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.
Now we’re three months into 2021. I still don’t know what time is anymore. I’m still tired. We’re all still tired. But, after a brief delay, the newest Where to Submit is finally here!
Our featured artist for the Spring 2021 edition of Where to Submit is Londi Lion! Londi is an aimless play artist who lives in Oakland, CA; her visual play can be found on her Instagram and some of her musical play on Bandcamp.
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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The 3rd Thing Press / Due: April 1, 2021 / Fiction, Nonfiction, and Hybrid Works by People Who Identify as Queer, Nonbinary, Indigenous and/or People of Color
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
Able Muse Book Award / Due: March 31, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $25 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judge: Mark Jarman
Academy of American Poets — James Laughlin Award / Due: May 15, 2021 / Second Book of Poetry / Prize: $5,000 + Publication + Weeklong Residency in Miami
Airlie Press / Due: March 15, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $25 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
Alice James Books – Alice James Award / Due: November 1, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $30 / Prize: $2,000 + Publication
Anhinga Press — Robert Dana Prize for Poetry / Due: May 31, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $25 / Prize: $2,000 + Publication
Another New Calligraphy / Now / Music, Books
Apocalypse Party / Year-Round / All Genres
Ashland Poetry Press – The Richard Snyder Memorial Publication Prize / Due: May 1, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $27 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judge: Maggie Anderson
Autumn House Press — Contests / Due: June 15, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $30 / Prize: $2,500 + Publication / Judges: Eileen Myles (Poetry), Deesha Philyaw (Fiction), Steve Almond (Nonfiction)
Baobab Press / Year-Round / Poetry, Short Fiction, Novels, Creative Nonfiction, Comics and Visual Narrative
Bauhan Publishing – May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize / Due: June 30, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $30 / $1,000 + Publication / Judge: Meg Kearney
Bitter Oleander Press – Library of Poetry Award / May 1 – June 15, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $28 / Prize: $1,500 + Publication
BkMk Press & New Letters — Awards / Due: May 18, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $24 / Prize: $2,500 + Publication
Black Lawrence Press — The Hudson Prize / Due: March 31, 2021 / Poetry, Short Stories / Fee: $25 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
BlazeVOX / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction
Bellevue Literary Press / Open: April 30, 2021 / Fiction and Short Story Collections by Black Women Writers
BOA Editions — Short Fiction Prize / April 1 – May 31, 2021 / Fiction / Fee: $25 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
Bridge Eight — Fiction Prize / Due: March 31, 2021 / Fiction / Fee: $20 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
Cider Press Review Editor’s Prize Book Award / April 1 – June 30, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $26 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
co•im•press / Now / Translations
Cooper Dillon Books / Year-Round / Poetry / Fee: $10 or Buy a Book
Counterpath Press / Year-Round / Queries
Damaged Goods Press / Now / Poetry, Essays, and Hybrid Writing from Queer and Trans Writers
Deep Vellum Publishing / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Translations
Diode Editions — Full-Length Book Contest / Due: August 30, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $20 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
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
El Balazo Press / Now / All Genres
The Elephants / May 1 – June 30, 2021 / All Genres / $15 with Free Book
Elixir Press – Antivenom Poetry Award / Due: March 31, 2021 / First or Second Books of Poetry / Fee: $30 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judge: Kirun Kapur
Four Way Books – Levis Prize in Poetry / Due: March 31, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $30 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judge: Kaveh Akbar
Gaudy Boy — The Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize / Due: May 15, 2021 / Poetry by a Writer of Asian Heritage Residing Anywhere in the World / Fee: $10 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judge: Dorothy Wang
Ghost Peach Press/ Due: May 1, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $22 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judge: Chen Chen
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 – Poetry Prize / Due: May 31, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $25
Hub City Press – New Southern Voices Poetry Book Prize / Due: April 15, 2021 / Poetry from Poets Residing in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia or West Virginia / Fee: $25 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judge: Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Inlandia Books — Hillary Gravendyk Prize / Due: April 30, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $20 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judges: Margaret Ronda + Megan Gravendyk Estrella
Inside the Castle / Due: March 31, 2021 / Poetry, Prose
The Journal – Non/Fiction Collection Prize / Due: March 21, 2021 / Fiction, Novellas, Nonfiction, Mixed-Genre Prose / Fee: $23 ($11 for BIPOC Writers) / Prize: $1,500 + Publication / Judge: Nick White
Kent State University Press – Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize / Due: May 1, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $27 / Prize: $2,500 + Publication
Kernpunkt Press / Year-Round / Novels, Novellas / Fee: $10
Kiddiepunk / Year-Round / Zines and Books Centered Around Childhood
Los Galesburg / Due: August 31, 2021 / Novellas / Fee: $20
Lynx House Press – Blue Lynx Prize for Poetry / Due: June 15, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $28 / Prize: $2,000 + Publication
Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize / Due: April 30, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $25 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication + $100 Duotrope Gift Certificate / Judge: David Lehman
