OPPORTUNITIES FOR WRITERS
Dear Writers,
There are a ton of literary magazines open for submissions, and new litmags crop up all the time. You can find more listings on any number of websites, and I encourage you to read a couple back issues of each magazine before you send in your work to ensure that it’s a good fit for each specific publication. This isn’t an exhaustive list, but it is a curated place of litmags that are great to work with, open to emerging writers, and who have deadlines coming up in March and April. A few are also open year round. Most of these publications accept work in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction; many also accept artwork.
Happy writing,
Jamie Lyn
Literary Magazines Open for Submissions
Open All Year
Hunger Mountain
https://hungermtn.org/submit/
Prism International
https://prismmagazine.ca/submit/
Auroras & Blossoms: Rolling Deadline
Launched in 2019, Auroras & Blossoms is dedicated to promoting positive, uplifting, and inspirational art; and giving artists (ages 13 and over) of all levels a platform where they can showcase their work and build their publishing credits.
We publish short stories, flash fiction, essays, six-word stories, photography, paintings, drawings, and poetry. One of our anthologies is entirely focused on 13-16 year-old creatives.
Link: https://abpositiveart.com/submit
Driftwood Press Submissions: Rolling Deadline
Year-round submissions accepted www.driftwoodpress.net
John Updike once said, "Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better." At Driftwood Press, we are actively searching for artists who care about doing it right, or better. We are excited to receive your submissions and will diligently work to bring you the best in full poetry collections, novellas, graphic novels, short fiction, poetry, graphic narrative, photography, art, and interviews.
Litmags Open for Submissions
Please check each litmag’s website for specific submission guidelines, genres accepted, and associated submission fees (if applicable). Good luck, and happy writing!
Website: https://www.southerncollectiveexperience.com/the-blue-mountain-review/
Entry Fee: None
Website: https://www.darkwinterlit.com
Entry Fee: None
Website: https://www.frontierpoetry.com/submit/
Entry Fee: None
Website: https://thekeepthings.com/
Entry Fee: None
Website: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/submit
Entry Fee: None
Website: https://literarymama.com/submissions/submission-guidelines-profiles-and-interviews
https://blog.reedsy.com/writing-contests/
Website: https://www.smokelong.com/guidelines/
Entry Fee: None
Website: https://readwildness.com/submit
Contests and Prizes
Entry Fee: $15
Cash prize: $1000
Website: https://americanpoetryreview.submittable.com/submit/11755/stanley-kunitz-memorial-prize
Cash prize: $2500
Website: https://americanshortfiction.org/the-halifax-ranch-fiction-prize-2023/
Entry Fee: $25
Cash prize: $2000
Website: https://www.anhingapress.org/
Entry Fee: $30
Cash prize: $1000
Website: https://www.autumnhouse.org/
Entry Fee: No fee
Cash prize: $30,000
Website: https://www.bard.edu/bfp/
Entry Fee: $25
Cash prize: $1500
Website: https://barrowstreet.org/press/
Entry Fee: $20
Cash prize: $1000
Website: https://blreview.org/blr-prizes/
Entry Fee: $28
Cash prize: $1500
Website: https://bitteroleander.com/submission.html
Entry Fee: $25
Cash prize: $1000
Website: https://www.boaeditions.org/pages/a-poulin-jr-poetry-prize
Entry Fee: $18
Cash prize: $1000
Website: https://boulevard.submittable.com/submit
Entry Fee: $26
Cash prize: $1000
Website: https://ciderpressreview.submittable.com/submit/
Entry Fee: No Fee
Cash prize: $10,000
Website: https://arts.cgu.edu/tufts-poetry-awards/
Entry Fee: $25
Cash prize: $1500
Website: https://www.conduit.org/submit
