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Planet Scumm

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 Full details  Planet Scumm accepts submissions from writers across the world. (Our HQ is a roving meteor-sized space station—Earth’s borders mean nothing to us. We want to hear from writers of every race, nationality, and gender identity. WHAT TO SUBMIT Hard sci-fi, soft sci-fi, sci-fi that melts in your mouth-brain not your hand-brain Speculative fiction, weird fiction, slipstream Basically anything that pleases Scummy, our megaphone-toting slime buddy, will be considered for entry to the interstellar archive aboard Scummy’s saucer HOW TO SUBMIT   Include submissions as a .doc or .docx attachment to PlanetScummSubmissions@gmail.com along with a brief cover letter in the email body. Please attach only your story ( no images, do not put your story in the body text of the email ). Stories, or collections of flash fiction, should be no more than 5,000 words in length, and submitted in standard manuscript format . Submit only one previously unpublished short story or flas...

Deadlands

 Full details  Guidelines This is the dead land This is cactus land Here the stone images Are raised, here they receive The supplication of a dead man’s hand Under the twinkle of a fading star. ~T.S. Eliot Choose Your Adventure: Fiction Reprints Nonfiction Poetry Art How to Submit Fiction, Editor E. Catherine Tobler The Deadlands exists in liminal spaces between life, death, and elsewhere. We are looking for speculative fiction that concerns itself with death–but also everything death may involve. A ghost in a shadowed wood. An afterlife discovered through a rusted door. An abandoned house in the middle of a haunted field. A skeletal figure moving with intent toward something unseen. Death personified. Burials in troubled lands. A raised scythe against a clouded sky. Memento mori. The rivers of the dead. The sprawling underworlds beneath our feet. The Deadlands would love to see stories from ...

Grub Street Publishing

 Full details  Submissions We happily accept unsolicited manuscripts from first time and accomplished authors. However, please note, we ONLY publish books on Military Aviation and Cookery. For Military Aviation submissions please email the following to: milhis@grubstreet.co.uk Synopsis Sample chapter Brief Author Biography For Cookery submissions please email the following to: food@grubstreet.co.uk Contents page Up to 10 sample recipes Brief Author Biography We can’t acknowledge receipt of submissions, so please do not request one. We try to reply to all submissions within three months  but as we receive a lot of submissions, and our primary focus has to be to publish those authors to whom we’ve already made a commitment, at busy times this can be longer, so please be patient. If you would prefer to send you submission by post, please clearly mark for the attention of the Military or Cookery Editor and include a SAE to; Grub Street Publishing, 4 Rainh...

Writing in Practice: The Journal of Creative Writing Research

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  Full details  NAWE's Writing in Practice aims to explore the nature of the art of writing, highlighting current academic thinking and practice, and reflecting on this with an international outlook. The journal encourages the investigation of a broad range of approaches to practice research, focusing on critical discussion of creative process, and critical examination of research contexts, and Creative Writing’s history and pedagogy. Creative Writing itself is welcomed when integral to an article. Submissions should be 4-10,000 words long and include an abstract of up to 200 words. A biographical note of up to 200 words should be provided in a separate document. Nowhere in the submission should your name, initials or any other indication of your identity be given as all submissions will be anonymously peer reviewed. Before submitting your work, please ensure that you read the style guide, downloadable to the right. Ensure your submitted document is anonymised. S...

Lunch Ticket

 Full details  GENERAL SUBMISSION  INFORMATION  Lunch Ticket ’s 21st Issue comes out in June 2022. The submission window for Lunch Ticket 's issue #21 is February 1st to March 1st . The submission window for Amuse-Bouche is January 15th to April 15th. Our submission window for Visual Art is rolling. We review VA submissions all year. Submitting to Lunch Ticket is always free. There is no age requirement to submit to our magazine. Submissions from individuals younger than 18 are acceptable and encouraged. We welcome multilingual submissions in all genres. For all genres, contests, and Amuse-Bouche you will receive a selection notification. We will contact you no matter the result of your submission. Lunch Ticket is an online literary and visual art journal, published in June and December. We are proud to host two prizes, the Diana Woods Memorial Award in Creative Nonfiction, and the Gabo Prize for Literature in Translation & Multilingual Texts. We publis...

Pamphlet Submission Guide

 Full details  Pamphlet Submission Guidelines Neon Books is currently OPEN to pamphlet submissions Neon Books publishes a selection of paper broadsides and pamphlets, which are sent out for free with print orders. Some of the projects we’ve published so far include: A poem disguised as a receipt A miniature timeline of the past and future A concertina booklet of poems about ballet A series of (tiny) microfiction anthologies On this page you’ll find all the information you need to submit a pamphlet you’ve written. Before submitting your work… We’d strongly recommend reading a few issues of Neon Literary Magazine , or ordering a chapbook from our shop. Doing so will give you the clearest possible idea of what we publish, and allow you to determine which of your works might be the best fit. You can also download (for free) our existing pamphlets . Please do consider supporting the press. Pamphlets and broadsides are distributed to...

Poetica Chrisiti

 Full details  See site for normal submissions and competitions.