Welcome back to a new quarter, and Happy New Year! As you settle into your new classes, check out these upcoming fellowship opportunities, calls for submissions, and contests for the year ahead! Scroll to the bottom of the list for a few reminders on previous posts and some important LAS deadlines for this quarter.

(The information below has been copied from each journal or organization’s website.)

Fellowship Opportunities:

1. Library Company of Philadelphia Fellowships 2025-2026

Applications due: January 15, 2025

Are you a rising senior, on track to graduate at the end of Spring Quarter 2025? Are you a recent graduate or a current grad student interested in archival research collections? Are you working on your doctorate or thinking about a Master’s thesis? Click here to view the full list of short-term, dissertation, and postdoctoral fellowship offerings from the Library Company of Philadelphia!

Fellowships support on-site research in the collections of the Library Company and their partner organization, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, in any field or discipline relating to the history and culture of the United States and the Atlantic world, including (but not limited to) African American history, economic history, visual culture, the history of health and medicine, women’s history, material culture, literature, and book and publishing history. 

2. 2025 Eudora Welty Research Fellowship

Applications due: March 7, 2025, 11:59 PM CST

The Mississippi Department of Archives and History is accepting applications for the 2025 Eudora Welty Research Fellowship. Offered in partnership with the Eudora Welty Foundation, this annual fellowship awards a $5,000 stipend to one graduate student to conduct research using the Eudora Welty Collection at MDAH for two weeks during the summer.

Click here to find out more and to view the submission guidelines!

Calls for Submissions & Contests:

1. New Ohio Review‘s 2025 Ellis Prizes in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry

Deadline: January 14, 2025

Guidelines:

NOR will award $750 for a poem or series of poems, a short story, and a piece of creative nonfiction submitted in each genre. The contests will be judged by alumni of the Ohio University Creative Writing program—E. M. Tran for Fiction, Zoë Bossiere for Nonfiction, and Jaswinder Bolina for Poetry.

Pieces that are not selected by our judges will still be considered for publication in our print issues (and our online editions). Judging for the contest will be concealed, meaning NOR staffers and contest judges will not know the identities of the entrants. Please exclude your contact information—including name, email address, and mailing address—from your actual submission.

The $21 entry fee comes with a 1-year subscription. You may submit up to 6 single-spaced pages of poetry or 20 pages of prose per submission entry.  

Submission page: https://newohioreview.submittable.com/submit

2. CRAFT 2024 Memoir Excerpt & Essay Contest

Deadline: January 15, 2025

About:

As we move from autumn into winter, we might find ourselves slowing down and becoming more contemplative. These cooler months are the perfect time to reflect more, and to write more. For the CRAFT 2024 Memoir Excerpt & Essay Contest, open until early next year, we’re eager to read your best longform creative nonfiction, from 1,001 to 6,000 words total. Both excerpts from book-length projects and stand-alone essays will be considered, and here’s what our guest judge, Donald Quist, would like to see:

I’m drawn to narratives with reasons for being, writing that examines larger exigencies through a personal lens. My favorite work has a clear aboutness: storytelling that responds to absences in the archive, that highlights overlooked disparities, that teaches me something and encourages me to do/be better. I have an aversion to didacticism though. Don’t sacrifice metaphor and the poetic image. The strongest pieces recognize that the personal is political and grounds the narrative in vulnerability, intimacy. I want a chance to get to know the author, their joys and obsessions, to tour their world for a little while. Take my hand, guide me through spaces that occupy your heart and mind, stopping from time to time to point to details you find worth noting.

