Get Posted/Get Published: Strong September 2025
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Do mothers have more time for writing now that our children have returned to their scheduled education? Good question!
The start of a new school year offers fresh opportunities and it seems everything about September needs to be strong. With that in mind, I urge you to head over to the July/August issue of Literary Mama to read the poetry, which is beautiful in its structure this month. My particular favorite is “Motherhood for the Daughters of Difficult Mothers,” by Elizabeth M. Castillo.
The writing world has its own set of September rhythms that are helping Literary Mamas align themselves for the final months of the year. Keep an eye out for book releases at this time of year, both literary and commercial. Awards are starting to share their short and longlists, too. Festivals are ramping up now that we’re in September with book gatherings like the Brooklyn Book Festival and Cheltenham in the UK.
In fact, there is activity everywhere and literary magazines will start opening up for submissions again through September. If you’re querying, now might become busier for you as agents and editors become noticeably more active with their reading and evaluating of submissions.
So, this is the perfect time to share a few random places where you might consider submitting your short form writing:
- The Master’s Review, Novel Excerpt Contest, awarding $3,500 and publication. Submissions are now open and will close on November 9.
- Du Frank Lit, Seeking clear, concise character driven fiction and flash fiction.
“Show us something new or present something in an innovative way. We want to see beauty in the grey areas and moments which show the complexity of the human condition. Paint us a picture, show us an event, give us characters a reader will love or hate and must ask themselves why. Explore who or what a character can be and illustrate the unseen and unsaid. See our submission guidelines”:
Du Frank Lit Submissions Deadline: September 30, 2025
- Global City Press Global City Review is now accepting submissions for their 26th issue, titled Impermanence of Home.
“This issue invites contributors to consider the emotional, political, and physical dimensions of home in flux. We’re interested in work that explores how sanctuary—whether a person, place, memory, language, or idea—can be lost, reshaped, reimagined, or even fabricated. Possible areas of focus: Environmental collapse and ecological change; Forced migration, exile, and statelessness; Censorship, surveillance, and the erosion of free expression; Housing insecurity, gentrification, and urban dislocation; Cultural memory, ancestral loss, and intergenerational rupture; Digital disorientation, AI fatigue, and virtual estrangement; and Imagined or speculative forms of refuge.”
Deadline: October 16, 2025