Calls for Submissions – June 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
Omnidawn Poetry Chapbook Contest – Poetry – $18 Fee – $1,000 Prize – 6/14
42 Miles Press — Poetry Award – Poetry – $25 Fee – $1,000 Prize – 6/15
Lynx House Press – Blue Lynx Prize for Poetry – Poetry – $28 Fee – $2,000 Prize – 6/15
Galileo Press – Poetry, Fiction, Novels, Novellas, Nonfiction, Hybrids – $22 Fee – $400 Prize 6/20
Willow Springs Books – Spokane Prize for Short Fiction – Short Story Collections – $27.50 Fee – $2,000 Prize – 6/15
Barrow Street Press Book Contest – Poetry – $25 Fee – $1,500 Prize – 6/30
Bauhan Publishing – May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize – Poetry – $30 Fee – $1,000 Prize – 6/30
Cider Press Review Editor’s Prize Book Award – Poetry – $26 Fee – $1,000 Prize – 6/30
University of Pittsburgh Press – Drue Heinz Literature Prize – Short Story Collections – $25 Fee – $15,000 Prize – 6/30
ANTHOLOGIES
Non-stalgia: A Fiction Anthology – Fiction – 7/1
UPCOMING DEADLINES
Alchemy Journal – Poetry, Prose, and Cross-Genre Translations – 6/15
Bull City Press – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction – 6/15
Fourteen Hills – Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Visual Art – 6/15
Up The Staircase Quarterly – Poetry, Interviews, Reviews, Art – 6/15
YesYes Books – Poetry, Fiction – 6/15
briars lit – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid – 6/21
Invisible City – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art – 6/26
Black Lawrence Press – Poetry, Fiction, Hybrid – 6/30
echoverse – Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Flash Nonfiction, Hybrid, Art, Music, and Letters to the Future About the Environment and Climate Change – 6/30
The Elephants – All Genres – 6/30
Exhume Magazine – Poetry, Prose, Drama, Visual Art – 6/30
Four Way Books – Poetry, Fiction – 6/30
The Ilanot Review — Ephemera(l) – Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Art – 6/30
Mason Jar Press – Novellas, Nonfiction – 6/30
Mount Island – Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction, Hybrid, Art – 6/30
Nightboat Books – Prose, Prose Translations – 6/30
RHINO – Poetry, Flash Fiction, Flash Nonfiction – 6/30
Sky Island Journal – Poetry, Flash Fiction, Flash Nonfiction – 6/30
ThimblelitMag – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art – 6/30
❤️ Mom Egg Review – Prose, Cross Genre, Poetry, Visual Art, Fiction – 7/15
ROLLING SUBMISSIONS
32 Poems – Poetry, Reviews
The Acentos Review – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Translation, Cross-Genre, Art
After The Art – Essays on Art
Afternoon Visitor – Poetry, Visual Poetry, Hybrid, Visual 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, Flash Fiction, Essays, Short Stories, Paintings, Drawings, Photography
Balloons Literary Journal – Poetry, Fiction, Art, Photography
Baobab Press – Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, Graphic Narrative, Children’s Books
Birdcoat Quarterly – Poetry, Nonfiction / Fee: $3
Biscuit Root Drive – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
BlazeVOX [books] – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism
Braided Way – Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, Photography
The Carolina Quarterly – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art / Fee: $2.50
❤️ Chicago Parent – Nonfiction
The Coachella Review – Blog, Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Drama
The Concrete Desert Review – Children’s Poetry and Stories, Art
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!