Guidelines:

• CRAFT submissions are open to all writers, emerging and experienced.
• Submit creative nonfiction ONLY! (Please, no academic work, flash prose, short fiction, or poetry.)
• International submissions are allowed.
• Please submit work primarily written in English, but some code-switching/meshing is warmly welcomed.
• This contest is for creative nonfiction excerpts and essays between 1,001 and 6,000 words. Please do not submit flash prose.
• We review literary creative nonfiction, but are open to a variety of genres and styles including memoir excerpts, lyric essays, personal essays, narrative nonfiction, speculative nonfiction, and experimental prose—our only requirement is that you show excellence in your craft.
• For this contest, we will consider previously unpublished work only—we will not review reprints or partial reprints, including self-published work (even if only on social media). Reprints will be automatically disqualified.
• We allow simultaneous submissions—writers, please notify us and withdraw your entry if your work is accepted elsewhere.
• The $20 reading fee per entry allows one longform creative nonfiction piece (either memoir excerpt or essay) from 1,001 to 6,000 words. We will not read flash nonfiction prose for this contest. Please do not submit flash prose.
• We allow multiple submissions—each entry should be accompanied by a separate reading fee.
• All entries will also be considered for publication in CRAFT.
• Please double-space your submission and use Times New Roman 12.
• Please include a brief cover letter with your publication history (if applicable).
• Please include appropriate content warnings (if applicable), for the sake of our dedicated, diligent staff.
• We do not require anonymous submissions, but the guest judge will review the shortlist anonymously.
• Creative nonfiction writers from historically marginalized groups are invited to submit for free until we reach the fifty free submissions allotted for this contest. No additional fee waivers will be granted. Email us with relevant inquiries. (This free category is now closed.)
• We do not discriminate on the basis of age, ancestry, disability, family status, gender identity or expression, national origin, race, religion, sex or sexual orientation, or for any other reason.
• Additionally, we do not tolerate discrimination in the writing we consider for publication: work we find discriminatory on any of the bases stated here will be declined/disqualified without complete review.
• AI-generated submissions will be automatically disqualified.
• Unless you’ve already secured the necessary permissions, please do not include quoted song lyrics in your submitted work. Paraphrased lyrics are allowed, however, as are older lyrics that have already passed into the public domain. References to song titles are fine.
• Any work that does not adhere to these guidelines will be automatically disqualified.
• We are always happy to help if you have questions. Email us: contact@craftliterary.com.

The writers of the three winning pieces will receive:

• $1,000 each;
• publication in CRAFT, each with an introduction by the guest judge;
• publication of an author’s note (craft essay) to accompany the piece;
• and a set of six titles of Graywolf’s The Art Of series.

The two writers chosen in the editors’ choice round will receive:

• $200 each;
• publication in CRAFT, each with an introduction by the editorial team;
• and publication of an author’s note (craft essay) to accompany the piece.

All fifteen shortlisted writers will also receive a $1,000 scholarship to PocketMFA.

Submission Page: https://craft.submittable.com/submit/311470/craft-2024-memoir-excerpt-essay-contest-guest-judge-donald-quist

3. Ploughshares

Deadline: January 15, 2025, noon EST

About:

Ploughshares welcomes unsolicited submissions of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction during our regular reading period. Ploughshares has published quality literature since 1971. Our award-winning literary journal is published four times a year; our lively literary blog has published innovative book reviews, intriguing interviews, and clever critical essays. Since 1989, we have been based at Emerson College in downtown Boston.

• We accept up to 6,500 words of prose, and 1-5 pages of poetry.
• If you are submitting to our Fall Longform issue, we accept up to 15,000 words. Please note that past Longform issue contributors may not be published again in a future Longform issue. Excerpts of longer works are welcome if self-contained, and translations are welcome if permission has been granted by the original author.
• Queries to the Look2 Critical Essay series are welcome (see guidelines here).
• It would be much appreciated if you kept the following in mind when submitting your work:
  • Typed, double-spaced pages. (Single-spacing is welcome for poetry).
  • Numbered pages.
  • If in hard copy, submit with text on one side of the page.
  • We do not consider:
    • Unsolicited book reviews and criticism.
    • Previously published work. If your submission is part of a forthcoming book, let us know in your cover letter and the expected publication date.
    • Work written by individuals currently affiliated with Ploughshares or Emerson College as a volunteer screener, intern, student, staff member, or faculty member.
  • We cannot accommodate revisions, changes of return address, or forgotten SASEs. We cannot be responsible for delay, loss, or damage.
    
