WRITING COMPETITIONS AND SUBMISSION OPPORTUNITIES
For writey writing writers
November 2020
Anatolios Magazine
Deadline: 30th November 2020
Word Limit: 6 poems or 10,000 words
Entry Fee: FREE
Notes: Submissions open 1st October
More details and submissions info HERE
Anthology Magazine Poetry Prize
Deadline: 30th November 2020
Word Limit: 40 lines
Prizes: €500
Entry Fee: €15
Notes: Theme: Expectations
More details and submissions info HERE
Apparition Lit
Deadline: 30th November 2020
Word Limit: 1,000 – 5,000 words or 2 pages of poetry
Payment: $0.03/word (minimum $30)
Submission Fee: FREE
Notes: Poetry and short fiction submissions open 15th November
More details and submissions info HERE
Better Than Starbucks Sonnet Contest
Deadline: 30th November 2020
Word Limit: up to two metrical sonnets
Prizes: 1st: $350 / 2nd: $100 / 3rd: $50
Submission Fee: FREE
Notes: Sonnets can be Shakespearean, Petrarchan, Spenserian, rhymed, or slant-rhymed
More details and submissions info HERE
The Boiler Prize
Deadline: 30th November 2020
Word Limit: 800 words
Prizes: 1st: $500 / 2nd: $250
Entry Fee: $7
Notes: Seeking submissions in any genre
More details and submissions info HERE
Cafe Writers Open Poetry Competition
Deadline: 30th November 2020
Word Limit: 40 lines
Prizes: 1st: £1,000 / 2nd: £300 / 3rd: £200
Entry Fee: £4
More details and submissions info HERE
Cranked Anvil Flash Fiction Competition
Deadline: 30th November 2020
Word Limit: 500 words
Prizes: 1st: £100 / 2nd: £25
Entry Fee: £3
More details and submissions info HERE
Film Fund Grant Programme
Deadline: 30th November 2020
Word Limit: none
Grant: $5,000-$30,000
Entry Fee: $59
More details and submissions info HERE
Green Ink Poetry
Deadline: 30th November 2020
Word Limit: One A4 page
Entry Fee: FREE
Notes: Theme: Safeguard
More details and submissions info HERE
Iowa Review
Deadline: 30th November 2020
Word Limit: Prose: 25 pages / Poetry: 8 pages
Payment: Poetry: $1.50 per line ($40 min.) / Prose: $0.08 per word ($100 min.)
Entry Fee: $4
More details and submissions info HERE
Luna Press Publishing: Speculative Scotland
Deadline: 30th November 2020
Word Limit: First three chapters of a 60,000 – 120,000 completed work
Submission Fee: FREE
Notes: Seeking collections of short stories and stand-alone novels of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Dark Fantasy by Scotland-based writers
More details and submissions info HERE
Paper Djinn Flash Fiction Contest
Deadline: 30th November 2020
Word Limit: 800 – 1,200 words
Prize: $10
Entry Fee: FREE
Notes: Theme: Imagine a world where androids are a sentient, self-governing race and co-exist with human beings. The two civilizations live and work together, make friends and enemies of each other, and engage in trade and war as any two nations on Earth
More details and submissions info HERE
Pure Slush: Birth – Lifespan volume 1
Deadline: 30th November 2020
Word Limit: 1,000 words
Submission Fee: FREE
Notes: Theme: Birth/new beginnings
More details and submissions info HERE
Ornithopter Press
Deadline: 30th November 2020
Word Limit: Poetry manuscripts of 70-100 pages
Entry Fee: FREE
More details and submissions info HERE
Reflex Flash Fiction Competition
Deadline: 30th November 2020
Word Limit: 180-360 words
Prizes: 1st: £1,000 / 2nd: £500 / 3rd: £250
Entry Fee: Choose your own
More details and submissions info HERE
Salt Publishing
Deadline: 30th November 2020
Requirements: Final, edited manuscripts of fiction, narrative nonfiction or poetry
Submission Fee: FREE
Notes: Submissions open 1st November 2020
More details and submissions info HERE
Soundwork Monologue Competition
Deadline: 30th November 2020
Time Limit: Up to ten minutes
