Welcome to the latest edition of Entropy‘s Where to Submit list! The artwork featured at the top of this list is “dancing in one spot (number 12)” by Ashon Crawley, Associate Professor of Religious Studies and African American and African Studies at University of Virginia and author of the books Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility (Fordham University Press, 2016) and The Lonely Letters (Duke University Press, 2020). Crawley’s work is multidisciplinary and -modal, utilizing textual, audiovisual, and choreosonic practices to imagine what he terms “otherwise worlds of possibility.” For more, be sure to check out his website.
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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7.13 Books / Now / Fiction / Fee: $5
Academy of American Poets — First Book Award / Due: October 1, 2021 / First Books of Poetry / Fee: $35 / Prize: $5,000 + Publication by Graywolf Press / Judge: Tyehimba Jess
Alice James Books – Alice James Award / Due: October 15, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $30 / Prize: $2,000 + Publication
The American Poetry Review – APR/Honickman First Book Prize / Due: October 31, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $25 / Prize: $3,000 + Publication with Copper Canyon Press / Judge: Jericho Brown
Anhinga Press — Philip Levine Prize for Poetry / Due: September 30, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $25 / Prize: $2,000 + Publication / Judge: Carmen Giménez Smith
Another New Calligraphy / Now / Music, Books
Apocalypse Party / Year-Round / All Genres
Ashland Creek Press – Siskiyou Prize for New Environmental Literature / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $25 / Prize: $1,000 + 2-Week Residency at Sitka Center for Art and Ecology + Publication / Judge: Deb Olin Unferth
Autumn House Press — Rising Writer Prize / October 1, 2021 – January 15, 2022 / Poetry / Fee: $25 / Prize: $1,500 + Publication / Judge: Donika Kelly
Baobab Press / Year-Round / Poetry, Short Fiction, Novels, Creative Nonfiction, Comics and Visual Narrative
Black Lawrence Press — The Big Moose Prize / November 1, 2021 – January 31, 2022 / Novels / Fee: $25 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
Black Lawrence Press / November 1 – 30, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Translations (from the German), Cultural Studies / Fee: $12 (Discounted Book Price)
Blair – Lee Smith Novel Prize / Due: September 1, 2021 / Fiction, Novels / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judge: Deesha Philyaw
BlazeVOX / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction
BOA Editions — A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize / Due: November 30, 2021 / Poetry Debuts / Fee: $25 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judge: Stephanie Burt
Brick Road Poetry Press – Book Contest / Due: November 1, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $30 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
Brunel International African Poetry Prize / October 1 – November 1, 2021 / First Books of Poetry by African Writers / Prize: £3,000 + Publication
Canis Major Books / Year-Round / Fiction / Fee: $20
Cider Press Review Book Award / Due: November 30, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $26 / Prize: $1,500 + Publication
Cloudbank Books – Vern Rutsala Poetry Prize / Due: October 31, 2021 / Poetry, Flash Fiction, Hybrid / Fee: $25 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judge: Doug Ramspeck
co•im•press / Now / Translations
Conduit Books & Ephemera – Minds on Fire Open Book Prize / Due: October 31, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $25 / Prize: $1,500 + Publication
Cooper Dillon Books / Year-Round / Poetry / Fee: $10 (or Buy a Book)
Copper Nickel – Jake Adam York Prize / Due: October 15, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $25 / Prize: $2,000 + Publication by Milkweed Editions / Judge: Dana Levin
Counterpath Press / Year-Round / Queries
Deep Vellum Publishing / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Translations
Disorder Press / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Art Work, Photography
Driftwood Press / Now / Novellas, Graphic Novels / Fee: $20 (Novellas Only) / Prize: $200 – $500 (Graphic Novels) or $400 (Novella) + Publication
Dzanc Books — Prizes / Due: September 30, 2021 / Novels, Novellas, Short Story Collections, Nonfiction / Fee: $25 / Prize: $5,000 (Novel), $2,500 (Short Story), or $1,500 (Nonfiction) + Publication
Elixir Press — Poetry Awards / Due: October 31, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $30 / Prize: $2,000 + Publication / Judge: John Nieves
Elixir Press — Poetry Awards / Due: October 31, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $30 / Prize: $2,000 + Publication / Judge: John Nieves
Eyelands Book Awards / Due: October 20, 2021 / Poetry, Novels, Novellas, Short Fiction, Historical Fiction, Memoir Children’s Books, Graphic Novels / Fee: $30 / Prize: 5-Day Holiday in Athens + Handmade Ceramic + Publication / Judges: Gail Sidonia Sobat (Poetry), Andriana Minou (Short Stories), Gregory Papadoyiannis (Novels, Novellas, Historical Fiction, and Memoir), Patricia Marchesi (Children’s books and Graphic Novels)
FC2 – Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize / Due: November 1, 2021 / Fiction from a Writer with at Least Three Books of Fiction Published / Fee: $25 / Prize: $15,000 + Publication / Final Judge: Cristina Rivera Garza
FC2 – Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Contest / Due: November 1, 2021 / Fiction / Fee: $25 / Prize: $1,500 + Publication / Final Judge: Marream Krollos
Folly X.O. / Year-Round / Novels, Novellas, Short Story Collections, Nonfiction, Serials, Hybrid
Gold Wake Press / Due: September 30, 2021 / All Genres / Fee: $17 (Comes with Book of Choice)
Green Linden Press — The Wishing Jewel Prize / Open: September 1, 2021 / Hybrids / Fee: $12.50 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
Half Mystic Press / Year-Round / Poetry, Novel, Novella, Short Story and Essay Collection, Memoir, Drama, Experimental / Fee: $3
Harbor Editions — Laureate Prize / Due: November 30, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $25 / Prize: $500
Headmistress Press — Sappho’s Prize in Poetry / October 1 – 31, 2021 / Poetry from a Lesbian Author / Fee: $15 / Judge: Mary Meriam
Homebound Publications — Little Bound Books / Novellas, Nonfiction
Inlandia Books / Book Proposals from Writers with a Connection to Inland Southern California / Due: October 1, 2021
Inside the Castle — The Castle Freak / Due: October 1, 2021 / Proposals for Works of Exactly 100,000 Words That Will Be Written in 5 Days
The Journal/Ohio State University Press Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize / Now / Poetry / Fee: $23 or $11.50 for BIPOC Poets/ Prize: $2,500 + Publication by Mad Creek Books
Kallisto Gaia Press — Acacia Fiction Prize / September 15 – December 31, 2021 / Fiction / Fee: $25 / Prize: $1,200 + Publication
Kernpunkt Press / Year-Round / Novels, Novellas / Fee: $10
Kiddiepunk / Year-Round / Zines and Books Centered Around Childhood
Los Galesburg / Due: September 30, 2021 / Novellas / Fee: $20
