Calls for Submissions – January 2021

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

Colorado Prize for Poetry – Poetry – $28 Fee – $2,000 Prize – 1/14

Autumn House Press — Rising Writer Prizes – Poetry, Fiction – $25 Fee – $1,000 Prize – 1/15

Driftwood Press — Contests – Poetry, Short Stories- $12 Fee – $400 Prize – 1/15

Lumiere Review — Contests – Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction, Hybrid, Art – $100 Prize – 1/15

❤️ June 2021 Residency Dedicated to BIPOC Mothers Living and Working in the US (The Fountainhead Residency) – June 2 through 30 – $1500 Stipend + extra expenses (like childcare) – 1/21

Dynamo Verlag First-Ever Book Contest -Poetry, Prose – $15 Fee – $500 Prize – 1/31

Foundlings Press — Wallace Award for Poetry – Poetry – $5 Fee – 1/31

Harbor Review — The Editor’s Prize – Poetry – $10 Fee – $200 Prize – 1/31

ANTHOLOGIES

❤️ An Artist and A Mother Book – Creative Nonfiction, Profiles, Scholarly Essays – 2/17

UPCOMING DEADLINES

COVER – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash, Hybrid, Audio, Video, Image – 1/15

Futurepoem Books – Poetry, Prose, Hybrid – 1/15

Gigantic Sequins – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art, Comics – 1/15

Heron Tree – Poetry Using Public Domain Materials – 1/15

Qu Journal – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Drama, Screenplays – 1/15

Snail Trail – Poetry, Prose, Interviews, Reviews, Mixed Media – 1/15

Electric Literature — The Commuter – Poetry, Flash, Graphic, Experimental Narratives – 1/24

Tinderbox Editions – Poetry, Hybrid – 1/30

Another Chicago Magazine – Poetry, Drama, Reviews, Audiovisual – 1/31

The Bookends Review – Poetry, Prose, Interviews, Reviews, Music, Art – 1/31

The Ilanot Review — Delight – Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Art – 1/31

Masque & Spectacle – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Drama, Reviews, Art, Video, Sound – 1/31

Riot in Your Throat – Poetry – 1/31

ROLLING SUBMISSIONS

32 Poems – Poetry, Reviews

After The Art – Essays on Art

AGNI – Poetry and Prose

Always Crashing – Poetry, Fiction, Collage, Video, Audio, Hybrid, Other

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

Apartment Poetry – Poetry

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

Birdcoat Quarterly – Poetry, Nonfiction / Fee: $3

BlazeVOX [books] – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism

Braided Way – Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, Photography

❤️ Chicago Parent – Nonfiction

The Coachella Review – Blog, Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Drama

Damaged Goods Press – Poetry, Essays, and Hybrid Writing from Queer and Trans Writers

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

Greying Ghost Press- Pamphlet and Art Zine Submissions – Nonfiction, Art

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

Litmus Press – Proposals for Translations

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 – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid

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

Surfaces – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Theory, Art, Text Collage

Sweet Lit – Poetry, Graphic Nonfiction

Throwback Books – Novelettes

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!