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Where to Submit Roundup: February 28, 2025

Where to Submit 2025

65 Submission Opportunities including calls for submissions, writing contests, and book prizes.

It’s the last day of February which means there are submission opportunities ending today and more ending tomorrow, March 1. NewPages has your back with our weekly roundup of submission opportunities so you don’t miss out on these deadlines. Plus, find opportunities with March 2025 deadlines and beyond. This is a perfect weekend activity when the weather has decided to move back towards winter after a brief taste of spring.

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Where to Submit Roundup: February 21, 2025

Where to Submit 2025

58 Submission Opportunities including calls for submissions, writing contests, and book prizes.

Welcome to our weekly roundup of submission opportunities for February 21! This edition is packed with a variety of chances for writers, creatives, and professionals to showcase their work and break into new markets. Whether you’re looking to share your latest article, artwork, or innovative ideas, you’ll find opportunities here that cater to a wide range of styles and themes.

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Collaboration is a Fact of Life, Tell Your Story

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Deadline: March 10, 2025
Collaboration is upon us for joy, productivity, and sometimes heartache. Please show us your art that involved collaboration and how that collaboration gave rise to your poetry, prose and images and hybrid forms. Here is a chance to tell us how you work and produce. Sponsored by Black Earth Institute valuing earth, spirit, and social justice. View flyer for more info and a link to our website.

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Subnivean Awards: Win an Author Blurb, Publication, Prize, Event Appearance

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Deadline: February 21, 2025
The Subnivean Awards are open: winners receive publication and blurbs from final judges, as well as $150 each. Finalists and winners are featured at a popular virtual event. Subnivean’s received submissions from 63 countries and every U.S. state, publishing U.S. Poet Laureate Emeritus Juan Felipe Herrera, Jane Wong, Molly Giles, Amit Majmudar and others. We await your poems and stories! View flyer for more info and a link to submit.

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Contest and Submission Opportunity from Black Fox Literary Magazine

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Contest Deadline: March 30, 2025
Submit your fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction to Black Fox Literary Magazine’s Winter Prize with theme Rise or Ruin! Deadline: March 30, 2025! We are also accepting free general submissions for our summer 2025 print issue. Free subs close on May 31, 2025! View flyer for links to submit.

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Hindsight Online Library Open for Submissions

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Deadline: Rolling
We at Hindsight are looking to expand our online library! We accept artwork, photography, creative nonfiction prose, and poetry. All submissions are considered for both print and online publication. We accept internationally as well!

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Livingston Press 2025 Changing Light Prize for a Novel-in-Verse

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Deadline: May 30, 2025
Livingston Press announces it is seeking unpublished manuscripts preferably between 90 to 160 pages for its annual Changing Light Prize for a Novel-in-Verse. Past winners include Nicelle Davis and Michael George. No fee to submit. See flyer for more information and a link to the Livingston Press website.

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Submit to Epiphany’s 2025 Breakout Writers Contest, $1000 prize!

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Deadline: April 15, 2025
Epiphany‘s 2025 Breakout! Writers prize will be judged by Victoria Chang in poetry and Hilary Leichter in prose. The contest is open to college and graduate students, and first prize winner in each genre will be awarded $1000 and publication. Submissions open March 1 and close April 15. View our flyer for more info and see more details on our website.

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Third Street Review February 2025 Submission Period Open!

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Deadline: February 28, 2025
During the month of February, Third Street Review, a quarterly literary journal, welcomes submissions of Flash Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Poetry, Art, and Photography. If you have something wild, wooly, and wonderful, we want to see it. We value the work of individual creators—show us who you are and what you can do. In addition to being a paying publication, we promote across social media platforms and nominate for awards. Jump in—we can’t wait to meet you! View our website to learn more.

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Where to Submit Roundup: February 14, 2025

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50 Submission Opportunities including calls for submissions, writing contests, and book prizes.

It is Friday and crazy weather has run rampant this week with bad rainstorms, ice storms, and snowstorms sweeping across the country. Now is a perfect time to stay indoors and write, write, write. . . and submit! NewPages is here to help you reach your submission goals with our weekly roundup of submission opportunities. As today is the fourteenth, there are a lot of calls and contests with February 15 deadlines. Don’t miss out!

