Submission Opportunities Calendar for Nonfiction

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March 2025

• 16 Mar 2025 23:59 UTC Instant Noodles (Current Words Publishing) (Gold Star Program): Volume 5, Issue 1 theme: CURRENT (closes in 17 hours, 14 minutes)
• 17 Mar 2025 23:59 UTC Sunspot Literary Journal (Gold Star Program): Long form fiction, CNF, poetry, graphic novel (Charges fees.) (closes in 1 day, 17 hours)
• 21 Mar 2025 04:59 UTC rainy weather days: a defiant literary magazine (Gold Star Program): Volume 4 | Volume 5 (closes in 4 days, 22 hours)
• 24 Mar 2025 23:59 UTC Sunspot Literary Journal (Gold Star Program): Short stories, nonfiction (Charges fees.)
• 31 Mar 2025 23:59 UTC Sunspot Literary Journal (Gold Star Program): Flash, poetry, graphic novels, art (Charges fees.)
• 31 Mar 2025 23:59 UTC Sunspot Literary Journal (Gold Star Program): Inception: $100 for Best Opening Prose/Art (Charges fees.)

April 2025

• 01 Apr 2025 03:59 UTC The Artisanal Writer (Gold Star Program): Literary Essays (craft, practice, poetics, theory)
• 01 Apr 2025 03:59 UTC The Wisdom Project (The Artisanal Writer) (Gold Star Program): Memoir Writing for Ontario Seniors (Charges fees.)
• 01 Apr 2025 03:59 UTC In Short: A Journal of Flash Nonfiction (Gold Star Program): Flash
• 01 Apr 2025 03:59 UTC In Short: A Journal of Flash Nonfiction (Gold Star Program): Micros
• 01 Apr 2025 03:59 UTC In Short: A Journal of Flash Nonfiction (Gold Star Program): Short-Shorts
• 01 Apr 2025 03:59 UTC Haymaker Literary Journal: Issue #2
• 01 Apr 2025 03:59 UTC LBRNTH (Gold Star Program): Call: Fiction/Non-Fiction - Issue #5 (Fuck!)
• 01 Apr 2025 03:59 UTC Manuscript Submission (Canada) (Metatron Press): 2025 Open Reading Period
• 01 Apr 2025 04:59 UTC General Submissions (MEMEZINE): Featured
• 01 Apr 2025 06:59 UTC The Pointed Circle: Prose for Issue 41: Dig In
• 02 Apr 2025 03:59 UTC Still Point Arts Quarterly (Shanti Arts LLC): Summer—Writing Submission
• 09 Apr 2025 21:59 UTC The Woolf (Gold Star Program): Issue 8 - Creative nonfiction
• 15 Apr 2025 23:59 UTC Fourth Genre Multimedia Essay Prize: 2025 Multimedia Essay Contest (Charges fees.)
• 15 Apr 2025 23:59 UTC Fourth Genre Steinberg Memorial Essay Prize: 2025 Steinberg Memorial Essay Prize (Charges fees.)
• 16 Apr 2025 03:59 UTC Consequence: Nonfiction
• 16 Apr 2025 03:59 UTC Carolina Muse Literary & Arts Magazine (Gold Star Program): Stories
• 16 Apr 2025 03:59 UTC Cosmic Daffodil Journal (Gold Star Program): In the Company of Strangers
• 30 Apr 2025 22:59 UTC The Wild Umbrella: Poetry, Prose, & Cover Art

May 2025

• 01 May 2025 03:59 UTC The Artisanal Writer (Gold Star Program): Book Reviews
• 01 May 2025 03:59 UTC Milk Bag Magazine (Gold Star Program): Reviews/Essays - Sunburn - Issue 1.2 (Charges fees.)
• 01 May 2025 05:59 UTC FreeFall Magazine Prose & Poetry Contest: Prose - Canada (Charges fees.)
• 01 May 2025 05:59 UTC FreeFall Magazine Prose & Poetry Contest: Prose - International (Charges fees.)
• 02 May 2025 03:59 UTC River River Books: Rivers - Essays on Form and Water
• 02 May 2025 03:59 UTC Troublemaker Firestarter (Gold Star Program): Volume 9
• 16 May 2025 03:59 UTC wildscape. literary journal (Gold Star Program): Issue #3 (July 2025 Publication)
• 18 May 2025 23:59 UTC Instant Noodles (Current Words Publishing) (Gold Star Program): Volume 5, Issue 2, theme: SANCTUARY

June 2025

• 01 Jun 2025 04:59 UTC Arcturus: Prose
• 01 Jun 2025 23:59 UTC Geri Digiorno Prize (Raleigh Review): Digiorno Multi-Genre Submissions Open via Duosuma (Charges fees.)
• 02 Jun 2025 03:59 UTC Divinity in the Margins: Transgender & GNC Writers on the Divine (Orison Books): Divinity in the Margins
• 02 Jun 2025 04:59 UTC Jade Ring Writing Contest (Nonmember Submissions) (Wisconsin Writers Association): Nonmember Nonfiction (Charges fees.)
• 02 Jun 2025 04:59 UTC Jade Ring Writing Contest (Nonmember Submissions) (Wisconsin Writers Association): Nonmember Nonfiction (Add Critique) (Charges fees.)
• 02 Jun 2025 06:59 UTC The Crossroads Review (Gold Star Program): The Crossroads Review - Summer Issue

