Current Submission Opportunities

The Anglican Theological Review: Poetry Submissions
Poetry

The Anzaldúa Poetry Prize (FlowerSong Press)
The Anzaldúa Poetry Prize (Charges fees.)

Apple in the Dark (Gold Star Program)
2025 Flash Fiction Contest (Charges fees.) / Winter 2024

Apricity Press (Gold Star Program)
Issue 10: The Daddy Issue(s)

The Artisanal Writer (Gold Star Program)
Literary Essays (craft, practice, poetics, theory)

a bilingual anthology focused on Pupusas (FlowerSong Press)
an anthology on Pupusas

Blue Crystal Literary Magazine
Christmas Poetry Challenge: Issue 14 / Spring Poetry & Short Story Contest: Issue 16

bramble online
Issue 1 - Spring 2025

Bright Flash Literary Review (Gold Star Program)
Flash and Short Fiction, Memoir, Rolling Submissions, No Theme

Bristol Futurist (Bristol Noir) (Gold Star Program)
Brand Strategy (Charges fees.) / Design Thinking (Charges fees.) / Supercharged Spaces (Photos) (Charges fees.) / Workplace and Retail Design (Charges fees.)

Bristol Noir (Gold Star Program)
Articles & Reviews (Charges fees.) / Book, Art and Music Reviews (Charges fees.) / Flash Fiction (Charges fees.) / Poetry (Charges fees.) / Short Stories (Charges fees.) / Xmas Flash & Poetry (Charges fees.)

The Brussels Review (Gold Star Program)
Art and Photography / Fiction / Nonfiction / Poetry

CafeLit (Gold Star Program)
Ongoing submissions

Call For Works In The Area Of Horror/Science Fiction/Fantasy-Manuscripts (FlowerSong Press)
Horror/Science Fiction/Fantasy-Manuscripts

Carolina Muse Literary & Arts Magazine (Gold Star Program)
Dance / Music / Poetry / Stories / Visual Art

Chicago Story Press Literary Journal
Essays and Creative Nonfiction (Charges fees.)

Children's Books for ages 7-10 (CafeLit) (Gold Star Program)
Children#s 7-10

Children's Picture Books for writer / illustrator teams (CafeLit) (Gold Star Program)
Children's Picture Books

Children's Picture Books for writers (CafeLit) (Gold Star Program)
Children's Picture Books - writers

The City Key
Open Submissions

Consequence
Translations / Translations: Vol. 17.1 Feature—Arabic/Palestine

Cosmic Daffodil Journal (Gold Star Program)
Myth & Metaphor

Creative Writing Ink Short Story Competition 2024
Short Story (Charges fees.)

Cypress Review
Issue II: poetry, fiction, art, photography

Dark Harbor Magazine (Gold Star Program)
Horror Short Fiction

Divinity in the Margins: Transgender & GNC Writers on the Divine (Orison Books)
Divinity in the Margins

The Echo: Teen Art & Lit Mag (Gold Star Program)
Cover Art Submissions

Emergent Reader Books for Children (CafeLit) (Gold Star Program)
Texts up to 20,000 words

Fast track for authors published by Bridge House, Chapletown and CafeLit (Gold Star Program)
Fast track

Feisty Women - Fiction (CafeLit) (Gold Star Program)
Feisty Women Fiction

Feisty Women Non- Fiction (CafeLit) (Gold Star Program)
Feisty Women Non-Ficition

Flash Fiction Collections (CafeLit) (Gold Star Program)
Flash Fiction Collections Open Call

FlowerSong Press
Manuscript Submissions Now Open

The Fool's World | Inaugural Launch (Gold Star Program)
Submissions to Our Literary Travel Guide Now Open!

FreeFall Magazine Prose & Poetry Contest
Poetry - Canada (Charges fees.) / Poetry - International (Charges fees.) / Prose - Canada (Charges fees.) / Prose - International (Charges fees.)

Funicular Magazine (Gold Star Program)
Flash / One Week Response - Issue 16 Print (Charges fees.) / Poetry / Short Fiction

Furrow
Art & Comics / Creative Nonfiction / Poetry / Short Fiction

Gavialidae (Gold Star Program)
Fiction and Nonfiction (Charges fees.) / Poetry and Flash Fiction (Charges fees.)

Generous Press
Romance Novels

The Genre Society (Gold Star Program)
January 2025 Issue

Geri Digiorno Prize (Raleigh Review) (Gold Star Program)
Digiorno Prize on Duosuma (Tip Jar Optional)!

Get Fresh Books Publishing
Open for Poetry Manuscripts

Grand Little Things
Poetry

Graveside Press (Paper Angel Press) (Gold Star Program)
GRADEside Middle Grade & Young Adult Horror / Illustrated Poetry Anthology

Green Magic (Gilbert and Hall Press)
Green Magic

Grey Hands Literary Magazine (Gold Star Program)
Online Magazine Submissions

HauntedMTL Originals (Gold Star Program)
Horror short story

Heartwarming Short Stories (The Brussels Review) (Gold Star Program)
A Father's Heart: Tales of Love, Sacrifice Legacy / A Mother's Love

Hedge Apple Magazine (Hedge Apple: The literary magazine of Hagerstown Community College)
Hedge Apple General Submissions / Hedge Apple: Labyrinth theme

Hibiscus Magazine (Gold Star Program)
Issue 2

History Through Fiction Press (Gold Star Program)
Full-Length Manuscript Submissions

History Through Fiction Short Stories (History Through Fiction Press) (Gold Star Program)
Short Stories (Charges fees.)

