Hello writers! Here’s another round of submissions opportunities. If you would like your press/mag/etc. to be added to the October/November “Where to Submit” post, please email Dennis James Sweeney at dennis@entropymag.org. It helps if you can include a link to your submission guidelines and the information we include in all our listings: when submissions are open, what genres you accept, and whether writers must pay a fee to submit.
This month’s featured artwork is from Nazifa Islam, a poet and painter from Michigan now living in Oregon. “#87″ is 10″ by 8”, acrylic on stretched canvas. Of her paintings, Nazifa says:
I think of my paintings as surreal emotional landscapes informed by the connotations of color and movement. I strive for emotional clarity through the chaos of color and motion, to make the abstract and subconscious suddenly concrete and visible.
Submit wisely and as usual, we’re wishing you luck out there!
Presses:
Alice James Award / Deadline: November 1, 2016 / Poetry / $30 / Prize: $2,000 + Publication
American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize / Deadline: October 31, 2016 / Poetry / $25 / Prize: $3,000 + Publication / Judge: Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Anhinga Press – Phillip Levine Prize in Poetry / Deadline: September 30, 2016 / Poetry / $28 / Prize: $2,000 + Publication / Judge: Peter Everwine
Another New Calligraphy / Now / Music, Books
Ashland Creek Press – Siskiyou Prize for New Environmental Literature / Deadline: September 1, 2016 – December 31, 2016 / Fiction, Nonfiction / $17 / Prize: $1,000 + 4-Week Residency at PLAYA + Publication / Judge: JoeAnn Hart
Bellevue Literary Press / Year-Round / Fiction, Nonfiction
Black Lawrence Press – St. Lawrence Book Award / Deadline: August 31, 2016 / Fiction, Poetry / $25 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
BlazeVOX / Now / Poetry, Fiction
BOA Editions – A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize / August 1 – November 30, 2016 / Poetry / Prize: $1,500 + Publication / Judge: Brenda Shaughnessy
Brain Mill Press – Fiction Program / Now / Fiction
Burnside Review Press Book Award / August 15 – November 30, 2016 / Poetry / $25 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judge: Ada Limón
Calamari Archive / Now / All Genres
Cider Press Review Book Award / Deadline: September 1 – November 30, 2016 / Poetry / $25 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
Cloudbank Books -Vern Rustala Poetry Prize / Deadline: September 30, 2016 / Poetry / $25 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judge: Dennis Schmitz
Conium Press / Deadline: September 1, 2016 / Fiction / $25 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judge: Matt Bell
co•im•press / Now / Translations
Cooper Dillon Books / Year-Round / Poetry / $10
Counterpath Press / Year-Round
Curbside Splendor – Wild Onion Novella Contest / Deadline: September 1, 2016 / Novellas / $10 / Prize: $250 + Publication / Judge: Lindsay Hunter
Deep Vellum Publishing / Year-Round / Translations of Fiction and Nonfiction
Diode Editions / Deadline: October 1, 2016 / Poetry / $18 / Prize: $750 + Publication
Dzanc Books – Short Story Collection Competition / Deadline: September 30, 2016 / Short Story Collections / $25 / Prize: $1,000 Advance + Publication
Dzanc Nonfiction Prize / Deadline: September 30, 2016 / Nonfiction / $25
Dzanc Books Fiction Prize / April 1 – September 30, 2016 / Fiction / $25 / Prize: $10,000 + Publication / Judges: Carmiel Banasky, Kim Church, Andrew F. Sullivan
El Balazo Press / Now / All Genres
Elixir Press Poetry Awards / Deadline: October 31, 2016 / Poetry / $30 / Prize: $2,000 + Publication
Fathom Books / Now / Poetry
Fiction Collective 2 – Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Contest / August 15 – November 1, 2016 / Fiction / $25 / Prize: $1,500 + Publication / Final Judge: Elisabeth Sheffield
Fiction Collective 2 – Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize / August 15 – November 1, 2016 / Fiction from a Writer with at Least Three Books of Fiction Published / $25 / Prize: $15,000 + Publication / Final Judge: Mary Caponegro
Fiction Advocate / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism
Fig Tree Books / Year-Round / Novels and Nonfiction about the American Jewish Experience
Fog Machine / Year-Round / Poetry, Memoir, Essay
Gauss PDF / Now
Graywolf Press / August 1-31, 2016 / Poetry, Poetry in Translation
