I met someone last week whose book was accepted and about to be published by a press she found on Entropy’s Where to Submit list. It made me so happy to hear that this list has a real effect on real people’s lives. Here’s to everyone who has had a success with a venue they found on this list. Keep at it. You’re why we do this.
This month’s featured artwork, “Savage Mountain,” is by collage artist and performer Emma Zurer. Her website can be found here.
As always, get in touch with Dennis James Sweeney (dennis@entropymag.org) if you’d like to see your venue included on our list. We are particularly excited to hear from women, people of color, people who identify as LGBTQ, and others who are underrepresented in publishing.
A last note: As you search for places to submit your writing, don’t forget the rest of Entropy’s cornucopia of offerings, which includes the Small Press Database, a compendium of small press interviews that has recently reached 115 presses. Do your research, keep writing, and good luck!
Presses:
Academy of American Poets – Walt Whitman Award / Deadline: November 1, 2016 / Poetry / $35 / Prize: $5,000 + Publication with Graywolf Press
Alice James Award / Deadline: November 1, 2016 / Poetry / $30 / Prize: $2,000 + Publication
American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize / Deadline: October 31, 2016 / Poetry / $25 / Prize: $3,000 + Publication / Judge: Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Another New Calligraphy / Now / Music, Books
Ashland Creek Press – Siskiyou Prize for New Environmental Literature / Deadline: September 1, 2016 – December 31, 2016 / Fiction, Nonfiction / $17 / Prize: $1,000 + 4-Week Residency at PLAYA + Publication / Judge: JoeAnn Hart
Bellevue Literary Press / Year-Round / Fiction, Nonfiction
Black Lawrence Press – Open Reading Period / November 1-30, 2016 / All Genres
BlazeVOX / Now / Poetry, Fiction
BOA Editions – A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize / August 1 – November 30, 2016 / Poetry / Prize: $1,500 + Publication / Judge: Brenda Shaughnessy
Brain Mill Press – Fiction Program / Now / Fiction
Brick Road Poetry Press – Book Contest / Deadline: November 1, 2016 / Poetry / $25 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
Burnside Review Press Book Award / August 15 – November 30, 2016 / Poetry / $25 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judge: Ada Limón
Calamari Archive / Now / All Genres
Cider Press Review Book Award / Deadline: September 1 – November 30, 2016 / Poetry / $25 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
co•im•press / Now / Translations
Codhill Press Poetry Award / Deadline: December 10, 2016 / Poetry / $30 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
Cooper Dillon Books / Year-Round / Poetry / $10
Copper Nickel – Jake Adam York Prize / Deadline: October 15, 2016 / Poetry / $25 / Prize: $2,000 + Publication by Milkweed Editions / Judge: Ross Gay
Counterpath Press / Year-Round
Dalkey Archive Press / Re-Opens October 1, 2016 / Fiction
Deep Vellum Publishing / Year-Round / Translations of Fiction and Nonfiction
El Balazo Press / Now / All Genres
Elixir Press Poetry Awards / Deadline: October 31, 2016 / Poetry / $30 / Prize: $2,000 + Publication
Fathom Books / Now / Poetry
Fiction Collective 2 – Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Contest / August 15 – November 1, 2016 / Fiction / $25 / Prize: $1,500 + Publication / Final Judge: Elisabeth Sheffield
Fiction Collective 2 – Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize / August 15 – November 1, 2016 / Fiction from a Writer with at Least Three Books of Fiction Published / $25 / Prize: $15,000 + Publication / Final Judge: Mary Caponegro
Fiction Advocate / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism
Fig Tree Books / Year-Round / Novels and Nonfiction about the American Jewish Experience
Fog Machine / Year-Round / Poetry, Memoir, Essay
Fordham University Press – Poets Out Loud Prize / Deadline: November 15, 2016 / Poetry / $28 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judge: Afaa Michael Weaver
Four Way Books – It’s No Contest / November 15 – December 15, 2016 / Poetry by a NYC Resident
Gauss PDF / Now
H_NGM_N Books / November 1, 2016 – March 15, 2017 / Poetry / $10
Inside the Castle / Now / Prose, Poetry
Iowa Prize in Literary Nonfiction / October 15 – December 10, 2016 / Nonfiction / $10
Jai-Alai Books – Proposals / All Genres that Speak to or from Miami, FL
Jellyfish Highway / Now / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction / $10
Kernpunkt Press / Year-Round / Literary Fiction, Science Fiction, Historical Fiction, Art & Architecture, Children’s Books / $10
Kraken Press / Now / Horror, Dark Fantasy, Weird Fiction
