184 Recently Opened Submission Calls, Upcoming Deadlines, Contests, Theme Calls, and More

Where to Submit This Week (5.26.25)

May 26, 2025

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53 Best Lit Mags to Send Your Work This Week—Handpicked, Curated, Data-Backed & Ranked

Shannan Mann

May 26

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Happy Monday, friends!

We have an insanely long newsletter today with 184 submission opportunities. I don’t about you guys, but it’d probably take me a week of nothing but submitting to just submit everywhere here. Hopefully, you’ll be able to pick out some mags that catch your eye and make a solid plan for submitting along the way.

One tip I can offer is this: If you’re unsure when to submit to a call within any given reading period, go ahead and submit as soon as you hear about it or as soon as it opens (as long as they allow for simultaneous submissions). It’s a myth that editors don’t start reading submissions until the reading period is fully closed. A lot of us love to read subs as they come and will often get attached to special pieces early on.

Alright, now I’ll let you loose in this crazy sub-travaganza (okay, that came out awkward) below!

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Benjamin Davis

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Kailey Brennan DelloRusso

May 21

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5 Personal Essay Prompts and 6 Lit Mags to Submit Your Finished Essays

Bea Becker

May 22

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9 Pitch Calls Paying $50→$1,000

Catherine Baab

May 23

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Black background with white text reading SUCCESS STORIES

Jane Bloomfield

: My poem "Accordion Crimes" has just been published in the autumn issue of a fine line Edited by Cadence Chung (latest collection 'Mad Diva', Otago Uni Press.)

Yuriana Kim

: My short story “My Avatar” has just been published by Lemonwood Quarterly.

Colleen S. Harris: I have three poems published as The Ash Psalms at The Brussels Review.

George Evans: My poem / hybrid / short fiction thingie "Ctrl" is going to be published in the inaugural issue of shoegaze literary.

Want to show up in our success stories? Drop a quick one-line comment about a piece you’ve had published in the past week or two—like, “My story ‘Dogs on a Cold Copper Floor’ was published in The Paris Review!” Feel free to include a link. Just one line, please.

This week, we’ve got →

2 Recently Opened Submission Calls
80 Last Chances to Submit
32 Theme Calls to Inspire You!
13 New Magazines Added to Our Database
4 Lit Mags That Are Always Open for Submissions
53 Contests Closing This Week

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DISCLAIMER: We take great pains to ensure our data is accurate. However, depending on when you see this, some mags might have closed—especially if they have submission caps!

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L'Esprit Literary Review → Deadline: May 26 | Fee: $3 | Pay: $10 flat | Open for Multimedia, Fiction, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 3% | 1K+ followers | United States | 2022 — "We publish consciousness-forward fiction and thought. Send us short stories, creative non-fiction, critical essays, autotheory, and novel extracts in the revolutionary spirit of High Modernism. We want the most fearless, risk-adept writing we can find."

Hypertext Magazine → Deadline: May 31 | Fee: $5 | Pay: $40 flat | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 120 days | A: 11.76% | 2K+ followers | United States | 2009 — "Hypertext Magazine & Studio publishes original, brave, and provocative narratives of historically marginalized, emerging, and established writers online and in print; HMS teaches writing workshops that spark curiosity, empower creative expression, and promote self-advocacy."

Adi Magazine → Deadline: May 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ✖️ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 4K+ followers | United States | 2019 — "Through narrative journalism, experimental essays, fiction, poetry, commentary, and art, Adi celebrates the conversations often marginalized from mainstream Western debates on policy, creating a space for exploration and insisting that policy reflects lived experiences."

Arcturus → Deadline: May 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction, Hybrid, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | 200+ followers | United States | 2016 — "We have no restrictions on the content we publish, except that we’re passionate about publishing new perspectives — new ideas, new voices, new worlds, new challenges, new ways of seeing — a theme that can take an infinite number of shapes, including speculative fiction, flash fiction, experimental "

Dappled Things → Deadline: May 31 | Fee: No | Pay: $20–$50 or $100/piece | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction, Multimedia, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 78 days | A: 14.81% | 4K+ followers | United States | 2005 — "Dappled Things is a Catholic literary magazine, and this raises the question of what Catholic literature is in the first place. A quarterly journal of ideas, art, and faith, publishing fiction, poetry, interviews, essays, visual art, and more."