The Head & The Hand Press – Breadbox Chapbook Series / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
Inside the Castle / Now / Complicated Prose
Jai-Alai Books – Proposals / All Genres that Speak to or from Miami, FL
Jellyfish Highway / Now / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction / $10
The Journal/Ohio State University Press Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize / Deadline: September 30, 2016 / Poetry / $28 / Prize: $2,500 + Book Publication / Judge: Kathy Fagan
Kernpunkt Press / Year-Round / Literary Fiction, Science Fiction, Historical Fiction, Art & Architecture, Children’s Books / $10
Kore Press First Book Award / Deadline: September 30, 2016 / $28 / Poetry / Prize: $1,500 + Publication / Judge: Robin Coste Lewis
Kraken Press / Now / Horror, Dark Fantasy, Weird Fiction
Moon City Press – Short Fiction Contest / Deadline: October 1, 2016 / Collections of Short Fiction / $25 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
New Rivers Press – Many Voices Project / Deadline: September 15 – November 15, 2016 / Poetry, Prose / $25 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
New Rivers Press – Electronic Book Series / July 1 – October 1, 2016 / All Genres
Ohio University Press – Hollis Summers Poetry Prize / Deadline: December 1, 2016 / Poetry / $30 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
Outpost 19 / Year-Round / Fiction, Nonfiction
Persea Books – Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize / September 1 – October 31, 2016 / First Book of Poetry by an American Woman / $30 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication + 6-Week Residency in Italy
Perugia Press Prize / August 1 – November 15, 2016 / First or Second Book of Poetry by a Woman / $26 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
Platypus Press / Year-Round / Prose, Essays, Poetry
Plays Inverse Press / Now / Plays, Cross-Genre, Performance Lit
Pleiades Press – Visual Poetry Series / Deadline: August 31, 2016 / Collages, Comics, Erasures, Obliteratures, Illustrated Creative Writing, Etc.
Queen’s Ferry Press / March 1 – August 31, 2016 / Novels, Short Story Collections
Red Hen Press – General Submissions / Now / All Genres / $20
Red Hen Press – Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award / Deadline: August 31, 2016 / $25 / Prize: $3,000 + Publication / Judge: Carl Phillips
Red Hen Press – Quill Award for Queer Prose / Deadline: September 15, 2016 / Prose by a Queer Writer
Red Hen Press – Fiction Award / Deadline: September 1, 2016 / Fiction / $20 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
Red Mountain Press Poetry Prize / Deadline: September 15, 2016 / Poetry / $27 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
Salò Press / Now / Poetry, Prose, Experiments
Sarabande Books – Open Essay Submissions / September 1 – 30, 2016 / Nonfiction / $15
Shade Mountain Press / Deadline: September 1, 2016 / Novels by African-American Women
Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poetry / September 15 – December 1, 2016 / Poetry by African Writers / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
Silverfish Review Press – Gerard Cable Book Award / Deadline: October 15, 2016 / Poetry / $25 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
Skylight Press / Now / Fiction, Poetry, Esoteric
Slope Editions – Open Reading Period / August 15 – September 5, 2016 / Poetry / $5
Southeast Missouri State University Press – Nilsen Literary Prize / Deadline: November 1, 2016 / Novels, Novellas, Linked Stories / $25 / Prize: $2,000 + Publication
Spurl Editions / Now / Strange Fiction, Translation
Subito Press Book Prize / Deadline: August 20, 2016 / Poetry, Prose / $25 / Judges: Selah Saterstrom (Prose), Graham Foust (Poetry)
Tavern Books – Wrolstad Contemporary Poetry Series / Now / Poetry in Translation
Timeless, Infinite Light / Deadline: September 22, 2016 / Poetry, Essays / $15 / Judges: Melissa Buzzeo, Mg Roberts, and Divya Victor
Tinderbox Editions / Deadline: August 31, 2016 / Prose / $22
Tinfish Press – Queries / Now / Experimental Poetry from the Pacific Region
Truman State University Press – T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry / Deadline: October 31, 2016 / Poetry / $25 / Prize: $2,000 + Publication / Judge: Kevin Prufer
Tupelo Press / Year-Round / Fiction, Nonfiction / $45
Two Dollar Radio / Now / Fiction / $3
Two Lines Press / Now / Translations of Novels and Short Story Collections
