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Here are 12 new submission opportunities.  Please pay special attention to the contests sponsored by Consequence, an amazing journal that does great work!  Good luck submitting. Follow Denton Loving on WordPress.com

 

Tammy

Tammy is a print publication that features writing from the esteemed fringes and unguarded egresses of American letters, international writing in translation, and forms of visual art that lend themselves to the printed page.  Tammy is currently reading poetry and prose submissions for its next issue. Recent contributors include Amanda Goldblatt, Lydia Davis and Matt Bell.

http://tammyjournal.com

 

Tributaries at The Fourth River

Rolling, burbling, churning along, tributaries lead us to the river. These winding origins are sometimes small, but often powerful. Tributaries refresh us, urge us forward, guide us through the trees. The Fourth River’s new weekly online publication, “Tributaries,” showcases the brief and the inspiring, that which sustains us and takes us through unexpected courses. Each week we will feature one piece on the home page of the web site. Please submit nature/place-based work in the form of: no more than (500) words of prose, one poem or one piece of visual artwork. There is no fee to submit to this series!

https://4thriver.submittable.com/submit/65401

 

Iron Horse Literary Review

Iron Horse is kicking off this production year by opening our submission gates to our State of the Union Issue. We’re looking for poems, stories, and essays that focus upon the potential of unity and union, the splendor of diversity, the belief in progress. We’re also considering those darker manuscripts that contemplate moments when we have failed. Send us your work—literary, artistic, grounded in reality (or the surreal!) and not sermons on the obvious but rather manuscripts that deliver maverick scenes and stories and people so distinctive no one can deny them. Prose writers should send one manuscript (5,500 words or less); poets should send 3-5 poems. Submit now through Sept 23, 2016.

https://ironhorse.submittable.com/submit

 

New South

New South is now accepting submissions of micro prose through September 30, 2016.  Submit stories and essays up to 500 words. Up to 3 pieces in one document.  We also seek reviews and interviews for our website. We read general submissions from September 1st-April 30th. New South seeks to publish high quality work, regardless of genre, form, or regional ties. We want what’s new, what’s fresh, and what’s different — whether it comes from the southern United States, the south of India, or the north, east or west of anywhere. Submit one story up to 9,000 words in length, or up to five short-shorts under 1,000 words each. Submit up to five poems per document. Submit creative nonfiction or lyric essays up to 9,000 words in length.

https://newsouthjournal.com/submissions/

 

Watershed Review

Watershed Review takes submissions from August 1st through September 30th. We welcome submissions of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and art. Submit up to 4 poems or one story or essay of up to 2500 words.  One poem or prose excerpt will be chosen from each issue to be made into a broadside print through the Quoin Collective.

http://www.csuchico.edu/watershed/submit.shtml

 

Rappahannock Review

Submissions are open for through October 15, 2016.   So far in this reading period, a tremendous majority of the works we’ve read have been submitted by men. Therefore, we are particularly encouraging authors who identify as female or nonbinary to send us their work. Authors may send up to five poems per submission. Authors of creative nonfiction may submit a single essay with a maximum length of 8,000 words or three shorter pieces each containing no more than 1,000 words. Submissions of original, well-written fiction may contain one piece of up to 8,000 words or three pieces of flash, each containing 1,000 words or fewer. Pieces experimenting with form are encouraged.

http://www.rappahannockreview.com/submit/

 

Jabberwock Review

Jabberwock is a literary journal published semi-annually by students and faculty of Mississippi State University. The journal consists of art, poetry, fiction, and non-fiction from around the world. Submissions will be accepted only from August 15 to October 20. Please submit no more than 1 story or essay or no more than 5 poems at a time. We do not have a word limit, but please keep in mind that the entire journal is only about 100 pages, so longer work must be truly exceptional.

http://www.jabberwock.org.msstate.edu/

 

Consequence Magazine

Consequence announces its annual fiction and poetry contents. Entries must capture the nuances of the culture and consequences of war; the topic is not limited to military matters, but includes social, political, and cultural subjects. All entries will be considered for publication. All entries will be considered anonymously. Entries must be submitted online between September 1 and October 31, and a $10 entry fee is payable through PayPal. Fiction judges: Hester Kaplan. Poetry judge: Danielle Legros George. $250 honorarium and publication.