Entry Fee: $35
Cash prize: $5000
Website: https://crookscornerbookprize.com/
Entry Fee: $11
Cash prize: $500
Website: https://driftwoodpress.submittable.com/submit
Entry Fee: $30
Cash prize: $1,500
Website: thegeorgiareview.com/the-loraine-williams-poetry-prize
Entry Fee: $85
Cash prize: $5,000
Website: https://pen.org/literary-awards-submissions/
Entry Fee: $25
Cash prize: $10,000
Website: https://milkweed.org/max-ritvo-poetry-prize
Entry Fee: $135
Cash prize: $10,000
Website: https://www.nationalbook.org/
Entry Fee: $25
Cash prize: $1500
Website: http://newamericanpress.com/category/contests
Entry Fee: $25
Cash prize: $2,000
Website: noemipress.org/contest
Entry Fee: $17 for 1 poem
Cash prize: $1000
Website: https://www.omnidawn.com/contests/omnidawn-poetry-contests/
Entry Fee: $15
Cash prize: $1000
Website: https://www.cowcreekchapbook.org/
Entry Fee: $24
Cash prize: $2,000
Website: pshares.org
Entry Fee: $25
Cash prize: $1,000
Website: regalhousepublishing.com
Entry Fee: $15
Cash prize: $1000
Website: https://salamandermag.org/
Entry Fee: $15 (Fee is waived for BIPOC identifying writers)
Cash prize: N/A (standard publishing contract and 20 copies of their book)
Website: https://www.smallharborpublishing.com/hybrid-open-reading-period
Entry Fee: $25
Cash prize: $1500
Website: https://uakron.edu/uapress/akron-poetry-prize/
Entry Fee: $25
Cash prize: $1000
Website: https://untpress.unt.edu/authors/porter-prize-submissions/
Additional Resources
You can find more opportunities for writers on the websites listed below. Remember, whenever a contest charges an entry fee, make sure that you vet them and confirm that they are legit. A great resource for researching writing contests is the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses: www.clmp.org.
*Please note that this website no longer focuses on literary submissions, contests, and publishing. Be very, very wary of any “opportunity” that charges an entry fee in excess of $25, and double-check the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses: www.clmp.org website to make sure high-cost “opportunities” are legitimate contests.
wORKSHOPS & RESIDENCIES
The Kenyon Review Summer Workshops
Rolling admissions, but early applications accepted. Workshops in Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Translation, and Spiritual Writing. https://kenyonreview.org/writers
There are a ton of literary magazines open for submissions, and new litmags crop up all the time. You can find more listings on any number of websites, and I encourage you to read a couple back issues of each magazine before you send in your work to ensure that it’s a good fit for each specific publication. This isn’t an exhaustive list, but it is a curated place of litmags that are great to work with, open to emerging writers, and who have deadlines coming up in March and April. A few are also open year round. Most of these publications accept work in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction; many also accept artwork.
Happy writing,
Jamie Lyn
Literary Magazines Open for Submissions
- After Happy Hour
- Adanna
- Agni
- Allium
- American Poetry Review
- American Short Fiction
- Arts and Letters
- Barely South Review
- Beloit Fiction Journal
- Bellingham Review
- Birch Bark Editing
- Black Fox Literary Magazine
- Boulevard
- Blue Mesa Review
- Chestnut Review
- Club Plum
- Cincinnati Review
- The Common
- Concision Poetry
- Cut Bank
- Defunct Magazine
- Denver Quarterly
- Eoagh
- The Ekphrastic Review
- Five Points
- Foglifter
- Georgia Review
- Gordon Square Review
- Granta
- The Gravity of the Thing
- Great Lakes Review
- Green Linden Press
- Greensboro Review
- Gulf Coast
- Harpur Palate
- Harvard Review (Fiction only)
- HerStry
- JuxtaProse
- Kenyon Review