Miami University Press – Miami University Novella Prize / Deadline: October 15, 2016 / Novellas / $25 / Prize: $750 + Publication / Judge: Brian Ascalon Roley
New American Press – New American Poetry Prize / Deadline: January 1, 2017 / Poetry / $22.50 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judge: Jesse Lee Kercheval
New Rivers Press – Many Voices Project / Deadline: September 15 – November 15, 2016 / Poetry, Prose / $25 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
Ohio University Press – Hollis Summers Poetry Prize / Deadline: December 1, 2016 / Poetry / $30 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
Omnidawn Open (Poetry Book Contest) / November 1 – December 31, 2016 / Poetry / $27 / Prize: $3,000 + Publication / Judge: Terrence Hayes
Outpost 19 / Year-Round / Fiction, Nonfiction
Persea Books – Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize / September 1 – October 31, 2016 / First Book of Poetry by an American Woman / $30 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication + 6-Week Residency in Italy
Perugia Press Prize / August 1 – November 15, 2016 / First or Second Book of Poetry by a Woman / $26 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
Platypus Press / Year-Round / Prose, Essays, Poetry
Plays Inverse Press / Now / Plays, Cross-Genre, Performance Lit
Pleiades Press – The Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize for Poetry and the Robert C. Jones Short Prose Contest / Deadline: November 15, 2016 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry / $25 / Prize: $2,000 + Publication / Judges: Jaswinder Bolina (Poetry), Jenny Boully (Prose)
The Press 53 Award for Short Fiction / Deadline: December 31, 2016 / Short Story Collections / $30 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
Red Hen Press – General Submissions / Now / All Genres / $20
River Teeth – Literary Nonfiction Prize / Deadline: October 31, 2016 / Nonfiction / $25 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication with University of New Mexico Press / Judge: Andre Dubus III
Salò Press / Now / Poetry, Prose, Experiments
Shelterbelt Press – Shelterbelt Poetry Prize / Deadline: December 15, 2016 / Poetry, Hybrid, Collaborative / $10 / Prize: $500 + Publication / Judge: Ada Limón
Sidebrow Open Reading Period / Deadline: October 16, 2016 / Reading Fee: Buy a Book from Sidebrow / Prose, Poetry, Fiction, Cross-Genre, Collaborative
Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poetry / September 15 – December 1, 2016 / Poetry by African Writers / Prize: $1,000 + Publication by University of Nebraska Press and Amalion Press in Senegal
Silverfish Review Press – Gerard Cable Book Award / Deadline: October 15, 2016 / Poetry / $25 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
Skylight Press / Now / Fiction, Poetry, Esoteric
Southeast Missouri State University Press – Nilsen Literary Prize / Deadline: November 1, 2016 / Novels, Novellas, Linked Stories / $25 / Prize: $2,000 + Publication
Spurl Editions / Now / Strange Fiction, Translation
Tampa Review Prize for Poetry / Deadline: December 31, 2016 / Poetry / $25 / Prize: $2,000 + Publication
Tarpaulin Sky Press / Deadline: November 30, 2016 / All Genres / $20-30
Tavern Books – Wrolstad Contemporary Poetry Series / October 1, 2016 – January 15, 2017 / Poetry by Women Under 40 / $25
Trembling Pillow Press / Now / Poetry, Poetry Translations, Essays About Poetry / $15
Truman State University Press – T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry / Deadline: October 31, 2016 / Poetry / $25 / Prize: $2,000 + Publication / Judge: Kevin Prufer
Tupelo Press – Dorset Prize / Deadline: December 31, 2016 / Poetry / $28 / Prize: $3,000 + Residency at MASS MoCA + Publication / Judge: Ilya Kaminsky
Tupelo Press / Year-Round / Fiction, Nonfiction / $45
Two Dollar Radio / Now / Fiction / $3
Two Lines Press / Now / Translations of Novels and Short Story Collections
University of North Texas Press – Vassar Miller Prize / Deadline: October 31, 2016 / Poetry / $25 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judge: Geoffrey Brock
Washington Writers Publishing House Book Contests / Deadline: November 15, 2016 / Poetry and Fiction from Writers Near Washington, D.C. / $25 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
Yale Younger Poets Series / Deadline: November 15, 2016 / Poetry / $25 / Judge: Carl Phillips
Chapbooks:
Arcadia – Ruby Irene Poetry Chapbook Contest / Deadline: November 30, 2016 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction / $20 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication as an Issue of Arcadia
Autumn House Press – Coal Hill Review Chapbook Contest / August 1 – November 1, 2016 / Poetry / $20 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judge: Gerry LaFemina
