Summer is here, and that means everyone’s submissions are closed, right? No, far from it! So make like Hunter S. Thompson, put on your bathing suit, grab a beer, and start getting your work out there. As always, if we missed your journal or press, email Small Press Editor Dennis James Sweeney and we’ll add you to the next edition. See you on the beach!
Presses:
1913 Press – Prize for First Books / Deadline: June 30, 2015 / $25 / Judge: John Keene
A-Minor Press / Now / Mixed Genre, Poetry
Akron Poetry Prize / Deadline: June 14, 2015 / Poetry / $25 / Prize: $1500 + Publication / Judge: Carmen Giménez Smith
Autumn House Press – Literary Prizes / Deadline: June 30, 2015 / Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction / $30 / Prize: $1000 + Publication / Judges: Dorianne Laux (Poetry), Sharon Dilworth (Fiction), Dinty W. Moore (Nonfiction)
Barrow Street Press – Book Prize / Deadline: June 30, 2015 / Poetry / $25 / Prize: $1000 + Publication
Bauhan Publishing – May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize / Deadline: June 30, 2015 / Poetry / $25 / Prize: $1000 + Publication
Bitter Oleander Press – Library of Poetry Book Award / Deadline: June 15, 2015 / Poetry / $25 / Prize: $1000 + Publication
Big Lucks – Ruth Stone First Book Prize / May 1 – June 15, 2015 / Poetry, Prose / $8 / Prize: $500 + Publication / Judge: Rachel Glaser
Black Lawrence Press – Open Reading Period / Deadline: June 30, 2015
Black Ocean – Open Reading Period / June 1 – June 30, 2015
Brooklyn Arts Press – Open Reading Period / June / All Genres / $10
Cider Press Review Editors’ Prize Book Award / Deadline: June 30, 2015 / $25 / Prize: $1000 + Publication
Conium Review / Deadline: June 15, 2015 / Fiction / $5
Crab Orchard Series in Poetry – First Book Award / Deadline: July 8, 2015 / Poetry / $20 / Prize: $2500 + $1500 Honorarium for Reading at SIUC
Curbside Splendor – Wild Onion Novella Contest / June 15 – July 18, 2015 / Novellas / $10 / Prize: $200 + Publication
Dalkey Archive Press / Now / Fiction
Double Life Press / Now / All Genres
Four Way Books Open Reading Period / June 1 – 30, 2015 / Poetry, Fiction / $28
Horse Less Press – Open Reading: Book and Chapbook Manuscripts by Writers of Color / Now / Poetry, Hybrid
Jellyfish Highway / Now
Les Figues Press – NOS Book Contest / Deadline: September 15, 2015 / All Genres / $25 / Prize: $1000 + Publication
Letter Machine Editions / July 1 – 31, 2015 / Poetry, Prose, Cross-Genre, Collaborations, Translations / $20
National Poetry Review Press / Deadline: August 31, 2015 / $27 / Prize: $1000 + Publication
New American Press – New American Fiction Prize / Deadline: June 15, 2015 / Fiction / $22.50 / Prize: $1000 + Publication
Omnidawn First/Second Book Prize / Deadline: June 30, 2015 / Poetry / $27 / Prize: $3000 + Publication / Judge: Claudia Rankine
Parlor Press – New Measure Poetry Prize / Deadline: June 30, 2015 / Poetry / $28 / Prize: $1000 + Publication / Judge: Yusef Komunyakaa
Plays Inverse Press / Now / Plays, Cross-Genre, Performance Lit
Red Paint Hill Publishing – Bryant-Lisembee Book Prize / July 1- 31, 2015 / Poetry / $20 / Prize: $300 + Publication / Judge: Jennifer Givhan
Rescue Press – Black Box Poetry Prize / June 1 – June 30, 2015 / Poetry / Judge: Cathy Park Hong
Sarabande Books – The Linda Bruckheimer Series in Kentucky Literature / July 1 – July 31, 2015
Trembling Pillow Press / Now / $15 / Poetry, Poetry Translations, Essays About Poetry
Two Dollar Radio / Now / Fiction
University of Arkansas Press – Miller Williams Poetry Series / Deadline: September 30, 2015 / Poetry / $28
University of North Texas Press – 2015 Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction / Deadline: June 30, 2015 / $25 / Short Fiction Collection
University of Pittsburgh Press – Drue Heinz Literature Prize / Deadline: June 30, 2015 / Collections of Short Fiction / $25 / Prize: $15000 + Publication
Chapbooks:
alice blue shotgun wedding series / Now / Prose and Poetry from Writers in the Pacific Northwest