- Lost Pilots Literary Magazine
- McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
- Memorious
- Meridian
- Mid-American Review
- Mississippi Review
- The Missouri Review
- New England Review
- New Orleans Review
- New Plains Review
- New South
- Nimrod International Journal
- Ninth Letter
- The Journal
- PANK
- The Pinch
- Ploughshares
- Poetry International
- Polyphony Lit
- Ponder Review
- Puerto del Sol
- Radar
- Rappahannock Review
- Reed Magazine
- Rhino
- River Heron Review
- Rust and Moth
- Rockvale Review
- The Rumpus
- Salt Hill Journal
- Sheila-Na-Gig
- Shenandoah
- Split Lip Magazine
- Split Rock Review
- Stone Poetry Quarterly
- Superpresent
- Sundog Lit
- Tahoma Review
- Think Journal
- Third Street Review
- Triquarterly
- Tulsa Review
- Unleash Press
- Visitant
- Whitefish Review
- Witness
- Woodcrest Magazine
- 805 Lit + Art
- 3 Cents Magazine
- 32 Poems
Open All Year
Hunger Mountain
https://hungermtn.org/submit/
Prism International
https://prismmagazine.ca/submit/
Auroras & Blossoms: Rolling Deadline
Launched in 2019, Auroras & Blossoms is dedicated to promoting positive, uplifting, and inspirational art; and giving artists (ages 13 and over) of all levels a platform where they can showcase their work and build their publishing credits.
We publish short stories, flash fiction, essays, six-word stories, photography, paintings, drawings, and poetry. One of our anthologies is entirely focused on 13-16 year-old creatives.
Link: https://abpositiveart.com/submit
Driftwood Press Submissions: Rolling Deadline
Year-round submissions accepted www.driftwoodpress.net
John Updike once said, "Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better." At Driftwood Press, we are actively searching for artists who care about doing it right, or better. We are excited to receive your submissions and will diligently work to bring you the best in full poetry collections, novellas, graphic novels, short fiction, poetry, graphic narrative, photography, art, and interviews.
Litmags Open for Submissions
Please check each litmag’s website for specific submission guidelines, genres accepted, and associated submission fees (if applicable). Good luck, and happy writing!
- The Blue Mountain Review - Our Doors Are Open: call for submissions Deadline: Year Round
Website: https://www.southerncollectiveexperience.com/the-blue-mountain-review/
- DarkWinter Literary Magazine
Entry Fee: None
Website: https://www.darkwinterlit.com
- Frontier Poetry - Submissions from New Voices
Entry Fee: None
Website: https://www.frontierpoetry.com/submit/
- Memoir Project Open Submissions
Entry Fee: None
Website: https://thekeepthings.com/
- Poetry Magazine Open Submissions
Entry Fee: None
Website: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/submit
- Profiles of Writers Who Are Mothers
Entry Fee: None
Website: https://literarymama.com/submissions/submission-guidelines-profiles-and-interviews
- Reedsy
https://blog.reedsy.com/writing-contests/
- SmokeLong Submissions Deadline: Year round
Website: https://www.smokelong.com/guidelines/
- Wildness - Accepting submissions for poetry, fiction, and nonfiction
Entry Fee: None
Website: https://readwildness.com/submit
Contests and Prizes
- American Poetry Review
Entry Fee: $15
Cash prize: $1000
Website: https://americanpoetryreview.submittable.com/submit/11755/stanley-kunitz-memorial-prize
- American Short FictionDeadline: June 1st
Cash prize: $2500
Website: https://americanshortfiction.org/the-halifax-ranch-fiction-prize-2023/
- Anhinga Press
Entry Fee: $25
Cash prize: $2000
Website: https://www.anhingapress.org/
- Autumn House Press
Entry Fee: $30
Cash prize: $1000
Website: https://www.autumnhouse.org/
- Bard College
Entry Fee: No fee
Cash prize: $30,000
Website: https://www.bard.edu/bfp/
- Barrow Street Press