Metatron Press — The Metatron Prize for Rising Authors/ Due: October 1, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction / Fee: $25 / Prize: $777 + Publication / Judges: Fariha Roísín (Poetry), Marlowe Granados (Fiction)
Nightboat Books / Open: September 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $15 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
Ohio University Press – Hollis Summers Poetry Prize / Due: December 1, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $30 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
OOMPH! Press / Now / Poetry in Translation, Short Prose in Translation
Ornithopter Press / September 22 – November 1, 2021 / Poetry
Outpost 19 / Year-Round / Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid
PANK — Big Books / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Experimental, Collaborative, Hybrid / Fee: $15
Persea Books – Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize / Due: October 31, 2021 / First Book of Poetry by a Woman / Fee: $30 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication + 6-Week Residency in Italy
Perugia Press / Due: November 15, 2021 / First or Second Book of Poetry by a Woman / Fee: $15 (Free for BIWOC Poets) / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
Plays Inverse Press / Now / Plays, Cross-Genre, Performance Lit
Press 53 Award for Short Fiction / Due: December 31, 2021 / Fiction / Fee: $30 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
Punctum Books / Now / Proposals for Unconventional Scholarly Work
Radix Media — The Megaphone Prize/ Due: September 30, 2021 / Debut Short Story Collections by Writers of Color / Fee: $20 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judge: Deesha Philyaw
Red Hen Press / Now / All Genres / Fee: $20
Red Hen Press — Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award / Due: October 31, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $25 / Prize: $3,000 + Publication / Judge: Major Jackson
Red Hen Press — Fiction Award / Due: September 30, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $25 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judge: Aimee Liu
Red Hen Press — Quill Prose Award / Due: October 30, 2021 / Prose by Queer Writers / Fee: $10 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judge: Kazim Ali
Riot in Your Throat Press / November 1 – 30, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $10 / Prize: $500 + Publication
River Teeth – Literary Nonfiction Prize / Due: October 31, 2021 / Nonfiction / Fee: $27 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication by The University of New Mexico Press / Judge: Rigoberto González
Sarabande Books / September 1 – 30, 2021 / All Genres from Writers with Ties to Kentucky / Fee: $20
Saturnalia Books — The Malinda A. Markham Translation Prize / Due: October 31, 2021 / Due: November 1, 2021 / Poetry from a Female-Identifying Poet Translated by a Female-Identifying Translator / Fee: $25 / Prize: $2,000 + Publication
Schism Press / Now / Philosophy, Theory, Antithetical Literary Works, Experimental Works
Southeast Missouri State University Press – Nilsen Literary Prize For a First Novel/ Due: November 1, 2021 / Novels / Fee: $25 / Prize: $2,000 + Publication
Split/Lip Press / October 1 – December 1, 2021 / Nonfiction, Hybrid / Fee: $15
Spurl Editions / Now / Prose, Translations of Prose
Spuyten Duyvil / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose, Cross-Genre
Texas Review Press — The George Garrett Fiction Prize / Due: September 30, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $28 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication by Texas Review Press
Texas Review Press — The X.J. Kennedy Poetry Prize / Due: September 30, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $28 / Prize: $10,000 + Publication by Texas Review Press / Judge: Kazim Ali
Thirty West Publishing House / Due: November 21, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Trio House Press — Trio Award for First or Second Book and Louise Bogan Award for Artistic Merit and Excellence / November 1, 2021 – April 30, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $25 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
Tupelo Press / Now / Translations / Prize: $2,500 – $3000 + Publication
Two Dollar Radio / Now / Fiction / Fee: $3
Two Lines Press / Now / Novels and Short Story Collections in Translation
University of Alberta Press / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction
University of Arkansas Press – Miller Williams Poetry Prize / Due: September 30, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $28 / Prize: $5,000 + Publication / Series Editor: Patricia Smith
University of Iowa Press — Iowa Short Fiction Award / Due: September 30, 2021 / Short Stories
University of Wisconsin Press – Brittingham & Felix Pollak Poetry Prizes / Due: September 16, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $28 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judge: Carmen Giménez Smith
Wendy’s Subway / Due: September 30, 2021 / Poetry, Hybrid / Fee: $20 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judge: John Keene
Wendy’s Subway — Carolyn Bush Award / Due: September 30, 2021 / Poetry and Hybrid Works from an Emerging Woman Writer Residing in New York City / Fee: $15 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
WTAW Press / Due: September 15, 2021 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid / Fee: $28
Yale Series of Younger Poets / October 1 – November 15, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $25 / Judge: Rae Armantrout
Chapbooks:
ATTN: Open Archive Series / Now / Multiple-Author Poetry Collections and Archives
ATTN: Correspondences / Now / Poetry Collaboration
American Poetry Journal — Chapbook Series / Due: September 1, 2021 / Poetry / Fee $15
Bateau Press – Boom Chapbook Contest / Due: November 15, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction, Hybrids / Fee: $14 / Prize: $250 + Publication
Beloit Poetry Journal — The Chad Walsh Chapbook Series / October 1 – November 30, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $20 / Prize: $2,500 + Publication
Black Lawrence Press — The Fall Black River Chapbook Competition / Due: October 31, 2021 / Poetry, Prose / Fee: $15 / Prize: $500 + Publication
Bottlecap Features / Now / Poetry, Fiction
Cave Canem — Toi Derricotte & Cornelius Eady Chapbook Prize / Due: September 15, 2021 / Poetry / Prize: $1,000 + Publication by Jai-Alai Books + Residency at The Writer’s Room / Final Judge: Lillian-Yvonne Bertram
Center for Book Arts – Poetry Chapbook Competition / Due: December 15, 2021 / Poetry / Prize: $500 + Publication + Residency at the Millay Colony for the Arts / Judge: Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
Comstock Review – Jessie Bryce Niles Chapbook Contest / Due: November 1, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $32.50 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
Cooper Dillon Books / Year-Round / Poetry / Fee: $10 (or Buy a Book)
Disorder Press / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Eggtooth Editions / September 15 – December 15, 2021 / Poetry, Drama, Fiction, Nonfiction, Comics, Visual Art, Hybrid / Fee: $10