Prizes: Recording by professional actor
Entry Fee: FREE
More details and submissions info HERE
South Poetry
Deadline: 30th November 2020
Word Limit: Up to three poems
Submission Fee: FREE
Notes: Postal submissions only
More details and submissions info HERE
Three Elements Review
Deadline: 30th November 2020
Word Limit: 3,500 words
Submission Fee: FREE
Notes: Submissions must incorporate three elements: Loop, ghost, hibiscus
More details and submissions info HERE
Under the Radar Magazine
Deadline: 30th November 2020
Word Limit: Up to six poems/2,500 words
Submission Fee: FREE
Notes: Especially seeking work from women, writers of colour, LGBTQ+, Disabled, D/deaf, and low-income writers
More details and submissions info HERE
Wising Up Press
Deadline: 30th November 2020
Word Limit: Up to five poems / 5,000 words
Submission Fee: FREE
Notes: Seeking submissions for two themed anthologies: Truth, Fair Play and other Myths we Live by and Spot-cleaning our Dirty Laundry
More details and submissions info HERE
December 2020
Breakwater Fiction Contest
Deadline: 1st December 2020
Word Limit: 4,000 words
Prize: $1,000
Submission Fee: $10
More details and submissions info HERE
DUM DUM Zine
Deadline: 1st December 2020
Word Limit: 1,500 words
Submission Fee: FREE
Notes: Theme: Quarantine
More details and submissions info HERE
Jane Underwood Poetry Prize
Deadline: 1st December 2020
Line Limit: 80 lines
Prize: $250
Submission Fee: $15
More details and submissions info HERE
Lagrange Books
Deadline: 1st December 2020
Word Limit: 3,500 – 15,000 words
Payment: short story: $100 / novella: $200
Submission Fee: FREE
Notes: Theme: Politics as story conflict
More details and submissions info HERE
Language Evolves Writing Competition
Deadline: 1st December 2020
Word Limit: 2,500 words
Prize: £400
Submission Fee: FREE
Notes: Theme: Language evolution
More details and submissions info HERE
The Latin Programme Poetry Prize
Deadline: 1st December 2020
Line Limit: 40 lines
Prize: £250
Submission Fee: £12
Notes: Theme: de rerum natura (on the nature of things)
More details and submissions info HERE
Le Scat Noir Encyclopedia
Deadline: 1st December 2020
Word Limit: 300 words
Submission Fee: FREE
Notes: Seeking experimental encyclopedia and dictionary entries
More details and submissions info HERE
Slice Magazine
Deadline: 1st December 2020
Word Limit: 5,000 words
Payment: Stories and essays: $400 / flash fiction: $150 / poetry: $100
Submission Fee: FREE
Notes: Theme: Levity
More details and submissions info HERE
WNBA Writing Contest
Deadline: 1st December 2020
Word Limit: Fiction: 3,000 words / CNF: 2,500 words / Flash: 750 words / Poetry: 5 pages
Prizes: $250 to each category winner
Submission Fee: $20
More details and submissions info HERE
The Phoenix
Deadline: 2nd December 2020
Word Limit: 5,000 words
Submission Fee: FREE
Notes: Seeking submissions of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction and hybrid works
More details and submissions info HERE
The Spectator
Deadline: 2nd December 2020 (midday)
Word Limit: 150 words
Payment: Paid
Submission Fee: FREE
Notes: You are invited to submit an extract from a Dickensian novel based around the name of someone in political life
More details and submissions info HERE
The Comedy Crowd: Chorts
Deadline: 4th December 2020
Time Limit: Scripts of up to 3 minutes
Prize: £250
Submission Fee: FREE
Notes: Seeking short comedy video scripts
More details and submissions info HERE
Literature Wales Professional Development Programme for Writers of Colour
Deadline: 4th December 2020
Word Limit: see website for details
Payment: £2,000 plus expenses
Submission Fee: FREE
Notes: Open to applications from writers of colour currently living in Wales
