HRW New Members
We welcome new member Jason Taylor from Williamsburg and look forward to hearing more about him in the future.
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Thanks so much for being a part of the HRW community!
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Literary journals and publishers put out calls for submissions when they are seeking new material. If you have a completed story, essay, poem, or piece of creative nonfiction, these are good opportunities. GO FORTH AND SUBMIT AND LET US KNOW ABOUT YOUR PUBLICATION SUCESSES!
Hindsight is a collection of stories about 2020, written by people just like you. We’re seeking stories from around the world that capture what it was like to wake up every day to a new normal — whether that means navigating emergencies as a first responder or tying the knot over Zoom. We're particularly interested in material that gets up close and personal with the struggles of 2020, rather than headlines or commentary on current events.
Hindsight is an independent, one-time publication. Content will be made available in two forms: Some stories will be shared on our website; the very best submissions will be compiled into a print anthology, which will be published in 2021.
Submission fee: None
Length: Up to 2,000 words
Deadline: Rolling
Compensation: Writers whose work is selected for the print anthology will receive a complimentary hard copy of the book, as well as a digital file.
To learn more, please visit w ww.hindsightbook2020.com.
Utopia Science Fiction
Deadline: April 3, 2021
Utopia Science Fiction Magazine is seeking science fiction stories and nonfiction that touch on ideas of ecology and the environment. If you've written a story about an alien ecosystem, or that mentions biology, exobiology, geography, exo-geography, chemistry, climate, etc., send it to us! We pay our authors and provide feedback on all submissions. www.utopiasciencefiction.com/submit
The Blue Mountain Review
Deadline: Submissions accepted 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 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/
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.
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.
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.
- 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
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
Hole In The Head Review is committed to publishing the best contemporary poetry and visual art. The editors seek to publish emerging and established artists, photographers, and writers. We are committed to responding to submissions within 45 days of submission.
Please send no more than three poems at once, and upload them as a single file – preferably a Word file – no more than one poem per page. We accept simultaneous submissions; please inform us immediately If you need to withdraw part of your submission.
Hole In The Head Review reserves first North American serial rights. All rights revert to the author upon publication. If you republish your work in a print or other journal, please credit Hole In The Head Review for the first publication.
Sand
Deadline: April 10, 2021
For SAND’s 23rd issue, we’re looking for visual art, poetry, fiction, flash fiction, and translated work that subverts, work that pushes against the boundaries of form, message, and voice in ways that we will feel, physically, in our bodies. We want work that haunts us with its soul, edge, and truth. Show us that fresh can be slow, sensitive can be rough, bold can be quiet.
SAND is a nonprofit journal of literature and art made by a diverse, international team in Berlin. We welcome both emerging and established talents to submit, and we have long been devoted to amplifying the voices of writers and artists who are women, BIPOC, LGBTQ+, disabled, working class, neurodiverse, international, and/or geographically underrepresented.
SAND is open to submissions of visual art, poetry, fiction, flash fiction, and translations from March 20 to April 10, 2021. (Creative nonfiction is currently closed.) Fiction, flash fiction, and poetry will close once submissions caps are reached, so submit your fiction, flash, and poetry early since these genres could close well before April 10.
Colorado Review
Deadline: April 30, 2021
THEY PAY!!
FICTION & NONFICTION
We consider short fiction and personal essays with contemporary themes (no genre fiction or literary criticism). There is no specific word or page count; generally, however, Colorado Review prefers short stories and essays that are somewhere between 15 and 25 manuscript pages. Please submit one story or essay at a time.
POETRY
We consider poetry of any style. Please limit poetry submissions to no more than five poems with a maximum of 15 pages at a time. Please also keep in mind that line lengths are limited by the size of our print journal; we can only fit up to 60 characters (including spaces and punctuation) per line.
BOOK REVIEWS
We do not accept unsolicited book reviews. If you would like to submit a book review, please send queries to respective editors listed on our guidelines. Reviewers are compensated with a one-year subscription to CR. Please note that we now publish reviews only on our website.
FORMAT FOR ALL SUBMISSIONS
Fiction & poetry manuscripts are read from August 1 to April 30; nonfiction manuscripts, however, are read year-round. Fiction & poetry manuscripts received between May 1 and July 31 will be returned unread.
- All manuscripts must be typed (double-spaced for fiction and nonfiction; poetry may be single-spaced).
- All manuscripts should be printed on white letter-sized paper.
- Please include a cover letter.