University of Arkansas Press – Miller Williams Poetry Prize / Deadline: September 30, 2016 / Poetry / $28 / Series Editor: Billy Collins
University of North Texas Press – Vassar Miller Prize / Deadline: October 31, 2016 / Poetry / $25 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judge: Alicia Stallings
University of Wisconsin Press – Brittingham & Felix Pollak Poetry Prizes / Deadline: September 15, 2016 / Poetry / $28 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
Write Bloody Publishing / August 1-31, 2016 / Poetry
WTAW Press / Deadline: September 15, 2016 / Prose / $28
Zoetic Press / Now / Electronic & Interactive Literature
Chapbooks:
ATTN: Open Archive Series / Now / Multiple-Author Poetry Collections and Archives
ATTN: Correspondences / Now / Poetry Collaborations
Autumn House Press – Coal Hill Review Chapbook Contest / August 1 – November 1, 2016 / Poetry / $20 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judge: Gerry LaFemina
Batcat Press / Deadline: January 1, 2017 / All Genres
Black Lawrence Press – The Fall Black River Chapbook Competition / September 1 – October 31, 2016 / Poetry, Fiction / $15
Button Poetry/Exploding Pinecone Press Chapbook Contest / Deadline: August 31, 2016 / Poetry / $15 / Prize: $500 + Publication
Conium Press / Deadline: September 1, 2016 / Fiction / $25 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judge: Matt Bell
Cooper Dillon Books / Year-Round / Poetry / $10
Damaged Goods Press / Now / Poetry and Flash Fiction from Queer and Trans Writers
dancing girl press / Deadline: August 31, 2016 / Poetry by Women
Diode Editions Chapbook Contest / Deadline: October 1, 2016 / Poetry / $14 / Prize: $250 + Publication
Fathom Books / Now / Poetry
Finishing Line Press – General Submissions / Year-Round / Poetry / $16
Gold Line Press Chapbook Competitions / Deadline: August 31, 2016 / Poetry, Fiction / $15 / Prize: $500 + Publication / Judges: Viet Than Nguyen (Fiction) and Sarah Vap (Poetry)
H_NGM_N / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose / $5
Inpatient Press / Now
Letter [r] Press – Prose-ish Chapbook Open Reading Period / Deadline: October 1, 2016 / Short Stories, Flash Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Hybrid, Lyric Essays, Prose Poems
Moloko House / Now / Poetry, Fiction
Neck Press / Year-Round / Poetry
Newfound – The Anzaldúa Poetry Prize / Deadline: August 15, 2016 / $15 / Prize: $500 + Publication / Judge: Carmen Giménez Smith
Omnidawn Fabulist Fiction Chapbook Contest / August 1 – October 26, 2016 / $18 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judge: Bradford Morrow
Platypus Press – 2412: Mini Digital Chapbook Contest / Deadline: September 30, 2016 / Prose, Poetry
Sixth Finch / Deadline: November 1, 2016 / Poetry / $12
Sylph Press / Now / Poetry, Fiction
Tammy / Year-Round / All Genres / $15
Toi Derricotte & Cornelius Eady Chapbook Prize / Deadline: September 30, 2016 / Poetry / $12 / Prize: $500 + Publication by Jai-Alai Books / Judge: Robin Coste Lewis
Yellow Chair Review Poetry Chapbook Contest / Deadline: August 15, 2016 / Poetry / $10 / Prize: $200 + Publication / Judge: Logen Cure
Zoo Cake Press / Now / Poetry
Journals & Anthologies:
3:AM / Now / Nonfiction, Reviews
32 Poems / Year-Round / Poetry / $3
6×6 / Year-Round
A Quiet Courage / Year-Round / Microfiction and Poetry Under 100 Words
Aaduna / Now / Prose, Poetry, Visual Art
The Account / Deadline: September 1, 2016 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
The Acentos Review / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Translation, Cross-Genre, Art
Alien Mouth / Now / Prose, Poetry, Art, Music
Angel City Review / Deadline: October 31, 2016 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
APARTMENT Poetry / Year-Round / Poetry
Apogee / Deadline: August 15, 2016 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
apt / Year-Round / Fiction, Poetry, Essays, Art, Audio and Video
The American Literary Review Awards / Deadline: October 1, 2016 / $15 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
American Short Fiction / Opens September 1, 2016 / Fiction / $3
Another Chicago Magazine / September 6 – October 10, 2016 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Arcadia / Now / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction / $3
The Asian American Literary Review / June 1 – September 1, 2016 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Translations
Assaracus: A Journal of Gay Poetry / Now / Poetry by Gay Males
