Submission season gears up for real when many journals open their reading periods in August and September.  But there’s no need to wait.  Here are 10 magazines and presses waiting to read your work today.  Good luck!

Codex Journal

Codex Journal accepts poetry that delights and instructs the mind and spirit through language and story. We only offer contributor payment for our special issues. We publish four times a year: March 25,  June 25, September 25, & December 25. Our end-of-the-year issue is a special issue of Queer & People of Color (QPOC). Codex Journal welcomes unsolicited poetry year round and accepts simultaneous submissions. We tend to publish shorter poems that fit on a single page (about 32 lines), though we sometimes make exceptions for remarkable work that runs a little longer. Please send no more than five poems in a submission (a single document) and no more than one active submission at a time.

http://codexjournal.com/

Little Curlew Press

Little Curlew Press is looking for finely tuned, completed fiction manuscripts for publication. Our bend is literary rather than genre. We are currently looking for novels, collections of stories, and nonfiction. Please send query letter, along with the first 10 pages of the manuscript. If we are interested in reading the manuscript, we will get back to you within 30 days.

http://littlecurlewpress.com/submissions/

Cosmonauts Avenue

Cosmonauts Avenue is an online monthly literary magazine. We publish fiction, poetry, nonfiction, interviews, and more, from writers around the world, in English and in translation. Submissions are free and always will be. Please submit stories or novel excerpts of up to 8,000 words. Please submit up to 5 previously unpublished poems in one file. Please pitch us if you are interested in submitting non fiction, interviews, comics, or reviews.

http://www.cosmonautsavenue.com/submit/

Oversound Poetry

Oversound considers submissions year round. Please send three to five poems (of any length) as a single .doc or .pdf attachment to oversoundpoetry at gmail dot com along with a cover letter and short bio.

http://www.oversoundpoetry.com/submissions/

Spelk

Spelk is a new platform for the very best flash fiction on the web. We post three stories a week, from both new and established writers, from the UK and overseas. We have very eclectic tastes, and we don’t like labels. Just send us your best work and we’ll take it from there. We want flash fiction. That’s around 500 words, give or take. We’ll consider just about any genre: we’re not fussy if it’s “literary” or “non-literary.” If we like it, we’ll publish it. We like stories with characters who have something to say. Stories that keep us thinking long after we’ve read them. We don’t publish poetry or non-fiction.

https://spelkfiction.com/submit-2/

Palooka: A Magazine of Underdog Excellence

Palooka is an international nonprofit literary magazine. We publish unique fiction, poetry, nonfiction, artwork, photography, graphic narratives, comic strips, and offer print and electronic versions of the magazine. Submit one short story or one essay (500 – 15,000 words) or up to three flash pieces of at least 500 words each (combine the flash pieces into one document).  Send up to five poems (combine into one document).

http://palookamag.com/submit

Palooka Press Chapbook Contest

We consider manuscripts of all types, styles, and genres and aren’t looking for a particular aesthetic; we’re willing to give anything a fair chance. Please send your best fiction, poetry, nonfiction, graphic narrative, or hybrid. Manuscripts should be roughly 35-50 pages, but we’re flexible with this in either direction. There is a $10 entry fee that comes with an electronic issue of Palooka. All pieces within entries are also considered for publication in the magazine. The Winner Receives:  publication by Palooka Press (a professionally made perfect-bound book with a glossy color cover), 20 free copies of the book, $200 honorarium, a bio and photo featured on our website.  The winning chapbook will be sent out for review and promotion. Deadline: 8/1/2016.

http://palookamag.com/palooka-press

Bosque

Our open submission period is July 1 – August 1 of each year. Send us short stories/novel excerpts and your creative nonfiction/memoir excerpts up to 5000 words. Send up to 4 poems in one document.