Foglifter, Still Here San Francisco, and RADAR Productions — Start A Riot! Chapbook Prize / Due: November 1, 2021 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Graphic novel, Hybrid, or Cross-Genre Work from a QTBIPOC+ Literary Artist Residing in the San Francisco Bay Area / Prize: $1,000 + Spot on the Sister Spit Tour + Publication
Flume Press Chapbook Contest / Due: October 1, 2021 / Poetry, Prose, Hybrid / Fee: $15 / Prize: $200 + Publication
Francis House / Now / Poetry, Chaplets, Zines / Fee: $10 (Chapbooks), $5 (Chaplets, Zines)
Frost Place Chapbook Competition / October 1, 2021 – January 5, 2022 / Poetry / Fee: $28 / Prize: $250 + Publication by Bull City Press + Tuition, Room, and Board at The 2022 Frost Place Poetry Seminar
Gap Riot / Now / Poetry
GASHER Press — Chapbook Prize / Due: September 30, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $10 / Prize: $250 + Publication
Gold Line Press Chapbook Contest / Due: September 15, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $15 / Prize: $500 + Publication / Judges: Taneum Bambrick (Poetry), Matthew Salesses (Fiction), Daisy Hernandez (Nonfiction)
Greying Ghost Press- Pamphlet and Art Zine Submissions / Now / Nonfiction, Art
The Hunger — Tiny Fork Chapbook Series Contest / Due: September 1, 2021 / Poetry, Prose, Hybrid / Fee: $10 / Prize: $100 + Publication
Homebound Publications – Little Bound Books / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction
JuxtaProse Chapbook Prize / Due: November 20, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $25 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
Kallisto Gaia Press — Saguaro Poetry Prize / September 15 – December 31, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $25 / Prize: $1,200 + Publication
Kissing Dynamite Poetry Press — Microchapbook Series / October 1 – 31, 2021 / Poetry, Visual Poetry
Long Day Press / Due: October 31, 2021 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid / Fee: Purchase of One Long Day Title
The Massachusetts Review — Working Titles / Year-Round (Send by Mail Until October 1, 2021) / Prose, Interactive / Fee: $3
Newfound — The Anzaldúa Poetry Prize / Due: September 15, 2021 / Prose / Fee: $15 / Prize: $1,500 + Publication / Judge: Chen Chen
Newfound — Prose Prize / September 15, 2021 – March 15, 2022 / Prose / Fee: $15 / Prize: $500 + Publication / Judge: Erika T. Wurth
PANK — Little Books / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid / Fee: $12
Seven Kitchens Press — The Rane Arroyo Chapbook Series / October 1 – November 15, 2021 / Poetry
Seven Kitchens Press — The Rebound Series / Due: September 15, 2021 / Out-of-Print Poetry Chapbooks
Tammy / Due: January 15, 2022 / All Genres / Fee: $12
Throwback Books> / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Toad Press — International Chapbook Series / October 15 – December 31, 2021 / Poetry and Prose in Translation
Tupelo Press – Sunken Garden Chapbook Prize / Due: November 30, 2021 / Fee: $25 / Poetry / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
Journals & Anthologies:
32 Poems / Year-Round / Poetry, Reviews / Fee: $3 (Free for Reviews)
8 Poems / Year-Round / Poetry
Aaduna / Due: November 16, 2021 / Poetry, Prose, Visual Art
A&U Magazine / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Drama and Pitches Related to HIV/AIDS
The Account / Due: September 1, 2021; November 15, 2021 – March 1, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
The Acentos Review / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Translation, Cross-Genre, Art
After the Art / Year-Round / Personal Review Essays about Reading and Art
Afternoon Visitor / Year-Round / Poetry, Visual Poetry, Hybrid, Visual Art
A) Glimpse) Of) / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art, Sound, Hybrid
Alaska Quarterly Review / Now / Poetry (September 30 – October 14, 2021), Fiction (November 10 – 24, 2021), Nonfiction (Due: September 10, 2021) / Fee: $3
Always Crashing / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Collage, Video, Audio, Hybrid, Other
American Poetry Journal / Due: September 30, 2021 / Poetry / Fee $5
American Poetry Review / Now / Poetry, Nonfiction, Reviews, Interviews / Fee: $3
American Short Fiction / Due: January 2, 2022 / Fiction, Flash Fiction / Fee: $3
Anatolios Magazine / October 1 – November 30, 2021 / Poetry, Prose, Art, Photography
Angime / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Art, and Translations in English, Russian, or Kazakh
Aniko Press / Due: September 30, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Annulet: A Journal of Poetics / Now / Poetry, Prose, Translations, Reviews, Annulets
Anomaly / October 1, 2021 – March 1, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translations, Comics / Fee: $3 (Waiver Available for Financial Hardship)
Another Chicago Magazine / Now / Poetry, Fiction (Due: October 15, 2021), Nonfiction (Due: November 15, 2021), Drama, Reviews, Interviews, Audiovisual / Fee: $2 (Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction Only)
Another Chicago Magazine —
Dis/placement/orientation / Due: November 25, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Drama, Reviews, Interviews, Audiovisual
Anti-Heroin Chic / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Interviews, Photography
*apo-press / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Critical Theory, Rituals, Spells, Reviews, Art, Music, Performances, and Hybrid Work with an Accompanied Translation
Apartment Poetry / Now / Poetry
Arcturus / Year-Round / Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid
The Arkansas International / Due: November 20, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Translations, Graphic Literature / Fee: $4 (Free Before Number of Submissions Reaches Monthly Cap)
Arts & Letters / Due: January 1, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $3
Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies / Now / Scholarly Writing about Nonfiction, Syllabi
Asymptote / Year-Round / Translations of Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, and Drama; Criticism; Reviews; Visual Art / Fee: $10 (Free for Those Based in Africa or Translating Work from African countries)
Autofocus / Now / Poetry, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction, Hybrid
AzonaL / Year-Round / Poetry in Translation
bæst: a journal of queer forms & affects / Year-Round / All Genres
Barrelhouse / Now / Reviews
Barzakh Magazine / Now / Poetry, Prose, Hybrid, Art
Bat City Review / Due: September 15, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art, Cross-Genre, Multidisciplinary
Bayou Magazine / Due: May 1, 2022 / 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
Bending Genres / Due: January 14, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Microreviews
Bennington Review / November 1, 2021 – May 8, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Writing on Film, Cross-Genre
Big Other / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Cross-Genre, Hybrid, Art, Reviews, Interviews, Book Excerpts / Fee: $3 (All Genres Except Interviews and Reviews), $10 (Book Excerpts)
Birdcoat Quarterly / Now / Poetry, Nonfiction / Fee: $3
Biscuit Hill / Now / Poetry, Prose Poetry, Visual Poetry, Hybrids