Metatron/ Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Milk Press / Year-Round / Collaborative Poetry, Visual Art / Fee: $12
Milk and Cake Press / Due: April 30, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $25
Milkweed Editions – Max Ritvo Poetry Prize / April 1 – May 31, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $25 / Prize: $10,000 + Publication / Judge: Henri Cole
National Poetry Series / Due: 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 Fiction Prize / Due: June 15, 2021 / Fiction / Fee: $25 / Prize: $1,500 + Publication / Judge: Kristen Arnett
New Rivers Press / Due: March 31, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
New Rivers Press – Nonfiction / May 1 – June 30, 2021 / Nonfiction
Noemi Press Book Awards / Due: May 1, 2021 / Poetry, Prose / Fee: $25 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
OOMPH! Press / Now / Poetry in Translation, Short Prose in Translation
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
strong>Parlor Press – New Measure Poetry Prize / Due: June 1, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $28 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judge: Brenda Hillman
Permafrost Book Prize in Fiction / Due: March 16, 2021 / Fiction / Fee: $20 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
Persea Books – Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award / Due: 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
Prairie Schooner — Raz-Shumaker Book Prizes / Due: March 15, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction / Fee: $25 / Prize: $3,000 and publication
Punctum Books / Now / Proposals for Unconventional Scholarly Work
Red Hen Press / Now / All Genres / Fee: $20
Red Hen Press + Peauxdunque Writers Alliance — Ann Petry Award / Due: July 20, 2021 / Prose by Black Writers / Prize: $3,000 + Publication / Judge: Maurice Carlos Ruffin
Red Hen Press — Nonfiction Award / Due: March 31, 2021 / Nonfiction / Fee: $25 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judge: Deborah Thompson
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
Saturnalia Books — Poetry and Editors Prizes / Due: April 1, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $30 / Prize: $500 (Editors Prize) or $1,500 (Poetry Prize) + Publication / Judge: Sabrina Orah Mark (Poetry Prize)
Snake Nation Press — Poetry and Fiction Awards / Due: March 31, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction / Fee: $25 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
Spuyten Duyvil / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose, Cross-Genre
Switchback Books — Gatewood Prize / Due: March 31, 2021 / First and Second Books of Poetry by Women / Fee: $20 (or $28 with Book) / Judge: Joy Priest
Texas Review Press – The Clay Reynolds Novella Prize / Due: March 31, 2021 / Novella / Fee: $20 / Prize: $500 + Publication / Judge: Leslie Jill Patterson
Texas Review Press – The Sabine Series in Literature / April 1 – May 1, 2021 / Poetry and Fiction from Writers Born or Working in Eastern Texas and/or Louisiana
Tolsun Books / March 1 – May 31, 2021 / Poetry, Short Stories, Essays, Translations, Hybrid / $15
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 / $1,000 + publication
Tupelo Press — The Berkshire Prize for a First or Second Book of Poetry / Due: May 1, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $30 / Prize: $3,000 + Publication / Judge: Victoria Chang
Two Dollar Radio / Now / Fiction / Fee: $3
Two Lines Press / Now / Novels and Short Story Collections in Translation
University of Akron Press — Akron Poetry Prize / April 15 – June 15, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $25 / Prize: $1,500 + Publication / Judge: Erika Meitner
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
University of Iowa Press — Iowa Poetry Prize / April 1 – 30, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $20
University of New Orleans Press – Publishing Lab Prize / Due: August 31, 2021 / Novels, Short Story Collections / Fee: $28 / Prize: $10,000 + Publication
University of North Texas Press – Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction / May 1 – June 30, 2021 / Fee: $25 / Short Story Collections / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
University of Pittsburgh Press – Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize / Due: April 30, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $25 / Prize: $5,000 + Publication
University of Pittsburgh Press – Drue Heinz Literature Prize / May 1 – June 30, 2021 / Short Story Collections / Fee: $25 / Prize: $15,000 + Publication
University of Utah Press – Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry / Due: April 15, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $25 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication + Reading at University of Utah / Judge: Matthew Olzmann
Veliz Books / March 5 – May 5, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Translations / Fee: $25
YesYes Books / Due: June 15, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction / Fee: $20 / Prize: $1,500 + Publication
Zone 3 Press – Creative Nonfiction Book Award / Due: 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
Black Lawrence Press – The Spring Black River Chapbook Competition / April 1 – May 31, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction / Fee: $15
Bull City Press / May 15 – June 15, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
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 / Due: 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
Driftwood Press – Adrift Chapbook Series / Due: July 1, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $12 / Prize: $500 + Publication / Judge: Traci Brimhall
Francis House / Now / Poetry, Chaplets, Zines / Fee: $10 (Chapbooks), $5 (Chaplets, Zines)
Frontier Poetry – Chapbook Contest / March 15 – May 16, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $20 / Prize: $2,000 + Publication / Judge: Kazim Ali
GASHER Journal / Due: March 31, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $10
Ghost Proposal — Chapbook Contest / May 1 – July 31, 2021 / Hybrid, Cross-Genre, Multi-Genre, and Post-Genre
Green Linden Press / Due: March 21, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $12
Greying Ghost Press- Pamphlet and Art Zine Submissions / Now / Nonfiction, Art
