It’s summer and a bunch of presses and journals have announced their open reading periods, annual contests, etc. Here’s a roundup of some places that are reading this season. If we’ve missed any, please leave them in the comments and we’ll try to include them in the list.
Presses:
1913 Press: Prize for First Books / Deadline June 30, 2014 / $25 / Judge: Claudia Rankine
Augury Books: Open Reading Period / Deadline: July 31, 2014 / Poetry & Prose / $10 – 18
Black Lawrence Press: Open Reading Period / June 30, 2014
Black Ocean: Open Reading Period / June 1 – June 30
Brooklyn Arts Press: Open Reading Period / June / All genres
Caketrain 2014 Competition / Deadline: October 1, 2014 / Fiction / $15 / Final Judge: Peter Markus / First Place: Publication, $250, 25 Contributor Copies
Civil Coping Mechanisms: Mainline / June 23 – June 29 / All genres / Free
Les Figues Press: NOS 2014 Contest / Deadline: September 15, 2014 / All genres / $25 / Prize: $1000 + Publication / Judge: Fanny Howe
Plain Wrap Press: Open Reading Period / June & July
Publishing Genius: Open Reading Period / Deadline: June 30 / All genres
Skylight Press / Now / Fiction, Poetry
Subito Press Book Prize / June 15 – August 15, 2014 / Poetry & Prose / $25
University of North Texas: 2014 Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction / Deadline: June 31, 2014 / $25 / Short fiction collection
Chapbooks:
BOAAT: Chapbook Competition / June 1 – Sept 1 / All genres / $10 / Prize: Publication, $100, 3 Copies
The Collagist: 2014 Prose Chapbook Contest / Deadline: July 15, 2014 / Prose: all genrese / $15-20 / Prize: Publication, $250, 25 author copies / Judge: Gabriel Blackwell
Dikembe Press: Open Reading Period / Deadline: June 15, 2014 / Poetry / $8
Grimoire / Deadline: June 30, 2014
Ugly Duckling Presse: First Chapbooks / June / Free
Journals & Anthologies:
3:AM / Now / Nonfiction
American Short Fiction: Short Story Contest / Deadline: June 15, 2014 / $20 / Prize: $1000, Publication / Judge: Amy Hempel
Big Lucks / Now / Prose, Poetry
Black Warrior Review: Tenth Annual Contest / Deadline: Sept 1, 2014 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / $20 / Prize: $1000, Publication
Blue Mesa Review: Annual Contest / Deadline: August 31 / Fiction, Poetry / $12 / Prize: Publication, $500 / Judges: Roxane Gay, Carmen Gimenez Smith
BOAAAT: Vol. 1 / Now / Poetry & Prose
Bombay Gin 41 / Deadline: August 15, 2014 / Prose, Poetry, Cross-Genre
Cartridge Lit / Now / Video game lit
Chameleon Press: Desde Hong Kong: poets in conversation with Octavio Paz / Deadline: July 31, 2014 / Poetry
Controllitmag / Reading now / Poetry & Short Stories
Drunken Boat: Poetry Book Contest / Deadline: June 25, 2014 / Poetry / $25 / Prize: $500, Publication, 20 Author Copies / Judge: Forrest Gander
Fairy Tale Review: 2014 Prose & Poetry Contest / Deadline: June 15, 2014 / $10 / Prize: $1000, Publication / Judges: Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, Ilya Kaminsky
Ghost Proposal / Deadline: 7/30/14 / Poetry, essays, hybrid, images
Gigantic Sequins: 3rd Annual Contest in Poetry & Flash Fiction / Deadline: July 14, 2015 / Judges: Dawn Lundy Martin, Mat Johnson
Gigantic Sequins: General Submissions / Deadline: August 15, 2014
Hayden’s Ferry Review: Chaos Issue / Deadline: Oct 1, 2014 / All genrese / $3
Midwestern Gothic: The Lake Prize / Midwest ficton & poetry / Deadline: July 1, 2014 / $5 / Prize: $500, Publication
The Missing Slate: New Voices Fiction Writing Competition 2014 / Deadline: July 1, 2014 / Fiction / $10
The Rain, Party, & Disaster Society / Every month from 1st-15th / All genrese
Sink Review / Deadline: June 30 / Poetry
Sundog Lit: Letters from the Road Theme Issue / Deadline July 1, 2014 / All genres
Tethered by Letters: Fall Literary Contests / Deadline: July 15, 2014 / Short Story, Flash Fiction, Poetry / $4-12
Other:
&NOW 2015 Festival of Innovative Writing / @CalArts – Blast Radius: Writing & The Other Arts / Proposals Deadline: October 1, 2014
Figues Camp: Empire of the Senseless / Figues Camp Scholarship Deadline: June 16, 2014
Write A House / Deadline: June 21, 2014
