Calls for Submissions – August 2020

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.

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Contests

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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

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Anthologies

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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

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Upcoming Deadlines

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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

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Rolling Submissions

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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!