Category: Call for Submissions

NO FEE/REPRINTS Submission call & workshop for women/non-binary POC – For the Sonorous, DEADLINE: July 8 / July 31, 2018

For the Sonorous is a new “literary journal dedicated to empowering and publishing women and non-binary people of color.” They publish three online issues of poetry, prose, and art each year. Additionally, they are supporting women and non-binary poets and writers by providing a summer writing workshop. Their first […]

NO FEE/REPRINTS Submission call & workshop for women/non-binary POC – For the Sonorous, DEADLINE: July 8 / July 31, 2018

For the Sonorous is a new “literary journal dedicated to empowering and publishing women and non-binary people of color.” They publish three online issues of poetry, prose, and art each year. Additionally, they are supporting women and non-binary poets and writers by providing a summer writing workshop. Their first […]

NO FEE Contest & Submission calls (poetry, prose, chapbooks!) + editor interview – Sonic Boom, DEADLINES: June 25; July 1; Sept 30, 2018

Sonic Boom is a literary & arts journal seeking both solicited and unsolicited experimental poetry, flash fiction, and visual art submissions tri-annually; featuring an annual free contest; plus, a new chapbook press: Yavanika! They “hope to integrate multifarious genres of literature and artwork including Japanese short-forms of poetry, avant-garde, […]

NO FEE Submission call w/ musical prompt + editor/musician interview – Golden Walkman Magazine, DEADLINE: June 30, 2018

This is a really cool prompt and submission opportunity from the folks at Golden Walkman Magazine for a project they are calling “Dialogue Submissions.” Every few months, they will publish a Dialogue Starter Issue with poetry and prose inspired by an original, contributor-provided piece of instrumental music. “Writers will have (1) […]

NO FEE submission call + editor interview – peculiar, DEADLINE: June 24, 2018

Peculiar is fairly new LGBTQ+ print and online art and literary journal. They just recently opened to national submissions. I was curious how and why this art and literary journal began, so I asked Co-Editors Jack Garcia and Aaron Gates a few questions to find out. See my […]

NO FEE Submission call + editor interview – Whale Road Review, DEADLINE: June 30, 2018

Whale Road Review is an online literary journal that “takes its name from an old kenning. The ocean is the whale road. Whale road. Those words conjure an image of whales moving in patterns through the waters of the world.” I wondered how and why this journal came to be, […]

NO FEE submission call + editor interview – Sad Girl Review, DEADLINE: Open year-round

Sad Girl Review is a new online contemporary art and literary magazine. They will be publishing quarterly and their inaugural issue is forthcoming on July 1. I was curious how and why this art and literary magazine began, so I asked Editor Amber Morrison a few questions to find […]

PAYING/NO FEE submission call + editor interview – Riddled with Arrows, DEADLINE: June 17, 2018

Riddled with Arrows is a fairly new online literary journal, publishing quarterly. They are “dedicated to writing about writing. We seek (short) metafiction and metapoems, and writing that celebrates the process and product of writing as art.” I was curious how and why this literary journal began, so […]

NO FEE Submission call + interview – Matador Review, DEADLINE: May 31, 2018

Matador Review is a fabulously designed online literature and art quarterly based in Chicago, Illinois. They publish poetry, fiction, flash fiction, creative non-fiction, and visual art and are currently open for submissions of all unpublished literature written in the English language (and translations that are accompanied by the original text) as well as many […]

3 FREE Poetry/Prose Contests + editor interview – Literary Taxidermy, DEADLINE: June 4, 2018

Literary Taxidermy’s Short Story Competition is open to any writing form and genre, including: satire, tragedy, science fiction, fantasy, suspense, detective, romance, hyper realism, magical realism, plain old realism, speculative fiction, flash fiction, meta-fiction, meta-meta-fiction, screenplay, poetry, etc. “This year’s competition is actually three contests in one. The first […]

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