http://www.bosquepress.com/2016%20open%20submissions.html

2016 Grayson Books Poetry Prize

Deadline: August 15, 2016. This is open to all poets writing in English. Submit your 50-80 page manuscript electronically or send your work in the mail with two cover pages (one with complete contact info, one with no contact info), reading fee of $25, and SASE for results to Grayson Books, P.O. Box 270549, West Hartford, CT 06127. The winner will be awarded a $1,000 prize, publication, and 10 copies. Simultaneous submissions are acceptable if we are notified immediately about an acceptance elsewhere.

https://graysonbooks.submittable.com/submit

Now & Then: The Appalachian Magazine

Now & Then is accepting submissions for the upcoming “The Future of Appalachia” issue. Send us fresh, revealing pictures of life in Appalachia, past and present, in the forms of engaging articles, personal essays, fiction, poetry, reviews and photography. Deadline for submissions is August 31, 2016.

http://www.etsu.edu/cas/cass/nowandthen/default.php

Whenever my own writing isn’t coming easy, I tend to turn towards submitting.  A lot of journals will open their new reading periods in August and September.  But some great journals are already reading submissions in July.  Good luck submitting!

Juked

There are no limits on word count for prose—we like narratives and essays of all sizes, so long as the colors fit. If it’s a short story, send us one piece at a time—please wait to hear from us before sending another. If you’re working with the short short form, please send three to five selections in the same submission. Submit a maximum of five poems. We read year-round.

http://www.juked.com/info/submit.asp

Provo Canyon Review

The Provo Canyon Review is now seeking short fiction and personal essay manuscripts of up to 5,000 words.   We also accept shorter poems (limit three per submission).  We are drawn to work that is deeply moving without being overly sentimental; tender, in the sense of a mixture of grace and vulnerability and compassion; and displays a great deal of focused attention to the English language and how it is used.   From the first sentence, the work should raise compelling questions in the readers’ minds, with complexly motivated drama balanced with introspection.

http://theprovocanyonreview.net/to-submit.html

Pembroke Magazine

Pembroke Magazine currently accepts online submissions year-round, and response time is usually within two to four months. For flash fiction and micro memoir, you may upload up to three pieces per submission. For standard-length creative nonfiction and fiction (up to 7,500 words), please upload only one essay or story per submission. Poets and artists may submit up to five pieces per submission.

https://pembrokemagazine.submittable.com/submit

HeartWood Literary Magazine

Heartwood is published in association with the Low-Res MFA at West Virginia Wesleyan College.  We accept submissions year round and welcome previously unpublished poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, from both established and emerging writers.  We do love Appalachian voices, but we enthusiastically encourage writers from all backgrounds to submit. Prose submissions, fiction or nonfiction, should be 3000 words or less. Poets should submit no more than 3-5 single-spaced poems at a time.

http://www.heartwoodlitmag.com/

Poet Lore

Founded in January 1889, Poet Lore is the nation’s oldest poetry journal. It has published world-famous poets and new writers side by side throughout its long history. Poet Lore accepts submissions by mail year-round. You may submit up to five poems at a time. We do not accept unsolicited reviews. However, prospective reviewers may send a query, along with a sample review.

https://poetlore.com/submit/

Tupelo Press July Open Reading Period

Deadline: July 31. Throughout the month of July, Tupelo Press is holding open submissions for book-length poetry collections (48-90 pages) and chapbook-length poetry collections (28-47 pages), and for the first time in July, manuscripts of any length of English translations from any language. Submissions are accepted from anyone writing in the English language (whether in the United States or abroad). A reading fee of $28 (U.S.) must accompany each submission.

http://www.tupelopress.org/july_guidelines.php

Virginia Quarterly Review

VQR strives to publish the best writing we can find. Our current reading period ends on July 31, 2016.  Send us: poetry of all types and length; short fiction from 2,000–8,000 words (we are generally not interested in genre fiction such as romance, science fiction, or fantasy); nonfiction from 3,500–9,000 words. We publish literary, art, and cultural criticism; reportage; historical and political analysis; and travel essays. We publish few author interviews or memoirs. In general, we are looking for nonfiction that looks out on the world, rather than within the self. Submissions are limited to one prose piece and four poems per reading period.