http://www.consequencemagazine.org/contests/

 

Salt Hill

Salt Hill publishes poetry, prose, translations, reviews, essays, interviews, and artwork. We read submissions for the magazine between August 1 and April 1. Please submit no more than five poems at a time. Please do not submit works of fiction or nonfiction that are more than 30 pages.

http://salthilljournal.net/submit/

 

South 85 Journal

South 85 Journal, the online literary journal of the Converse College Low Residency MFA, is currently accepting poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and visual art submissions through April 30, 2017. Fiction submissions should be no longer than 10,000 words. Non-fiction submissions should be no longer than 8,000 words. You may submit up to 5 poems. Blog entries should be non-fiction essays about writing, the writing life, or other literary topics. We prefer concrete essays that communicate your unique perspective as a writer, not general discussions on writing topics. Limit blog submissions to 250-800 words (400-600 words preferred).

http://south85journal.com/submission-guidelines/

 

Fugue

Begun in 1990 by the faculty in the Department of English at University of Idaho, Fugue has continuously published poetry, plays, fiction, essays, and interviews from established and emerging writers biannually. Poetry, fiction and nonfiction submissions are accepted September 1 through May 1. Please send no more than six poems, two short-shorts, one story, or one essay per submission.

http://www.fuguejournal.com/submit/

 

One Story

One Story is seeking literary fiction. Because of our format, we can only accept stories between 3,000 and 8,000 words. They can be any style and on any subject as long as they are good. We are looking for stories that leave readers feeling satisfied and are strong enough to stand alone. Our submission period is open now through May 31, 2017.

http://www.one-story.com/index.php?page=submit

Graywolf Press

During the month of August, 2016, Graywolf invites poets and translators of poetry—established, emerging, or somewhere in between—to submit their manuscripts to us. This reading period is not a contest, nor a guarantee of publication. Works must be poetry, but we welcome work that exists in the boundaries of what we think poetry is or could be. Our mission is to champion outstanding writers at all stages of their careers to ensure that diverse voices can be heard in a crowded marketplace. For all of August, we will be reading with an eye for poetry that helps us do just that. Manuscripts must be at least 50 pages long and include a cover letter and a short biographical statement with all relevant publishing history. There is no entry fee. We will close submissions at 11:59 p.m. central time, August 31, 2016.

https://graywolfpress.submittable.com/submit

 

Amethyst Arsenic

Amethyst Arsenic is open to all forms of poetry and art. Within this broad scope, we have a preference for well-crafted imagery that brings a fresh use of language and perception. We also lean towards vignettes, moments, stories and meditations on people, objects, and scenes; the intimate whether confessional or persona, versus broad commentary. Guest editors for the upcoming issue are Staci R. Schoenfeld and M. Brett Gaffney. Payment is $5 per accepted poem and artwork. The featured artist will receive $25.  Please submit 3 to 5 poems. The deadline for submissions is Wednesday, August 31, 2016.

http://www.amethystarsenic.com/submit.php

 

Fifth Wednesday Journal

Fifth Wednesday Journal is an independent literary print magazine published twice yearly by Fifth Wednesday Books. Submissions for the Spring 2017 Issue 20 opened on August 15, 2016. We accept electronic submissions in the categories of fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, essays, and black-and-white photography. FWJ publishes short stories, excerpts from novels, creative nonfiction, book excerpts, and essays, as long as the excerpt stands on its own as a literary work. We do not publish children’s literature, flash fiction, science fiction, horror, pornography, or nonliterary works. There are no set limits on length of a work, but manuscripts of less than 1,000 or more than 12,000 words are less likely to make it into the journal. Please limit your submission of poetry to one set of up to five poems.

http://www.fifthwednesdayjournal.org/

 

Pittsburgh Poetry Review

The Pittsburgh Poetry Review is now open to general submissions through August 31, 2016. We will be reading for Issues Four (11/1/16) and Five (3/1/17). Please submit no less than 3 and no more than 5 poems in a single .doc or .docx file. We prefer shorter (1 to 2 pages) poems, but we will consider any length with a query first. In addition, we are very interested in series of poems and linked poems. We are willing to publish several pieces from single poets. Collaborative work is welcome too.

