Sharpen your writing pencils. Here are a few markets whose deadlines are looming over us.
Warm up the keyboard, these submission deadlines are closing fast – mixed/multi genre markets:
Jan 2022
Deadline: January 31, 2022; opens January 1, 2022
(checked Jul 10/21)
We like dark, intense pieces that speak to a deeper truth. We’re not genre-specific; we just like scary, disturbing, unsettling, and sad. We like things we can’t put down and things that make us go “wow” when we’ve finished.
Short fiction from 1000 to 7500 words, poetry any style or length, simultaneous submissions allowed, multiple submissions not allowed. No reprints allowed. Asks for 1 year exclusive online rights. Pays $50.
Reading Period:
Spring Issue: January 1-January 31. Published April. Assume rejected if no response by Feb 28.
Fall Issue: July 1-July 31. Published November. Assume rejected if no response by Aug 31.
https://34orchard.com/guidelines/
Deadline: January 31, 2022
(checked Oct 30/21)
Restrictions: Open to writers who identify as an immigrant or member of a diaspora in the broadest definitions of the terms. Stories, essays, and art: fantasy, sci-fi, horror, and any genre in between or around it, as long as there’s a speculative element. See themes. Payment: 0.08/word for fiction, $100 for nonfiction, and $40-300 for art.
https://www.khoreomag.com/submissions/
Deadline: January 31, 2022
(checked Oct 30/21)
Poetry, fiction, essays, and art around the theme of Shared Worlds. All works should be based in a well-established fictional world and should obey that world’s rules and customs, and we should be able to recognize that fictional world from your work. Works may NOT be based around major characters or previously published stories from those worlds, although they may be mentioned. Payment: 1 cent per word for prose, and a flat fee of $10 for poetry.
https://nonbinaryreview.submittable.com/submit/202881/nbr-27-shared-worlds
Deadline: January 24; Entry fee: $15
(checked Oct 30/21)
“Multi-genre award for the best poetry, fiction, or nonfiction on any subject, by an author who has not yet published more than one book with a major publisher. Entries must be in English. Entries may not be previously published.” The first prize winners in each genre will be published. One grand prize winner will receive a full scholarship including tuition, lodging, and a $1,000 travel stipend to Lisbon in 2022 (June 26-July 8). Genre winners will receive a $500 cash prize in addition to publication.
https://disquietinternational.submittable.com/submit/16443/disquiet-literary-prize-2022
Deadline: January 20, 2022 or until filled
(checked Oct 30/21)
Poetry and fiction. “A multimedia project inspired by the electrosymphonic album “Wayward & Upward” by Spinoza Gambit. The music already exists. Your job is to fill in the words.” No simultaneous submissions. Payment: $50 – $100 CAD on publication.
https://offtopicpublishing.com/opencalls/
Deadline: January 20, 2022
(checked Oct 30/21)
Winter-themed short literary works. Poems, short stories, literary non-fiction. Think Northern Lights, candles against the darkness, the rolling year, spirits (both in a glass and in the ether), warm hearths. Payment: $25.
https://devilspartypress.com/submissions/
Deadline: January 15; Entry Fee: $10
(checked Oct 30/21)
We invite writers to submit to the Unleash Press Anthology, Conversations. Essays, fiction, drama, art, and poetry interpretations of the theme will be accepted. Submissions will be accepted July 15 – January 15, 2022. Submissions should have a total word count of no more than 5,000 words. All authors chosen for the anthology will receive an e-copy and a paperback copy of the book. Submissions are $10. The Editors’ Prize is $75 and includes a custom illustration inspired by the writing. Submission guidelines can be found here.
https://www.unleashcreatives.net/unleash-press
Deadline: January 7, 2022; Opens January 1, 2021
(checked Oct 30/21)
Fantasy short stories, flash fiction, poetry. All types of fantasy and dark fantasy are welcome. Payment: 8 cents per word for original short stories and flash fiction. $40 per poem.
https://adamant.moksha.io/publication/fantasy/guidelines
Deadline: January 7, 2022; opens to submissions on January 1, 2022
(checked Feb 21/21)
Feminist-friendly work of any variety, but as a general rule your piece should be under 2000 words (50 lines for poetry, max. 3 poems) and able to be classified as “fiction”, “culture”, “memoir”, “column”, “poetry”, and/or “review”. Payment: $60 AUD.
