Deadline: Rolling
Red Planet Magazine is an independent literary magazine emphasizing a theme of speculative fiction, and is open for submissions year-round on a rolling basis. Contributors receive a digital copy of the issue in which their work has been featured. Please visit www.redplanetmagazine.com for additional information.
Contest :: 2020 Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize – 1 Month Left!
The deadline to submit to the 2020 Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize is August 15. This year’s prize is judged by Dorianne Laux and Joseph Millar. $1,000 for first place and a letterpress broadside, $500 for second, $250 for third. Top five published in Red Wheelbarrow Literary Magazine. Submit up to 3 original unpublished poems. $15 entry fee. For complete guidelines, see redwheelbarrow.submittable.com.
Call :: The Awakenings Review Seeks Submissions from Writers with Personal Connections to Mental Illness
Established in 2000, The Awakenings Review is an annual lit mag committed to published in the fall. It features poetry, short stories, nonfiction, photography, and art by writers, poets, and artists who have a relationship with mental illness: either self, family member, or friend. The striking hardcopy publication is one of the nation’s leading journals of this genre. Creative endeavors and mental illness have long had a close association. The Awakenings Review publishes works derived from artists’, writers’, and poets’ experiences with mental illness, though mental illness need not be the subject of your work. Visit www.AwakeningsProject.org for submission guidelines. There is no fee to submit.
Call :: PoArtMo 2020 Anthology Open to Submissions
Deadline: August 23, 2020
We invite you to submit your best art work created in 2020 for potential inclusion in a digital anthology that will be published later this year. Topics/Themes: Anything that is positive, uplifting, and inspirational in nature, with the exception of erotica and politics. Clean art only. No dirty words or swear words allowed! We are looking for poetry, flash fiction, essays, short stories, art, drawings, paintings, and photography. abpoetryjournal.com/poartmo-anthology/
Reminder :: FishFood Open to Short Stories for Inaugural Contest
Deadline: August 31, 2020
Online literary magazine FishFood Magazine is accepting submissions for its very first short story contest through August 31. Stories must be under 1,000 words. There is no set theme, so feel free to get as creative as possible. The winner of the contest receives $1000 plus publication of the story in FishFood Magazine: www.fishfoodmagazine.com.
Reminder :: Daphne Review Summer Mentor Program Applications Due July 31
Deadline: July 31, 2020
Don’t forget The Daphne Review is hosting an online mentorship program for talented high school student writers and established writers/teachers acting as their mentors. They’re currently taking applications for both types (students and qualified mentors) until July 31st! To apply, submit a resume and brief cover letter to daphnereview@mail.com. Start Date: August 3-28. Format: online. Classes: flash fiction, poetry. Pay for mentors: $50 per hour for skype or $200; $25 per hour for email or $100; total: $300 via paypal. www.thedaphnereview.org
Call :: Anthology of Writing on Domestic Verbal, Emotional, and Physical Abuse
Deadline: October 15, 2020
We are seeking work by survivors of domestic abuse. Creative nonfiction, memoir, flash nonfiction. Maximum word count 4500. Please note that at this time we are not accepting poetry. Deadline: October 15, 2020. The book will be published by McFarland & Company; contributors will receive a complimentary copy. Please send your submission in Word, with a brief cover letter and 50 word bio to Judith Skillman, jskillman54@gmail.com and Linera Lucas; lineralucas@alumni.reed.edu. This text is dedicated to all those who dared to break the silence.
Sponsor Spotlight :: Tint Journal Focuses on Writing by Non-Native English Speakers
Online literary magazine Tint Journal was founded in 2018 during the LARB/USC Publishing Workshop. Their mission is to encourage emerging and established ESL authors to stand behind their non-native backgrounds. The publish fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by non-native English writers biannually. They also accept interviews and reviews by contributors of any linguistic background.
By choosing English as their means of communication, these writers provide their English reading audience with an immediate take on their values, ideas, and beliefs. They bridge borders and blend cultures without the third party of the translator and offer the purest and deepest understanding of their fiction and nonfiction worlds.
Their Spring 2020 issue features essays, poetry, and fiction by Catherine C. Con, Annick Duignan, Ifeoluwa Ayandele, Eneida P. Alcalde, Sejal Ghia, Rhea Malik, E. Izabelle Cassandra Alexander, Mario Marčinko, Hibah Shabkhez, and Caroline Smadja.