https://pittsburghpoetryreview.com/submission-guidelines/

 

Windmill: The Hofstra University Journal of Literature & Art

The new national literary journal housed at Hofstra University is now accepting submissions for both their first digital issue (Sept.) and their inaugural print issue (Spring 2017). The digital issue’s September theme is change. We want your best stories on the theme of change, from corporeal to speculative, from human nature to the leaves of the trees around us. Though we will consider pieces of any length, we prefer submissions of fiction or creative nonfiction in the range of 1500-2500 words. Submit by Sept 25, 2016.

https://hofstrawindmill.com/

 

Pembroke Magazine: Submit for Free in September

To celebrate the start of another new school year, we’re waiving submission fees for the month of September. Send us your best poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction for the chance at publication in Volume 49 of Pembroke Magazine—set to debut at AWP 2017.

www.pembrokemagazine.com

 

Phoebe Journal of Literature and Art

Phoebe publishes poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. We produce a print issue in fall/winter and an online issue in spring/summer. We ask for no more than one poetry submission of 3-5 poems, one fiction submission of up to 4,000 words, or one nonfiction submission of up to 4,000 words. Submissions are open for Issue 46.1 until October 17th!

http://www.phoebejournal.com/submission-guidelines/

 

The Larry Brown Short Story Award

Pithead Chapel is pleased to announce the first annual Larry Brown Short Story Award. The winning author will receive a prize of $250 along with publication in the January 2017 issue of Pithead Chapel. The 2016 Guest Judge is Kyle Minor.  The contest is open from August 15 to October 31, 2016. The submitted story must be less than 4,000 words. There’s a $10 entry fee.

https://pitheadchapel.com/the-larry-brown-short-story-award/

 

Sou’wester

Sou’wester is published by Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Please limit your poetry submission to a maximum of five poems at a time. Please limit your submission of prose to one piece at a time. We will consider a suite of two or three flash pieces. Please note that Sou’wester has gone to a once-a-year printing schedule.  Submissions are now open. We anticipate reading until early 2017.

http://souwester.org/?page_id=538

 

Waxwing

We read submissions of poetry, short fiction, and literary essays from August 1 to May 1; translations of poetry and literary prose are read year-round. Each issue features approximately thirteen poets, six prose writers, and six authors in translation. Poets should send one to five poems, and prose writers one story, essay, novella, or novel chapter (or up to three short-short stories or micro-essays).

https://waxwing.submittable.com/submit

Below are 12 submission opportunities, some with upcoming deadlines and many from journals just opening their reading periods this month.  Good luck submitting your work. Follow Denton Loving on WordPress.com

Yemassee

Yemassee publishes fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction biannually in March and September. We consider fiction and creative nonfiction up to 5,000 words in length, double-spaced and paginated. For fiction, we’re open to a wide range of styles and aesthetics, both traditional and innovative. For nonfiction, we are interested in traditional memoir, lyric essays, hybrid work and many other nonfictional forms. We do not publish academic essays. If you’re sending in shorter works (less than 1,000 words), feel free to send along 3-5 pieces in a single document.  When it comes to poetry, we want to create a gathering of voices we can’t stop listening to. We want a poem to leap somewhere strange and take us along. We consider three to five poems at a time

http://yemasseejournal.com/submityemassee

 

Five Chapters

FiveChapters, one of the pioneer online literary journals, has published a new short story every week since October 2006. A new story begins every Monday, serial-style, with a new installment on each weekday. FiveChapters stories work best between 5000 and 10,000 words.

http://www.fivechapters.com/about-five-chapters/

 

Black Warrior Review

Black Warrior Review reads general fiction, nonfiction, and poetry submissions from June 1 – September 1, 2016. We ask that prose works are no longer than 7000 words. We also accept flash fiction (under 1,000 words); please include no more than three flash pieces in a single submission. Please send up to five poems, with a maximum submission length of 10 pages.

