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April 5, 2022 | Blog |  5 Comments

Calls for Submissions – April 2022

By Blog Editor

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Photo by Jessica Fadel 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


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


ANTHOLOGIES


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


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


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!

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5 replies on “Calls for Submissions – April 2022”

Marianne Lonsdalesays:
April 18, 2022 at 9:41 am

just fyi, was not sure who to send this comment to – I think Golden Walkman is no longer good – looks like nothing since 2021. And the link to the Toxic workplaces anthology goes to a speculative fiction site. And thank you for this listing of submissions – it’s fabulous

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Bridget Lillethorupsays:
April 20, 2022 at 9:45 am

We appreciate the feedback. Thanks, Marianne!

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Crystal Rowesays:
May 3, 2022 at 4:24 pm

Marianne – I fixed the Toxic Workplaces Anthology link, if that’s something you’re interested in submitting to!

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Jacqueline Corcoransays:
April 25, 2022 at 8:11 am

I have a new submission opportunity for mothers who also have a BSW (Bachelors in Social Work) or MSW (Masters in Social Work). I have a book under contract for Notes from the Field, first-person, creative non-fiction essays of at least 2000 words about doing social work with a particular case that is representative of a social problem. No payment unfortunately but an opportunity to be published.

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Crystal Rowesays:
May 3, 2022 at 4:15 pm

Jacqueline – if you’ll send a little more info about the opportunity to LMblogeditor (at) literarymama (dot) com, we’ll include it in our next call for submissions post!

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