NewPages Guide to Calls for Submissions
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Gold Man Review Open for Submissions
Deadline: June 16, 2026
Gold Man Review, a West Coast Journal, is currently looking for submissions in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction for Issue 16. We are open to all topics and themes and love writing that pushes boundaries. If your work is on the unusual side, then we’re probably the journal for you. If you’re interested in submitting to Gold Man Review, please see our website for full submission guidelines. Please also note that we only accept submissions from writers in Oregon, Alaska, Hawaii, California, and Washington. goldmanpublishing.com
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Midsummer Magic
Deadline: April 15, 2026
Rise with the sun on Midsummer’s Day, wash your face with dew, fill a bowl from a spring, and you may scry your beloved. At Midsummer, the veil between the worlds is thin and magic is afoot. If you only want to get home without being whisked away to Faerie, carry a bit of iron and hurry past the fairy mounds. Send us your best stories of approximately fifty words about Midsummer Magic in the body of an email to: [email protected]. Submissions are open March 1st, 2026 through April 15th, 2026. No attachments, poetry, bios, or AI generated content please. www.blink-ink.org
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Write at Jack Kerouac’s Residency in Orlando for Seven Weeks
Extended Deadline: May 1, 2026
Write where Jack Kerouac wrote The Dharma Bums. The Kerouac Project residency of Orlando, FL offers the house to yourself, $600 grocery stipend, utilities paid. Finish your project in seven weeks. Six time slots available per year. We accept: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Poetry, Plays, Screenplays. Fiction and Nonfiction can be in graphic narrative form if preferred. Applications now due May 1, 2026. Website: www.kerouac-project.com.
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Kitchen Table Quarterly: Call for Poetry, Nonfiction, Art
Deadline: April 1, 2026
Kitchen Table Quarterly is a history-focused journal passionate about changing old narratives. We are looking for 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).
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2027 Oregon Poetry Calendar Submissions Accepted March 1-May 31
Deadline: May 31, 2026
Red Shoe Press submissions open March 1, 2026 through May 31, 2026 for the 2027 Oregon Poetry Calendar. Glossy wall calendar pairs poems with compelling photographs. This year’s theme is “Oregon wildlife.” Work accepted only from poets currently living in Oregon. No art needed. Responses by July 2026, publication by August 2026. Poets whose work is published in the calendar receive one free copy. Upon publication, all rights revert back to poet. Submit 1-5 poems in a single Word document. Previously published and simultaneous submissions are okay. No submission fee. No email submissions. To submit: redshoepress.submittable.com/submit.
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Oyster River Pages Opens for General Submissions
Deadline: May 15, 2026
Oyster River Pages is open for submissions of short fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and visual art, January 27-May 15, 2026. We look for language and stories and images that move us out of ourselves and into other spaces, and are especially eager to publish pieces that engage with the work of marginalized and decentered people—Black and Brown creators, LGBTQ+ creators, and creators of all levels of dis/ability. See www.oysterriverpages.com/submit for details.
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The Capra Review is Open to Submissions
Deadline: March 31, 2026
The Capra Review is seeking work for its Spring 2026 issue. If your stories, essays, or photographs carry secrets, obsessions, or quiet risks, don’t keep them hidden. We seek work that lingers, that makes readers lean in, that unfolds in unexpected ways. Fiction, nonfiction, art, documentary photography—if it surprises, unsettles, or captivates, we want to see it. Submissions are rolling, but the Spring issue is coming fast. www.thecaprareview.com
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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.
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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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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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Mountain Jay Books: Call for Submissions for Online Journal
Deadline: Year-round
Steller’s Weekly is the online literary journal of Mountain Jay Books—a colorado-based publishing and bookbinding company. Our mission is simple: to elevate literature by championing emerging voices and hand-binding works of literary art. If you are a fiction writer who has never had a short story or novel published before (personal websites excluded), we’d love to help build your writing resume! Please submit your short stories of less than 5,000 words via mountainjaybooks.com/submit. At the end of each year, twelve stories will have the opportunity to be published in our annual paperback anthology, Stories with Altitude, so send your best work!
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Grey Matter: Call for Poems about Illness, Treatment, and Healing
Deadline: March 15, 2026
Grey Matter, the medical poetry journal of the Narrative Medicine program at the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix, welcomes submissions from voices across the healthcare spectrum—from providers to patients—with a focus on equity, inclusion, and the celebration of our unique medical narratives. Submit up to 3 poems that reflects on the physiological and/or emotional effects of our health experiences, from illness to treatment to healing. Please include a brief, third-person bio (150 words or fewer) with your submission, which should be sent to [email protected]. revisionaryarts.org/grey-matter/
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS to SPANK the CARP
SPANK the CARP. Funny name, serious literature. We’re looking for flash fiction, short stories, CNF, and poetry, including shape poetry. If your work is thought-provoking, sophisticated, yet not pretentious or obscure, we’re interested. We’re also accepting images and photos that depict Carp and Koi in artistic and natural settings and have a strong artistic element. For submission guidelines and more information visit www.spankthecarp.com.
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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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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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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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Decolonial Passage Accepting All Literary Genres for Issue #3: Ecology
Deadline: April 30, 2026
During the month of April, Decolonial Passage will be open to all genres as we invite submissions on the theme of ecology. Send us your poems, short stories, and creative nonfiction in which we see human beings interacting with their natural environment, plants, and animals and in which you take into consideration the arguments of decolonial ecology. See our webpage for complete guidelines. thedecolonialpassage.net
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Sterncastle Magazine: A New Frontier for Literary & Artistic Greatness
Deadline: March 10, 2026
Sterncastle Magazine is dedicated to showcasing compelling short fiction and original artwork in a thoughtfully curated, quarterly publication. Each issue is built around a unifying theme, offering writers and artists a shared point of departure while allowing for a wide range of genres, styles, and interpretations. We are interested in work that is accessible, imaginative, and emotionally resonant. At its core, Sterncastle Magazine is about discovery: discovering new voices, new perspectives, and new ways of approaching familiar themes. Each issue is designed to feel cohesive, intentional, and enduring. To learn more about our upcoming themes, or to submit your work for inclusion, check out: sterncastle.org/magazine.
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Speckled Trout Review: Call For Submissions!
Deadline: April 6, 2026
Speckled Trout Review is open for poetry submissions for its Winter 2026 issue: The theme of which is change. Before submitting, poets are encouraged to read the submission guidelines at www.speckledtroutreview.com.
Peace&Hope,
The Editors
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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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Sand Hills Literary Magazine Call for Submissions! (50th Anniversary Issue)
Deadline: March 8, 2026
Sand Hills Literary Magazine, in print since 1973, is now open for its 50th anniversary issue! We are a national publication based in Augusta, Georgia, accepting prose, poetry, and art from emerging and established writers and artists in the United States. We are also accepting submissions for our annual poetry and prose contests judged by the Sand Hills editorial team. Winning entries in each category receive $500 and publication in the issue. The deadline for general and contest submissions is March 8th, 2026. Learn more: sandhillsmagazine.com/submit-1. We look forward to reviewing your work.
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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.