WRITING COMPETITIONS AND SUBMISSION OPPORTUNITIES
For writey writing writers
October 2020
Any Last Words
Deadline: 23rd October 2020
Word Limit: short form: 500 words / long form: 1,500 words
Prize: 1st: £200 / 2nd: £50
Entry Fee: FREE
Notes: Open to students with a ac.uk email address. Theme: Climate change
More details and submissions info HERE
The Dinesh Allirajah Prize for Short Fiction
Deadline: 23rd October 2020
Word Limit: 1,500 – 1,700 words
Prize: 1st: £500
Entry Fee: FREE
Notes: Open to UK residents aged 18 and over
More details and submissions info HERE
Fly on the Wall Press
Deadline: 23rd October 2020
Word Limit: Open to manuscripts of short story collections: 30,000 words / poetry chapbooks: 32 pages / poetry collections: 72 pages
Submission fee: FREE
Notes: In order to submit you must provide a receipt showing you have bought a book from Fly on the Wall in 2020
More details and submissions info HERE
Retreat West Short Story Prize
Deadline: 25th October 2020
Word Limit: 1,500-3,000 words
Prizes: 1st: £400 / 2nd: £250 / 3rd: £150 / Shortlisted: £20
Entry Fee: £10
Notes: All winning and shortlisted stories published in the annual anthology – paperback and ebook – and receive a contributor copy
More details and submissions info HERE
BBC Radio 4 Extra: Newsjack
Deadline: Mondays and Tuesdays at midday until 27th October 2020
Word Limit: See website for guidelines
Submission Fee: FREE
Notes: Seeking topical sketches and one-liners
More details and submissions info HERE
VanderMay Nonfiction Prize
Deadline: 27th October 2020
Word Limit: 5,500 words
Prizes: $1,500
Entry Fee: $20
Notes: Open to submissions of essays and short memoirs
More details and submissions info HERE
Friction Fall 2020 Literary Contest
Deadline: 30th October 2020
Word Limit: Flash fiction: 1,000 / Short fiction: 7,500
Prize: Short fiction: $500 / Flash fiction & poetry: $300
Entry Fee: Flash fiction & poetry: $10 / Short fiction: $15
Notes: Seeking work that actively pushes boundaries, that forces us to question traditions and tastes
More details and submissions info HERE
The ALCS Tom-Gallon Trust Award
Deadline: 31st October 2020
Word Limit: 5,000 words
Prize: £1,000
Entry Fee: FREE
Notes: Entrants must have had at least one other story accepted for publication
More details and submissions info HERE
The Bedford Writing Competition
Deadline: 31st October 2020
Word Limit: Short stories: 300 / Poetry: 40 lines
Prize: 1st: £500 / 2nd: £150 / 3rd: £100
Entry Fee: £6
Notes: Special awards for writers over 70 and under 25 years old
More details and submissions info HERE
Benjamin Franklin House Literary Prize
Deadline: 31st October 2020
Word Limit: 1,000-1,500 words
Prize: 1st: £750 / 2nd: £500
Entry Fee: FREE
Notes: Open to writers aged 18-25. Theme: “Glass, china and reputation are easily crack’d” – Benjamin Franklin
More details and submissions info HERE
The Black River Chapbook Competition
Deadline: 31st October 2020
Requirements: A chapbook of poetry or prose (16-36 pages)
Prize: $500 + publication + 10 copies
Entry Fee: $15
More details and submissions info HERE
The Blue Light Books Prize
Deadline: 31st October 2020
Requirements: Full-length poetry manuscripts (48-75 pages)
Prize: $1,000 + publication
Entry Fee: $20
Notes: The winning Blue Light Books collection will be published in trade paperback format and displayed at the following Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference. The winner will also be flown out to read a selection of their work at the annual 2021 Blue Light Reading in beautiful Bloomington, IN.