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 — Contests / Due: September 1, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash / Fee: $15 ($6 for Flash; All Genres Free for Black and Indigenous Writers) / Prize: $1,000 ($500 for Flash) + Publication / Judges: Eduardo C. Corral (Poetry), K-Ming Chang (Fiction), Su Cho (Nonfiction), J K Chukwu (Flash)
Blood Orange Review / Due: April 1, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $3
Blue Earth Review / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
Blue Mesa Review / October 1, 2021 – February 28, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
Blue Mesa Review — Contest / Due: September 15, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $12 / Prize: $500 + Publication / Judges: Natalie Scenters-Zapico (Poetry), Zeyn Joukhadar (Fiction), Kim Barnes (Nonfiction)
Bodega Magazine / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Bone Bouquet / Now / Poetry Reviews from Women and Non-Binary Poets
Booth / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Comics, Lists
Border Crossing / October 15, 2021 – January 5, 2022 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review / September 15 – December 15, 2021 / Poetry, Essays, Reviews
Boston Accent / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
Boulevard / November 1, 2021 – May 1, 2022 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction / Fee: $3
Boulevard — Nonfiction Contest for Emerging Writers / Due: September 30, 2021 / Nonfiction / Fee: $16 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
Breakwater Review/ Due: October 1, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $3
Bridge Eight / Now / Interviews, Reviews
Brilliant Flash Fiction / Year-Round / Flash Fiction
Broadsided Press / Now / Poetry, Prose / Fee: $3
Cabildo Quarterly / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction
Cagibi / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Translations, Interviews
CALAMITY / Year-Round / Poetry, Art
Call Me [Brackets] / Due: December 1, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
CALYX / October 1 – December 31, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction by Women / Fee: $5 ($3 for Students and Low-Income Submitters)
The Capra Review / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
The Carolina Quarterly / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art / Fee: $2.50
Cartridge Lit / Now / Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction Inspired by Video Games
Cartridge Lit – The Airship Blog / Year-Round / Essays About Video Games
Carve Magazine / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $3
The Centifictionist / Year-Round / Microfiction / Fee: $3
Cheat River Review / Due: October 15, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
Cherry Tree / Due: October 1, 2021 / Poetry, Flash Fiction, Flash Nonfiction / Fee: $3
Chestnut Review / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction, Hybrid, Art, Photography / Fee: $5 (4-6 Poems, Fiction, and Nonfiction)
The Cincinnati Review / Due: September 30, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Translations, Drama
The Cincinnati Review — miCRo / Year-Round / Poetry, Flash Fiction, Flash Nonfiction
Ciphertext / Year-Round / All Genres
Clade Song / Year-Round / Poetry, Flash Fiction, Audio, Video
Cleaver Magazine / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction / Fee: $5
Colorado Review / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Reviews / Fee: $3 (Reviews Free)
Columbia Review / Due: November 1, 2021 / All Genres
Communion Arts Journal / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
The Concrete Desert Review / Year-Round / Children’s Poetry and Stories, Art
Construction Magazine / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Border and Architecture Columns / Fee: $3
The Continental Review / Year-Round / Video Poetry
Contra Viento / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid and Art About Rangelands and the West
Copper Nickel / Due: December 15, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Essays, Translation Folios
Cordite Poetry Review / Due: November 14, 2021 / Poetry
The Cortland Review / Now / Poetry, Translations, Review Queries
Cosmonauts Avenue / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Multimedia, Comics
Cotton Xenomorph / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Art
CRAFT / Year-Round / Fiction, Flash Fiction, Craft Essays, Interviews, Reviews, Annotations
Crazyhorse / Due: December 31, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Cream City Review / Due: November 1, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction, Hybrid, Art
CutBank / September 15, 2021 – February 1, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
CutBank — The Big Sky, Small Prose Flash Contest / Due: September 30, 2021 / Flash Fiction, Flash Nonfiction / Fee: $7 / Prize: $500 + Publication / Judge: Daryl Scroggins
CutBank — Genre Contests / November 9, 2021 – February 1, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $20 / Prize: $500 + Publication
Dead Alive Magazine / Now / Cross-Genre, Experimental, Multimedia
Death Rattle/Oroboro Lit Journal – Penrose LGBTQIA+ Poetry Award / Due: November 20, 2021 / Poetry / Prize: $200 + Publication / Judge:Isaura Ren
Denver Quarterly / Now / Translations, Conversations, Critiques, Performances, Art
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
Driftwood Press / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Visual Arts, Hybrid, Interviews, Comics, Art / Fees: $2.99 (Poetry), $3.99 (Fiction)
Drizzle Review / Year-Round / Essays, Interviews, and Reviews Focusing on Marginalized Writers
Eastern Iowa Review / Due: October 15, 2021 / Fiction, Art
EcoTheo Review / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose, Interviews, Reviews, Art
Ecotone / Due: September 2, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction Engaging with the Climate Crisis / $3
ellipsis… Literature & Art / Due: November 1, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction, Hybrid, Art
elsewhere / Now / Prose Poetry, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Photography
Empty House Press / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Empty Mirror / Year-Round / Poetry, Nonfiction, Visual Art, Reviews, Interviews, Criticism
Entropy / Year-Round / Essays, Reviews, Interviews, Fiction, Poetry, More
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Epiphany / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $5
Exhume Magazine / October 1 – December 31, 2021 / Poetry, Prose, Drama, Visual Art
The Fanzine / Now / Personal Essays, Writing on Film, Essays on Modern Instances of Duende
Fecund / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Interviews, Reviews, Fashion Writing and Photography, Photography, Criticism, Art, Digital Media
Figure 1 / Year-Round / Poetry
Fine Print / Due: November 1, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction, Art / Fee: $3
FIVE:2:ONE / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
FIVE:2:ONE — #thesideshow / Year-Round / Micro Poetry, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