https://virginiaquarterlyreview.submittable.com/submit

Queen’s Ferry Press Open Reading Period for Full-Length Fiction

Queen’s Ferry Press specializes in literary fiction. The press currently releases 10–15 titles a year, many from debut authors, and is the publisher of Shadows of Men, the 2013 recipient of the TIL Steven Turner Award for Best Work of First Fiction. Submissions are accepted March 1st–August 31st. Although the manuscript in its entirety should be previously unpublished, individual portions that have appeared in other venues should be credited as such.

http://www.queensferrypress.com/

Post Road

Post Road publishes twice yearly and accepts unsolicited poetry, fiction, nonfiction, short plays and monologues, and visual art submissions. Our current submission period runs from now through August 31, 2016, for the summer issue. We charge a $3 submission fee.

http://www.postroadmag.com/submit.phtml

Hunger Mountain

General submissions will be open through October 1, 2016. We accept submissions in poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and children’s literature. We’re not currently looking for any particular themes. We just want to see your best, most exciting work. For fiction and non-fiction, please send up to 8,000 words.  For poetry, send one to five poems, all in one file.

http://hungermtn.org/submit/

Bat City Review

Bat City Review is published annually. We accept and read submissions from June 1 to October 1, with responses sent primarily in late autumn. We are interested in poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction that experiments with language, form, and unconventional subject matter, as well as more traditional work. Please submit three to five poems or one story per reading period. For nonfiction, we’re looking for lyrical essays, interesting memoirs and important interviews.

http://www.batcityreview.org/submit/

Jelly Bucket

Jelly Bucket accepts work during our open reading period, from July 1st through December 1st. Founded in 2009, Jelly Bucket features established and new writers. We accept works of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction from anywhere in the world. Please send us no more than five poems at a time. Each poem should begin on a new page, but be submitted in a single document. Fiction and nonfiction pieces of up to 7,500 words are welcome. For short fiction (less than 1,000 words), up to 3 pieces may be included in one submission.

http://creativewriting.eku.edu/jelly-bucket

Channillo

Channillo is your ultimate source for serialized literature & entertainment. Channillo is a subscription-based digital publishing platform that allows writers to share their work with readers in regular installments. We are home to hundreds of great series by talented writers from around the world. Series categories include fiction books, columns, short stories, essays, poetry, journal entries, and more. Channillo is entirely web-based and mobile-friendly, so you can read your favorite series at anytime, anywhere, on your computer, smartphone, or tablet. If you are interested in creating a series and sharing your work on Channillo, please complete our submission form available online.

http://channillo.com/application-form/

Mulberry Fork Review

We are looking for quality prose – both fiction and nonfiction. Any color. Any flavor. Any genre. Any style. There is no theme. Whether your prose emerges in the form of a short story, flash fiction, essay, lyrical essay, creative nonfiction or prose poetry, we are interested. And don’t forget, we are also looking for articles, interviews, reviews (and anything else of interest that you might propose) for the Mulberry Fork Review website. We want to publish stories with a distinctive voice, well-developed characters, and a strong sense of place. Send us work that is worth revisiting. We love stories and essays that stand up to scrutiny and reveal something new with each read. Send us prose poems that challenge the imagination with use of language; something that will capture the attention of our readers. For nonfiction and essays, it’s probably best to keep the max word count to something in the neighborhood of 6,000. If you have got a brilliant short story that exceeds that limit, send it anyway. If you have a substantially shorter submission you might consider our Flash Fiction or Prose Poetry categories.

http://www.mulberryforkreview.com/mulberry-fork-review/submissions/

A Quiet Courage

AQC is an online literary journal that considers and publishes micro-fiction and poetry that is 100 words or less in length. We were recently named among the twelve best literary journals of 2015 by Authors Publish Magazine, just over eight months after our founding. No deadlines, submissions rolling. No submission fees. We are a non-paying market. We consider writing in Spanish too, with exact English translations. We have a special affinity for Holocaust-related writing, but we consider writing about all kinds of subjects and topics. AQC welcomes and encourages submissions from diverse writers.