Headmistress Press – Charlotte Mew Chapbook Contest / May 4 – July 4, 2021 / Poetry by Lesbians / Fee: $10-$20 / Prize: $300 + Publication
Homebound Publications – Little Bound Books / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction
Iron Horse Review – Poetry Chapbook Competition/ Due: March 15, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $15 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication as an Issue of Iron Horse Review
Lillet Press / Due: May 1, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Hybrid, Comics, Sketch/Comedy Scripts
Litmus Press / Now / Proposals for Translations
The Massachusetts Review — Working Titles / Year-Round (Send by Mail from May 1 – October 1, 2021) / Prose, Interactive / Fee: $3
Milk and Cake Press / Due: April 30, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $10
Newfound Prose Prize / Due: March 15, 2021 / Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $15 / Prize: $500 + Publication / Judge: Hanif Abdurraqib
New Michigan Press/DIAGRAM Chapbook Contest / Due: April 30, 2021 / Poetry, Prose / Fee: $20 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
Omnidawn Poetry Chapbook Contest / May 1 – June 14, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $18 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judge: Rae Armantrout
Overcup Press / Year-Round / Nonfiction, Art and Culture
Oversound Chapbook Prize / Due: April 30, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $18 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judge: Timothy Donnelly
Oxidant | Engine — BoxSet Series / April 1 – June 1, 2021 / Poetry
PANK / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid / Fee: $12
Pitymilk Press / Due: May 31, 2021 / Poetry, Poetic Prose, Essays
Split/Lip Press — Chapbook Prize / April 1 – June 1, 2021 / Nonfiction, Hybrid / Fee: $10 / Prize: $250 + Publication / Judge: Jenny Boully
Sutra Press / Due: April 30, 2021 / Poetry, Essay, Cross-Genre, Hybrid, Experiments / Prize: $200 + Publication
Texas Review Press — Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize / Due: March 31, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $20 / Prize: $500 + Publication by Texas Review Press / Judge: Benjamin Garcia
Throwback Books / Now / Novelettes
Tolsun Books / March 1 – May 31, 2021 / Poetry, Short Stories, Essays, Translations, Hybrid / $10
Verse – Tomaž Šalamun Prize / Due: March 16, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $16 ($12 for Students) / Prize: $500 + Publication with Factory Hollow Press + 1-Month Residency in Ljubljana, Slovenia / Judge: Sawako Nakayasu
Tusculum Review Poetry Chapbook Prize / Due: April 1, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $15 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication in Tusculum Review / Judge: Amy H. Sturgis
Yemassee Chapbook Contests / Due: April 15, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction / Fee: $18 / Prize: $1,250 + Publication / Judges: Dustin Pearson (Poetry), Mira T Lee (Fiction)
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 / May 1 – September 1, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
The Acentos Review / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Translation, Cross-Genre, Art
The Adroit Journal / Open: April, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Art
After the Art / Year-Round / Personal Review Essays about Reading and Art
After Happy Hour Review / Open: April 1, 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
Always Crashing / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Collage, Video, Audio, Hybrid, Other
American Poetry Review / Now / Poetry, Nonfiction, Reviews, Interviews / Fee: $3
American Poetry Review — Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize / Due: May 16, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $15 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
Anatolios Magazine / Due: March 31, 2021 / Poetry, Prose, Art, Photography, Particularly Work by Marginalized Creators
Angime / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Art, Translations
Another Chicago Magazine / Now / Drama, Reviews, Interviews, Audiovisual
Anthropocene/ Due: April 1, 2021 / Poetry
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
Apartment Poetry / Now / Poetry
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 — C.D. Wright Emerging Poet’s Prize / Due: April 9, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $20 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judge: Jericho Brown
Arts & Letters — Prizes / Due: March 31, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $20 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judges: Romeo Oriogun (Poetry), Novuyo Rosa Tshuma (Fiction), Kristi Coulter (Nonfiction)
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
Atticus Review / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction, Nonfiction About Songs
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
Bat City Review — Editors’ Prize Contest / March 5 – April 5, 2021 / Poetry, Prose, Hybrid/Visual / Fee: $5 / Prize: $500 + Publication
Bayou Magazine / Due: May 1, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
Bear Review / Now / Poetry / Fee: $3
beestung / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, and Art from Non-Binary and Two-Spirit Writers and Artists
Beloit Poetry Journal — Adrienne Rich Award for Poetry / Due: April 30, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $15 / Prize: $1,500 + Publication / Judge: Natasha Tretheway
Bending Genres / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Microreviews
Bennington Review / Due: May 8, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Writing on Film, Cross-Genre
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
Birdfeast / Year-Round / All Genres
Biscuit Root Drive / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
Black Sun Lit — digital vestiges / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Translation, Drama, Art, Fragments, Ephemera
Black Warrior Review / Now / Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction, Translations, Cross-Genre, Art / Fee: $3 (Nonfiction; Free for Black and Indigenous Writers)
Black Warrior Review — Contest / April 1 – September 1, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash / Fee: $15 ($6 for Flash) / Prize: $1,000 ($500 for flash) + Publication
