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 […]

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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 […]

FREE Poetry Contests – Prizes from $20 – $100,000! DEADLINES in June 2015

All of the contests below have no entry fees, except for the animal poetry contest, which is for a good cause and only $1 per poem to enter. Animal Poetry Contest DEADLINE: June 15, 2015 ENTRY FEE: $1/poem NOTES: "Poems can be up to 40 lines and must […]

How to Submit Poems for Publication

Great article with specific tips about how to submit your poetry to journals. I couldn’t have said it better myself!

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 […]

Bite-Size Poetry - Notable Utah Poets Video Poetry Readings - Susan Roche

The Utah Division of Arts and Museums is running an amazing poetry reading video series this year and will release a new video each month featuring notable Utah poets. The May poet is Susan Roche. If you like this post, please share with your writerly friends and/or follow my blog or like my […]

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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Trish Hopkinson