BOAAT Chapbook Competition / June 1 – July 31, 2015 / Poetry / $14 / Prize: $500 + Publication / Judge: Mary Ruefle
Brain Mill Press – Mineral Point Chapbook Series / June 2015 / Poetry
Burnside Review Chapbook Contest / Deadline: June 30, 2015 / Poetry / $15 / Prize: $200 + Publication / Jennifer L. Knox
Conium Review / Deadline: June 15, 2015 / Fiction / $5
Ghost Proposal Inaugural Chapbook Contest / Deadline: June 30, 2015 / Hybrid / $7
Gold Line Press Chapbook Competitions / July 30 – August 15, 2015 / Poetry, Fiction / $15 / Prize: $500 + Publication / Judges: David Treuer (Fiction) and Anna Journey (Poetry)
H_NGM_N / Now / Poetry, Prose / $5
Hermeneutic Chaos Press / Deadline: June 30, 2015 / Poetry, Prose, Hybrid
The Head & The Hand Press – Breadbox Chapbook Series / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction
Horse Less Press – Poetry & Pints Chapbook Release Series / Now / Poetry, Hybrid
Inpatient Press / June 12 – July 1, 2015
Jellyfish Highway Online Chapbooks / Now
RopeWalk Press – Editor’s Fiction Chapbook Prize / Deadline: June 15, 2015 / Fiction / $20 +$5 for each additional entry / Prize: $1000 + Publication
Seattle Review Chapbook Contest / Deadline: July 31, 2015 / Poetry / Prize: $1000 / Judge: Robyn Schiff
Zoo Cake Press / Deadline: June 10, 2015 / Poetry / Free
Journals & Anthologies:
3:AM / Now / Nonfiction
32 Poems / Year-Round / Poetry / $3
The Account / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
American Short Fiction: Short Story Contest / Deadline: June 15, 2015 / $20 / Prize: $1000, Publication / Judge: Elizabeth McCracken
Assaracus: A Journal of Gay Poetry / Now / Poetry
Banango Street / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
Big Lucks / Now / Prose, Poetry
Birdfeast / Year-Round / All Genres
Black Sun Lit / Year-Round / Prose, Verse, Essays
Black Warrior Review: Eleventh Annual Contest / Deadline: September 1, 2015 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / $20 / Prize: $1000, Publication
Blue Mesa Review: Annual Contest / Deadline: August 31, 2015 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction / $12 / Prize: Publication, $500 / Judges: Antonya Nelson (Fiction), Julie Carr (Poetry), Wendy C. Ortiz (Nonfiction)
The Blueshift Journal / Deadline: July 1, 2015 / Prose, Poetry, Art
BOAAT / Now / Poems, Video-Poems, Fiction, Nonfiction
Bombay Gin 42: Reprogramming the Wilderness / Deadline: August 15, 2015 / Prose, Poetry, Cross-Genre
Brooklyn Poets Anthology / Deadline: August 31, 2015
The Butter / Now / Essays, Reviews, Fiction, Interviews
Caketrain / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Cahoodaloodaling #17: Grit by the Glass / Deadline: June 20, 2015 / All Genres / Guest Editor: Sam Slaughter
Cartridge Lit / Year-Round / Fiction, Poetry, Essays
Carve Magazine / Year-Round / Short Stories
Chronopolis / Now / All Genres
Coldnoon: Travel Poetics / Year-Round / Poetry, Nonfiction
The Collagist / Deadline: August 31, 2015 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Novel Excerpts
Corium Magazine / Year-Round / Short Fiction, Very Short Fiction, Artwork
Curbside Splendor Monthly E-Zine / Now / Fiction, Poetry
CutBank – “All Accounts and Mixture” Web Feature / Deadline: June 19, 2015 / Fiction, Poetry, and Nonfiction from Queer Writers
decomP Magazine / Year-Round/ Prose, Poetry, Art
DIAGRAM / Year-Round / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction
Dirty Chai: Revolt Issue / Deadline: July 15, 2015 / Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction, Art, Photographs
DREGINALD / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose, Art
elsewhere / Now / Prose Poetry, Flash Fiction
Fairy Tale Review: Awards in Poetry and Prose / Deadline: July 15, 2015 / $10 / Prize: $1000 + Publication / Judges: Joyelle McSweeney (Poetry), Brian Evenson (Fiction)
Finery / Now / Poetry, Prose, Visual Art
Flag + Void / Year-Round / Poetry, Art
Fruita Pulp / Now / Poetry