Asymptote / Year-Round / Translations of Drama, Fiction, Poetry, and Nonfiction
Atrocity Exhibition / Year-Round / Poetry, Hybrid
The Avenue / Deadline: September 1, 2016 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
Banango Street / September 1-30, 2016 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
Bat City Review / Deadline: October 1, 2016 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Beech Street Review / Now / Poetry
Bennington Review / Deadline: August 15, 2016 – May 15, 2017 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Writing on Film
Birds Piled Loosely / Deadline: October 1, 2016 / All Genres
Black Scat Review / Now
Black Sun Lit / Year-Round / Prose, Verse, Essays
Black Warrior Review / June 1 – September 1, 2016 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Graphic Prose / $3
Black Warrior Review – Annual Contests / Deadline: September 1, 2016 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / $20 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judges: T. Clutch Fleischmann (Nonfiction), Hoa Nguyen (Poetry), Sofia Samatar (Fiction)
Blue Earth Review / Year-Round / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
Blue Earth Review Contests / Deadline: August 12, 2016 / Flash Fiction, Flash Nonfiction, Poetry / $5 (Free for Nonfiction and Poetry) / Prize: $500 + Publication
Blue Lyra Review / Deadline: September 30, 2016 / Poetry, Nonfiction, Translations
Blue Lyra Review – The Play is the Thing Anthology / Deadline: September 30, 2016 / Prose and Poetry about the Theater
Blue Mesa Review – Annual Contest / Deadline: August 31, 2016 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction / $12 / Prize: $500 + Publication / Judges: Jensen Beach (Fiction), Ocean Vuong (Poetry), Debra Monroe (Nonfiction)
The Blueshift Journal / Deadline: January 1, 2016 / Prose, Poetry, Art / $3
BOAAT / Year-Round / Poems, Video-Poems, Fiction, Nonfiction
Bombay Gin 43: In Conversation with the Experiment / Deadline: August 15, 2016 / Prose, Poetry, Cross-Genre
Bone Bouquet / Now / Reviews, Poetics Statements
The Bookends Review / Deadline: August 31, 2016 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Essays, Interviews, Reviews, Music, Visual Art
Brain Mill Press – Ab Terra: An International Science Fiction Anthology / Deadline: December 1, 2016 / Science Fiction / Editor: Yen Ooi
BULL / Year-Round / Fiction, Nonfiction
Burrow Press Review / Now / Fiction
California Prose Directory 2017: New Writing from the Golden State / Deadline: August 15, 2016 / Fiction and Nonfiction about California / Editor: Lisa Locascio
Callaloo / Now / Essays, Fiction, Poetry, Art
Cartridge Lit / Year-Round / Fiction, Poetry, Essays
Carve Magazine / Year-Round / Short Stories, Poetry / $3
Cha: An Asian Literary Journal / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Photography
Cheers from the Wasteland / Now / Writers and Artists with Ties to San Joe, CA
Chronopolis / Now / All Genres
Cloud Rodeo / Year-Round / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
The Collagist / March 1 – August 31, 2016 / Fiction, Poetry, Non-fiction, Novel Excerpts
The Collapsar / Now / Essays, Fiction, Poetry
Colorado Review / August 1, 2016 – April 30, 2017 / Fiction, Poetry
The Conium Review / Now / Fiction / $3
The Continental Review / Year-Round / Video Poetry
Cosmonauts Avenue / Now / Poetry, Fiction
Cosmonauts Avenue Fiction Prize / Deadline: August 15, 2016 / Fiction / $10 / Prize: $500 + Publication / Judge: Mona Awad
The Cossack Review / Year Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Translation
Crab Fat Magazine / Now / Fiction, Flash Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Visual Art, Interviews, Reviews
Crazyhorse / September 1, 2016 – May 31, 2017 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction / $3
CutBank / September 15, 2016 – February 1, 2017 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction
Dead King Magazine / Year-Round / Essays, Poetry, Fiction, Art
decomP Magazine / Year-Round/ Prose, Poetry, Art
Deluge / Year-Round / Poetry, Translations, Essays, Fiction, Reviews, Criticism, Poem-films, Photography, Art
The Destroyer / Now / Poems, Prose, New Media
DIAGRAM / Year-Round / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction
DMQ Review / Now / Poetry
drDOCTOR / Deadline: September 1, 2016 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Essays, Poetry
Dream Fever Magazine / Now / All Genres