Bateau Press – Boom Chapbook Contest / Deadline: November 30, 2016 / Poetry / $14 / Prize: $250 + Publication
Black Lawrence Press – The Fall Black River Chapbook Competition / September 1 – October 31, 2016 / Poetry, Fiction / $15
Center for Book Arts – Poetry Chapbook Competition / Deadline: December 10, 2016 / Poetry / $25 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judge: Juan Felipe Herrera
Comstock Review Writers’ Group Chapbook Contest / Deadline: October 31, 2016 / Poetry / $30 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
Cooper Dillon Books / Year-Round / Poetry / $10
Damaged Goods Press / Now / Poetry and Flash Fiction from Queer and Trans Writers
Disorder Press / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Art Work, Photography
Eggtooth Editions / Deadline: December 15, 2016 / Poetry, Drama, Fiction, Nonfiction, Comics, Visual Art, Hybrid / $10
elsewhere Prose Chapbook Prise / Deadline: March 1, 2017 / Prose / $17 / Prize: $1,000 + Digital Publication / Judge: Lance Larsen
Fathom Books / Now / Poetry
The Florida Review – Jeanne Leiby Chapbook Award / Deadline: December 30, 2016 / Fiction, Essay, Graphic Narrative / $25 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
H_NGM_N / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose / $5
Moloko House / Now / Poetry, Fiction
Neck Press / Year-Round / Poetry
New Delta Review Chapbook Contest / Deadline: January 1, 2017 / Poetry, Prose, Hybrid / $17 /Prize: $200 + Publication in Spring Issue / Judge: Douglas Kearney
Omnidawn Fabulist Fiction Chapbook Contest / August 1 – October 26, 2016 / $18 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judge: Bradford Morrow
Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowships / Deadline: December 22, 2106 / Poetry / $12 / Prize: $1,000 + Residency at PLAYA / Judges: Cate Marvin, Patrick Rosal, Kyle Dargan, Brenda Shaughnessy
Rose Metal Press Short-Short Chapbook Contest / November 1 – December 1, 2016 / Short-Short Fiction or Nonfiction / Judge: Amelia Gray
Sixth Finch / Deadline: November 1, 2016 / Poetry / $12
Split Lip Magazine – Turnbuckle Chapbook Contest / Deadline: January 15, 2017 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Hybrid / $10 / Prize: $100 + Publication / Judge: Cyn Vargas
Tammy / Year-Round / All Genres / $15
Tupelo Press – Sunken Garden Chapbook Prize / August 1 – October 31, 2016 / $25 / Poetry / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judge: Maggie Smith
Ursus Americanus Press / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose
Yes, Poetry / Now / Poetry, Fiction
Zoo Cake Press / Now / Poetry
Journals & Anthologies:
3:AM / Now / Nonfiction, Poetry, Reviews
3Elements Review / Deadline: October 31, 2016 / Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Art, Photography
32 Poems / Year-Round / Poetry / $3
45th Parallel / October 1, 2016 – March 1, 2017 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Comics
6×6 / Year-Round
92Y Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Contest / Deadline: January 13, 2017 / Poetry / $12 / Prize: $500 + Publication in Boston Review + Reading at 92Y Unterberg Poetry Center / Final Judges: Henri Cole, Douglas Kearney and Monica Youn
A Public Space / Deadline: April 15, 2017 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction
A Quiet Courage / Year-Round / Microfiction and Poetry Under 100 Words
Aaduna / Now / Prose, Poetry, Visual Art
The Acentos Review / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Translation, Cross-Genre, Art
Angel City Review / Deadline: October 31, 2016 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry and Reviews from Writers on the West Coast
Another Chicago Magazine / September 6, 2016 – May 29, 2017 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / $3
APARTMENT Poetry / Year-Round / Poetry
Apricity Press / Deadline: January 1, 2017 / Poetry, Prose, Art, Dance
American Literary Review / October 1, 2016 – May 1, 2017 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Reviews, Art / $3
American Short Fiction / Year-Round / Fiction / $3
Arcadia / Now / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction / $3
Assaracus: A Journal of Gay Poetry / Now / Poetry by Gay Males
Asymptote / Year-Round / Translations of Drama, Fiction, Poetry, and Nonfiction
Atticus Review / Year-Round / Fiction, Flash Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Reviews, Mixed Media
BAX 2018 – Best American Experimental Writing / Deadline: November 1, 2016 / $9 / Guest Editor: Myung Mi Kim
Bayou Magazine / Deadline: May 1, 2017 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction
Beech Street Review / Now / Poetry
