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Solstice Fiction Contest – open to all writers, published and unpublished, who are currently registered in an undergraduate degree program, and who are residents of the United States – 8/21
Solstice Poetry Contest – open to all writers, published and unpublished, who are currently registered in an undergraduate degree program, and who are residents of the United States – 8/21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