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  Full details  DETAILS $7,000 IN CASH AWARDS!   Literary competition categories: Fiction —Short stories only (2,500 words maximum) Nonfiction —Article or essay (2,500 words maximum) Poetry —(Up to three poems per entry, not to exceed five pages total per entry) One-Act Play —(Professional format required; limited to fifteen pages, double-spaced) Deadline: Entries must be postmarked by March 1, 2026. Entrants will be notified by e-mail or by postcard (included with entry form) when entries are received. Permission: By entering, winners grant permission to the Morris Museum of Art for publication or readings related to the competition and awards ceremony. Who can enter: Writers ages 18 and older who reside in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Washington D.C. Entry fees: $15 per entry for fiction, nonfiction, one-act play, and poetry . (For poetry, o...

  Full details  The Letter Review Prize – Now Open The Letter Review Prize is an internationally celebrated event, offered every three months in the categories of Short Fiction , Nonfiction, Poetry , and Books . We publish our winners, and award over $16,000 USD annually to writers, meaning our prize is among the highest paying literary prizes administered by a literary journal in the world. Enter Here Letter Review emerges as a hallowed space where words bleed, mend, and soar. Within its pages, we find not just tales, but the delicate pulse of memories, interwoven with the age-old craft of storytelling and vulnerability. To have my voice cradled in such a sacred place is a serenade to the moonlit hours where prose meets poetry. A profound honor. The Letter Review stands as a monument of writing wisdom and talent. Being part of this mosaic of narrative and verse is a true honor. Frederick Joseph : two-time New York Times bestselling author, activ...

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  All submitting authors should fully read and understand our below guidelines, and submissions sent to us that do not follow the guidelines (bio, synopsis, manuscript/pitch, correct email, Word doc only) will be deleted, unread. We feel we need to take this seriously as it is for the author’s benefit to put trust in us, as your publisher. If a potential author fails to read and follow basic submission guidelines, it doesn’t give us trust that the same author will fully read their contract. Here at SRL Publishing, we welcome submissions from all minority groups and stories which portray characters from minority groups. We understand there’s an uplift of agencies and publishers asking writers to identify their race/sexual preference etc at the top of their submission, but we don’t . We believe this makes writers feel uncomfortable and puts publishers and agents at risk of discrimination. We would rather look at submissions blindly. We encourage our ...

  Full details  We are currently accepting submissions for prescriptive non-fiction manuscripts that were written from a state of presence. Before submitting a proposal to us, please explore our library to get a sense for our style and the types of books we like to publish. Free excerpts from our books are available in our sample library linked in the navigation bar above. Please type your cover letter and author bio in the body of the email, and attach all other materials as a Word document (.doc or .docx) , not PDF or ODT. Materials submitted as links to an external hosting site such as Google Drive or Dropbox will be discarded. Your submission should include the following: Cover letter, including your contact information Brief author biography including the author’s credentials Synopsis of the work Brief market analysis, including an overview of the intended audience (be specific: no book is truly for "everyone") as well as the competition (i.e.,...

  Full details  American Chordata is a literary and arts magazine based out of Brooklyn, NY. Our annual print magazine is published in the Fall.  Submissions in Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, and Translation are accepted from January 15th to March 15th. Simultaneous submissions are permitted, as long as we are notified immediately if the manuscript is accepted elsewhere. Writers will be notified of a decision by June 1. Art and Photography submissions are accepted year-round. Artists will be notified if they have been selected for a Fall issue by September 1.  We invite you to subscribe for an idea of what we like, and to check us out on Instagram @americanchordata and Twitter @americhord .      

  Full details  Send us skillfully written fiction, poetry and non-fiction pieces that are brief, humorous and engaging, with the emphasis on wit, word play, absurdity and inspired nonsense.  Word limits: 200-1000.  We’re looking for fiction, nonfiction and poetry that is founded on wit, humour, puns, absurdity and irony. Put away the sledgehammer, the cliches, the tired tropes and the nastiness. Every piece accepted in a given month is automatically entered into that month's competition and is eligible for one of 3 monetary prizes for that month.  Submissions to:  https://duotrope.com/duosuma/submit/witcraft-064wz Could you also please add a new Listing; Witcraft Annual Humour Competition This is a competition dedicated to skillful writing that is brief, humorous and engaging. The emphasis is on wit, word play, absurdity and inspired nonsense. Whether your work is designed to raise a smile or a belly laugh, we want pieces ...