F I V E S: A Companion to Denver Quartlery / Now / Interdisciplinary and Cross-Genre Work Not Typically Publishable in Print Form
Five South — Flash Fiction and Poetry Prizes / Due: October 18, 2021 / Poetry, Flash Fiction / Prize: $500 + Publication
The Florida Review / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction Graphic Narrative, Reviews, Art / Fee: $2 (for Aquifer Online) $3 (for Print)
Foothill / Year-Round / Poetry by Poets Enrolled in a Graduate Program
Foglifter / Due: November 1, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Drama, Hybrid, and Art from Queer Writers and Artists
Free State Review / Due: October 1, 2021 / Poetry (Due: November 1, 2021), Nonfiction, One-Minute Plays / Fee: $3
F(r)iction / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $2.50
Fugue / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Reviews / Fee: $3 (Free for Reviews)
Full Stop / Now / Nonfiction, Reviews, Interviews, Cultural Criticism
G*Mob Mag / Due: October 1, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Something Else
GASHER Journal / Due: October 17, 2021 / Poetry, Visual Poetry Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
The Georgia Review / Due: May 15, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Reviews / Fee: $3
Gertrude Press / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, and Art from Queer Writers and Artists
Gettysburg Review / Due: May 31, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art / Fee: $3
Ghost City Review / Year-Round / All Genres
The Ghost Story — Supernatural Fiction Award / Due: September 30, 2021 / Supernatural Short Stories / Fee: $20 / Prize: $1,500 + Publication
Gigantic Sequins / November 1, 2021 – January 15, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art (Year-Round), Comics (Year-Round)
Golden Walkman / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Audio
Good River Review / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose, Drama, Writing for Children
Graviton / Now / Science-Inspired Poetry and Art
The Gravity of the Thing — Stranged Writing: A Literary Taxonomy / Due: November 30, 2021 / Defamiliarized Works of Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Six-Word Stories, Multimedia, Cross-Genre, Hybrid, Experimental, Translation, and Collaborative Writing
Grimoire Magazine / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art, Interviews, Dreams, Dead Letters, Séances
Gulf Coast / Due: March 1, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Critical Art Writing / Fee: $3
Half Mystic / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid and Drama Pertaining to Music
Harbor Review / Due: October 31, 2021 / Poetry, Reviews (Year-Round), Interviews (Year-Round), Art
Harpy Hybrid Review / Due: September 15, 2021 / Hybrids, Art
Hayden’s Ferry Review / Now / Art
Heavy Feather Review / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Art, Comics
Heavy Feather Review – The Future, Side A, Flavortown USA, Bad Survivalist, Haunted Passages, and #NoMorePresidents / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Journalism, Comics, Hybrid
Heron Tree / Due: January 15, 2022 / Found Poetry Using Pre-1927 Sources
Hindsight Magazine / Year-Round / Prose Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Graphic / Fee: $2
Hobart / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Photo Essays, Comics
Hobart After Dark (HAD) / Sporadically / Poetry, Flash Fiction, Flash Nonfiction
Honey Literary / Due: December 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
Hot Metal Bridge / September 15 – December 1, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
The Hunger / November 1, 2021 – January 1, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Art
The Hunger / November 1, 2021 – January 1, 2022 / Poetry / Fee: $5 / Prize: $100 + Publication
Identity Theory / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Indianapolis Review / Now / Poetry, Poetry-Themed Prose, Visual Poetry
Indianapolis Review — Poets Are Funny / Due: September 1, 2021 / Poetry, Visual Poetry, Art
Inkwell Literary Magazine — The Well / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Interviews, Reviews
Interim: A Journal of Poetics / Due: September 1, 2021 / Poetry, Nonfiction, Translations, Hybrid, Multimedia, Reviews, Art / Fee: $3
Interim: A Journal of Poetics — Black The [Or] Y of Praxis, Sum Unknown / Due: October 1, 2021 / Poetry, Prose, Visual Art, Sound Art / Fee: $3
Interpret Magazine / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, and Translations in English and/or French
Invisible City / September 16 – December 16, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
The Iowa Review / Due: November 1, 2021 / Fee: $4 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Iron Horse Literary Review — Bliss / October 15 – November 15, 2021 / Poetry, Prose, Flash Prose
Iron Horse Literary Review — IHLR Long Story and NaPoMo Issue / Due: October 1, 2021 / Poetry (NaPoMo); Fiction and Nonfiction (IHLR Long Story) / Fee: $15 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
It’s Real Magazine / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Flash Nonfiction, Hybrid, Interviews, Visual Arts, and Performing Arts Related to Mental Health by Asian Americans
jmww / Year-Round / Poetry, Nonfiction
Josephine Quarterly / Now / Poetry, Art
The Journal / Year-Round / Interviews, Reviews, Art
Joyland / Year-Round / Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $4.50 (Free for Black Writers)
Juked / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Just Femme & Dandy / Due: December 13, 2021 / All Genres from LGBTQIA+ Writers
JuxtaProse / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art / Fee: $3
Kartika Review / Now / Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction from Asian Pacific Islander American Writers
K’in / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Work from Young Writers (Ages 12-17)
Kissing Dynamite / September, October, and November 1 – 7, 2021 / Poetry, Visual Poetry
Kitchen Table Quarterly / Due: October 31, 2021 / Poetry, Nonfiction, Art
Kithe / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction, Hybrid, Art / Fee: $3
Lammergeier / October 1 – November 30, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction, Hybrid
La Vague / Year-Round / Poetry and Art by Women
Lavender Review / Year-Round / Poetry and Art by Lesbians
The Letters Page / Year-Round / All Genres in a Letter Format
LIT / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Translations, Reviews, Art
Litbreak / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Reviews / Fee: $3
Longleaf Review / November 10 – 20, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Interviews, Reviews
Long Long Journal / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose
Los Angeles Review / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Translations / Fee: $3
Lumiere Review / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose, Art
Lunch Ticket / Now / Art
Mammouth Poetry / Now / Poetry
The Mantle / Year-Round / Poetry
Masque & Spectacle / November 1, 2021 – January 31, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Drama, Reviews, Art, Video, Sound
Matter Monthly / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose
