Before exploring this edition of the Where to Submit List, please consider donating to bail funds, a number of which can be found linked at the top of the June, July, and August 2020 list.
Somehow, we’re a month away from 2021. A whole new year after this year that felt like a decade, or maybe it was month felt that like a decade and 2020 has actually been over a century. I don’t know what time is anymore. I’m tired. We’re all tired. But, despite the perpetual exhaustion, a new edition of Where to Submit is here!
Our featured artist is Jonathan Jackson (b. 1996, Detroit, MI). He writes:
My current work stems from a previous body of work titled The House Servant’s Directory. In that series I responded to a book written by my fifth-great grandfather, Robert Roberts, published in 1827. This work responded to my ancestor’s direct language, and I produced photographs in the historically preserved home of his employers. This country style mansion is located just outside of Boston. Since completing this work, I have continued to interact with historically preserved homes and natural spaces in New England. All the homes that I research have direct relationships to the history of slavery within the region. Guide (working title) operates as the continued expansion of my historical and ancestral research. By making photographs within preserved spaces, I work to conjure the eyes and voices lost or hidden within history. In combination with this process, I feel a great call to retrace and rebuild my Afro-Indigenous roots, that have been ruptured for generations by Christianity and colonialism. This project questions our contemporary relationship to property, land-rights, ownership, the divine, and kin.
For more from The House Servant’s Directory, Guide, as well as other artworks and projects, check out his website and Instagram.
If you are an editor or publisher and would like your journal, press, or literary organization to be included on the next Where to Submit list, please email Small Press Editor Justin Greene (justingreene@entropymag.org) with a formatted call. For templates of formatted calls, as well as information concerning how the list is put together, we’d love for you to take a look at our “A Few Notes on Where to Submit” post.
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42 Miles Press — Poetry Award / Feburary 1 – June 15, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $25 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judge: David Dodd Lee
7.13 Books / Now / Fiction / Fee: $5
Academy of American Poets — Ambroggio Prize / Due: February 15, 2021 / Poetry Translated from Spanish to English / Prize: $1,000 + Publication by University of Arizona Press / Judge: Rigoberto González
Academy of American Poets — Harold Morton Landon Translation Award / Due: February 15, 2021 / Poetry Translated into English / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judge: Indran Amirthanayagam
Airlie Press / January 1 – March 15, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $25 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
Anhinga Press — Robert Dana Prize for Poetry / February 15 – May 31, 2020 / Poetry / Fee: $25 / Prize: $2,000 + Publication / Judge: TBA
Another New Calligraphy / Now / Music, Books
Apocalypse Party / Year-Round / All Genres
Autumn House Press — CAAPP Book PRize / January 1 – February 15, 2021 / First or Second Books of Poetry, Speculative Prose, Hybrid, or Translations from Writers of African Descent / Prize: $2,500 + Publication / Judge: Douglas Kearney
Autumn House Press — Contests / January 1 – May 31, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $30 / Prize: $2,500 + Publication / Judges: Eileen Myles (Poetry), Deesha Philyaw (Fiction), Steve Almond (Nonfiction)
Autumn House Press — Rising Writer Prizes / Due: January 15, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction / Fee: $25 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judges: Matthew Dickman (Poetry), Maryse Meijer (Fiction)
AWP Award Series 2021 / January 1 – February 28, 2021 / Poetry, Short Fiction, Novel, Nonfiction / Fee: $20 / Prize: $5,500 (Poetry and Short Fiction) or $2,500 (Novel and Creative Nonfiction) + Publication / Judges: Ilya Kaminsky (Poetry), TBA (Short Fiction), TBA (Novel), Aimee Nezhukumatathil (Nonfiction)
Baobab Press / Year-Round / Poetry, Short Fiction, Novels, Creative Nonfiction, Comics and Visual Narrative
Bauhan Publishing – Monadnock Essay Collection Prize / Due: December 15, 2020 / Nonfiction Essays / Fee: $30 / $1000 + Publication / Judge: Steven Harvey
Black Lawrence Press — The Hudson Prize / February 1 – March 31, 2021 / Poetry, Short Stories / Fee: $25 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
BlazeVOX / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction
Bellevue Literary Press / Open: January 2, 2021 / Fiction and Short Story Collections by Black Women Writers
BOA Editions — Blessing the Boats Selections / Due: December 31, 2020 / Poetry by Women of Color / Prize: $5,000 + Publication / Editor: Aracelis Girmay
Brunel International African Poetry Prize / Due: December 2, 2020 / First Books of Poetry by African Writers / Prize: £3000 + Publication
Burnside Review Press — Book Award / Due: December 31, 2020 / Poetry / Fee: $25 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judge: Jennifer Chang
Cinestate / Now / Fiction
Codhill Press — Pauline Uchmanowicz Poetry Award / Due: December 30, 2020 / Poetry / Fee: $30 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judge: James Sherwood
co•im•press / Due: December 31, 2020 / Translations
Colorado Prize for Poetry / Due: January 14, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $28 / Prize: $2,000 + Publication / Judge: Sherwin Bitsui
Cooper Dillon Books / Year-Round / Poetry / Fee: $10 or Buy a Book
Damaged Goods Press / Now / Poetry, Essays, and Hybrid Writing from Queer and Trans Writers
Deep Vellum Publishing / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Translations
Disorder Press / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Art Work, Photography
Driftwood Press / Now / Novellas, Graphic Novels / Fee: $20 (Novellas Only) / Prize: $200 – $500 (Graphic Novels) or $400 (Novella) + Publication
Dynamo Verlag First-Ever Book Contest / Due: January 31, 2021 / Poetry, Prose / Fee: $15 / Prize: $500 + Publication
El Balazo Press / Now / All Genres
Essay Press + University of Washington at Bothell MFA Program — Essay Book Contest / Due: December 15, 2020 / Nonfiction, Hybrid / Fee: $20 / Prize: $150 + Publication / Judge: Renee Gladman
Four Way Books – Levis Prize in Poetry / January 1 – March 31, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $30 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judge: Kaveh Akbar
Futurepoem Books/ December 15, 2020 – January 15, 2021 / Poetry, Prose, Hybrid / Fee: $6
Ghost Peach Press/ Due: May 1, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $22 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judge: Chen Chen
Green Lantern Press / Due: January 30, 2021 / Fee: $15 or Book Purchase
Green Linden Press — The Wishing Jewel Prize / Due: December 2, 2020 / Poetry / Fee: $12.50 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
GRIEVELAND / Due: December 31, 2020 / Poetry, Poetry-Like Things, Hybrid Work, and Miscellany from Writers of Color
