NewPages Guide to Calls for Submissions
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Exploration and Recovery: Mental Illness and The Awakenings Review
Deadline: Year-round
The Awakenings Review is an award-winning literary magazine committed to publishing poetry, short stories, nonfiction, art, and photography by writers and poets who write from experience with mental illness in themselves, family members, or friends. Located in the Chicago area but international in scope, our print publication is one of the nation’s leading journals of this genre. We fully acknowledge that mental illness is a troubling, distressing, and painful experience. However, at The Awakenings Review we want to see works of hope, renewal, and healing, a positive message gained from your suffering and distress. We are not looking for works that are angry, alarming, vulgar, or demoralizing. We are currently accepting submissions for our Fall 2024 issue. To learn how to submit, please read our guidelines at www.AwakeningsProject.org.
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Deadline: Year-round
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South 85 Now Reading for Its First Theme Issue: Metamorphosis
Deadline: August 31, 2024
South 85 lit journal is off hiatus and eager to read your fiction, flash, CNF, and poetry through August 31 for our winter issue. We’re based in the Converse University low-res MFA program, and we’re under new, faculty editorship. Theme: Metamorphosis. One piece will be selected for the Editor’s Choice Award of $100. All work we accept comes to us from the Submittable queue…no backroom solicitations. Send us something you love! Submission guidelines: www.south85journal.com/submissions/.
Open for Poetry, Nonfiction, and Art
Deadline: August 1, 2024
Kitchen Table Quarterly is looking for previously unpublished poetry, nonfiction, and artwork. We are a journal preoccupied with history—cultural, political, geographical, personal. We want work that spills secrets and wipes the dust off of old memories. We want honesty. We want an education. Submit up to five poems, five artworks, or a standalone nonfiction piece of up to 3000 words. For full guidelines, please visit our website (www.kitchentablequarterly.org).
KUDU – Issue One – Submissions Open
Deadline: August 15, 2024
For its debut issue, KUDU seeks work by South African poets, writers, and artists, of all origins and backgrounds, at any stage of their artistic careers. KUDU welcomes work in the following categories: poetry, short fiction, nonfiction, and visual art. Any form. Any style. Experimental is fine. We accept humor and previously published work. Submit original work that is captivating, that inspires reflection, that provokes debate, that is meaningful, that enriches the reader. KUDU encourages beginning writers and artists to submit their work. For detailed guidelines: kudujournal.wordpress.com/submissions/.
Blueline Magazine Seeks Exceptional Nature Writing
Deadline: November 30, 2024
BLUELINE: A Literary Magazine Dedicated to the Spirit of the Adirondacks seeks poems, stories, and essays about the Adirondacks and regions similar in geography and spirit, focusing on nature’s shaping influence. Submissions window July 1 to November 30. Decisions mid-February. Payment in copies. Simultaneous submissions accepted if identified as such. Please notify if your submission is placed elsewhere. Electronic submissions encouraged, as Word files, via email. Please identify the genre in the subject line. Further information at bluelineadkmagazine.org.
Sheila-Na-Gig Editions’ Open Call for Full-length Poetry Manuscripts
Deadline: July 31, 2024
Sheila-Na-Gig Editions invites submissions of Full-length Poetry Collections (60-100 pgs). This is NOT a contest. We will select up to 16 manuscripts for publication contracts in 2025/2026. Book publication includes 25 author copies, 50% royalties, and 55% discount on author book orders. Manuscripts will initially be reviewed by well-respected poets who have published collections with Sheila-Na-Gig Editions. Hayley Mitchell Haugen, Founder & Editor, will make the final selections. $20.00 reading fee. Response Time: We will strive to make final decisions on or before December 31, 2024. Please read our complete guidelines before submitting: sheilanagigblog.com/sheila-na-gig-editions-call-for-poetry-manuscripts/.
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.