More details and submissions info HERE
Lucent Dreaming Novella Contest
Deadline: 4th December 2020
Word Limit: 15,000 – 40,000 words
Prizes: 1st: £100 / 2nd: £50 / 3rd: £25
Submission Fee: £4 or free for low-income writers
Notes: No simultaneous submissions
More details and submissions info HERE
Lucent Dreaming Pamphlet Contest
Deadline: 4th December 2020
Word Limit: 20 poems
Prizes: 1st: £100 plus publication / 2nd: £50 plus publication / 3rd: £25
Submission Fee: £5 or free for low-income writers
Notes: This competition is open only for diaspora, migrant and refugee poets in the UK who have not previously published a poetry collection
More details and submissions info HERE
The Spectator
Deadline: 4th December 2020 (midday)
Word Limit: none
Payment: Paid
Submission Fee: FREE
Notes: You are invited to submit a Christmas hit single (please specify) rewritten as a sonnet
More details and submissions info HERE
Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award
Deadline: 4th December 2020
Word Limit: 6,000 words
Prizes: 1st: £30,000 / shortlisted authors: £1,000
Submission Fee: FREE
Notes: Writers must have a record of prior publication of creative writing in the UK or Ireland
More details and submissions info HERE
Mini Saga Competition
Deadline: 6th December 2020
Word Limit: 50 words
Prizes: £25 voucher
Submission Fee: FREE
More details and submissions info HERE
Cove Park Literature Residencies
Deadline: 7th December 2020
Word Limit: 2,000 words or 8 poems
Prizes: Residency plus £425 per week
Entry Fee: FREE
Notes: Open to UK-based writers who have published at least one book
More details and submissions info HERE
Into the Void Magazine
Deadline: 7th December 2020
Word Limit: none
Payment: $10-$20 plus subscription
Entry Fee: FREE / tip jar
More details and submissions info HERE
Maverick Award
Deadline: 7th December 2020
Word Limit: See website for details
Prizes: Three awards of £2,000
Entry Fee: FREE
Notes: Open to playwrights who have lived and worked in Scotland for at least 4 years
More details and submissions info HERE
Mslexia Women’s Pamphlet Competition
Deadline: 7th December 2020
Word Limit: Up to 24 pages/20 poems
Prizes: £250 plus publication by Seren Books
Entry Fee: £20
Notes: Women only
More details and submissions info HERE
Mslexia Women’s Poetry Competition
Deadline: 7th December 2020
Word Limit: Up to three poems of any length
Prizes: 1st: £2,000/2nd: £500/3rd: £250
Entry Fee: £10
Notes: Women only
More details and submissions info HERE
Rising Stars Wales Award
Deadline: 8th December 2020
Word Limit: See website for details
Prizes: Five winners will receive £100 each plus professional development
Entry Fee: FREE
Notes: Open to poets or illustrators from a Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic background, based in Wales and writing or illustrating work for children aged 7-11 years old
More details and submissions info HERE
The Writer Fall Short Story Contest
Deadline: 8th December 2020
Word Limit: 2,000 words
Prizes: 1st: $1,000 / 2nd: $500 / 3rd $250
Entry Fee: FREE
More details and submissions info HERE
Burningword Literary Journal
Deadline: 10th December 2020
Word Limit: 5 poems / 2 pieces of flash fiction/flash nonfiction
Entry Fee: FREE
More details and submissions info HERE
Daisy Pettles Women’s Writing Residency and Grant
Deadline: 10th December 2020
Word Limit: 20 pages
Prize: Month-long residency plus $1,000 stipend
Entry Fee: $0-$45
Notes: Women only. Residency located in Bedford, Indiana
More details and submissions info HERE
Mad Raptor Productions
Deadline: 13th December 2020
Word Limit: none
Submission Fee: FREE
Notes: Seeking manuscripts of fantasy/dystopia/sci-fi/speculative
