Calls for Submissions – February 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
Autumn House Press — CAAPP Book Prize – First or Second Books of Poetry, Speculative Prose, Hybrid, or Translations from Writers of African Descent – $2,500 Prize – 2/15
Pigeon Pages — Poetry Contest – Poetry – $7 Fee – $250 Prize – 2/15
Sarabande Books – Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction – Short Fiction – $29 Fee – $2,000 Prize – 2/15
Omnidawn — First/Second Poetry Book Contest – Poetry – $27 Fee – $3,000 Prize – 2/16
AWP Award Series 2021 – Poetry, Short Fiction, Novel, Nonfiction – $20 Fee / $2,500 – $5,500 Prize – 2/28
Blue Mesa Review — Summer Contest – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction – 2/28
Hemingway-Pfeiffer Writer-in-Residence Program – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction – One Month Residency in Piggott, AR and $1,000 stipend – 2/28
ANTHOLOGIES
❤️ Quillkeepers Press – Parenting Anthology – Poetry, Prose Poetry, Short Story, Memoirs – 4/30
UPCOMING DEADLINES
Spellbinder – Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction, Reviews, Art, Photography – 2/14
Barzakh Magazine – Due: February 15, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction, Hybrid, Interviews, Reviews, Art – 2/15
The Boiler – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art – 2/15
After Happy Hour Review – Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Art – 2/28
Flypaper – Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Interviews, Reviews – 2/28
Levitate Literary Magazine – Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction, Art – 2/28
petrichor – Poetry, Visual Poetry, Hybrid, Poetics Essays – 2/28
Terrapin Books – Poetry – 2/28
Texas Review Press – Southern Poetry Breakthrough Series: Arkansas – Poetry – 2/28
Witness – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction – 2/28
The Liminal Review – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art – 5/31
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!