Calls for Submissions–December 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
Fourteen Hills Stacy Doris Memorial Poetry Award– open to all writers. Work must be previously unpublished. Minimum of three pages; maximum 10 pages – 1/15/2023
Kenyon Review – open to all writers who have not yet published a book of fiction. Submissions must be 3000 words or less – 1/31/23
Mississippi Review – open to all writers in English except current/former students or employees of The University of Southern Mississippi. Fiction/nonfiction, 1000-8000 words; poetry, three to five poems totaling ten pages or less – 1/1/23
WOW! Women on Writing Quarterly Flash Fiction Contest – open to all styles and genres of flash fiction, open prompt, 250-750 words – 1/31/23
WOW! Women on Writing Quarterly Creative Nonfiction Contest – open to all styles of essay, open prompt, 200-1,000 words – 1/31/23
Zocalo Public Square – seeking original/unpublished poetry that “best evokes a connection to place.” – 1/23/2023
UPCOMING DEADLINES
Do What(TS) Write – flash fiction/short stories, maximum 1,000 words – 12/31/2022
Kallisto Gaia Press Acacia Fiction Prize – any combination of short stories, flash fiction, or novellas totaling between 30K- 60K words – 12/31/2022
Poetry Quarterly Rebecca Lard Award – previously unpublished poems – 12/31/2022
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
The American Journal of Poetry – Poetry – $5 fee
Another New Calligraphy – Books, Music
Anti-Heroin Chic – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
Apartment Poetry – Poetry
Assay – Critical Nonfiction
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
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
❤️ 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
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
Frontier Poetry – Poetry
Hindsight – Nonfiction, Pandemic-related
HerKind Collective – Articles, Essays
HerStry – Nonfiction
❤️ Her View From Home – Nonfiction
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
Malahat Review – Poetry, Short Fiction, and Creative Nonfiction
Mediterranean Poetry – Poetry/Prose inspired in some way or the other by the Mediterranean world
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
❤️ Raising Mothers – BIWOC and Non-Binary Parents of Color – Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, Interviews, Book Reviews, Graphic Narrative
The Revolution Relaunch – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
Sky Island Journal – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
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
Tupelo Press – Nonfiction
Under the Gum Tree – Nonfiction, Art
Vegetarian Alcoholic Press – Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction, Drama
Vessel – Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction
❤️ Verily– 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!
1 reply on “Calls for Submissions–December 2022”
I have written for Mutha and Raising Mothers in the past. Great places.