Palooka Seeks Chapbooks, Prose, Poetry, Artwork, Photography
Deadline: Year-round
Palooka is an international literary magazine. For over a decade we’ve featured new, up-and-coming, and established writers, artists, and photographers from around the world. We’re open to diverse forms and styles and are always seeking unique chapbooks, fiction, poetry, nonfiction, artwork, photography, and graphic narratives. Submissions open year-round. palookamag.com
Wordrunner eChapbooks Seeks Prose Collections
Deadline: July 15, 2024
Wordrunner eChapbooks will select one fiction and one nonfiction collection for our 2024 eChapbook series, to be published in August and December, respectively, online and as kindles. Maximum word count: 20,000. Prose pieces may be flash or longer, from 500 up to 5,000 words each. We’d like four to six stories or essays; if the pieces are very short or flash, a maximum of 15. We prefer emotional complexity and nuanced characters in prose collections. See www.echapbook.com/submissions.html for detailed guidelines and submission link. Authors are paid $125 plus royalties for kindles. Submission fee: $8. Deadline: July 15, 2024
Kings River Review Call for 2-Year College Student Submissions
Deadline: Rolling
The Kings River Review publishes artwork, creative nonfiction, short fiction, and poetry of current 2-year community college students. Submission Deadlines: March 15 for the spring issue and October 15 for the fall issue. Submission requirements: up to 5 pieces of artwork and photography sent as .JPEG files; creative nonfiction and fiction of up to 3,000 words; and up to 5 poems. Go to kingsriverreview.com for full submission guidelines.
Libre Magazine: Call for Submissions
Libre wants to publish writing about mental health, whether that takes the shape and structure of surrealist short story, true-to-life flash fiction, micro CNF memoir, brief essay, or visual art. We’re especially in love with a lyrical turn of phrase & writing that reddens with Prophetic wisdom. We’re interested in essays that bravely look beneath the Baklavaic nature of genre, that aren’t afraid of light research or the well-placed realist anecdote in mythic context. Write to us about phenomena of the mind, steep her in scene & symbol. Tell us about the time your brain went sideways. We’re here to prove the existence of ourselves. Send us artwork in the same vein: your office doodles, acrylics, sketches, pixels, collages & photographs. www.librelit.com
Bass Clef Books Wants to Publish You!
Launched in 2022, Bass Clef Books is a small, independent press based in the heartland of Kentucky, USA. BCB’s mission is to promote contemporary works of writing that would be essential to the growth of creative language crafts from a broad aesthetic choir through a general submission platform and the George Drew Sophomore Chapbook Contest. www.bassclefbooks.org
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
About Place Journal Call for Submissions: Shaping Destiny
Deadline: August 1, 2024
Each issue of About Place Journal, the arts publication of the Black Earth Institute, focuses on a specific theme. From June 1st to August 1st, we’ll be accepting submissions for our Fall 2024 issue Shaping Destiny: Election Season, Before, During and After. Our mission: to have art address the causes of spirit, earth, and society; to protect the earth; and to build a more just and interconnected world. We publish prose, poetry, visual art, photography, video, and music which fit the current theme. More about this issue’s theme and our submission guidelines: aboutplacejournal.org/submissions/.
Submit Now to Able Muse (Poetry, Fiction, Essays & More)
Deadline: July 15, 2024
Able Muse is now accepting submissions for our forthcoming issue, winter 2024/2025. Submit poetry, fiction, essays, book reviews, art, and photography. Submission opens yearly January 1 and closes July 15. Read our guidelines and submit at www.ablemuse.com/submit/.
Driftwood Press Contest Deadlines Incoming
Deadline: July 15, 2024 (Adrift contests); Year-round (general submissions)
Driftwood Press is happy to share a plethora of submission opportunities for writers and artists! Our Adrift Short Fiction & Poetry Chapbook Contests, in which every work submitted is considered for publication as winner or runner-up, is ending soon! For our yearly print anthology, we are looking for poems, short stories, comics, and visual art that will wow our readers, accepted as both contest and normal submissions. We are a paying market, and our published writers also get to take part in bespoke interviews about their work! Driftwood is also on the hunt for amazing book-length titles to grow our catalogue, so if you have a novella, poetry collection, comic collection, or graphic novel manuscript, we would love to read it! Visit us here for our Submittable page, and we encourage you to follow us on social media (@driftwoodpress) to learn about even more submission opportunities!