http://aquietcourage.wordpress.com/

Cimarron Review

We accept submissions year-round in poetry, fiction, and art. Include a cover letter with your submission. Please send 3-6 poems or one piece of fiction. We are interested in any strong writing of a literary variety, but are especially partial to fiction in the modern realist tradition and poetry that engages the reader through a distinctive voice—be it lyric, narrative, etc. When submitting fiction, please do not include a summary of your story in the cover letter. Allow the work to stand on its own. We have no set page lengths for any genre, but we seldom publish short-shorts or pieces longer than 25 pages. There are, however, exceptions to every rule. Our guiding aesthetic is the quality of the work itself.

https://cimarronreview.com/submit/

Porkbelly Press Micro Chapbooks

Porkbelly Press is looking for micro chapbooks (2017 line) until August 1. We’re interested manuscripts of 8-10 pages. Seeking: poetry or prose poems; collections of flash or micro fiction (75 – 150 words each or so);  creative nonfiction such as lyric essays & flash;  combinations of the above (linked by theme, image, voice, etc.).  Submit no more than 1 chapbook in each genre until you receive a reply. No more than 3 manuscript submissions for a given reading period.  Simultaneous submissions considered.

www.porkbellypress.com/subs

Cypress & Pine Fiction Series Manuscript Call

Deadline: August 1.  Award: Publication.  Fee: $10.  Yellow Flag Press publishes one collection of short fiction per year (beginning in 2017) under the banner of The Cypress & Pine Fiction Series. Collections of original stories by both established and emerging authors writing in English will be considered. Collections should be comprised of original stories and/or novellas that have not been published as a complete collection (stories published individually in journals or chapbook are fine). No novels at this time. Manuscripts should be between 100 and 200 pages. Number each page of the manuscript. Author’s last name and the collection title should appear at the top of each page. Include a table of contents and a page of acknowledgements if any of the stories have been previously published. Include a short biographical statement in the cover letter field in Submittable. We do not need a synopsis of the collection. Simultaneous submissions are accepted and encouraged. Please notify us immediately if your manuscript is accepted for publication elsewhere or if you wish to withdraw it for any reason. Each submission will receive a copy of the collection selected as the first in The Cypress & Pine Fiction Series. Copies will be mailed when the book is published in the spring of 2017.

http://www.yellowflagpress.com/#!submissions/crvn or https://yellowflagpress.submittable.com/submit

Off the Coast

Off the Coast is Maine’s international poetry journal. Our next quarterly deadline is September 15, 2016. Send 1-3 previously unpublished poems, any subject or style.  Please include contact information and 1-2 sentence bio with submission.

https://offthecoast.submittable.com/submit

Smokelong Quarterly’s Kathy Fish Fellowship

SmokeLong Quarterly is accepting submissions until September 15, 2016, for its 2017 Kathy Fish Fellowship for new and emerging writers. The winner of the 2017 Kathy Fish Fellowship will be considered a “writer in residence” at SmokeLong (note: position is virtual) for four quarterly issues (March, June, September, and December 2017). Each issue will include one flash by the Fellowship winner. The winner of the Fellowship will also receive $500.00, to be paid as follows: $100.00 on announcement of the winner, and $100.00 upon publication of each of the four issues in 2017. Fellows will have the opportunity to work with SmokeLong staff and participate in online writing workshops. All writers previously unpublished in SmokeLong Quarterly and who do not have a published chapbook or book length work (or are not under contract for such) are eligible to apply. There is no application fee.