http://bwr.ua.edu/submit/guidelines/

 

concīs

concīs is an online and e-pub journal devoted to brevity: the succinct, pithy, condensed, laconic, crisp, compressed and compendious. It’s simple in approach and simple in design…but not simple-minded. Genre—if you believe in such labels—is unimportant: poems, prose poems, flash fictions, micro-essays, reviews in miniature, sudden fictions, haiku, tanka, American Sentences, insights, epigrams, the unclassifiable…they’re all good. Through SEPTEMBER 15, 2016, concīs is accepting submissions of poetry, flash fiction, prose poems, visual poetry and micro-nonfiction for its no-fee, *2016 Pith of Prose and Poem Contest*. Three winners receive cash award + publication on custom print postcards and online publication in concīs.

http://concis.io/contest/

 

New Southerner Literary Contest

We accept submissions of previously unpublished poetry, fiction, and nonfiction for our annual literary contest during the months of August and September. Although the contest theme is open, we are especially interested in work that relates to our mission, which is promoting self-sufficiency, environmental stewardship, and local economies. We are also interested in works by writers with a Southern connection, and works written with a Southern slant or that focus on Southern issues, people, and places. Winning entries, as well as finalists and semifinalists, are published in The New Southerner Literary Edition, available online and in print. Contest fee: $10 per entry. One entry is one piece of prose up to 5,000 words or one poem up to 100 lines; Postmark deadline: September 30. This year’s final judges are Mary Ann Taylor Hall, Mary Popham, and Bobbi Buchanan.

http://www.newsoutherner.com/contest/

 

New Madrid

We are dedicating the Winter 2017 issue of New Madrid to the theme of “Imagining Peace.” As George Bernard Shaw wrote, “Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.” We are looking for work in all literary genres that speaks to this arduousness and that defines peace not just as the absence of war, but as something dynamic in its own right. Possible categories of interest include: writing by peace activists and refugees, testimonies about immigration or international crises, travel writing, translations, and much more. An in-depth explanation can be found on our website. We will be accepting submissions from August 15 through October 15, 2016.

http://www.newmadridjournal.org/submissions/index.htm

 

Mangrove

Mangrove is the undergraduate literary journal at the University of Miami, publishing the best undergraduate fiction, poetry, nonfiction, art, & design in the country. Fiction and Nonfiction submissions should be no more than 20 pages. Mangrove considers nonfiction essays, memoirs, book reviews and criticism, interviews, and travel writing for publication. We also welcome original translations provided you have permission from the author. Book reviews should be no more than 500 words. We will read up to 5 poems per submission period.  Our current reading period ends Jan 13, 2017.

http://www.as.miami.edu/mangrove/

 

FIELD: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics

FIELD is published twice yearly, in spring and fall. We accept submissions August through April and usually reply within six weeks, though occasionally we may take longer. Please keep in mind that FIELD is one of the most selective small poetry journals in the country. FIELD accepts poetry only. Submit 2-6 poems at a time.

http://www.oberlin.edu/ocpress/submissions.html

 

West Branch

West Branch welcome submissions of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and translation. We read unsolicited manuscripts between August 1st and April 1st. Please send no more than six poems or thirty pages of prose. Poems should be saved and uploaded as a single file. Book reviews are typically arranged by assignment, and we publish only poetry reviews. If you are interested in writing reviews, please query with a sample.

https://www.bucknell.edu/WestBranchWired

 

Natural Bridge

The editors invite submissions of poetry, fiction, personal essays, and translations year-round.  Poetry submissions should be limited to one manuscript of up to six poems at one time. Prose submissions should be limited to one story or essay at a time. Our current reading period opened August 1^st and will remain open through April 30, 2017.

http://blogs.umsl.edu/naturalbridge/submit/

 

Colorado Review

We consider short fiction and personal essays with contemporary themes (no genre fiction or literary criticism). There is no specific word or page count; generally, however, Colorado Review prefers short stories and essays that are somewhere between 15 and 25 manuscript pages. Please submit one story or essay at a time. We consider poetry of any style. Please limit poetry submissions to no more than five poems at a time. Fiction & poetry manuscripts are read from August 1 to April 30; nonfiction manuscripts, however, are read year-round.

http://coloradoreview.colostate.edu/colorado-review/submit/

 