Half Mystic Press / Year-Round / Poetry, Novel, Novella, Short Story and Essay Collection, Memoir, Drama, Experimental / Fee: $3
Homebound Publications — Little Bound Books / Novellas, Nonfiction
Homebound Publications — The Prism Prize for Climate Literature / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Due: January 9, 2021 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
Hub City Press – C. Michael Curtis Short Story Book Prize / January 1 – April 1, 2021 / Short Story Collections / Fee: $25 / Prize: $10,000 + Publication / Judge: ZZ Packer
Inside the Castle / January 1 – March 31, 2021 / Poetry, Prose
Interim – Test Site Poetry Series Contest / Due: December 16, 2020 / Poetry / Fee: $25 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication by the University of Nevada Press
Kalisto Gaia Press — Acacia Fiction Prize / Due: January 1, 2021 / Fiction / Fee: $25 / Prize: $1,200 + Publication
Kernpunkt Press / Year-Round / Novels, Novellas / Fee: $10
Kiddiepunk / Year-Round / Zines and Books Centered Around Childhood
Metatron/ Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Milkweed Editions – Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry / January 1 – February 15, 2021 / Poetry from Poets Residing in Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, or Michigan / Prize: $10,000 + Publication / Judge: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
National Poetry Series / January 1 – March 15, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $35 / Prize: $10,000 + Publication by Penguin Books, Beacon Press, University of Georgia Press, Milkweed Editions, or Ecco
New American Press – New American Poetry Prize / Due: January 16, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $20 / Prize: $1,500 + Publication / Judge: Quan Berry
Omnidawn — First/Second Poetry Book Contest / Due: February 16, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $27 / Prize: $3,000 + Publication / Judge: Kazim Ali
The Operating System / Now / Poetry, Prose, Plays, Rogue-Academic, Hybrid
The Operating System — Glossarium/Unsilenced Texts Series / Now / Translations, Hybrid
Orison Books – Orison Prizes in Poetry and Fiction / Due: April 1, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction / Fee: $30 / Prize: $1,500 + Publication / Judges: Jericho Brown (Poetry), Debra Spark (Fiction)
Outpost 19 / Year-Round / Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid
PANK — Big Books / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Experimental, Collaborative, Hybrid / Fee: $15
Permafrost Book Prize in Fiction / Due: March 16, 2021 / Fiction / Fee: $20 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judge: TBA
Persea Books – Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award / January 1 – March 7, 2021 / Poetry from Poets Who Have Published at Least One Full-Length Collection / Prize: $2,000 + Publication
Plays Inverse Press / Now / Plays, Cross-Genre, Performance Lit
Press 53 — Award for Short Fiction / Due: December 31, 2020 / Short Story Collections / Fee: $30 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
Red Hen Press / Now / All Genres / Fee: $20
Red Hen Press + Peauxdunque Writers Alliance — Ann Petry Award / Due: July 31, 2021 / Prose by Black Writers / Prize: $3,000 + Publication / Judge: Maurice Carlos Ruffin
Red Hen Press — Women’s Prose Prize / Now / Prose / Fee: $25 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judge: Melanie Conroy-Goldman
Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing / Due: March 31, 2021 / Fiction or Nonfiction by First-Generation Residents of Any Country / Prize: $10,000 + Publication
Riot in Your Throat / January 1 – 31, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $10
Sarabande Books – Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction / January 1 – February 15, 2021 / Short Fiction / Fee: $29 / Prize: $2,000 + Publication / Judge: Danielle Evans
Split/Lip Press / January 1 – March 1, 2021 / Short Story Collections, Flash Fiction Collections / Fee: $15
Spuyten Duyvil / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose, Cross-Genre
Switchback Books — Gatewood Prize / January 1 – March 31, 2021 / First and Second Books of Poetry by Women / Fee: $20 (or $28 with Book)
Terrapin Books / January 24 – February 28, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $12
Texas Review Press – Southern Poetry Breakthrough Series: Arkansas / Due: February 28, 2021 / Poetry
Tinderbox Editions / Due: January 30, 2021 / Poetry, Hybrid / Fee: $25 (Free from December 1-7, 2020)
Trembling Pillow Press / Now / Poetry, Poetry Translations
Trio House Press — Trio Award For First or Second Book and Louise Bogan Awards / Due: April 30, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $25 / $1000 + publication
Tupelo Press — Dorset Prize / Due: December 31, 2020 / Poetry / Fee: $30 / Prize: $4,500 + Publication / Judge: Tyehimba Jess
Two Dollar Radio / Now / Fiction / Fee: $3
Two Lines Press / Now / Novels and Short Story Collections in Translation
University of Alberta Press / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction
University of Arkansas Press – Etel Adnan Poetry Series / Due: April 15, 2021 / Poetry by Writers of Arab Heritage / Fee: $25 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Series Editors: Hayan Charara and Fady Joudah
Vegetarian Alcoholic Press / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose
YesYes Books – Pamet River Prize / Due: March 1, 2021 / Poetry or Prose by Women, Non-binary and Native Writers / Fee: $15 / Prize: $1,500 + Publication
Zone 3 Press – Creative Nonfiction Book Award / January 1 – April 1, 2021 / Nonfiction / Fee: $25 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judge: Wendy S. Walters
Chapbooks:
ATTN: Open Archive Series / Now / Multiple-Author Poetry Collections and Archives
ATTN: Correspondences / Now / Poetry Collaboration
Button Poetry/Exploding Pinecone Press Chapbook Contest / Due: January 9, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $15 / Prize: $500 + Publication
Center for Book Arts – Poetry Chapbook Competition / Due: December 15, 2020 / Poetry / Fee: $30 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication + Residency at the Millay Colony for the Arts / Judge: Simone White
Coast|noCoast / Due: March 31, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction, Hybrid / Fee: $15 / Prize: $250 + Publication
Cooper Dillon Books / Year-Round / Poetry / Fee: $10 or Buy a Book
CutBank Chapbook Contest / January 1 – May 31, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Cross-Genre / Fee: $20 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
Damaged Goods Press / Now / Poetry, Essays, and Hybrid Writing from Queer and Trans Writers
Disorder Press / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Eggtooth Editions / Due: December 15, 2020 / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction, Hybrid, Plays, Graphic Texts, Comics / Fee: $10
elsewhere / Due: January 1, 2021 / Prose / Fee: $10 / Prize: $250 + Publication / Judge: Deb Olin Unferth
Foundlings Press — Wallace Award for Poetry / Due: January 31, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $5 / Guest Artist: Julie Molloy
