NewPages Guide to Calls for Submissions
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About Place Journal Call for Submissions: The Ground Beneath Us
Deadline: March 10, 2026
Each issue of About Place Journal, the arts publication of the Black Earth Institute, focuses on a specific theme. From January 1st to March 10th, we’ll be accepting submissions for our Spring 2026 issue The Ground Beneath Us: Place, Power, and Resistance. 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.
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Read ALOCASIA: A Journal of Queer Planty Writing!
Deadline: Rolling
ALOCASIA is an online literary journal of queer creative writing about plants, nature, and horticulture. Based in the United States, we publish writing from both established and emerging writers around the world in all genres. We publish traditional work, as well as the weird, erotic, explicit, and anti-colonial. Our writers are celebratory, fierce, wounded, loving, and rebellious. Come visit our garden on the web at alocasia.org. Also, we would love to read your work, click here for submission information.
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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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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
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Superpresent Spring Issue – Beginnings
Deadline: March 15, 2026
Superpresent is a magazine of the arts that places equal emphasis on the written word and visual arts. We are seeking submissions of all forms of poetry, short stories, essays, video, film, and visual arts on the theme Beginnings for our Spring 2026 issue. www.superpresent.org
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Accepting Poetry, Fiction and Essays
Deadline: Rolling
The Dolomite Review is currently open to submissions of poetry, fiction, and essays from writers rooted in the Midwest or whose work thoughtfully engages with Midwestern places, histories, and sensibilities. The magazine has a strong focus on storytelling and seeks work that demonstrates depth, originality, and a clear artistic vision. We welcome both emerging and established voices and are especially interested in writing that reflects the region’s landscapes, communities, and interior lives. Genre fiction is generally not considered unless it is clearly literary in approach. Please read our submission guidelines and the current issue to understand the type of work we are looking for: www.thedolomitereview.com
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Qua Magazine Seeks Submissions for Winter Semester 2026 Issue
Deadline: February 22, 2026
Qua Literary and Fine Arts Magazine is a student-run publication of the University of Michigan-Flint. Founded over 50 years ago, we invite submissions of Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Poetry, Visual Arts, Photography, etc. from anyone living in the state of Michigan. No submission fees. For the Winter Semester 2026 issue, all submissions must be made by February 22nd here: go.umflint.edu/quamagazinesubmission.
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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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Call For Submissions From Girls Worldwide – Extended Deadline
Extended Deadline: January 31, 2026
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 January 31, 2026. Please include a note mentioning your age, where you’re from, and a bit about your submission. girlsrighttheworld.com
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Little Somethings Press Seeks Work for Motherhood Anthology
Deadline: February 7, 2026
Little Somethings Press publishes pieces of flash fiction, flash memoir, poetry, and visual art in handmade books. This issue, we are featuring poetry, prose, and art, centered on motherhood and created by mothers. We are looking for work that couples the joy and the trauma of the motherhood experience. Poetry should be under one page, and prose under 500 words. Art should be submitted as a JPEG or PNG file. To submit, email [email protected] by February 7, 2026. littlesomethingspress.com/submissions/
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JackLeg Press is Looking for the Next Great Thing
Deadline: Rolling
JackLeg Press seeks bold, vibrant, authentic writers. Is that you? We’d love to find out. We focus on poetry, short fiction collections, select novels & creative nonfiction. Query us today! jacklegpress.submittable.com/submit
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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.