Calls for Submissions

Take a look at the latest publishing opportunities currently available to writers from the many literary magazines and presses that are members of CLMP. Before submitting your work, be sure to check the publisher’s website for any updates.

 
Submit to the Santa Clara Review! submitted by Santa Clara Review

The Santa Clara Review publishes a wide variety of work from all over the world. Our magazine is open to all and is especially interested in writing and art from…

Expires:February 15, 2025
WayWords Literary Journal submitted by WayWords

Issue 18 encourages writers UNDER 18 to send their creative exploration in poetry or fiction. NOTE: for this issue, writers are required to include their age in their Title Information. This will…

Expires:February 20, 2025
Fiction Potluck submitted by WayWords

The January Fiction Potluck Challenge is: About an Egg Send your best story in under 5,000 words. This is a fiction-only challenge. A tip from our guest judge, Madelyn Postman: Your story…

Expires:February 20, 2025
2025 Autumn House Press Fiction Prize submitted by Autumn House Press

For the 2025 prize, the Autumn House staff as well as select outsider readers serve as the preliminary readers, and the final judge is Alexandra Kleeman. The winner receives publication…

Expires:February 28, 2025
Vulpecula Poetica submitted by Fortuna Major Press

Vulpecula Poetica (Little Fox Poetry) is an annual anthology emphasizing creative nonfiction poetry and poetry that plays with form. For its inaugural issue, Memory, Vulpecula Poetica seeks poetry that delves into…

Expires:February 28, 2025
Brink Literary Journal Award for Hybrid Writing submitted by Brink

Brink Literary Journal Award for Hybrid Writing: 2025 Judge Kristen Radtke The judge for the 2025 Brink Literary Journal Award for Hybrid Writing is Kristen Radtke. Radtke is the author…

Expires:February 28, 2025
Hayden's Ferry Review Fiction & Poetry Contest submitted by Hayden's Ferry Review

Hayden’s Ferry Review will accept contest submissions in poetry and fiction between Feb 1-28, 2025. There will be two prizes of $1000 each and publication in HFR (online in summer…

Expires:February 28, 2025
Fuente Fountain Books, Query letter for book-length feminist progressive manuscripts submitted by Fuente Fountain Books

Fuente Fountain Books is a new small independent press based in Portland, Oregon. We are thrilled that our first title was a finalist for the prestigious 2023 PEN Award for…

Expires:February 28, 2025
Yellow Arrow Journal open for submissions on the theme UNFURL submitted by Yellow Arrow Publishing Co.

Yellow Arrow Journal is excited to announce that submissions are open for the spring 2025 (Vol. X, No. 1) issue: UNFURL : to release from a furled, coiled, or wrapped…

Expires:February 28, 2025
Single Poem Contest submitted by Bicoastal Review

One winner of Bicoastal Review‘s single-poem contest will receive $200, a featured publication in Issue 10, a uniquely designed physical and digital broadside of their poem, publicity on our social media…

Expires:March 1, 2025
The TRP Southern Poetry Breakthrough Series: Virginia submitted by TRP: The University Press of SHSU

About Series Editor: J. Bruce Fuller The TRP Southern Poetry Breakthrough Series highlights a first full-length collection by emerging authors from each state in the southern U.S. The current state…

Expires:March 1, 2025
YesYes Books 2025 Open Reading Period in Poetry submitted by YesYes Books

YesYes Books holds an annual Open Reading Period for full-length poetry manuscripts. And we are happy to be open once again to your work! Details: • Submission period is November…

Expires:March 1, 2025
Special Edition of Teach. Write. Dedicated to Those Affected by Helene submitted by Teach. Write.: A Literary Journal for Writing Teachers

The next edition of Teach. Write.: A Literary Journal for Writing Teachers is dedicated to those in western North Carolina impacted by Hurricane Helene. The editor is particularly interested in stories, poems,…

Expires:March 1, 2025
Artemis Journal 2025 submitted by Artemis Journal

This year, we invite poets and artists to explore the theme of “Homeward Bound.” Home can feel safe and comforting, but it can also represent a place we have lost…

Expires:March 1, 2025
Call for Submissions on the theme Movement

Superpresent is seeking submissions on the theme Movement. We are seeking short stories, essays, poetry, asemic writing, videos, films, performance art, sound art, and all forms of visual art. Submission…

Expires:March 1, 2025
Broken Tribe Call for Novellas (no fee) submitted by Lawrence Landing Company [Serving House Books & Broken Tribe Press imprints]

Call for Novellas – Free Open Reading January 2-March 2 Broken Tribe Press is seeking novellas that are well crafted and inspiring. Complete manuscripts should be 90 pages +, excluding…

Expires:March 2, 2025
HerStry - General Submission submitted by HerStry

HerStry welcomes women identifying writers of all levels and talents to tell their stories. We are proud to have published stories from women all around the world. We accept all types…

Expires:March 4, 2025
South 85, the Converse MFA Program's Official Journal, Is Eager to Read Your Work! submitted by South 85 Journal

South 85 Journal is accepting general submissions from January 15, 2025, to March 10, 2025, for its Spring/Summer issue through Submittable: South 85 Submissions Page. Additional reading periods will be announced for 2025. THEME…

Expires:March 10, 2025
Fahmidan is reading for Summer 2025 Issue 22 Submissions! submitted by Fahmidan Journal/ Publishing & Co.

Fahmidan is over four years old and with a diverse team, we believe in true diversity of thought, perspective and indeed, literature! We’re reading for Issue 22 and excited to…

Expires:March 14, 2025
Fahmidan Journal is Open for Issue 22 Submissions submitted by Fahmidan Journal/ Publishing & Co.

Fahmidan is over four years old and with a diverse team, we believe in true diversity of thought, perspective and indeed, literature! We’re reading for Issue 22 and excited to…

Expires:March 14, 2025
Be Published in The Southern Quill submitted by The Southern Quill

The Southern Quill, first printed in 1951 and published by Utah Tech University, has been in circulation for more than half a century. Each year, between January and March, the…

Expires:March 14, 2025
Arkana: Special Call for our Hybrid Issue! submitted by Arkana Online Literary Journal

“Hey, you got peanut butter in my chocolate!” Two things become immediately better as one. Arkana is putting together a Hybrid issue and looking for submissions! We want your prose…

Expires:March 15, 2025
Ponder Review seeks Volume 9, Issue 1 (June 2025) submitted by Ponder Review / Poetry South

We seek your best Fiction, Flash, Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, Short Plays, Visual Art, or New Media. Published by students and faculty in the low-residency MFA in Creative Writing at Mississippi…

Expires:March 15, 2025
The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize 2025 submitted by The Poetry Box

The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize 2025 THREE Winners Grand Prize Award: $500 plus 10 copies of their published chapbook (chosen by contest judge for 2025: George Bilgere)   Editor’s Choice…

Expires:March 15, 2025