Calls for Submissions – April 2022

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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Florida Review – Creative Nonfiction and Poetry Awards – Poetry, Nonfiction – 4/15

Ninth Letter Contests – Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction – 4/30

South Dakota State Poetry Society Chapbook Contest – Poetry Chapbooks – 4/30

december magazine Curt Johnson Contests – Fiction, Creative Nonfiction – 5/1

Emerging Writers Contest – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction – 5/15

Chestnut Review 2022 Stubborn Writers Contest – Fiction, Poetry – 5/16

WOW! Women on Writing Contests – Flash Fiction, Essay – 5/30

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ANTHOLOGIES

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Unlimited Literature Anthology – MicroFiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction – 4/15

The Dark Waves of Winter Anthology – Kelp Journal – Short Stories – 5/2

Toxic Workplaces Anthology – Women’s Writing Workshop – Nonfiction – 12/1

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UPCOMING DEADLINES

Connecticut River Review – Poetry – 4/15

Pangyrus Lit Mag – Comics, Visual Art – 4/15

Amsterdam Quarterly – Poetry, Articles, Fiction, Essays, Artwork, Photography – 4/30

Five Points – Essays, Fiction – 4/30

Marathon Literary Review – Flash Fiction, Fiction, Poetry – 4/30

Texas Review Press – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Scholarly – 4/30

Colorado Review – Poetry, Fiction – 5/1

The Forge Literary Magazine – Fiction, Nonfiction – 5/1

The Moving Force Journal – Nonfiction, Poetry – 5/1

Red Rock Literary Review – Short Fiction – 5/1

HerStories Project: Coupling and Uncoupling – Essay – 5/31

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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

Agony Opera – Fiction, Flash Fiction, Poetry, Hybrid

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

Bosphorus Review of Books – Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Book Reviews

Braided Way – Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, Photography

Brittle Paper – Fiction, Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, Book reviews, Essays, Literary Commentaries, Fun Listicles,

The Carolina Quarterly – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art

Cicada Magazine – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction

❤️ 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

Expanded Field – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Comics, Experiments

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

The Kalahari Review – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Personal Essay, Photography, Visual Art — etc. that explores modern Africa and Africans, including from the Diaspora

Kiddiepunk – Zines and Books

Kernpunkt – Books, Novellas

Lavender Review – Poetry, Art

Lily Poetry Review – Poetry

The Literary Bohemian – Poetry, Postcard Prose (<350 words), Visual Poetry / Prose

LitMag – Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction

Litmus Press – Proposals for Translations

Malahat Review – Poetry, Short Fiction, and Creative Nonfiction

Mediterranean Poetry – Poetry/Prose inspired in some way or the other by the Mediterranean world

Minola – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction

The Missouri Review – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction

❤️ MOPS Blogs – Nonfiction

The Moth – Short Fiction, Poetry

❤️ 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 – NonfictionZin 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!