Plenitude → Deadline: May 31 | Fee: No | Pay: $60 - $125/piece | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Hybrid | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 180 days | A: 12.28% | 1K+ followers | Canada — "Canada’s only queer literary magazine. We promote the growth and development of LGBTQ2S+ literature through online publication of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, book reviews, and interviews by both emerging and established LGBTQ2S+ writers."

War, Literature & the Arts → Deadline: May 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction, Multimedia, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 1989 — "In 1989 WLA was launched as a simple collection of six essays examining the nexus of culture, conflict, and war. Artists of all types share wars' jagged and fragmented horrors alongside its provocative and captivating narratives."

Trestle Ties → Deadline: May 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Multimedia, Hybrid, Nonfiction, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States — "Trestle Ties' mission is to create a bridge to publication and access to readers for emerging writers. We seek to create a safe and respectful place for emerging voices and to foster new writers. We also want to cultivate diversity, in both voice and form."

The Metaworker Literary Magazine → Deadline: May 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 90 days | A: 6.67% | 3K+ followers | United States | 2015 — "At The Metaworker, we publish work that offers a wide range of new perspectives, upends stereotypes and tropes, plays with form or style, or that otherwise surprises, challenges, or enchants. New prose, poetry, art & more published every Monday at noon PST."

The Common → Deadline: Jun 1 | Fee: Some | Pay: $40 - $200/piece | Open for Nonfiction, Poetry, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 240 days | A: 1.39% | 15K+ followers | United States | 2010 — "A literary organization whose mission is to deepen our individual and collective sense of place. Based at Amherst College, we aim to serve as a vibrant common space for the global exchange of ideas and experiences through three main areas of activity: publishing, public programming, and mentorship and education."

Love Me, Love My Belly → Deadline: Jun 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 2K+ followers | United States — "Love Me, Love My Belly (LMLMB) is a print zine dedicated to the acceptance of self and imperfection as beauty. It’s about the space between us, our differences, our scars, our wobbly bits, and our power as it relates to the bodies we live in."

IHRAM Publishes → Deadline: Jun 1 | Fee: No | Pay: $50/piece | Open for Multimedia, Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 35K+ followers | United States | 2017 — "The IHRAM magazine was created with a simple goal: to celebrate and uplift up-and-coming authors from all over the world; each of the authors in this anthology contend with their identities in the context of their environments, providing their unique perspectives on issues of human rights."

Temple In A City → Deadline: Jun 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Hybrid, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 60 days | A: 5% | 800+ followers | Canada | 2025 — "Flash fiction, poetry and letter for release, whether from relief or a tornado. Great writing lives within and outside the margins of its time. Like a favourite book you’ve scribbled all kinds of notes in, we’re interested in the book but also the scribbles. The ephemera of the moment in transit."

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Lucky Jefferson | Theme: Estallido → Deadline: May 31 | Fee: No | Pay: $15–$25/piece or $15–$25 flat | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Hybrid, Nonfiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 45 days | A: 8.97% | 7K+ followers | United States | 2018 — "An award-winning literary journal that generates interactive conversations around poetry through art and accessible programs. Lucky Jefferson is proud to feature writers who have never been published, routinely excluded perspectives, and those who sought to pursue writing later in life."

coalitionist. | Theme: Formative: David Lynch (micro and flash nonfiction) → Deadline: May 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 3 days | 2K+ followers | United States | 2025 — "A NEW SUBSTACK PUBLICATION from the coalition (coalitionfordigitalnarratives.org) featuring uplifting nonfiction about cats, formative moments, and little joys. A sister publication of coalitionworks literary journal. Priority to previously published works from defunct lit mags."

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fractured literary | Fee: No | Pay: $50–$75/piece | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 60 days | A: 1.30% | 10K+ followers | United States | 2020 — "We want to find Flash with emotional resonance and characters we care about, who come to life through their actions and responses to the world around them. We’re searching for Flash that investigates the mysteries of being human, the sorrow and the joy of connecting to the diverse population around us."

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Peter Hinchcliffe Short Fiction Award by The New Quarterly → Deadline: May 28 | Fee: $40 | Prize: $1,000 flat | Open for Fiction — “While there is no word limit to short fiction entries, most fall within the range of 2000 – 5000 words.”

