NewPages Guide to Calls for Submissions
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Goldilocks Zone contest for fiction, CNF, poetry, or art
Deadline: April 30, 2025
Sunspot Lit is looking for a short story, novel or novella excerpt, essay, artwork, graphic novel, or poem that combines excellence in craft with reader or audience appeal. Literary or genre works accepted. No restrictions on theme or category. Maximum of 2,500 words for short stories or nonfiction, 24 lines for poetry, and 8 pages for graphic novels. Opens April 1, closes April 30. Entry fee is $5 for a $100 cash prize and publication. Enter as many times as you like, but only one piece per submission. Simultaneous submissions are accepted. Enter here.
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AMPLIFY: Anthology by Black, Indigenous, and Other Poets of Color
Deadline: May 31, 2025
Sheila-Na-Gig Editions is currently seeking poetry from Black, Indigenous, and other Poets of Color for AMPLIFY, a print anthology curated by Toledo, Ohio, poet Sandra Rivers-Gill. This anthology will exhibit powerful, provocative, poetry that amplifies and speaks to the personal experience. We are looking for poems that resist, bear witness to, prompt and inspirit, hope and affirm; poems that honor and celebrate. We love well-crafted poems with excellent imagery and a strong sense of voice. Our bias leans toward free verse, but we are open to traditional forms as well. sheilanagigblog.com/amplify/
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Heron Tree Call for Submissions
Deadline: May 15, 2025
Until 15 May 2025, Heron Tree is accepting found poems composed from sources published in or before 1929. We are interested in any and all approaches to found poetry construction and erased or remixed texts. Accepted poems will be published weekly on the Heron Tree website starting later in 2025 and will be collected in a free, downloadable PDF volume. For detailed submission guidelines, visit us at herontree.com/how/. No fee, no payment.
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2026 Oregon Poetry Calendar Submissions Open March 1, 2025
Deadline: May 31, 2025
Red Shoe Press submissions open March 1, 2025 through May 31, 2025 for the 2026 Oregon Poetry Calendar. Glossy wall calendar pairs poems with compelling photographs. This year’s theme is “the water around us.” Work accepted only from poets currently living in Oregon. No art needed. Responses by July 2025, publication by August 2025. Poets whose work is published in the calendar receive one free copy. Upon publication, all rights revert back to poet. Submit 1-5 poems in a single Word document. Previously published and simultaneous submissions are okay. No submission fee. No email submissions. To submit: redshoepress.submittable.com/submit.
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The New Verse News Seeks Current Events Poetry
Deadline: Year-round
Since 2005, The New Verse News has covered the news of the day with poems on issues, large and small, international and local. It relies on the submission of poems (especially those of a politically progressive bent) by writers from all over the world. The editors update the website every day with a poetic take on a current and specific headline. See the website for guidelines and examples. Then paste your non-simultaneous submission and a brief bio in the text of an email (no attachments, please) to nvneditor(at)gmail.com. Write “Verse News Submission” in the subject line of your email.
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Oyster River Pages seeks submissions for 8th annual issue
Deadline: May 1, 2025
ORP seeks fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and visual arts for its eighth annual issue (due August 2025). We are especially eager to publish the work of marginalized and decentered people—Black and Brown creators, LGBTQ+ creators, and creators of all levels of dis/ability. Writers and poets with 2 or fewer publications are invited to submit to Emerging Voices Fiction or Emerging Voices Poetry. Additionally, ORP Soundings publishes rolling reviews, interviews, profiles, commentary, or other innovative forms (including multimedia) that seek to highlight or critically engage with issues or works of literary, artistic, or cultural significance. Visit www.oysterriverpages.com/submit.
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Palooka Seeks Chapbooks, Prose, Poetry, Artwork, Photography
Deadline: Year-round
Palooka is an international literary magazine. For over a decade we’ve featured new, up-and-coming, and established writers, artists, and photographers from around the world. We’re open to diverse forms and styles and are always seeking unique chapbooks, fiction, poetry, nonfiction, artwork, photography, and graphic narratives. Submissions open year-round. palookamag.com
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Gold Man Review Open for Submissions
Deadline: June 15, 2025
Gold Man Review, a West Coast Journal, is currently looking for submissions in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction for Issue 15. We are open to all topics and themes and love writing that pushes boundaries. If your work is on the unusual side, then we’re probably the journal for you. If you’re interested in submitting to Gold Man Review, please see our website for full submission guidelines. Please also note that we only accept submissions from writers in Oregon, Alaska, Hawaii, California, and Washington.
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Magazine1 is Open for Submissions!