The Florida Review – Jeanne Leiby Chapbook Award / Due: December 31, 2020 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Graphic Narrative / Fee: $25 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judge: TBA
Francis House / Due: January 2, 2021 / Poetry, Chaplets, Zines / Fee: $7.50 (Chapbooks), $5 (Chaplets, Zines)
Frost Place Chapbook Competition / Due: January 5, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $28 / Prize: $250 + Publication by Bull City Press + Tuition, Room, and Board at The 2021 Frost Place Poetry Seminar / Judge: Tiana Clark
GASHER Journal / Due: January 1, 2021 / Prose / Fee: $10
Grayson Books Chapbook Prize / Due: January 31, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $20 / Prize: $500 + Publication / Judge: Cortney Davis
Green Linden Press / December 21, 2020 – March 21, 2020 / Poetry / Fee: $12
Greying Ghost Press- Pamphlet and Art Zine Submissions / Now / Nonfiction, Art
Harbor Review — The Editor’s Prize / Due: January 31 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $10 / Prize: $200 + Publication
Homebound Publications – Little Bound Books / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction
Iron Horse Review – Poetry Chapbook Competition/ January 15 – March 15, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $15 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication as an Issue of Iron Horse Review / Judge: TBA
Kalisto Gaia Press — Saguaro Poetry Prize / Due: January 1, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $25 / Prize: $1,200 + Publication
Litmus Press / Now / Proposals for Translations
New Delta Review — Chapbook Contest / Due: February 5, 2021 / Poetry, Prose, Nonfiction, Experimental, Hybrid / Fee: $8 / Prize: $250 + Publication / Fee: $8 / Final Judge: Brandon Shimoda
Newfound Prose Prize / Due: March 15, 2021 / Prose / Fee: $15 / Prize: $500 + Publication / Judge: Hanif Abdurraqib
Overcup Press / Year-Round / Nonfiction, Art and Culture
PANK / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid / Fee: $12
Poetry Society of America — Chapbook Fellowships / Due: December 31, 2020 / Poetry / Fee: $14 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judges: Joshua Bennett and Monica Youn
@rlysrslit: Disappearing Chapbooks & Zepto-Poems / Now / All Genres
Sixth Finch / Due: December 6, 2020 / Poetry / Fee: Donation of Any Amount to a BLM/LGTBQ Cause
Sutra Press / February 1 – April 30, 2021 / Poetry, Essay, Cross-Genre, Hybrid, Experiments / Prize: $200 + Publication
Tammy / Due: December 15, 2020 / All Genres / Fee: $12
Toad Press — International Chapbook Series / Due: December 31, 2020 / Poetry and Prose in Translation
Throwback Books / Now / Novelettes
Verse – Tomaž Šalamun Prize / Due: March 15, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $16 ($12 for Students) / Prize: $500 + Publication with Factory Hollow Press + 1-Month Residency in Ljubljana, Slovenia / Judge: Sawako Nakayasu
Journals & Anthologies:
1001 Journal / January 1 – April 1, 2021 / Poetry, Prose, Comics, Image and Text
3:AM / Now / Nonfiction, Criticism
32 Poems / Year-Round / Poetry, Reviews / Fee: $3 (Free for Reviews)
8 Poems / Year-Round / Poetry
Aaduna / Due: March 14, 2021 / Poetry, Prose, Visual Art
A&U Magazine / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Drama and Pitches Related to HIV/AIDS
The Account / Due: March 1, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
The Acentos Review / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Translation, Cross-Genre, Art
The Adroit Journal / Open: January, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Art
The Adroit Journal —The Gregory Djanikian Scholarships / Due: December 18, 2020 / Poetry / Prize: $100 + Publication
After the Art / Year-Round / Personal Review Essays about Reading and Art
After Happy Hour Review / Due: February 28, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
Afternoon Visitor / Year-Round / Poetry, Visual Poetry, Hybrid, Visual Art
A) Glimpse) Of) / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art, Sound, Hybrid
Alchemy Journal — Correspondence / Due: December 15, 2020 / Translations of Poetry, Prose, and Cross-Genre Work
Always Crashing / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Collage, Video, Audio, Hybrid, Other
American Poetry Review / Now / Poetry, Nonfiction, Reviews, Interviews / Fee: $3
American Short Fiction / Due: December 31, 2020 / Fiction / Fee: $3
American Short Fiction — The Shorter Fiction Prize / Due: February 1, 2021 / Flash Fiction / Fee: $17 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judge: Susan Steinberg
Anatolios Magazine / February 1 – March 31, 2021 / Poetry, Prose, Art, Photography, Particularly Work by Marginalized Creators
Anomaly / Due: March 1, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Translations, Comics, Folio Proposals (Free) / Fee: $3 (Waiver Available for Financial Hardship; Free for Black and Indigenous Writers)
Another Chicago Magazine / Due: January 31, 2021 / Poetry, Drama, Reviews, Audiovisual
Anti-Heroin Chic / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Interviews, Photography
*apo-press / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Critical Theory, Rituals, Spells, Reviews, Art, Music, Performances, and Hybrid Work with an Accompanied Translation
Apricity Press / Due: January 1, 2021 / Poetry, Prose, Art, Dance
Apartment Poetry / Now / Poetry
A Public Space / Due: December 31, 2020 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Arcturus / Year-Round / Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid
The Arkansas International / Due: May 1, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Essays, Comics, Works in Translation / Fee: $4
The Arkansas International — Emerging Writers Prize / Due: December 2, 2020 / Prose / Fee: $20 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judge: Deb Olin Unferth
The Arkansas International — Intergalactic Theme Issue / Due: December 28, 2020 / Poetry, Fiction, Essays, Comics, Works in Translation / Fee: $4
Arts & Letters — Prizes / Due: January 31, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $3
Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies / Now / Scholarly Writing about Nonfiction, Syllabi
Asymptote / Year-Round / Translations of Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, and Drama; Criticism; Reviews; Visual Art
Asymptote — Brave New World Literature / Due: December 21, 2020 / Essays
Atticus Review / Now / Nonfiction About Songs
The Aunt Flo Project / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, and Flash About Menstruation
Auroras & Blossoms Creative Arts Journal / Year-Round / Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction, Hybrid, Art, Photography / Fee: $1
Auroras & Blossoms Poetry Journal / Year-Round / Poetry / Fee: $1
Autofocus / Now / Poetry, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction, Hybrid
AzonaL / Year-Round / Poetry in Translation
bæst: a journal of queer forms & affects / Year-Round / All Genres
Barrelhouse / Now / Reviews
Barzakh Magazine / Due: February 15, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction, Hybrid, Interviews, Reviews, Art
Bayou Magazine / Due: May 1, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
Bayou Magazine — Prizes in Poetry and Fiction / Due: January 2, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction / Fee: $20 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judges: TBA (Poetry), Stephanie Soileau (Fiction)
