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Full details    Please submit one humor poem during August 15, 2025-April 1, 2026 Prizes: First Prize: $2,000 plus a two-year gift certificate from our co-sponsor, Duotrope  (a $100 value) Second Prize: $500 Third Prize: $250 Honorable Mentions: 10 awards of $100 each Top 13 entries published online Submit online. No fee to enter. Judge: Jendi Reiter, assisted by Lauren Singer. One poem only, please. Length limit: 250 lines maximum. No restriction on age of author. Both unpublished and previously published work accepted. Authors from all countries eligible except Iran, North Korea, Crimea, Russia, and Belarus (due to US government restrictions). This is a contest for humor poems, not serious poems. Serious poems will not be judged. The poem you submit should be in English. Inspired gibberish is also accepted ( example ). In general, poems written with the aid of a text-generating AI such as ChatGPT are not eligible. However, if you have employed an A...

 Full details  The Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize 2025/26 OPEN TO SUBMISSIONS Winning story £2500 | shortlist £200 | longlist £50 book vouchers + subscription Key information and Dates ——— Entry cost: £11 (plus 200 low-earner free entries ) ——— CLOSING DATE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 8 November 2025 ——— For full information (including prize announcements and our judges), head here ——— For our most COMMONLY ASKED QUESTIONS , head here ——— For full terms and conditions , head here ——— to ente...

  Full details  The Rebecca Swift Foundation and Fly on the Wall Press have joined forces to invite submissions for a powerful new anthology celebrating the complexity, resilience, and creativity of women’s lives today. Curated by acclaimed poet and critic Jennifer Wong, the anthology will feature poetry and creative non-fiction by twelve UK-based women poets, from emerging voices to established names. Woman, Mapped will explore the journey of becoming a woman: the joys, the pain, and the defining moments that shape us. Works will be selected on the basis of originality, voice and craft. Bringing together poems and essays that poignantly map out each stage in a woman’s life. The aim is to curate a collection that scans the breadth of lived experiences across identities, cultures, and generations. Editor Jennifer Wong said: “I’m thrilled to be working with the Rebecca Swift Foundation on this anthology. We’re committed to creating space for a ...

Full details  Good news from What Books Press: We now set aside certain times of the year as open submission periods. The first thing to do is to visit  our Submittable page  to see if we are currently accepting submissions.  If we are, send us a query letter, along with a sample of 10 to 20 pages. We are especially intrigued by works that challenge and hybridize genres, that play with convention, that make the reader sit up at vivid passages. Additionally, the majority of our authors are, like What Books Press, Californian, and we always take a keen interest in work that originates in, mirrors, fantasizes on, disassembles, et cetera, our special left coast circumstances. Please consider submitting if this geographical and cultural dimension of the press resonates with your own circumstances. Whether our submission period is open right now or not, be sure to click the catalogue button on the left and go through our list in order to fine-tune your underst...

 Full details  Submissions will be responded to within three to four months, if not sooner. There are no reading fees. Accepted pieces will be compensated as follows: $10 a story $10 a poem Payment will be made upon publication and processed through PayPal, CashApp, or Venmo, whichever is preferred. Please include which method of payment you prefer in your submission. If you live in a country that does not accept these as forms of payment, we will attempt to mail you cash or a check. Submissions are open to humans and other life forms of any nationality or planet of residence. Stories should be science fiction and/or horror (preferably both) and can be of any length, although we tend to accept shorter pieces. We also are looking for pieces that are more on the experimental and weirder side of the horror/science fiction spectrum. Please send one story at a time. Please include the genre of your story in your submission. Poems can be any length but the pieces you submit hav...

