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There are 98 different calls currently accepting fiction submissions (including fee-based).

Apple in the Dark (Gold Star Program)
Winter 2024

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

Best Spiritual Literature Editorial Nominations (Orison Books)
Editorial Nominations

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

Bristol Noir (Gold Star Program)
Flash Fiction (Charges fees.) / Short Stories (Charges fees.)

The Brussels Review (Gold Star Program)
Fiction

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

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 (Gold Star Program)
Open Submissions

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

Cosmic Daffodil Journal (Gold Star Program)
Horoscopes

The Echo: Teen Art & Lit Mag (Gold Star Program)
Echo Fall 2024

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

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

FlowerSong Press
Manuscript Submissions Now Open

FreeFall Magazine
Prose

The Garfield Lake Review
Spring 2025 Edition

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

The Genre Society (Gold Star Program)
January 2025 Issue

Gravelight Press Anthology Series (Current Words Publishing) (Gold Star Program)
Halloween Party '25 (Charges fees.)

Graveside Press (Paper Angel Press) (Gold Star Program)
General Call for Submissions

Green Magic: stories of hope and power (Gilbert and Hall Press)
Green Magic: stories of hope and power

Grey Coven Publishing Anthology Series
"Karma is a Witch" Contest (Charges fees.) / Volume 2: Tarot

Grey Hands Literary Magazine (Gold Star Program)
Online Magazine Submissions / Summer/Fall 1 Year Contest

Griffel (Gold Star Program)
Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Visual art (Charges fees.)

HauntedMTL - Anthology (Gold Star Program)
Dancer - Ukraine Charity Anthology

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

Hibiscus Magazine (Gold Star Program)
Issue 2: September 15

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.)

Instant Noodles (Current Words Publishing) (Gold Star Program)
Holiday Noods

Limit Experience Journal (Limit Experience Media) (Gold Star Program)
Lej Call For Submissions - Ongoing (Charges fees.)

Loud Coffee Press
Flash Fiction (1000 Words Max)

Luna Station Quarterly
Issue 061

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

The Metaworker Literary Magazine
General Call for The Metaworker

Micro, Art, & Miscellaneous Call for The Metaworker Literary Magazine
Art & Misc Call for The Metaworker / Micro Call for The Metaworker

Midsummer Dream House (Gold Star Program)
Fiction Contest: Fall 2024 (Charges fees.) / Issue 4 (Charges fees.)

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

Neither Fish Nor Foul (Gold Star Program)
Fiction (no theme,)

The Opiate
The Opiate, Winter Vol. 40 Seeking Submissions (Charges fees.)

The Passionfruit Review (Gold Star Program)
3-Day Response (General) (Charges fees.) / Issue 12

Patty Friedmann Writing Competition (LMNL Arts) (Gold Star Program)
Beyond the Bars / High School (All Genres) (Charges fees.)

Quills and Cosmos Press (Gold Star Program)
Sci-fi OR Fantasy novels

Radix Magazine
Fiction

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

Renascentia (CafeLit) (Gold Star Program)
Renascentia

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

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

Salvation South (Gold Star Program)
Fiction / Video/film: short narratives

Sandpiper Review
Issue 4

SARKA journal
issue 04

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.)

Speculative City: A Literary Magazine
Issue 15: Superstition

Still Point Arts Quarterly (Shanti Arts LLC)
My Favorite Things—Writing Submission / Summer—Writing Submission / The Self-Portrait—Writing Submission

Studies in the Fantastic/Tales of the Fantastic (The University of Tampa Press) (Gold Star Program)
Fantasy/Horror/Sci-fi/Weird fiction

A Sufferer's Digest (Gold Star Program)
Issue Two

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

Tender Masculinities (Purple Ink Press) (Gold Star Program)
Call for Submissions for Tender Masculinities

Twelve Winters Journal (Twelve Winters Press)
Twelve Winters Journal (Charges fees.)

Underdog Press - Open Calls (The Underdog Press)
Novella Call

Wallstrait: A Literary Journal of Hard-to-Define Fiction (Gold Star Program)
Fiction

The Wild Umbrella
Poetry, Prose, & Cover Art - Last Call

wildscape. literary journal (Gold Star Program)
Issue 1

Willows Wept Review
Prose

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

The Woolf (Gold Star Program)
Issue 7 Animal - Flash fiction / Issue 7 Animal - Microfiction / Issue 7 Animal - Short fiction

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

Wrong Turn Lit (Gold Star Program)
Fiction

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