DREGINALD / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose, Art
Dryland / Year-Round / Prose, Poetry, Art
Dulcet Quarterly / August 15 – November 15, 2016 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Art
DUM DUM Zine / Year-Round / Fiction, Letters, Nonfiction, Poetry, Visual Art
El Balazo Press / Now / Poetry, Short Fiction, Essays
elsewhere / Now / Prose Poetry, Flash Fiction, Photography
Entropy / Year-Round / Essays, Reviews, Interviews, Fiction, Poetry, More
Fabula Press – Aestas Short Story Competition / Deadline: September 30, 2016 / Short Fiction / $10 / Prize: $250 + Publication
Fantastic Floridas / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction, Interviews, Conversations, and Visual Art Related to Florida
The Fanzine / Now / Personal Essays, Writing on Film, Other Essays
The Fem / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Spoken Word, Art
Fiction Advocate / Now / Reviews, Interviews, Essays
Flag + Void / Year-Round / Poetry, Art
Fog / Now / Poetry, Interviews
Foundry / Year-Round / Poetry
Fourteen Hills / Deadline: September 1 – December 1, 2016 / Fiction, Flash Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Cross Genre / 2$
Fourth and Sycamore / Now / Essays, Poetry, Fiction
Fourth Genre / August 15 – November 30, 2016 / Nonfiction / $2
The Florida Review / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Graphic Narrative, Visual Art / $3
Free State Review / Now / Poetry, Prose, Personal Essays, One-Minute Plays / $3
F[r]iction / Year-Round / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Comics
Fugue / September 1, 2016 – May 1, 2017 / Poetry, Fiction, Essays / $3
Fur-Lined Ghettos / Now / All Genres
Gargoyle / Opens August 1, 2016 / All Genres
Ghost Proposal / July 11 – October 10, 2016 / Essay, Poetry, Multimedia, Cross-Genre, Post-Genre
Ghost Proposal – Windowframes / Opens August 15, 2016 / Nonfiction About “Moments of Seeing/Being”
Gigantic Sequins / Deadline: August 15, 2016 / All Genres
Gingerbread House Literary Magazine / January 15 – October 15, 2016 / Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction with Magical Elements
Gulf Coast / September 1, 2016 – March 1, 2017 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry / $2.50
Gulf Coast – Prize in Translation / Deadline: August 31, 2016 / Translations of Poetry / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judge: Idra Novey
The Harpoon Review / Now / All Genres
Hardly Doughnuts / Year-Round / Poetry, Micro Fiction
Hayden’s Ferry Review / Now / All Genres / $3
Heavy Feather Review / Year-Round / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Comics
Hermeneutic Chaos / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Artwork
Hermeneutic Chaos – Pulse/Pulso Anthology / August 15, 2016 / Poetry and Microessays from Queer Latinx Writers and Queer Writers of Color / Editors: Roy G. Guzmán and Miguel M. Morales
Hinchas de Poesia / Now / Poetry, Prose, Translations, Art, Book Reviews
Hobart online / Now / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction
HOUND / September 1-30, 2016 / Prose, Poetry, Hybrid
The Hudson Review / September 1 – November 30, 2016 / Fiction
Huizache / September 1, 2016 – April 30, 2017 / Prose, Poetry
Hunger Mountain / May 1 – October 1, 2016 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, YA and Children’s Lit / $3
ICHNOS / Now
Ilanot Review / Deadline: August 31, 2016 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art / Theme: “Theft” / Guest Editor: Karen E. Bender
Ilanot Review and Israel Story – Flash Story Contest / Deadline: August 31, 2016 / Flash Fiction, Flash Nonfiction
Inpatient Press / Now
Iowa Review / September 1 – November 30, 2016 / $4 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Inch / Now / Flash Fiction, Flash Nonfiction, Short Poems
Jai-Alai Magazine / Essays, Poetry, Fiction, Translations, and Art by Residents of Miami-Dade County
Jenny / Deadline: September 10, 2016 / Fiction, Poetry, Creative Nonfiction
Jonathan: A Queer Fiction Journal / Deadline: August 31, 2016 / Fiction and Flash Fiction by Queer Writers
The Journal / Year-round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art, Photo Essays, Reviews
jmww / Year-Round / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Flash Fiction
Josephine Quarterly / Now / Poetry, Art
jubilat / September 1, 2016 – April 1, 2017 / Poetry
Juked / Year-Round / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
