Here are 12 new opportunities for writers with deadlines ranging from this month through the end of the year. Please feel free to share these posts. If you have any luck finding publication with these lists, I’d love to hear about it. Good luck sending your work out!
museum of americana seeks volunteer layout editor
the museum of americana, a growing online literary review with an established audience, seeks a layout editor to format our three annual issues as well as a small amount of between-issues content. Like all our editor positions, this would be a volunteer position. Responsibilities would include corresponding with other editors, assisting with proofreading, and designing the issues three times a year. The right person would need a strong knowledge of WordPress. There would be additional opportunities to write and assist in our reading series, but a desire to be involved in these capacities is not necessary. If you’re interested in helping us try to connect writers and artists with the audience they deserve, email themuseumofamericanaATgmailDOTcom.
https://themuseumofamericana.net/
Across the Margin
Across the Margin strives to publish only the best in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Even though we frequently feature writers with previous credits, we are also very much interested in less experienced or unpublished writers who exhibit exceptional potential. We cannot guarantee your piece will see the light of day, but we promise it will be given its due respect – never will a submission be set aside unread. Never. Fiction or nonfiction submissions over 5,000 words that we’re interested in publishing may be published in serial form. Please send 2 or more (max = 5) of your best poems for our consideration. Throw in a brief bio and publication history and remember, we have no aesthetic allegiance or ideological bent.
http://acrossthemargin.com/submit/
Carve Magazine
Carve has been publishing honest fiction online and hosting the Raymond Carver Short Story Contest since 2000. We accept short story, poetry, and nonfiction submissions year-round and from anywhere in the world. Send us your best work.
http://www.carvezine.com/submit/
Four Way Review
FWR accepts poetry and fiction from both established and emerging authors. We look for work that demonstrates fine attention to craft while retaining a powerful and compelling voice. We want writing that showcases the imagination’s unique ability to refine the raw materials of human experience. Unsolicited submissions are considered year round. Submit 3-5 poems or up to 6,000 words of fiction in a single document.
http://fourwayreview.com/submit-2/
The Tishman Review’s Tillie Olsen Short Story Award
The Tillie Olsen Short Story Award hopes to read your best story under 5K words between February 25 and April 30, 2017. The winner receives $500 and publication. All entries considered for publication. Submissions accepted via Submittable. All judging done blind. Entrants receive a one-year ebook subscription to The Tishman Review. Entry fee: $15. Final Judge: Linda LeGarde Grover. Grover is the author of the award-winning short story collection The Dance Boots and the novel The Road Back to Sweetgrass. She is a professor of American Indian Studies at University of Minnesota Duluth and a member of the Bois Forte Band of Ojibwe.
http://www.thetishmanreview.com/contests/tillie-olsen-short-story-award/
Lunch Ticket
Lunch Ticket is the literary journal from the MFA community at Antioch University Los Angeles. Our current reading period ends on April 30, 2017. We accept submissions of Fiction, Flash Fiction, Poetry, Writing for Young People, & Visual Art. Please submit up to THREE poems in a single document. Only pieces between 750 and 5000 words will be considered for Fiction. (If under 750, please submit to our Flash category.)
http://lunchticket.org/about/submission-guidelines/
WORDPEACE
WORDPEACE is a semi-annual online journal of literary response to world events.
We are looking for poems, stories, CNF essays, reviews and interviews that reflect or are in conversation with world events. We want work which asks for positive change, critiques the status quo, is forward thinking, and takes a stand in the face of corruption and greed, brutality, xenophobia, homophobia, prejudice, genocide and oligarchy. Submit by April 30, 2017. Contact the editors at wordpeace.editorsATgmailDOTcom for questions.
https://wordpeace.submittable.com/submit
Pollen: An Online Literary Journal from Grow Appalachia
Pollen is an online literary magazine capturing the heart of our program through poetry, fiction, and photography. The deadline for submissions for the third edition of Pollen is Monday, May 1, 2017. Please submit a short biography with your entries. We will NOT review submissions without artist’s biographies. Because of time constraints, we are launching a slightly abridged version and only publishing the following pieces into the final edition: 8 pieces of poetry, 8 pieces of photography, 3 pieces of creative fiction or nonfiction. Please send ALL submissions to pollen (AT) growappalachia.org.
https://growappalachia.berea.edu/pollen/
Beer, Wine, & Spirits Poetry Anthology
Submit Poems to the World Enough Writers Beer, Wine, & Spirits Poetry Anthology. Do you have poems in which beer, wine, or spirits play a role? If so, this anthology is for you! World Enough Writers (the anthology imprint of Concrete Wolf) seeks poems for its Beer, Wine, & Spirits Anthology edited by James Bertolino to be published Winter 2018. Deadline for submissions: May 31, 2017. Open to any style, form, or line length. Submit first poem free, or 2 or more poems for $5. Previously published poems ok, if the poet owns reprint rights. Please provide publication acknowledgements. No bio necessary. We are now accepting email or postal mail submissions.
SLICE
Slice magazine welcomes submissions for short fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. We’re looking for anyone with a fresh voice and a compelling story to share—basically any work that really knocks our socks off. We’re not drawn to experimental or heavy-handed genre fiction. We offer all contributors of Slice a monetary award for their work ($250 for stories and essays and $75 for poems). Our reading period is currently open and runs from April 1 – June 1, 2017. All submissions during that time will be considered for Issue 22, which will be released Spring 2018. The theme for that issue is “Borders.” The maximum word count for submissions is 5,000 words.
https://slicemagazine.org/submit/
RHINO
RHINO is open for general submissions from April 1 – August 31. We accept one submission per each reading period. All submissions are considered for our Editor’s Prize. Our diverse group of editors looks for the very best in contemporary writing, and we have created a dynamic process of soliciting and reading new work by local, national, and international writers. We read for previously unpublished poems, translations, and flash-fiction. We welcome all styles of poems, and look for work which is well-crafted, reflects passion, originality, engagement with contemporary culture, and a love affair with language. Our basic editorial principle, however, is unwavering—we’re looking to publish the best work we can find. We consider (up to 5 pages total) – Poetry ( 3-5 poems), Translations of poetry ( 3-5 poems), Flash fiction (500 words or less).
http://www.rhinopoetry.org/submissions/
Cowboy Jamboree Magazine
CJM is seeking Fiction and Non-Fiction Grit Lit, Rural and Revisionist Western Stories: We need your best Harry Crews homage for our Fall 2017 issue “All We Need of Hell.” Crews is one of our favorite authors, and we’ll take any interpretation you have of grit lit that is “Crewsesque.” We picked All We Need of Hell for the theme because we are at the 30th anniversary of its 1987 publication, but feel free to work in your favorite Crews stuff (Feast of Snakes is our favorite if we just had to pick). We’ll have special articles, vintage pieces and Crews relevant interviews. Give us stories to put in this Celebration of The Knockout Artist that is Harry Crews. We dig short stories, creative non-fiction, flash fiction, vignettes/prose poetry, photography, and illustration. As always we like our stuff gritty and rough-edged in some way. See our website for past issues, submission guidelines, authors we dig, and style preferences. Deadline: 9/1/2017.
Denton Loving 