- Be sure your full name and address appear on the manuscript.
- We accept submissions via mail or online here. There is no fee to submit via mail. The fee for online submissions is $3. Do not submit manuscripts to our e-mail address.
- Submissions sent via US mail MUST include a self-addressed stamped envelope OR an e-mail address for response.
- Please tell us in your cover letter if you want your manuscript returned and include proper postage on your SASE.
Simultaneous submissions are accepted; writers must notify us immediately if the work is accepted elsewhere.
If Colorado Review has published your work in the last two years, please refrain from submitting so that we may continue to feature new voices.
With the exception of book reviews, Colorado Review does not publish the work of CSU faculty (current or emeritus), staff, or students; CSU alumni may submit three years after their graduation.
We consider only previously unpublished work.
We accept translations of previously published or unpublished work. Upon submitting a translation, writers must provide proof of permission to translate.
Colorado Review purchases First North American Serial Rights; all rights revert to the author upon publication in CR. We pay $10 per page ($30 minimum) for poetry and $200 for short stories and essays. Authors also receive two copies of the issue in which they are published and a one-year subscription to CR.
We strongly encourage writers to be familiar with our magazine before submitting to it. Examples of work published in Colorado Review are posted on our website; sample copies of issues before Spring 2020 are also available for $10 each, including postage; issues beginning with Spring 2020 are $12 each, including postage.
SEND MANUSCRIPTS TO:
Colorado Review
9105 Campus Delivery
Dept. of English
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, Colorado 80523-9105
QUESTIONS ABOUT SUBMISSIONS?
creview@colostate.edu
Brink
Deadline: April 30, 2021
THEY PAY!
FICTION, NONFICTION & POETRY
Brink is open for Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry submissions of any length engaging the theme TROUBLE.
What does it mean to be on the brink of trouble? Can you sense when you are there? What lets you know you are safe and out of reach? What kept you from falling in that one time you were sure you would? What changes once you pass through it? When did you watch someone else teeter on its edge?
We are interested in work that focuses on the edge, the brink, of trouble. What surrounds trouble? What are the images, sounds, ideas, people, movements, and opportunities? Those are the stories we want to hear.
EVOCATIONS
Brink is also open for submissions in the Evocations category. Evocations are hybrid categories that may include work that is of any cross-genre nature; work that includes visual components; work that represents a series or collection.
PLEASE NOTE
We consider only previously unpublished work.
Simultaneous submissions are accepted; please notify us immediately if the work is accepted elsewhere.
We pay $25/poem; $50/work less than 1500 words; $50/art 1-3 Images; $100/art 4+ Images; $100/work above 1501 words. Contributors will receive one copy of the issue in which their work appears.
Edited by Darien Hsu Gee and Carla Crujido
Deadline: April 30, 2021
Woodhall Press is seeking well-crafted, true narratives from BIPOC writers who self-identify as women (cis/trans) for their upcoming anthology, Nonwhite and Woman: 153 Micro Essays on Being in the World.
Publication Date
April 8, 2022. Trade print and e-book, bookstore and e-tailer distribution through Independent Publishers Group (IPG).
About the Anthology
Nonwhite and Woman celebrates how women of color live and thrive in the world, and how they make their lives their own. The anthology’s title is from Lucille Clifton’s luminous poem, won’t you celebrate with me, which serves as the anthology’s epigraph. Read the full poem here.
What We’re Looking For
How has the color of your skin influenced your life? What did you do to claim yourself and your identity, or how was it challenged? Show us a single moment, a string of vignettes, or literary snapshots of your life. We’re looking for micro essays, micro memoirs or prose poems of 300 words or less; please be sure to title your work. You may submit up to 3 pieces. Previously published work accepted—please indicate when and where the work has appeared and confirm that you hold the rights to reprint the work in our anthology. Emerging and established authors welcome.
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Armed Services Arts Partnership (ASAP)
Armed Services Arts Partnership (ASAP) offers classes, workshops, and performances for veterans, service members, military family members, or caregivers within the Hampton Roads Writers community and local area.
CRASH COURSES WITH OUR FLAGSHIP PROGRAMS
Storytelling Crash Course — One Day Workshop
NEXT COURSE: Tuesday, April 13, 2021, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM, ET (every 6 weeks). This workshop was developed as an introduction to Storytelling Bootcamp. This 3-hour single day workshop will guide participants in finding the stories in their lives. New courses are offered on a regular basis on our website here.
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