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March 3, 2021 | Blog |  No comments

Calls for Submissions – March 2021

By Blog Editor

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.

Literary Mama is always open for submissions. Please check out this page for more information on our submission process and editorial slant.


CONTESTS


Airlie Press – Poetry – $25 Fee – $1,000 Prize – 3/15

Permafrost Book Prize in Fiction – Fiction – $20 Fee – $1,000 Prize – 3/16

Black Lawrence Press — The Hudson Prize – Poetry, Short Stories – $25 Fee – $1,000 Prize – 3/31

Four Way Books – Levis Prize in Poetry – Poetry – $30 Fee – $1,000 Prize – 3/31

Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing – Fiction, Nonfiction – $10,000 Prize – 3/31

Switchback Books — Gatewood Prize – First and Second Books of Poetry by Women -$20 Fee – 3/31


ANTHOLOGIES


The HerStories Project – Pandemic Anthology – Nonfiction – 4/1

❤️ Quillkeepers Press – Parenting Anthology – Poetry, Prose Poetry, Short Story, Memoirs – 4/30

Bodies Full of Burning: An Anthology of Menopause-Themed Horror – Fiction – 6/1


UPCOMING DEADLINES


Parentheses Journal – Poetry, Fiction, Art, Photography – 3/10

Unbroken Journal – Prose Poems, Poetic Prose – 3/12

Aaduna – Poetry, Prose, Visual Art – 3/14

Hot Metal Bridge – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art – 3/15

Green Linden Press – Poetry – 3/21

New South – Poetry, Fiction, Essays, Reviews – 3/30

Anatolios Magazine – Poetry, Prose, Art, Photography – 3/31

Coast|noCoast – Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction, Hybrid – 3/31

Homology Lit – Poetry, Flash Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Art – 3/31

Inside the Castle – Poetry, Prose -3/31

The Liminal Review – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art – 5/31

Mount Island – Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction, Hybrid, Art – 3/31

The Ocotillo Review – Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction -3/31

Sycamore Review – Poetry, Prose, Nonfiction, Art – 3/31


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

Cooper Dillon Books – Poetry

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!

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