Beecher’s Magazine / Deadline: February 10, 2017 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Bennington Review / Deadline: August 15, 2016 – May 15, 2017 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Writing on Film
Birds Piled Loosely / Now / All Genres
Black Scat Review / Now
Black Sun Lit / Year-Round / Prose, Verse, Essays, Translation, Interviews, Drama, Art
Blue Earth Review / Year-Round / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Art
Blue Mesa Review / September 30, 2017 – March 31, 2017 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Art
The Blueshift Journal / Reopens October 1, 2016 / Prose, Poetry, Art / $3
BOAAT / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Photography
Bone Bouquet / Deadline: December 15, 2016 / Reviews, Poetics Statements
Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review / September 15 – December 15, 2016 / Poetry, Art, Reviews, Essays
BORT Quarterly / Now / Poetry
Brain Mill Press – Ab Terra: An International Science Fiction Anthology / Deadline: December 1, 2016 / Science Fiction / Editor: Yen Ooi
Brightly Press – Free Poetry Contest / Deadline: October 31, 2016 / Poetry / Prize: $100 and a Copy of Shake the Tree Volume Two
BULL / Year-Round / Fiction, Nonfiction
Cahoodaloodaling / Deadline: December 17, 2016 / All Genres
CALAMITY / Year-Round / Poetry, Art
Calamus Journal / Year-Round / Flash Fiction, Poetry
Callaloo / Now / Essays, Fiction, Poetry, Art
Candlesticks and Daggers: An Anthology of Mixed-Genre Mysteries / Deadline: November 1, 2016 / Fiction, Poetry
The Cardiff Review / Now / Prose, Poetry, Reviews, Illustrations, Photography, Comics
carte blanche / Deadline: December 31, 2016 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translations, Comics, Photography, Audio
Carve Magazine / Year-Round / Short Stories, Poetry / $3
Cha: An Asian Literary Journal / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Photography
Cheat River Review / Year-Round / Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Art
Cheers from the Wasteland / Now / Writers and Artists with Ties to San Joe, CA
Chronopolis / Now / All Genres
Cloud Rodeo / Year-Round / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
Coldnoon: Travel Poetics / Now / Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction
The Collagist / October 1, 2016 – January 31, 2017 / Fiction, Poetry, Non-fiction, Novel Excerpts
The Collapsar / Now / Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, Reviews
Colorado Review / August 1, 2016 – April 30, 2017 / Fiction, Poetry
con•text / Year-Round / Reviews, Essays
The Continental Review / Year-Round / Video Poetry
Corium Magazine / Year-Round / Short Fiction, Very Short Fiction, Artwork
Cosmonauts Avenue / Now / Poetry, Fiction
Cosmonauts Avenue Poetry Prize / Deadline: November 15, 2016 / Poetry / $10 / Prize: $500 + Publication / Judge: Eileen Myles
The Cossack Review / Reopens October 1, 2016 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Translation
Crab Fat Magazine / Now / Fiction, Flash Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Visual Art, Interviews, Reviews
Crazyhorse / September 1, 2016 December 31, 2016 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction / $3
CutBank / September 15, 2016 – February 1, 2017 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction
decomP Magazine / Year-Round/ Prose, Poetry, Art
Deluge / Year-Round / Poetry, Translations, Essays, Fiction, Reviews, Criticism, Poem-films, Photography, Art
The Destroyer / Now / Poems, Prose, New Media
Devil’s Lake / Now / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction
DIAGRAM / Year-Round / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction
DMQ Review / Now / Poetry
DREGINALD / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose, Art
Dryland / Year-Round / Prose, Poetry, Art
Duende / October 15 – November 30, 2016 / Poetry, Prose, Hybrid, Visual Art
Dulcet Quarterly / August 15 – November 15, 2016 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Art
DUM DUM Zine / Year-Round / Fiction, Letters, Nonfiction, Poetry, Visual Art
El Balazo Press / Now / Poetry, Short Fiction, Essays
ELKE “A Little Journal” / Year-Round / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction
elsewhere / Now / Prose Poetry, Flash Fiction, Photography
Enduring Puberty Press / Now / All Genres
Entropy / Year-Round / Essays, Reviews, Interviews, Fiction, Poetry, More
Fantastic Floridas / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction, Interviews, Conversations, Comics and Visual Art Related to Florida
The Fanzine / Now / Personal Essays, Writing on Film, Other Essays
The Felt / Deadline: October 15, 2016 / Poetry, Prose, Visual Art, Hybrid