Exit 7

Exit 7 accepts unsolicited submissions of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry from August 1—May 1 of each year. We ask that your fiction and nonfiction submissions not exceed 5,000 words. Please send 3—6 poems.

http://westkentucky.kctcs.edu/Student_Life/Exit7/Submit.aspx

Printers Row

Every week, a new fiction story is released in the Printers Row app, a product of the Chicago Tribune. We are always looking for story submissions, which will be judged on a rolling schedule. Each story must be double-spaced, written in English, not previously published, and between 5,000-8,000 words.

https://printersrow.submittable.com/submit

 

Second Hand Stories

Second Hand Stories is an up-and-coming podcast where we plan to read short works of fiction submitted by our listener community. Our goals are twofold: we would like to give new and under-published writers an opportunity for their works to be heard, and we would like to bring fiction back to its original form as an oral tradition in an affordable alternative to audiobook services. We’re looking for any genre of fiction (no poetry) and our word limit is flexible (preferably between 2,000 and 6,000 words).

http://www.secondhandpodcast.com/guidelines/

 

Wisconsin Review

Wisconsin Review publishes both new and established authors of outstanding poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. We publish biannually in the spring and fall. Please limit yourself to 3-5 poems per submission. Any style will be considered, although we seek exceptional use of imagery and awareness of form. Please limit yourself to 15 pages of fiction and nonfiction, double-spaced with a 12-point font. Regarding fiction, standard or experimental styles will be considered, although we look for outstanding characterization and unique themes. We accept creative non-fiction and general interest non-fiction only.

http://wisconsinreview.uwosh.edu/submissions/

 

Split Rock Review

The reading period for our Fall 2016 issue and Poetry Chapbook Contest is August 1st-August 31st. Please send three to five poems in one Word document file (with a max of seven pages total per submission). Creative non-fiction and fiction should be double-spaced and no longer than 2500 words in length. You may submit one to three stories in one Word document file. Submit once per reading period.  We accept book reviews of poetry, non-fiction, fiction, and literary criticism from small, regional, university, and avant-garde presses. We prefer writers to review books that have been published in the past year.

http://www.splitrockreview.org/submit/

 

Waccamaw

Waccamaw accepts unsolicited submissions of poems, stories, and essays through August 31, 2016.  Authors should limit submissions to 3-5 poems, one story, or one essay (prose submissions preferably under 7,500 words). Please make only one submission in a single genre per reading period. Waccamaw is published online twice a year, in the fall and spring, from The Athenaeum Press at Coastal Carolina University.

http://waccamawjournal.com/submissions/

 

Chattahoochee Review “Off the Record”

Disappearing remarks. Invisible people. Music that isn’t there. Intuition. Gut. Unclaimed, unofficial, uncategorized. A record respects the broadest possible audience. Off the record, your audience awaits. What you don’t want to write. We want to read. Note the call in a cover letter. Deadline: September 15 or until the issue fills. Submit one story or up to three short-shorts (500-1,000 words each). TCR publishes excellent poetry of all types, including informal personal narratives, prose poems, and formal poems. Submit one essay or up to three shorter essays (500-1,000 words each).

http://thechattahoocheereview.gpc.edu/submissions.htm

 

LUMINA

Lumina is the literary magazine of the graduate writing program of Sarah Lawrence College. We accept poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and visual art submissions from everyone regardless of age, nationality, or school affiliation. For General Submissions, poets may submit up to three poems (60 lines maximum per poem), and prose writers may submit up to two pieces (5,000 words maximum per piece).  Submissions for Vol. XVI and Lumina Online Vol. 7 must be received by September 15, 2016.

http://luminajournal.com/submit/

 

Switchback

Switchback is an online publication of the MFA in Writing Program at the University of San Francisco. Please limit your prose submission to one story or essay at a time and make sure your work clocks in at or under 7500 words. Please submit no more than three poems. Switchback regularly publishes reviews of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry on our Web site. Deadline: November 02, 2016.

http://www.swback.com/call/

 

Beloit Fiction Journal

Our reading period is from August 1st to December 1st. We are open to literary fiction on any subject or theme. Stories may be from one to sixty pages in length, though longer pieces will have a more difficult time finding acceptance than shorter ones. We are always interested in new writers as well as established writers. Please send us one story at a time.