  Full details I am open to a variety of genres and subject matter. The submission does NOT have to be about teaching or learning to be accepted in Teach. Write. I also welcome student writing. It is in your best interest to be familiar with the type of work that I publish. Please see the current issue or read past editions in the archives section of the website. No previous publication experience is necessary. I am looking for work in the following categories: Flash Fiction, any theme or genre except erotica, extremely violent pieces or those laden with profanity. Under 1,000 words Short Fiction, any theme or genre, 1,000-5,000 words, ditto on the exceptions Poetry, any theme or genre (note exceptions above)–up to 100 lines (limit submissions to three poems, please) Creative non-fiction–up to 2,000 words (same exceptions as those above) Short dramas or screenplays–10 pages of dialogue or less (same exceptions) Write Your Own–writing or poetry inspired by your own wri...

 Full details  About submissions We accept submissions from individuals who belong to the queer, trans, and/or gender variant communities. All info about our current calls for entry, including submission guidelines, can be found on the linked page for each call. Please only send submissions via Duosuma unless you have been specifically given instructions to do otherwise. If you have accessibility concerns, please reach out and we’ll make every effort to accommodate your submission. For written work, we offer a handful of optional add-ons related to feedback and expedited response times. Due to the volume of submissions we receive, we are unable to provide feedback on submissions unless it has been selected and paid for at the time of submission. We always accept reprints if you have the rights to give them, including work published on personal blogs, websites, and social media. Also, in the case of web portfolios, Patreon & similar services, and social media, we don’t...

  Full details  Advice for authors The limited number of new titles appearing on the Heart of Albion web site may give the impression I am not commissioning many new titles. This is not true! While economic matters are generally challenging I am being more selective than usual about what I take on. But clearly I need to publish new books to keep going! Heart of Albion titles are always written in an 'accessible' style, although this does not mean 'dumbed down'. When commissioning titles I send out an 'Advice to authors' document that outlines the preferred ways to develop ideas; guidance on the finer details of 'style', etc.; and otherwise makes the transition from your MS to final typeset as smooth as possible. Do you think you have an idea for a book or booklet that Heart of Albion might publish? Well, before posting all 500 pages of your manuscript, please think about the following topics: Is the subject matter non-fiction and ai...

  Full details  Submissions Thank you for your interest in The Quarto Group. Each of our imprints has its own editorial focus and fits into one of the categories below. Please take a moment to determine where your book best fits. Submitting to the category will send your idea to multiple imprints. We will review your submission as soon as possible and will contact you if we would like to discuss it further. Due to the high volume of submissions we receive, we are unable to personally respond unless we are interested in pursuing the project. If you have not heard from us within three months of submitting your project, please assume we decided it was not the right fit for our publishing program. ...

 Full details  What We Want Science fiction or SF-tinged literary fiction stories and novelettes ranging anywhere from 2,000 to 15,000 words. Although any science fiction subgenre is fair game, our tastes lean towards slipstream, cyberpunk, post-apocalypse, and anything with a little taste of the bizarre. FF prefers character-driven stories, and often skews towards quiet, reflective pieces. If the primary tone of your story is one of high adventure or humour, it’s probably not the right fit for FF. That said, quality always outstrips genre preference in terms of importance, so feel free to send us anything that even vaguely resembles science fiction. We don’t accept reprints. Work written by humans. We have no interest in AI-written stories. We’re always interested in publishing work by marginalized voices. If that’s you, and you feel comfortable doing so, please call this out in your cover letter. What We Pay We pay 4 cents (CAD) per word, up to a maximum...

  Full details  McNidder & Grace Limited was established in 2011 by publisher Andy Peden Smith and he now works with his partner Caroline Peden Smith running the business together.  Both Andy and Caroline are publishers with an extensive background and experience in publishing high quality and award-winning books. We specialise in non-fiction and fiction titles for adults. With a particular emphasis on popular culture, our non-fiction list includes books on photography, art, music, biography, history, country pursuits and more recently health and well-being. We are also very proud of our popular Railway Journeys in Art Poster to Poster series, a nine-volume set of engaging, beautifully illustrated railway travel books in collaboration with the National Railway Museum and Swann Galleries, New York.  Our fiction list concentrates primarily on Crime and Thrillers to include the best-selling Torquil MacLeod Malmö series.   

