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  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  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  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  Overview Are you a first or second-generation migrant, an asylum seeker, refugee, international student or international worker who has lived or currently lives in the UK? TogetherintheUK is hosting a ‘ Then & Now ’ writing competition focussing on your or your family’s migration story.  We want to hear about the traditions you carried with you or have grown up with, the gains and the losses, the moments of joy and challenge as you built your new life.  We want to hear about how you built your life in the UK:  how you helped shape your community, contributed to the economy in all kinds of ways through work and volunteering and how you or your family navigated living in a new country.  You can submit a poem or lyrics to a song, an essay or a short story. We have a competitio...

 Full details  General Guidelines We welcome work from writers who are working class or from working-class origins. All submissions must be the original work of the writer. We are interested in work of all lengths and in fiction, nonfiction, commentary, essays, and journalism. We are also interested in visual arts and photography submissions. Work will be published on  the Bee  website and considered for a forthcoming print edition. Any work submitted for consideration must not have been published online or in print previously. Agreement If we accept a piece for publication, you will be issued with an agreement for usage of the work. The agreement covers the following: that New Writing North (on behalf of  the Bee ) will retain the first publication rights on the work produced, and the non-exclusive right to use the work online and in print in perpetuity. We reserve the right to be involved in any future exploitation of the work. Payments We pay all of ...

 Full details  Alphabet Box is an international literary journal that features the best writers of original poetry, personal essays, flash fiction and short prose. All voices are heard. Hate is not. We award the Nin-Miller Prize, named in memory of Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller for their inspired, literary contributions and commitment to writing. We will award a minimum $100 USD honorarium upon selection as the Featured Writer and publication acceptance. Starting in 2025, there is a $4 administrative fee. We intend to award more in the future through self-funding and the “tips” you make here on our website that go directly to writers we feature . Submission guidelines Alphabet Box does not accept previously published work. We feature only original writing. We accept entries up to 900 maximum words total for poems, essays, prose, flash fiction and nonfiction in one submission. You may mix entries in the same submission file. For example, you may submit flash ...

  Full details  Read, write, and share feedback with peers in a safe and inclusive environment Explore a variety of writing prompts in genres such as poetry, flash fiction, sci-fi, memoir, and more Enter monthly writing competitions for cash prizes Improve your skills with resources and feedback from experts and peers  

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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  Triangular Prism is open for submissions for its inaugural issue, scheduled for April 2024. The submission period will end on the 15th of February, 2024. We are looking for literary essays that engage deeply with one or more specific films or other creations of visual sequential art, written with insight and care. We seek to publish writing that examines and calls attention to the distinctiveness, the importance, and the beauty of the artworks under discussion. We are not looking for any kind of critiques or reviews, historical overviews, or broad generalisations. GUIDELINES All submissions must be sent via the submissions management platform, linked below. Please note that, to submit, a fee of €2 is required. Submit through Duosoma. Essays should be strictly between 1000 and 4500 words and written in the English language. We strongly discourage the use of either footnotes or endnotes. All work must be...

 Full details  Submission Guidelines The Mantelpiece is open to unsolicited submissions of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. We consider all submissions for both our website and online magazine. Please send your work via email to submissions@themantelpiece.org All submissions must be in English and previously unpublished. Translations are welcome and should be accompanied by a copy of the original. Simultaneous submissions are allowed, as long as we are notified immediately if the manuscript is accepted for publication elsewhere.  You can download The Mantelpiece for free on our webpage to acquaint yourself with the material the magazine has published. Please indicate in the subject line of your email the following:  SECTION, Title of your work, and word count.  E.g.: FICTION - Here and Forever - 2400 words TRAVEL - China Moon - 3200 words FOOD & DRINK - Nouvelle Cuisine - 1500 words NON-FICTION - In Praise of Contemplation - 1840 words POETRY - 7 Haik...

 Full details  Contributor Information [Updated 12/12/23] Update: For our most up-to-date specific story, photo, and illustration needs, keep an eye on our Trails Discord server here . If we’re being completely frank, we don’t get outside enough to be able to write up all the stories filling Trails on our own—we’re too busy actually making the magazine, after all. That’s why we’re always interested in hearing story ideas from writers, photographers, artists, and other creatives like you.  Interested? The easiest way to get a sense of what the magazine is to read it and we'd encourage you to start there. But in addition to that, here’s what you need to know to pitch us.  What do (and don’t) we cover? Let’s start with the basics. The focus of Trails is on backpacking and other human/naturally-powered means of sleeping outdoors: bikepacking, canoe camping, even things like rafting or mountaineering are fair game (feel free to b...

 Full details  WRITE FOR US! Off Assignment is a literary magazine with a penchant for journeys and a fascination with strangers. We’re looking for writers who travel, poets who wander, essayists with a sense of place, reporters with swollen notebooks, and gourmands with street cart taste. We’re not here to guide vacations. We don’t cover spas or centennials. We have a taste for offbeat places. We care about voice and story. We want the writer on the page—sweating, tripping, and telling a tale. * We accept simultaneous submissions, as long as you immediately notify us that your piece has been accepted elsewhere. We are interested only in original essays; your work must not have been published elsewhere prior to submitting. SUBMISSION CATEGORIES "Letter to a Stranger" Who haunts you? We all harbor thoughts about the strangers at the edges of our lives. Write a letter to an unshakeable stranger you’ve met along the way, whether traveling across the world, the country, or down ...

 Full details Currently open for submissions in all categories General Principles Fee No Simultaneous submissions Yes Please let us know immediately if your story is accepted elsewhere Previously published works No Multiple submissions for Chill Subs members 3 per period Multiple submissionsfor non-members No Response time 1-3 months We appreciate your patience. Preparing your submission Formatting William Shunn's specifications Cover letter Welcome but not necessary Bio Under 100 words Fiction Nonfiction Interviews  

 Full details  Guidelines oteh nîkân  publishes writing by LGBTQ2S+ Indigenous writers year-round. We read submissions monthly and editorial decisions are communicated shortly thereafter.  When you submit, you’ll be asked to provide contact info, a short bio, and to designate community affiliation (i.e., to which First Nations, Metis, or Inuit community you belong). We allow for simultaneous submissions; if your work is accepted elsewhere, please notify us as quickly as possible. Genres Poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (including scholarly writing and criticism). Word count: Prose (fiction & non-fiction): up to 3000 words (one piece per submission). Scholarly writing and criticism are welcome and are considered non-fiction. Poetry: up to 1000 words per poem (up to 5 pages of poems).  Payment Prose: $300 CAD/per prose piece Poetry: $200 CAD/per poem Payment guidelines will ...

  Full details  FICTION What we're looking for: We publish speculative fiction that examines humanity's possible futures living with anthropogenic climate change. We prefer fiction with a hopeful outlook, but the occasional dystopia might fit too. While science is an important piece for solving the climate change puzzle, we challenge writers to also examine our existing social, cultural, political, and economic frameworks and envision new ones to help see us through to a better, more sustainable world. If your work does not feature climate change or environmental themes, please submit your work elsewhere. Our niche is very specific. Please see this interview at Six Questions For ...  if you'd like more details. What will be a harder sell: Yet another apocalyptic desert dystopia. Alien/god-like being intervenes and saves the world. We made this bed. We have to fix it. Stories in which we abandon the planet. Stories without a narrative through line, dramatic...