Calls for Submissions – May 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
BkMk Press & New Letters — Awards – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction – $24 Fee – $2,500 Prize – 5/18
Anhinga Press — Robert Dana Prize for Poetry – Poetry – $25 – $2,000 Prize – 5/31
BOA Editions — Short Fiction Prize – Fiction – $25 Fee – $1,000 Prize – 5/31
CutBank Chapbook Contest – Poetry, Fiction, Cross-Genre – $20 Fee – $1,000 Prize – 5/31
Homebound Publications – Poetry Prize – Poetry – $25 Fee – 5/31
Rougarou — Fabulist/Speculative Fiction Contest – Fabulist Fiction, Speculative Fiction – $12 Fee – $500 – 5/31
ANTHOLOGIES
Stillhouse Press — Disabled Writers Anthology – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid – 5/31
Women Writing History in a Global Pandemic – Poetry, Prose – 5/17
Please submit your poetry or prose of up to 500 words describing your unique perspective – the challenges, losses, inspirations, hopes, and even what you most wish for as you again engage with the world. If you previously submitted to our 2020 Pandemic issue, Bearing Witness, you may resubmit or repurpose your submission. Submissions can be sent to: kelsey@iwwg.org
Bodies Full of Burning: An Anthology of Menopause-Themed Horror – Fiction – 6/1
Non-stalgia: A Fiction Anthology – Fiction – 7/1
UPCOMING DEADLINES
Burrow Press Review — The Great Indoors – Poetry – 5/15
The Georgia Review – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Reviews, Art – 5/15
Inch – Poetry, Flash Fiction, Flash Nonfiction – 5/15
Variety Pack – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Translation, Hybrid, Reviews, Interviews, Translations, Comics, Art – 5/15
Permafrost Magazine – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Art – 5/16
Half Mystic – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Drama – 5/18
Lammergeier – Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction, Hybrid – 5/30
Crazyhorse – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction – 5/31
Fonograf Editions – Poetry, Nonfiction, Translation, Cross-Genre – 5/31
Gettysburg Review – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art – 5/31
The Liminal Review – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Art – 5/31
New Delta Review – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Reviews, Interviews, Hybrid, Translations Art, Digital Media – 5/31
Oyster River Pages – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art – 5/31
Pitymilk Press – Poetry, Poetic Prose, Essays – 5/31
Posit – Poetry, Prose, Art, Video, Animation – 5/31
The Shore – Poetry – 5/31
Tolsun Books – Poetry, Short Stories, Essays, Translations, Hybrid – 5/31
Yalobusha Review – Fiction – 5/31
ROLLING SUBMISSIONS
32 Poems – Poetry, Reviews
After The Art – Essays on Art
Apocalypse Party – All Genres
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
Counterpath Press – Queries
Damaged Goods Press – Poetry, Essays, and Hybrid Writing from Queer and Trans Writers
The Decadent Review – Criticism, Reviews, Essays
Deep Vellum Publishing – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Translations
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
Hindsight – Nonfiction, Pandemic-related
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
Outpost 19 – Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid
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!