Calls for Submissions – November 2020

Welcome to our 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

Westchester County Poet Laureate – Poet Laureate Competition for Westchester County, NY -11/15

BOA Editions A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize – $25 fee – 11/30

Brunel International African Poetry Prize – Poetry – 11/30

Essay Press – Nonfiction/Hybrid – 11/30

Harbor Editions Laureate Prize – Poetry – $25 fee – 11/30

Burnside Review — Press Book Award – Poetry – $25 fee – 12/31

Press 53 — Award for Short Fiction – Fiction – $30 fee – 12/31

Anthologies

Fems, Fae & Fantasy Anthology – All Genres – 12/1

Wild Women Anthology – Creative Nonfiction, Personal Essays, Poetry – 12/1

❤️ Good Mom on Paper – Essays – 12/15

Upcoming Deadlines

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

Slant – Poetry -11/15

Call Me [Brackets] – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art – 12/1

River Teeth – Creative Nonfiction 12/1

Split/Lip Press – Essay, Memoir, Nonfiction-Hybrid – 12/1

Solar Journal – Poetry, Fiction – 12/1

Sundog Lit – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction – 12/1

Tammy – All Genres – 12/1

Yemassee – Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction – 12/1

Unbroken Journal – Prose Poems, Poetic Prose – 12/11

Copper Nickel – Poetry, Fiction, Essays, Translation Folios – 12/15

Permafrost Magazine – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Art – 12/16

CALYX – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction – 12/31

Heavy Feather Review – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Comics, Art – 12/31

TriQuarterly – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Craft Essays, Interviews, Video Essays, Cinepoetry – 12/31

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

Ploughshares – Fiction, Nonfiction

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

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!