• Cover Letters
  • We encourage you to include a short cover letter with your submission. It should reference:
  • Major publications and awards.
  • Any association or past correspondence with a guest or staff editor.
  • Past publication in Ploughshares.
    
• Contributor Honorarium
  • Payment is upon publication:
  • $45/printed page, $90 minimum per title, $450 maximum per author.
  • Two contributor copies of the issue.
  • A discounted rate for additional contributor copies.
  • A one-year subscription.
    
• Simultaneous vs. Multiple Submissions
  • We do not consider multiple submissions, so please send only one manuscript at a time, either by mail or online. Do not send a second submission until you have heard about the first. Simultaneous submissions to other journals are welcome as long as they are identified as such and we are notified immediately upon acceptance elsewhere.
    
• If you are working on submissions with an agent, or are an agent submitting work on behalf of an author, please read our note on simultaneous submissions with an agent.

Submissions Page: https://pshares.org/product/manuscript-submission/

4. The Iowa Review Awards

Deadline: January 31, 2025

About:

Each January since 2003, The Iowa Review has invited submissions to The Iowa Review Awards, a writing contest in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Winners receive $1,500; first runners-up receive $750. Winners and runners-up are published in each December issue.

Guidelines:

Submit up to 25 pages of prose (double-spaced) or 10 pages of poetry (one poem or several, but no more than one poem per page). Work must be previously unpublished. Simultaneous submissions are fine assuming you inform us of acceptance elsewhere.

• Select the appropriate genre category. If you’d like to purchase a discounted yearlong subscription to The Iowa Review for $10, please choose a genre marked “(subscription).” Otherwise, choose “(no subscription).” 
• A cover letter may be pasted into the appropriate field in Submittable.
• Do not include your name in the uploaded manuscript itself or in its filename.
• Multiple poems or prose pieces can comprise a single entry if the total number of pages does not exceed 25 for prose or 10 for poetry. For instance, you may submit two short stories of ten pages each as a single entry; the stories will be read and judged separately. But please do not mix genres: a ten-page story and a two-page poem constitute separate entries.
• Pay the $20 entry fee using Paypal, Visa, MasterCard, American Express, or Discover.
• If you submit more than one entry, even within the same genre, you must submit the $20 entry fee with each entry.

Judges will select winners from a group of finalists chosen by Iowa Review editors. All manuscripts, whether selected as finalists or not, are considered for publication.

Notice: We no longer accept paper contest submissions. If you need help with our online submission system, cannot access it, or would like to request a fee waiver due to financial need, please email iowa-review@uiowa.edu.

Submission Page: https://iowareview.submittable.com/submit

5. The Paris Review

Deadline: January 31, 2025, 11:00PM

Guidelines:

All submissions to The Paris Review must be in English and must be previously unpublished. Translations are welcome and should be accompanied by a copy of the original. Simultaneous submissions are allowed, as long as we are notified immediately if the manuscript is accepted for publication elsewhere. 

Please submit no more than six poems or one piece of prose at a time, and please do not submit more than once per submission period. During the month of October, you may submit in the categories of both poetry and prose, but we ask that you submit only once per genre.

Hard-copy prose submissions are accepted during the months of February, June, and October and hard-copy poetry submissions during the months of January, April, July, and October. Submissions postmarked after the last day of the month in question will not be processed. Please send any hard-copy submissions to the following address, including a brief cover letter and a self-addressed and stamped envelope (SASE):

Prose Editor or Poetry Editor
The Paris Review
544 West 27th Street, Floor 3
New York, NY 10001

Simultaneous submissions are allowed, as long as we are notified immediately if the manuscript is accepted for publication elsewhere. 

Submission Page: https://theparisreview.submittable.com/submit

6. Split Rock Review

Deadline: January 31, 2025

About:

Split Rock Review is an independent, online publication run by volunteers who love literature, art, and the wilderness. 