Submissions to Scum are open the first week (from the 1st to the 7th) of every month. The rest of the month, submissions are closed.
https://www.scum-mag.com/submit-to-scum/
Deadline: January 2, 2022 (Submissions window: 1st and second day each month)
(checked Feb 21/21)
*Allows reprints
Speculative stories. Payment: 6 cents/word for original work, 2 cents/word for reprints, 2-6 cents/word for new fact-based work, 1-4 cents/word for reprinted fact articles, $1/line for new poetry, 50 cents/line for poetry reprints (poetry up to 40 lines).
https://cosmicrootsandeldritchshores.com/submissions/
Deadline: January 1, 2022; Opens November 1, 2021
(checked Oct 30/21)
Fiction, nonfiction, poems. Theme to be announced soon. We look for work that plays off the theme, particularly in unexpected ways. Payment: $400 for long stories and essays, $150 for flash fiction, and $100 for poems.
https://slicemagazine.org/submit/
Dec 2021
Deadline: December 31, 2021 or until filled.
(checked Oct 22/21)
Philosophically informed stories, essays, or poetry that address the theme: Be Careful What You Wish For. 2,000 and 7,000 words. Payment: $50/poem, $200/prose.
https://bookxiajournalofliteraryphilosophy.submittable.com/submit
Deadline: December 31, 2021. Submit early in the month to avoid submission fee.
(checked Oct 22/21)
Poetry, flash fiction, short fiction, creative nonfiction, essays, visual media (art/photography). Chestnut Review appears four times per year online and once per year in print in our annual anthology. Payment: $120.
https://chestnutreview.com/submissions/
Deadline: December 31, 2021 – site under maintenance
(checked Oct 22/21)
Prose, poetry, art. Payment: $25/page for prose in journal. $30/page for poetry in journal.
https://www.cincinnatireview.com/submission_guidelines-2/
Deadline: December 31, 2021
(checked Oct 22/21)
Restrictions: Canadian writers. Genre: Fiction, art. creative nonfiction, poetry, and children’s literature (up to and including YA). Reading Period: January 1st to June 30th – Fall volume (September publication); July 1st to December 31st – Spring volume (March publication). Payment: $50 CAD/per page to a maximum of $150 CAD. Visual Art Submission: $50 CAD/per submission.
https://www.cloudlakeliterary.ca/submit
Deadline: December 31, 2021
(checked Oct 22/21)
True stories of the fine, literary and performing arts: artwork biographies, reported stories, profiles, cultural history, essay, interviews and first person stories. We read pitches for Artwork Biographies from September 6, 2021 to December 31, 2021. We accept personal submissions year-round. Payment: Varies.
https://criticalread.submittable.com/submit
Deadline: December 31, 2021
(checked Oct 22/21)
Stories, poetry, and visual art about the future which feature cats. Payment: $10 per accepted poem, 1c/word ($5 minimum) for accepted fiction ($15 per page for graphic narrative fiction), $20 per accepted piece of non-narrative internal visual art $100 (negotiable) for the cover illustration.
http://www.manawaker.com/submit-to-felis-futura/
Deadline: December 31st, 2021
(checked Oct 22/21)
Speculative fiction, art, and poetry. Features stories by and about Black people of the African Diaspora. Length: Short fiction 2,000 – 7,000 words and novelettes up to 15,000 words. Payment: $150 per story. $50 per poem. $300 per novelette.
https://www.fiyahlitmag.com/submissions/
Deadline: December 31, 2021
(checked Oct 22/21)
Fiction, Flash, Creative Nonfiction, Poetry, and Visual Arts. Theme: Communities of Care. Share your sanctuary, your sacred or communal spaces. Where do you go for rest, healing, or comfort? Please add a note to your submission if you would like us to consider it for the themed issue. All theme submissions will be considered for General Submissions. Payment: $25.
https://newfound.org/contribute-journal/
Deadline: December 31, 2021
(checked Apr 28/21)
A Winnipeg publication.
