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.
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!
5 replies on “Calls for Submissions – August 2020”
My essay, “Guilty Pleasures of Part-time Mothering” was published yesterday in Mutha Magazine. I learned of that publication from YOU! So, thank you.
Thank you for sharing that good news, Natalie! And Congrats!!
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Thank you, Marianne!