NewPages Guide to Calls for 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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Feels Blind Literary Seeks Work for Lucky Issue #13
Deadline: January 31, 2026
Based in Baltimore, Feels Blind Literary is amped for AWP 2026! To show off our hospitality, we’re planning an offsite bash to launch FBL’s lucky Issue #13, but we need your plays, cnf, fiction, and art to fill this issue and help us celebrate. It’s insufficient to create space at the table for writers who have been traditionally marginalized if that table isn’t designed with those writers in mind. Inspired by Bikini Kill’s “Feels Blind,” we aim to challenge toxic narratives through the voices we publish and elevate. Send us your best. Bonus if it’s a little punk and passes the Bechdel test. www.feelsblindliterary.com
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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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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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Blink-Ink Call for Lost Civilizations: The Silurian Hypothesis
Deadline: January 15, 2025
Extreme geological forces of nature make our Earth something like a gigantic trash compactor. Physical evidence of anything at all doesn’t last long. This and the great age of the planet might imply that civilizations as advanced or even more advanced than our own have come and gone. Civilizations that are completely lost to us today. Or are they? Send us your best stories of approximately 50 words to do with Lost Civilizations: The Silurian Hypothesis, in the body of an email to: [email protected]. Submissions are open December 1st, 2025 through January 15th, 2026. No attachments, poetry, bios, or AI generated content please. www.blink-ink.org
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Santa Clara Review Call For Submissions
Deadline: January 15, 2026
The Santa Clara Review publishes a wide variety of work from all over the world. Our magazine is open to all and is especially interested in writing and art from Black writers, Indigenous writers, LGBT+ writers, and writers of color. Writers–send us your best poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, including flash pieces, humor, satire, short screenplays and plays, and hybrid works. Visual artists–send us your art of any kind, including photography, painting, sculpture, drawings, collage, and textile creations. For further submission guidelines, visit santaclarareview.com. We are now accepting submissions for our Spring 2026 issue via our Submittable page.
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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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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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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.