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December 9, 2020 | Blog |  No comments

Calls for Submissions – December 2020

By Blog Editor

Child in pink jacket walking in snow toward cabin.
Photo by Simon Berger on Unsplash

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!

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