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Pay: Pro Include unthemed deadlines Only show results in my Favorites List Include deadlines with associated fees Include results in my Ignore List Exclude listings with MATURE content Only show New and Updated deadlines (past 7 days) Exclude TEMP CLOSED listings 216 deadlines found. Project & ThemeOpeningDeadlineDays Left 53-Word Story Contest [Press 53] Theme: A 53-word story about an opening 01 Sep 202615 Sep 20260.8 1 Discretionary Love Theme: Cheated 01 Sep 202615 Sep 20260* 1 Encyclopedia Prismatica Theme: Resistance & Rebellion 15 Aug 202615 Sep 20260* 0 Glossy Planet Literary Magazine Charges fees for some submissions Theme: Bad Medicine 01 Sep 202615 Sep 20260.9 1 Liminal Lit NEW! Theme: After 15 Sep 20260* 4 The Oracle's Almanac [Sabr Tooth Tiger Magazine] NEW! Theme: On Firsts 01 Sep 202615 Sep 20260* 0 Quarterly West Charges fees for some submissions Theme: Hyperobjects 15 Sep 20260* 0 Rusted Radishes Journal Theme: Tomorrow 15 Sep 20260* 0 Slashed Budgets [The Dionysian Public Library] Theme: Corporate horror 15 Sep 20260* 7 Superpresent Magazine Theme: Not Knowing 15 Sep 20260* 1 Tales Anthology Series [The Writer's Workout] Theme: The Archives 01 Mar 202615 Sep 20260.6 0 Witnessed Anthology [Edge & Busby] FLEDGLING Theme: Witnessed 15 Jul 202615 Sep 20260* 6 Women with Weapons Anthology [Blaft Publications] Theme: Women with Weapons 15 Sep 20260* 5 The Green Sheaf Has Restrictions Theme: The Crone: for female-identifying & gender fluid writers over age 50 21 Aug 202618 Sep 20263* 4 Spark Flash Fiction Theme: Love, Camera, Action 21 Aug 202618 Sep 20263* 3 Emerald City Ghosts Theme: Ghost Hunting 20 Sep 20265* 2 The Mollie Savage Memorial Writing Contest [Toasted Cheese Literary Journal] TEMP CLOSED Theme: Science Fiction/Fantasy 18 Sep 202620 Sep 20265.8 2 Neon & Smoke Charges fees for some submissions Theme: This Time Make it Smoky 16 Aug 202620 Sep 20265.8 0 Still Life Fiction FLEDGLING Theme: Masks 08 Aug 202620 Sep 20265.8 4 Friends Journal Theme: Nontheist Friends 21 Sep 20266* 0 Strange Pilgrims TEMP CLOSED Theme: Leonard Cohen Reading Period 21 Sep 202621 Sep 20266* 1 Cold Mountain Review Theme: Encountering Other Animals 01 Aug 202622 Sep 20267* 2 Dark Matter Theme: Prayer 25 Sep 202610* 0 Kreatif Magazine Theme: Unsilenced 05 Aug 202625 Sep 202610* 1 The Markaz Review Theme: Comedy 22 Aug 202625 Sep 202610.6 0 Paperboats Zine Theme: Nature as Library 25 Sep 202610* 0 Flame Tree Publishing Beyond & Within Anthology Series [Flame Tree Publishing] Theme: Knock on Wood: Tales of Superstition 27 Sep 202612* 6 Are You Everything Alright [Air and Nothingness Press] NEW! Theme: Apocalypse stories with hopeful endings 01 Sep 202630 Sep 202615* 4 Audience Askew Literary Journal [Nat 1 Publishing] Theme: Bollywood 01 Jul 202630 Sep 202615* 0 Aurealis Limited Demographic Australian writers and all Subscibers 15 Mar 202630 Sep 202615* 1 Bethlehem Writers Roundtable Theme: Odd and Even 01 Jul 202630 Sep 202615* 0 Blood & Bourbon Theme: Power 30 Sep 202615* 1 Crescendo Magazine Theme: Fire 30 Sep 202615* 1 Didcot Writers Writing Competition [Didcot Writers] Charges fees for some submissions Theme: Hot 30 Sep 202615* 1 Dragon Soul Press Short Story Anthologies [Dragon Soul Press] Theme: A Winter in Love 30 Sep 202615* 2 The Echo Theme: Exploration 30 Sep 202615.8 0 Flash Fiction Online Theme: Human-shaped 01 Sep 202630 Sep 202615* 3 Galactic Mindsea Empire Anthology [Infernal Museum] Theme: Wonderdomes 01 Jan 202630 Sep 202615* 1 Generation Gap FLEDGLING Theme: Why worry? 