A Very Short Story Contest → Deadline: May 30 | Fee: No | Prize: No | Open for Fiction — “Entry must consist of no more than 10 words.”

Story Street's Summertime Sadness Flash Fiction Contest by Story Street Review | Theme: Story Street Writer's Summertime Sadness Flash Fiction Contest → Deadline: May 30 | Fee: No | Prize: $175 | Open for Fiction — “100 words maximum (Title does not count)”

Quarterly Creative Nonfiction Essay Contest → Deadline: May 30 | Fee: $12 | Prize: $1,250 flat | Open for Nonfiction — ”Piece must be between 200-1000 words.”

Writer's Digest Self-Published Book Awards by Writer's Digest → Deadline: May 30 | Fee: $100 | Prize: $17,000 flat | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction — ”For the sake of separating them entirely from genre fiction, are combined into their own category. Literary fiction is generally more concerned with style and characterization, and may be paced more slowly than commercial fiction. It usually centers on a timeless, complex theme. Mainstream fiction is usually faster paced, with a stronger plot line (and more events and/or higher stakes). Characterization may not be as central to the story and the theme may be more obvious than literary fiction. The category of both of these two indicates that the book would generally appeal to a larger audience and isn't confined by the rules and structure you might see in a typical genre.”

BOA Editions Short Fiction Prize → Deadline: May 31 | Fee: $30 | Prize: $1,000 flat | Open for Fiction — ”Minimum of 100 pages; maximum of 200 pages.”

Susan Kamil Emerging Writer Fellowships → Deadline: May 31 | Fee: No | Prize: $5,000 flat | Open for Fiction — ”Please submit a fiction writing sample, not to exceed 7,500 words, as a double-spaced Word document (.doc or .docx). The submission must include page numbers. The writing sample may be either a novel excerpt or one complete short story. If you write primarily “flash fiction” or “short shorts” (1,000 words or less) you are permitted to submit multiple stories as long as the total word count does not exceed the previously stated limit. In any case, we recommend that you submit a sample that can be considered as a whole, even if it’s part of a larger work or made up of multiple shorter pieces.”

Robert Traver Fly-Fishing Writing Award → Deadline: May 31 | Fee: $25 | Prize: $2,500 flat | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction — "To be eligible, the Traver Award stories and essays must demonstrate high literary value in one or more of these categories: The joy of fly-fishing: personal and philosophic experience Ecology: knowledge and protection of the natural world Humor: piscatorial friendships and fun on the water Pieces must not exceed 3,000 words."

James A. Winn Prize by Michigan Quarterly Review → Deadline: May 31 | Fee: $20 | Prize: $1,500 flat | Open for Nonfiction — "This prize is named honor of former University of Michigan English Professor James A. Winn. Each year’s winner receives $1500 and publication in MQR."

Anhinga Prize for Poetry → Deadline: May 31 | Fee: $28 | Prize: $1,500 flat | Open for Poetry — "The Anhinga Prize for Poetry began in 1983. The competition is open to all U. S. poets for a manuscript of original poetry in English. The winner receives $1000, 25 author copies, and a 50% discount on books. We will also offer an online reading for the winner."

Off the Grid Poetry Prize → Deadline: May 31 | Fee: $25 | Prize: $1,000 flat | Open for Poetry — "The Off the Grid Prize recognizes the work of older poets and highlights important contemporary voices in poetry. Winners receive $1000 and publication, promotion, and distribution of their book in print and audio formats. We are looking for work by poets over 60."

Guy Owen Prize by Southern Poetry Review → Deadline: May 31 | Fee: $20 | Prize: $1,000 flat | Open for Poetry — "Submit 3-5 poems (10 pages maximum)"

Cranked Anvil Flash Fiction Competition → Deadline: May 31 | Fee: £5 | Prize: £150 flat | Open for Fiction — "500 word max. You can enter up to THREE stories in each quarterly competition."

Cutbank Chapbook Contest by CutBank → Deadline: May 31 | Fee: $20 | Prize: $1,500 flat | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction — "Manuscripts should be 25-40 typed pages in length of poetry (a cohesive poetry manuscript), fiction (either a short fiction collection or novella), or creative nonfiction (one long essay or a collection of short essays)."