The Fem / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Spoken Word, Art
Fiction Advocate / Now / Reviews, Interviews, Essays
Fire Poetry / Now / Poetry
Flag + Void / Year-Round / Poetry, Art
Fog / Now / Poetry, Interviews
Foundry / Year-Round / Poetry
Fourteen Hills / September 1 – December 1, 2016 / Fiction, Flash Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Cross Genre / $2
Fourth and Sycamore / Now / Essays, Poetry, Fiction
Fourth Genre / August 15 – November 30, 2016 / Nonfiction / $2
The Florida Review / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Graphic Narrative, Visual Art / $3
Free State Review / Now / Poetry, Prose, Personal Essays, One-Minute Plays / $3
F[r]iction / Year-Round / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Comics
Fuck Art, Let’s Dance / Deadline: October 31, 2016 / Poetry, Nonfiction, Flash Fiction, Art, Memes, Mixed Media, Translation, Projects
Fugue / September 1, 2016 – May 1, 2017 / Poetry, Fiction, Essays / $3
Gettysburg Review / September 1, 2016 – May 31, 2017 / Poetry, Fiction, Essays, Visual Art / $3
Ghost Proposal / July 11 – October 10, 2016 / Essay, Poetry, Multimedia, Cross-Genre, Post-Genre
Gingerbread House Literary Magazine / January 15 – October 15, 2016 / Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction with Magical Elements
Graviton / Now / Poetry, Art
The Gravity of the Thing / Deadline: October 31, 2016 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Hybrid
Green Linden / Year-round / Poetry / $2
Gregory O’Donoghue Poetry Prize / Deadline: November 30, 2016 / Poetry / €5-20 / Prize: €1,000 + Publication in Southword + 1 Week Residency at the Tyrone Guthrie Center in Ireland
Grimoire Magazine / Year-Round / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Dreams, Dead Letters, Séances
Gulf Coast / September 1, 2016 – March 1, 2017 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry / $2.50
The Harpoon Review / Now / All Genres
Hardly Doughnuts / Year-Round / Poetry, Micro Fiction
Hayden’s Ferry Review / Deadline: December 31, 2016 / All Genres / $3
Heavy Feather Review / Year-Round / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Comics
Hematopoiesis Press / Deadline: November 21, 2016 / Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Visual Art
Hermeneutic Chaos / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Artwork
Hermeneutic Chaos – Milk Teeth Anthology / Deadline: November 15, 2016 / Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction About Childhood
Hinchas de Poesia / Now / Poetry, Prose, Translations, Art, Book Reviews
hit & run press – William Dickey Memorial Broadside Contest / Deadline: November 15, 2016 / Poetry / $10 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication as a Broadside / Judge: Mary Ruefle
Hot Metal Bridge / Deadline: December 1, 2016 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Visual Art
The Hudson Review / September 1 – November 30, 2016 / Fiction
Huizache / September 1, 2016 – April 30, 2017 / Prose, Poetry
ICHNOS / Now
Indiana Review / Deadline: October 31, 2016 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Visual Art
Indiana Review – Fiction Prize / Deadline: October 31, 2016 / Fiction / $20 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judge: Aimee Bender
Indicia / Deadline: October 31, 2016 / Poetry, Flash Fiction, Art
Inpatient Press / Now
Iowa Review / September 1 – November 30, 2016 / $4 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Inch / Now / Flash Fiction, Flash Nonfiction, Short Poems
Jai-Alai Magazine / Essays, Poetry, Fiction, Translations, and Art by Residents of Miami-Dade County
Jokes Review / Year-Round / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
The Journal / Year-round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art, Photo Essays, Reviews
jmww / Year-Round / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Flash Fiction
Josephine Quarterly / Now / Poetry, Art
jubilat / September 1, 2016 – April 1, 2017 / Poetry
Juked / Year-Round / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
Kartika Review / Now / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Book Reviews, Art
killing fields / Year-Round / All Genres
Kweli / September 1, 2016 – May 30, 2017 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia
Lambda Literary’s Poetry Spotlight / Now / Poetry from LGBT Poets
Lavender Review / Year-Round / Poetry and Art by Lesbians
Lazy Fascist Review / Now / Fiction, Poetry
LEVELER / Year-Round / Poetry
Lime Hawk / Now / Poetry, Prose, Visual Art
Linden Avenue Literary Journal / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
Liquid Animal Machine / Now / Audio, Visual
LIT / Now / Poetry, Prose
The Literary Nest / Year-Round / Fiction, Poetry