30 Sep 202615* 0 Han Bando Review FLEDGLING Theme: Encounters 30 Sep 202615* 1 The Ilanot Review Charges fees for some submissions Theme: Time, History, Eternity 15 Aug 202630 Sep 202615* 0 Rat Bag Lit Charges fees for some submissions Theme: Haunted Technology (100 word drabble) 01 Sep 202630 Sep 202615.8 3 ScreaminMamas Contests [ScreaminMamas] Theme: Magical Fiction 01 Jul 202630 Sep 202615* 0 Sein und Werden Theme: Auto-Portrait 30 Sep 202615* 0 Space Ace Anthology [Farlands Fiction] Theme: Space Ace 30 Sep 202615* 2 SQUID Literary & Art Magazine Theme: Air 15 Jul 202630 Sep 202615* 0 Tiny Revolutions [Fresh Words] NEW! Added in the past 7 days Theme: Small-scale rebellion, resistance, choice, transformation, courage, or change 30 Sep 202615* 0 Trailblazer Contest Theme: Zuihitsu 01 Sep 202630 Sep 202615* 0 About Place Journal [Black Earth Institute] Theme: The Power of Art in a Changing World 01 Oct 202616* 0 Delirious Doubles [Nomadic Delirium Press] Theme: Pirates 01 Oct 202616* 1 Folklore Review Theme: The Harvest | Nightmares 01 Oct 202616.6 0 The Last Line Literary Journal [Blue Cubicle Press] Theme: Last line: It was after midnight when we finally made it home 01 Oct 202616* 5 Lit Shark Magazine Theme: Spooky (Teeth) 01 Oct 202616* 1 Macabre Magazine Theme: Winter Holiday Ghost Stories 01 Oct 202616.8 2 MOUTHFEEL FLEDGLING Theme: Vintages 01 Oct 202616* 0 The Neurodiversiverse Anthology Series [Thinking Ink Press] Theme: Bridging Worlds: encounters between neurodivergent people and neurodivergent aliens 31 Mar 202601 Oct 202616* 3 Potomac Review Theme: Water 01 Jul 202601 Oct 202616* 3 Rawhead Theme: Halloween issue: Rawhead & Bloody Bones 01 Oct 202616* 3 Runestone Literary Journal Theme: Into the Deeps 01 Apr 202601 Oct 202616* 0 Still Point Arts Quarterly [Shanti Arts LLC] Theme: Meeting the Insurmountable 01 Oct 202616.8 1 Tales from the Moonlit Path Theme: Halloween 01 Oct 202616* 1 Talk Vomit Theme: Remember that 01 Oct 202616* 1 The Way Back to Ourselves Literary Journal Theme: Rooted 01 Sep 202601 Oct 202616* 0 Raconteur Press Anthology Series [Raconteur Press] Theme: The Wyrd, Wyrd, World of Sports 02 Oct 202617* 2 The Woolf Added in the past 7 days Theme: Hide/Seek 02 Oct 202617.6 0 Myths, Gods & Immortals Anthology Series [Flame Tree Publishing] Theme: Icarus 04 Oct 202619* 6 Myths, Gods & Immortals Anthology Series [Flame Tree Publishing] Theme: Pandora 04 Oct 202619* 6 Prosetrics Theme: Brume 05 Oct 202620* 0 OTHERSIDE TEMP CLOSED Limited Demographic Theme: Exploration theme: Trans, BIPOC, and/or disabled authors only 07 Oct 202622.8 0 Space & Time Magazine [Yuriko Publishing] TEMP CLOSED Theme: Leave the Light On 01 Oct 202608 Oct 202623.8 3 Navy Pen Theme: Noise 10 Oct 202625* 0 Trash Cat Lit TEMP CLOSED Added in the past 7 days Theme: Biohazard Horror 27 Sep 202611 Oct 202626.6 0 Panorama Theme: Time 15 Aug 202614 Oct 202629* 0 100-Foot Crow Theme: Transformation 15 Sep 202615 Oct 202630* 3 100-Foot Crow Theme: Bars 15 Sep 202615 Oct 202630* 1 123 * An asterisk indicates that we do not know the time/zone for the deadline, so we cannot be precise. 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