Blood Orange Review / Due: April 1, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $3
Blue Earth Review / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
Bodega Magazine / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
The Boiler / May 15 – August 15, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
The Bookends Review / Open: May 1, 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
Boston Accent / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
Boulevard / Due: May 1, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $3
Boulevard — Poetry Contest for Emerging Poets / Due: June 1, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $16 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
Breakwater Review/ Now / Poetry, Prose / Fee: $3
Breakwater Review — The Peseroff Prize Poetry Contest/ Due: April 15, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $10 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judge: Chen Chen
Bridge Eight / Now / Interviews, Reviews
Broadsided Press / Now / Poetry, Prose / Fee: $3
Burrow Press Review / Now / Prose
Burrow Press Review — The Great Indoors / Due: May 15, 2021 / Poetry
Cabildo Quarterly / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction
Cagibi / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Translations, Interviews
CALAMITY / Year-Round / Poetry, Art
Callaloo / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction and Art by Black Authors
Call Me [Brackets] / Due: April 1, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
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
Causeway Lit — Spring Contests / Due: March 31, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $3 / Prize: $50 + Publication
The Centifictionist / Year-Round / Microfiction / Fee: $3
Cheat River Review / Due: April 9, 2021 / Poetry, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction, Art
Chestnut Review / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction, Hybrid, Art, Photography / Fee: $5 (4-6 Poems, Fiction, and Nonfiction)
Chestnut Review — Stubborn Writers Contest / Due: April 30, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction / Fee: $20 / Prize: $500 + Publication / Judges: Dorothy Chan Poetry), Cathy Ulrich (Fiction and Flash Fiction)
The Cincinnati Review / Year-Round / Flash Fiction
Clade Song / Year-Round / Poetry, Flash Fiction, Audio, Video
Coal Hill Review / Year-Round / Reviews
Coast|noCoast / Due: March 31, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction, Hybrid
Colorado Review / Due: April 30, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction (Year-Round), Reviews (Year-Round) / Fee: $3 (Reviews Free)
Columbia Review / Due: April 1, 2021 / 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
Construction Magazine / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Border and Architecture Columns
The Continental Review / Year-Round / Video Poetry
Contra Viento / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid and Art About Rangelands and the West
Cordite Poetry Review / Due: May 9, 2021 / Poetry
The Cortland Review / Now / Poetry, Translations, Review Queries
Cosmonauts Avenue / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Cotton Xenomorph / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Art
Court Green / Due: June 1, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $3
CRAFT / Year-Round / Fiction, Flash Fiction, Craft Essays, Interviews, Reviews, Annotations
Crazyhorse / Due: May 31, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Cream City Review / Due: April 1, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction, Hybrid, Art
CutBank / Now / Interviews, Reviews, Art
ctrl+v / Due: March 16, 2021 / Poetry Collage, Collage (Analog, Digital, Sound, Video, and More)
Dead Alive Magazine / Now / Cross-Genre, Experimental, Multimedia
Death Rattle/Oroboro Lit Journal / Due: May 3, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Comics
Denver Quarterly / Due: March 3, 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
Drizzle Review / Year-Round / Essays, Interviews, and Reviews Focusing on Marginalized Writers
EcoTheo Review / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose, Interviews, Reviews, Art
EKL Review / Due: March 15, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
El Balazo Press / Now / Poetry, Short Fiction, Essays
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: $5
Exhume Magazine / April 1 – June 30, 2021 / Poetry, Prose, Drama, and Visual Art
Fairy Tale Review / March 6 – July 6, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Translations, Drama, Graphic Novels, Comics, 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
Figure 1 / Year-Round / Poetry
FIVE:2:ONE / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
FIVE:2:ONE — #thesideshow / Year-Round / Micro Poetry, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
The Florida Review / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction Graphic Narrative, Reviews, Art / Fee: $2 (for Aquifer Online) $3 (for Print)
The Florida Review — Editors’ Awards / Due: April 16, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $25 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
Foglifter / Due: May 1, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, and Art from Queer Artists
Fonograf Editions / May 1 – 31, 2021 / Poetry, Nonfiction, Translation, Cross-Genre / Fee: $2
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 / Due: June 15, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Visual Art
Free State Review / Due: May 1, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction (Due: August 1, 2021), Nonfiction (Due: July 1, 2021), One-Minute Plays (Due: June 1, 2021) / Fee: $3
F(r)iction / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $2.50
Fugue / Due: May 1, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $3
Fugue — Prose and Poetry Contests / Due: April 1, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $15 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judges: Leila Chatti (Poetry), Eloghosa Osunde (Prose)
Full Stop / Now / Nonfiction, Reviews, Interviews, Cultural Criticism
GASHER Journal / Due: April 15 – June 15, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
The Georgia Review / Due: May 15, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Reviews, Art / Fee: $3