We publish poetry, short creative nonfiction and fiction, comics, hybrids, visual poetry, interviews, book reviews, photography, and art that explore place, environment, and the relationship between humans and the natural world.

Guidelines:

• We only accept submissions via Submittable. Any submissions sent via email will be unread.
• We offer 100 free submissions during the reading period as well as GENERAL [$2.00], TIP JAR [$3.00], and EXPEDITED [$5.00] submission options.
• We are particularly interested in work by people historically underrepresented in literary publishing: artists and writers who are Black, Indigenous, people of color, people with disabilities, gender-nonconforming, LGBTQIA+, women, and other marginalized communities.
• We accept simultaneous submissions. However, please withdraw your work immediately should a piece you’ve submitted be accepted elsewhere. If you are withdrawing your entire submission, please log in to your Submittable account and click “Withdraw.” If you need to withdraw part of your submission, open it within Submittable and add a note indicating the pieces you’d like to withdraw. We cannot consider additional work in the place of withdrawn work.
• No manuscript edits or revisions will be considered during the reading period.
• We do not accept works of translation or previously published work for our journal issues (this includes personal blogs, social media posts, and personal websites).
• We accept collaborative works, but please provide the names of all the collaborators in your submission.
• For previous SRR contributors, please wait two years from the publication date of your work before submitting to us again. You know we love your work, but we want to give other writers and artists an opportunity to be published and showcased in SRR.
• If your work is accepted, you agree to give Split Rock Review First Electronic Rights and Archival Rights. You may republish your work without fee, but we ask that Split Rock Review is acknowledged as its place of initial publication.

Submission Guidelines: https://splitrockreview.submittable.com/submit

7. 2025 American Short(er) Fiction Prize

Deadline: February 1, 2025

About:

The American Short(er) Fiction prize recognizes extraordinary short fiction under 1,500 words. The first-place winner will receive a $1,000 prize and publication. Previous winners of the Short(er) Fiction Prize have gone on to be anthologized in places such as The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses. All entries will be considered for publication.

**Please note we raised the word count from previous years from 1,000 to 1,500.**

Submission Guidelines:

• The first-place winner will receive a $1,000 prize and publication in a future issue of ASF. All entries will be considered for publication.
• Please submit your $18 entry fee and your work through Submittable. We no longer accept submissions by post. International submissions in English are eligible.
• Stories must be 1,500 words or fewer. You are allowed to include up to two stories per entry. Please submit all stories in one document. Each story must begin on a new page and be clearly titled. For the title of your submission list the story titles, separated by a comma. (If you’ve submitted in the past, please note that we raised the word count from previous years from 1,000 to 1,500.)
• DO NOT include any identifying information on the manuscript itself.
• You may submit multiple entries. We accept only previously unpublished work. We allow simultaneous submissions, but we ask that you notify us promptly of publication elsewhere.

Submission Page: https://americanshortfiction.submittable.com/submit/20181/american-shorter-fiction-contest

8. Southern Cultures: “Country Music’s Mythology”

Deadline: February 3, 2025, 11:00 PM

About:

Southern Cultures, the award-winning, peer-reviewed quarterly from UNC’s Center for the Study of the American South, encourages submissions from scholars, writers, and artists for a special issue, Country Music’s Mythology, to be published Winter 2025. We will accept submissions for this issue through February 3, 2025.