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2025 National Indie Excellence Awards

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Deadline: March 31, 2025
The National Indie Excellence© Awards (NIEA) are open to all English language printed books currently for sale including self-published authors, small to midsize independent publishers, and university presses. Now in our nineteenth year, NIEA is a proud champion of self and independent publishing and authors of all genres who produce books of excellence and distinction. View our flyer for more information and a link to submit.

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Where to Submit Roundup: February 7, 2025

Where to Submit 2025

49 Submission Opportunities including calls for submissions, writing contests, and book prizes.

Happy February! The groundhog miraculously saw his shadow on a day it did not seem like he would. But regardless of this old wives’ tradition that boasts a 30% accuracy rate…no matter what it is technically still 6 more weeks until Spring…right? It seems very appropriate that this weekend we have a winter storm locked in on us. So, if you will also be battling cold, windy, and snowy or icy weather, stay safe and, if you can, stay indoors and keep working on those submission goals.

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Where to Submit Roundup: January 31, 2025

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53 Submission Opportunities including calls for submissions, writing contests, and book prizes.

The Midwest got a small reprieve from winter weather only to have an awful wintry mix to come back today. If you are also experiencing some crazy seesawing weather, now is a good time to stay inside with a cup of chai and work on writing, editing, and submitting. Today is the final day of January 2025! This means there are submission opportunities ending today and tomorrow. Don’t miss out on these calls and contests from literary magazines, indie & university presses, and much more!

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Where to Submit Roundup: January 24, 2025

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46 Submission Opportunities including calls for submissions, writing contests, and book prizes.

There is only one week remaining in January which means there are plenty of deadlines for January 31 and February 1 on the horizon! NewPages is here to help you out so you do not miss out on these opportunities and can keep your submission goals going in the right direction in 2025.

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Contest and Online Class Opportunity from Black Fox Literary

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Submission Deadline: March 30, 2025
Submit your fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction to Black Fox Literary Magazine’s Winter Prize with theme Rise or Ruin! Deadline: March 30, 2025! Registration is also open for our online January class: Goals, Routines, and Mindset for Writers on January 18, 2025 at 1-3 PM EST. View flyer for more information and a link to our website.

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Issue 90 of Kaleidoscope Available Now! Accepting Submissions Year-Round

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Kaleidoscope takes a closer look at relationships, aging, neurodiversity, chronic illness, ableism and resilience in its first issue of 2025. Each issue of the magazine explores the experience of disability through the lens of literature and fine art. Submit your best work to us today! View our flyer for more information and a link to our website.

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Bardsy’s 2025 Winter Anthology Contest – First Chapters

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Deadline: March 3, 2025
Winning is great, but our contests are about more: they boost you toward ultimate writing success. Every entrant receives concrete feedback as well as the opportunity to revise before final judging. In addition, finalists receive a professional editorial experience that ends with publication. Contest runs until March 3. View our flyer for more information and a link to our website.

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Third Street Review is re-opening for submissions in February!

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Deadline: February 1-28, 2025
Third Street Review, a quarterly literary journal, welcomes submissions of Flash Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Poetry, Art, and Photography. If you have something wild, wooly, and wonderful, we want to see it. We value the work of individual creators—show us who you are and what you can do. In addition to being a paying publication, we promote across social media platforms and nominate for awards. Jump in—we can’t wait to meet you! View our website to learn more.

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Where to Submit Roundup: January 17, 2025

Where to Submit 2025

47 Submission Opportunities including calls for submissions, writing contests, and book prizes.

The month is half over with and that means deadlines have may have passed you by. But never fear, NewPages is back with new writing opportunities and those that have extended their submission deadlines as well. Let’s help keep those writing and submission goals going strong together!

Paid newsletter subscribers can get early access to the majority of submission opportunities and upcoming events before they go live on our site, so do consider subscribing or upgrading your subscription today. You also receive our monthly eLitPak Newsletter which features even more opportunities and other literary goodness. Our next eLitPak will be sent next Wednesday!

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Where to Submit Roundup: January 10, 2025

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43 Submission Opportunities including calls for submissions, writing contests, and book prizes.

