Most events are installed on their deadline date, unless there is a long submission window or unless it's a rolling submission.
P=Poetry, N=Nonfiction, F=Fiction
Use the theme literally to develop work in words which reflect current or historic studies of the cosmos. Or become the next Jules Verne, Robert Heinlein, or other sci-fi author.
Send us your thought provoking existentialism, your phobias, your darkest moments. Entrance us with your whimsical fantasy. Move us to tears with your truth in a world of suffering. Captivate and intrigue us with your hopes and dreams.
We publish poetry, creative nonfiction, and poetry -- with a healing bent -- from those across the globe.
Honoring Steve Kowit’s contributions to American Poetry
Justice is the center of gravity and resistance is how we get there.
Seeking works that tackle both the physical and the intangible trials and joys of possessing and being a body.
We explore original work which inspires awareness of the human condition.
Life often offers us both: beauty and terror. Where is the Eye of the Tiger in you?
The personal, engaging and funny aspects of saying "Never again."
Creating peace within ourselves and with others is a journey. What does your journey look like?
No lurid sexual adventures or drug-induced hazes.
Seeking works that tackle both the physical and the intangible trials and joys of possessing and being a body.
The 2023 CBC Short Story Prize is now open for submissions!
A great way to know the impact of your opening!
We want contributors to explore every facet of our themes, really getting in between the cracks, in the corners, all the forgotten places that no one ever thinks to explore.
We are looking for pieces of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that portray the writer's interpretation of purgatory.
We seek work that actively pushes boundaries, that forces us to question traditions and tastes.
Three prizes of $1,000 each and publication in Briar Cliff Review are given annually for a poem, a short story, and an essay.
We are open to all styles, but we favor nonfiction with an edge.
Submit to us your best, the box under your bed marked UNSHARABLE, the orphan poem or black sheep fiction. Send us your experimentals; be vulnerable, be calculated.