• The question of what defines country music is as old as the genre itself. Is it a lyric? A sound? A twang? Who listens to country music? Who can call themselves a country artist? Such questions have animated fans, musicians, and scholars alike over the past century.
• One feature has always surrounded country music: mythology. Scholar Richard A. Peterson observes that country music is defined by “fabricating authenticity.” As Bill C. Malone, a founder of country music studies, puts it, “Country music is full of songs about little old log cabins that people have never lived in; the old country church that people have never attended.” The genre is as mythologized as the region with which it’s most closely associated, and it remains one of the South’s biggest cultural signifiers. 
• It is an especially apt moment to reflect on country music’s significance. In tangible ways the genre has never been more popular. Last summer, country songs claimed the top three spots on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for the first time. Pop stars, from Beyoncé and Lana Del Rey to Post Malone, have gone country. Nashville, the home of the country music business and a vacation destination where fans live out the genre’s myths as weekend cowboys, welcomed a record-breaking 16.8 million visitors in 2023. The current country music craze comes as the country music business celebrates a century of steady growth and the adoration of fans worldwide. One of the music’s biggest mythmakers, the Grand Ole Opry—the radio program that continues to sell itself as the “show that made country music famous”—will celebrate its 100th anniversary in 2025. 
• We call for submissions that reckon with and shed light on how country music’s mythologies have been constructed. The music industry has played perhaps the largest role in crafting country music’s myth. First called hillbilly and old-time music, the genre was invented by record executives in the 1920s as a marketing category associated with rural white southerners. This process of commodification did not reflect a full picture of how people enjoyed music in practice, regardless of race, class, ethnicity, or region, both in and outside of the South. A century-long process of whitewashing in the genre has since obscured a more diverse set of country music innovators and fans who have continually pushed the music forward. A century later, however, country music continues to be superficially tied to a white, rural, and southern identity. How has this myth been upheld?
• We welcome critical perspectives that offer new insights into the workings of country music’s myths of the past, present, and possible futures.
• Submissions can explore any topic or theme, and we welcome investigations of the region in the forms Southern Culturespublishes: scholarly articles, creative nonfiction, memoir (first-person or collective), interviews, surveys, photo and art essays, and shorter feature essays. 
• Possible topics and questions to examine might include (but are not limited to):
  • The role of industry, for example the Country Music Association, the Grand Ole Opry, advertising and brand endorsements, tourism, etc.
  • The impact of these mythologies, especially as it relates to race, class, sexuality, and gender
  • How marginalized voices crafted their own narratives. Are there alternate country imaginaries? Ones that are not white or rural; ones that are queer?
  • How country music’s mythologies have interacted with other cultural symbols tied to the South, for example college football, NASCAR, food, religion, and fashion
  • How country music’s popularity outside of the US South has challenged or reaffirmed mythologized ties to the region
  • The role of writers and media in defining what country music is and how it is mythologized; who are the gatekeepers?
• As Southern Cultures publishes digital content, we encourage creativity in coordinating print and digital materials in submissions and ask that authors submit any potential video, audio, and interactive visual content along with their essay or artist’s statement.

Submissions Page: https://southerncultures.submittable.com/Submit

9. The Rumpus Prize for Poetry, Fiction, and Creative Nonfiction

Deadline: March 2, 2025, 11:00 PM

About:

• $3,600 in prizes:
  • $1,000 first-place prize and publication in three genres: poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction
  • Honorable mentions receive $200 and publication in each of the three genres
• All submitters can opt-in if they’d like to be considered for publication by The Rumpus, regardless of whether they’re named a winner or finalist.
• Finalists will be contacted in May 2025. Winners will be announced publicly and published by June 2025. 
• Writers age 18 and over are eligible to enter.
• Simultaneous submissions are acceptable, but previously published material in any format (including blogs and social media) is not eligible. Submissions can be withdrawn from the submission system if accepted elsewhere. However, entry fees will not be refunded. Individual parts of a poetry submission (i.e. a single poem in a set) can be withdrawn by sending a message through Submittable. However, additional work will not be permitted as replacement. 
• The cost to submit is $20 per set of 2–4 poems (10 pages max), $20 per story, and/or $20 per essay or up to 3 flash creative nonfiction pieces. Writers may submit multiple groups of poems, but each entry will include a $20 submission fee. 