Submissions are open to artists ages 17 and over. Due to the huge number of poetry submissions we have received, we can only accept a few more poems into the anthology. We will be giving priority to six-word stories, short stories, flash fiction, essays, drawings, paintings, and photography.
What we are looking for:
Positive art. Positive as in stimulating, optimistic, confident, uplifting, inspirational.
No matter what topic you choose to tackle (e.g., death, disease, mental illness, suicide, depression…), the pieces you send us should answer three basic questions:
– “How do they help others?”
– “How do they open their minds?”
– “Do they bring a better understanding of the situations or stories I am describing?”
https://abpoetryjournal.com/poartmo-anthology/
Deadline: December 31
(checked Oct 21/21)
Theme: Disruption, Disguise and Illuminations. As history meets our day to day experiences, epiphanies unfold; and as we self-interrogate the disruption motifs in many of these illuminations, the roots of prevailing disruptions emerge, complicated by disguise. Submissions exploring this theme in its widest permutations are invited. Contributors may submit works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, essays or one act plays which explore the ideas resonating within the region and its diaspora. The Caribbean should be central to the work, or the work should reflect a Caribbean heritage, experience or perspective. Prospective authors should submit all creative works: drama, fiction and poetry manuscripts, through the online portal ONLY.
https://www.thecaribbeanwriter.org/online-submission
Deadline: December 31, 2021. (Or until full.)
(checked Oct 21/21)
Fiction and poetry from the music industry – “about music teachers, singer/band members, band managers, roadies, conductors, DJs, studio musicians, anyone who makes money making music.” Payment: $5 – $50.
Deadline: Dec 25, 2021; Opens Sep 26, 2021
(checked Oct 21/21)
Fiction, nonfiction, poetry. Payment: $100 per nonfiction piece, $50 fiction, $15 per poem.
The Puritan seeks submissions all year round, from anywhere in the world. Submissions received between Dec. 26 and Mar. 25 are considered for the spring issue, published in early May. Those received between Mar. 26 and June 25 are considered for the summer issue, published in late early Aug. Those received between June 26 and Sept. 25 are considered for the fall issue, published in Nov. Those received between Sept. 26 and Dec. 25 are considered for the winter issue, published in Feb.
http://puritan-magazine.com/submissions/
Deadline: December 21, 2021
(checked Oct 30/21)
Speculative Literature across the several genres of the high imagination: Adventure, Detection & Mystery, Fantasy, Horror & the Supernatural, and Science Fiction. Each division of the pentapartite journal, representing the genres noted above, will include: at least one original short story, at least three poems, at least one scholarly article and at least one scholarly review, and at least one illustration–ideally relevant to one of the stories or poems included in the section.
https://mindseye.us.com/JOURN-E/
Deadline: December 15, 2021; Entry Fee: $20
(checked Oct 21/21)
Award-winning literary travel magazine Nowhere is accepting submissions for our annual Fall Travel Writing Prize. We are looking for novice and veteran writers of any stripe to send us stories that possess a powerful sense of people, place and time. Every submission will be read blind, so anyone can win!
https://nowherepublishing.submittable.com/submit/203241/fall-2021-travel-writing-prize
Deadline: December 15, 2021
(checked Oct 21/21)
Fiction, CNF, poetry. Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but we ask that you inform us immediately if work is accepted elsewhere. Submit one piece of fiction or nonfiction or up to five poems (or flash fiction). Payment: $50-$100 per piece.
https://www.usi.edu/sir/submission-guidelines
Deadline: December 15, 2021
(checked Oct 21/21)
Fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, mixed media, visual arts, “and even kitchen sinks, if they are compressed in some way.” Payment: $50.
https://matter.submittable.com/submit
Deadline: December 12, 2021
(checked Oct 21/21)
Conditions: – This project is open to Calgarians of all ages and ability. Postcard designs must be original and in no way hurtful or harmful.