https://www.beloit.edu/bfj/submissions/

 

Washington Square Review

Washington Square is a nationally distributed literary journal publishing fiction and poetry by emerging and established writers. Edited and produced biannually by the students of the NYU Graduate Creative Writing Program.  Manuscripts are reviewed from August 1st through December 15th. Recent issues include new work by: Steve Almond, John Ashbery, Lydia Davis, E.L. Doctorow, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Terrance Hayes, Etgar Keret, Colum McCann, Paul Muldoon, D. A. Powell, Charles Simic, Zadie Smith, Amy Hempel. Send up to 5 poems or up to 20 pages of fiction

http://washingtonsquarereview.com/submit/

 

Ashland Creek Press nonfiction anthology: Writing for Animals

From Franz Kafka’s Report to the Academy to Karen Joy Fowler’s We Are Completely Beside Ourselves, animals have played a central role in literature. Increasingly, writers are playing a central role in advancing awareness of animal issues through the written word. And yet little has been written about the process of writing about animals—from crafting point of view to voice. Writers who hope to raise awareness face many questions and choices in their work, from how to educate without being didactic to how to develop animals as characters for an audience that still views them as ingredients. We hope to address these issues and more with a new collection of articles, by writers and for writers—but most of all, for the animals. We seek articles from authors and educators about the process of writing about animals in literature. Our focus is on including a mix of instructional and inspirational articles to help readers not only improve their work but be inspired to keep at it. Articles may be previously published and should not exceed 10,000 words. The deadline is January 3, 2017. Accepted submissions will receive a stipend of $100 plus a copy of the finished book upon publication.

http://www.ashlandcreekpress.com/about/submissions.html

A lot of great journals have opened their submission periods this week, making it a great time to send your work.  Beyond the venues listed here, check out the excellent list of journals published bi-monthly (usually) by Entropy: http://entropymag.org/where-to-submit-august-september-2016/.

The Rumpus – Assistant Poetry Editor Position

The Rumpus is looking for an Assistant Poetry Editor! Gain hands-on knowledge of the editing and publishing processes by working closely with a long-time Rumpus editor, and help to grow our Poetry section. We’re seeking applicants with a love of poetry alongside some prior experience, especially working with WordPress and Submittable, and a familiarity with our content and tone. The right person will be able to commit approximately 5-10 hours a week. Please note that all Rumpus editors work on a volunteer basis.

http://therumpus.net/2016/07/could-you-be-our-assistant-poetry-editor/

 

Barcelona Review

The Barcelona Review is presently accepting submissions for previously unpublished short fiction, articles and essays. We do not accept poetry submissions. Submit one story at a time for consideration to the editor. Word length: 4,500 words max.

www.barcelonareview.com

 

Smartish Pace

Print issues of Smartish Pace contain new poetry and translations of poetry. Our website contains book reviews, essays on poetry and interviews with poets. Submit no more than 6 poems. We will consider poems of any length, style and subject matter.

http://smartishpace.com/guidelines/

 

Gabby

Gabby is a literary journal dedicated to “talky” poems, “ultra-talk” poems, “meta” poems, epistolary poems, and the like. Tell us a story. Make us feel. We aim to publish three times each year: April, August, December. Poetry submissions are always open. We are interested in reviews of “talky” books, interviews with “talky” poets, personal essays about being “talky,” and craft essays about writing “talky” poems.

http://www.gabbyjournal.com/submit/

 

Gold Line Press Chapbook Competitions

This year’s chapbook judges are Viet Thanh Nguyen (fiction) and Sarah Vap (poetry). In January 2017 we will announce contest results by email, as well as on the Gold Line Press site. The winning chapbooks will be published in spring of that year. Each winner receives $500, publication of her/his perfect-bound chapbook with ISBN, and 10 contributor copies. Gold Line Press sends out 30 copies on behalf of winners to respected literary venues for review. We seek works of fiction that are purposefully planned as chapbooks: novellettes, carefully curated collections of vignettes or short short stories, or other projects that take the chapbook format as an instrumental element of their design. Excerpts of novels or short story collections will not be considered unless they form a sustained and individual project in their foreshortened form. For poets, we also recommend that manuscripts be cohesive and self-contained in the chapbook length. Manuscripts must be 20-30 pages in length for poetry entries, and 7,500-15,000 words for fiction entries (not including the title page and table of contents). All manuscripts must be received by AUGUST 31, 2016.