Literary Orphans / Now / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction
littletell / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose, Audio, Visual
LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Comics
Lumina / Deadline: October 15, 2016 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art / $3
Lunch Ticket / August 1 – October 31, 2016 / Fiction, Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, Flash Prose, YA, Literary Translation & Bilingual Work, Visual Art
M–DASH / November 1-30, 2016 / Translations of Poetry and Prose
Mandala Journal / October 21, 2016 – February 7, 2017 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Art
Mannequin Haus / Year-Round / Flash Fiction, Poems, Play Scenes
The Margins / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Masque & Spectacle / Year-Round / All Genres
Master’s Review – New Voices / Year-Round / Fiction
McNeese Review Online / Year-Round / Short Fiction, Poetry, Literary Nonfiction, Translations, Interviews, Art
The Meadow / September 1, 2016 – February 1, 2017 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Comics
Meekling Review / Now / Fake Reviews, Interviews, and Literary Polemics
Minor Literatures / October 1-31, 2016 / Fiction
Mississippi Review Prize / August 1, 2016 – January 1, 2017 / Poetry, Fiction / $15 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication in Mississippi Review
MISTRESS / Deadline: November 30, 2016 / Poetry, Short Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Visual Work with Textual Components
Moko: Caribbean Arts and Letters / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Essays, Reviews, Art, Videos
Moloko House / Poetry, Fiction, Visual Art, Music
Moon City Review / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Translations, Reviews
Moonglasses Magazine / Now / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Flash, Cross-Genre
Moonsick Magazine / Year-Round / Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry by Women
Monkeybicycle / Now / Stories, One-Sentence Stories
Moss / Now / Fiction and Nonfiction from the Pacific Northwest
Muzzle Magazine / Deadline: December 15, 2016 / Poetry
Neck Press Review / Now / Poetry, Fiction
New Delta Review / Now / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Art, Other
New Ohio Review / September 15 – December 15, 2016 / All Genres
New Orleans Review Special Issue – The African Literary Hustle / Deadline: December 31, 2016 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Hybrid / Guest Editors: Mukoma wa Ngugi and Laura Murphy
New South / September 1, 2016 – April 30, 2017 / Fiction, Poetry, Essays / $3
Nightblock / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction
Ninth Letter – Writing from the American South / Deadline: November 1, 2016 / Fiction, Poetry, and Nonfiction by Writers from or Living in the American South
Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry / January 1 – November 30, 2016 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction / Submit by Post
Nonbinary Review / Now / All Genres
The Nottingham Review / Now / Short Stories, Flash Fiction, Poetry
The Offing / Now / Art, Essays, Micro, Poetry, Translation / $3
Omnidawn Single Poem Broadside Contest / Deadline: October 17, 2016 / Poetry / $10 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication on Broadside / Judge: Norma Cole
One Throne Magazine / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
Pacifica Literary Review / September 15 – December 15, 2016 / Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Photography and Visual Art, Author Interviews
Painted Bride Quarterly / Year-Round / Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry / $3
Passages North / Deadline: April 2017 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Hybrid, Writers on Writing
Phoebe / Deadline: October 17, 2016 / Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction / $2
‘Pider / Now / Poetry
Pinball / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction, Comics
The Pinch / August 15, 2016 – March 15, 2017 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash, Poetry, Art & Photography
PLINTH / Now / All Genres
Poet Lore / Year-Round / Poetry, Nonfiction
The Pokemon Anthology / Deadline: December 31, 2016 / Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction About Pokemon
Polychrome Ink / Now / All Genres
Poor Claudia / Now / Poetry, Prose / $3
Posit / September 1, 2016 – May 31, 2017 / Fiction, Poetry, Visual Art, Film and Animation
Potluck Magazine online / Now / Poetry, Prose, Criticism, Nonfiction, Visual Art, Short Films, Songs, Photographs
Pretty Owl Poetry / Now / Poetry, Fiction
Prisma – Zeitblatt für Text & Sprache / Deadline: September 30, 2016 / All Genres
