Calls for Submissions – December 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
Codhill Press — Pauline Uchmanowicz Poetry Award – Poetry – 12/30
CRAFT — Creative Nonfiction Award – Nonfiction – 12/30
Ashland Creek Press – Siskiyou Prize for New Environmental Literature – Fiction, Nonfiction – 12/31
Bear Review — Michelle Boisseau Poetry Prize – Poetry – 12/30
Bright Hill Press – Poetry Book Competition – Poetry – 12/31
Burnside Review Press — Book Award – Poetry – 12/31
Center for Book Arts – Poetry Chapbook Competition – Poetry – 12/31
The Florida Review – Jeanne Leiby Chapbook Award – Fiction, Nonfiction, Graphic Narrative – 12/31
Hub City Press – C. Michael Curtis Short Story Book Prize – Short Story Collections by Writers from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, or West Virginia – 12/31
Kallisto Gaia Press — Acacia Fiction Prize – Fiction – 12/31
Kallisto Gaia Press — Saguaro Poetry Prize – Poetry – 12/31
Press 53 Award for Short Fiction – Fiction – 12/31
ANTHOLOGIES
THE GARGOYLICON: Imaginings & Images of the Gargoyle in Literature and Art – Poetry, Short Fiction, Scholarly Essays, and Art/Illustration – 12/31
UPCOMING DEADLINES
The Puritan – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction – 12/25
A) Glimpse) Of) – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art, Sound, Hybrid – 12/30
CALYX – Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction by Women – 12/31
The Cincinnati Review – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Translations, Drama – 12/31
Crazyhorse – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction – 12/31
Moss – Poetry, Fiction and Nonfiction from the Pacific Northwest – 12/31
New Plains Review – Audio, Visual – 12/31
Noctua Review – Poetry, Fiction, Art – 12/31
rlysrslit – Poetry, Hybrid, Experimental – 12/31
Sky Island Journal – Poetry, Flash Fiction, Flash Nonfiction – 12/31
ThimblelitMag – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art – 12/31
Twyckenham Notes – Poetry, Art – 12/31
Whale Road Review – Poetry, Prose, Interviews – 12/31
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!