Bear Review / Now / Poetry / Fee: $3
beestung / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, and Art from Non-Binary and Two-Spirit Writers and Artists
Bennington Review / Due: May 8, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Writing on Film, Cross-Genre
Berkeley Poetry Review — MIDTERM / Due: February 2, 2021 / Poetry
Beyond the Block / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry from Incarcerated or Imprisoned Writers
Big Other / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Cross-Genre, Hybrid, Art, Reviews, Interviews, Book Excerpts / Fee: $3 (All Genres Except Interviews and Reviews), $10 (Book Excerpts)
Birdcoat Quarterly / Now / Poetry, Nonfiction / Fee: $3
Biscuit Root Drive / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
The Black Lion Journal / January 1 – March 1, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Photography, Mixed Graphics
Black Sun Lit — digital vestiges / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Translation, Drama, Art, Fragments, Ephemera
Black Warrior Review / Due: March 1, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction, Translations, Cross-Genre, Art / Fee: $3 (Free for Black and Indigenous Writers)
Blood Orange Review / Due: April 2, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $3
Blue Earth Review / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
Blue Mesa Review — Summer Contest / Due: February 28, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Bodega Magazine / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
The Boiler / Due: February 15, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
The Bookends Review / Due: January 31, 2021 / Poetry, Prose, Interviews, Reviews, Music, Art
Bone Bouquet / Now / Poetry Reviews from Women and Non-Binary Poets
Booth / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Comics, Lists
Border Crossing / Due: February 1, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Boston Accent / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
Boulevard / Due: May 1, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $3
Boulevard — Short Fiction Contest for Emerging Writers / Due: January 1, 2021 / Fiction / Fee: $16 / Prize: $1,500 + Publication
Breakwater Review/ Now / Poetry, Prose / Fee: $3
Bridge Eight / Now / Interviews, Reviews
Broadsided Press / Now / Poetry, Prose / Fee: $3
Burrow Press Review / Now / Prose
Cabildo Quarterly / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction
Cagibi / Now / Fee: $3 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Translations, Interviews / Fee: $3
CALAMITY / Year-Round / Poetry, Art
Callaloo / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction and Art by Black Authors
CALYX / Due: December 31, 2020 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $5 ($3 for Students and Low-Income Submitters)
The Capra Review / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
The Carolina Quarterly / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art / Fee: $2.50
Cartridge Lit / Now / Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction Inspired by Video Games
Cartridge Lit – The Airship Blog / Year-Round / Essays About Video Games
Carve Magazine / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $3
Catapult / Due: December 15, 2020 / Pitches for Columns
Causeway Lit / Due: December 30, 2020 / Craft Essays / Fee: $2
The Centifictionist / Year-Round / Microfiction / Fee: $3
Chestnut Review / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction, Hybrid, Art, Photography / Fee: $5 (4-6 Poems, Fiction, and Nonfiction)
The Cincinnati Review / Due: January 1, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Translations of Poetry, Drama, Art
Clade Song / Year-Round / Poetry, Flash Fiction, Audio, Video
Coal Hill Review / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Reviews / Fee: $3 (Reviews Free)
Coast|noCoast / Due: March 31, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction, Hybrid
Colorado Review / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Reviews / Fee: $3 (Reviews Free)
Columbia Review / Due: November 1, 2020 / All Genres
Communion Arts Journal / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
The Concrete Desert Review / Year-Round / Poetry, Micropoetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art, Audio / Fee: $3
The Continental Review / Year-Round / Video Poetry
Contra Viento / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid and Art About Rangelands and the West
Copper Nickel / Due: December 15, 2020; January 15 – March 1, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Essays, Translation Folios
Cordite Poetry Review / Due: February 7, 2021 / Poetry
Cosmonauts Avenue / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Court Green / January 1 – June 1, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $3
COVER / Due: January 15, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash, Hybrid, Audio, Video, Image
CRAFT / Year-Round / Fiction, Flash Fiction, Craft Essays, Interviews, Reviews, Annotations
CRAFT — Creative Nonfiction Award / Due: January 1, 2021 / Nonfiction / Fee: $20 / Prize: $3,600 + Publication / Judge: Joy Castro
Crazyhorse / Due: December 31, 2020; February 1 – May 31, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Crazyhorse — Prizes / January 1 – 31, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $20 / Prize: $2,000 + Publication / Judges: Yona Harvey (Poetry), Rumaan Alam (Fiction), Sabrina Orah Mark (Nonfiction)
Cream City Review / January 1 – April 1, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction, Hybrid, Art
CutBank / Due: February 1, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
ctrl+v / Due: December 2, 2020 / Poetry Collage, Collage (Analog, Digital, Sound, Video, and More)
Dead Alive Magazine / Now / Cross-Genre, Experimental, Multimedia
Denver Quarterly / Due: February 15, 2021 / Poetry, Prose Translations, Interviews, Reviews
diaCRITICS / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Interviews, and Reviews from Writers of the Vietnamese/Southeast Asian Diaspora
DIAGRAM / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art, New Media
Doubleback Review / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction and Hybrid Published in Now-Defunct Journals
Dream Pop Journal / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
DREGINALD / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose, Art
Driftwood Press / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Visual Arts, Hybrid, Interviews, Comics, Art / Fees: $2.99 (Poetry), $3.99 (Fiction)
Driftwood Press — Contests / Due: January 15, 2021 / Poetry, Short Stories / Fee: $12 / Prize: $400 + Publication
DUM DUM Zine / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Letters, Visual Art
Ecotone / January 26 – February 1, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $3
El Balazo Press / Now / Poetry, Short Fiction, Essays
Electric Literature — The Commuter / January 18 – 24, 2021 / Poetry, Flash, Graphic, Experimental Narratives
ellipsis… Literature & Art / Due: February 1, 2021 / Art
elsewhere / Now / Prose Poetry, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Photography