http://www.smokelong.com/kathy-fish-fellowship/

The Coe Review

The Coe Review is currently accepting poetry from both published and unpublished authors from now until October 25, 2016. We recommend perusing our past issues to see the type of work we publish each year. Poetry submissions may consist of up to three (3) poems. Please include “Poetry Submission” in your subject line if submitting electronically. Please include your name in the header of the submission. Please include your street address so we can easily mail contributors’ copies to those published. All e-mail submissions must be sent in a Word document. (PDF is also acceptable. Those not submitted as an attachment will not be considered.) Please submit each poem in an individual document.

https://coereview.org/about-us/submissions/

10th Annual Split This Rock Poetry Contest

Judge: Sheila Black.  Benefits Split This Rock Poetry Festival: Poems of Provocation & Witness 2018. $1,000 in prizes awarded for poems of provocation & witness!  Prizes: First place $500; 2nd and 3rd place, $250 each. Winning poems will be published on www.SplitThisRock.org and within The Quarry: A Social Justice Poetry Database. All prize winners will receive free festival registration, and the 1st place recipient will be invited to read the winning poem on the main stage at Split This Rock Poetry Festival 2018.  Deadline: November 1, 2016.  Reading Fee: $20, which supports Split This Rock Poetry Festival 2018.

https://splitthisrock.submittable.com/submit/61127

Madison Review

The Madison Review is an independent literary arts journal published through the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Published semiannually, each issue of The Madison Review contains previously unpublished fiction, poetry, and art as well as interviews with well-known writers. We consider short stories with a maximum of 30 pages. We consider up to 5 poems with a combined 15 page maximum. Submissions should include a cover-letter complete with contact information and the name(s) of your story or poem(s).

https://madisonreview.submittable.com/submit

Image / Good Letters

We welcome unsolicited submissions and consider all submissions carefully. We produce two publications: Image, a quarterly journal, and Good Letters, a daily blog. All the work we publish reflects what we see as a sustained engagement with one of the western faiths—Judaism, Christianity, or Islam. That engagement can include unease, grappling, or ambivalence as well as orthodoxy; the approach can be indirect or allusive, but for a piece to be a fit for Image or Good Letters, some connection to faith must be there. Please submit no more than five poems or ten pages total. For fiction and nonfiction, we have an upper limit of approximately 6,000 words. We rarely publish stories or essays under 3,000 words.

https://imagejournal.org/journal/submit/

Cincinnati Review’s “A Very Angry Baby” Anthology

Acre Books—The Cincinnati Review’s brand-new book-publishing arm—is kicking off with a signature anthology, A Very Angry Baby, consisting of fiction, poetry, and hybrid forms featuring, yes, a very angry baby (multiples also welcome). Thus far we’ve been soliciting for the volume, but if you have a piece that fits the theme, please send it our way.

https://www.cincinnatireview.com/submissions/

Fiction Southeast “Conference Spotlight Series”

We are currently accepting submissions for our “Conference Spotlight Series.” Guidelines are fairly flexible. We simply want to know your thoughts concerning a recent writing conference you attended. Specifically, what were your favorite panels/readings? What were your favorite topics/authors? Did the conference shape/change your view of reading/publishing/writing? Would you recommend the conference to others? We are particularly interested in submissions from writers we’ve previously published, but we’re open to submissions from anyone who considers himself/herself a writer or reader

https://fictionsoutheast.submittable.com/submit/45732

Main Street Rag

Main Street Rag Publishing Company is in need of poetry submissions for our fall issue. For the journal we accept submissions year round with no fee, but we request that you not send simultaneous submissions. We try to report in 6-8 weeks.  Please carefully read and follow our detailed guidelines.  Also seeking short stories and short creative nonfiction.

http://mainstreetrag.com/ or http://03c9c48.netsolhost.com/WordPress/?page_id=70

Drunken Boat Literature & Arts Retreat in Sardinia

Join Drunken Boat for a 10-day program (October 15-25, 2016) bringing writers, translators, and artists from around the world together with Sardinian writers and artists for a generative and collaborative retreat. Faculty members are Kazim Ali, Duriel Harris & Achy Obejas.  The program will culminate in the annual celebration of Grazia Deledda, winner the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1926. Work generated during the residency will be considered for publication in a special Drunken Boat feature.  Competitive scholarships are available; deadline July 15.

