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Calls and Contests 2020

Weekly Roundup for Calls & Contests :: May 29, 2020

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May is nearly behind us and the year will be officially half over with upon the arrival of June. How have your submission goals been doing?

If you missed out on the opportunities posted to the NewPages site this week, you can dive into them all below. Don’t forget that we are still open to submissions of reviews between 125-300 words for our What Are You Reading series. Check out recent flash reviews here. View the guidelines and learn how to submit here.

Calls for Submissions

You can keep up-to-date with all open calls for submissions at the NewPages website. Have children at home? Get them writing, too! Our Young Writers Guide lists markets open to younger writers from elementary to undergraduate ages.

May Submission Deadlines

Last chance to submit fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and visual art to online literary magazine Oyster River Pages for Issue 4. Read through their first three issues for a taste of what they like before sending your own work for consideration. They are looking for work that “stretches creative and social boundaries.” Deadline to submit is May 31; there is no fee. They also have a special section for fiction by emerging writers.

June Submission Deadlines

Washington Writers’ Publishing House. This is What America Looks Like anthology. Fiction, poetry. $5 fee. Deadline: June 1. Restrictions: Writers must be from or have close ties to DC, Maryland, or Virginia. [Read more…] about Weekly Roundup for Calls & Contests :: May 29, 2020

Call :: Send Your Essay, Poem, or Short to The CHILLFILTR Review

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Submissions accepted year-round.
The CHILLFILTR Review strives to bring the best new art to a worldwide audience by leveraging best-in-class technology to create a seamless and immersive web experience. We welcome submissions from all walks of life, and all perspectives. We are committed to inclusivity and kindly welcome work from marginalized voices. All featured works will receive an honorarium of $20 per 1000 words and will be published online at The CHILLFILTR Review as well as on our Apple News Channel. Readers can vote for their favorites, and year-end “Best Of” winners will receive an additional $100 cash prize.

Contest :: 2020 Sublingua Prize for Poetry

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Deadline: July 1 2020
Send us your BEST FIVE pieces! Get your work in front of our judge, award-winning KHADIJAH QUEEN, author of six books, most recently, ANODYNE (Tin House, August 2020)!! Prize is open to writers who haven’t yet published a book-length collection or a chapbook. Submission fee: $15 for five pieces. Even if you’re not a winner or a finalist, you may still be published in our print issue and 2) you may be read by our judge. Past contributors include Rae Armantrout, Kiki Petrosino, Philip Metres, Kathy Fish, Andrea Rexilius, Eric Baus, J Michael Martinez and more.

Reminder :: Mental Snapback seeks Recovery Stories

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Don’t forget to dive into the latest episodes of podcast series Mental Snapback for an idea of what they like. Then consider submitting your own mental health recovery stories to be featured in upcoming episodes. The podcast is for everyone and anyone who has experienced mental illness, whether it be that you have experienced acute or chronic illnesses yourself or someone you love has experienced them. They know the struggle, and don’t want to invalidate that. However, they want to hear about the other side—the recovery of your struggles—to build a foundation of hope for whoever may need it. Currently, they only accept creative nonfiction in the form of essays. Acceptance of manuscripts occurs on a rolling basis, and they will be read aloud on weekly podcast episodes. mentalsnapback.com/submission-guidelines/

Call :: COVID LIT Seeks Work for Monthly Issues

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COVID LIT logoCOVID LIT is a monthly online lit mag that gives the middle finger to COVID-19 by publishing, promoting, and spreading art, poetry, and prose using the disease’s name. What sets us apart from other magazines? Simple: instead of paying us a submission fee, writers must donate at least $3 to a nonprofit of their choice. Since we launched in late April 2020, our writers have donated over $3000 directly to regional, national, and international nonprofits, so send your best work and use your creative superpowers for good! Visit www.covidlit.org today!

Call :: Words & Whispers Issue 1

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Submissions accepted year-round.
Words & Whispers is an online literary journal seeking to publish poetry and short prose by writers of all ages on a year-round rolling basis. Send us the wild and divine, the eccentric and experimental. For more information please visit www.wordsandwhispers.org.

Reminder :: the Vitni Review Seeks Creative Writing for Fall 2020 Issue

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Deadline: Rolling
the Vitni Review seeks creative writing submissions on an ongoing basis for its Fall 2020 issue. Our intention is to publish writing that pushes against convention, which challenges, subverts, or skillfully manipulates tradition, and which serves to advance the understanding of human culture and experience via interesting metaphors, exciting diction, and engaging content. We are especially dedicated to publishing work by writers from historically under- or misrepresented demographics. See our guidelines at www.vitnireview.org/submit.

Call :: Palooka Seeks Chapbooks, Prose, Poetry, Art & Photography

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Palooka is an international literary magazine. For a decade we’ve featured up-and-coming, established, and brand-new writers, artists, and photographers from all around the world. We’re open to diverse forms and styles and are always seeking unique chapbooks, fiction, poetry, nonfiction, artwork, photography, graphic narratives, and comic strips. Free digital copies of back issues now available for a short time. Give us your best shot! Submissions open year-round. palookamag.com

Reminder :: $5,000 Miller Williams Poetry Prize

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Every year, the University of Arkansas Press accepts submissions for the Miller Williams Poetry Series and from the books selected awards the $5,000 Miller Williams Poetry Prize in the following summer. For almost a quarter century the press has made this series the cornerstone of its work as a publisher of some of the country’s best poetry. The series is edited by Patricia Smith. The deadline for the 2022 Prize is September 30, 2020. Jayson Iwen’s Roze & Blud, published in March 2020, was the winner of the 2020 Miller Williams Poetry Prize. For more information visit uapress.com.

Call :: Blue Mountain Review Wants the Best Stories in All Genres

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The Blue Mountain Review flierNow in it’s 5 year, The Blue Mountain Review was 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 life through its stories. Stories are vital to our survival. Songs save the soul. Our goal is to preserve and promote lives told well through prose, poetry, music, and the visual arts. Our editors read year-round with an eye out for work with homespun and international appeal. We’ve published work with Jericho Brown, Kelli Russell Agodon, Robert Pinsky, Rising Appalachia, Nahko, Michel Stone, Genesis Greykid, Cassandra King, Melissa Studdard, and A.E. Stallings. www.southerncollectiveexperience.com/submission-guidelines/

Call :: Club Plum Wants Powerful yet Subtle Pieces

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Deadline: Rolling
Submissions open for flash fiction of no more than 800 words and prose poems. Send powerful yet subtle pieces. Send strong voices. Send dreamy words that don’t gush. Skate on the edge of realities. Club Plum also seeks art: Please send one image only of pen-and-ink line art, watercolor, bold colors, experimental work, collage, impressionistic or abstract pieces. Tell the editor about your piece. The editor will pass on photography. See clubplumliteraryjournal.com for details.