Bath Flash Fiction Award → Deadline: May 31 | Fee: £9 | Prize: £1,460 flat | Open for Fiction — "Our goal is promote flash fiction for both writers and readers and to bring the genre to a wider audience. Running a three-times-a-year rolling flash fiction award with substantial prizes and chance of publication gives writers a big incentive to create great flash."

Cave Canem Poetry Prize → Deadline: May 31 | Fee: No | Prize: $10,000 flat | Open for Poetry —" Launched in 1999 with Rita Dove’s selection of Natasha Trethewey’s Domestic Work, this first-book award is dedicated to the discovery of exceptional manuscripts by Black poets of African descent."

Emerging Writer Awards → Deadline: May 31 | Fee: $12 | Prize: $1,500 flat | Open for Fiction, Poetry — "Winners of the 2025 Emerging Writer Awards received full tuition support for our January Seminar and Writers’ Workshop Program, round-trip airfare, lodging, a $500 honorarium, and appeared on stage during the Seminar."

First Novel Prize → Deadline: May 31 | Fee: £25 | Prize: £1,500 flat | Open for Fiction — "Novel extract of up to 5,000 words."

Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction → Deadline: May 31 | Fee: $30 | Prize: $1,000 flat | Open for Fiction — "More than seventy short-story collections have appeared in the Flannery O’Connor Award series, which was established to encourage gifted emerging writers by bringing their work to a national readership."

Haiku Society of America Annual Awards → Deadline: May 31 | Fee: No | Prize: $1,800 flat | Open for Poetry — "Must use Rengay verse form"

Immigrant Writing Prize → Deadline: May 31 | Fee: $20 | Prize: $10,000 flat | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction — “Few literary prizes are devoted to the celebration of immigrant writing. Fewer still are dedicated to providing a platform for immigrant writers by publishing their work. Chief among these is the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing.”

A Woman's Write Novel Contest → Deadline: May 31 | Fee: $60 | Prize: $600 flat | Open for Fiction — "Enter the Annual AWW International [Unpublished] Novel Contest! All submissions receive a timely, thorough, thoughtful critique. Winners receive money, certificates and notification on our site."

Connecticut Poetry Award → Deadline: May 31 | Fee: $15 | Prize: $550 flat | Open for Poetry — "Submit up to three previously unpublished poems of any form, in one document, no more than one poem per page; 80-line limit."

River Heron Poetry Prize by River Heron Review → Deadline: May 31 | Fee: $15 | Prize: $700 flat | Open for Poetry — "Poets may submit up to 3 poems, 5 pages maximum."

Black River Chapbook Competition → Deadline: May 31 | Fee: $30 | Prize: $500 flat | Open for Hybrid, Poetry, Nonfiction, Multimedia — "Collaborative collections are welcome. Hybrid/multi-genre submissions are also welcome; please enter under the submission category that best fits your work."

E-Chapbook Competition → Deadline: May 31 | Fee: $10 | Prize: $400 flat | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Multimedia — "Manuscripts must be between twelve to twenty-six (12-26) pages in length Between March 1-15, submissions are free. After March 15, submissions cost $10."

RockPaperPoem Poetry Prize Contest by RockPaperPoem → Deadline: May 31 | Fee: $10 | Prize: $300 flat | Open for Poetry — "Submit 1-3 poems. Grand Prize--$300, Runners-Up (2)--$150 each"

Moon City Short Fiction Award → Deadline: May 31 | Fee: $27 | Prize: $1,000 flat | Open for Fiction — "Manuscripts should fall between 30,000 and 65,000 words."

Jeff Sharlet Memorial Award for Veterans by Iowa Review → Deadline: May 31 | Fee: No | Prize: $3,250 flat | Open for Poetry, Fiction — "Submit up to 8 pages of poetry."

Quarterly Flash Fiction Contest → Deadline: May 31 | Fee: $10 | Prize: $1,350 flat | Open for Fiction — "Piece must be 250-750 words. The title is not to be counted in your word count. We use MS Word’s word count to determine the submitted entry’s word count."

Two Sylvias Chapbook Contest → Deadline: May 31 | Fee: $18 | Prize: $500 flat | Open for Poetry — "17-24 pages of poetry (not including title page, table of contents, end notes)."

Minds Shine Bright Places Writing Competition | Theme: Minds Shine Bright Places Writing Competition → Deadline: May 31 | Fee: AU$15 | Prize: $5,000 | Open for Fiction, Poetry — "5000 words limit 1000 words short form (flash) fiction Only one piece of fiction or poetry can be submitted in each entry."