http://www.drunkenboat.com/retreat

Poetry South 2016

Poetry South has moved! Long-time editor John Zheng asked Mississippi University for Women to take over the magazine, starting with the 2016 issue. We will continue the magazine with a national focus, published in the South yet accepting submissions from poets everywhere. Due to the change in editors, the annual July 15 deadline has been extended. We will accept submissions for the 2016 issue of Poetry South in July and August or until the issue is filled. Email submissions to: poetrysouth01ATgmailDOTcom. Please include “Submission” in your subject line.  A brief cover letter is appreciated.

http://www.muw.edu/poetrysouth

Terrapin Books / call for full-length poetry

Terrapin Books will reopen for submissions of full-length poetry manuscripts from August 1 through August 31. We are proud to be publishing books by Neil Carpathios, Lynne Knight, Jessica de Koninck, and Christine Stewart-Nunez. We look forward to reading your work.

http://www.terrapinbooks.com/open-reading-for-poetry-books.html

Apple Valley Review

Submissions for the Fall 2016 issue (Vol. 11, No. 2) of the Apple Valley Review are open through September 15, 2016. Please send unpublished personal essays and short fiction (preferably between 100 and 3000 words, though the word count is flexible) and poetry. Prose poetry, translations, flash fiction, and writing with genre elements (such as fabulism/magical realism) are all welcome. All published work is automatically considered for our annual editor’s prize. Several pieces from the journal have also appeared as selections, finalists, and/or notable stories in Best American Essays, Best of the Net, Best of the Web, New Poetry from the Midwest, storySouth Million Writers Award, and The Wigleaf Top 50 (Very) Short Fictions. To submit, please send 1-6 poems or 1-3 essays/short stories, all pasted into the body of a single e-mail message, to our editor: editorATleahbrowningDOTnet

http://www.applevalleyreview.com/

Jake Adam York Book Prize for a First or Second Poetry Collection

$25.00 submission fee. Ends on 10/16/2016.  The Jake Adam York Prize is open to poets writing in English who have published no more than one full-length poetry collection. It is a collaboration between Copper Nickel http://copper-nickel.org/ and Milkweed Editions http://milkweed.org/. The prize-winning poet will receive $2,000 and publication by MILKWEED EDITIONS. Screening for the prize will be facilitated by COPPER NICKEL. All entrants will receive a one-year subscription to COPPER NICKEL in exchange for their reading fee. The judge for 2016 will be Ross Gay. All finalists will be asked to affirm that they are neither close friends, current colleagues, nor current or recent students (within the past three years) of Mr. Gay.

https://coppernickel.submittable.com/submit

Heavy Feather Review

The deadline for HFR Volume Six consideration is October 30, 2016. HFR only accepts three to six poems. There are no guidelines otherwise for fiction, creative nonfiction, drama, comics/original art, hybrid. We are also looking for essays written on writing craft, politics, and international writers to feature online. To us, “essay” is a loose term/form, and the topics and form are open to interpretation. The final product can be a traditional essay, poem, short story, list, definition, collage, or whatever you can think up.

http://heavyfeatherreview.com/submit/

New Republic

The New Republic accepts unsolicited submissions of nonfiction (including opinion and reporting) and poetry. Submit via email: nonfiction to letters@newrepublic.com and poetry to poetry@newrepublic.com.  We do not accept fiction submissions.

https://newrepublic.com/pages/contact

Southeast Review

The Southeast Review accepts regular submissions for publication consideration year-round. SER publishes the finest poetry, literary fiction, creative nonfiction, book reviews, interviews, and art. We aim to present emerging writers on the same stage as established authors—we seek quality work for our quality publication. Please submit no more than 5 single-spaced poems at a time (with a maximum of 15 pages total per submission). Please submit one double-spaced story of up to 7500 words. We rarely publish short shorts not submitted through our World’s Best Short Short Story Contest; however, should you choose to submit flash fiction, please send no more than 5 short shorts per submission. Please submit one creative nonfiction piece of up to 7500 words. We are open to a variety of forms of nonfiction—including memoir, travel writing, and the personal essay. SER does not, however, publish academic prose or research writing. Please submit current (book publication should occur in current calendar year) single-book reviews of 800-1,200 words.