Maudlin House / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction
The Meadow / Due: February 1, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Meridian / Due: October 31, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $3
Metatron – #MicroMeta/ Now / Micro-Poetry, Video Poetry
Michigan Quarterly Review / Due: November 1, 2021 / Poetry, Prose, Translations, Interviews, Reviews / Fee: $3
Michigan Quarterly Review — Decades of Fire: A Special Issue on Middle East and North Africa / Due: November 1, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction and Nonfiction Translations; Prose Translation Pitches from Arabic / Fee: $3
Michigan Quarterly Review — The Goldstein Prize / November 1 – December 31, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $20 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judge: Sumita Chakraborty
Michigan Quarterly Review — The Jesmyn Ward Prize / November 1 – December 31, 2021 / Fiction / Fee: $25 / Prize: $2,000 + Publication / Judge: Jesmyn Ward
Minor Literatures / Year-Round / Interviews
Missouri Review — Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize / Due: October 1, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $25 / Prize: $5,000 + Publication
Mizna / Now / Poetry and Prose Relevant to the Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) Region and SWANA American Community
Modern Poetry in Translation / Now / Poetry Translations
Moko: Caribbean Arts and Letters / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Reviews, Art and Videos Relevant to the Caribbean Experience
Moon City Press — Missouri Bicentennial Poetry Anthology / Due: October 1, 2021 / Poetry from Missouri Poets
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
Monstering / Now / Poetry, Prose
Mortar / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction
Moss/ Due: October 1, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction and Nonfiction from the Pacific Northwest
Neon Door — Emotional Nudity Exhibit/ Due: September 1, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art, Music, Video
Neon Door — Online / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art, Music, Video
New Constellations Magazine / Due: September 15, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, and Art from High school Writers and Artists
New Delta Review / Now / Translations
Newfound / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction, Translations, Review Queries, Art
New Ohio Review / September 15 – December 15, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
New Orleans Review / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Reviews / Fee: $3
New Plains Review / Due: September 15, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Plays, Audio, Visual / Fee: $3 (Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Plays)
New Poetry in Translation / Year-Round / Poetry in Translation
new sinews / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction
New South / Due: March 31, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Reviews (Year-Round)
Night Music Journal / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose, Hybrid, Reviews
Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry / Due: November 30, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $3
Ninth Letter — Ekphrastic Poetry Contest / Due: February 28, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $3 (Free in November and December)
Nixes Mate / Due: November 15, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction Related to Climate Change
NOMATERIALISM / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Translation, Drama, Art, Fragments, Ephemera, Video, Visual Art
No Tokens — Young Writers’ Prize for Prose / Due: October 1, 2021 / Fiction, Nonfiction, and Hybrids from Writers 18 and Under / Prize: $300 + Publication
NUNUM / Due: October 15, 2021 / Flash Fiction, Art / Fee: $3
The Ocotillo Review / Due: October 31, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $3
Off Assignment / Year-Round / Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction
The Offing / Now / Nonfiction, Art, Science Writing
Okay Donkey Magazine / September, October, and November 1 – 15, 2021 / Poetry, Flash Fiction
OOMPH! Press / Now / Recipes Originally Written in or Translated into English
Open Doors Review / Due: November 30, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction in English or Italian; Art
The Operating System / Now / Field Notes, Conversations
Orca: A Literary Journal / Now / Fiction, Flash Fiction, Speculative Fiction / Fee: $3
Oxbow Magazine / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Art
Oxidant | Engine / Year-Round / Poetry
Pacifica Literary Review / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $3
Pangyrus / Due: October 14, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Comics, Reviews / Fee: $3
Painted Bride Quarterly / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Reviews / Fee: $3
Paperbag/ Due: September 22, 2021 / Poetry, Hybrid, Art, Music
Parentheses Journal/ Due: September 10, 2021; November 1, 2021 – March 10, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Art, Photography
Parhelion Literary Magazine / Due: November 30, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction / Fee: $3
Parhelion Literary Magazine — Halloween / Due: September 9, 2021 / Fiction, Flash Fiction / Fee: $3
Passages North / Now / Poetry, Fiction (Due: October 15, 2021), Nonfiction, Hybrid, Writers on Writing
petrichor — Documentary Poetics / October 1 – December 1, 2021 / Poetry, Visual Poetry, Hybrid
Phoebe / Due: October 15, 2021 / Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction, Art / Fee: $3
Pidgeonholes / September, October, and November 1 – 10, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art (Year-Round)
Pigeon Pages / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $5
The Pinch / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction, Art / Fee: $2-3
Pine Hills Review / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid
Pithead Chapel / Year-Round / Prose Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Plath Poetry Project / Now / Poems in Response to Work by Sylvia Plath
Pleiades / Year-Round / Reviews
Pleiades — Latinx LGBTQIA+ Poets Folio / Due: September 30, 2021 / Poetry from Latinx LGBTQIA+ Poets / Curator: Ruben Quesada
Poet Lore / October 1 – November 30, 2021 / Poetry, Translations (Open Now)
Poetry Northwest / October 1 – November 30, 2021 / Poetry, Prose (Year-Round)
Poetry Online / Now / Poetry, Visual Poetry, Cine-Poetry, Art
Poets Reading the News / Year-Round / Poetry About Current Events / Fee: $4
Porridge Magazine / October 1 – 31, 2021 / Poetry, Prose, Art
Posit / Now / Art, Video, Animation
Prelude / Now / Poetry, Nonfiction / Fee: $3 (Poetry Only)
Press Pause Press / Year Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art, Music, Family Room
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 — Contests/ Due: September 1, 2021 / Poetry, Prose / Fee: $9 / Prize: $500 + Publication / Judges: Todd Dillard (Poetry), Eileen Pollack (Prose)
Puerto del Sol — Voz Series/ Now / Poetry and Prose in Spanish
Q/A Poetry / Year-Round / Poetry by Poets of Marginalized Genders and Sexes