More details and submissions info HERE
Cannon Poets’ Sonnet or Not
Deadline: 31st October 2020
Word Limit: 14 lines
Prize: 1st: £500 / 2nd: £250 / 3rd: £150
Entry Fee: £5
Notes: Entries must be exactly 14 lines
More details and submissions info HERE
Cinnamon Press Literature Award
Deadline: 31st October 2020
Word Limit: 10 poems (up to 50 lines) / two short stories (up to 5,000 words) / first 10,000 words of a novel
Prize: Publication by Cinnamon Press
Entry Fee: £16
Notes: Open to published and unpublished writers
More details and submissions info HERE
Cranked Anvil Short Story Competition
Deadline: 31st October 2020
Word Limit: 1,500 words
Prize: 1st: £150 / 2nd: £75 / 3rd: £30
Entry Fee: £5
Notes: Open to short stories on any theme, in any style
More details and submissions info HERE
Finishing Line Press Open Chapbook Competition
Deadline: 31st October 2020
Word Limit: Manuscript of 16-38 pages
Prize: $1,000 plus publication
Entry fee: $15
More details and submissions info HERE
Flash 500 Novel Opening Chapter Competition
Deadline: 31st October 2020
Word Limit: First 3,000 words plus one-page synopsis
Prize: 1st: £500 / 2nd: £200
Entry Fee: £10
Notes: Optional critiques available for £25
More details and submissions info HERE
Freedom from Torture Poetry Competition
Deadline: 31st October 2020
Word Limit: Poems of any length or style
Prize: Performance and publication
Entry Fee: £5 / free for those with experience of being a refugee or asylum seeker
Notes: Theme: Resilience. Funds raised go towards creative projects for survivors of torture
More details and submissions info HERE
Frogmore Papers
Deadline: 31st October 2020
Word Limit: 2,000 words / 80 lines
Submission Fee: FREE
Notes: Postal submissions only for UK residents, email submissions accepted for overseas writers
More details and submissions info HERE
Ginkgo Prize for Ecopoetry
Deadline: 31st October 2020
Word Limit: None
Prize: 1st: £5,000 / 2nd: £2,000 / 3rd: £1,000
Entry Fee: £7
Notes: Extra AONB prize for best landscape poem
More details and submissions info HERE
The Gravity of the Thing
Deadline: 31st October 2020
Word Limit: Flash fiction/poetry: 500 words / Short fiction: 3,000 words
Entry Fee: FREE
More details and submissions info HERE
John Byrne Award
Deadline: 31st October 2020
Word Limit: 15,000 words plus 200 word entry statement
Prize: £500
Entry Fee: FREE
Notes: Open to those aged 16 or over who are living or studying in Scotland
More details and submissions info HERE
Kissing Dynamite Microchap Series
Deadline: 31st October 2020
Requirements: Poetry micro chapbooks (15 pages max)
Payment: $50 + publication + 10 copies
Submission Fee: Pay what you can (optional)
More details and submissions info HERE
Larry Brown Short Story Award
Deadline: 31st October 2020
Word Limit: 4,000 words
Prize: 1st: $500 / 2nd: $50
Entry Fee: $10
More details and submissions info HERE
Long Day Press
Deadline: 31st October 2020
Word Limit: Novellas: 80,000 words / Chapbooks: 15-51 pages / Paper trail & web exclusives: 420 words
Submission Fee: In lieu of a submission fee, Long Day Press asks that you purchase one of their books so you are familiar with the type of work they publish. They do not accept poetry submissions
More details and submissions info HERE
The National Poetry Competition
Deadline: 31st October 2020
Word Limit: 40 lines
Prize: 1st: £5,000 / 2nd: £2,000 / 3rd: £1,000
Entry Fee: £7
Notes: open to anyone 18 or over
More details and submissions info HERE
Ovacome Writing Competition
Deadline: 31st October 2020
Word Limit: 2,500 words
Prize: £500
Entry Fee: £5
Notes: Theme: overcoming
More details and submissions info HERE
The Quill (Queer) Prose Award
Deadline: 31st October 2020
Requirements: A work of previously unpublished prose (min 150 pages)
Prize: $1,000 + publication
Entry Fee: $10
Notes: The Quill (Queer) Prose Award is open to queer writers
More details and submissions info HERE
Sappho’s Prize in Poetry
Deadline: 31st October 2020
Requirements: Full-length poetry manuscripts (45-100 pages)
Prize: Publication
Entry Fee: $15
Notes: Sappho’s Prize in Poetry is open to lesbian poets
More details and submissions info HERE
Sentinel Literary Quarterly Poetry Competition
Deadline: 31st October 2020
Word Limit: 50 lines
Prize: 1st: £250 / 2nd: £100 / 3rd: £50
Entry Fee: £5
Notes: Poems may be on any subject and in any style
More details and submissions info HERE
Wenlock Olympian Society Flash Fiction Competition
Deadline: 31st October 2020
Word Limit: 1,000 words
Prize: 1st: £150/2nd: £50/3rd: £25 plus medals
Entry Fee: £5
Notes: Theme: Five rings / Winning / Gold is only a colour
More details and submissions info HERE
The Windows Project
Deadline: 31st October 2020
Requirements: Up to 6 double-spaced pages of a script, story or novel or up to 6 poems (180 lines total)
Prize: Free feedback from professional published writers
Entry Fee: FREE