The first full week of January 2025 has come to an end. If you are looking to meet your submission goals for this week, NewPages has your back with forty-three submission opportunities from literary magazines, presses, and more.

Paid newsletter subscribers can get early access to the majority of submission opportunities and upcoming events before they go live on our site, so do consider subscribing or upgrading your subscription today. You also receive our monthly eLitPak Newsletter which features even more opportunities and other literary goodness. Our next eLitPak will be sent next Wednesday!

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Where to Submit Roundup: January 3, 2025

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37 Submission Opportunities including calls for submissions, writing contests, and book prizes.

Happy January! Welcome to our first submissions roundup of 2025. If you need some help to find journals, presses, and more to submit your work to in the new year, NewPages has your back. Enjoy 37 opportunities including calls for submissions from literary magazines and writing and book contests.

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Hindsight Creative Nonfiction Call for Submissions

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Deadline: February 3, 2025
Hindsight Creative Nonfiction publishes all forms of the “fourth genre”: memoir and lyric essays, but also portraiture, narrative journalism, creative scholarly writing, and humor—anything creative we can fact-check.

Get your true stories published in our Spring print edition! See our flyer to scan the QR code for more information.

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2025 Colorado Prize for Poetry Closing Soon!

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Deadline: January 14, 2025
$2,500 honorarium & book publication. Book-length poetry manuscripts accepted until January 14, 2025 (we observe a 5-day grace period). Final judge: Craig Morgan Teicher. $28 entry fee includes one-year subscription to Colorado Review. View our flyer for more information and a link to our complete guidelines. Questions? Please email us.

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Where to Submit Roundup: December 20, 2024

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43 Submission Opportunities including calls for submissions, writing contests, and book prizes.

Happy Friday! With the holidays literally around the corner, NewPages has you covered with our weekly roundup of submission opportunities to save you time in pre-holiday chaos.

Paid newsletter subscribers can get early access to the majority of submission opportunities and upcoming events before they go live on our site, so do consider subscribing or upgrading your subscription today. You also receive our monthly eLitPak Newsletter which features even more opportunities and other literary goodness. Our December 2024 eLitPak was just released this week.

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Where to Submit Roundup: December 13, 2024

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36 Submission Opportunities including calls for submissions, writing contests, and book prizes.

Happy Friday! December will be half over with already this weekend. This means there is only a few weeks remaining in 2024. How goes your submission goals? Hopefully you have been managing to stay on top of them. Grab a cup of cocoa and pull up a chair as NewPages has your back with our weekly roundup of submission opportunities.

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Jelly Bucket Issue 15 Special Section

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Bluegrass Writers Studio’s annual graduate-student-produced literary journal Jelly Bucket has announced that they are accepting submissions for Issue 15’s special section, Incarcerated Voices, which will be guest edited by Keeonna Harris.

This special section will focus on the voices of those impacted by incarceration. They are looking for creative nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and art from writers and artists who have been incarcerated, worked with incarcerated people, or who have been affected by loved ones who have been incarcerated. Submissions must be received by January 20, 2025. There is no fee to submit to this special section.

Don’t forget to check out past issues which feature special sections Neurodivergent Voices and Nonbinary/Trans Voices.

Where to Submit Roundup: November 22, 2024

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41 Submission Opportunities including calls for submissions, writing contests, and book prizes.

Thanksgiving is already next week. If you’ll be super busy then, take a break to keep your submission goals strong this weekend with the help of the NewPages Weekly Roundup of Submission Opportunities.

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Third Street Review is Open for Submissions!

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Deadline: November 30, 2024
Third Street Review, a quarterly literary journal, welcomes submissions of Flash Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Poetry, Art, and Photography. If you have something wild, wooly, and wonderful, we want to see it. We value the work of individual creators—show us who you are and what you can do. In addition to being a paying publication, we promote across social media platforms and nominate for awards. Jump in—we can’t wait to meet you! View our website to learn more.

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Where to Submit Roundup: November 15, 2024

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43 Submission Opportunities including calls for submissions, writing contests, and book prizes.