Psychopomp / Deadline: October 15, 2016 / Fiction, Visual Art
Puerto del Sol – The Publication Issue / Deadline: October 31, 2016 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Translations, Art, Criticism
Quarter After Eight / September 15, 2016 – April 15, 2017 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
Quarterly West / Deadline: April 30, 2017 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, New Media
Queen Mob’s Tea House / Now / Poetry, Art, Fiction, Essays
Quiddity / April 15 – December 15, 2016 / Poetry, Prose / $3
Rattle / Year-Round / Poetry
The Real Story / Now / Nonfiction
Reality Hands / Now / Short Stories, Poetry
Requited / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Performance Text, Visual, Video
Reservoir / Deadline: November 1, 2016 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
Rhino – Founders’ Contest / Deadline: October 31, 2016 / Poetry / $15 / Prize: $500 + Publication
River Styx Microfiction Contest / Deadline: December 31, 2016 / $10 / Prize: $1,500 + Publication + One Case of Schlafly Beer
Seattle Review / Year-Round / Essays and Fiction over 40 pages, Poems over 10 Pages / $3
Salamander Magazine / September 1, 2016 – April 30, 2017 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
SAND, Berlin’s English literary journal / November 1, 2016 – January 15, 2017 / Poetry, Prose, Art, Photography, Translations
SHANTIH Journal / Year-Round / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Drama, Art, Photography
SHARKPACK Annual / October 2016 – March 2017 / Poetry, Very Short Fiction
Shirley / Year-Round / Fiction
SiDEKiCK / Year-Round / Poetry
Sinker Cypress Review / Now / Poetry, Music
Sinister Wisdom / Now / Poems, Stories, Essays, and Art by Lesbians
Sixth Finch / Deadline: October 5, 2016 / Poetry, Art
Slant / September 1 – November 15, 2016 / Poetry
smoking glue gun / Now / Visual Art, Video, Sound
SmokeLong Quarterly / Year-Round / Flash Fiction
So and So / Now / Poetry
Solstice / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Photography / $3
The Southampton Review / August 15 – October 15, 2016 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Drama
Southeast Review / Year-Round / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction
The Spectacle / October 1-31, 2016 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Other
Split Lip Magazine / Deadline: October 31, 2016 / Fiction, Poetry, Memoir / $3
Squalorly / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction / $3
Storm Cellar / Deadline: December 15, 2016 / Prose, Poetry, Visual Art, Hybrids / Currently Reading for an Issue Featuring Women-Identifying and Genderqueer Authors
Subjugated Knowledge / Now / Reviews, Interviews, Essays, Fiction, Poetry, Art
SUBLEVEL / Deadline: December 1, 2016 / Poetry, Prose, Nonfiction, Criticism, Hybrid / on the theme “the history of touching” for inaugural issue
Sugar Rascals / Deadline: December 15, 2016 / Poetry, Art, Prose, Reviews, Hybrid, and Mixed Media from Teen Writers
SUSAN / Now / Poetry, Flash Fiction
Swarm / August 15 – October 31, 2016 / Fiction, Poetry
Sycamore Review / September 1, 2016 – March 31, 2017 / Poetry, Prose, Nonfiction, Art
T A G VV E R K / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Art
The Talking Book / Deadline: February 3, 2017 / All Genres
Tammy / September 1 – December 1, 2016 / $3 / All Genres
TENDE RLOIN / Now / Poetry
Territory / Deadline: November 1, 2016 / Map-Based Writing
Tethered By Letters – Fall Writing Contests / Deadline: November 1, 2016 / Fiction, Flash Fiction, Poetry / $8-15 / Prize: $1,000 (Fiction), $300 (Flash Fiction, Poetry) / Judges: Matt Gallagher (Fiction), Ken Arkind (Poetry), Sari Wilson (Flash Fiction)
Thank You for Swallowing / Now / Protest Poetry
Third Coast / September 15 – December 15, 2016 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Drama
Third Point Press / Deadline: October 31, 2016 / Fiction, Poetry, Art
Threadcount Magazine / Year-Round / Hybrid, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
Timber / August 30, 2016 – March 1, 2016 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Visual Art, Cross-Genre, Essays, Reviews, Interviews
The Timberline Review / Deadline: July 1 – October 15, 2016 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
Tiny Donkey / Now / Essays Related to Fairy Tales
The Tishman Review / Year-Round / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction / $3
TL;DR / Now / All Genres
TQ Review / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Interviews by Trans and Queer Writers
Trafika Europe / Now / Fiction, Poetry, Translation
Transition / Now / Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, Reviews and Visual Art about Africa and the African Diaspora
