Category: Call for Submissions

FREE Online Experimental Writing Project from the OSU-Cascades Collective

Previous fellow student and friend of mine, Austin Anderson, recently shared an intriguing writing experiment project his MFA creative writing group is conducting this summer. We are Plenum, the website for the inaugural cohort of OSU-Cascades Collective, a brave new world in low-residency MFA creative writing adventures. This site is where […]

NO FEE Submission Call for new motherhood lit mag: Mothers Always Write

Mothers Always Write is a new online, monthly lit mag publishing “essays and poetry about the mothering experience.”  Their first issue is ready for reading and will give you a feel for the topics and style of writing they prefer–with poems and essays from all aspects of parenting–from babyhood […]

NO FEE Submission Call for Black Lawrence DEADLINE: June 30

Black Lawrence is currently open for no fee submissions for their open reading period in June. “During our June and November open reading periods, we accept fee-free submissions in the following categories: novel, novella, short story collection (full-length and chapbook), poetry (full-length and chapbook), biography & cultural studies, […]

NO FEE Calls for Submissions - 7 Lit Mags with Deadlines in July, 2015

This list focuses on poetry submissions, but most lit mags accept prose and art as well. The listings are in order of closest deadlines. If you like this post, please share with your writerly friends and/or follow my blog or like my Facebook page. Blueshift Journal DEADLINE: 7/1/2015 SUBMISSION FEE: […]

Exquisite Poetry in Words Dance – "The Rape of Persephone" by Hannah Hamilton

Plan to spend some time with this poem by Hannah Hamilton and corresponding artwork by Kelly Louise Judd. Each numbered section of this poem brings readers in closer and closer to the speaker–an intimate and detailed exposure to experiences many of us relate to in one way or another. […]

Exquisite Poetry in Words Dance – “The Rape of Persephone” by Hannah Hamilton

Plan to spend some time with this poem by Hannah Hamilton and corresponding artwork by Kelly Louise Judd. Each numbered section of this poem brings readers in closer and closer to the speaker–an intimate and detailed exposure to experiences many of us relate to in one way or another. […]

PAYING/NO FEE Call for Submissions – Quaint Magazine (female, non-binary) NEW!

“Quaint Magazine is a literary quarterly that publishes dynamic, arresting, and transgressive poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction by female and gender non-binary writers. Accordingly, we are trans inclusive. We are strongly committed to publishing work from traditionally marginalized writers, giving voice to the strange, the weird, and the […]

Call for Submissions – BARED Anthology on bras/breasts – DEADLINE Sept. 18, 2015

Forthcoming from Les Femmes Folles Books, Bared collects art and poetry on bras and breasts by women writers and women artists. Poets and artists bare their best breasts clad in bras, bare-chested, or both to boast their barbaric yawps in poems, in paint, in pictures, and art. Bared […]

NO FEE Contest / $250 Prize – Winter Tangerine, Deadline EXTENDED July 1, 2015

Winter Tangerine Awards is a FREE-TO-ENTER contest which “aims to honor new and emerging poets and prose writers who are creating electric work. Submissions will only be accepted from writers who have not yet published a chapbook, novel, or collection of any type.” And good news! They just extended […]

NO FEE / PAYING Call for Submission – The Offing DEADLINE: June 7, 2015

All categories are accepting submissions without fee until June 7. After which, a $3 fee via Submittable will be required, unless you choose to mail in your submission. To read more about The Offing, their mission, and the different forms they accept, read their About page here. From […]

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