Calls for Submissions – June 2022
Welcome to our Calls for Submissions page. Here, we’ll feature new publication opportunities for all our Mama readers. Look for updated posts every other 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
1729 Book Prize in Prose – novels, novellas, story collections, memoirs, auto/biographies, essay collections – 7/15
42 Miles Press – poetry manuscripts – 6/15
Bellevue Literary Review – poem, short story, essays about health, healing, illness, the body, and the mind – 7/15
Blue Mountain Arts Poetry Contest – poetry – 6/30
Cincinnati Review Robert and Adele Schiff Awards – poetry, literary nonfiction, fiction – 7/15
Finishing Line Press Women’s Chapbook Competition – poetry – 9/15
Housatonic Book Awards – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and young adult/middle grade published in 2021 – 6/13.
Literary Taxidermy Writing Competition – short stories, poetry – 7/11
Los Angeles Review Literary Awards – poetry, short story, essay – 6/30
Narrative Prize for new and emerging writers – short story, novel excerpt, poetry, one-act play, graphic story, literary nonfiction – 6/15
Narrative Spring 2022 Story Contest – fiction, essays, memoirs, photo essays, graphic stories, literary nonfiction – 7/31
Narrative Poetry Contest – poetry – 7/15
Rattle Poetry Prize – poetry – 7/15
ANTHOLOGIES
Bell Press Books – nonfiction, poetry about Rituals or Framework of the Human Body – 6/15
Brigids Gate Press Dangerous Waters Anthology – stories, poems, and drabbles about malevolent mermaids, sinister sirens, scary selkies, spirits, and other deadly and dangerous women of the sea – 6/30
“Standing Up” – An Anthology in Support of Ukraine – true nonfiction stories, poetry – 6/15
Toxic Workplaces Anthology – Women’s Writing Workshop – Nonfiction – 12/1
UPCOMING DEADLINES
Chicken Soup for the Soul – various topics and deadlines in June and July
Creative Nonfiction – currently seeking true stories by (or about) nurses – 6/27
Creative Nonfiction – also currently seeking short nonfiction for Sunday Short Read – 8/1
HerStry Traveling Women Series – personal essay – 7/1
Isele Magazine – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, photography, visual art, and hybrid works that explore the freedom, euphoria, and serenity in the queer existence – 6/30
Fairy Tale Review – queer fairy-tale poetry and prose written by writers who self-identify as LGBTQIA+ – 6/30
❤️ Farmerish – creative nonfiction, personal essays, expository essays, instructional, farmer profiles, recipes, book reviews, poetry – 6/14
The Maine Review – nonfiction, fiction, poetry – 7/31
McNeese Review – poetry, fiction, nonfiction – 8/31
❤️ Mom Egg Review – Poetry, Fiction, Creative Prose, Hybrid, Visual Art – 7/15
Mud Season Review – poetry, creative nonfiction, fiction, art – 6/30
Roxane Gay’s The Audacity Emerging Writers Series – literary essay, memoir – open until 24 essays accepted
Threadcount – prose, poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and hybrid text – 6/30
Whale Road Review – poetry, short prose – 6/30
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
Creative Nonfiction – Pitches for writing about writing
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
Narrative – fiction, poetry, personal essays, humor, sketches, memoirs, literary biographies, commentary
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
Pillow Talking – creative nonfiction stories of real-life bedroom conversations
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 Sun Magazine – personal essays, fiction, and 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
❤️ Verily– Nonfiction
Wildness – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Willow Springs – Nonfiction – $3 fee
WordMothers – Guest Posts
The Woven Tale Press – Art, Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Writer’s Digest – Nonfiction, Profiles, Memoir, Writing Advice, Children/Middle Grade/Young Adult
❤️ 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!