Guidelines:

• For POETRY submissions:
  • Submit 2–4 poems per entry. Combine all poems into a single document. For poetry, we are seeking to publish the single best poem or set of 2–3 poems. The entire submission should not exceed 10 pages. Poems must contain only the poem title(s) and poem(s) without the author’s name or contact information anywhere on the submission itself. While we embrace and consider poems with diverse page presentations, there may be situations where we are unable to accommodate poems with special formatting as seen on the page.
• For FICTION submissions:
  • Submit one story, up to 5,500 words total, per entry. Stories must contain only the story title and story itself without the author’s name or contact information on the submission itself. Submissions should be at least 12-point font and double-spaced for readability.
• For CREATIVE NONFICTION submissions:
  • Submit one essay or creative nonfiction piece (up to 4,000 words total) or up to 3 flash nonfiction pieces (up to 4,000 words total for all pieces combined) per entry. Entries must contain only the title(s) without the author’s name or contact information on the submission itself. We are open to all forms of creative nonfiction but are most interested in personal essays, lyric essays, memoir, and other literary forms. Submissions should be at least 12-point font and double-spaced for readability.

Submission Page: https://therumpus.submittable.com/submit

10. Mistake House Magazine

Deadline: March 15, 2025

About:

Mistake House Magazine seeks student work that playfully defies easy categorization and pushes the boundaries of form. In our May 2020 issue, Mistake House Magazine rolled out a new tag line: a space between ordinary and odd. Simply, we offer an open invitation to send us work with heart and work that tells us something fresh about the ordinary and odd world we think we know.

We welcome variety in subject, form, and perspective, including all modes of literary writing from domestic realism to speculative fiction to experimental poetry and beyond.

Submitting writers should want their work to contribute to a larger dialogue in the world. Mistake House Magazine seeks to participate in the literary community’s urgent efforts to draw on moral courage to write about pressing issues in the world today. We believe that writing honestly about current human issues is a way to be involved and make a positive impact.

Each year our editors award a $100 Editors’ Prize in Fiction, Poetry, and Photography. Published student work appears alongside prominent poets and artists featured in our Soap Bubble Set.

Submission Guidelines:

• Works in Translation
  • While we publish all works in English, we welcome the opportunity to publish global submissions and will accept work in any language. However, since we do not have an editorial staff to handle translation into English, we ask that submissions in languages other than English be accompanied by an English translation. If accepted, Mistake House will publish both versions, the original and the author’s English translation, side by side.
    
• A Call for Photography
  • Mistake House Magazine also considers submissions of original photography by students enrolled in graduate and undergraduate programs. In photographic submissions, too, we are particularly interested work expressive of documentary poetics. Submitted photographs should speak to our editorial mission and to the “space between ordinary and odd” in which we currently find ourselves. 
    
• The Basics
  • Please provide a cover letter—no longer than one page—including: a brief bio; the name of the college or university you attend and your degree program or major; your contact info: and a brief statement about why your submitted work is a good fit for Mistake House.
  • The submission fee of $5 helps to defray our operating expenses.
  • Mistake House acquires first North American publication rights. All rights revert to the author after publication, though we request acknowledgement of first appearance in this journal.
  • We accept the following as Word documents or PDFs only:
    • Fiction: one story, preferred maximum 5,000 words
    • Poetry: up to three poems, preferred maximum 40 lines per poem
  • We accept the following as 300 dpi jpegs or tiffs:
    • Photography: black and white or color, up to three photographs
  • Three Editor’s Prizes of $100 are offered annually: one for fiction, one for poetry, and one for photography.  Prizes will be announced upon publication on May 1, 2025.

Submissions page: https://mistakehouse.submittable.com/submit

11. The Threepenny Review

Deadline: April 15, 2025

Guidelines:

• At present The Threepenny Review is paying $400 per story or article, $200 per poem or Table Talk piece. This payment buys first serial rights in our print and digital editions, and the copyright then reverts to the author immediately upon publication.
• All mailed manuscripts must include a stamped, self-addressed envelope for our reply. Submissions should be mailed to:

