NewPages Guide to Calls for Submissions
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Rockvale Review Issue Thirteen Seeks Poetry, Fiction, CNF, and Art
Deadline: September 30, 2024
Rockvale Review is seeking submissions of poetry, short fiction, and CNF for Issue Thirteen to be published online in November 2024. We are interested in bold writing with a touch of emotion and vulnerability—the rock and the vale of life. Please read all our guidelines and be careful following them. We read blind and any identifying information results in disqualification. We seek a Featured Artist for this issue too. Please email [email protected] if you’re interested in submitting artwork. All other submissions must use Submittable. rockvalereview.com/submissions/
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.
The Fictional Cafe Seeks New Voices in Fiction
The Fictional Café, now in its twelfth year, is now accepting fiction submissions. We seek unpublished boundary-breaking short stories, flash fiction, novel excerpts, and creative nonfiction. Over a thousand Coffee Club members and many others in 47 countries read our highly original ‘zine. We welcome all adult genres. Your work must be tasteful, original, and well written. We look for engaging characters and a thought-provoking, Avant-Garde, or unconventional literary approach. Please become a Coffee Club member, read our submission guidelines and review what we publish before you submit. We reply in 30 days. www.fictionalcafe.com
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
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 like to see work demonstrating that the writer or poet has found direction in life or can write about the experience of mental illness without being demoralizing. We are currently accepting submissions for our Spring 2025 issue. To learn how to submit, please read our guidelines at www.AwakeningsProject.org.
Northern Michigan’s Walloon Writers Review Call for Submissions
Deadline: August 30, 2024
Walloon Writers Review welcomes creative writers and nature photographers, whether seasoned or new, to share their work as part of this annual collection. Since its founding in 2014, Walloon Writers Review has provided a safe harbor where writers and photographers celebrate the sights and sounds of Northern Michigan and the Upper Peninsula. Co-editors Jennifer Huder and Glen Young welcome contributors to continue to highlight the river, bends and hilltops, as well as all the places in between, that mark this region as eternal. Walloon Writers Review accepts fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and nature photography. For more information, guidelines, and how to submit, please visit www.walloonwriters.com.
Superpresent is Seeking Submissions on the Theme Road Trip
Deadline: September 1, 2024
Superpresent is seeking submissions for our fall issue 0n the theme Road Trip. You can find more information at www.superpresent.org.
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.
Call for Work on the Theme of “Perspective”
NOMADartx Review would love to see your interpretations on the theme of “perspective!” Our cross-disciplinary journal currently publishes one piece of visual art and one piece of writing monthly, usually under 3500 words. We like personal essays, photographs, paintings, poetry, short stories, sketches, hybrid work, and creative industry-specific articles: ideas about the artistic process, project logistics, getting your work to the world, mentorship, critiques/interviews/reviews, etc. Our current theme of perspective is open to broad interpretation: physical, intellectual, emotional, or any/all of these. Complete guidelines are here: nomadartx.com/about-us.
DuFrank Lit Open for Fiction Submissions
Deadline: September 30, 2024
We are seeking clear, concise character driven fiction and flash fiction. Show us something new or present something in an innovative way. We want to see beauty in the grey areas and moments which show of the complexity of the human condition. Paint us a picture, show us an event, give us characters a reader will love or hate and must ask themselves why. Explore who or what a character can be and illustrate the unseen and unsaid. See our submission guidelines: www.dufranklit.com/submit.html.
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
Voices of Regeneration – Call for Creative Entries
Deadline: August 6, 2024
Unearthodox has launched “Voices of Regeneration” inviting individuals from all background to share their perspectives on regeneration. This initiative supports the first phase of their flagship Regenerative Futures programme. Submissions in various artistic formats, including essays, visual art, and auditory pieces, are welcome. The goal is to foster an inclusive dialogue and inspire collective action towards a more just, equitable, and regenerative future. Outstanding entries stand to win monetary prizes and collaboration opportunities. Your contribution could shape a global conversation on regeneration, making a meaningful impact. To learn more and submit your work, visit the “Voices of Regeneration”.
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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/.
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.