Cards For Community is a city-wide participatory project created to foster dialogue and community connection through “storytelling-on-a-postcard”. Residents/artists/poets/writers/songwriters/young & old Calgarians are welcome to share personal neighbourhood stories. The hope is to make invisible parts of our city visible & to amplify stories from all over Calgary. Project challenge: to receive at least ONE POSTCARD from every one of Calgary’s 212 neighbourhoods. Cards for Community is more than postcards!
https://www.loft112.org/submit
Deadline: December 7, 2021; opens December 1, 2021 – temporarily closed to submissions (to Jan 2022)
(checked Oct 21/21)
Fantasy short stories, flash fiction, poetry. Fantasy is open to submissions the first week of every month (1st-7th). Please do not query about submitting outside our open submission periods. Payment: 8 cents per word for original short stories and flash fiction. $40 per poem.
https://adamant.moksha.io/publication/fantasy/guidelines
Deadline: December 7, 2021; opens to submissions on December 1, 2021
(checked Oct 21/21)
Feminist-friendly work of any variety, but as a general rule your piece should be under 2000 words (50 lines for poetry, max. 3 poems) and able to be classified as “fiction”, “culture”, “memoir”, “column”, “poetry”, and/or “review”. Payment: $60 AUD.
Submissions to Scum are open the first week (from the 1st to the 7th) of every month. The rest of the month, submissions are closed.
https://www.scum-mag.com/submit-to-scum/
Deadline: December 2, 2021 (Submissions window: 1st and second day each month)
(checked Feb 21/21)
*Allows reprints
Speculative stories. Payment: 6 cents/word for original work, 2 cents/word for reprints, 2-6 cents/word for new fact-based work, 1-4 cents/word for reprinted fact articles, $1/line for new poetry, 50 cents/line for poetry reprints (poetry up to 40 lines).
https://cosmicrootsandeldritchshores.com/submissions/
Deadline: December 1, 2021
(checked Oct 21/21)
Short stories, poems, and screenplays. Short Stories (300 word minimum, 30 page maximum), screenplays (15 page maximum), poetry (1 minimum, 10 maximum). Payment: $30 per short story, poem, and screenplay, and the best piece of writing gets paid an additional $70, for a total of $100.
Deadline: December 1, 2021
(checked Oct 21/21)
Genre: Short stories and poetry. See themes. Payment: 20.00 USD for featured authors, or $10.00 USD for stories published on their &More page and $5.00 USD for poems.
https://bwgwritersroundtable.com/submissions-contacts/
Deadline: December 1, 2021
(checked Oct 30/21)
Poetry, short fiction about Night. We’re looking for hymns to Odin and Inanna and Sekhmet. Prayers to Hermes and Brigid and Asherah. Short stories featuring (or otherwise referencing) Lugh and Yinepu and Hekate. Payment: $5.
https://eternalhauntedsummer.com/about/
Deadline: December 1, 2021
(checked Oct 30/21)
Original essays and translations, poetry, reviews. devoted to the exploration of the quest for meaning as it is expressed in the world’s myths, symbols, and religious traditions, with particular emphasis on the relationship between this store of wisdom and our modern life. Each issue of Parabola is organized around a theme.
https://parabola.org/submissions/
Deadline: December 1, 2021
(checked Oct 21/21)
Puerto del Sol seeks work which engages with water in all its forms. Life and growth and blood and poison and drought and commodity. Snow and steam and tsunami. We want to read work as sharp and brittle as ice. We want stories, essays, and poems which drip from dew-soaked branches or crash like waterfalls. Show us something as vast as the sea or as small as a single droplet of acid rain. Send us your explorations of fluidity, of the ways things shift and change, and of things which cannot be held, no matter how hard we try.
www.puertodelsol.org
Deadline: December 1, 2021, Opens October 1, 2021
(checked Apr 15/21)
Poetry, nonfiction, and fiction. Payment: $25.
We publish two issues a year, September 1 and March 1. We accept general submissions for poetry, nonfiction, and fiction between two reading periods, and the first 300 submissions to each are free. We also run a collaborative writing contest in August. We also accept visual art all year.