The Georgia Review — The Loraine Williams Poetry Prize / Due: May 1, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $15 / Prize: $1,500 + Publication / Judge: Arthur Sze
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 / Due: April 1, 2021 / Poetry, Visual Poetry, Essays, Cross-Genre, Post-Genre
Gigantic Sequins / Now / Art, Comics
Glint / Due: April 30, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Book Reviews, Visual 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 / Due: April 29, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $2
Grimoire Magazine / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art, Interviews, Dreams, Dead Letters, Séances
Guernica / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Gulf Coast / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Interviews, Reviews, Translations of Poetry, Art, Critical Art Writing / Fee: $3
Gulf Coast — Prizes / Due: April 15, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $23 / Prize: $1,500 + Publication / Judges: Natalie Diaz (Poetry), Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (Fiction), Kiese Laymon (Nonfiction)
Half Mystic / Due: May 18, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid and Drama Pertaining to Music
Harbor Review / Due: April 30, 2021 / Poetry, Art
The Harpoon Review / Now / All Genres
Hayden’s Ferry Review / Due: April 30, 2021 / Nonfiction, Art (Year-Round) / Fee: $3 (Waived for Black Writers/Artists)
Hayden’s Ferry Review — Inaugural Contest in Poetry / Due: March 31, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $12 / Prize: $750 + Publication / Judge: Jari Bradley
Heavy Feather Review – The Future, Side A, Flavortown USA, Bad Survivalist, Haunted Passages, and #NoMorePresidents / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Journalism, Comics, Hybrid
Heavy Feather Review – The Zachary Doss Friends in Letters Memorial Fellowship / Due: May 31, 2021 / Collaborative Portfolios in Any Genre / Prize: $50 + Publication
Hinchas de Poesía / Due: June 1, 2021 / Poetry, Prose, Translations, Reviews, Art
Honey Literary / Due: 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
The Hunger / Due: May 1, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Art
The Hunger — Spring Prose Contest / Due: May 1, 2021 / Prose / Fee: $5 / Prize: $100 + Publication / Judge: Jackson Bliss
Hunger Mountain — Contests / Due: March 8, 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)
Identity Theory / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
The Ilanot Review — Ephemera(l) / May 1 – June 30, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Art / Fee: $3 (Free until May 14, 2021)
Inch / April 15 – May 15, 2021 / Poetry, Flash Fiction, Flash Nonfiction
Indiana Review / Due: March 31, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Translations, Art
Indianapolis Review / Now / Poetry, Visual Poetry, Art
indicia / Due: March 31, 2021 / Poetry, Prose, Art (Year-Round)
Inkwell Literary Magazine / Due: March 15, 2021 / Poetry, Prose
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 / March 26 – June 26, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Reviews, Art
Iron Horse Literary Review / Due: March 15, 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 / Fiction, Flash Fiction
Josephine Quarterly / Due: March 31, 2021 / Poetry, Art (Year-Round)
The Journal / Year-Round / Fiction, Nonfiction, Interviews, Reviews, 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
Kartika Review / Now / Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction from Asian Pacific Islander American Writers
K’in / Due: March 31, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Kissing Dynamite / March, April, and May 1 – 7, 2021 / Poetry, Visual Poetry
Kithe / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction, Hybrid, Art / Fee: $3
Kweli Journal / Due: May 30, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, and Multimedia from Writers of Color
Lammergeier / April 1 – May 30, 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
Ligeia Magazine / Due: March 15, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Reviews, Art, Photography
LIT / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Translations, Reviews, Art
The Liminal Review / Due: May 31, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Art
Litbreak / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Reviews / Fee: $3
Long Long Journal / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose
Los Angeles Review / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Translations / Fee: $3
Los Angeles Review — Summer Literary Awards / Due: June 30, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judges: Francesca Bell (Poetry), Reema Rajbanshi (Short Fiction), Lara Ehrlich (Flash Fiction), Beth Gilstrap (Creative Nonfiction)
Lumiere Review / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose, Art
Lumiere Review — Party Time / Due: March 15, 2021 / Poetry, Prose
Lunch Ticket / Now / Art
MAGfest Mages Library Blog / Year-Round / Nonfiction About Video Games
Mammouth Poetry / Now / Poetry
The Mantle / Year-Round / Poetry
The Margins / Now / Poetry, Interviews, Reviews, and Craft Essays from Asian American Writers
Masque & Spectacle / May 1 – July 31, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Drama, Reviews, Art, Video, Sound
The Massachusetts Review / Due: May 1, 2021 (Year-Round for BIPOC Writers) / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Translations (Year-Round) / Fee: $3
Matador Review / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Visual Art
Matter Monthly / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose
Maudlin House / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction
Memoir Mixtapes/ Now / Poetry and Nonfiction about Music
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 / Due: April 1, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Interviews, Reviews / Fee: $3
Minola Review / Now / Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction from Women and Non-Binary Writers
Minor Literatures / Year-Round / Interviews, Reviews
Miracle Monocle — Perspectives: A Miracle Monocle Visual Art Competition / Due: March 19, 2021 / Art / Prize: $200 + Publication
Mizna / Due: April 4, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, and Comics Relevant to the Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) Region and SWANA American Community
Modern Poetry in Translation / Now / Poetry Translations
