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  Full details  WANT TO BE A PART OF FUTURE RUSTICA EDITIONS? Now’s your chance! We’re accepting submissions for the next edition of RUSTICA. Whether you’re a visual artist or a writer, we want YOU to send us works that you think would suit future releases. If you’re interested, please send .pdfs/.jpgs of your work to rusticajournal@gmail.com . Our team will review your materials and let you know if you’re eligible to be featured. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Rustica is a print and online literary and arts journal. We accept writing from any genre, including poetry, essays, literary criticism, fiction, dramatic writing, and translation. For visual art, our tastes are similarly broad but rigorous; accepted work will be able to communicate with our readers from within the confines of a trade paperback-sized piece of paper. Our submission period for Rustica 3, which is being released fall of 2024, is now open. Writers wishing to be considered for...

  Full details  Pulp Asylum  is currently open to fiction submissions .  Please note the following guidelines:      No reprints.  Previously unpublished work only.  Original short fiction up to 3000 words.    No multiple or simultaneous submissions, please.    Payment is flat rate, $15 (US) payable via PayPal only .  I am buying first electronic rights and exclusive use of the story for six months from the publication date.    Submit your work in standard MS format via email as a .doc or .pdf attachment to PulpAsylum@outlook.com.  Your subject line should be ASYLUM STORIES [your name, your story title].   Treat the body of your email as your cover letter: keep it informal and brief, just a bit about yourself, your publishing history, and the URL of your author site if you have one.  ​​ Response time: 30 days  ​ I publish a variety of traditional pulp genre...

  Full details    Port Crow Press is open to accepting submissions of art, poetry and short fiction.   Please keep in mind that we are a place for whimsy, the dark and dreary, but  we do not dabble in things like excessive gore and the obscene. ​ We publish on an ongoing basis, and do not consider multiple submissions or previously published work. Please give the editing team time before inquiring about submissions. If it has been 3 weeks since your submission and you haven't heard anything, you are welcome to reach out to us for an update. ​ ​ If interested, simply tie your manuscript to the leg of any crow (be gentle, please), and it'll arrive within a couple of days. Promise. ​ ​ ​ If you've run out of yarn or twine, or you simply cannot wrestle a crow down long enough to attach your art to its leg, just go on an d shoot an email to: portcrowpresslibrarian @gmail.com ​ ​ ​ Please address all submission emails to the crows or ed...

  Full Details   f you are from a group or community that has to fight especially hard to have your creative work seen/heard, we'd love you to submit to us. ​ ​ ​ Previously unpublished work only. ​ ​ One submission per person per submission period. ​ ​ ​ Please submit in  one  of the following categories: short story up to 4000 words​; creative nonfiction up to 4000 words; flash fiction up to 1000 words; poetry up to 3 pages. This can be between 1 and 3 poems. Please begin each poem on a new page; work in translation up to the word/page limit of the relevant category; visual art/photography up to 2 pieces (in a single document). ​ ​ If you exceed the relevant word count or submit too many pieces, your work will not  be considered.​ ​ ​ ​ If you are submitting work-in-translation, you must first gain permission from the relevant publisher. Please include the text in its original language. ​ ​ ​ Your wor...

  Full details  We are currently open for multiple publication opportunities for fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and art. We nominate for Pushcart, Best of the Net, Best New Poets, and pay $60 per piece of writing for our seasonal issues and $25 for Micro Monday Features. Details on all opportunities and the forms to submit are on Submittable . Work must be original and previously uncurated. We gladly accept pieces that have previously only appeared on personal blogs and/or social media. Please reference this thoughtful article by Tim Green on curation versus publication .   We pay $60 per piece for writing published in seasonal issues ($75 for two pieces). We pay $25 for pieces appearing in our “Micro Monday” segment and $50 for artwork used on the cover of our seasonal issues. For international submissions, we are only able to send money via PayPal. There is a $3 fee for submissions for our Spring and Autumn issues which allows us to use Sub...

