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
Summer just rolled up in a cool Retro vibe and is inviting us to take it easy and live a little! Share the Summer of your memories and dreams: lazing in a hammock, swimming, napping, fireflies, hot dogs, sandcastles and the endless warm sunny days.
Send your short stories, poetry, and personal essays themed around ‘The Self’ – whatever that sparks for you.
Submit work related to the area of social justice.
We review adult literary fiction, but are open to a variety of genres and styles.
Edgy is good; so is heart. Clarity is good; so is mystery. We want kinetic poetry with lifeblood and plenty of momentum.
The Drue Heinz Literature Prize recognizes and supports writers of short fiction and makes their work available to readers around the world.
The Poetry London Prize is a major, internationally renowned award for a single outstanding poem.
Our aim is to encourage as wide a range of writing as possible and the competition is open for any subject and any style.
THEMA Literary Journal examines how different writers respond to a single quirky theme.
The BLR Prizes award outstanding writing related to themes of health, healing, illness, the mind, and the body.
We read fiction and nonfiction and are happy to see collections inclusive of both.
Life is fraught with mishaps and misadventures, so we are creating a full-color issue dedicated to work about errors in judgment, getting lost, stumbles and falls, things not going according to plan, strokes of bad luck, setbacks and disasters, accidents, breakdowns, bad breaks and blunders.
How do your characters connect for mutual assistance, emotional support, understanding? Submit short stories and poems exploring the meaning of true connection and the nourishment it can supply.
"Submerge" can be interpreted in many ways, and we’re excited to see how submitters respond to this prompt.
50% of any profits will be donated to the Severn Hospice.
We provide a venue for writers of any background, at any point in their literary careers, at any age, to showcase their best writing.
Send us your stories that need to be told, and that poem that you weren’t sure about. Your momentary glimpse into the past, we’re examining the raw bones of love.
Whether it’s pressed out or held beyond endurance, bated or panted, BREATH animates our next issue. From the first breath to the last one, or any of those in between, we want to see where the theme will take you.
Essays, humor, satire, personal experience, and features on topics relating to women are our primary focus.
We want works that engage our hearts and minds. Language matters. We like lyrical. We like dark humor. Most of all, perhaps, we want stories that matter.