Gigantic Sequins / July 1 – September 15, 2015 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
GlitterMOB / Now / Poetry
Gobbet / Now / Poetry, Prose
Gone Lawn: Issue #19 / Now / All Genres
Grub Street Grackle / Now / Fiction, Poetry, Satire
Guernica / Now / Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, Art
Hobart online / Now / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction
Horseless Press / Now / Poetry, Hybrid
Inch / Now / Flash Fiction, Flash Nonfiction, Short Poems
Jenny / Deadline: September 1, 2015 / Fiction, Poetry, Creative Nonfiction
Juked / Year-Round / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
Leveler / Year-Round / Poetry
Literary Orphans / Now / Micro, Short Fiction
Lumina / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
Monkeybicycle / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction
NANO Fiction: The Queer Issue / June 15 – October 1, 2015 / Flash Fiction
NANO Prize / Deadline: September 1, 2015 / Flash Fiction / $20 / Prize: $1000 + Publication / Judge: Amber Sparks
the Electric Encyclopedia of Experimental Literature / Now / All Genres
Nightblock / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction
Nonbinary Review / Now / All Genres
OCHO: A Journal of Queer Arts / Deadline: July 15, 2015 / All Genres / Guest Editor: Stephen S. Mills
The Offing / Now / Nonfiction
PANK / Now / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction
Phantom Limb / Year-Round / Poetry
‘Pider / Now / Poetry
Pinball / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction, Comics
PLINTH / Now / All Genres
Poor Claudia – 10 Sources and Phenome / Now / Bibliographies, Poetry
Prelude / Now / Poetry
Pretty Owl Poetry / Now / Poetry, Flash Fiction
Quiddity / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose
Rattle – Poetry Prize / Deadline: July 15, 2015 / Poetry / $20 / Prize: $10000 + Publication
The Rain, Party, & Disaster Society / 1st-15th of Every Month / All Genres
Requited / Deadline: June 30, 2015 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Performance Text, Visual/Video
Revolution John / Now / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Flash Fiction
Seattle Review / Year-Round / Essays, Fiction, Long Poems
Sixth Finch / Deadline: July 15, 2015 / Poetry, Art
small po[r]tions journal / Now / All Genres
Southeast Review / Year-Round / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction
Sporklet / Now / Fiction, Poetry
SmokeLong Quarterly / Now / Flash Fiction
Sundog Lit / Now / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction
Swarm / Deadline: July 31, 2015 / Fiction, Poetry
TENDE RLOIN / Now / Poetry
The Tishman Review / Year-Round / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction
TRACT/TRACE / Now / Essays, Conversations, Interviews, Notes, Book Reviews
Trafika Europe / Now / Fiction, Poetry, Translation
TYPO / Now / Poetry
Unsettling America: Decolonization in Theory & Practice / Now / Essays, Poetry, Art
Voicemail Poems / Now / Audio Poetry
The Volta / Year-Round / Poetry, Essays
Winter Tangerine Review Awards / Deadline: July 1, 2015 / Poetry, Prose / Prize: $250 + Publication / Judges: Ocean Vuong (Poetry), Jaquira Díaz (Prose)
Word For/Word / Now / Poetry, Prose, Poetics, Criticism, Visuals
Wreck Park / Now / Prose, Criticism
Zoetic Press / Now / Electronic & Interactive Literature
Other:
Blue Mountain Center – Richard J. Margolis Award / Deadline: July 1, 2015 / Prize: $5000 + Month-Long Residency
Everglades National Park – Artists in Residence / Deadline: June 15, 2015
Figues Camp: Ghost Nights / Rolling Admissions
Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund / Deadline: June 30, 2015 / Poetry, Creative Nonfiction / $25 / Prize: $500-1000
Oregon Literary Arts Fellowships / Deadline: June 26, 2015 / Fellowship: $3000
Vermont Studio Center / Deadline: June 15, 2015 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Word Riot Travel Grant / Deadline: June 15, 2015 / Travel Proposal / $5 / Grants from $100-$500
Write A House / Deadline: June 5, 2015