Deadline: May 24, 2025
Magazine1 is open for submissions for its fourth issue! We want the strange and unexpected. If you have a piece that you’re having trouble placing somewhere else, or one that doesn’t feel like the rest of what you make, send it to us. We also want to feature writers and artists from the Gulf Coast of Florida in our “Gulf Coast of Florida Feature.” www.magazine-1.com
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Decolonial Passage Seeks Fiction and Nonfiction
Decolonial Passage encourages emerging and established writers to submit to the magazine. We accept writing from writers of all backgrounds engaged in the decolonial project regardless of race, origin, gender, disability, or geographical location. Simultaneously Decolonial Passage centers African, African-American, and Black Diaspora writing from the African continent, the Americas, Europe, and beyond. We nominate for the following: Pushcart Prize, Best Small Fictions, Best of the Net, PEN/Robert J. Dau, Best American Essays, Best American Short Stories, and Caine Prize. Read some of our published work and Submit: thedecolonialpassage.net.
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Kings River Review Call for 2-Year College Student Submissions
Deadline: Rolling
The Kings River Review publishes artwork, creative nonfiction, short fiction, and poetry of current 2-year community college students. Submission Deadlines: March 15 for the spring issue and October 15 for the fall issue. Submission requirements: up to 5 pieces of artwork and photography sent as .JPEG files; creative nonfiction and fiction of up to 3,000 words; and up to 5 poems. Go to kingsriverreview.com for full submission guidelines.
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Sand Hills Literary Magazine Call for Submissions
Deadline: March 1, 2025
Sand Hills Literary Magazine, in print since 1973, is now open for Issue 49. We are a national publication out of Augusta, Georgia accepting works from the United States. Both emerging and established writers and artists are encouraged to submit. We are now accepting art, poetry, and prose for our upcoming issue. We are also accepting submissions to our annual poetry and prose contests, judged by the Sand Hills editorial team. Winning entries in each category receive $500 and publication in the issue. The deadline for general and contest submissions is March 1, 2025. We look forward to reviewing your work. sandhillsmagazine.com/submit
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South 85 Reading for Theme Issue: Borders-Boundaries-Lines
Deadline: March 10, 2025
South 85 lit journal is eager to read your fiction, flash, CNF, and poetry through March 10 for our spring/summer issue. We’re based in the Converse University low-res MFA program, under faculty editorship. Theme: Borders | Boundaries | Lines. One piece will be selected for the Editor’s Choice Award of $100. All work we accept comes to us from the Submittable queue…no backroom solicitations. We nominate for awards and promote our writers in social media. Send something you love to our enthusiastic team! Guidelines: www.south85journal.com/submissions/.
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Our Doors are Open
Deadline: Year-round
The Blue Mountain Review launched from Athens, Georgia in 2015 with the mantra, “We’re all south of somewhere.” As a journal of culture, the BMR strives to represent all life through its stories. Stories are vital to our survival. What we sing saves the soul. Our goal is to preserve and promote lives told well through prose, poetry, music, and the visual arts. We’ve published work from and interviews with Jericho Brown, Kelli Russell Agodon, Robert Pinsky, Rising Appalachia, Turkuaz, Michel Stone, Michael Flohr, Lee Herrick, Chen Chen, Michael Cudlitz, Pat Metheny, Melissa Studdard, Lyrics Born, Terry Kay, and Christopher Moore. bluemountainreview.submittable.com/submit
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The Capra Review Seeks Fiction, Nonfiction, and Art Submissions
Deadline: Year-round
The Capra Review is an online literary magazine that delves into obsessions, preoccupations, and secrets. We are now accepting fiction, nonfiction, and visual art submissions for our next issue. Since 2014, we’ve featured the work of emerging and established voices, including Josip Novakovich, a Booker International finalist, and Elizabeth Gonzalez James, alongside award-winning photographers such as Wayne Lawrence and Nina Berman, and artists Duke Riley and Natalie Frank. Explore our past issues and submit your work to thecaprareview@gmail.com. For full submission guidelines, please visit www.thecaprareview.com.
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Plant-Human Quarterly Seeks Poems and Essays for Upcoming Issues
Deadline: Year-round
Plant-Human Quarterly reads year-round. We seek unpublished or published poetry and essays that explore the myriad ways writers manifest their relationship to the botanical world—whether through heavily researched pieces, keen observation, or more intuitive ways of knowing—that attempt to communicate across boundaries and approach a plant’s-eye-view of the world. Send no more than 5 poems or an essay of no more than 1500 words (flash essay or essay excerpt) in a single word document. Past contributors include Ellen Bass, Forrest Gander, Kimiko Hahn, Brenda Hillman, Jane Hirshfield, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Pattiann Rogers, Scott Russell Sanders, Arthur Sze. Submission guidelines: otherwisecollective.com/phq-submissions.