- General Submissions: March 1 – May 1
- General Submissions: October 1 – December 1
- Collaboration Contest: July 15 – August 31
https://sundoglit.com/submissions/
Deadline: December 1, 2021
(checked Oct 30/21)
Fiction, nonfiction, art. “We seek to publish the most challenging and thought provoking flash fiction and essays. We believe only by confronting the bare bones of reality we understand our place in the world.” Payment: 5 cents/word.
https://theantihumanists.com/
Deadline: December 1, 2021
(checked Oct 21/21)
The literary journal of Cabrini University, Woodcrest aims to publish work that is surprising, challenging, and grounded in the human experience. We want to read your submissions of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, hybrid genres, and graphic arts. Please use our Submittable page for more information about submissions: woodcrestmagazine.submittable.com/submit.
Nov 2021
Deadline: November 30th, 2021
(checked Sep 25/21)
“We want to showcase writing and artwork that has been created with abandon. That term is free to be interpreted liberally, but ideally it is the kind of work that takes risks, created in a space wherein the artist doesn’t care what anyone else thinks or what everyone else is doing. As long as the writing is powerful and abandons the preconceived notions of what is expected, we want to read it.” Payment: $15.
https://abandonjournal.com/submission-guidelines/
Deadline: November 30th, 2021; opens November 15, 2021
(checked Jul 28/21)
Quarterly speculative fiction magazine that features original short stories, poetry, and artwork. Theme of Justice. Speculative fiction is weird, almost unclassifiable. It’s fantasy, sci-fi, horror, and literary. Send us your strange, misshapen stories with enough emotional heft to break a heart, with prose that’s as clear and delicious as broth. Payment: $30.
https://apparitionlit.com/submissions/
Deadline: November 30th, 2021
(checked Oct 29/21)
Poetry; send up to three poems, fiction, creative nonfiction, videos (including poetry), and cross-genre work. Payment: $40.
http://baltimorereview.org/index.php/submit
Deadline: November 30, 2021; Entry fee: $32
(checked Sep 29/21)
Prairie Fire Press and McNally Robinson Booksellers present the 2021 Annual Writing Contests. Although the deadline is November 30 (postmarked), you can enter any time. Prizes are awarded in each of the three categories and winning entries are published in Prairie Fire.
https://www.prairiefire.ca/contests/
Deadline: November 30, 2021; opens November 1, 2021
(checked Sep 25/21)
During our June and November Open Reading Periods, we accept submissions in the following categories: novel, novella, short story collection (full-length and chapbook), poetry (full-length and chapbook), biography & cultural studies, translation (from the German), and creative nonfiction.
https://blacklawrencepress.com/submissions-and-contests/open-reading-periods/
Deadline: November 30th, 2021
(checked Oct 21/21)
Fiction, poetry, nonfiction. No more than 5 poems at one time, or one short story (or 1-3 flash pieces in the same file), or one creative nonfiction essay. Fiction / prose / essays should be no longer than 5,000 words. Payment: $20/poem and $75/prose piece.
https://bluestemmagazine.com/submit
Deadline: November 30, 2021
(checked Oct 29/21)
Poetry, short stories. “Crannóg’s mission is to publish the work of Irish writers alongside the best available worldwide and to show how well such writing sits with the best available internationally.” Payment: €50 per story, €30 per poem.
https://crannogmagazine.com/submit/
Deadline: November 30, 2021, opens October 1, 2021
(checked Jul 28/21)
Stories, poetry, nonfiction about the paranormal. Payment: $25 for fiction, $20 for articles, $7 for reviews, $6 per poem. Submissions are accepted Feb 1 – Mar 31, Jun 1 – Jul 31, Oct 1 – Nov 30.
https://www.hiraethsffh.com/parabnormal-magazine-guidelines
Deadline: November 30th, 2021; opens November 1, 2021
(checked Jul 28/21)
Speculative fiction and poetry—science fiction, fantasy, and horror, but also compelling work that blurs the lines between these and falls outside of neat genre categories. Payment: For fiction, $0.01/word (1 cent a word) USD. For poetry, a flat rate of $5 USD per accepted piece. For artwork, a flat rat of $60 for cover art.
https://kaleidotrope.net/guidelines/
Deadline: November 30, 2021. Fee to submit online; no fee for postal submissions.
