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August 10, 2022 | Blog |  No comments

Calls for Submissions – August 2022

By Blog Editor

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Photo by Marcela Laskoski 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 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


Frontier Poetry Nature & Place Prize – poetry about nature, geography, and the landscape of home – 9/16

Solstice Fiction Contest – open to all writers, published and unpublished, who are currently registered in an undergraduate degree program, and who are residents of the United States – 8/21

Solstice Poetry Contest – open to all writers, published and unpublished, who are currently registered in an undergraduate degree program, and who are residents of the United States – 8/21

Terrain Annual Contest –  seeking entries in fiction, poetry, nonfiction – 9/5


ANTHOLOGIES


B Cubed Press: Post Roe Alternatives – poetry, prose in response to the fall of Roe V. Wade – 9/8

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


UPCOMING DEADLINES

Capsule Stories – stories, poems, and essays about hunkering down for the winter and quietly resting – 9/21

Chicken Soup for the Soul – various topics and deadlines in August

Embracing Our Differences – micro-stories about enriching lives through diversity and inclusion – 10/5

HerStry – stories about how fate has played a part in your life – 9/1

HerStry – stories about growing up – 10/1

HerStry – stories about times your body has rebelled and how you responded – 11/1

McNeese Review – poetry, fiction, nonfiction – 8/31

Reckoning: Our Beautiful Reward – poetry, nonfiction, and fiction in response to the fall of Roe v. Wade – 8/31

Reckoning: Oceans – poetry, nonfiction, and fiction on the theme “oceans and environmental justice” – 9/22

Roxane Gay’s The Audacity Emerging Writers Series – literary essay, memoir – open until 24 essays accepted


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,

Capsule Stories — essays about your reading life

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

Craft Literary – Fiction, Creative nonfiction

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

Frontier Poetry – Poetry

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!

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