Notes: 6 submissions per week will be selected on a first come, first served basis
More details and submissions info HERE
The Young Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction
Deadline: 31st October 2020
Word Limit: 800-2,000 words
Prize: 1st: £500 travel and research grant/runners-up: £100 book token
Entry Fee: FREE
Notes: Open to writers aged 11-19
More details and submissions info HERE
November 2020
Caledonia Novel Award
Deadline: 1st November 2020
Word Limit: first 20 pages of a novel
Prize: £1,500 plus trophy
Entry Fee: £25
Notes: Open to unpublished or self-published novelists only
More details and submissions info HERE
Commonwealth Short Story Prize
Deadline: 1st November 2020
Word Limit: 2,000-5,000 words
Prizes: 1st: £5,000 / £2,500 for five regional winners
Entry Fee: £25
Notes: Open to commonwealth citizens aged 18 or over
More details and submissions info HERE
Ellipsis Literature and Art
Deadline: 1st November 2020
Word Limit: 8,000 words or 5 poems
Payment: £10 per poem / £3 per page of prose
Submission Fee: FREE
More details and submissions info HERE
The First Line
Deadline: 1st November 2020
Word Limit: 5,000 words
Payment: $25-$50
Submission Fee: FREE
Notes: Must begin with the words “Loud music filled the room, making it hard to hear anything else”
More details and submissions info HERE
Foglifter Journal
Deadline: 1st November 2020
Word Limit: 3-5 poems or 7,500 words
Payment: $25
Notes: Open to LGBTQ writers
More details and submissions info HERE
Porridge Magazine
Deadline: 1st November 2020
Word Limit: 3 poems or 4,000 words
Submission Fee: FREE
More details and submissions info HERE
Shooter Poetry Competition
Deadline: 1st November 2020
Word Limit: 100 lines
Prizes: 1st: £150 / 2nd: £50
Entry Fee: £3
Notes: All entrants receive a free e-copy of the winter issue of Shooter
More details and submissions info HERE
Slashertorte: an Anthology of Cake Horror
Deadline: 1st November 2020
Word Limit: 2,000 words
Payment: $0.01 per word
Submission Fee: FREE
Notes: Seeking short horror fiction on the subject of cake
More details and submissions info HERE
Systems Change Alliance Flash Fiction Challenge
Deadline: 1st November 2020
Word Limit: 1,000 – 1,250 words
Prizes: 1st : €300 / 2nd: €100
Submission Fee: FREE
Notes: Theme: a better world beyond the pandemic
More details and submissions info HERE
Walled Women
Deadline: 1st November 2020
Word Limit: 1,000 words or 5 poems
Submission Fee: FREE
Notes: Women only. Theme: Voices against sexual violence
More details and submissions info HERE
Weird Christmas Flash Fiction Contest
Deadline: 1st November 2020
Word Limit: 350 words
Prizes: 1st: $50 / 2nd: $25
Entry Fee: FREE
Notes: Seeking weird stories relating to Christmas or another winter holiday
More details and submissions info HERE
Cheat River Review
Deadline: 5th November 2020
Word Limit: 3 poems or 3,000 words
Entry Fee: FREE
Notes: Theme: Appalachia
More details and submissions info HERE
Fresh Voices Screenplay Competition
Deadline: 5th November 2020
Word Limit: See website for full details
Prizes: $3,000 plus career and screenplay development
Entry Fee: $80
More details and submissions info HERE
Alfred Bradley Bursary Award
Deadline: 6th November 2020
Requirements: An original and complete drama script written for radio, TV, stage or film which should be at least 30 pages long
Prizes: £5,000 plus a 12 month development mentorship with a Radio Drama Producer and the opportunity to develop the script for broadcast as a drama on BBC Radio 4
Entry Fee: FREE
Notes: Open to full-time/permanent residents of the North of England
More details and submissions info HERE
Graphic Short Story Prize
Deadline: 6th November 2020
Word Limit: see website for specifications
Prizes: 1st: £1,000 plus publication in The Observer New Review / Runner-up: £250 plus publication on guardian.com
Entry Fee: FREE
More details and submissions info HERE
Mechanics’ Institute Review
Deadline: 6th November 2020
Word Limit: 3,000 words or 3 poems
Entry Fee: FREE
Notes: Theme: fight or flight. Open to fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry from UK-based writers only
More details and submissions info HERE
Kissing Dynamite Poetry
Deadline: 10th November 2020
Word Limit: one poem
Entry Fee: FREE
Notes: Submissions open 1st November
More details and submissions info HERE
Globe Soup Poetry Competition
Deadline: 11th November 2020
Word Limit: 50 lines
Prizes: £1,000
Entry Fee: £5 early bird / £8 general
Notes: Theme: Poetry with a sense of place
More details and submissions info HERE
TLC BESEA Free Read
Deadline: 13th November 2020
Word Limit: 2,000 word sample plus one-page synopsis
Prize: Free manuscript assessment and follow-up one-to-one session (worth £790) with a professional editor
Entry Fee: FREE
Notes: Open to British East and South East Asian (BESEA) writers working on a full-length novel
