Calls for Submissions – October 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
Academy of American Poet Harold Morton Landon Translation Award – $35 fee – 11/1
Academy of American Poets Walt Whitman Award – $35 fee – 11/1
BOA Editions A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize – $25 fee – 11/30
Harbor Editions Laureate Prize – Poetry – $25 – 11/30
Southeast Missouri State University Press Nilsen Literary Prize For a First Novel – $25 fee – 11/1
❤️ WOW! Creative Nonfiction Contest – $12 fee – 10/31
❤️ WOW! Flash Fiction Contest – $10 fee – 11/30
Anthologies
Alternating Current Press BREATHING WHILE BLACK: Black Writers Respond to Police Violence – 10/31
The Ice Colony – Poetry: Latinx Writer Anthology – 10/31
PEN Center USA – The PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers – Fiction -11/15
Upcoming Deadlines
Aaduna – Poetry, Prose, Visual Art – 11/16
The Account – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction – 11/15
Cheat River Review – Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction, Art – 11/5
Columbia Review – All Genres – 11/1
ellipsis… Literature & Art – Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction, Hybrid, Art – 11/1
Essay Press – Nonfiction, Hybrid – 11/30
The First Line – Nonfiction, Fiction – 11/1
Foglifter – Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Drama, Hybrid, and Art from Queer Writers and Artists – 11/1
GASHER Journal – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art – 11/17
Iowa Review – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction – 11/30
jubilat – Poetry -11/30
Michigan Quarterly Review – Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction from Emerging Writers; Interviews, Reviews – 11/30
Ornithopter Press – Poetry – 11/30
The Pinch — GLISH: Variety English Poetry Project – Poetry Written in or Regarding Variety Englishes – 11/15
Porridge Magazine – Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Art – 11/1
Seventh Child — The Exploited – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art, Comics, Photography, Collage, Other – 11/15
Slant – Poetry -11/15
What are Birds? – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Art – 11/1
Rolling Submissions
32 Poems – Poetry, Reviews – $3 fee
After The Art – Essays on Art
AGNI – Poetry and Prose
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
Flash Fiction Online – Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction, Mainstream, Literary, Horror, Seasonal, Other
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
LitMag – Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction
Minola – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
The Missouri Review – 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!