More details and submissions info HERE
Capsule Stories
Deadline: 15th December 2020
Word Limit: 3,000 words
Submission Fee: FREE
Notes: Theme: In Bloom
More details and submissions info HERE
Clairvoyants Illustrated Children’s Book Project
Deadline: 15th December 2020
Requirements: Storyboard/script of full book plus 3 completed double-page spreads
Prize: €2,500 plus publication
Submission Fee: FREE
Notes: Seeking international submissions in English and/or Polish
More details and submissions info HERE
The Great Pause: Rearview 2020
Deadline: 15th December 2020
Word Limit: 10,000 words
Submission Fee: FREE
Notes: Seeking “paused reactions to current events”
More details and submissions info HERE
Roswell Award
Deadline: 15th December 2020
Word Limit: 1,500 words
Prizes: 1st: $500 plus access to UCLA writing course / 2nd: $250 / 3rd: $100
Submission Fee: FREE
Notes: Additional “Women hold up half the sky” award for best feminist sci-fi short story
More details and submissions info HERE
Launchpad Prose Competition
Deadline: 18th December 2020
Word Limit: none
Submission Fee: $55
Prizes: Career development (see website for full details)
Notes: Seeking short stories, novels and manuscripts
More details and submissions info HERE
Unreal Estates
Deadline: 20th December 2020
Word Limit: 500 words
Submission Fee: FREE
Payment: Subject to funding
Notes: Seeking submissions from writers with a strong connection to Leeds, Bristol, Norwich or Thanet
More details and submissions info HERE
Wild Words Competition
Deadline: 21st December 2020
Word Limit: none
Submission Fee: £7
Prize: Hour-long one-to-one mentoring session
Notes: See website for prompts
More details and submissions info HERE
To Live Again Anthology
Deadline: 25th December 2020
Word Limit: 7,500 words
Payment: $0.01 per word plus royalties
Submission Fee: FREE
Notes: Theme: Reincarnation or resurrection
More details and submissions info HERE
Sampad: My City, My Home
Deadline: 30th December 2020
Word Limit: 1,000 words
Prizes: Winner in each language category (Urdu, Bengali, English) receives £200
Submission Fee: FREE
Notes: Open to women and girls aged 16+ only who are residents or demonstrate a clear connection with locations in Pakistan, Bangladesh or Birmingham (UK)
More details and submissions info HERE
Adanna Journal
Deadline: 31st December 2020
Word Limit: 2,000 words
Submission Fee: FREE
Notes: Theme: What Women Need
More details and submissions info HERE
Anthology Askew
Deadline: 31st December 2020
Word Limit: 5,000 words
Submission Fee: FREE
Notes: Theme: Relationships “I’d love to be the light that finds you”
More details and submissions info HERE
Calyx Journal
Deadline: 31st December 2020
Word Limit: 6 poems / Short fiction and essays: 5,000 words / Visual art, reviews and interviews: 2,500 words
Submission Fee: $5 / $3 (student/low income)
Notes: Women only, submission window opens 1st October
More details and submissions info HERE
The Danahy Fiction Prize
Deadline: 31st December 2020
Word Limit: 5,000 words
Prize: $1,000
Submission Fee: $20
Notes: All entrants receive a one-year subscription to the Tampa Review
More details and submissions info HERE
Finding Light in Unexpected Places Anthology
Deadline: 31st December 2020
Word Limit: 3,000 words
Submission Fee: FREE
Notes: Seeking Covid-19 stories that involve discovering unexpected joy, radiance, or light
More details and submissions info HERE
Lonely Cryptid Media
Deadline: 31st December 2020
Word Limit: 15,000 words /300 lines
Submission Fee: FREE
Notes: Theme: “Resist with every inch and every breath”. Submissions open for marginalised writers only 1/9 – 31/10 thereafter open to all writers
More details and submissions info HERE