(checked Jul 28/21)
Genre: Poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction. Payment: $10 per page, with a $200 maximum.
https://artsandsciences.utulsa.edu/nimrod/submissions/
Deadline: November 30, 2021
(checked Jul 28/21)
Parhelion is a young but established literary magazine based in Richmond, Virginia. We are now open to fiction, flash, poetry, and creative nonfiction submissions for our Winter 2022 issue. We remain open to pitches, articles, and content for features all year round. To see what kind of work we publish, and to get more detailed information on submitting, visit us online. As always, writers of all backgrounds and identities are welcome.
https://parhelionliterary.com/submission-guidelines/
Deadline: November 30, 2021
(checked Oct 29/21)
Fiction (novels and short stories), narrative non-fiction, poetry. “We particularly welcome submissions from women, BAME, disabled, working class and LGBTQ+ writers.” Payment: Royalties. (No information on site.)
https://www.saltpublishing.com/pages/submissions
Deadline: November 30, 2021. Note: Submit early in the month.
(checked Jul 28/21)
Fiction (flash and short stories), memoirs, and poetry. with a pop-culture twist. Payment: $50 per author (via PayPal) for our web issues. Payment for print is $5 per page, minimum of $20, plus 2 contributor copies and a 1-year subscription. FREE SUBMISSIONS: January, March, May, August, September, November.
https://splitlipthemag.com/submit
Deadline: November 30, 2021; opens September 15, 2021
(checked Jul 28/21)
Fiction, including excerpts from novels, creative nonfiction, art, and poetry. Payment: $60 CAD per published page.
https://thefiddlehead.ca/submit
Deadline: November 30th, 2021
(checked Oct 21/21)
Defamiliarized writing. “The contents of the collection will be curated according to biological taxonomy (species, genus, family, order, class, phylum, kingdom, domain) using word count, and the final form of the collection will be a cloth hardcover with a screen-printed dust jacket from Prieto Screenprinting. Each dust jacket will fold into a unique literary organism or book sculpture, the goal being a dimensional and tactile reading experience during these largely digital times.” Payment: $5 – $25.
http://thegravityofthething.com/submit/
Deadline: November 30, 2021
(checked Jul 28/21)
Previously unpublished writing and art. Payment: $40 per book review, $40 per poem, $40 per photograph or piece of visual art, $15 per page for prose (min $45 and max $105).
https://newsouthernfugitives.com/submit/
Deadline: November 28, 2021; opens November 21, 2021
(checked Jul 28/21)
Do you have a story you’d like us to feature on The Storyteller Series? Fiction, non-fiction, memoir – 7,000-10,000 words. Payment: $50 or $25.
https://nightshiftradio.com/submissions
Deadline: November 24, 2021
(checked Oct 29/21)
Fiction, poetry, CNF on the theme of Uncharted Territory. “Tell us about a time you (or a fictional character) either deliberately threw away the roadmap and set out on a new, uncharted course into the unfamiliar and unexpected, or a time when an external catalyst such as loss, illness, poverty, a social movement, a work of art, or a pandemic changed the way you think, or sent you in a new direction and changed the course of your life.” Payment: Prose: $0.10 per word; Poetry: $40 per poem.
https://www.prairiefire.ca/call-for-submissions-uncharted-territory/
Deadline: November 21, 2021
(checked Oct 29/21)
Flash fiction and poetry about the natural world on theme of Glow. “The editor hopes to see explorations that relate meaningful personal struggles not only to a larger picture of humanity but beyond, to the context of other species and the state of the planet.” Payment: $25. Submit early in the month to avoid submission fees.
https://clawandblossom.com/submissions/
Deadline: November 18, 2021
(checked Oct 29/21)
Restrictions: Open to LGBTQ+ writers. Genre: Short fiction, writing life, and creative nonfiction. “we created clavmag to fulfil our need to shout into the literary void, and as a platform for other people who feel the same way.” Payment: £52.
https://www.clavmag.com/submit
Deadline: November 18, 2021
(checked Oct 29/21)
Essays and creative non-fiction, reportage, fiction, poetry, memoir and picture stories. “Acts of Reckoning is a wide-ranging discussion of the multifaceted issues at play in Australia’s fraught journey towards a full settlement with Indigenous peoples.” Payment: Negotiated.