Kartika Review / Now / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Book Reviews, Art
killing fields / Year-Round / All Genres
Kweli / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia
Lambda Literary’s Poetry Spotlight / Now / Poetry from LGBT Poets
Lavender Review / Year-Round / Poetry and Art by Lesbians
Lazy Fascist Review / Now / Fiction, Poetry
LEVELER / Year-Round / Poetry
Lime Hawk / Now / Poetry, Prose, Visual Art
Linden Avenue Literary Journal / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
Liquid Animal Machine / Now / Audio, Visual
LIT / Now / Poetry, Prose
The Literary Nest / Year-Round / Fiction, Poetry
Literary Orphans / Now / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction
littletell / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose, Audio, Visual
Lumina / Deadline: September 15, 2016 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art / $2
Luna Luna / Opens August 15, 2016 / Nonfiction, Essays
Lunch Ticket / August 1 – October 31, 2016 / Fiction, Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, Flash Prose, YA, Literary Translation & Bilingual Work, Visual Art
Mannequin Haus / Year-Round / Flash Fiction, Poems, Play Scenes
The Margins / Now / Poetry, Fiction
Masque & Spectacle / Year-Round / All Genres
Master’s Review – New Voices / Year-Round / Fiction
Meekling Review / Deadline: August 15, 2016 / Fake Reviews, Interviews, and Literary Polemics
Midwestern Gothic – The Lake Prize / Deadline: August 31, 2016 / Midwest Fiction and Poetry / $5 / Prize: $300 + Publication / Judges: Emily Schultz (Fiction), Airea D. Matthews (Poetry)
Midwestern Gothic / Deadline: August 31, 2016 / Fiction, Poetry, Photography
Minor Literatures / September 1-30, 2016 / Poetry
Mississippi Review Prize / August 1, 2016 – January 1, 2017 / Poetry, Fiction / $15 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication in Mississippi Review
Mizna / Now / Fiction, Poetry
Moko: Caribbean Arts and Letters / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Essays, Reviews, Art, Videos
Moloko House / Poetry, Fiction, Visual Art, Music
Mom Egg Review / Deadline: August 15, 2016 / All Genres
Moon City Review / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Translations, Reviews
Moonglasses Magazine / Now / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Flash, Cross-Genre
Moonsick Magazine / Year-Round / Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry by Women
Monkeybicycle / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction
Muse /A Journal / Now / Lyric Essays
NANO Fiction / Now / Flash Fiction, Essays About Flash
Neck Press Review / Now / Poetry, Fiction
New Delta Review / Now / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Art, Other / $3
New Delta Review – Ryan R. Gibbs Awards for Flash Fiction and Photography / Deadline: October 1, 2016 / Flash Fiction, Photography / $10
New Ohio Review / September 15 – December 15, 2016 / All Genres
New Orleans Review Special Issue – The African Literary Hustle / Deadline: December 31, 2016 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Hybrid / Guest Editors: Mukoma wa Ngugi and Laura Murphy
New Rivers Press – Visiting Bob: Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of Bob Dylan / Deadline: September 15, 2016 / Poetry
New South / September 1, 2016 – April 30, 2017 / Fiction, Poetry, Essays / $3
New South online – Micro Prose / Deadline: September 30, 2016 / Prose Under 500 Words
Nightblock / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction
Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry / January 1 – November 30, 2016 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction / Submit by Post
Nonbinary Review / Now / All Genres
The Nottingham Review / Now / Short Stories, Flash Fiction, Poetry
Omnidawn Single Poem Broadside Contest / Deadline: October 17, 2016 / Poetry / $10 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication on Broadside / Judge: Norma Cole
One Throne Magazine / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
Pacifica Literary Review / Deadline: September 15 – December 15, 2016 / Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Photography and Visual Art, Author Interviews
Painted Bride Quarterly / Year-Round / Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry / $3
Passages North / Opens September 1, 2016 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Hybrid, Writers on Writing
Phantom / Year-Round / Poetry
‘Pider / Now / Poetry