http://southeastreview.org/submit/

Arcadia

Arcadia is currently accepting fiction, poetry, nonfiction, drama, and material for our blog, Online Sundries. If you’d like to submit something that doesn’t fall into one of these categories, please send us a query before submitting. Please send one story or between 3 and 5 poems at a time.  For non-fiction, we accept essays, memoirs, narrative reportage, lists, lyric essays, or whatever other forms you might have for telling true stories. As long as the writing has voice and the language is precise, we are interested.

http://www.arcadiamagazine.org/#!submit/c24vq

Doubleback Books Hiring Poetry Editor

Doubleback Books believes that out of print should not mean out of mind. Although other publishers rescue works that have fallen into the public domain from obscurity, few reprint books from small, independent presses that have folded during the twenty-first century and (often through no fault of their own) left new, exciting books to go out of print before their time. As an editor at Doubleback, you will have the opportunity to bring these books back into the world. The Doubleback Poetry Editor’s responsibilities will include reading manuscript submissions, soliciting submissions, editing manuscripts, as well as promotion of the press.  Preferred (but not required) qualifications include: Previous editorial experience with a press or literary magazine; Graduate or undergraduate work in Creative Writing or English; Strong eye to proofreading.  Please note that Doubleback Books and Sundress Publications are an entirely volunteer-run organization, so none of our editors are paid. To apply, please send a resume and a brief cover letter detailing your interest in the position to the Managing Editor, Melanie Jordan at jordan@sundresspublications.com.  Applications are due by July 15, 2016.

http://www.sundresspublications.com/doubleback/

Bomb Magazine

BOMB accepts submissions of previously unpublished poetry and short fiction. Simultaneous submissions are allowed. Our current reading period is now open until July 15, 2016. http://bombmagazine.org/contact/

Sugar House Review

We want to publish good poetry, no matter where or who it comes from. We’re looking for an array of styles, from narrative to abstract to form. We are open for submissions until July 31.

http://www.sugarhousereview.com/submit.html

2017 Press 53 Award for Poetry

For an outstanding unpublished collection of poems.  $1,000 advance plus a 1/4-page color ad in Poets & Writers magazine.  Reading fee $30.  Judged by Tom Lombardo, Press 53 Poetry Series Editor.  Submit by July 31, 2016. Winner and finalists announced by November 1. Winning collection published April 2017

www.Press53.com

Appalachian Nature Writing and Ecocriticism Anthology

deadline for submissions: August 1, 2016. contact email: app.anthology@gmail.com. Appalachia, with its wealth of biodiversity, has yet to be properly recognized in an anthology that focuses on nature writing and Ecocriticism. This first-ever collection of Appalachian nature writing and scholarly criticism focusing on the Appalachian region and its literature will look at both the natural and post-natural world and the role the Appalachian region plays in such.  Poetry, creative nonfiction, fiction, one-act plays, and ecocritical essays are welcomed.  All submissions must be original work and previously unpublished. While proposals are acceptable, the final work must be completed no later than August 1, 2016. Documents should be in PDF format and emailed to app.anthology@gmail.com. The anthology is expected to be published in 2017 and authors will be notified promptly if their work has been accepted. Talks with university presses have already begun.

2016 Science Fiction Poetry Association poetry contest

Speculative-genre (Science fiction, fantasy, horror) poems only; deadline August 31. $2 per poem entry fee. Judged by Wisconsin poet Michael Kriesel. 3 divisions: Dwarf, Short, and Long;

http://www.sfpoetry.com/contests.html or http://bit.ly/SFPoetry2016