Stop by their listing on NewPages to learn more about them.
Sponsor Spotlight :: Better Than Starbucks, Not Your Ordinary Poetry Magazine
Better Than Starbucks is an online literary magazine publishing multiple genres of poetry including free verse, formal poetry, haiku, experimental poetry, poetry for children, African and international poetry, and poetry translations. Every issue features a poetry interview with a featured section of poems. While the main focus of the journal is poetry, they do also publish fiction, flash fiction, micro fiction, and creative nonfiction.
They publish six issues a year and you can find over 30 of their past and recent issues available to read in their online archives. Their current edition features an interview with A. M. Juster by Alfred Nichol. Learn more about them at their listing on NewPages.
Sponsor Spotlight :: Auroras & Blossoms Focuses on Positivity, Art, & Inspiration
Auroras & Blossoms is an electronic literary magazine launched in 2019 by co-founders Cendrine Marrouat and David Ellis. It is dedicated to promoting positive, uplifting, and inspirational poetry, poetry-graphy, short stories, 6-word stories, paintings, drawings, and photography. They feature poetry from adults as well as young writers ages 13-16. As they are a family-friend platform, no swear words, dirty words, politics, or erotica is allowed.
They also publish digital anthologies. Their first is the NaPoWriMo Anthology which contains poetry written throughout National Poetry Writing Month in April 2020 and features work by Donna Allard, Chandni Asnani, Maria L. Berg, Jamie Brian, Jimena Cerda, Jaewon Chang, Ravichandra Chittampalli, Sandra Christensen, Mimi DiFrancesca, Fiona D’Silva, Kate Duff, Judy Dykstra-Brown, Amanda M. Eifert, Stacie Eirich, David Ellis, Michael Erickson, Deveree Extein, Jack M. Freedman, Alicia Grimshaw, Jenny Hayut, Patrick Jennings, Liam Kennedy, Ting Lam, Rose Loving, Cendrine Marrouat, Michele Mekel, Ally Nellmapius, William Reynolds, Madhumita Sarangi, Anna Schoenbach, Julie A. Sellers, Jonathan Shipley, Dorian J. Sinnott, Krupali Trivedi, Angela van Son, Michele Vecchitto, Penny Wilkes, and Gemma Wiseman. Their next anthology will be PoArtMo which stands for Positive Art Month and Positive Art Moves.
Stop by their listing at NewPages to learn more.
Weekly Roundup for Calls & Contests :: July 10, 2020
Heat and humidity have settled in for the long haul in Michigan. Get yourself a tall, cold drink and settle in for some major writing and editing to keep your submissions goals strong!
Calls for Submissions
Don’t forget we keep a list of publications that also accepts work from young writers! Help get the kids in your life on track with their own publication goals along with yours.
July Submission Deadlines
Mom Egg Review is open for literary submissions on motherhood for their annual print issue. They publish poetry, flash and short fiction, creative prose, and hybrid works (up to 850 words). They also seek mother-themed art. Submit literary works that reflect or focus on any aspect or phase of mothering, from pre-inception to later life. Submissions open until July 15 ($3 fee).
The Daphne Review is seeking writers/teachers to act as mentors for their virtual Summer Mentorship Program. They are also taking applications from high school student writers to attend the program. The mentorship will run from August 3 through 28. There will be classes in flash fiction and poetry. Deadline to submit mentor or attendee applications is July 31.
Haunted Waters Press is open to submissions of fiction that is exactly 20 words, no more and no less, for its regular feature Penny Fiction. There is no fee to submit. Deadline is July 31.
Into the Void will be publishing a poetry and prose anthology called We Are Antifa: Expressions Against Fascism, Racism and Police Violence in the United States and Beyond. They seek poetry, fiction, or creative nonfiction which concerns this topic in some way. Over 50% of the writers included will be people of color. Payment is CA$15 per poem/flash and CA$30 per prose piece, plus a contributor copy. $4.95 tip jar submission.
Xi Draconis Books seeks socially engaged, book-length works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry for its 2020 and 2021 production years. They accept novels, short story and poetry collections, memoirs, essay collections, and cross-genre book-length works. Their mission is to publish works that examine social justice issues of all kinds. Head to xidraconis.org/submission-guidelines/ to submit manuscripts for consideration. Deadline: July 31. [Read more…] about Weekly Roundup for Calls & Contests :: July 10, 2020