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
The Lifespan Series offers a unique opportunity to contribute works taking characters across the arc of their whole lives, whether prose or poetry, fiction or non-fiction. This final in the series must include something about death and dying.
Carcanet Press provides the most comprehensive and diverse lists of modern and classic poetry in English and in translation.
For haiku inspiration, look closely at everything around you in nature, at home, at school, and at work.
Myths, Gods & Immortals brings together the new and the ancient, familiar stories with a fresh and imaginative twist. We're looking for stories that reveal hidden themes and cast fresh perspectives on the well-known stories.
Lean into ambiguity & leave us guessing. Toe the line between two worlds. Send us your favorite works that defy genre & conventional exceptions.
Please send us your verses, whether they cling to classic cliffs or dance on the edge of new waves. Together, let’s craft a tapestry of haiku that honors tradition and propels it into the future.
Food, glorious food! The kind for your body and the kind for your soul – that’s what we’re craving for our August 2024 issue.
Published poems will be considered for a Pushcart Prize nomination.
What does Belonging mean to you?
Cats have always been considered companions and playmates that brighten our days and enrich our lives. What would we do without them?
We can't wait to read all the heartwarming, inspirational, and hysterical stories you have about your dogs.
This issue of Sinister Wisdom seeks contributions by lesbian, queer, and/or trans people self-identified as Mad, mentally disabled, and/or psychiatric survivors.
Send us your monsters—your cryptids, your undead, your aliens, your un-human creatures, your bodies of difference, your destroyer of straightforward categories and binaries.
We're looking for submissions that explore what we do in the moments after epiphany; the ways in which motion and stillness are inseparable.
Bad Betty is an award-winning independent publisher of new poetry, and curator of live literature events.
We encourage your imagination to run wild with our theme.
There are things we carry with us through life: physical, emotional, metaphorical. Free yourself. Tell us about it.
Every year, we look forward to this prize, for which emerging and established poets are considered in equal measure and as a result are often published side by side in Frontier Poetry.
Don’t be afraid to bring us broken, heavy stories. We can handle it.
“The destiny of every walking man is to immerse himself in the panorama surrounding him, to the point of becoming one with it and, ultimately, to vanish.” —Federico Castigliano