The Fictional Café Seeks Distinctive, Cutting-Edge Short Stories and Poetry
Deadline: Rolling
The Fictional Café is a highly regarded online ‘zine, nine years old with 900 Coffee Club members in 47 countries. Fiction and poetry only, please, exploring the creative boundaries of the art. Visit our site to read recent works. Your short story or novel excerpt should be extremely well written with engaging characters and a unique, avant-garde, or unconventional plot. We welcome bold, sophisticated poetry collections of all types. Please join our Coffee Club, then review our submissions guidelines. We reply in 30 days. www.fictionalcafe.com
BreakBread Magazine Seeks Young Creatives 13-25
Deadline: Rolling
BreakBread Magazine is a magazine for all young creatives between the ages of 13 and 25. We are always looking for vivid, timely poetry, nonfiction, short stories, comics, and visual arts (photography, illustrated narratives, and hybrid work) that explore new directions in arts and letters. Submissions are always free. Visit breakbreadproject.submittable.com/submit to send us your work. Check out our website for more information.
Gallery Gallery LUX Call for Art, Writing
Deadline: April 1, 2021
Event Dates: May 1- September 1 Event Location: Virtual
Open call for art and writing submissions for the group exhibition Lux (Latin for light). We welcome interpretations in all mediums and all forms. Light can reference hope, fresh beginnings, a new way of seeing. Post tenebras lux, (after darkness, light) may reference a new start, such as emerges with vernal equinox post winter. In darkness can we find hope for change? “Only in darkness can we see the stars.” (MLK JR.) After a winter of germination, let us celebrate with all things Lux. What does Spring mean for you? Show us! gallerygallery.org
Mistake House: a space between ordinary and odd
Mistake House Magazine seeks work that speaks to the heart in a complex global context. Submissions, including work in translation, accepted through March 15, 2021 from students currently enrolled in graduate or undergraduate programs worldwide. See guidelines at www.mistakehouse.org/submit/. Mistake House: a space between ordinary and odd.
Planisphere Q Seeks Flash Fiction, Vignettes, Character Sketches, and Poetry
Deadline: March 31, 2021
Planisphere Q is seeking submissions for its inaugural issue. The theme is "sight." Any interpretation of the word is acceptable. All genres are accepted. The 500-word limit is firm. Flash fiction, vignettes, character sketches, and poetry. PQ also accepts one-page comics. See submission guidelines: www.planisphereq.com/p/guidelines.html.
Club Plum Seeks Works for April 2021 Issue
Deadline: April 1, 2021
Please send flash fiction, prose poetry, hybrid works, & art to Club Plum for Volume 2, Issue 2, dropping April 16, 2021. Send your pain. Send your fury. Send your strange. Unsure if prose poem or flash fiction? Send it our way. See www.clubplumliteraryjournal.com for guidelines.
Beliefs, Myths, and Narratives in Southern Culture
Deadline: May 15, 2021
Founded in 2020, Nobody’s Home: Modern Southern Folklore is a work-in-progress online anthology of creative nonfiction works about the prevailing beliefs, myths, and narratives that have driven Southern culture over the last fifty years, in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The anthology is collecting personal essays, memoirs, short articles, opinion pieces, and contemplative works about the ideas, experiences, and assumptions that have shaped life below the old Mason-Dixon Line since 1970. www.modernsouthernfolklore.com
Oyster River Pages Seeks Submissions for Annual Issue
Deadline: May 31, 2021
Oyster River Pages is a literary and artistic collective seeking submissions of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and visual arts that stretch creative and social boundaries. We believe in the power of art to connect people to their own and others’ humanity, something we see as especially important during these tumultuous times. Because of this, we seek to feature artists whose voices have been historically decentered or marginalized. Please see www.oysterriverpages.com for submission details.
Jokes Review: Call for Manifestos
Deadline: May 31, 2021
Jokes Review is currently accepting submissions exclusively of manifestos, broadly defined. We want your manifesto (serious or otherwise) about life, art, philosophy, economics, poetry, rocketry, absinthe, interpretive dance, etc. etc. If you have a manifesto—whether it’s nonfiction, fiction, poetry, or art—to bring to the world, send it our way! For submission info: www.jokesliteraryreview.com/submit.
HWP Seeks Fiction/Poetry/Flash for Paid Print Publication/Awards
Deadline: August 31, 2021
Haunted Waters Press seeking submissions for consideration in the 2nd edition of our fiction anthology Tin Can Literary Review—$250 per published story. Also seeking works of fiction, poetry, flash, and Penny Fiction for paid print publication in the 19th issue of our literary journal From the Depths. Works appearing online in SPLASH! are eligible for future offers of paid publication. All submissions considered for 2021 HWP Awards. Your words and endeavors are important to us! Custom artwork, author interviews, and the HWP Contributor Showcase are just a few of the ways we show our appreciation. Visit us today! www.hauntedwaterspress.com
Auroras & Blossoms International Submissions Call - Inspirational Art, Flash Fiction, Photography, Short Stories
Deadline: year-round
Launched in 2019, Auroras & Blossoms is dedicated to promoting positive and inspirational art; and giving artists (ages 13 and over) of all levels a platform where they can showcase their work and build their publishing credits. We publish photography, poetry, short stories, six-word stories, paintings, drawings, essays, and flash fiction in two magazines. We are also looking for testimonies and art on social justice for our new No Longer Ignored Anthology. We are particularly interested in entries from women, minorities, POC, and disabled artists. International submissions welcome. Submission Guidelines and apply here: abpoetryjournal.com/submit/.
