From literary magazines to opportunities for publishing and industry recognition, check out these upcoming contests for writers! (Entries closest to the top of the list are the most time-sensitive.) Information below is copied from each competition’s webpage. 2. Cinematic Prose Writing Competition 3. Narrative Magazine Fall 2024 Story Contest 4. Black Fox Literary Magazine 5.…Continue reading Upcoming Prizes and Contests for Writers!
Category: Call for Submissions
Call for Submissions to Catamaran Literary Reader!
Catamaran accepts fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and visual art. Themes they are especially interested in are science and nature writing, creativity and the artistic process, personal journey and travel, and innovation; any setting is fine, but the West Coast is of particular interest. There is an $8 reading fee for general submissions. You can submit to…Continue reading Call for Submissions to Catamaran Literary Reader!
Call for Submissions to the Missouri Review’s 34th Annual Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize!
The Missouri Review‘s 34th Annual Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize is accepting submissions through Tuesday, October 1! One winner from each genre (fiction, nonfiction, and poetry) will receive a $5,000 cash prize, as well as publication and promotion. Winners will be announced in early 2025. There is a $4 reading fee for each genre. Click…Continue reading Call for Submissions to the Missouri Review’s 34th Annual Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize!
Call for Submissions to Glassworks Magazine!
Glassworks publishes nonfiction, fiction, poetry, hybrid pieces, and artwork, both digitally and in print. They are currently reading until December 15, 2024 for their 2025 print issue. Glassworks also publishes flash fiction, prose poetry, and micro essays (under 750 words each) every month in their online edition, Flash Glass. Submissions for Flash Glass are also accepted…Continue reading Call for Submissions to Glassworks Magazine!
Call for Submissions to Thin Air Magazine!
Submit your fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and writing that defies genre classification to Thin Air Magazine by October 20th to be considered for Issue 31 (print issue). This year’s theme is Metamorphosis!: art that ponders the metamorphoses we see in creation, in destruction, in reflection, in meditation, in stagnation, in art itself. Submit your pieces that…Continue reading Call for Submissions to Thin Air Magazine!
Two More Weeks to Submit to the NOR Contests!
There are only two more weeks to submit your best work to our 2024 contests for poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.Three prizes of $1,500 each and publication in New Ohio Review will be awarded for a poem or group of poems, a short story, and an essay.Submit a story or essay of up to 20 pages or a poem…Continue reading Two More Weeks to Submit to the NOR Contests!
Submit to This: The Chicago Film Critics Association and Rotten Tomatoes Emerging Critics Program
The Chicago Film Critics Association and Rotten Tomatoes have again partnered on an exciting grant opportunity that may be of interest to your students. See below a brief summary of this initiative, and please feel free to circulate amongst your department or forward to any colleague not included here that you deem fit. The Chicago…Continue reading Submit to This: The Chicago Film Critics Association and Rotten Tomatoes Emerging Critics Program
Spring English Conference Deadline Extended! April 7
Submit your work (in any genre) to participate in one of a kind panels with your DePaul peers! The themes of each panel are determined by the work submitted to the organizing body. Send your work to SpringEnglishConference@gmail.com and help shape the event!
Tin House Fall Residency Program (Portland, Oregon – Deadline March 29)
Tin House Fall Residency Program (Portland, Oregon – Deadline March 29) The Tin House Resident will be housed in a 900 square ft. studio apartment next to the Tin House Workshop office in Northwest Portland. The apartment includes a full kitchen, bathroom, and a small living room/office with WiFi. There are several coffee shops, restaurants, and…Continue reading Tin House Fall Residency Program (Portland, Oregon – Deadline March 29)
The Woolf Call for Submissions (Issue 6: “Music” – Deadline March 25)
The Woolf Call for Submissions (Issue 6: “Music” – Deadline March 25) The Woolf is an online magazine of new writing and visual art. Published twice a year out of Switzerland, we welcome short fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry and visual art from anywhere in the world. As long as it makes us howl. Hear, play or make it.…Continue reading The Woolf Call for Submissions (Issue 6: “Music” – Deadline March 25)
The Cut Call for Pitches
The Cut Call for Pitches The Cut (of the New Yorker) publishes stories that address our readers’ lives head-on, with generous wit, honesty, and power. We are in a dynamic conversation with women about the issues that matter to them most—politics, feminism, work, money, relationships, mental health, fashion, and issues relating to equality—and we’re always looking for ideas…Continue reading The Cut Call for Pitches
Necessary Fiction Call for Summer Flash Fiction (Deadline May 1)
Necessary Fiction Call for Summer Flash Fiction (Deadline May 1) Necessary Fiction will publish weekly flash fiction each Wednesday for your summer reading enjoyment beginning in June and lasting through Labor Day. Here are 10 things we’ve noticed about our broad aesthetic tendencies over the years: We’re often fans of the absurd, the off-kilter, and the darkly comic. We tend to…Continue reading Necessary Fiction Call for Summer Flash Fiction (Deadline May 1)