Empty House Press / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Empty Mirror / Year-Round / Poetry, Nonfiction, Visual Art, Reviews, Interviews, Criticism
Entropy / Year-Round / Essays, Reviews, Interviews, Fiction, Poetry, More
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Epiphany / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $3
Exhume Magazine / Due: December 31, 2020 / Poetry, Prose, Drama, and Visual Art
The Fanzine / Now / Personal Essays, Writing on Film, Essays on Modern Instances of Duende
Fecund / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Interviews, Reviews, Fashion Writing and Photography, Photography, Criticism, Art, Digital Media
The Fictional Café / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Fine Art, Photography, Podcasts
Fiction International — Compassion / Due: February 1, 2021 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Indeterminate Prose, Visuals
Figure 1 / Year-Round / Poetry
Fine Print / Due: March 1, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction, Art
FIVE:2:ONE / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
FIVE:2:ONE — #thesideshow / Year-Round / Micro Poetry, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
Five South / Due: February 19, 2021 / All Genres
The Florida Review / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction Graphic Narrative, Reviews, Art / Fee: $2 (for Aquifer Online) $3 (for Print)
Flypaper / January 1 – February 28, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Interviews, Reviews
Foglifter / Now / Art from Queer Artists
Foothill / Year-Round / Poetry by Poets Enrolled in a Graduate Program
For the Sonorous / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, and Visual Art from Women and Non-Binary People of Color
Foundry / Year-Round / Poetry
Fourteen Hills / February 15 – June 15, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Visual Art
Fourteen Hills — The Stacy Doris Memorial Poetry Award / Due: January 2, 2021 / Poetry / Prize: $500 + Publication
Free State Review / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, One-Minute Plays / Fee: $3
F(r)iction / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $2.50
F(r)iction — Arcana / Due: December 2, 2020 / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $2.50
Fugue / Due: May 1, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $3
Full Stop / Now / Nonfiction, Reviews, Interviews, Cultural Criticism
GASHER Journal / Due: February 14, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
The Georgia Review / Due: May 15, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Reviews, Art / Fee: $3
Gertrude Press / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, and Art from Queer Writers and Artists
Gettysburg Review / Due: May 31, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art / Fee: $3
Ghost City Review / Year-Round / All Genres
Ghost Proposal / January 1 – April 1, 2021 / Poetry, Visual Poetry, Essays, Cross-Genre, Post-Genre,
Gigantic Sequins / Due: January 15, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art, Comics
GlitterMOB — NOMNOMNOM / Now / Poetry, Art
Golden Walkman / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Audio
Goodnight, Sweet Prince / Now / Essays About Side Characters
Graviton / Now / Science-Inspired Poetry and Art
The Gravity of the Thing / Now / Defamiliarized Works of Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Six-Word Stories, Multimedia, Cross-Genre, Hybrid, Experimental, and Collaborative Writing
Great River Review / January 15 – May 15, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Great River Review — Pink Poetry Prize / Due: January 17, 2021 / Poetry / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judge: Adrian Matejka
great weather for MEDIA / Due: January 15, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Hybrid
Grimoire Magazine / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art, Interviews, Dreams, Dead Letters, Séances
Guernica / Now / Poetry, Nonfiction
Gulf Coast / Due: March 1, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Interviews, Reviews, Translations of Poetry, Art, Critical Art Writing / Fee: $2.50
Half Mystic / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid and Drama Pertaining to Music
Harbor Review / February 1 – April 30, 2021 / Poetry, Art
The Harpoon Review / Now / All Genres
Heartburn Review / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid
Heartburn Review — Poet of the Month / Due: December 31, 2020 / Poetry
Heavy Feather Review – Flavortown USA, Bad Survivalist, Haunted Passages, and #NoMorePresidents / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Journalism, Comics, Hybrid
Heron Tree / Due: January 15, 2021 / Found Poetry Using Public Domain Materials
Hinchas de Poesía / Now / Poetry, Prose, Translations, Reviews, Art
Hobart / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Photo Essays, Comics
Hobart After Dark / Sporadic (Check Twitter) / All Genres
Homology Lit / January 8 – March 31, 2021 / Poetry, Flash Fiction, Creative Nonfiction and Art by Marginalized Writers and Artists
Honey Literary / February 1 – May 1, 2021 / Poetry, Short Fiction, Essays, Hybrid, Comics, Interviews, Reviews and Art from BIPOC Women, Non-Binary and Trans people; Disabled Writers; and Anyone of Color from the LGBTQIAP2+ Community
HOOT Review / Year-Round / Poetry, Flash Fiction, Flash Nonfiction, Reviews / Fee: $2
Horny Poetry Review / Now / Poetry, Experimental Prose
Hot Dish Magazine / Due: February 14, 2021 / Poetry and Fiction from Teens (Grades 9-12)
Hot Metal Bridge / February 1 – March 15, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
The Hunger / Due: January 1, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Art
The Hunger — Winter Poetry Contest / Due: January 1, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $5 / Prize: $100 + Publication / Judge: Diamond Forde
Hunger Mountain — Contests / Due: March 1, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Young Adult + Children’s Literature / Fee: $20 (Free for High-Schoolers) / Prize: $1,000 (Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, and Young Adult) + Publication / Judges: Tomás Q. Morín (Poetry), Trinie Dalton (Fiction), Terese Marie Mailhot (Nonfiction), Ann Dávila Cardinal (Young Adult)
Hunger Mountain — The International Young Writers Prize / Due: March 1, 2021 / Writing from High School Aged Writers / Prize: $100 + Publication
Identity Theory / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
The Ilanot Review — Delight / Due: January 31, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Art / Fee: $3 (Free until December 14, 2020)
Indianapolis Review / Now / Poetry, Visual Poetry, Art
indicia / Year-Round / Art
Inkwell Literary Magazine — The Well / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Interviews, Reviews
Interpret Magazine / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, and Translations in English and/or French
Invisible City / Due: December 16, 2020 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Iron Horse Literary Review / February 15 – April 1, 2021 / Poetry, Flash Fiction, Flash Nonfiction / Fee: $2
It’s Real Magazine / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Flash Nonfiction, Hybrid, Interviews, Visual Arts, and Performing Arts Related to Mental Health by Asian Americans