*Poetry submissions open January 18.
https://www.griffithreview.com/submit-to-griffith-review/
Deadline: November 15, 2021. See themes
(checked Jul 28/21)
Theme of Wonder. Parabola is a quarterly journal devoted to the exploration of the quest for meaning as it is expressed in the world’s myths, symbols, and religious traditions, with particular emphasis on the relationship between this store of wisdom and our modern life. Original essays and translations, poetry, reviews. Payment: Not specified.
https://parabola.org/submissions/
Deadline: November 15, 2021
(checked Sep 25/21)
Planisphere Q is seeking submissions for its third issue. “Dark Forest” is the theme. Any interpretation of the word is acceptable. All genres are accepted. The 500-word limit is firm. Flash fiction, vignettes, character sketches, and poetry accepted. See submission guidelines.
https://www.planisphereq.com/p/starwheel.html
Deadline: November 15, 2021
(checked Oct 25/21)
Shorts magazine is considering submissions for its Autumn edition, published 20th November 2021. We are now accepting original short fiction, flash fiction, essays, poetry, opinion pieces, life writing, articles, research topics, interviews, top ten lists, monologues, original photography, cartoons, artist showcase…if I like it, I’ll publish it.
http://shortsmagazine.com/
Smokelong Quarterly Prize 2021 (Fiction, Nonfiction)
Deadline: November 15, 2021; opens November 1, 2021; Entry Fee: Various
(checked Sep 29/21)
We want to feel your razor-sharp wit, share your sideways view of the world, hear your irresistibly bizarre voice. We want to laugh out loud and snort our coffee through our noses. Yes, we want this. All at the same time. Make us smile. While there is no specific theme for this competition, your work should interpret the idea of comedy in some (in)appropriate way. Comedy can be dark or slapstick, burlesque or deadpan, a parody or even a mockumentary. It’s up to you. Give us your satire, your surrealism, or your absurdism. Or all four.
https://www.smokelong.com/comedy-prize-2021-opens-aug-1/
Deadline: November 15, 2021
(checked Jul 28/21)
Restrictions: Open to writers who specifically identify as queer and BIPOC. Fiction, poetry, and essays that are centered within the cityscape. Payment: $20-$55.
http://www.speculativecity.com/submissions/
Deadline: November 7, 2021; opens November 1, 2021 (1st week every month)
(checked Jul 28/21)
Fantasy and dark fantasy. Short Story 1500-7500 words. (Stories of 5000 words or less are preferred.) Flash Fiction: Up to 1500 words. Poetry: prefers shorter poems. Payment: 8 cents per word for original short stories and flash fiction. $40 per poem.
https://adamant.moksha.io/publication/fantasy/guidelines
Deadline: November 7, 2021; opens to submissions on November 1, 2021 (poetry submissions currently closed)
(checked Jul 28/21)
Feminist-friendly work of any variety, but as a general rule your piece should be under 2000 words (50 lines for poetry, max. 3 poems) and able to be classified as “fiction”, “culture”, “memoir”, “column”, “poetry”, and/or “review”. Payment: $60 AUD.
Submissions to Scum are open the first week (from the 1st to the 7th) of every month. The rest of the month, submissions are closed.
https://www.scum-mag.com/submit-to-scum/
Deadline: November 7, 2021
(checked Sep 25/21)
Stories, essays, memoir and poetry to do with enchantment and scheming, in any context. “Black magic, witchcraft and wizardry are the obvious subjects, but we welcome wider interpretations of the theme: anything to do with political manipulation, backroom dealings, romantic plotting, duplicitous gamesmanship, or charismatic trickery is sought.” Payment: £25 per story and £5 per poem. Stories that fall below the requested minimum of 2,000 words will be paid at poetry rates. Artists will be paid £25 for use of their work as magazine illustration.
https://shooterlitmag.com/submissions/
Deadline: Pitches – November 5, 2021; Short Fiction – November 12, 2021
(checked Oct 29/21)
Restrictions: Canadian residents only. Theme of Bodies. Genre: Fiction, poetry. Payment: $125 per accepted short story up to 2500 words. $60 per flash fiction story under 1000 words.
