Calls for Submissions – August 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.

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CONTESTS

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Blue Earth Review — Contests – Poetry, Flash Fiction, Flash Nonfiction – $5 Fee – $500 Prize – 8/13

Diode Editions — Full-Length Book Contest – Poetry – $20 Fee – $1,000 Prize – 8/15

Grayson Books Poetry Prize – Poetry – $25 Fee – $1,000 Prize – 8/15

Iron Horse Literary Review Book Prize – Short Fiction, Essays – $15 Fee – $1,000 Prize – 8/15

Omnidawn — Open Poetry Book Contest – Poetry – $27 Fee – $3,000 Prize – 8/16

Black Lawrence Press — The St. Lawrence Book Award – First Books of Poetry and Short Fiction – $25 Fee – $1,000 Prize – 8/31

Blue Mesa Review — Summer Contest – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction – $5 Fee – $500 Prize – 8/31

Ex Ophidia Press — Poetry Prize – Poetry – $25 Fee – $1,000 Prize – 8/31

Grid Books – Off the Grid Poetry Prize – Poetry from Poets Over 60 – $25 – $1,000 Prize – 8/31

Sundog Lit — Summer Collaboration Contest – Collaborations of All Genres – $300 Prize – 8/31

University of New Orleans Press – Publishing Lab Prize – Novels, Short Story Collections – $28 Fee – $10,000 Prize – 8/31

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ANTHOLOGIES

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Alternating Current Press – PARENTING STORIES GONE SPECULATIVE – Fiction, Nonfiction – $10 Prize – 9/1

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UPCOMING DEADLINES

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Aaduna – Poetry, Prose, Visual Art – 8/15

The Boiler – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art – 8/15

Cordite Poetry Review  – Poetry – 8/15

Grist: A Journal of the Literary Arts – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Craft Essays – 8/15

Ruminate – Fiction – 8/15

The Georgia Review – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Reviews, Art – 8/16

After Happy Hour Review – Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Art – 8/31

Beloit Poetry Journal – Poetry – 8/31

The Bookends Review – Poetry, Prose, Interviews, Reviews, Music, Art – 8/31

Lammergeier – Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction, Hybrid – 8/31

Los Galesburg – Novellas – 8/31

Parhelion Literary Magazine — Halloween – Fiction – 8/31

Terrapin Books – Poetry – 8/31

Tinderbox Editions – Prose and Prose-like Manuscripts – 8/31

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ROLLING SUBMISSIONS

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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!