The Editors
The Threepenny Review
PO Box 9131
Berkeley, CA 94709

• All online submissions must consist of a single document in Word format (.doc or .docx). If you are submitting prose, the document should consist of a single article or a single story. If you are submitting poetry, please group your poems into one document containing no more than five poems, because the online system will not accept more than a single document from each person. Please include your name and address somewhere on the document as well as in our submission form.
• We do not print material that has previously been published elsewhere, and we emphatically do not consider simultaneous submissions. We do our best to offer a quick turnaround time, so please allow us the privilege of sole consideration during that relatively brief period; writers who do not honor this request will not be published in the magazine.
• Response time for submissions ranges from two days to two weeks for online submissions. (It can take up to two months for mailed submissions, and only those that come with SASE will get a reply.) If you submit online and have not heard from us within two weeks, you should assume that we did not take your work and that it is free to go out elsewhere; we do our best to respond to everyone, but some emails inevitably go astray. If your submission is accepted, you will definitely know, so please do not contact us if you do not hear from us.  
• We strongly recommend that you stay within our length limits. As a rule, critical articles should be about 1200 to 2500 words, Table Talk items 1000 words or less, stories and memoirs 4000 words or less, and poetry 100 lines or less. (Exceptions are occasionally possible, but longer pieces will have a much harder time getting accepted.) We prefer to read prose submissions that are double-spaced; poetry can be single-spaced or double-spaced.
• Critical articles that deal with books, films, theater performances, art exhibits, etc. should cite these occasions at the front of the article, using the following format:

Theater Piece
by Playwright’s Name,
directed by Director’s Name.
Theater, City,
Season 20__.

Art Exhibition Title,
Gallery or Museum, City,
Start Date–End Date.

Book Title
by Author’s Name.
Publisher, Year Published,
Price (cloth) (paper).

• Remember that The Threepenny Review is quarterly and national (and in some respects international); therefore each “review” should actually be an essay, broader than the specific event it covers and of interest to people who cannot see the event.
• Writers will be consulted on all significant editing done on their articles, and will have the opportunity to proofread galleys for typographical errors.
• We do not read submissions from mid-April through December, so please do not submit work then. Any material sent to us during that period will be discarded unread.
• Emailed submissions will be discarded unread. The only two ways to submit work to us are through the mail and via our online system.

Submission Page: https://www.threepennyreview.com/online_submissions/

12. Redivider

Deadline: May 1, 2025

About:

• Redivider is looking for new and under-published voices. We crave fresh, off-beat, and inventive work that challenges what should be valued both within and across literary genres. Send us pieces that rupture our reality and reflect a moment caught in time. We want work that resonates, endings that stay with us long after the work has finished, emotional truths from complex characters that leave us with goosebumps, and explorations of the everyday examined from the side, rather than straight on.
• Send us what you’re scared to submit elsewhere; we might just enjoy it.
• Redivider will not consider submissions that endorse prejudice, racism, xenophobia, classism, sexism, ableism, fat-shaming, homophobia, or gratuitous violence. We reserve the right to reject such submissions outright and reject further submissions from the author. We also reserve the right to remove content from our journal if an author is known to be harassing or abusive. We do not accept plagiarized content in any form for publication in our journal. Any submitters known to submit plagiarized work will be blacklisted from all current and future publications at Redivider. Redivider does not accept work that has been even partially created with the use of AI.
• Authors will receive a contract upon acceptance. Redivider requests first serial rights, and all rights revert back to the author upon publication. Authors retain copyright to their work published in Redivider. If the work is later republished, we request that you note its initial publication in Redivider. We also request the right, with author permission, to use your work for promotional purposes. We ask that authors who are accepted with us wait 2 years before submitting work again.