And just like that, November is half over with already! This week in Michigan was cold, wet, and dreary or just super windy. Definitely a great time to stay indoors and work hard on finishing up your submission goals for the month! As always, NewPages has your back with our weekly roundup of submission opportunities. There are several November 15 deadlines (aka today) so don’t miss out!

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Where to Submit Roundup: November 8, 2024

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45 Submission Opportunities including calls for submissions, writing contests, and book prizes.

Our brief flash of unseasonably warm weather has ended, and it is back to being more seasonably chilly. Frost is greeting us in the mornings again. A great time to keep to the indoors with your favorite hot beverage of choice and keep writing, editing, and submitting. NewPages is here to help you with our weekly roundup of submission opportunities for the first full week of November 2024.

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Where to Submit Roundup: November 1, 2024

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46 Submission Opportunities including calls for submissions, writing contests, and book prizes.

Spooky season has come to an end! If you are on a sugar high from all of the candy or goodies consumed between last night and today and just want to dive right into writing, editing, and submitting, NewPages has your back with our first weekly roundup of November 2024.

Paid newsletter subscribers can get early access to the majority of submission opportunities and upcoming events before they go live on our site, so do consider subscribing or upgrading your subscription today. You also receive our monthly eLitPak Newsletter which features even more opportunities and other literary goodness. Our October 2024 eLitPak is now available!

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Where to Submit Roundup: October 25, 2024

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44 Submission Opportunities including calls for submissions, writing contests, and book prizes.

Welcome to the final roundup of submission opportunities for October 2024! Hard to believe it will officially be November next Friday. With October ending and November starting, that means there are a lot of upcoming deadlines! NewPages is here to help so you don’t miss out.

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Fall Contest and Submission Opportunity from Black Fox Literary Magazine

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Deadline: December 1, 2024
Submit your fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction to the Fall Black Fox Prize with theme: Fragments of Time! Deadline: December 1, 2024! We are also accepting free submissions for our winter 2025 print issue. Free subs close on November 30, 2024! View our flyer for more info and a link to submit.

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Ashland Poetry Press 2nd Annual Broadside Contest—Now Reading!

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Deadline: November 1, 2024
Submit individual poems via Submittable ($10 for two poems, 40 lines or fewer). Winner and two runners-up will have broadsides designed and printed ($250 and 50 copies to winner; 25 copies for runners-up). No particular aesthetic; we just want great poems. Winning broadsides will be designed by poet/artist Lindsay Lusby. View flyer for more information and a link to submit.

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2025 Marvin Bell Memorial Poetry Prize

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Deadline: November 1, 2024
December Magazine seeks submissions for the 2025 Marvin Bell Memorial Poetry Prize. Maggie Smith will Judge. Prizes: $1,500 & publication (winner); $500 & publication (honorable mention). All finalists will be published in the 2025 Spring/Summer Awards issue. Submit up to 3 poems per entry. $20 entry fee includes a copy of the awards issue. Submit September 1 to November 1, 2024. For more information and a link to our guidelines, please view our flyer.

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Alternating Current Press Submissions Open for October—Closing Soon!

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Submissions open for the Futurist Debut Book Award for debut books ($1,000 prize), the Front Range Book Prize for books by Colorado authors or about Colorado ($1,000 prize), the Luminaire Prose Award for short stories ($100 prize), and book-length nonfiction and poetry manuscripts! See what’s closing at the end of October! View our flyer for more information and links to submit.

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Where to Submit Roundup: October 18, 2024

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43 Submission Opportunities including calls for submissions, writing contests, and book prizes.

October is half over with and submission opportunities are starting to roll in for the last few months of the year and into the next already! NewPages is here to help you out with our weekly roundup of submission opportunities for the week of October 18, 2024, so you don’t miss out.

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Where to Submit Roundup: October 11, 2024

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38 Submission Opportunities including calls for submissions, writing contests, and book prizes.

With colder temperatures finally settling in the Midwest at least, now is a great time to dig out your favorite sweaters and cardigans, grab a cup of steaming hot cider, and write, edit, and submit. NewPages is back with our weekly submissions roundup to help you find a home for your work!

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Where to Submit Roundup: October 4, 2024

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36 Submission Opportunities including calls for submissions, writing contests, and book prizes.

