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
Short Story (up to 2,500 words; fiction)* Competition opens: September 1, 2021 Deadline: October 31, 2021 *(Word count includes all words contained in the work including but not limited to titles, footnotes, introductions, etc. Submissions over the specified word count will be disqualified.) Our word limits are strict in each category. To calculate word counts, […]
Call for submissions: Fall 2021 (3.2) Childhood memories (print issue)Submission window opens September 1, closing November 1.
Ninth Letter will be accepting submissions of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry for a special online edition with the theme of "Return"
We welcome prose from flash fiction and poetry to stories and essays, including scripts and screenplays, up to 49,000 words.
We are looking for quality poetry, fiction, nonfiction and Siouxland essays.
We are especially interested in work that addresses contemporary North American concerns and issues, particularly with the environment, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and class.
The Gabriele Rico Challenge for Nonfiction recognizes outstanding works of creative nonfiction.
the Edwin Markham Prize honors outstanding works of poetry. Our taste is eclectic and celebrates the wonderful diversity of forms, styles, and levels of diction available to the contemporary poet.
This award is intended to recognize the finest speculative fiction, which can include, but is not limited to, work influenced by the postmodern science-fiction of Kurt Vonnegut.
We are dedicating this issue to the climate crisis.
Participating poets can be any age, but must not have published a full-length book of poetry.
The Malahat Review invites entries for its annual Open Season Awards in: poetry, short fiction and creative nonfiction.
Previously unpublished novels, novellas, and collections of closely linked short stories may be submitted for the competition.
Each entry can consist of one or two prose poems, flash fictions, or flash creative non-fiction works of up to 500 words.
We are looking for work that addresses, directly, or indirectly, climate change and humanity’s impact on the environment.
Harpur Palate accepts original, previously unpublished poems in any style, form, or genre.
We invite middle and high school students ages 11-19 to tell a short story about a meaningful life experience in 600 words or fewer.
SomeShortStories.com will feature a new short story each day read by one of our talented cast members on-camera as a “video audiobook”
We are currently accepting submissions for our Fall Reading Period.
We’re looking for the traditional and the innovative, the true and the imaginary.