Ink Nest Poetry (Gold Star Program)
Editorial Feedback (Charges fees.) / Poetry Contest (Charges fees.) / Spring '25 issue - Poetry, Fiction, Visual Art

Instant Noodles (Current Words Publishing) (Gold Star Program)
Volume 5, Issue 1 theme: CURRENT / Volume 5, Issue 2, theme: SANCTUARY / Volume 5, Issue 3, theme GRAVY

Last Leaves Magazine (Gold Star Program)
Issue 10: Open

Loud Coffee Press
Artwork / Flash Fiction (1000 Words Max) / Poetry

Macrame Literary Journal (Gold Star Program)
Fiction / Micro-Fiction / Poetry

Magi (CafeLit) (Gold Star Program)
2025 Anthology Magi

The Manifest-Station (Gold Star Program)
Creative Non-Fiction, Non-Fiction, Autofiction

MAYDAY Magazine (New American Press) (Gold Star Program)
Art Submissions

Merion West (Gold Star Program)
Essays in Culture and Politics / Fresh Look poetry essays / Poetry

Micro-Meta Poems (Metatron Press) (Gold Star Program)
2024

Micro-Meta Series Editor (Metatron Press) (Gold Star Program)
Curator

Midwest Weird (Gold Star Program)
Let's Get Weird: Submit to Audio Literary Magazine

Milk Bag Magazine
Issue 1.1 (Charges fees.)

National Flash Fiction Day Anthology (Gold Star Program)
Theme: Seasons (Flash Fiction up to 500 words)

Neither Fish Nor Foul (Gold Star Program)
Themed Call: Resistance Isn't Futile (Artwork) / Themed Call: Resistance Isn't Futile (Flash) / Themed Call: Resistance Isn't Futile (Short Story)

Orison Books Open Reading Period
Anthology Proposals / Fiction / Nonfiction

The Orison Prizes in Poetry & Fiction (Orison Books)
2025 Orison Fiction Prize (Charges fees.) / 2025 Orison Poetry Prize (Charges fees.)

The Passionfruit Review (Gold Star Program)
Visual Art

Past Ten (Gold Star Program)
A Writing Project on Time

Pictura Journal (Gold Star Program)
Artwork / Creative Nonfiction / Fiction / Poetry

Pink Disco Magazine (Gold Star Program)
Art / Fiction / Nonfiction / Poetry

The Plentitudes
Prizes for Fiction (Charges fees.) / Prizes in Flash (Charges fees.) / Prizes in Nonfiction (Charges fees.) / Prizes in Poetry (Charges fees.)

The Prose Poem (Gold Star Program)
Ekphrastic Prose Poetry (for artist/writers)

Radix Magazine (Gold Star Program)
Fiction

rainy weather days: a defiant literary magazine (Gold Star Program)
Volume 3 | Volume 4

Raleigh Review (Fee-Free with Tip Jar Option) Holiday Submission Period (Gold Star Program)
Fee Free (Tip Jar Option) Holiday | Poetry Subs

The Red Telephone YA books (CafeLit) (Gold Star Program)
YA Novels 45,000 to 105,000 words

Renascentia (CafeLit) (Gold Star Program)
Renascentia

Retreat West First Chapter Competition (Gold Star Program)
Novel First Chapters (Charges fees.) / Novels (Charges fees.)

Reviewers Needed! (HauntedMTL) (Gold Star Program)
Doctor Who /Nu and OG / Horror Reviewers Needed!

The Rumen (Gold Star Program)
Fiction / Fiction: Expedited & Personalized Response (Charges fees.) / Non-Fiction / Non-Fiction: Expedited & Personalized Response (Charges fees.) / Poetry / Poetry: Expedited & Personalized Response (Charges fees.)

Sacramento Literary Review (Gold Star Program)
Expedited (3-day) POETRY ONLY (Charges fees.) / Fiction / Poetry

Saint Katherine Review (St Katherine Review)
Creative Non-Fiction / Fiction / Poetry

Salvation South (Gold Star Program)
Essays / Fiction / Journalism / Love Louder Series / Photography / Poetry / Video/film: short docs / Video/film: short narratives

Sandpiper Review
Issue 4

SARKA journal (Gold Star Program)
issue 04

Saudade
Issue #1

The Scop: Literary and Fine Arts Magazine for King's College
Call 85

Shanti Arts Publishing (Shanti Arts LLC)
Book Publishing—Manuscript Submission

Single author short story collections (CafeLit) (Gold Star Program)
Single author collections

Slant Books
Manuscript Submission (Charges fees.)

Still Point Arts Quarterly (Shanti Arts LLC)
My Favorite Things—Art Submission / My Favorite Things—Writing Submission / On the Road: Writing Submission / On the Road—Art Submission / Summer—Art Submission / Summer—Writing Submission / Vintage—Art Submission / Vintage—Writing Submission

Sunspot Literary Journal (Gold Star Program)
Flash, poetry, graphic novels, art (Charges fees.) / Short stories, nonfiction (Charges fees.)

TBR Collections (The Brussels Review) (Gold Star Program)
TBR DARK Competion

Tender Masculinities (Purple Ink Press) (Gold Star Program)
Fast Decision Submission (Charges fees.)

Toda clase de dulces: Sweets from My Childhood (FlowerSong Press)
Poetry Anthology

Troublemaker Firestarter (Gold Star Program)
Volume 8: Heartbreaker

Wandering Aengus Press
Wandering Aengus and Trail to Table Book Awards (Charges fees.)

Who Let The Stories Out? (Witcraft) (Gold Star Program)
Open call

wildscape. literary journal (Gold Star Program)
Issue #2 (Spring 2025 publication)

Willows Wept Review
Poetry / Prose / Visual Art

The Wisdom Project (The Artisanal Writer) (Gold Star Program)
Memoir Writing for Ontario Seniors (Charges fees.)

Witcraft (Gold Star Program)
Not everything has to be serious

Writing Teacher (CafeLit) (Gold Star Program)
Writing teacher