Matchgirls Poetry/Flash Fiction/Phone Film Competition
Deadline: 31st December 2020
Word Limit: 40 lines / 200 words / 2 minutes
Prizes: £50 for each category winner
Entry Fee: £2
Notes: Theme: The Matchgirls
More details and submissions info HERE
The Moth Poetry Prize
Deadline: 31st December 2020
Line Limit: None
Prizes: €6,000/3 x €1,000/8 x €250
Entry Fee: €15 per poem
Notes: Poems must be previously unpublished
More details and submissions info HERE
The New York Times: Modern Love
Deadline: 31st December 2020
Word Limit: 1,500-1,700 words
Payment: $400
Submission Fee: FREE
Notes: Seeking true, personal stories of modern love
More details and submissions info HERE
Quay Words Young Writers Flash Fiction Competition
Deadline: 31st December 2020
Word Limit: 500 words
Prizes: 1st: £200 / 2nd: £100 / 3rd: £50
Entry Fee: FREE
Notes: Open to poets aged 10-18 years old. Theme: Trading places
More details and submissions info HERE
Rabbit Poetry
Deadline: 31st December 2020
Word Limit: Up to three poems
Entry Fee: FREE
Notes: Theme: Asia
More details and submissions info HERE
Swoop Books
Deadline: 31st December 2020
Word Limit: 3,000 words
Prizes: 1st: £100 / 2nd: £50 / 3rd: £25
Entry Fee: £5
Notes: Theme: Ordinary people
More details and submissions info HERE
Tiny Spoon
Deadline: 31st December 2020
Word Limit: 1,000 words
Entry Fee: FREE
Notes: Theme: Collaboration
More details and submissions info HERE
TriQuarterly
Deadline: 31st December 2020
Word Limit: 6 poems/5,000 words
Payment: Honoraria
Submission Fee: FREE
Notes: Submission window opens 1st October
More details and submissions info HERE
V International Playwrighting Contest
Deadline: 31st December 2020
Time Limit: Plays of 30 minutes to 2 hours
Prizes: 1st: €4,800 plus translation and performance / 2nd: €3,200 plus translation and performance / Shortlist: €2,000
Submission Fee: FREE
Notes: Open to submissions of plays for young audiences
More details and submissions info HERE
WoLF Poetry Competition
Deadline: 31st December 2020
Line Limit: 40 lines
Prizes: 1st: £400 / 2nd £150 / 3rd: £25
Submission Fee: £4
Notes: Theme: Aspects of love
More details and submissions info HERE
Write Time Short Story Competition
Deadline: 31st December 2020
Word Limit: 1,500 words
Prizes: 1st: £50 / 2nd £25
Submission Fee: £3
Notes: Open to writers over the age of 60 only
More details and submissions info HERE
Zombies Need Brains
Deadline: 31st December 2020
Word Limit: 7,500 words
Payment: $0.08 per word
Submission Fee: FREE
Notes: Seeking submissions for three separate sci fi/fantasy anthologies. See website for details
More details and submissions info HERE
Rolling deadlines
Awakenings Review
Deadline: Rolling
Word Limit: 5,000 words
Submission Fee: FREE
Notes: Seeking work from writers who have had a personal experience with mental illness
More details and submissions info HERE
Blue Marble Review
Deadline: Rolling
Word Limit: 3 poems / Prose: 1,500 words
Payment: $25 per piece
Submission Fee: FREE
Notes: Seeking poetry, fiction, non-fiction, essays, opinion pieces, travel writing, photography and art
More details and submissions info HERE
Blue Moose Books
Deadline: Rolling
Word Limit: send the first three chapters of a novel, plus synopsis
Submission Fee: FREE
Notes: Seeking novels from unpublished writers. No children’s, YA or poetry
More details and submissions info HERE
Book of Matches
Deadline: Rolling
Word Limit: 2,100 words
Submission Fee: FREE
Notes: Seeking poetry, fiction, nonfiction and translation
More details and submissions info HERE
Brevity Magazine
Deadline: Rolling
Word Limit: 750 words
Payment: $45
Submission Fee: FREE
Notes: Seeking extremely brief essays
More details and submissions info HERE