 Full details  Woodhall Press welcomes agented and un-agented manuscript submissions.  We have published emerging writers, poet laureates, and New York Times  best-selling authors. We are interested in works that surprise, delight, and shatter norms. See below for full details. Manuscript Submissions Woodhall Press is committed to publishing diverse voices and welcomes submissions from underrepresented writers. For Connecticut Literary Anthology Submissions, see above. Our submissions are open for all genres. ​ Poetry one-page pitch letter  Include 3-5 poems with your pitch letter reading fee: none send pitch & poems within the text of the email to:  submissions@woodhallpress.com .  ​ ​ Fiction include a one-page pitch letter in the body of your email reading fee: none format: within the text of an email sent to submissions@woodhallpress.com .  ​ Nonfiction one-page pitch letter reading fee: none form...

  Full details  Creature accepts both agented and unsolicited submissions of feminist horror, dark speculative fiction, women-driven thrillers, spooky fantastical fiction, literary fiction, or genre-defying prose. We are looking for books that celebrate fluidity—the ability to cross boundaries and inhabit more than one category at once. Our definition of feminist horror is broad and inclusive, and we welcome writing that pushes boundaries. We are interested in: unreliable narrators, unlikeable female characters, the monstrous, your nightmares, dystopias, psychological suspense, unraveling minds, unraveling social constructs, possession, intersectionality, metafiction, dark nights, and writing on sexuality/the body, gender, race, class, disability, technology, religion, and anything and everything that makes our spines tingle. If you are an agent, please email directly at editors@creaturehorror.com . If you are a writer or author, please send your work during our op...

  Full details  Rowan Prose Publishing was founded in 2023 and launched in January 2024 to be a  unique  publishing experience. Who else knows the readers  better than those who write books themselves?            Large publishing houses have dominated the market with titles they pick, and for years, those were the  only options. But then, the indie boom happened, giving a voice  and opportunity to not only authors, but to readers, too.         However, the book world is saturated with titles. It's inundating. How does one stand out among the fray? Who helps indies get seen? When a traditional publishing contract has run out, what do those authors do with their books once they've left the shelves? What about authors who want the cushion of a publisher, yet the freedom of self-publishing?       That's exactly what Rowan Prose was created for. We bring  a fresh approach t...

  Full details  World Building Our Definition World building in a story is about how the author or writer (in the context of games) is able to create a sense of the setting, scene and character of their fiction in the mind of their audience. It is about reaching out to the imaginations of others and creating a world for them to explore whilst engaging with the text, as well as afterwards. Good worlds linger in the mind, they spark ideas and encourage people to dream. Why The Aldiss Award Throughout his career Brian Aldiss, Science Fiction Grandmaster, first president of the British Science Fiction Association, and creator of worlds, helped nurture the creative spirit of modern fiction that is alive and well today. In conjunction with what would have been his centenary year and with the blessing of the Aldiss Literary Estate, this new prestigious award will help triumph this special skill within today’s cultural nebula, and embraces gaming as well as litera...

  Full details  The Irene Adler Prize: A $1,000 Scholarship for Women Writers Writing has given me a rich and exciting life. I’ve traveled the world from Sweden to South Africa, from the Golden Globes to the Olympic women’s hockey finals. I’ve photographed a mother polar bear and her cubs and profiled stars like ABBA, Jennifer Garner and Katarina Witt. And I couldn’t have done it without women. I’ve been very fortunate, and it’s time for me to give back. With the Irene Adler Prize, I’m awarding a $1,000 scholarship to a woman pursuing a degree in journalism, creative writing, or literature at a recognized post-secondary institution. From 2017 to 2022, the annual essay competition featured U.S. and Canadian entrants exclusively. Currently, the competition is open to entrants worldwide, and up to two $250 honorable mentions will be also awarded. My mother is a journalist and my sister works in publishing. The editors who gave me my big breaks with the New York Tim...

 Full details  The Rialto working in association with the RSPB , BirdLife International , Cambridge Conservation Initiative and The University of Leeds Poetry Centre. Poems are invited that deal with any aspect of nature and place – these terms will be given a wide interpretation by the judge Helen Mort. Deadline 1st April 2025. Prizes 1st prize – £1000 2nd prize – £500 3rd prize – £250   Judge Helen Mort is a poet, novelist and non fiction writer. Her poetry collections Division Street, No Map Could Show Them and The Illustrated Woman are published by Chatto & Windus. Her memoir A Line Above The Sky won the Boardman Tasker Prize for mountain literature and the Banff Grand Prize in Canada. She’s a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Professor of Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University. Photo: Emma Ledwith Photography, 2023.       Submitting your p...

