NewPages Guide to Calls for Submissions
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Writers of Sci Fi and Horror Wanted
Writers of Sci Fi and Horror fiction, WE NEED YOU! The Shade Chronicles Podcast is soliciting original Sci Fi and horror short stories for our next season coming later in 2025. Amateur and pros alike are welcome to submit their stories. Stories featured in our podcast are dramatized readings with music and sound effects. Most stories are 10 to 15 minutes in length—approximately 2000 to 4000 words. If selected, we’ll add the audio reading, effects, and music. You’ll have a chance to hear it before we add it to our podcast too. For more information including where to submit your story, go to theshadechronicles.com and click on the ‘Submissions’ tab.
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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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About Place Journal Call for Submissions: Careful/Care-full Collaboration
Deadline: March 10, 2025
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 2025 issue Careful/Care-full Collaboration. 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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Unlock Liberation Through Self-Care with Thorn & Bloom
Deadline: February 15, 2025
Discover Thorn & Bloom, the quarterly publication reimagining self-care as a powerful tool for personal and collective liberation. Share your stories, reflections, and insights that challenge societal norms and inspire autonomy, individuality, and self-worth. From personal essays to expert perspectives, Thorn & Bloom highlights resilience, healing, and authentic growth, while critiquing the societal norms that keep one repressed. This inclusive space invites your creativity and voice on the journey toward self-discovery. Submissions are open until 15 February 2025. Explore the radical power of self-care and the freedom it brings. Learn more or submit your work today: www.redrosethorns.com/thornandbloom.
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Superpresent is seeking submissions on the theme Movement
Deadline: March 1, 2025
Superpresent is seeking submission on the theme Movement. We are looking for poetry, short stories, essays, visual art, videos, performance art, etc. based on any aspect of the word Movement. superpresent.org
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Blink-Ink Issue #59 Call for Submissions: Bad Science
Extended Deadline: January 31, 2025
People believe humans can’t move a big rock without a big machine or supernatural powers. People believe “to evolve” always means, “to get better.” And those are just some harmless ones. Science works to correct itself; technology has overrun us, and most people believe the same pernicious nonsense people believed two hundred years ago. Tell us what you know about Bad Science in stories of approximately fifty words. Submissions are open now through January 31, 2025. Please send submissions in the body of an email to: [email protected]. No attachments, poetry, bios or AI generated content please. Artwork welcome for this issue. www.blink-ink.org
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Works Progress Call for Submissions
Deadline: Year-round
We are a Substack publishing short fiction about anything bigger than yourself: stories about astronauts, ICU nurses, politics, protests, alternate histories, big-world calamities, juicy personal dramas and the people who experience them. Fiction with dynamic characters who do interesting things. We don’t think stories should be slogs. We do not publish quiet stories about divorce. We pay our writers, and have published work from writers such as Hannah Assadi, Juhea Kim, Robert Lopez, Andrew Boryga and more. Submit via email (guidelines here) and visit our archives at worksprogress.substack.com/archive.
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Arkana Seeks Hybrid Submissions for a Special Issue
Deadline: February 15, 2025 for Fullest Consideration
“Hey, you got peanut butter in my chocolate!” Two things become immediately better as one. Arkana is putting together a special Hybrid issue and actively seeking submissions! We want your prose poems, your cross-genre work, and your all around experimental and unclassifiable writing. Hybrids could include (but are not limited to): cross-genre/multimedia works; experimental works; performance pieces/video essays/sonic pieces/visual poetry; prose poetry/flash fiction/flash nonfiction; autofiction; and anything else that doesn’t fit the traditional bounds of creative writing genres! Learn more and submit at: arkanamag.org/submit/.
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Sand Hills Literary Magazine Call for Submissions
Deadline: March 1, 2025
Sand Hills Literary Magazine, in print since 1973, is now open for Issue 49. We are a national publication out of Augusta, Georgia accepting works from the United States. Both emerging and established writers and artists are encouraged to submit. We are now accepting art, poetry, and prose for our upcoming issue. We are also accepting submissions to 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 1, 2025. We look forward to reviewing your work. sandhillsmagazine.com/submit
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Submit to the Santa Clara Review!
Deadline: February 15, 2025
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 2025 issue via our Submittable page.
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Submit Your Experimental/Avant Garde Poetry and Art to #Ranger Magazine
Deadline: March 15, 2025
Submit your Avant Garde/experimental poetry, art, music and film to #Ranger magazine! We accept everything. Text-based. Visual. Text-visual. Please check out the mag to see what our aesthetic is like before submitting. www.rangermagazine.net
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Call For Submissions From Girls Worldwide
Extended Deadline: January 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 ninth 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 the EXTENDED DEADLINE: January 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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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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Third Street Review Call for Submissions
Deadline: February 28, 2025
Third Street Review, a quarterly online literary journal, is open for submissions from February 1 through 28. We publish fiction and creative nonfiction of up to 1000 words, poetry, and we are also looking for art and photography. Please check out our website for complete details. We are a paying publication and seek to support creators at all stages of their careers and from varied backgrounds. If you have something for us, we can’t wait to see it! third-street-review.org/submissions/
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Split Rock Review Seeks Submissions for Issue 21
Deadline: January 31, 2025
Split Rock Review is an online journal that publishes poetry, short creative nonfiction and fiction, comics, graphic narratives, cross-genre, book reviews, interviews, photography, and art that explore place, environment, and the relationship between humans and the natural world. We seek submissions for Issue 21 (Spring 2025). First 100 submissions are FREE! Expedited and Tip Jar submission options are also available. Simultaneous submissions are OK. We encourage you to read past issues to see if we’re a good home for your work. Deadline: January 31. splitrockreview.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.
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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
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Plant-Human Quarterly Seeks Poems and Essays for Upcoming Issues
Deadline: Year-round
Plant-Human Quarterly reads year-round. We seek unpublished or published poetry and essays that explore the myriad ways writers manifest their relationship to the botanical world—whether through heavily researched pieces, keen observation, or more intuitive ways of knowing—that attempt to communicate across boundaries and approach a plant’s-eye-view of the world. Send no more than 5 poems or an essay of no more than 1500 words (flash essay or essay excerpt) in a single word document. Past contributors include Ellen Bass, Forrest Gander, Kimiko Hahn, Brenda Hillman, Jane Hirshfield, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Pattiann Rogers, Scott Russell Sanders, Arthur Sze. Submission guidelines: otherwisecollective.com/phq-submissions.