Carve Magazine
Deadline: Rolling
Word Limit: none
Payment: $50-$100
Submission Fee: FREE
More details and submissions info HERE
CHILLFILTR
Deadline: Rolling
Word Limit: 3,000 words
Payment: $20/1,000 words (up to $60)
Submission Fee: FREE
Notes: Looking for poetry, memoirs, short stories and personal essays
More details and submissions info HERE
The Common Tongue Magazine
Deadline: Rolling
Word Limit: 600 – 6,000 words
Payment: $0.03/word
Submission Fee: FREE
Notes: Seeking submissions of dark fantasy
More details and submissions info HERE
Creative Nonfiction
Deadline: Rolling
Word Limit: 4,000 words
Payment: $125 + $10 per printed page
Submission Fee: $3
Notes: Seeking all types of creative nonfiction
More details and submissions info HERE
Driftwood Press
Deadline: Rolling
Word Limit: None
Payment: Novellas: $400 plus royalties / Short stories: $100 / Poetry: $15 / Poetry collections: $500 plus royalties / Visual arts, comics and graphic novels: varies
Submission Fee: Fiction: £3.99 / Poetry: $2.99 / Novella: $20 / Poetry collection: $20 / Visual arts, comics and graphic novels: free
More details and submissions info HERE
Fairlight Books
Deadline: Rolling
Word Count: Novel: 50,000+ / Novella: 25,000 – 50,000 words
Submission Fee: FREE
Notes: Accepting submissions of literary fiction only. Please send no more than 10,000 words
More details and submissions info HERE
The Fiction Desk
Deadline: Rolling
Word Count: 1,000 – 20,000 words
Payment: £20 per 1,000 words
Submission Fee: £4 / free when you buy an anthology
More details and submissions info HERE
Fictive Dream
Deadline: Rolling
Word Count: 500 – 2,500 words
Submission Fee: FREE
Notes: Seeking short stories
More details and submissions info HERE
Frontier Poetry
Deadline: Rolling
Word Count: 5 poems or 10 pages
Payment: $50 per poem (up to $150)
Submission Fee: FREE
Notes: Open to new and emerging poets only (no more than one full-length published work)
More details and submissions info HERE
Gasher Journal
Deadline: Rolling
Word Count: 8 poems or 500-3,000 words
Submission Fee: FREE
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The Good Literary Agency
Deadline: Rolling
Word Count: none
Submission Fee: FREE
Notes: Seeking book-length submissions in any genre from writers who are part of groups under-represented in mainstream publishing
More details and submissions info HERE
HOOT Review
Deadline: Rolling
Word Count: 150 words
Submission Fee: $2
Notes: Seeking fiction, non-fiction, memoir, poetry, and book reviews
More details and submissions info HERE
Lavender Review
Deadline: Rolling
Word Count: 3-6 poems
Submission Fee: FREE
Notes: Open to submissions of work by, about and for lesbians
More details and submissions info HERE
The Missouri Review
Deadline: Rolling
Word Limit: Prose: 2,000-9,000 words / Poetry: 8-20 pages
Submission Fee: $4
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Microverses
Deadline: Rolling
Word Limit: Poetry: 8 lines / Narrative pieces: 280 characters or fewer
Payment: Poetry: $1/line / Other: $2.80/piece
Submission Fee: FREE
Notes: Experimental and interactive forms welcome
More details and submissions info HERE
Neon Magazine
Deadline: Rolling
Word Limit: 10 poems / Prose: 10,000 words
Payment: Prose: 0.5p per word / Poetry: 10p per line (minimum payment £10)
Submission Fee: FREE
Notes: Theme: Horror
More details and submissions info HERE
New Walk Editions
Deadline: Rolling
Word Limit: 12 – 20 pages
Submission Fee: FREE
Notes: Seeking poetry pamphlets
More details and submissions info HERE
Nightmares and Phantasms Podcast
Deadline: Rolling
Word Limit: 1,000 – 6,000 words
Payment: $5
Submission Fee: FREE
Notes: One story per submission and one submission per month