 Full details  Competition Overview The 2024/2025 (12th) competition will run for 42 weeks. Every Tuesday at 12pm (Irish time) from 9th April 2024 – 28th January 2025, five words will be posted on this competition page. Entrants will have one week to compose and submit one or more poems which include all five words given for that week. The winners & shortlist are announced around the first week of March. Prize A prize of 750 euros will be awarded to the winner, plus 500 euros for second place and 250 euros for third place. These three, if available will be invited to read at Ó Bhéal’s eighteenth anniversary (hybrid) event, on Monday the 14th of April 2025. Should winners be able to attend in person, then an additional travel fee of 100 euro plus B&B accommodation will be provided for this. The overall winner also receives a physical award, hand-crafted by acclaimed glass artist (and poet) Michael Ray . The shortlisted poems and winning entry will a...

 Full details  A writing competition for 14 to 30s from or based in Yorkshire, the nearby north & midlands Poetry | Flash Fiction | Stories Midnight 23rd Feb 2025 Age Categories: 14 – 16 | 17 – 19 | 20 – 30 [Individual & group/classes entries welcome] Hive Young Writers’ Competition is open to young people, aged 14 to 30, with a home or term address in the north/midlands  (as defined on this  map )  Whether stories or poetry (or both) are your thing, you can enter up to 2 pieces of work at any time before midnight 23rd Feb 2025. There’s no set theme (the competition is completely open), we’re just looking for your best work. But we also want to offer some resources for those who might be looking for inspiration and guidance to help get you started (see below). (Join our mailing list on our blog page here to get a reminder about the deadline a few weeks before). Inspiration If you’re after inspiration for either competition, to get you wri...

 Full details 60 lines maximum The Plaza Prizes are bigger and better in 2025. We have the best judges in the world and the cash prizes aren’t too shabby either. You could win £4000 / $5000, and publication, for your poem. We will nominate the winner for The Forward Prize (worth £1000 / $1200). Our 2025 judge is an incredibly powerful poet: Pulitzer Prize-winner, Natalie Diaz. Natalie’s Postcolonial Love Poem won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, was a finalist for the National Book Award, and was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize. Her first book, When My Brother Was an Aztec , was winner of an American Book Award. She is a MacArthur Foundation Fellow, a Lannan Literary Foundation Fellow, a Native Arts and Culture Foundation Fellow, and a former Princeton University Hodder Fellow. Natalie was awarded the Princeton Holmes National Poetry Prize and is a member of the Board of Trustees for the United States Artists, where she is an alumnus of the Ford Fellowship....

  Full details  OPEN TO POEMS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD DEADLINE 31 JANUARY 2025 We are pleased to announce that our annual Open Poetry Competition is now open for entries. It will be judged this year by Kit Fan . Kit Fan’s third poetry collection The Ink Cloud Reader (Carcanet, 2023) was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Prize. His earlier collections are As Slow As Possible (Arc Publications, 2018) and Paper Scissors Stone (Hong Kong University Press, 2011).  His first novel is Diamond Hill (Dialogue Books, 2021). He reviews regularly for The Guardian and TLS. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Non-Executive Board Director of the Author’s Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS). The deadline for entries is 31st January 2025 As in previous years, we offer seven prizes: 1st Prize: £1000 2nd Prize: £300 3rd Prize: £100 4th Prize: 4 x £50 Entry fee : £5 per poem; or, for 3 or more poems, ...

 Full details  We are open for submissions! After the success of our July-August 2024 submissions window, we are happy to announce that Dithering Chaps is now permanently open for submissions. For more on this, and to find out about our shortlisted authors, please read our September 2024 blog . Here’s the plan. We will be publishing two poetry chapbooks each year. All submissions received by our two cut-off dates, at the end of March and September, will be considered for our next available publication slot. For example, all submissions received between now and March 2025 will be considered for our late 2025 publication slot. All submissions received between April and September 2025, will be considered for our early 2026 slot. And so on. What we are looking for Dithering Chaps is all about the poetry. However, we’re pretty flexible about what that means. It’s the words that count for us, as much as the form. Whether you craft sonnets, prose poems or even poetic flash fi...