Deadline: September 30, 2018 (11:59 EST). Barren Magazine accepts flash fiction, short fiction, poetry, photography, and essays about the complexities of the human condition. Limit writing submissions to six (6) pieces at a time. There is no word count limit, but pieces with more than 5,000 words (or 2+ pages for poetry) require a longer response time and are less likely [ … ]
Category: Fiction
Tin House is Accepting Unsolicited Submissions
Deadline: Oct. 15, 2018. Based in Portland, Oregon, Tin House publishes fiction, essays, and poetry. Tin House contributors have won major American literary awards, such as the O. Henry Prize. The magazine currently accepts submissions for its first three issues of 2019: Summer 2019 and Winter 2019: No theme, just quality fiction, nonfiction, and poetry to cool off with, in [ … ]
Submit to Type/Cast Journal
Deadline: Oct. 8, 2018. The Type/Cast editorial collective announces a new call for submissions. It seeks fiction, poetry, and short nonfiction works. Xabiso Vili will guest edit this issue. Your work can touch on literally having to deal with physical spaces that are contested. Or, you can write about emotional or intellectual spaces, or any other space you may conceive. Email your previously [ … ]
Contest: the Emerging Writer’s Prize in Fiction
Deadline: Oct. 20, 2018. Submit to the Emerging Writer’s Prize in Fiction, a prize run by The Arkansas International. Send in your single prose work, not exceeding 7,500 words. The contest is open to writers who haven’t yet published a full-length book. However, it will accept writers with a book forthcoming before May 1, 2019 and those with chapbooks. The [ … ]
Submit to The Arkansas International
Deadline: rolling basis until April 1. The Arkansas International promotes established and emerging voices. It welcomes previously unpublished, unsolicited submissions of fiction, poetry, essays, comics, and translated works. And it only accepts electronic submissions, via Submittable. Note: the team does not accept submission fee until the cap is reached, excluding translations. But after they hit their cap, each submission after carries [ … ]
Submission Calls: MoonPark Review
Deadline: not available. MoonPark Review currently reads for Issue Six. MoonPark Review is an online literary journal devoted to publishing compelling, imaginative short prose. It publishes flash fiction, prose poems, and hybrid forms. Mary Lynn Reed & Lesley C. Weston edit the journal. They love cerebral and speculative works. They also love poetic micros, dark and twisty tales, and queer themes. [ … ]
Enter the N500,000 Union Bank Campus Writing Challenge
Deadline: Oct. 7, 2018 (12 midnight WAT). The Union Bank Campus Writing Challenge is an OkadaBooks initiative sponsored by Union Bank. The contest focuses on discovering young, raw and bold writing talents across Nigeria and giving them with the necessary support to hone their craft and become master storytellers. Therefore, this contest is strictly for undergraduates of tertiary institutions in Nigeria. To [ … ]
Call for Submission: Afroyoungadult
Deadline: Nov. 30. Afroyoungadult, published by the Goethe-Institut, will feature Young Adults (YA) stories. The Goethe-Institut invites aspiring African writers to submit short stories, 3,000 to 5,000 words in length, in Kiswahili, English or French. Selected authors will be published in an anthology and will participate in workshops in February 2019. The anthology that will be available in Kiswahili, English, and French, and [ … ]
The impepho press submissions call
Deadline: Sept. 30, 2018. The impepho press has opened the submission frame for collection of poetry and short stories to be published in 2019. The press is a Pan Africanist publishing house committed to the sincere telling of African and international stories. It accepts book-length manuscripts and collections, whether poetry or short stories. It wants submissions from people born on the African continent [ … ]
The Manchester Fiction Prize
Deadline: Sept. 14, 2018, 5 p.m. (UK time). Open internationally, the Manchester Fiction Prize awards a £10,000 prize to the best short story submitted. Any writer, new or established, can apply as long as the writer is aged 16 and above. Cost of entry is £17.50 (sterling) per story submitted. To enter, you have to submit a short story of up to [ … ]
Submit to the 2018 African Writers Award