Pinball / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction, Comics
The Pinch / August 15, 2016 – March 15, 2017 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash, Poetry, Art & Photography
PLINTH / Now / All Genres
Polychrome Ink / Now / All Genres
Poor Claudia / Now / Poetry, Prose / $3
Posit / September 1, 2016 – May 31, 20167 / Fiction, Poetry, Visual Art, Film and Animation
Potluck Magazine online / Now / Poetry, Prose, Criticism, Nonfiction, Visual Art, Short Films, Songs, Photographs
Powder Keg / September 1-30, 2016 / Poetry
Pretty Owl Poetry / Now / Poetry, Fiction
Prisma – Zeitblatt für Text & Sprache / Deadline: September 30, 2016 / All Genres
Puerto del Sol – The Publication Issue / Deadline: October 31, 2016 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Translations, Art, Criticism
Queen Mob’s Tea House / Now / Poetry, Art, Fiction, Essays
Quiddity / April 15 – December 15, 2016 / Poetry, Prose / $3
Raspa Magazine / January 15 – September 15, 2016 / Fiction, Essays, and Poetry
Rattle / Year-Round / Poetry
The Raymondo / Year-Round / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
Reality Hands / Now / Short Stories, Poetry
Requited / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Performance Text, Visual, Video
Rhino / April 1 – August 31, 2016 / Poetry, Translations of Poetry, Flash Fiction
Saw Palm: Florida Literature and Art / Deadline: June 1 – October 1, 2016 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Fiction, Art, Photography, Comics
Seattle Review / Year-Round / Essays and Fiction over 40 pages, Poems over 10 Pages / $3
Sein und Werden / Deadline: August 20, 2016 / All Genres
SHANTIH Journal / Year-Round / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Drama, Art, Photography
Shirley / Year-Round / Fiction
SiDEKiCK / Year-Round / Poetry
Sinker Cypress Review / Now / Poetry, Music
Sinister Wisdom / Now / Poems, Stories, Essays, and Art by Lesbians
Sixth Finch / Deadline: October 5, 2016 / Poetry, Art
Slant / September 1 – November 15, 2016 / Poetry
small po[r]tions journal / Submissions Close Mid- to Late August / All Genres
smoking glue gun / Now / Visual Art, Video, Sound
SmokeLong Quarterly / Year-Round / Flash Fiction
So and So / Now / Poetry
Solstice / Deadline: September 1, 2016 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Photography / $3
Sonora Review / September 1, 2016 – May 1, 2017 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction / $3
The Southampton Review / August 15 – October 15, 2016 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Drama
Southeast Review / Year-Round / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction
Souvenir Lit / Deadline: August 5, 2016 / All Genres
Split Lip Magazine / Deadline: August 31, 2016 / Fiction, Poetry, Memoir
Spy Kids Review / Year-Round / Poetry, Flash Fiction, Macros, Interviews
Squalorly / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction / $3
Subjugated Knowledge / Now / Reviews, Interviews, Essays, Fiction, Poetry, Art
Subterrain / Deadline: September 1, 2016 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
SUSAN / Now / Poetry, Flash Fiction
Swarm / August 15 – October 31, 2016 / Fiction, Poetry
Sycamore Review / September 1, 2016 – March 31, 2017 / Poetry, Prose, Nonfiction, Art
T A G VV E R K / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Art
The Talking Book / Now / All Genres
Tammy / September 1 – December 1, 2016 / $3 / All Genres
TENDE RLOIN / Now / Poetry
Territory / Deadline: November 1, 2016 / Map-Based Writing
Third Coast / September 15 – December 15, 2016 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Drama
Threadcount Magazine / Year-Round / Hybrid, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
The Timberline Review / Deadline: July 1 – October 15, 2016 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
Tinderbox Poetry Journal / Year-Round / Poetry / $3
Tiny Donkey / Now / Essays Related to Fairy Tales
tinywords / August 1-31, 2016 / Haiku, Micropoetry
The Tishman Review / Year-Round / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction / $3
TL;DR / Now / All Genres
TQ Review / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Interviews by Trans and Queer Writers
Trafika Europe / Now / Fiction, Poetry, Translation
Transition / Now / Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, Reviews and Visual Art about Africa and the African Diaspora
Tupelo Quarterly / Deadline: August 15, 2016 / Prose, Art