Modern Poetry in Translation — Mexico / Due: April 16, 2021 / Translations of Poetry Written by Mexican Poets
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
Mount Island / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction, Hybrid, Art
the museum of americana / April 1 – 30, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash, Humor, Interviews, Reviews, Photography, Music, Art
A NEON GARDEN / Year-Round / Prose Poetry, Fiction, Craft Essays, Interviews, Reviews, Art / Fee: $5
New Delta Review / Due: May 31, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Reviews, Interviews, Hybrid, Translations Art, Digital Media / Fee: $3 (Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction Only; Free for Incarcerated Writers)
New Delta Review — Experimental Nonfiction Contest / Due: March 29, 2021 / Nonfiction, Hybrid / Fee: $7 / Prize: $200 + Publication / Judge: Candice Wuehle
New Ohio Review — Contest / Due: April 15, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $22 / Prize: $1,500 + Publication / Judges: Diane Seuss (Poetry), Anthony Marra (Fiction), Jerald Walker (Nonfiction)
New Orleans Review / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Reviews / Fee: $3
New Plains Review / Due: March 15, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $3
New Poetry in Translation / Year-Round / Poetry in Translation
New Session / Due: June 1, 2021 / Poetry, Flash Fiction, Flash Nonfiction, Hybrid, Interviews, Reviews, Art
new sinews / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction
New South / Due: March 31, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Essays, Reviews
New South — Contests / Due: April 1, 2021 / Poetry, Prose / Fee: $9 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judges: Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach (Poetry), EJ Koh (Prose)
Night Music Journal / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose, Hybrid, Reviews
Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry — Literary Awards / Due: April 2, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction / Fee: $23 / Prize: $2,000 + Publication / Judges: Geffrey Davis (Poetry), Rilla Askew (Fiction)
Ninth Letter / Due: April 5, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
No Contact / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Art
Non-stalgia: A Fiction Anthology / Due: July 1, 2021 / Fiction
The Northridge Review / Due: April 9, 2021 / Poetry, Prose, Drama, Art
NUNUM / Due: March 22, 2021 / Flash Fiction, Art / Fee: $3 (Flash Fiction is Free Until March 7, 2021)
The Ocotillo Review / Due: March 31, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $3
Off Assignment / Year-Round / Year-Round / Essays, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction
The Offing / Now / Nonfiction, Art, Science Writing
Okay Donkey Magazine / Now / Poetry, Flash Fiction
OOMPH! Press / Now / Poetry in Translation, Short Prose in Translation, Original Poetry in English, Original Short Prose in English, Recipes in Translation, Recipes in English
The Operating System / Now / Field Notes, Conversations
Orca: A Literary Journal / Due: May 15, 2021 / Fiction, Flash Fiction, Speculative Fiction
Oregon Humanities Magazine — Climate / Due: April 11, 2021 / Nonfiction from Writers with Strong Ties to Oregon
Oregon Humanities Magazine — Possession / Due: March 26, 2021 / Art from Artists with Strong Ties to Oregon
Oxbow Magazine / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Art
Oxford American / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $3
Oxidant | Engine / Year-Round / Poetry
Oyez Review / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Art (Due: March 15, 2021)
Oyster River Pages / Due: May 31, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
Oyster River Pages — Emerging Voices in Fiction and Poetry / Due: May 31, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction
Pacifica Literary Review / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $3
Pangyrus / Due: April 14, 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; May 1 – September 10, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Art, Photography
Parhelion Literary Magazine / Now / Featured Articles, Reviews
Passages North / Due: April 15, 2021 / Poetry, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction, Hybrid
Passages North — Poetry and Nonfiction Prizes / Due: April 16, 2021 / Poetry, Nonfiction / Fee: $15 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judges: Kevin Latimer (Poetry), Natalie Lima (Nonfiction)
Peatsmoke: A Literary Journal / Year-Round / All Genres
Permafrost Magazine / Due: May 16, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Art (Year-Round)
Phantom Drift/ Due: April 30, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art / Fee: $3
Phoebe — Contests / Due: March 15, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $7 / Prize: $500 + Publication / Judges: Sabrina Orah Mark (Poetry), Danielle Evans (Fiction), Lilly Dancyger (Nonfiction)
‘Pider / Now / Poetry
Pidgeonholes / March, April, and May 1 – 10, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
Pigeon Pages / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $5
Pigeon Pages — Fiction Contest / Due: April 15, 2021 / Fiction / Fee: $10 / Prize: $250 + Publication / Judge: C Pam Zhang
The Pinch / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction, Art / Fee: $2-3
The Pinch — Literary Awards / Due: March 31, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction / Fee: $20 / Prize: $2,000 + Publication / Judges: Catherine Pierce (Poetry), Dianca London Potts (Fiction)
Pine Hills Review / Due: April 30, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid
Pine Hills Review — F*ck 2020 / Due: March 16, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid
Pithead Chapel / Year-Round / Prose Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Plath Poetry Project / Now / Prose Related to Sylvia Plath’s Work
Pollux Journal / Due: April 30, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction, Hybrid, Art, Anything Else that is Multilingual or about Multilinguality
Poets Reading the News / Year-Round / Poetry About Current Events
Poetry Northwest / Year-Round / Prose
Poetry Northwest — James Welch Prize for Indigenous Writers / Due: March 15, 2021 / Poetry from Indigenous Writers / Judge: Sherwin Bitsui
Poetry Online / Due: March 30, 2021 / Poetry, Visual Poetry, Cine-Poetry, Art
