Calls for Submissions – December 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
Western Humanities Review—Mountain West Writers’ Contest – Poetry, Prose – $15 Fee – $500 Prize – 12/19
Codhill Press — Pauline Uchmanowicz Poetry Award – Poetry – Fee: $30 – $1,000 Prize – 12/30
BOA Editions — Blessing the Boats Selections – Poetry by Women of Color – $5,000 Prize – 12/31
Press 53 — Award for Short Fiction – Short Stories – $30 Fee – $1,000 Prize – 12/31
Tupelo Press — Dorset Prize – Poetry – $30 Fee – $4,500 Prize – 12/31
The Florida Review – Jeanne Leiby Chapbook Award – Fiction, Nonfiction, Graphic Narrative – $25 Fee – $1,000 Prize – 12/31
Poetry Society of America — Chapbook Fellowships – Poetry – $14 Fee – $1,000 Prize – 12/31
Anthologies
❤️ Good Mom on Paper – Essays – 12/15
❤️ An Artist and A Mother Book – Creative Nonfiction, Profiles, Scholarly Essays – 2/17
Upcoming Deadlines
Asymptote — Brave New World Literature – Essays – 12/21
The Arkansas International — Intergalactic Theme Issue – Poetry, Fiction, Essays, Comics, Works in Translation – 12/28
Causeway Lit – Craft Essays -12/30
A Public Space – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction – 12/31
CALYX – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction – 12/31
co•im•press – Translations – 12/31
Crazyhorse – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction – 12/31
Exhume Magazine – Poetry, Prose, Drama, and Visual Art – 12/31
Heartburn Review — Poet of the Month – Poetry – 12/31
jmww – Poetry – 12/31
Santa Fe Writers Project Quarterly — Pleasure – Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Comics, and Hybrid Genres from BIPOC Writers – 12/31
Sunspot Literary Journal — Culmination – Poetry, Prose, Art – 12/31
Sweet Tree Review – Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction, Plays – 12/31
ThimblelitMag – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art – 12/31
Toad Press — International Chapbook Series – Poetry and Prose in Translation – 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
The Aunt Flo Project – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, and Flash About Menstruation
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 – 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
❤️ 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!