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
Numbers as friends or enemies, stories of dyscalculia or math savants; stories about rounding errors, countdowns, numerology; lucky or unlucky numbers; stories about lotteries or elections are all fair game.
It's summer and the hermit crabs are everywhere! In honor of their shelled and many-legged goodness, the Icebreakers are requesting all submissions be hermit crab pieces.
You are welcome to submit anything from eco / environmental poetry to pastoral poetry. As always, we encourage you to bend the rules with both content and form.
We print poetry by emerging authors. We love writing that is beautiful and bad (in the Foxy Brown sense).
This issue is about 'silence' and we welcome poems up to 40 lines on that theme
The contest is open to all styles of poetry from national and international participants writing in English.
Whether it’s love at first sight, misunderstood intentions, a big reveal, forbidden love or a decisive moment, play with unconventional storytelling and make the judges take notice.
The Coniston Prize is an annual award that recognizes an exceptional group of poems by a woman writing in English. Any poet who identifies as a woman is eligible.
We see “woman” as a broad category with space for an array of gender identities and expressions. We welcome contributions from bi+ women who identify as trans, non-binary, cis, and beyond.
We want to know about the road trip gone wrong, the family vacation from hell, and the time your mother-in-law almost burnt down the house on Thanksgiving.
Halfway Down the Stairs publishes poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction and accepts work in most genres.
We encourage contributors to explore how matters of the spirit and environmental thinking influence their observations about the coming election.
PRISM strives to uplift and shine a light on emerging and established voices across Canada and internationally.
We want to hear from the girls, the guuurls, the butches, the fags, femmes, twinks, DINKs, dykes and bears. The aros, aces and the greys.
The First Line is an exercise in creativity for writers and a chance for readers to see how many different directions we can take when we start from the same place.
Sound could be taken in the literal sense, but sound and silence implies dissent, the eruption and censure of the protest or the riot. We are especially excited to welcome submissions that engage this conceptual territory, loosely defined.
Isn’t the start of something new incredibly, deliciously exciting? Here at CRAFT, we want to share in that excitement by reading the first chapter(s) of your novel in progress.
This month, we want stories about sports. About the dreams involved. About the gambling. About the competition. About the broken bones. If it involves sports and it’s noir, we’ll see you at the finish line.
Who were you in the 1970s? An adult, a teen, a child, or just a glimmer in someone's eye?
We’re eager to see where your creativity takes you in this sunlit journey. Let your words bring the heat and magic of summer to life.