https://this.org/contribute/
Deadline: November 3, 2021; opens October 1, 2021
(checked Jul 28/21)
Fairy tales, and essays on theme of “Healers, Midwives and Cunning Folk.” Payment: $100. US dollars only. Essays: $50.
https://enchantedconversationmag.blogspot.com/p/submissions.html
Deadline: November 2, 2021 (Submissions window: 1st and second day each month)
(checked Jul 28/21)
Speculative stories. Payment: 6 cents/word for original work, 2 cents/word for reprints, 2-6 cents/word for new fact-based work, 1-4 cents/word for reprinted fact articles, $1/line for new poetry, 50 cents/line for poetry reprints (poetry up to 40 lines). *Allows reprints
https://cosmicrootsandeldritchshores.com/submissions/
Deadline: November 1, 2021; opens August 1, 2021
(checked Jul 28/21)
Poetry, short fiction, drama, and creative non-fiction. Payment: $3 per page (Only pays American writers.).
https://ellipsis.submittable.com/submit
Deadline: November 1, 2021; Opens September 1, 2021
(checked Jun 28/21)
Genres: Poetry, prose, cross-genre work. “Foglifter welcomes daring and thoughtful work by queer and trans writers in all forms, and we are especially interested in cross-genre, intersectional, marginal, and transgressive work.” Payment: $25.
https://foglifter.submittable.com/submit
Deadline: November 1; Entry Fee: $35 for each entry from Canada *early bird discount until Sep. 30, 2021: CAD $20
(checked Sep 29/21)
The Malahat Review invites entries for its annual Open Season Awards in: poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction. The contest is open to Canadian and international writers anywhere in the world. Deadline: 11:59pm (PST) on November 1, 2021. The winner in each category will receive a prize of CAD $2,000 and be published in the magazine’s spring 2022 issue #218. Entries accepted via Submittable only.
http://www.malahatreview.ca/contests/open_season/info.html
Deadline: November 1, 2021
(checked Sep 25/21)
Nimrod International Journal invites submissions of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction for our spring 2022 thematic issue, What Now?: The Future We Make. In this time of change, the question that keeps arising is: “What now?” We now have a rare opportunity to pause and question our often unexamined assumptions about the world as it is and as it could be. We would love to read your work about what comes next in our futures on an individual, relationship, or family level and our social, national, and worldwide future. For complete guidelines and to submit.
https://artsandsciences.utulsa.edu/nimrod/call-for-manuscript-submissions/
Deadline: November 1, 2021; opens September 1, 2021
(checked Oct 21/21)
Poems and short fiction. “The theme for this issue is Return. As in, to return to a former place, person, or situation. Haven’t we been here before?” Payment: $25 per poem, $75 per story or essay) and a complimentary 2-year subscription to Ninth Letter.
https://ninthletteronline.submittable.com/submit
Deadline: November 1, 2021
(checked Sep 29/21)
The Santa Fe Literary Review (SFLR) is published annually by the Santa Fe Community College. An in-print literary journal, SFLR features work by local, national, and international writers and artists. Our 2022 theme is “Resilience: Adaptation, Empathy, and Hope.”
https://santafecommunitycollege.submittable.com/submit
Deadline: November 1 & 15; Entry Fee: $10 – $25
(checked Sep 29/21)
The mission of the TWFest and SASFest Writing Contest is to promote new work from emerging artists. TWFest & SASFest are 501c3 nonprofit status. We welcome submissions from around the world. Submissions must be original work and not published in any way. Please view the individual contest guidelines carefully to avoid disqualification.
https://tennesseewilliamsfestival.submittable.com/submit
Deadline: November 1, 2021
(checked Jul 28/21)
Genres: Fiction, poetry, nonfiction using the first line provided. (See site.) Payment: $25.00 – $50.00 for fiction, $5.00 – $10.00 for poetry, and $25.00 for nonfiction.
http://www.thefirstline.com/submission.htm
Deadline: November 1, 2021
(checked Jul 28/21)
Theme of Get It Over With! Fiction, poetry, and art on theme: Get It Over With! Payment: $10-$25 for short fiction and artwork, $10 for poetry. Accepts reprints.
http://themaliterarysociety.com/submissions.html
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