Poetry Online — Launch Prize / Due: April 1, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $12 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judge: torrin a. greathouse
Porridge Magazine / April 1 – 30, 2021 / Poetry, Prose, Art
Posit / Due: May 31, 2021 / Poetry, Prose, Art, Video, Animation (Art, Video, and Animation are Open Year-Round)
Prelude / Now / Poetry, Nonfiction / Fee: $3 (Poetry Only)
Prism Review / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose, Flash Prose / Fee: $2
Puerto del Sol/ Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Visual Art
Puerto del Sol – Black Voices Series / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Multimedia
Puerto del Sol — Voz Series/ Now / Poetry and Prose in Spanish
Q/A Poetry / Year-Round / Poetry by Womxn and Nonbinary Poets
Queer Southeast Asia / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose, Hybrid, Interviews, Reviews, Art
Quarterly West / Due: May 1, 2021 / Poetry, Prose, Translations, New Media, Reviews
Quarterly West — 100 Syllables / Due: April 15, 2021 / Work Totaling No More Than 100 Syllables (Excluding Title)
Raconteur / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Illustrations
Radar Poetry / Due: May 1, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $3
Random Sample Review/ Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction, Art
Raspa Magazine / Now / 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
RHINO / Due: June 30, 2021 / Poetry, Flash Fiction, Flash Nonfiction
Rise Up Review / Open: April 1, 2021 / Poetry, Nonfiction
River Styx / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Short Plays / Fee: $3
Rougarou / Due: April 30, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
Rougarou — Fabulist/Speculative Fiction Contest / Due: May 31, 2021 / Fabulist Fiction, Speculative Fiction / Fee: $12 / Prize: $500 + Publication / Judge: Christopher Barzak
Ruminate / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction, Reviews, Art
Ruminate — Janet B. McCabe Poetry Prize / Due: May 4, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $20 / Prize: $1,500 + Publication / Judge: Matthew Olzmann
Salamander Magazine / Due: April 1, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Salt Hill — Philip Booth Poetry Prize / Due: March 16, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $10 / Prize: $500 + Publication / Judge: Matt Rasmussen
Samovar / Now / Speculative Poetry and Short Fiction in Translation
SAND Literature and Art / March 20 – April 10, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Hybrid, Art, Translations
Santa Fe Writers Project Quarterly / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction, Interviews, Reviews
Santa Fe Writers Project Quarterly — Ownership / Due: May 31, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Comics, and Hybrid Genres from Disabled 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
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 / Due: March 15, 2021 / Poetry, Nonfiction
Shirley Magazine / Now / Flash Fiction
The Shore / April 1 – May 31, 2021 / Poetry
Sidereal Magazine / Due: April 1, 2021; May 1 – September 1, 2021 / Poetry, Nonfiction
Sinister Wisdom / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction and Art by Lesbians
Sinister Wisdom — Trans/Feminisms / Due: April 15, 2021 / Work in English or Spanish from Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, Genderfluid, Two-Spirit, Gender Nonconforming, and Intersex Writers and Artists
Sixth Finch / Due: April 6, 2021 / Poetry, Art
Sleepingfish / Year-Round / Fiction, Flash Fiction, Flash Nonfiction, Hybrid, Art, Music, Video and Multimedia by Anon/Pseudonymous Writers
Slouching Beast Journal / Year-Round / Poetry, Flash Fiction, Hybrid
Smartish Pace / Now / Poetry, Translations, Interviews, Reviews
SmokeLong Quarterly / Year-Round / Flash Fiction (English, French, German, and by Children), Artwork
SmokeLong Quarterly — Grand Micro Contest / Due: May 16, 2021 / Micros (<400 Words) / Fee: $6 / Prize: $1,500 + Publication
Solstice / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Graphic Narrative, Translations / Fee: $3
Sorority Mansion / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction and Art by Women
So to Speak / Due: April 10, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
South Broadway Ghost Society / Due: March 27, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art, Reviews
South Dakota Review / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Translation
The Southeast Review / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Interviews (Free) / Fee: $3 (Submission Fee Waived for Incarcerated Writers)
Southern Humanities Review / Due: March 14, 2021 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Reviews / Fee: $3
Speculative Nonfiction / Due: March 15, 2021 / Nonfiction / Fee: $3
Split Lip Magazine / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Memoir, Art / Fee: $3 (Free in March and May; Free for Black Writers Year-Round)
Split Lip Magazine — Summertime / Due: June 15, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction, and Art from Black Writers and Artists / Editor: Tyrese L. Coleman
Spoon River Poetry Review — Editors’ Prize Contest / Due: April 15, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $20 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judge: TBD
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: April 15, 2021 / Prose Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, and Art by Black and 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
Stirring: A Literary Collection / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Reviews, Art
Stori / Year-Round / Prose Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Memoir
Storm Cellar / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash, Images
Storm Cellar — Force Majeure Flash Contest / Due: April 30, 2021 / Flash / Fee: $5 / Prize: $300 + Publication
Strange Horizons / Year-Round / Speculative Poetry and Short Fiction
Sunspot Literary Journal — Geminga / Due: March 31, 2021 / Tiny Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, and Art / Fee: $6 / 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: A Literary Confection / April 1 – July 31, 2021 / Poetry, Nonfiction, Graphic Nonfiction (Year-Round)
Sweet Tree Review / Due: March 21, 2021 / 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