Queer Southeast Asia / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose, Hybrid, Interviews, Reviews, Art
Quarterly West / Now / Translations, New Media, Reviews
Rabid Oak / Year-Round / Poetry, Flash Fiction, Flash Nonfiction
Raconteur / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Illustrations
Radar Poetry / November 1, 2021 – January 1, 2022 / Poetry
Radar Poetry — Coniston Prize / Due: September 1, 2021 / Poetry by Women / Fee: $20 (Free for BIPOC Poets Through July 14) / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judge: Yona Harvey
Random Sample Review/ Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction, Art
Reality Beach / Now / Video
Redivider / Due: October 31, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Graphic Narrative, Visual Poetry / Fee: $3 (Fiction and Nonfiction)
Revolution John / Year-Round / Prose Poetry, Short Stories
RHINO — Founder’s Prize / Due: September 30, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $15 / Prize: $500 + Publication / Judge: Luisa A. Igloria
Rise Up Review / Now / Poetry, Nonfiction
River Styx / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Short Plays / Fee: $3
Ruminate — VanderMey Nonfiction Prize / Due: October 18, 2021 / Nonfiction / Fee: $20 / Prize: $1,500 + Publication
Salamander Magazine / October 1, 2021 – April 1, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Salt Hill / Due: September 5, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction (Year-Round), Art (Year-Round)
Santa Fe Writers Project Quarterly / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction, Interviews, Reviews
Saw Palm / Due: October 1, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction, Interviews, Reviews, Comics, Art
SCAB / Year-Round / All Genres
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
Scud / Year-Round / Poetry, Nonfiction, Interviews, Reviews
SELFFUCK / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Plays, Interviews, Criticism, Non-Language, Glossolalia, Hybrid
Seneca Review / Due: October 15, 2021 / Poetry, Nonfiction
Shenandoah / Due: September 15, 2021 / Fiction, Comics (Year-Round)
Shift: A Journal of Literary Oddities / Due: October 4, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Art, Anything Else
Shirley Magazine / Now / Flash Fiction
Sidereal Magazine / Due: September 1, 2021; November 1, 2021 – April 1, 2022 / Poetry, Nonfiction
Sinister Wisdom / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction and Art by Lesbians
Sinister Wisdom — Common Lives/Lesbian Lives / Due: December 1, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction and Art by Lesbians
Sinister Wisdom — We Teach Sex (To Everyone) / Due: September 22, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction and Art by Lesbians / Guest Editors: July Westhale and Kristy Lin Billuni
Sixth Finch / Due: October 6, 2021 / Poetry, Art
Sky Island Journal / Due: September 30, 2021 / Poetry, Flash Fiction, Flash Nonfiction / Fee: $4.99
Slant / Due: November 15, 2021 / Poetry
Slouching Beast Journal / Year-Round / Poetry, Flash Fiction, Hybrid
Smartish Pace / Now / Poetry, Translations, Interviews, Reviews
Smartish Pace — Erskine J. and Beullah Rose Poetry Prizes / Due: January 1, 2022 / Poetry (Beullah Rose is for Women Only) / Fee: $10 / Prize: $200 + Publication
SmokeLong Quarterly / Year-Round / Flash Fiction (English, Spanish, French, German, and by Children), Artwork
SmokeLong Quarterly — Comedy Prize / Due: November 15, 2021 / Prose No Longer Than 782 Words / Fee: $7 (Until October 31, 2021); $8 (November 1 – 15, 2021) / Prize: At Least $1,600
Solstice / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Graphic Narrative, Translations / Fee: $3
Sorority Mansion / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction and Art by Women
So to Speak — Blog / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Reviews, Interviews, Videos, Podcasts, Art
South Broadway Ghost Society — Dwell Anthology / Due: October 31, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Visual Art
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: November 1, 2021 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Reviews / Fee: $3
The Southampton Review / Due: September 1, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Drama / Fee: $3
The Spectacle / Due: September 30, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
The Spectacle — Revue / Now / Flash Prose, Fragments, Interviews, Reviews, Humor
Speculative Nonfiction / Due: September 15, 2021 / Nonfiction / Fee: $3
Split Lip Magazine / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Memoir, Art / Fee: $3 (Free in September and November; Free for Black Writers Year-Round)
SPORAZINE / Now / Experimental and Visual Poetry by Trans People
Sporklet / Now / Reviews
Stellium Literary Magazine / Due: October 31, 2021 / Prose Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
Stirring: A Literary Collection / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Reviews, Art
Storm Cellar / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash, Images / Fee: $5
Strange Horizons / Year-Round / Speculative Poetry, Nonfiction, Reviews, Art
Sundog Lit — Summer Collaboration Contest / October 1 – December 1, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Sunspot Literary Journal — Interception / Due: September 30, 2021 / Openings of Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art, and Comics / Fee: $10 / 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 / Now / Graphic Nonfiction
Sweet Tree Review / Due: October 3, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction, Plays
Sycamore Review / Due: March 31, 2022 / Poetry, Prose, Nonfiction, Art
Taco Bell Quarterly / Due: November 1, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Essays, and Multimedia Exploring Any and All Elements of Taco Bell
TAGVVERK / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Essays, Reviews, Criticism, Art
The Talking Book / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Comics, Audio
Tammy / Due: November 15, 2021 / All Genres / Fee: $3
ThimblelitMag / Due: September 30, 2021; November 1 – 30, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
Thin Air Magazine / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Art / Fee: $3 (Print Only)
The Thought Erotic / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, and Art Engaging Sexuality
Thrush / Year-Round / Poetry
The Tiger Moth Review / Due: October 31, 2021 / Poetry, Prose, Art, Photography
Tilted House / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Essays, Plays, Reviews, Art, Film
TIMBER / Due: December 1, 2021 / Poetry, Visual Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid
Tofu Ink Arts Press / Due: November 1, 2021 / Poetry, Art / Fee: $3
Tofu Ink Arts Press — Visionary Arts Poetry Prize / Now / Poetry / Fee: $3 / Prize: $200 + Publication
trampset / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $3
Transition / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Interviews, and Art about Africa and the African Diaspora
Tripwire / Year-Round / Proposals for Essays, Translations, Interviews, Reviews
