Calls for Submissions Summer 2023
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.
Don’t see a favorite magazine? Some close submission windows during the summer months, so check back in the fall. The list below contains plenty of literary magazines that are accepting submissions this summer.
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
Dream Quest One – poetry and writing contest – 9/30/23
WOW! Women on Writing Quarterly Flash Fiction Contest – open to all styles and genres of flash fiction, open prompt, 250-750 words – 8/31/23
WOW! Women on Writing Quarterly Creative Nonfiction Contest – open to all styles of essay, open prompt, 200-1,000 words – 7/31/23
Writers of the Future Contest – short stories up to 7,000 words – 9/30/23
UPCOMING DEADLINES
SPARTAN – Flash Fiction, up to 1,000 words – 8/31/23
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
Apartment Poetry – Poetry
Assay – Critical Nonfiction
Auroras and Blossoms – Poetry, Flash Fiction, Essays, Short Stories, Paintings, Drawings, 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
The Ex-Puritan – Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Hybrid
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
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 Mindful Word – Nonfiction, Fiction, Interviews, Poetry, Reviews, Photo Essays
The Missouri Review – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
❤️ Moms Don’t Have Time to Write – Personal Essays
❤️ MOPS Blogs – Nonfiction
❤️ 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
Outpost 19 – Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid
PANK – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid
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
❤️ Scary Mommy – Personal Essays, Articles
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
Surfaces – Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Theory, Art, Text Collage
Sweet Lit – Poetry, Graphic Nonfiction
Tupelo Press – Nonfiction
Under the Gum Tree – Nonfiction, Art
❤️ 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 com