Deadline: Sept. 15, 2020 QueryLetter has a writing contest about book blurbs. The twist? They want blurbs about completely made-up, nonexistent books. Write and submit a back cover blurb of 100 words or fewer that sets the stage for a novel, establishes the characters, and raises the stakes in a way that makes readers want to find out more. Get creative! [ … ]
Category: International Submission
Submit to PRAXIS: a journal of writing + building
Deadline: Ongoing, all year-round. PRAXIS welcomes submissions of essays, projects, and responses to articles published by PRAXIS. Materials submitted are subject to editorial review and/ or external refereeing. All PRAXIS issues are themed, so projects or articles are selected in light of each issue’s particular subject. Published twice-yearly by an all-volunteer staff, PRAXIS has received critical acclaim as well as [ … ]
Open: £10,000 The Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize
Deadline: April 1, 2020 Submit writing around the theme of Forgiveness and Retribution and possibly win the £10,000 Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize. The second-place winner gets the £3,000 cash prize and the third-place runner up wins £2,000. All three get invited to attend the Fjällnäs symposium. Rules: Open to all nationalities, aged 18 and above. All genres permitted. A maximum of 2500 words [ … ]
International Submission: Eyelands Magazine
Deadline: Sept. 20, 2019. Eyelands, an online literary magazine, and Strange Days Books, a publishing firm, are collaborating to run their first comic strip contest. The contest runs from June 20 till Sept. 20, 2019. The theme of the contest this year is free. The judge is Gregory Papadoyiannis and entrance fee is 5€. There will be three prize winners. The winners will [ … ]
Submit: Big Pond Rumours Literary Contest
Deadline: December 15. Big Pond Rumours is currently running its Magazine Content. The team is looking for quality writing and accepts poetry and prose submissions. You can submit up to 80 lines of poetry or a short fiction piece between 2,000 and 3,500 words. The team accepts multiple submissions. Format your submission as follows: poetry should be single-spaced while fiction [ … ]
Submit to the Annual Kalanithi Award
Deadline: Dec. 1, 2018. Now in its third year, the Kalanithi Award is accepting submissions of unpublished short stories, essays, and poems that address patients and providers facing chronic or life limiting illness. The contest, hosted by Stanford’s Palliative Care Section, awards three writers an honorarium and, subject to editorial review, publication in Pegasus Review. Submit less than 4,000 words [ … ]
Tor.com calls for Fantasy Contributors
Deadline: not available. The Tor.com blog seeks fantasy experts to contribute in-depth essays, commentary, and analysis of your favorite books, authors, and series. Send us your pitches to the team. Tor.com primarily seeks standalone articles and essays about fantasy fiction. The team will also consider articles about current, upcoming, and potential film and television adaptations of fantasy books and stories. This [ … ]
Barren Magazine seeks submissions for its third issue
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 [ … ]
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 [ … ]
Sony’s $25,000 Alpha Female Program
Sony seeks five female creatives to kick off its Alpha Female program. The Fellows will receive the $25,000 grant, $5,000 in Sony gear, and mentorship.
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. [ … ]
Art Resident at Art Omi: Writers
Deadline: Oct. 15 (11:59 p.m. EDT). Art Omi: Writers, formerly known as Ledig House, hosts authors and translators from around the world for residencies throughout the spring and fall. Residents select a residency of one week to two months. The residency involves ten writers, at a time, gathering to live and work in a rural setting overlooking the Catskill Mountains. Art Omi is [ … ]
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 [ … ]
The Emma Press launches call for poems about insects for children’s anthology
Deadline: October 5, 2018. The Emma Press has launched a call for poems about insects, for a children’s anthology to be edited by Fran Long and Dr. Isabel Galleymore. The anthology will be part of the publisher’s continuing series of themed anthologies of poetry for children. It accepts we welcome international submissions, as long as you have bought an Emma [ … ]
The Emma Press calls for submissions of poems on illness
Deadline: August 31, 2018. Send your poems on illness to The Emma Press for publication in its anthology launching in April 2019. You may submit up to three poems. Amy Mackelden and Dylan Jaggard will edit the anthology. Amy Mackelden is a poet and writer who co-founded the poetry magazine Butcher’s Dog and is the Weekend Editor at HarpersBAZAAR.com. Dylan Jaggard has been published [ … ]
Apply to the Prague-City of Literature residency program
Deadline: August 31, 2018, 12 am CET. Since October 2015, Prague – City of Literature offers residency stays for foreign writers and translators. It runs six residencies every year, which last two months. Its selection process happens during August and September. The program provides accommodation for free, a stipend of 600 euro per month and reimburses residents’ return ticket. To apply, 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 [ … ]
Empty Mirror seeks nonfiction and art
Deadline: none. Empty Mirror, an online literary magazine, publishes non-fiction, poetry, and art every Friday. It accepts submissions year-round. And, it is committed to diversity and inclusiveness. Submit 3-6 previously unpublished poems together in one document. Don’t double-space your poems unless they must be presented that way when published. For visual art, send 3-12 images of at least 750 pixels, united by [ … ]