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There are 229 different calls currently accepting submissions (including fee-based).

May 2025

  • 15 May 2025 21:59 UTC Sublimation (Island of Wak-Wak) Gold Star Program: Issue 3: “A Midsummer’s Day Nightmare” (closes in 1 day, 16 hours)
  • 15 May 2025 23:59 UTC Sunspot Literary Journal Gold Star Program: Novelette length fiction, CNF, graphic novel (Charges fees.) (closes in 1 day, 18 hours)
  • 15 May 2025 23:59 UTC Fiction Potluck Contest (The Writer's Workout): 25-Q2: Ocean (closes in 1 day, 18 hours)
  • 16 May 2025 03:59 UTC wildscape. literary journal Gold Star Program: Issue #3 (July 2025 Publication) (closes in 1 day, 22 hours)
  • 17 May 2025 03:59 UTC Meat for Tea: The Valley Review: Jerky (Charges fees.) (closes in 2 days, 22 hours)
  • 17 May 2025 03:59 UTC Meat for Tea: The Valley Review: Jerky Visual Art and Multimedia (closes in 2 days, 22 hours)
  • 18 May 2025 06:59 UTC Graveside Press (Paper Angel Press) Gold Star Program: Witchcraft Anthology (closes in 4 days, 1 hour)
  • 18 May 2025 23:59 UTC Instant Noodles (Current Words Publishing) Gold Star Program: Volume 5, Issue 2, theme: SANCTUARY (closes in 4 days, 18 hours)
  • 20 May 2025 23:59 UTC WayWords Literary Journal (The Writer's Workout): Issue 19: theme of mountain (closes in 6 days, 18 hours)
  • 21 May 2025 04:59 UTC New Beginnings Writing Contest (Four Tulips) Gold Star Program: Theme: New Beginnings (Charges fees.) (closes in 6 days, 23 hours)
  • 21 May 2025 04:59 UTC New Beginnings Writing Contest (Four Tulips) Gold Star Program: New Beginnings Themed Contest (Charges fees.) (closes in 6 days, 23 hours)
  • 30 May 2025 22:59 UTC The Prose Poem: Spring Short Prose Poetry Contest (100 word max)
  • 31 May 2025 03:59 UTC Waffle Fried Gold Star Program: Issue 2
  • 31 May 2025 23:59 UTC Sunspot Literary Journal Gold Star Program: Supernova: very long fiction, CNF, graphic novel (Charges fees.)
  • 31 May 2025 23:59 UTC Sunspot Literary Journal Gold Star Program: Solar Flare: $100 for Authors/Artists (Charges fees.)

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September 2025

  • 01 Sep 2025 04:59 UTC History Through Fiction Press Gold Star Program: History Through Fiction and our Imprints
  • 15 Sep 2025 23:59 UTC Tales (The Writer's Workout): Theme: The Unknown

October 2025

November 2025

  • 02 Nov 2025 23:59 UTC Instant Noodles (Current Words Publishing) Gold Star Program: Volume 5, Issue 3, theme GRAVY
  • 16 Nov 2025 04:59 UTC TrashLight Press Gold Star Program: Website Submissions
  • 20 Nov 2025 23:59 UTC WayWords Literary Journal (The Writer's Workout): Tribute Section

January 2026

February 2026

  • 02 Feb 2026 04:59 UTC Hedge Apple Magazine (Hedge Apple: The literary magazine of Hagerstown Community College): Homegrown: HCC students/faculty/staff, Wash Co MD

January 2027

  • 22 Jan 2027 23:59 UTC Walela Books (CafeLit) Gold Star Program: Walela Books

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