More details and submissions info HERE
Waymark Magazine
Deadline: 13th November 2020
Word Limit: 3 poems of up to 50 lines / 7,000 words
Entry Fee: FREE
More details and submissions info HERE
Akuko Writers Competition
Deadline: 15th November 2020
Word Limit: 8,000 words
Prizes: 1st: $250 / 2nd: $100 / 3rd: $50
Entry Fee: FREE
Notes: Open to writers who are African or of African descent, seeking submissions on the theme of Africa or Africans
More details and submissions info HERE
Angel City Review
Deadline: 15th November 2020
Word Limit: 4 poems or 6,000 words
Entry Fee: FREE
Notes: Theme: Music
More details and submissions info HERE
The Frontier Open
Deadline: 15th November 2020
Word Limit: Up to 3 poems
Prize: $5,000
Entry Fee: $20
More details and submissions info HERE
Glish – Variety English Poetry Project
Deadline: 15th November 2020
Word Limit: Three poems
Payment: $150
Entry Fee: FREE
Notes: Seeking poems written in or regarding variety English, eg. Singlish, Konglish, Spanglish, AAVE, and other English-associated linguistic forms
More details and submissions info HERE
Lunate 500 Flash Competition
Deadline: 15th November 2020
Word Limit: 500 words
Prizes: 1st: £200 / 2nd: £100 / 3rd: £50
Entry Fee: £5
Notes: Theme: Other people
More details and submissions info HERE
Rane Arroyo Chapbook Series
Deadline: 15th November 2020
Word Limit: Poetry manuscripts of 16-24 pages
Prize: Publication
Entry Fee: FREE
More details and submissions info HERE
Sou’wester
Deadline: 15th November 2020
Word Limit: One piece per submission
Payment: Contributor’s copies plus a year’s subscription to Sou’wester
Entry Fee: FREE
Notes: Especially seeking work from writers from marginalised communities
More details and submissions info HERE
Film the House Competition
Deadline: 16th November 2020
Word Limit: 3-20 pages / 3-15 minutes
Prizes: See website for full details
Entry Fee: FREE
Notes: Open to UK-based student or independent filmmakers
More details and submissions info HERE
Poets and Players Poetry Prize
Deadline: 16th November 2020
Word Limit: 40 lines
Prizes: £300
Entry Fee: £2 per poem
Notes: Theme: re-emergence
More details and submissions info HERE
Pure Slush: Birth – Lifespan volume 1
Deadline: 16th November 2020
Word Limit: 1,000 words
Submission Fee: FREE
Notes: Theme: Birth/new beginnings
More details and submissions info HERE
Through the Mill Playwrighting Prize
Deadline: 27th November 2020
Requirements: Script of an hour or more playing time
Prizes: £5,000 plus production and mentoring
Entry Fee: FREE
Notes: Open to UK residents only
More details and submissions info HERE
Wales Poetry Award
Deadline: 27th November 2020
Word Limit: 70 lines
Prizes: 1st: £250 and a place on the writing course of your choice at Literature Wales’ Ty Newydd Writing Centre, a Seren Book Bundle and publication in Poetry Wales / 2nd: £50 / 3rd: £25
Entry Fee: £5 each or free to UK entrants from low-income households
More details and submissions info HERE
East Riding Festival of Words Poetry Competition
Deadline: 28th November 2020
Word Limit: 45 lines
Prizes: 1st: £500 / 2nd: £250 / 3rd: £200 / 4th: £150
Entry Fee: £4
Notes: Theme: My companion, my best friend
More details and submissions info HERE
Bath Children’s Novel Award
Deadline: 29th November 2020
Word Limit: first 5,000 words plus 300-word synopsis
Prize: £3,000
Entry Fee: £28 plus sponsored entries available for low-income writers
Notes: Open to unpublished, self-published and independently-published writers
More details and submissions info HERE
London Independent Story Prize
Deadline: 29th November 2020
Word Limit: Flash fiction: 300 words / Short stories: 1,500 words / Screenplays: 30 pages
Prizes: Flash fiction/short story: £100 / screenplay: software worth $250
Entry Fee: Please see website for full list
More details and submissions info HERE
Retreat West Novelette-in-Flash Prize
Deadline: 29th November 2020
Word Limit: 8,000 words
Prizes: 1st: £150 / 2nd: £100 / 3rd: £50
Entry Fee: £14
Notes: Comprised of standalone flash fiction chapters of up to 500 words each
More details and submissions info HERE
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
More details and submissions info HERE
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
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
More details and submissions info HERE
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
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
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
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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
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The Rambling
Deadline: Rolling
Word Limit: 500 – 1,500 words
Submission Fee: FREE
Notes: Seeking work relating to the eighteenth century
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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