http://dornsife.usc.edu/goldlinepress/contest/

 

Dogwood: A Journal of Poetry and Prose

Dogwood is an annual national literary journal produced by the faculty in the Department of English at Fairfield University. The annual reading period for Dogwood is open now through September 5, 2016. During this period, we accept contest and non-contest submissions. We only consider anonymous submissions. Submit fiction or nonfiction up to 22 pages. Submit one, two, or three poems (max ten pages) all in one document.

https://dogwoodliterary.com/submissions/

 

WTAW Press Opens for Full-length Prose Manuscripts

WTAW Press, an independent publisher of literary books, seeks full-length books of prose for publication in2017. Building on the tradition of our award-winning reading series, Why There Are Words, we will publish voices that need to be heard, and welcome submissions from writers unpublished, extensively published, and in between. We want to publish books that show us more things on heaven and earth than we have dreamt of. Send your best literary fiction and non-fiction. We will do all we can to bring our books to the attention of the readers they deserve.  The current submission period runs June 15 through September 15, 2016. There is a $28 fee.

http://www.wtawpress.org/submissions

 

Raleigh Review

We are a national non-profit magazine of poetry, fiction, and art.  The editors are seeking poetry, flash fiction, and short fiction that is emotionally and intellectually complex without being unnecessarily ‘difficult.’  Send four to five poems in ONE file. We are looking for flash fiction up to 1,200 words. We consider short fiction from 1,200 to 7,500 words. Current reading period open through October 1, 2016.

http://www.raleighreview.org/Submission_Guidelines.html

 

Lunch Ticket

Lunch Ticket is the literary journal from the MFA community at Antioch University Los Angeles.  Our current reading period is open from now until October 31, 2016. We accept 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/

 

Ibis Head Review

The Ibis Head Review is a quarterly literary webzine, dedicated to the idea that poetry is a necessary aspect of the human experience & it should be appreciated by people of all backgrounds—not just poets. The Ibis Head Review is currently open to submissions for Volume 1 / Issue 2, which will be released on December 1st, 2016. Submit by October 31st in order to be considered for the issue. Poems of all forms and styles are accepted — from sonnets to free verse to haikus. The key here is two-fold: A clear display of the intention to create a beautiful sounding poem, and an economical use of well-chosen words of powerful meaning and description. There isn’t a limit to how many poems can be sent in a single submission, however, try to limit it to your best 1-3 pieces.

http://www.theibisheadreview.com/submissions.html

 

Cream City Review

We devote ourselves to publishing memorable and energetic fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and artwork which represent a broad range of creators with diverse, unique backgrounds. Both beginning and well-known writers are welcome. We are currently reading for our Fall/Winter Issue from now through November 1, 2016. For Fiction and Nonfiction, send fewer than twenty pages. We are interested in dynamic, well-crafted nonfiction, including creative journalism, personal essays, travelogues, flash, and polemics. We seek book reviews of any ccr-published genre and relevant author interviews. Please submit no more than five poems at a time

http://www.creamcityreview.org/submit/

 

Arts & Letters

Arts & Letters is a national literary journal operating out of the MFA program at Georgia College in Milledgeville, Georgia. One of the premier journals of the Southeast, Arts & Letters attracts young, fresh voices as well as established writers, publishing the likes of R.T. Smith, Denise Duhamel, Donald Hall, Bret Lott, Maxine Kumin, Sonja Livingston, Dinty Moore, Bob Hicok, Xu Xi, Lia Purpura, Mark Jarman, and David Kirby. Our reading period is from August 1st to January 31st.  We accept unsolicited submissions of Poetry (4-6 poems); Fiction manuscripts up to 25 pages; Flash Fiction manuscripts up to 1,000 words; Creative Nonfiction manuscripts up to 25 pages.

https://artsandletters.submittable.com/submit