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August 12, 2020 | Blog |  5 Comments

Calls for Submissions – August 2020

By Bridget Lillethorup & Stephanie Buesinger

Photo by Samantha Gades on Unsplash

Welcome to our new Calls for Submissions page. Here, we’ll feature new publication opportunities for all our Mama readers. Look for updated posts each month.

If there is a ❤️ next to a call, that means the magazine or press is specifically looking for mother writers. We ❤️ all our Mamas!

Literary Mama is always open for submissions. Please check out this page for more information on our submission process and editorial slant.


Contests


The Master’s Review – Fiction – $3000 prize – $20 fee – 8/30

Blue Mesa Review Contests – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction – $500 prize and publication – $12 fee – 8/31

Gotham Writers – Silver Linings Contest – Nonfiction – free Gotham class as prize – 8/31

Public Poetry Contest – Poetry – 8/31

WOW! Flash Fiction Contest – Flash Fiction – $400 prize – $10 fee – 8/31

Black Warrior Review 2020 Contests – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash – $1000 prize – $15-25 fee – 9/1

PANK – Big Book Contests – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction – $1500 prize and book launch – $25 fee – 9/8

Flash Fiction Editor’s Choice Award – $1000 Prize


Anthologies


PortAtMo 2020 Anthology – Art, Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Photography – $3-4 fee – 8/23

Baobab Press – This Side of the Divide: New Myths of the American West – All Genres – 10/1

Wild Women Anthology – Nonfiction, Poetry – $40 prize – $3 fee – 12/1

HerKind Collection 2020 Women’s Community Project – Nonfiction


Upcoming Deadlines


Eastern Iowa Review – Prose Poetry, Nonfiction, Flash Fiction – 8/15

HerStry – Traveling Women – Nonfiction – $3 fee – 8/20

HerWords – Fiction, Poetry – $5 fee – 8/31

Poor Yorick – Special Issue: Hallow’s Eve Horror – Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Photo Essays – 8/31

Split Lip Magazine – Flash Fiction, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Art, Photography – 8/31

Rattle Ekphrastic Challenge – Poetry – 9/1

For Women Who Roar – Art, Photography, Nonfiction, Poetry – 9/2

HerStry – Resilient Women: Comeback Series – Nonfiction – $3 fee – 9/17

Highway Women Magazine – Fiction, Nonfiction – $3 fee – 10/1

C&R Press – Novel, Short Story, Nonfiction, Poetry – $25 fee – 12/31


Rolling Submissions


32 Poems – Poetry, Reviews – $3 fee

After The Art – Essays on Art

The American Journal of Poetry – Poetry – $5 fee

Animal Literary Magazine – Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, Art

Another New Calligraphy – Books, Music

Anti-Heroin Chic – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art

Assay – Critical Nonfiction

Auroras and Blossoms – Poetry, Fiction, Photography

Balloons Literary Journal – Poetry, Fiction, Art, Photography

Baobab Press – Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, Graphic Narrative, Children’s Books

BlazeVOX [books] – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism

Braided Way – Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, Photography

❤️ Chicago Parent – Nonfiction

The Coachella Review – Blog, Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Drama

The Decadent Review – Criticism, Reviews, Essays

Disorder Press – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction

Divergents Magazine – Poetry, Nonfiction, Photography, Art from the Neuro-Divergent Community

The Fictional Cafe – Fiction, Poetry, Art

The Forge – Fiction, Nonfiction

Golden Walkman – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Critical Essays, Music

HerKind Collective – Articles, Essays

HerStry – Nonfiction

❤️ Her View From Home – Nonfiction

❤️ Hip Mama – Articles, Art

Kiddiepunk – Zines and Books

Kernpunkt Press – Books, Novellas

Lavender Review – Poetry, Art

Lily Poetry Review – Poetry

Minola – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction

❤️ MOPS Blogs – Nonfiction

❤️ Motherly – Essays, Videos

❤️ Mothers Always Write – Essays, Poetry, Book Reviews, Columns on Writing

❤️ Motherwell – Weekly Columns

❤️ Mutha Magazine – Nonfiction

Mystery Weekly – Fiction

Narratively – Nonfiction, Photography

New Readers Magazine – Fiction, Poetry, Articles, Art

Northwest Review – Art, Translation, Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction – $3 fee

PANK – Blog Content, Reviews, Interviews

Peacock Journal – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art, Translation, Music

Pithead Chapel – Art, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry

Poor Yorick – Digital Video Shorts, Photo Essays, Art, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry

Pretty Owl Poetry – Poetry, Visual Art

❤️ Raising Mothers – BIWOC and Non-Binary Parents of Color – Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, Interviews, Book Reviews, Graphic Narrative

The Revolution Relaunch – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art

Shift: A Journal of Literary Oddities – Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Oddities

Sky Island Journal – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction

Smokelong – Flash Fiction, Art, Blog

Spuyten Duyvil – Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction

Storm Cellar – Art, Nonfiction, Flash, Poetry

The Sunlight Press – Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, Reviews, Craft, Photography

Tupelo Press – Nonfiction

Typishly – Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction – $5 fee

Under the Gum Tree – Nonfiction, Art

Vegetarian Alcohol Press – Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction, Drama

Vessel – Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction

Virga – Poetry, Hybrid – $2 fee

Wildness – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction

Willow Springs – Nonfiction – $3 fee

❤️ WordMothers – Guest Posts

The Woven Tale Press – Art, Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction

❤️ Yummy Mummy Club – Nonfiction

Zin Daily – Art, Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction

Did your writing or art get published at a place from this list? Let us know in the comments, or connect with us on Twitter @literarymama. Happy submitting!

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5 replies on “Calls for Submissions – August 2020”

Natalie Moore Brandtsays:
August 19, 2020 at 6:07 pm

My essay, “Guilty Pleasures of Part-time Mothering” was published yesterday in Mutha Magazine. I learned of that publication from YOU! So, thank you.

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Bridget Lillethorupsays:
August 23, 2020 at 2:51 pm

Thank you for sharing that good news, Natalie! And Congrats!!

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Marianne Lonsdalesays:
September 9, 2020 at 10:08 am

I like the new layout/format

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Bridget Lillethorupsays:
September 10, 2020 at 2:49 pm

Thank you, Marianne!

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