Tahoma Literary Review / Due: March 15, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction / Fee: $4-5
The Talking Book / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Comics, Audio
Tammy / Due: June 1, 2021 / All Genres / Fee: $3
Territory — Cursed / Due: March 15, 2021 All Genres
The Texas Review / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Flash Creative Nonfiction, Cross-Genre, Comics, Plays, Interviews, Reviews
ThimblelitMag / Due: March 31, 2021; May 1 – 30, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
Thin Air Magazine / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Art
thread arts collective / Now / Poetry, Prose, Art
Threadcount Magazine / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid
Thrush / Year-Round / Poetry
The Tiger Moth Review / Due: April 30, 2021 / Poetry, Prose, Art, Photography
Tilted House / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Essays, Plays, Reviews, Art, Film
TIMBER / Due: May 1, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Visual Poetry
trampset / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $3
Transition / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Interviews, and Art about Africa and the African Diaspora
TriQuarterly / Due: May 31, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Craft Essays, Interviews, Video Essays, Cinepoetry
Tupelo Quarterly / Now / Reviews
Two Lines / Now / Translations of Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction
Unbroken Journal / Due: March 20, 2021; May 1 – June 15, 2021 / Prose Poems, Poetic Prose
Under a Warm Green Linden / Year-Round / Poetry, Interviews, Reviews / Fee: $3 (Free for Interviews and Reviews)
Underblong Journal — the blongprize / Due: March 15, 2021 / Poetry / Prize: $150 + Publication
Untoward / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $3
Up North Lit / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
Ursus Americanus Press – Landfill / Now / Poetry
Vagabond City / Year-Round / Poetry, Nonfiction, Reviews, Art
Variety Pack / April 15 – May 15, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Translation, Hybrid, Reviews, Interviews, Translations, Comics, Art
VIDA: Women in the Literary Arts — The VIDA Review / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Interviews and Reviews
Voicemail Poems / Due: April 1, 2021 / Audio Poetry
Wend Poetry / March 15 – April 30, 2021 / Poetry, Art
Western Humanities Review / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Reviews, Artwork / Fee: $2 (Free for Reviews and Artwork)
Whale Road Review / Now / Reviews, Pedagogy Papers
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 March and April, 2021 / Flash Fiction
Wildness / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Willow Springs / Due: May 31, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction (Year-Round), Translations / Fee: $3
Witness / Due: May 1, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $3
Woodhall Press — Nonwhite and Woman Anthology / Due: April 30, 2021 / Micro Memoir, Micro Essay, Prose Poetry from BIPOC Women (cis/trans)
The Woven Tale Press / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Video, Sound, Art
Yalobusha Review / Due: May 31, 2021 / Fiction
Yalobusha Review — Yellowwood Poetry Prize / Due: March 31, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $3 / Prize: $500 + Publication / Judge: Matthew Olzmann
Yellow Medicine Review: A Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art, and Thought / Due: April 1, 2021 / All Genres from Indigenous Creators / Guest Editor: Zibiquah, aka Ruth Denny
Yes Poetry / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Reviews, Interviews
Zone 3 / Due: April 1, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $3 (Free for BIPOC Writers)
Fellowships:
Academy of American Poets — Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize / Due: May 15, 2021 / Books of Poetry Published in 2019 / Fee: $75 / Prize: $25,000
AWP — The Kurt Brown Prizes / Due: March 30, 2021 / Prize: $500
Hodson Trust – John Carter Brown Fellowship / Due: March 15, 2021 / Projects Relating to the Literature, History, Culture, or Art of the Americas Before 1830 / Residency: 2 Months at Brown University + $20,000
James Jones First Novel Fellowship / Due: March 15, 2021 / Fee: $33 / Prize: $10,000
Jentel Writing and Visual Arts Residencies / Due: September 15, 2021 / Fee: $30 / Residency: 1 Month Near Bighorn Mountains, WY + $400/Month
Juniper Summer Institute — Young Writers Online / Due: May 17, 2021 /
The Kerouac Project / Due: 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
Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts / April 1 – September 1, 2021 / Fee: $35 / Residency: 2-8 Weeks in Nebraska City + $100 per Week
Lighthouse Lit Fest — Workshop Fellowships / Due: March 13, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Memoir, Drama / Fee: $30
MacDowell Colony (Winter/Spring Residencies) / Due: April 15, 2021 / Fee: $30 / Residency: Up to 8 Weeks in Peterborough, NH
Millay Colony / Residency / Due: March 8, 2021 / Fee: $60 / Residency: Up to 1 Month in Austerlitz, NY
National Endowment for the Arts — Prose Fellowship / Due: March 10, 2021 / Prose / Fellowship: $25,000
The Oxford American Jeff Baskin Writers Fellowship / Due: April 8, 2021 / Nonfiction / Fee: $30 / Fellowship: $10,000 + 9 Months in Little Rock, AK
PEN America — Emerging Voices Fellowship / Due: March 17, 2021 / Fee: $24 / Fellowship: $5-Month Immersive Mentorship + $1,000
PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grants / April 1 – June 1, 2021 / Prize: $2,000 – $4,000
Pen Parentis Writing Fellowship For New Parents / Due: April 17, 2021 / Fiction / Fee: $15 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication in Dreamers Creative Writing Magazine + Reading at Pen Parentis Literary Salon in NYC
Sewanee Writers Conference / Due: March 15, 2021 / Conference: July 21 – August 1, 2021 in Sewanee, TN / Conference Fee: $1,800 (Scholarships and Fellowships Available)
Sitka Center for Art and Ecology / Due: March 30, 2021 / Fee: $25 / Residency: Up to 3.5 Months in Rural OR
Tin House Writers Conference — Summer Online Workshop / Due: March 22, 2021 / Fee: $25 / Conference: July 11 – 17, 2021 / Tuition: $800 (Scholarships Available)
Vermont Studio Center / Due: June 15, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Residency: 1 Month in Johnson, VT