jmww / Year-Round (Poetry Due December 31, 2020) / Poetry, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction
Josephine Quarterly / Now / Poetry, Art
Joyland / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $4.50 (Free for Black Writers)
Juked / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
JuxtaProse / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art / Fee: $3
JuxtaProse — Poetry Prize / Due: December 5, 2020 / Poetry / Fee: $14 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
Kartika Review / Now / Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction from Asian Pacific Islander American Writers
K’in / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Kissing Dynamite / December 1 -10, 2020; January and February 1 – 10, 2021 / Poetry, Visual Poetry
Kweli Journal / Due: May 30, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, and Multimedia from Writers of Color
Lammergeier / January 1 – February 28, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction, Hybrid
LandLocked / Due: April 1, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
La Vague / Year-Round / Poetry and Art by Women
Lavender Review / Year-Round / Poetry and Art by Lesbians
Levitate Literary Magazine / Due: February 28, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction, Art
LIT / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Translations, Reviews, Art
Litbreak / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Reviews / Fee: $3
Long Long Journal / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose
Lumiere Review / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose, Art
Lumiere Review — Contests / Due: January 15, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction, Hybrid, Art / Prize: $100 + Publication / Judges: TBD
Lunch Ticket —Diana Woods Memorial Award in Creative Nonfiction + Gabo Prize for Literature in Translation and Multilingual Texts / February 1 – 28, 2021 / Nonfiction, Translations / Prize: $250 (Nonfiction) or $200 (Translation) + Publication
MAGfest Mages Library Blog / Year-Round / Nonfiction About Video Games
Mammouth Poetry / Now / Poetry
The Mantle / Year-Round / Poetry
The Margins / Now / Poetry and Flash Fiction from Asian American Writers
Masque & Spectacle / Due: January 31, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Drama, Reviews, Art, Video, Sound
Matador Review / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Visual Art
Matter Monthly / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose
Maudlin House / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction
The Meadow / Due: February 1, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
Meshes Journal / Now / Poetry, Critique, Moving Image, Photography, Choreographic Notation, Any/All Relation to Dance and Movement
Metatron – #MicroMeta/ Now / Micro-Poetry, Video Poetry
Michigan Quarterly Review — Laurence Goldstein Prize / Due: December 31, 2020 / Poetry / Prize: $500 + Publication / Judge: A. Van Jordan
Modern Poetry in Translation / Now / Poetry Translations
Modern Poetry in Translation — European Pandemic Issue / Due: January 1, 2021 / Translations of Poems from Europe that Respond to the COVID-19 Crisis
Moko: Caribbean Arts and Letters / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Reviews, Art and Videos Relevant to the Caribbean Experience
Moon City Review / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Translations, Graphic Narrative, Reviews
MoonPark Review / Now / Flash Fiction, Prose Poetry, Hybrid
Monkeybicycle / Now / Fiction, One-Sentence Stories
Mortar / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction
Moss/ Now / Fiction and Nonfiction from the Pacific Northwest
Mount Island / Year-Round (Digital); Due: March 31, 2021 (Print) / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction, Hybrid, Art
Muzzle Magazine / December 15, 2020 – February 1, 2021 / Poetry, Interviews, Reviews
A NEON GARDEN / Year-Round / Prose Poetry, Fiction, Craft Essays, Interviews, Reviews, Art / Fee: $5
New Delta Review / Due: May 1, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Reviews, Interviews, Hybrid, Translations Art, Digital Media
New Delta Review — Experimental Nonfiction Contest / February 15 – March 29, 2021 / Nonfiction, Hybrid / Fee: $7 / Prize: $200 + Publication
Newest York / Year-Round / Pitches for Nonfiction, Audio, Interviews, Criticism and Recipes from NYC Writers
Newfound / Due: May 16, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction, Translations, Reviews, Art
New Ohio Review / Due: December 15, 2020; January 15 – April 15, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
New Ohio Review — Contest / January 15 – April 15, 2021 / Poetry, Prose / Fee: $22 / Prize: $1,500 + Publication
New Orleans Review / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Reviews / Fee: $3
New Plains Review / Due: January 1, 2021 / Audio, Video, Art
New Poetry in Translation / Year-Round / Poetry in Translation
new sinews / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction
New South / Due: March 30, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Essays, Reviews
Night Music Journal / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose, Hybrid, Reviews
Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry / Open: January 1, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Ninth Letter / Due: January 1, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Noctua Review / Due: January 1, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Art
The No Longer Ignore Anthology / Due: April 25, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction, Hybrid, Art, and Photography about Social Justice / Fee: $2.99
NUNUM / Due: December 22, 2020 / Flash Fiction, Art / Fee: $3
The Ocotillo Review / January 15 – March 31, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $3
Off Assignment / Year-Round / Year-Round / Essays, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction
The Offing / Now / Translations, Art, Science Writing
Okay Donkey Magazine / Open: January 2, 2021 / Poetry, Flash Fiction
The Operating System / Now / Field Notes, Conversations
Orca: A Literary Journal / Due: February 1, 2021 / Fiction, Flash Fiction, Speculative Fiction
Oxidant | Engine / Year-Round / Poetry
Pacifica Literary Review / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $3
Pangyrus / January 15 – April 15, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Comics, Reviews / Fee: $3
Painted Bride Quarterly / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Reviews / Fee: $3
Parentheses Journal/ Due: March 10, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Art, Photography
Parhelion Literary Magazine / Now / Featured Articles, Reviews
Passages North / Due: April 15, 2021 (Fiction: January 1 – February 15, 2021) / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Writers on Writing
Peatsmoke: A Literary Journal / Year-Round / All Genres
perhappened mag / Due: December 11, 2020 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Permafrost Magazine / Due: December 16, 2020 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Art
petrichor / Due: February 28, 2021 / Poetry, Visual Poetry, Hybrid, Poetics Essays
‘Pider / Now / Poetry
Pidgeonholes / December 1 – 10, 2020; January and February 1 – 10, 2020 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
