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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 208 deadlines found. Project & ThemeOpeningDeadlineDays Left OTHERSIDE [Hybris Press] TEMP CLOSED Limited Demographic Theme: Exploration theme: Trans, BIPOC, and/or disabled authors only 07 Oct 20261.2 1 Rat Bag Lit Charges fees for some submissions Added in the past 7 days Has Restrictions Micro Fiction 01 Oct 202607 Oct 20261.2 2 Space & Time Magazine [Authortunities Press] Theme: Leave the Light On 01 Oct 202608 Oct 20262.2 4 Welter Digital [Welter] Theme: Connection 08 Oct 20262* 0 Wild Hyacinth Magazine NEW! Added in the past 7 days Theme: Vanity and diffidence 12 Aug 202609 Oct 20263* 0 Rusted Radishes Journal Theme: Tomorrow 10 Oct 20263* 0 Navy Pen Theme: Noise 10 Oct 20264* 0 Coin-Operated Press Zines [Coin-Operated Press] Added in the past 7 days Theme: Cartoons 11 Oct 20265 0 Trash Cat Lit Theme: Biohazard Horror 27 Sep 202611 Oct 20265 2 Flash of the Dead Anthology Series [Wicked Shadow Press] Added in the past 7 days Theme: Curses 14 Oct 20267* 0 Panorama Theme: Time 15 Aug 202614 Oct 20267* 0 Inframince Journal FLEDGLING NEW! Added in the past 7 days Theme: Fragmentation 15 Oct 20268* 0 Table Salt Press FLEDGLING Theme: Homesick 15 Oct 20269.1 3 100-Foot Crow Theme: Transformation 15 Sep 202615 Oct 20269* 5 100-Foot Crow Theme: Bars 15 Sep 202615 Oct 20269* 2 53-Word Story Contest [Press 53] Added in the past 7 days Theme: A 53-word story about a snap 01 Oct 202615 Oct 20269.2 0 Bat City Review Theme: Bread & Circuses 08 Sep 202615 Oct 20269* 1 Blink-Ink Theme: Coyote Stories 01 Sep 202615 Oct 20269* 0 Carmina Magazine Theme: Monsters & Cryptids 15 Oct 20269* 3 Consequence [Consequence Forum] Theme: Special feature on America 15 Jul 202615 Oct 20269.2 1 Cosmic Daffodil Journal Theme: Mosaic 15 Oct 20269.2 0 Kaidankai Themed Contests [Kaidankai] Theme: What Walks With Us in the Dark Days of Winter? 15 Oct 20269* 4 The Panacea Review [Wacissa Press] Theme: Southern Lit 15 Sep 202615 Oct 20269* 0 The Panacea Review [Wacissa Press] Theme: Travel in a Foreign Land 15 Sep 202615 Oct 20269* 1 Saros Speculative Fiction [Fusion Fragment] Theme: Biopunk 15 Oct 20269* 5 Superheroes, Super Problems [WordFire Press] Theme: Superheroes, Super Problems 01 Sep 202615 Oct 20269* 5 Fairlight Shorts [Fairlight Books] Theme: Winter 17 Oct 202610* 0 Flame Tree Publishing Beyond & Within Anthology Series [Flame Tree Publishing] Theme: Dark Ages: Folk Horror Stories 18 Oct 202611* 2 Chouette Theme: Release 18 Oct 202612* 0 Raat Ki Rani Magazine Theme: Tidal Wave 24 Aug 202618 Oct 202612* 1 Friends Journal Theme: Quakers and Social Class 19 Oct 202613* 0 Emerald City Ghosts Theme: Dark Academia/Horror 20 Oct 202614* 2 OTHERSIDE [Hybris Press] TEMP CLOSED Theme: Exploration 21 Oct 202615.2 1 Crooked Spine FLEDGLING Theme: What You Worship 23 Oct 202617* 2 Eye Contact Theme: Legacy 24 Oct 202618* 0 Eye Contact Flash Fiction Prize [Eye Contact] Theme: Legacy 24 Oct 202618* 2 The 300 [Hollowpoint Press] Theme: Rebirth from the Hearth 01 Sep 202624 Oct 202618.3 0 Discretionary Love Theme: Cheated 25 Oct 202619* 1 Metonym Literary Journal Theme: (Re)discovery 25 Oct 202619* 0 Penumbra Theme: Teaching Lives 28 Oct 202622* 0 ELA