It’s officially October! Now is truly the month of spooky season! Spookiest thing of all…? I still have made no headway on my goals of submitting. I hope you are doing better on this end of things. Need help? As always NewPages has your back with our weekly roundup of submission opportunities.

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Where to Submit Roundup: September 27, 2024

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40 Submission Opportunities including calls for submissions, writing contests, and book prizes.

Happy Friday! Welcome to the last roundup of submission opportunities for September 2024. It’s been a long, crazy week hasn’t it? Hopefully you are all staying safe and sound this week. If you have plans to stay indoors and write, edit, and submit, we are here to help! There are many opportunities with September 30 and October 1 deadlines.

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The 2024 Haiku Search is On Now!

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Deadline: November 30, 2024
Haiku Crush’s 4th annual international search for the best haiku is underway now! Entries for the 2024 search are now being accepted. $350 USD of honorariums will be awarded. Haiku Crush’s panel of judges will give a top award of $150 to the best of the best! Up to 50 winners will be published in this year’s anthology. Submit your four best haiku! View flyer for more info and a link to our website.

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2024 Permafrost Book Prize in Fiction

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Deadline: October 1, 2024
Permafrost is very happy to announce Pulitzer Finalist and Alaskan author Eowyn Ivey as the final judge for this annual contest. Submissions in fiction may include novels, short story collections, or novella collections. More info can be found at our website and on our flyer.

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22nd Annual Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest – Last Call!

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Submit published or unpublished poems to the 22nd annual Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest sponsored by Winning Writers and co-sponsored by Duotrope. We will award $3,500 for the best poem in any style and $3,500 for the best poem that rhymes or has a traditional style. The top 12 poems will be published online. Final judge: Michal ‘MJ’ Jones. Fee: $22 for 1-3 poems. View flyer for more information and a link to submit.

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Where to Submit Roundup: September 20, 2024

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35 Submission Opportunities including calls for submissions, writing contests, and book prizes.

Happy Friday! After what feels like a super long and busy week, another weekend looms before us. If you have the time and energy, NewPages is here to help you along with your submissions and publication goals with our weekly submissions roundup.

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Where to Submit Roundup: September 13, 2024

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33 Submission Opportunities including calls for submissions, writing contests, and book prizes.

If you are superstitious and don’t want to tempt fate by going out on Friday the 13th, NewPages has plenty of reasons to keep you safe at home with our weekly submission opportunities roundup for the week of September 13, 2024.

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Where to Submit Roundup: September 6, 2024

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It is September. Time for color changes, spooky season, and pumpkin spice. It also means that submissions are opening for autumn and winter issues of literary magazines. NewPages is here to help you find a home for your work with our weekly roundup.

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Where to Submit Roundup: August 30, 2024

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32 Submission Opportunities including calls for submissions, writing contests, and book prizes.

Severe thunderstorms, power outages, oh my! It’s been a week. Strong storms blew in and took out power lines, trees, lawn furniture, signs, flags, and who knows what else? When you have nothing to do, what better way to while away the hours than writing and editing? With September and Labor Day around the corner don’t miss out on the end-of-August opportunities!

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Where to Submit Roundup: August 23, 2024

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31 Submission Opportunities including calls for submissions, writing contests, and book prizes.

It’s been an exhausting week, hasn’t it? Let NewPages help you take away some of the work in finding a place to submit to with our weekly roundup of submission opportunities for the week of August 23, 2024.

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Apple in the Dark Winter 2024 Submissions

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Deadline: December 15, 2024
Apple in the Dark is reading for the Winter 2024 issue. Free submissions; tip jar donations accepted. We publish works of short fiction and creative nonfiction up to 1,500 words per piece. Multiple and simultaneous submissions are OK. Up to 3 pieces per submission. See flyer for more information and link to submit.

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Alternating Current Press Submissions Open for August—Closing Soon!

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Submissions now open for the Futurist Debut Book Award for debut books in any genre ($1,000 prize), the Spark Translation Prize for translated books ($1,000 prize), several anthologies, book-length nonfiction manuscripts, and more! See what’s closing at the end of August, and plan ahead for what’s opening in September. View our flyer and learn more at our website.

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