Entry Fee: $25
Cash prize: $1500
Website: https://barrowstreet.org/press/
- Bellevue Literary Review
Entry Fee: $20
Cash prize: $1000
Website: https://blreview.org/blr-prizes/
- Bitter Oleander Press
Entry Fee: $28
Cash prize: $1500
Website: https://bitteroleander.com/submission.html
- BOA Editions
Entry Fee: $25
Cash prize: $1000
Website: https://www.boaeditions.org/pages/a-poulin-jr-poetry-prize
- Boulevard
Entry Fee: $18
Cash prize: $1000
Website: https://boulevard.submittable.com/submit
- Cider Press Review
Entry Fee: $26
Cash prize: $1000
Website: https://ciderpressreview.submittable.com/submit/
- Claremont Graduate University
Entry Fee: No Fee
Cash prize: $10,000
Website: https://arts.cgu.edu/tufts-poetry-awards/
- Conduit Books & Ephemera
Entry Fee: $25
Cash prize: $1500
Website: https://www.conduit.org/submit
- Crook’s Corner Book Prize
Entry Fee: $35
Cash prize: $5000
Website: https://crookscornerbookprize.com/
- Driftwood Press Submission Opportunities
Entry Fee: $11
Cash prize: $500
Website: https://driftwoodpress.submittable.com/submit
- Georgia Review
Entry Fee: $30
Cash prize: $1,500
Website: thegeorgiareview.com/the-loraine-williams-poetry-prize
- PEN America Literary Awards
Entry Fee: $85
Cash prize: $5,000
Website: https://pen.org/literary-awards-submissions/
- Milkweed Editions
Entry Fee: $25
Cash prize: $10,000
Website: https://milkweed.org/max-ritvo-poetry-prize
- National Book Foundation
Entry Fee: $135
Cash prize: $10,000
Website: https://www.nationalbook.org/
- New American Press
Entry Fee: $25
Cash prize: $1500
Website: http://newamericanpress.com/category/contests
- Noemi Press
Entry Fee: $25
Cash prize: $2,000
Website: noemipress.org/contest
- Omnidawn
Entry Fee: $17 for 1 poem
Cash prize: $1000
Website: https://www.omnidawn.com/contests/omnidawn-poetry-contests/
- Pittsburg State University
Entry Fee: $15
Cash prize: $1000
Website: https://www.cowcreekchapbook.org/
- Ploughshares
Entry Fee: $24
Cash prize: $2,000
Website: pshares.org
- Regal House Publishing
Entry Fee: $25
Cash prize: $1,000
Website: regalhousepublishing.com
- Salamander
Entry Fee: $15
Cash prize: $1000
Website: https://salamandermag.org/
- Small Harbor Publishing
Entry Fee: $15 (Fee is waived for BIPOC identifying writers)
Cash prize: N/A (standard publishing contract and 20 copies of their book)
Website: https://www.smallharborpublishing.com/hybrid-open-reading-period
- University of Akron Press
Entry Fee: $25
Cash prize: $1500
Website: https://uakron.edu/uapress/akron-poetry-prize/
- University of North Texas Press
Entry Fee: $25
Cash prize: $1000
Website: https://untpress.unt.edu/authors/porter-prize-submissions/
Additional Resources
You can find more opportunities for writers on the websites listed below. Remember, whenever a contest charges an entry fee, make sure that you vet them and confirm that they are legit. A great resource for researching writing contests is the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses: www.clmp.org.
- Almond Press
- Bookfox: Ranking of the Best 100 Literary Magazines
- Community of Literary Magazines and Presses
- Poets and Writers
- Published to Death
- NewPages
- Submittable*
*Please note that this website no longer focuses on literary submissions, contests, and publishing. Be very, very wary of any “opportunity” that charges an entry fee in excess of $25, and double-check the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses: www.clmp.org website to make sure high-cost “opportunities” are legitimate contests.
- The Practicing Writer
wORKSHOPS & RESIDENCIES
The Kenyon Review Summer Workshops
Rolling admissions, but early applications accepted. Workshops in Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Translation, and Spiritual Writing. https://kenyonreview.org/writers