Two Lines / Now / Translations of Poetry, Fiction, and Essays
TYPO / Now / Poetry
Unbroken Journal / October 1 – November 30, 2016 / Prose Poems, Poetic Prose
Union Station Magazine / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose
Ursus Americanus Press – Landfill / Year-Round / Poetry
Vagabond City / 1st-15th of Every Month / Poetry, Prose, Art
Vanilla Sex Magazine / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Photography
Vector / Deadline: October 31, 2016 / All Genres
velvet-tail / Year-Round / Poetry
Vinyl / Deadline: November 1, 2016 / Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction, Reviews
Voicemail Poems / Year-Round / Audio Poetry
Washington Square Review / Deadline: October 15, 2016 / Poetry, Fiction, Translations
Waxwing / August 1, 2016 – May 1, 2017 / Poetry, Fiction, Essays
Welter / Deadline: October 7, 2016 / All genres
The White Elephant / Year-Round / Prose, Poetry
Wigleaf / Final Weeks of October and November, 2016 / Flash Fiction
Wildness / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose, Nonfiction, Art, Photography
Willow Springs / September 1, 2016 – April 30, 2017 / Fiction, Poetry (Open Until May 31), Nonfiction (Open Year-Round)
Window / Now / All Genres
Witness / September 1 – November 15, 2016 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry / $2
Word For/Word / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose, Poetics, Criticism, Visuals
The Woven Tale Press / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Memoir, Flash Fiction, Experimental
Wreck Park / Now / Prose, Poetry, Criticism
Yemassee / Year-Round / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction
Yes Poetry / Now / Poetry
Zone 3 / August 1, 2016 – April 1, 2017 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction
ZYZZYVA / September 1 – November 30, 2016 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry / Submit by Post
Residencies, Fellowships, and Conferences:
A Public Space Internships / Now
American-Scandinavian Foundation / Deadline: November 1, 2016 / Proposals for Creative Arts Projects That Makes a Stay in Scandinavia Essential / $60 / Fellowships: Up to $23,000
Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship / Deadline: October 15, 2016 / Scholarship: $54,000 for a Year of Travel and Study Abroad
Berton Writers’ Retreat / Deadline: October 3, 2016 / Published Canadian Writers / Residency: 3 Months in Dawson City, Yukon + $2,000 Per Month
Blackacre Reserve Writing Residency / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Playwriting / $22 / Residency: $200 + 1-2 Weeks Near Louisville, KY
Cove Park Winter Residencies / Deadline: October 14, 2016 / UK-Based Artists / 4 Weeks in Scotland
Fine Arts Work Center Writing Fellowships / Deadline: December 1, 2016 / $50 / Fiction, Poetry / Residency: 7 months in Provincetown, MA from October 1, 2017 – April 30, 2018
Gaius Charles Bolin Dissertation and Post-MFA Fellowships / Deadline: November 15, 2016 / Writers from Underrepresented Groups / Residency: 2 Years at Williams College + $40,000 Per Year
George Bennett Fellowship / Deadline: November 30, 2016 / Fellowship: $15,000 + Year-Long Residency at Phillips Exeter Academy
Gullkistan Center for Creativity / Year-Round / Residency: 1 Month or More in Laugarvatn, Iceland / Residency Fee: 750€+/Month
Hub City Writers House / Deadline: October 16, 2016 / $30 / Residency: 15 Weeks + $150/Week
National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowships / Deadline: December 6, 2016 / Grants: $12,500 and $25,000
Omi International Arts Center – Writers Omi / Deadline: October 20, 2016 / Residency: 1 Week – 2 Months in Hudson River Valley, NY
Patrick Henry Writing Fellowship / Deadline: November 1, 2016 / Writers on the American Revolution / Fellowship: 9 Month Residency at Washington College + $45,000
PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers / Deadline: November 11, 2016 / Debut Short Stories (Submissions by Editors Only) / Prize: $2,000 + Publication in The PEN America Best Debut Short Stories
Philip Roth Residence in Creative Writing / Deadline: February 1, 2016 / Residency: 1 Semester at Bucknell University + $5,000
O, Miami Poetry Festival / Deadline: October 21, 2016 / Event and Project Proposals
Stegner Fellowship / Deadline: December 1, 2016 / Poetry, Fiction
Steinbeck Fellowship in Creative Writing at San José State University / Deadline: January 2, 2017 / Fiction, Drama, Creative Nonfiction, Biography / Fellowship: $10,000
Sweden Writing Residency / Deadline: December 31, 2016 / Residency: $1,000 + 3-4 Weeks in a Cottage on the Baltic Sea
Ursus Americanus Press – Life is Boring Reading Series / Year-Round / Poetry / Readings at DRKMTTR in Nashville, TN