Driftwood Press Submissions Open
Deadline: Year-round
We Pay Contributors
John Updike once said, "Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better." At Driftwood Press, we are actively searching for artists who care about doing it right, or better. We are excited to receive your submissions and will diligently work to bring you the best in full poetry collections, novellas, graphic novels, short fiction, poetry, graphic narrative, photography, art, interviews, and contests. We also offer our submitters a premium option to receive an acceptance or rejection letter within one week of submission; many authors are offered editorships and interviews. To polish your fiction, note our editing services and seminars, too. www.driftwoodpress.net
Submit your 50-word story to 50 Give or Take
Deadline: Rolling
50 Give or Take daily delivers micro-fiction of fifty words or less straight into your inbox. Please subscribe (it’s free!) to get an idea of what is published, before submitting your work. All accepted 50 Give or Take pieces will be published in a print collection at the end of every year, starting in 2021. All you have to do is submit your: 50-word story, one-line bio, website or social media URL, and a vertical photo of yourself to 50giveortake@vineleavespress.com. Good luck!
The Austin Film Festival’s Script Competition is open for entries! Regardless of placement, all entrants receive free reader comments so at the very least they’ll get feedback on their script from seasoned readers.
- Early Deadline: March 26, 2021
- Regular Deadline: April 16, 2021
- Late Deadline: May 21, 2021
In addition to feature screenplays and teleplay pilots and specs, we also accept short screenplays, digital series scripts, stage plays, and fiction podcast scripts. More information on all script competitions can be found here: Austin Film Festival Script Competitions. |
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The American Journal of Poetry Volume 11 Call for Submissions
Deadline: Rolling
Now reading for Volume Eleven, our Summer/Fall 2021 issue. Please visit us to read our previous volumes filled with poems from poets the world over, from the first-published to the most acclaimed in literature. A unique voice is highly prized. Be bold, uncensored, take risks. Our hallmark is "STRONG Rx MEDICINE." We are the home of the long poem! No restrictions as to subject matter, style, or length. Published biannually online. Submissions accepted through our online submission manager, Submittable; a submission fee is charged. (BOO HISS!) theamericanjournalofpoetry.com
Dear College-aged Writers & Artists: Submit to ANGLES
Deadline: April 1, 2021
ANGLES seeks poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and visual art by college-aged people with diverse voices and distinct perspectives. As a literary magazine edited by students at St. John Fisher College, ANGLES takes pride in being among a writer's first publications. Send us urgent writing and art that cares about language, people, and the world and pays close attention to them. We value traditions but are keen on challenging them. We make space for underrepresented communities. Our current reading period ends on 4/1. Visit our website to see who we are and what we publish, or go straight to angleslitmag.submittable.com to submit.
MudRoom
Deadline: May 1, 2021
MudRoom is open for submissions until May 1st for our Spring Issue! We are seeking poetry and prose in all their forms. Submissions are free, and we pay $15 per accepted piece. MudRoom is somewhere between where you’ve come from and where you’re going. We believe in the liminal, the dirty, the messy, and the mundane. We publish four issues of prose and poetry a year, and we also work to put out content devoted to developing a practice—we feature short essays on craft, and interviews with writers. Send us your work, we’d love to read it!
April Gloaming
April Gloaming Publishing is a nonprofit independent press based in Nashville, TN that aims to capture and better understand the Southern soul, Southern writing, and the Southern holler.
In the words of William Faulkner, to be Southern is to, "Tell about the South. What do they do there. How do they live there. Why do they live at all." April Gloaming seeks to arrive at the conclusions to these questions through amplifying the voices of the unbridled holler.
April Gloaming is a refuge for the small and the weird. Our impetus is our authors and artists and ensuring that they have a voice at every step of the publishing process. We seek the formless and sublime, the chaotic and the devastating. April Gloaming celebrates the genre-benders, those rare works that bring the old and the new together into something entirely transcendent. Being small lets us follow our dreams, however dark and twisted they may be, and allows us to show them to the world.
If you are thinking of submitting to us for potential publication, please follow the guidelines listed below (unsolicited and agent submissions are accepted):
For Poetry
Please send 10-12 poems of your manuscript to:
poetry.aprilgloaming@gmail.com
For Fiction
Please send up to 40 pages of an excerpt of your work to: fiction.aprilgloaming@gmail.com
For Creative Nonfiction
Please send up to 40 pages of an excerpt of your work to: nonfiction.aprilgloaming@gmail.com
For Graphic Novels
Please send a pitch page, a script sample, and some sample art to: comics.aprilgloaming@gmail.com