Pigeon Pages / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $5
Pigeon Pages — Poetry Contest / January 1 – February 15, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $7 / Prize: $250 + Publication / Judge: Natalie Diaz
The Pinch / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction, Art / Fee: $2-3
Pine Hills Review / Due: April 30, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid
Pithead Chapel / Year-Round / Prose Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
Plath Poetry Project / Now / Prose Related to Sylvia Plath’s Work
POETiCA REViEW / Year-Round / Poetry
Pollux Journal / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction, Hybrid, Art, Anything Else that is Multilingual or about Multilinguality
Portland Review / Due: March 2, 2021 / Reviews
Poets Reading the News / Year-Round / Poetry About Current Events
Poetry Northwest / January 1 – March 1, 2021 / Poetry, Prose (Year-Round), Art / Fee: $3
Poetry Online / Open: January 16, 2021 / Poetry
Poetry Online — Launch Prize / January 16 – April 1, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $12 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judge: torrin a. greathouse
Posit / Now / Poetry, Prose, Art, Video, Animation
Prelude / Now / Poetry, Nonfiction / Fee: $3 (Poetry Only)
Pretty Owl Poetry / Year-Round / Poetry, Art
Puerto del Sol/ Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Visual Art
Puerto del Sol – Black Voices Series / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Multimedia
Puerto del Sol — Failure/ Due: December 16, 2020 / Poetry, Prose
Q/A Poetry / Year-Round / Poetry by Womxn and Nonbinary Poets
Queer Southeast Asia / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose, Hybrid, Interviews, Reviews, Art
Qu Journal / Due: January 15, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Drama, Screenplays
Quarterly West / January 1 – April 1, 2021 / Poetry, Prose
Raconteur / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Illustrations
Radar Poetry / Due: January 1, 2021 / Poetry
Random Sample Review/ Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction, Art
Raspa Magazine / Open: February 15, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, and Essays by Queer Latinxs
Real Fake Lake / Year-Round / Poetry, Micro Prose
The Real Story / Now / Nonfiction, Reviews
Reality Beach / Now / Video
Redivider / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Graphic Narrative, Visual Poetry
Reverberations Mag / Year-Round / Personal Essays Responding to Art
Rise Up Review / Now / Poetry, Nonfiction
River Styx — Microfiction Contest / Due: January 2, 2021 / Flash Fiction / Fee: $15 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
Ruminate / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction, Reviews, Art
Ruminate — William Van Dyke Short Story Prize / Due: February 4, 2021 / Fiction / Fee: $20 / Prize: $1,500 + Publication / Judge: Kelli Jo Ford
Salt Hill / Due: January 15, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction (Year-Round), Art (Year-Round)
Santa Fe Writers Project Quarterly — Pleasure / Due: December 31, 2020 / Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Comics, and Hybrid Genres from BIPOC Writers
Santa Fe Writers Project Quarterly — Unmaking/Remaking / Due: March 31, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Comics, and Hybrid Genres from QTPOC/LGBTQ++ Writers
Saw Palm / Now / Interviews, Reviews
SCAB / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose, Art
Schlag Magazine / Year-Round / Poetry, Nonfiction, Critical Theory, Cultural Criticism, Art Writing, Art (Fashion, Photography, Drawing, Painting)
Screen Door Review / Now / Poetry and Flash Fiction from Queer Southern Writers
Seneca Review / February 1 – March 15, 2021 / Poetry, Nonfiction
SHARKPACK Annual — Wretched Citizens / Due: December 15, 2020 / Poetry
Shirley Magazine / Year-Round / Fiction
Sidereal Magazine / Due: April 1, 2021 / Poetry, Nonfiction
Sinister Wisdom / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction and Art by Lesbians
Sixth Finch / Due: December 6, 2020 / Poetry, Art
Smartish Pace – Beullah Rose Poetry Prize for Women Writers / Due: January 1, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $10 / Prize: $200
Smartish Pace – Erskine J. Poetry Prize / Due: January 1, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $10 / Prize: $200 + Publication
SmokeLong Quarterly / Year-Round / Flash Fiction (English, French, German, and by Children), Artwork
Snail Trail / Due: January 15, 2021 / Poetry, Prose, Interviews, Reviews, Mixed Media
Solstice / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Graphic Narrative, Translations / Fee: $3
Sorority Mansion / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction and Art by Women
So to Speak — Blog / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
So to Speak — Blog — Resistance Limited Series / Due: February 5, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
The Southampton Review / January 1 – February 1, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Drama / Fee: $3
The Southeast Review / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Interviews (Free) / Fee: $3 (Submission Fee Waived for Incarcerated Writers)
Southern Humanities Review / January 15 – March 14, 2021 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Reviews / Fee: $3
Speculative Nonfiction / Now / Craft Essays, Reviews
Spellbinder/ January 1 – February 14, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction, Reviews, Art, Photography
Split Lip Magazine / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Memoir, Art / Fee: $3 (Free in January and for Black Writers Year-Round)
Split Lip Magazine — Summertime / Due: June 15, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction, and Art from Black Authors and Artists / Editor: Tyrese L. Coleman
SPORAZINE / Now / Experimental and Visual Poetry by Trans People
Sporklet / Now / Reviews
Squalorly / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $3 (Free for Fiction)
Stay Journal / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Art
The Stay Project / Now / Responses to the Political Present
Stellium / Due: December 15, 2020 / Prose Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, and Art by Black or QTPOC creators
Stillhouse Press — Disabled Writers Anthology / Due: May 31, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid / Fee: $5 (Fee Waiver Available for Marginalized Writers)
Stillhouse Press — Experimental Writing Contest / Due: April 15, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid / Fee: $25 (Fee Waiver Available for Marginalized Writers Upon Request) / Prize: $500 + Publication / Judge: Matthew Fogarty
Storm Cellar / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash, Images / Fee: $5
Strange Horizons / Year-Round / Speculative Poetry and Short Fiction
Sunspot Literary Journal — Culmination / Due: December 31, 2020 / Poetry, Prose, Art / Fee: $5 / Prize: $500 + Publication
Surfaces / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Theory, Art, Text Collage
SUSAN / The Journal / Now / Poetry, Flash Fiction
swifts & slows / Now / Text and/or Visual Collaborations and Dialogues
sx salon: a small axe literary platform / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Reviews, and Interviews Related to the Caribbean