Guidelines:

• Poetry (10-12 per issue)
  • Length guidelines: 5 poems, 10 pages max
  • Please submit no more than five poems per submission, up to ten pages, as a single document. We can publish poetry featuring complex enjambment and indentation, but please be reasonable with longer poems, as each work must be carefully typeset, line-by-line, to show up as the artist intended on a web page.
• Fiction (4 per issue)
  • Word count: 1,200–6,000 words
  • Please submit one short fiction piece at a time. Stories shorter than 1,200 words should be submitted under Flash Fiction. Texts should be double-spaced in 12pt Times New Roman or a similar serif typeface. Redivider will happily consider genre writing with strong enough prose, though hard science fiction, high fantasy, and tawdry romance will probably fit better at another journal.
• Flash Fiction (2 per issue)
  • Word count: 1,200 words or less
  • Please submit no more than three flash fiction pieces per submission. These pieces will be evaluated by the Redivider Fiction Team and published in a dedicated section apart from other full-length short fiction. Texts should be double-spaced in 12pt Times New Roman or a similar serif typeface.
• Memoir & Personal Essay (3 per issue)
  • Word count: 6,000 words or less
  • Please submit a single piece of nonfiction personal essay or memoir to this category. Texts should be double-spaced in 12pt Times New Roman or a similar serif typeface. Journalistic works, criticism and commentary, and texts containing substantial background research should be submitted under Cultural Critique.
• Cultural Critique (2 per issue)
  • Word count: 8,000 words or less
  • Please submit a single piece of cultural commentary or critique. We accept both casual and academic-style manuscripts for this genre. These may be essays regarding US or non-US culture. Texts should be double-spaced in 12pt Times New Roman or a similar serif typeface.
  • Memoirs and personal essays should be submitted under that category.
• Cover Art
  • Image count: 6 images or less
  • The cover art will be used in both the online and print editions of the issue. Art submissions can be uploaded as six separate attachments in one submission or, preferably, in a single .ZIP file—please do not send multiple submissions. Please save original images for each piece as a separate .TIF file no larger than 6 x 9 inches and at a resolution of 600dpi for line art and 300 dpi for all others. If your piece is chosen for the cover, you may be contacted for a larger file. Digital submissions that do not adhere to these guidelines will not be considered. Please email us with questions or for alternate submission methods.

13. The Black List 2025 Unpublished Novel Award

Deadline: June 27, 2025

About/Prize Offering(s):

The Unpublished Novel Award celebrates stellar unpublished manuscripts in seven genres: Children’s & Young Adult, Crime & Mystery, Horror, Literary Fiction, Romance, Science Fiction & Fantasy, and Thriller & Suspense. A panel of esteemed, shortlist judges with backgrounds in book publishing, film, and television will select one exceptional manuscript in each genre to receive a $10,000 grant to support it on the journey to publication. Judges include LeVar Burton, Marie-Helene Bertino, Radhika Jones, Tananarive Due, Mike Flanagan, and Roxane Gay.

Guidelines: (read here)

(NOTE: there is a submission fee for this contest; however, any writer who receives a manuscript evaluation on this site (cost $150) has the option to opt into consideration for this award for free. Recipients will retain all rights to their manuscript and will be free to sell them whenever and wherever they please. (Manuscripts cannot be under contract at any point during award consideration; self-published novels will not be accepted).

Submission Page: (click here. Participants must first create an account before submitting their work.)

Here are a few reminders on previous posts…

1. Know any talented high school writers or artists? Spread the word about DePaul’s Blue Book! The submission deadline is January 31; click here to find out more about this opportunity for teens in your family, community, or classroom!
2. Still signing up for classes? Click here for the Winter Quarter course descriptions list!
3. Click here to view the list of Winter Quarter internships.
   [Note: positions with David Aretha, Inc./Owl Moon Press, Agate Publishing, Slag Glass City, and Centro Romero have already been filled.] Contact Prof. Chris Green at cgreen1@depaul.edu for more info.

…and a few important LAS deadline reminders from advisor Jordan Kindle (jkindle@depaul.edu) for the quarter ahead:

1. Last day to add classes to WQ2025 schedule:
   Friday, January 10, 2025, 11:59 PM
2. Last day to drop classes from WQ2025 schedule (with full refund and no grade on transcript):
   Friday, January 17, 2025, 11:59 PM
3. Last day to select pass/fail option for WQ2025 classes:
   Friday, January 17, 2025, 11:59 PM