Two Lines / Now / Translations of Poetry, Fiction, and Essays
Unbroken Journal / Year-Round / Prose Poems, Poetic Prose
Union Station Magazine / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose
Unlikely Stories Mark V – #BlackArtMatters Special Issue / Deadline: August 15, 2016 / All Genres
upstreet / Deadline: September 1, 2016 – March 1, 2017 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction
Vagabond City / 1st-15th of Every Month / Poetry, Prose, Art
Vanilla Sex Magazine / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Photography
velvet-tail / Year-Round / Poetry
Voicemail Poems / Year-Round / Audio Poetry
The Volta / Year-Round / Poetry, Essays
Waxwing / August 1, 2016 – May 1, 2017 / Poetry, Fiction, Essays
The White Elephant / Year-Round / Prose, Poetry
Wigleaf / Final Weeks of August and September, 2016 / Flash Fiction
Wildness / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose, Nonfiction, Art, Photography
Willow Springs / September 1, 2016 – May 31, 2017 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction
Witness / September 1 – November 15, 2016 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry / $2
Word For/Word / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose, Poetics, Criticism, Visuals
The Woven Tale Press / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Memoir, Flash Fiction, Experimental
Wreck Park / Now / Prose, Poetry, Criticism
Yellow Medicine Review: A Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art, and Thought / Deadline: August 15, 2016 / All Genres
Yemassee / Year-Round / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction
Yes Poetry / Now / Poetry
Zone 3 / August 1, 2016 – April 1, 2017 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction
ZYZZYVA / September 1 – November 30, 2016 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry / Submit by Post
Residencies, Fellowships, and Conferences:
Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship / Deadline: October 15, 2016 / Scholarship: $54,000 for a Year of Travel and Study Abroad
Blackacre Reserve Writing Residency / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Playwriting / $22 / Residency: $200 + 1-2 Weeks Near Louisville, KY
Dickinson House Writing Fellowships / Deadline: September 15, 2016 / $15 / Residency: Two Weeks in Belgium
Gullkistan Center for Creativity / Year-Round / Residency: 1 Month or More in Laugarvatn, Iceland / Residency Fee: 750€+/Month
Hambridge Creative Residency / Deadline: September 15, 2016 / $30 / Residency: 2 Weeks to 2 Months in Blue Ridge Mountains, GA / Residency Fee: $200/Week
Hub City Writers House / Deadline: October 16, 2016 / $30 / Residency: 15 Weeks + $150/Week
Jentel Artists Residency / Deadline: September 15, 2016 / $23 / Residency: 1 Month Near Bighorn Mountains, WY + $400
Kentucky Women Writers Conference / Deadline: August 12, 2016 / Conference: September 16-17, 2016 in Lexington, KY / Tuition: $200
Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts Residency / Deadline: September 1, 2016 / $35 / Residency: 2-8 Weeks in Nebraska City + $100 per Week
MacDowell Colony (Winter/Spring Residencies) / Deadline: September 15, 2016 / $30
Millay Colony / Residency / Deadline: October 1, 2016 / $35 / Residency: 1 Month in Austerlitz, NY
Omi International Arts Center – Writers Omi / Deadline: October 20, 2016 / Residency: 1 Week to 2 Months in Hudson River Valley, NY
PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers / Deadline: November 11, 2016 / Debut Short Stories (Submissions by Editors Only) / Prize: $2,000 + Publication in The PEN America Best Debut Short Stories
PLAYA Spring Residency / Deadline: September 1, 2016 / $35 / Residency: 2, 4, or 8 Weeks in Oregon
Scotland Writing Residency / Deadline: August 15, 2016 / $22 / Residency: 1 Week in Brora, Scotland
Sustainable Arts Foundation Literary Awards / Deadline: September 2, 2016 / Writers with at Least One Child Under 18 / Awards: $6,000 + $2,000
Ucross Foundation Writer’s Residency (Spring Session) / Deadline: October 1, 2016 / $40 / Residency: 2-6 Weeks in Sheridan, WY
Vermont Studio Center / Deadline: October 1, 2016 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Residency: 1 Month in Johnson, VT
Virginia Center for the Arts / Deadline: September 15, 2016 / $40 / Residency: 2 Weeks to 2 Months in Amherst, VA
Writing By Writers / Deadline: August 15, 2016 / Residency: November 2-16, 2016 in Bend, OR