 Full details  ** Please put the anthology you're submitting to, and the word count of the story in the subject line of the email. **   ** If your story is a reprint, please put in parentheses the previous publication/year under the byline in your document. **   Payment for accepted stories will be $5 USD per 1000 words for all current anthologies. Payments occur via PayPal, so please have a PayPal account into which we can pay you. We will also provide you with a digital copy (epub and pdf) of the finished manuscript. (Paperback and hard cover editions will be available via Amazon.)   We're looking for speculative fiction across all anthologies (unless otherwise specified). That includes everything from high fantasy to hard scifi and anything in between.   We do accept reprints, simultaneous submissions, and multiple submissions, though these will slow down our response time.   Story lengths should be anywhere from flash-length to abou...

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 Full details  iving entries from writers from far and wide. Details Our Sponsor About the Judge   Prizes Who Can Submit? Submission Requirements IMPORTANT: No Identifying Information Submit Online Submit via Postage Competition Contact Info Submission form will populate AFTER payment is received Submit Story (2500 word limit) > Submit Story (5000 word limit) > Details Judge :  Kate Nash, Literary Agent Sponsor :  World Privilege Plus Entry fee :  £10 for stories up to 2,500 words. £15 for stories up to 5,000 words Word Limit :  2,500 (£10), 5,000 (£15) Deadline (Closing Date) :  12 Midnight GMT, Sunday 30 th  November 2025 The shortlist will be announced on Friday 27 th  March 2026 Winners will be announced on Friday 10 th  April 2026. Writers on low incomes are encouraged to email  hello@inkspotpublishing.com  and will be able to enter their stories for free. Proof of status may be required. About the Spo...

 Full details  The Women’s Prize for Fiction is awarded every year to the woman who, in the opinion of the judges, has written the best full-length novel that is eligible for the Prize. The 2025 prize was awarded to The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden. UK publishers can submit titles for consideration first published between 1 April 2025 and 31 March 2026. Please see the full Terms and Conditions  of entry for more information. The submissions form will close at  5pm BST, Friday 29 August 2025 .   WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FIC TION 2026 Terms and conditions of entry1 WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2026 Terms and conditions of entry KEY DATES AND DEADLINES Monday 7 July 2025 Submissions open. Entry forms are online at: https://womensprize.com/submissions-fiction-2026/ JULY 7 DEADLINE: Friday 29 August 2025 Complete online entry forms for submissions in all categories including call-in suggestions. AUGUST 29 AUGUST 29 OCTOBER 31 NOVEMBER 28 NEED HELP? If you have any queri...

  Full details  The 2025 Solstice Nature Prize for Writing is now open until 31st October 2025 A nature-themed creative writing prize for 7- to 25-year-olds Four age categories: 7-11, 12-14, 15-17 and NEW category for 18-25s. ABOUT THE SOLSTICE WRITING PRIZE The Solstice Writing Prize is a national, annual writing competition for young writers, which invites young people to take a closer look at the natural world, explore their relationship with it, or examine the challenges it faces, and write short stories, poems, and thought-provoking blogs in response.   In 2025, we’re looking for entries about any aspect of nature and offered prizes for winners in four age groups: 7-11, 12-14, 15-17 and 18-25 years. With regional prizes available in each age group for young writers who ...

 Full details  he Ironclad Creative Short Story Competition is for both published and unpublished writers. Prize winning and shortlisted writers will be published in our latest anthology due in December . We are looking for short stories that respond in any way to the PROMPT: SWITCH We accept any length of story up to 6k words . We’re looking for writers who have exciting voices and can move us - that can happen in any genre of prose. You don't need to use the word SWITCH in the title or the main body of the work, but you can. We do expect your work to be inspired by the word in some way. Any way. NOTE: if you write romance, please make it ‘closed door’ (not explicit erotica). Sadly, we’re not accepting screenplays, plays or poetry for this competition.  DEADLINE: 23:59GMT - 31st October 2025 ENTRY : £9 per story PRIZES: First Place writer will be offered a prize of £100 and publication Second Place writer will be offered a prize of £50 and publication Third Pl...