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October 14, 2020 | Blog |  No comments

Calls for Submissions – October 2020

By Blog Editor

Photo by Arisa S. 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


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!

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