Category: Creative Writing

Fellowship Opportunity: Luminarts

Applications are open for the 2020 Luminarts Creative Writing Fellowship. You could win $7,500, become a Luminarts Fellow, and as a Fellow be eligible for continued funding for your artistic and career development projects. The deadline to apply to the 2020 Creative Writing Fellowship is Friday, February 7, 2020. Click HERE to get started, or contact Luminarts at…Continue reading Fellowship Opportunity: Luminarts

Call for Submissions: Foothill Poetry

Claremont Graduate University’s poetry journal Foothill is open for submissions!  Find more details below and on the attached submissions flyer. Submissions of up to six unpublished, English-language-based poems composed in any poetic genre or form are welcome from poets actively enrolled in a graduate program anywhere in the world. Graduate-student poets writing in a foreign language are…Continue reading Call for Submissions: Foothill Poetry

Call for Submissions: New Issues

The 2020 New Issues Poetry Prize is now open for submissions! See details below.   New Issues Poetry & Prose of Western Michigan University: the 2020 New Issues Poetry Prize Prize: $2,000 + publication –  Judge: Traci Brimhall   Guidelines: Eligibility: Poets writing in English who have not previously published or self-published a full-length collection…Continue reading Call for Submissions: New Issues

Call for Submissions: Boulevard Magazine

Boulevard is now open for general submissions and their fiction contest!   The deadline for the fiction contest, which includes a $1500 + publication, is December 31 at 11:59 p.m. CST, but don’t wait until Christmas to start writing. General submissions are open through May 1, 2020.      View Boulevard’s website for information on submission guidelines and more.

Call for Submissions: Thin Air Magazine

Thin Air, a MFA run literary journal at Northern Arizona University, is now accepting work for their online and printed publications through Submittable. Their print issue– published annually each spring– will accept submissions until December 1, 2019. Alongside their print journal, Thin Air also offers the opportunity for publication through their online Web Features with no submission fee…Continue reading Call for Submissions: Thin Air Magazine

Call for Submissions: Nowhere Mag

Nowhere Magazine, a literary travel-writing publication, is now open for submissions to their Fall contests! Founded in 2008, Nowhere awards two authors per year $1,000 each for their winning entry into their spring and fall writing contests. They publish long-form, resonant non-fiction, fiction, essays and poetry—no lists, no guides, no fluff—penned by a diverse cohort…Continue reading Call for Submissions: Nowhere Mag

Call for Submissions: Eggtooth Editions Chapbook Contest

The Eggtooth Editions Chapbook Contest is accepting submissions from now until December 15. Please see the attached flyer for details. Feel free to contact eggtootheditions@gmail.com with questions; see http://eggtootheditions.org/ for complete guidelines.

Call for Submissions: OxMag

Miami University in Ohio to invites students to submit to OxMag, their graduate student-run literary magazine. They are seeking submissions of art, poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, with a particular interest in those voices who have been traditionally underrepresented. Submissions are open until October 15th. Those interested will find more information and a submission portal here.

Call for Submissions: Subito Press

Ready your pens and keyboards—it’s submission season!   Subito Press, a small non-profit publishing company established by the University of Colorado Boulder’s creative writing department, is currently holding a contest for book-length works of poetry or prose and are in their last push for submissions. They hope to encourage MFA students to submit their work.…Continue reading Call for Submissions: Subito Press