More details and submissions info HERE
One Hand Clapping
Deadline: Rolling
Word Limit: none
Submission Fee: FREE
Notes: Please submit writing as a Word document
More details and submissions info HERE
The Other Stories Podcast
Deadline: Rolling
Word Count: 2,000 words
Submission Fee: FREE
Notes: Seeking short themed horror for professional narration and broadcast – see website for themes and deadlines
More details and submissions info HERE
Pithead Chapel
Deadline: Rolling
Word Limit: 4,000 words
Submission Fee: FREE
Notes: Seeking short fiction, nonfiction and prose poetry
More details and submissions info HERE
Pocketfire
Deadline: Rolling
Word Limit: 1-3 poems
Submission Fee: Video: $5 / print: $3 / online: $2 (all reimbursed on acceptance)
Notes: Seeking submissions of poetry for video performance, print and online publication
More details and submissions info HERE
Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal
Deadline: Rolling
Word Limit: Up to 3 poems
Submission Fee: FREE
More details and submissions info HERE
Poetically Magazine
Deadline: Rolling
Word Limit: Poetry: 2 pages / prose: 2,000 words
Submission Fee: FREE
More details and submissions info HERE
Poetry Ireland Review
Deadline: Rolling
Word Limit: 6 poems or 10 pages
Payment: €40
Submission Fee: FREE
Notes: Submissions from women and people from diverse ethnic backgrounds are actively encouraged
More details and submissions info HERE
Poetica Magazine
Deadline: Rolling
Word Limit: None
Submission Fee: FREE
Notes: Looking for poetry and prose centred on the Jewish experience. Interested in personal stories – not historical or political views
More details and submissions info HERE
The Rambling
Deadline: Rolling
Word Limit: 500 – 1,500 words
Submission Fee: FREE
Notes: Seeking work relating to the eighteenth century
More details and submissions info HERE
Sand Hills Magazine
Deadline: Rolling
Word Limit: 1,000 words / 3 poems
Submission Fee: FREE
Notes: Seeking submissions from writers currently residing in the US only
More details and submissions info HERE
Smokelong Quarterly
Deadline: Rolling
Word Limit: 1,000 words
Payment: $50
Submission Fee: FREE
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Split Lip Magazine
Deadline: Rolling
Word Limit: Submit one piece only
Payment: $50
Entry Fee: October, December: Tip Jar / November: FREE
Notes: Free submissions are available to Black writers for the rest of the year
More details and submissions info HERE
Stand Magazine
Deadline: Rolling
Word Limit: 4-6 poems / Fiction: 3,000 words
Submission Fee: FREE
Notes: Does not accept simultaneous submissions
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Stinger Stories
Deadline: Rolling
Word Limit: 300 words
Submission Fee: FREE
Notes: Theme: sci fi/fantasy/experimental
More details and submissions info HERE
The Treason Show
Deadline: Rolling
Word Limit: None
Payment: Share of box office
Submission Fee: FREE
Notes: Seeking parody songs, one-liners and topical sketches
More details and submissions info HERE
Tuna Fish Journal
Deadline: Rolling
Word Limit: 30 lines / 5,000 words
Submission Fee: FREE
Notes: New theme each calendar month. Click here for schedule
More details and submissions info HERE
The White Pube Writers Grant
Deadline: Rolling
Word Limit: None
Award: £500
Entry Fee: FREE
Notes: Open to working-class writers based in the UK
More details and submissions info HERE
Wyldblood Press
Deadline: Rolling
Word Limit: Flash: 300 – 1,000 words / Novels: 40,000 – 120,000 words
Payment: short fiction: 1p per word / Novels: royalty only
Submission Fee: FREE
Notes: Seeking speculative and literary fiction
More details and submissions info HERE