Deadline: Oct. 13, 2018. Every year, the African Writers Development Trust (AWDT) hosts the African Writers Award as the highpoint of the African Writers Conference (AWC). The conference brings together writers of African descent to facilitate networking, provide opportunities and sustain a conversation on advancing the collective interests of African writers. The theme of the 2018 AWC is “Re-imagining African Literature: New Voices, [ … ]
2018 Short Story Day Africa Prize: Hotel Africa
Deadline: Oct. 31, 2018. Short Story Day Africa (SSDA) now accepts submissions for its 2018 Short Story Day Africa Prize. The winner will receive $800, the runner-up $200 and the second runner-up $100. So, submit one 3,000-5,000, previously unpublished piece of short fiction that explores identity, like themes of gender identity and sexuality. According to Short Story Day Africa, Check-in … To [ … ]
Submit to Afro Anthology x Enkare Review
Deadline: Sept. 10, 2018. Afro Anthology x Enkare Review call for short story submissions from writers of African citizenship or African descent. So, submit a fictional work that centers around a blind protagonist or has blindness as its core theme. There are over five million blind citizens in Africa and over 285 million suffer from visual impairment of some kind. Send [ … ]
Submit to Big Pond Rumours
Summer Deadline: June 30 Winter Deadline: December 30. Big Pond Rumours is an international literary E-Zine that publishes poetry, story, literary essays and biographies. The publication supports emerging and established authors by exposing them to an international online audience. It releases two issues each year, Summer and Winter. It seeks quality poems and short stories. Poems could be up to 6 pages [ … ]
Submit to Panorama: The Journal of Intelligent Travel
Deadline: May 17, 2018. Panorama: The Journal of Intelligent Travel exists to draw attention to every part of the scene so that people are able to see and hear the images and voices excluded from the conventional, narrow travel narrative. Panorama emphasizes writing and photography which is created with a deep intelligence, reconnecting us to the world. Panorama calls for you to submit [ … ]
Submit to the SI Leeds Literary Prize
Deadline: April 30, 2018. A biennial prize, the SI Leeds Literary Prize honors unpublished fiction by Black and Asian women resident in the UK aged 18+. Soroptimist International of Leeds created and runs the SI Leeds Literary Prize. Submit an unpublished novel or collections of short stories of any genre of no less than 30,000 words. Please do not submit memoirs, biographies and autobiographies. And ensure that [ … ]
Enter the Bristol Short Story Prize
Deadline: May 1, 2018 (midnight BST). The 2018 Bristol Short Story Prize is open to all writers around the world whether published or unpublished. You can either submit your story online or post by mail. The team awards £1000 for 1st prize, £700 for 2nd prize, and £400 for 3rd prize. It also awards £100 to the remaining 17 shortlisted writers. [ … ]
Submit to the RadioBook Rwanda project by Huza Press
Deadline: January 25, 2018. Huza Press calls on Rwandan writers to submit short stories for its RadioBook Rwanda project. Also, it invites both Rwandan and Kenyan artist to submit art pieces for the project. Huze Press will publish new writing and new artworks in collaboration with Kwani Trust and No Bindings. The proposed RadioBook Rwanda book series will publish original artworks and three short [ … ]
Saraba Magazine Calls for Submissions
Deadline: Dec. 31, 2017. Saraba Magazine calls for submissions for its 2018 Saraba issues. The themes are Open (#22), Fake Truths (#23), and Viral (#24). It will pay published writers ₦10,000 (approximately $30). It asks prospective contributors to interpret the themes in singular, yet compelling ways. Submit unpublished works that address any of the three themes. And, in your cover letter, [ … ]
Bellevue Literary Review Calls for Submissions
Deadline: Jan. 1, 2018. Bellevue Literary Review invites you to submit submissions centered around its Displacement theme. It accepts high-caliber poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. You can view displacement through the prism of “sense of un-belonging in the body, a yearning for relief from suffering, a pining for a return to the land of the healthy.” Or, you can write it from the literal sense of [ … ]