Sweet Lit / Now / Poetry, Graphic Nonfiction
Sweet Tree Review / Due: December 20, 2020 / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction, Plays
Sycamore Review / Due: March 31, 2021 / Poetry, Prose, Nonfiction, Art
Syndicated / Year-Round / Nonfiction, Interviews, Reviews
TAGVVERK / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Essays, Reviews, Criticism, Art
The Talking Book / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Comics, Audio
The Texas Review / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Flash Creative Nonfiction, Cross-Genre, Comics, Plays, Interviews, Reviews
ThimblelitMag / Due: December 31, 2020; February 1 – 28, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
Thin Air Magazine / Due: December 15, 2020 (Print); Year-Round (Online) / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Art / Fee: $3 (Print Only)
thread arts collective / Now / Poetry, Prose, Art
Threadcount Magazine / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid
Thrush / Year-Round / Poetry
The Tiger Moth Review / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose, Art, Photography
Tilted House / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Essays, Plays, Art
trampset / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $3
Tripwire — Archive Fervor / Due: January 1, 2021 / Archival Projects, Essays, Translations, Interviews, Reviews
TriQuarterly / January 1 – May 31, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Craft Essays, Interviews, Video Essays, Cinepoetry
TriQuarterly — Black Voices / Due: December 15, 2020 / Video Essays from Black Writers
Trop / Now / Fiction, Essays, Humor
Tupelo Quarterly / Now / Reviews
Tupelo Quarterly — Open Prizes / Due: January 1, 2021 / Poetry, Prose / Fee: $15 / Prize: $500 + Prize / Judges: Major Jackson (Poetry), Jennifer Percy (Fiction)
Two Lines / Now / Translations of Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction
Unbroken Journal / Due: December 11, 2020; January 31 – March 12, 2021 / Prose Poems, Poetic Prose
Under a Warm Green Linden / Year-Round / Poetry, Interviews, Reviews / Fee: $3 (Free for Interviews and Reviews)
Under a Warm Green Linden — Poetry of Iran and Its Diaspora / Due: January 1, 2021 / Poetry
Untoward / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $3
Up North Lit / Due: January 1, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
Ursus Americanus Press – Landfill / Now / Poetry
Vagabond City / Year-Round / Poetry, Nonfiction, Reviews, Art
Vassar Review / Due: January 15, 2021 / All Genres
A VELVET GIANT / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose, Cross-Genre, Experimental, Art
VIDA: Women in the Literary Arts — The VIDA Review / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Interviews and Reviews
Voicemail Poems / Due: September 15, 2020 / Audio Poetry
Waccamaw / January 15 – February 15, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Washington Square Review / December 15, 2020 – February 1, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Translations
Western Humanities Review / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Reviews, Artwork / Fee: $2 (Free for Reviews and Artwork)
Western Humanities Review—Mountain West Writers’ Contest / Due: December 19, 2020 / Poetry, Prose / Fee: $15 / Prize: $500 + Publication / Judges: Carmen Giménez Smith (Poetry), Vi Khi Nao (Prose)
Westwind / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Art
Whale Road Review / Now / Reviews, Pedagogy Papers
What are Birds? / Due: February 1, 2020 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Art
where is the river :: a poetry experiment / Now / Poetry
Whiskey Tit / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, and Hybrid, Especially by People from Poor and Working Class Backgrounds
Wigleaf / Final Weeks of January and February, 2021 / Flash Fiction
Wildness / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Willawaw Journal / February 1 – March 1, 2021 / Poetry, Art
Willow Springs / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Translations / Fee: $3
Witness / January 15 – February 28, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $3
The Woven Tale Press / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Video, Sound, Art
Yalobusha Review / Due: May 31, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction
ythm / Year-Round / Audio Poetry
Zone 3 / Due: April 1, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $3 (Free for BIPOC Writers)
Zona de Carga / Due: February 1, 2021 / Poetry or Prose in Portuguese, Spanish, and/or English
Zone 3 — Broadside Competition / Due: December 15, 2020 / Poetry / Prize: $100 + Broadside Publication
Fellowships:
92Y Discovery Poetry Contest / Due: January 18, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $15 / Prize: $500 + Publication in The Paris Review Daily + Reading at 92Y + 2-Day Residency at ACE Hotel / Final Judges: Rick Barot, Patricia Spears Jones, and Mónica de la Torre
Academy of American Poets — Harold Morton Landon Translation Award / Due: February 15, 2021 / Books of Poetry Translated into English Published in 2019 / Prize: $1,000
Academy of American Poets — Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize / January 1 – May 15, 2021 / Books of Poetry Published in 2019 / Fee: $75 / Prize: $25,000
Academy of American Poets — Raiziss/de Palchi Fellowship / Due: February 15, 2021 / In-Progress Books of Twentieth- or Twenty-First-Century Italian Poetry Translated into English / Prize: $25,000 + Five-Week Residency at the American Academy in Rome
AWP — The Kurt Brown Prizes / Due: March 30, 2021 / Prize: $500
AWP — Writer to Writer Mentor Application
Bronx Council on the Arts – BRIO Award for Excellence / Due: December 30, 2020 / Writers and Artists from the Bronx / Award: Up to $5,000
Bucknell University — Philip Roth Residence in Creative Writing / Due: February 1, 2021 / Fellowship: $5,000 + Lodging
Bread Loaf Writers Conference / Due: February 15, 2021 / Fee: $20 / Conference: August 11 – 21, 2021 in Ripton, VT
Frost Place – Dartmouth Poet-in-Residence Award / Due: January 5, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $28 / Residency: $2,000 + 6 Weeks at Robert Frost’s Former Home in New Hampshire (July 1 – August 15, 2021)
Hemingway-Pfeiffer Writer-in-Residence Program / Due: February 28, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Prize: 1-Month Residency in Piggott, AR + $1,000 stipend.
Hurston/Wright Award for College Writers / Due: January 29, 2021 / Poetry and Fiction by Black College Writers; Nonfiction by Black Writers / Fee: $25 / Prize: $1,000 (College); $2,000 (Crossover)
James Jones First Novel Fellowship / Due: March 15, 2021 / Fee: $33 / Prize: $10,000
The Kerouac Project / January 1 – March 15, 2021 / Fee: $35 / Residency: 3 Months in the Jack Kerouac House in Orlando + $1,000 Stipend / Fall Residency Dates: September 1 – November 18, 2021
Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund / January 1 – 31, 2021 / Fiction, Mixed Genre, Art / Fee: $25 / Prize: $500 – $1,000
National Endowment for the Arts — Translation Fellowships / Due: January 13, 2021 / Grants: Up to $25,000
Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Fellowships / January 1 – March 1, 2021 / Fee: $50 / Fellowship: At Least $39,000 + 1 Year of Teaching in Madison, WI