TriQuarterly / October 1 – December 31, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Craft Essays, Interviews (Year-Round), Video Essays (Year-Round), Cinepoetry (Year-Round)
Tupelo Quarterly / Due: October 1, 2021 / Poetry, Prose, Translations, Collaborations, Cross-Disciplinary Work, Art, Reviews (Year-Round) / Fee: $3 (Reviews Free)
Two Lines / Now / Translations of Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction
Twyckenham Notes / Now / Poetry, Art / Fee: $3 (Poetry)
Typewriter Poetry / September 15 – 30, 2021 / Poetry, Hybrid, Art
Unbroken Journal / Due: September 15, 2021; November 1 – December 15, 2021 / Prose Poems, Poetic Prose
Under a Warm Green Linden / Year-Round / Poetry, Interviews, Reviews / Fee: $3 (Free for Interviews and Reviews)
Under the Sun / Due: January 2, 2022 / Nonfiction, Art
Untoward / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $3
Up North Lit / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
Up The Staircase Quarterly / Due: September 15, 2021 / Poetry, Interviews, Reviews, Art
Ursus Americanus Press – Landfill / Now / Poetry
Vagabond City / Year-Round / Poetry, Nonfiction, Reviews, Art
A VELVET GIANT / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose, Cross-Genre, Experimental, Art
VIDA: Women in the Literary Arts — The VIDA Review / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Interviews and Reviews
Virga / Due: September 30, 2021 / Poetry, Hybrids / Fee: $2
Voicemail Poems / Due: October 1, 2021 / Audio Poetry
Waccamaw / Due: September 8, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
The Waking / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Interviews, Reviews, Art
Washington Square Review / Due: October 15, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Translations
Watershed Review / Due: September 30, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Art / Fee: $3 (Free for Students and Those Experiencing Financial Hardship)
Waxwing / Now / Poetry (Due: September 30, 2021; November 1 – 30, 2021), Fiction, Nonfiction, Translations, Art
Western Humanities Review / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Reviews, Artwork / Fee: $2 (Free for Reviews and Artwork)
Western Humanities Review — Mountain West Writers Contest / October 23 – December 18, 2021 / Poetry and Prose from Writers Currently Living in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Wyoming, or Utah / Prize: $500 + Publication / Judges: Carmen Giménez Smith (Poetry), Vi Khi Nao (Prose)
Whale Road Review / Now / Interviews, 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 September, October, and November 2021 / Flash Fiction
Wildness / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Willow Springs / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $3
Witness / Due: December 1, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $3
The Worcester Review / October 1, 2021 – January 31, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction (October 1 – 31, 2021) / Fee: $3 (Free for BIPOC Writers)
Words Without Borders / Year-Round / Proposals for Monthly Special Sections
The Woven Tale Press / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Video, Sound, Art
Yalobusha Review / Now / Poetry, Fiction
Yellow Medicine Review: A Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art, and Thought — Guess Who (It’s the Music Issue) / Due: September 30, 2021 / All Genres from Indigenous Writers Relating to Music
Yemassee / Open: September 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction / Fee: $3-4
ZiN Daily / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction in English, Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Montenegrin, French, German, Italian, or Slovenian
Zone 3 / Due: April 1, 2022 / Poetry (Open: October 1, 2021), Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $3
ZYZZYVA / Due: September 1, 2021 (Submit By Post Only) / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Fellowships + Other Opportunities:
Art Omi: Writers / Due: October 15, 2021 / Residency: 1 Week – 2 Months in Hudson River Valley, NY
AWP — Writer to Writer Mentorship Applications / Year-Round
American-Scandinavian Foundation / Due: November 1, 2021 / Proposals for Creative Arts Projects That Make a Stay in Scandinavia Essential / Fee: $60 / Fellowships: Up to $23,000 / Grants: Up to $5,000
Bucknell University — Philip Roth Residence in Creative Writing / Due: February 1, 2022 / Fellowship: $5,000 + Lodging
Bucknell University — Stadler Fellowship / Due: December 1, 2021 / Fellowship: $33,000 + Position at Stadler Center for Poetry or Editing for West Branch
Coffee House Press – Internships / September 15 – November 1, 2021 / Internship: 12-15 Hours per Week Remotely from September to December, 2021 / Stipend: $700
Hambidge Creative Residency / Due: September 15, 2021 / Fee: $30 / Residency: 2-8 Weeks in Blue Ridge Mountains, GA / Residency Fee: $250/Week (Fellowships Available)
Jentel Writing and Visual Arts Residencies / Due: September 15, 2021; October 1, 2021 – January 15, 2022 / Fee: $30 / Residency: 1 Month Near Bighorn Mountains, WY + $400/Month
Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts / Due: September 1, 2021; November 1, 2021 – March 1, 2022 / Fee: $35 / Residency: 2-8 Weeks in Nebraska City + $100 per Week
Looking Glass Rock Writers’ Conference / Due: December 1, 2021 / Conference: May 19-22, 2022 in Brevard, NC / Conference Fee: $475 (No Housing) $550 (With Housing) / Scholarships Available
Millay Colony / Residency / Due: October 1, 2021 / Fee: $40 / Residency: Up to 1 Month in Austerlitz, NY
National Endowment for the Arts — Translation Fellowships / Due: January 2, 2022 / Grants: Up to $25,000
The Oxford American — Jeff Baskin Editorial Internship / Year-Round (Due: November 15, 2021 for January 2022 Internships) / Internship: $2,500 / Remote
PEN Center USA – The PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers / Due: November 15, 2021 / Fiction / Prize: $2,000 + Publication in Anthology Released by Catapult
Phillips Exeter Academy– George Bennett Fellowship / Due: September 30, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Drama / Fee: $15 / Fellowship: $15,570 + Housing + Medical/Dental Insurance
San José State University — Steinbeck Fellowship in Creative Writing / Due: January 3, 2022 / Fiction, Drama, Nonfiction, Biography / Fellowship: $15,000
Stanford University — Stegner Fellowship / Due: December 1, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction / Fee: $85 / Fellowship: 2 Years at Stanford + $43,000 Per Year
Ucross Foundation Writer’s Residency (Spring Session) / Due: September 1, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $40 (Free for Native American Writers) / Residency: 2-6 Weeks in Sheridan, WY
Virginia Center for the Arts / Due: September 15, 2021 / Fee: $40 / Residency: 2-8 Weeks in Amherst, VA
Wilkes University — James Jones First Novel Fellowship / October 1, 2021 – March 15, 2022 / Fee: $33 / Prize: $10,000
Williams College — Gaius Charles Bolin Dissertation and Post-MFA Fellowships / Due: November 15, 2021 / Writers from Underrepresented Groups / Residency: 2 Years at Williams College + $50,000 Per Year
Yaddo Residencies / November 1, 2021 – January 5, 2022 / Fee: $30 / Residency: 2-8 Weeks in Saratoga Springs, NY