Literary Magazine Theme: Anniversary 30 Oct 202624* 0 Paw&Claw Anthology Series [Paw&Claw Ink] NEW! Theme: Unearthly and Ungodly 01 Sep 202630 Oct 202624* 0 Shared Grief Journal FLEDGLING Theme: Grief and the Holidays 30 Oct 202624* 0 Neon & Smoke Charges fees for some submissions Theme: Love Issue 01 Oct 202630 Oct 202624.2 1 B O D Y Limited Demographic Poets born in Scotland and poets currently living in Scotland 31 Oct 202624* 0 Fun in the Dark Anthology Series [Kilter & Rammel Publishing] Theme: Antiquities 31 Oct 202625* 4 Trembling With Fear [The Horror Tree] Added in the past 7 days Theme: Halloween 31 Oct 202625* 0 Carnage House MATURE Theme: DIED: Diversity, Inclusion, Equity, and Defiance 31 Oct 202625* 1 Dragon Soul Press Short Story Anthologies [Dragon Soul Press] Theme: Flame Forger 31 Oct 202625* 3 Haven Speculative Magazine Has Restrictions Authors of color, members of LGBTQIA+ communities, and writers belonging to other underrepresented groups 01 Oct 202631 Oct 202625* 10 Heartsick Anthology [Exploitation Media] FLEDGLING Theme: Love: all the shapes it can take and all the ways it can go wrong 31 Oct 202625* 1 I Want to Know What Love Is [Misti Media, LLC] Theme: Stories of romance that are based on power ballads 31 Oct 202625* 0 MIDLVLMAG Theme: Human Capital 01 Sep 202631 Oct 202625* 2 The Perch Theme: The MIX 31 Oct 202625* 0 Phylum Press Quarterly Journal [Phylum Press] Theme: Avocado 31 Oct 202625* 3 Reckoning Has Restrictions Theme: Environmental justice flash fiction 31 Oct 202625* 3 Ricepaper Magazine Theme: Beyond the Hyphen 31 Oct 202625* 0 Sapling Lit FLEDGLING Theme: Environmental Advocacy 01 Sep 202631 Oct 202625* 0 shoegaze literary Theme: Reality Bites Back 31 Oct 202625* 0 Sweet Cute Magazine FLEDGLING TEMP CLOSED Added in the past 7 days Theme: Holiday Stories 15 Oct 202631 Oct 202625* 0 Troublemaker Firestarter Theme: Forever 01 Sep 202631 Oct 202625.2 0 Flame Tree Publishing Beyond & Within Anthology Series [Flame Tree Publishing] Added in the past 7 days Theme: Mythos & Meaning 01 Nov 202626* 1 Liars' League Theme: Christmas: Grit & Glitter 01 Nov 202626 5 The First Line [Blue Cubicle Press] Theme: First line: "Lawrence was the last to arrive." 01 Nov 202626* 5 Santa Fe Literary Review Theme: Connection: Networks, Relationships, and Alienation 15 Jul 202601 Nov 202626* 3 Syncopation Literary Journal Theme: Women in Music 01 Nov 202626* 0 THEMA Theme: Sent by Mistake 01 Nov 202626* 6 Timeless Reflections Anthology [Diamante Lavender Blog] Theme: The Depths of Desire 01 Nov 202626* 1 Bloodletter Magazine Charges fees for some submissions Theme: Omen 03 Nov 202628.4 1 Hot Flash Literary Added in the past 7 days Theme: Burning the candle at both ends 01 Oct 202612 Nov 202637* 0 Raconteur Press Anthology Series [Raconteur Press] Theme: Deep Blue 12 Nov 202637* 1 The Chimes Theme: The Labyrinth of Suffering 13 Nov 202638* 2 PHIL LIT Journal [PHIL LIT] Theme: Impressions & Inheritance 01 Sep 202613 Nov 202638* 0 Dorveille Literary Magazine FLEDGLING Theme: Eternal 15 Nov 202639* 1 Apofenie Magazine Theme: Absence 15 Nov 202639* 0 123 * An asterisk indicates that we do not know the time/zone for the deadline, so we cannot be precise. 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