaking cycles and recognizing our collective wounds, we now turn to celebration. We seek writing that captures the radical act of choosing joy—the rituals, hobbies, and moments of pure delight that return us to our authentic selves. Share your stories of dancing, gardening, reading, finding sanctuary in silliness, and more. We welcome personal essays, poetry, fiction, memoirs, and insights framing pleasure as essential resistance. Let’s fill these pages with light. Submit by 15 November 2025. Learn more and submit: www.redrosethorns.com/thornandbloom.
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Superpresent is Seeking Submissions on the Theme Echoes
Deadline: December 1, 2025
Superpresent is seeking submissions on the theme Echoes. Superpresent is a quarterly magazine of the arts that puts equal emphasis on the written word and visual arts. We are looking for poetry, essays, short stories, flash fiction, video, audio, and all forms of visual art. Learn more.
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Our Doors are Open
Deadline: Year-round
The Blue Mountain Review launched from Athens, Georgia in 2015 with the mantra, “We’re all south of somewhere.” As a journal of culture, the BMR strives to represent all life through its stories. Stories are vital to our survival. What we sing saves the soul. Our goal is to preserve and promote lives told well through prose, poetry, music, and the visual arts. We’ve published work from and interviews with Jericho Brown, Kelli Russell Agodon, Robert Pinsky, Rising Appalachia, Turkuaz, Michel Stone, Michael Flohr, Lee Herrick, Chen Chen, Michael Cudlitz, Pat Metheny, Melissa Studdard, Lyrics Born, Terry Kay, and Christopher Moore. bluemountainreview.submittable.com/submit
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Impermanence of Home
Deadline: October 16, 2025
Global City Review is now accepting submissions for our 26th issue, titled Impermanence of Home. This issue invites contributors to consider the emotional, political, and physical dimensions of home in flux. We’re interested in work that explores how sanctuary—whether a person, place, memory, language, or idea—can be lost, reshaped, reimagined, or even fabricated. Possible areas of focus: Environmental collapse and ecological change; Forced migration, exile, and statelessness; Censorship, surveillance, and the erosion of free expression; Housing insecurity, gentrification, and urban dislocation; Cultural memory, ancestral loss, and intergenerational rupture; Digital disorientation, AI fatigue, and virtual estrangement; and Imagined or speculative forms of refuge. Visit globalcitypress.com for more information.
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Palooka Seeks Chapbooks, Prose, Poetry, Artwork, Photography
Deadline: Year-round
Palooka is a global literary magazine of daring prose, art, photography, comics, and chapbooks drawn exclusively from unsolicited submissions. We champion underdog voices, read anonymously, and only publish what we love. Bold voices. Brave stories. palookamag.com