July 2025

• 01 Jul 2025 03:59 UTC Consequence: Young Writers Nonfiction Project
• 02 Jul 2025 06:59 UTC Still Point Arts Quarterly (Shanti Arts LLC): On the Road: Writing Submission

August 2025

• 01 Aug 2025 06:59 UTC NonBinary Review (Zoetic Press): Issue #41: A Psalm for the Wild-Built

October 2025

• 02 Oct 2025 06:59 UTC Still Point Arts Quarterly (Shanti Arts LLC): Vintage—Writing Submission

November 2025

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

January 2026

• 02 Jan 2026 07:59 UTC Still Point Arts Quarterly (Shanti Arts LLC): Crafting a Life—Writing Submission

No Deadline

• AC | DC: A Journal for the Bent (Gold Star Program): Ongoing Submissions
• Amethyst Review (Gold Star Program): New writing engaging with the sacred.
• Bright Flash Literary Review (Gold Star Program): Flash and Short Fiction, Memoir, Rolling Submissions, No Theme
• Bristol Futurist (Bristol Noir) (Gold Star Program): Creative Thinking (Charges fees.)
• Bristol Futurist (Bristol Noir) (Gold Star Program): Brand Strategy (Charges fees.)
• Bristol Futurist (Bristol Noir) (Gold Star Program): Design (Interiors, Architecture and Brand) (Charges fees.)
• Bristol Noir (Gold Star Program): Articles & Reviews (Charges fees.)
• Bristol Noir (Gold Star Program): Book, Art and Music Reviews (Charges fees.)
• Bristol Noir (Gold Star Program): Stories (Charges fees.)
• The Brussels Review (Gold Star Program): Nonfiction
• Chicago Story Press Literary Journal (Gold Star Program): Essays and Creative Nonfiction (Charges fees.)
• The City Key: Open Submissions
• Collections Of Transience: Collection Of Transience Open Call
• Consequence: Translations
• Feisty Women Non- Fiction (CafeLit) (Gold Star Program): Feisty Women Non-Ficition
• FlowerSong Press: Manuscript Submissions Now Open
• Gavialidae (Gold Star Program): Fiction and Nonfiction (Charges fees.)
• Grey Hands Literary Magazine (Gold Star Program): Online Magazine Submissions
• Heartwarming Short Stories (The Brussels Review) (Gold Star Program): A Mother's Love
• Hibiscus Magazine: Hibiscus
• JAKE: The Anti Literary Magazine (Gold Star Program): General Submissions
• JAKE: The Anti Literary Magazine (Gold Star Program): General Submissions (Flash Categories)
• JAKE: The Anti Literary Magazine (Gold Star Program): Interviews and Reviews
• Lost Blonde Literary Anthology Series (Gold Star Program): Winter Anthology 2025 - Non-Fiction
• Merion West (Gold Star Program): Fresh Look poetry essays
• Merion West (Gold Star Program): Essays in Culture and Politics
• Micro-Meta Series Editor (Metatron Press): Curator
• Midwest Weird (Gold Star Program): Let's Get Weird: Submit to Audio Literary Magazine
• Midwest Weird (Gold Star Program): Let's Get Even Weirder: Submit Book-Length Work (Charges fees.)
• Old Chaps (JAKE: The Anti Literary Magazine) (Gold Star Program): Old Chaps Guest Slot
• Open Arts Forum: Poetry, fiction, art, music, other creative work
• Paraselene: Book Review
• Past Ten (Gold Star Program): A Writing Project on Time
• Pictura Journal (Gold Star Program): Creative Nonfiction
• Pink Disco Magazine (Gold Star Program): Nonfiction
• Pink Disco Magazine (Gold Star Program): Nonfiction Contest Submissions (Charges fees.)
• Renascentia (CafeLit) (Gold Star Program): Renascentia
• The Rumen (Gold Star Program): Non-Fiction
• The Rumen (Gold Star Program): Non-Fiction: Expedited & Personalized Response (Charges fees.)
• Saint Katherine Review (St Katherine Review) (Gold Star Program): Creative Non-Fiction
• Salvation South (Gold Star Program): Essays
• Salvation South (Gold Star Program): Video/film: short docs
• Salvation South (Gold Star Program): Photography
• Salvation South (Gold Star Program): Journalism
• Salvation South (Gold Star Program): Love Louder Series
• Shanti Arts Publishing (Shanti Arts LLC): Book Publishing—Manuscript Submission
• Slant Books: Manuscript Submission (Charges fees.)
• Tender Masculinities (Purple Ink Press): Fast Decision Submission (Charges fees.)
• Twelve Winters Journal (Twelve Winters Press): Twelve Winters Journal (Charges fees.)
• Willows Wept Review: Prose
• Writing Teacher (CafeLit) (Gold Star Program): Writing teacher