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July 7, 2021 | Blog |  No comments

Calls for Submissions – July 2021

By Bridget Lillethorup

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Photo by Luke Dean-Weymark on Unsplash

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


Driftwood Press – Adrift Chapbook Series – Poetry – $12 Fee – $500 Prize – 7/15

Red Mountain Press — Poetry Prize – Poetry – $35 Fee – $1,000 Prize – 7/15

Ricochet Editions – Hybrid, Genre-less $15 Fee (fee waived for BIPOC authors and writers facing financial hardship) – $250 Prize – 7/20

Ghost Proposal — Chapbook Contest – Hybrid, Cross-Genre, Multi-Genre, Post-Genre – 7/31

Harbor Review — The Washburn Chapbook Prize – Poetry by women and non-binary writers – $10 Fee – $200 Prize – 7/31

Moon City Press – Poetry Award – Poetry – $25 Fee – $1,000 Prize – 7/31

Press 53 Award for Poetry -Poetry – $30 Fee – $1,000 Prize – 7/31

Sarabande Books – The Linda Bruckheimer Series in Kentucky Literature / July 1 – 31, 2021 / All Genres from Writers with Ties to Kentucky / Fee: $15 (Free for BIPOC Writers) – 7/31

University of Wisconsin Press – Brittingham & Felix Pollak Poetry Prizes – Poetry – $28 Fee – $1,000 Prize – 7/31


UPCOMING DEADLINES


Golias Books – Poetry – 7/15

❤️ Mom Egg Review – Prose, Cross Genre, Poetry, Visual Art, Fiction – 7/15

Pangyrus – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Comics, Reviews – 7/15

GASHER Journal -Poetry, Visual Poetry Fiction, Nonfiction, Art – 7/18

Five South – Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction – 7/23

Eastern Iowa Review – Prose Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction – 7/31

Masque & Spectacle – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Drama, Reviews, Art, Video, Sound – 7/31

Sweet: A Literary Confection – Poetry, Nonfiction, Graphic Nonfiction (Year-Round) – 7/31

Trio House Press – Poetry – 7/31

Wizards in Space Magazine – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art – 7/31


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!

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