Short Story Contest: PRIDE by litl | Theme: Short Story Contest: PRIDE → Deadline: May 31 | Fee: $3 | Prize: $50 | Open for Fiction — "As institutions scale back their commitments to diversity and inclusion, we ask: what does Pride look like when it is no longer palatable, profitable, or polite? For this contest, we invite fiction that reimagines queerness not as something to be tolerated but as a force for radical liberation. How can we still uphold joy that disrupts, kinship that defies bloodlines, and characters who love, live, and rage beyond the limits of respectability. Send us stories that riot. Stories that shimmer. Stories that refuse to shrink. We accept stories between 1000 to 4000 words. We will publish the whole story on this Instagram page. All submissions are read and marked using a blind judgement process. Stories are judged on originality, craft, emotional impact, and depth. Simultaneous submissions welcome but notify us if accepted elsewhere."

Write Track → Deadline: May 31 | Fee: No | Prize: No | Open for Fiction — "Core Concepts: character development, description, pacing For this challenge, redraft/revise one prior Write Track submission from this rotation: January, February or March, 2025. Only those who submitted and received actionable Judges’ Feedback are eligible for this challenge. This challenge is accessible by private link only; you will find the link to submit in your feedback document."

Elegant Literature Award for New Writers by Elegant Literature → Deadline: May 31 | Fee: $10 | Prize: $3,500 flat | Open for Fiction — "Minimum 500 words. Maximum 2000. Word count does not include title of work."

Flying South Competition → Deadline: May 31 | Fee: $15 | Prize: $2,100 flat | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction — "Poetry – 3 poems, 10 pages max."

Blue Pencil First Novel Award → Deadline: May 31 | Fee: £25 | Prize: £1,650 flat | Open for Fiction — "Upload your opening chapter or chapters up to 5000 words plus a 300 word synopsis and a covering letter with some information about the novel and your career as a writer. Your submission should be three separate documents."

Goldfinch Novel Award → Deadline: May 31 | Fee: £10 | Prize: £500 flat | Open for Fiction — "Submission is required of the opening 3,000 words (max) of your novel for adults or young adults plus a 1-page synopsis. Your novel should be complete and be at least 50,000 words in its completed form. Those longlisted will be required to submit their full, completed manuscript for a second stage of judging before shortlisting (notification of longlist will be via email and through the Goldfinch and Alton Arts Festival websites)."

Solar Flare by Sunspot Lit → Deadline: May 31 | Fee: $5 | Prize: $100 flat | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Hybrid, Multimedia — "Maximum of 500 words for short stories or nonfiction, 12 lines for poetry, and 8 pages for graphic novels, scripts, or screenplays. No size requirements for painting, photography, video stills or sculpture, although each entry is limited to one image."

Annual Lush Triumphant Literary Awards by subTerrain → Deadline: May 31 | Fee: $30 | Prize: $3,000 flat | Open for Fiction, Poetry — "Max 3,000 words"

Globe Soup Open Contests → Deadline: May 31 | Fee: £8 | Prize: £1,000 flat | Open for Fiction — "Guidelines vary by month."

Bacopa Literary Review Contest → Deadline: Jun 1 | Fee: $3 | Prize: $200 | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry — "Submissions will be open 3/3/25-6/1/25. $3 Submissions fee. Prizes in each category--one Award ($200 prize) and one Honorable Mention ($100 prize). Formatting: Up to 2,500 words, Arial 12 point font, double-spaced. Submit as .doc, .docx, or .rtf file."

Halifax Ranch Fiction Prize by American Short Fiction → Deadline: Jun 1 | Fee: $20 | Prize: $2,500 flat | Open for Fiction — "All entries must be single, self-contained works of fiction, between 2,000-6,500 words."

Salamander Fiction Prize by Salamander → Deadline: Jun 1 | Fee: $15 | Prize: $1,000 flat | Open for Fiction — "Send no more than one story per entry. Each story must not exceed 30 double-spaced pages in 12-point font."

Boulevard Emerging Poets Contest by Boulevard → Deadline: Jun 1 | Fee: $18 | Prize: $1,000 flat | Open for Poetry — "$18 dollars for a packet of three poems. Fee includes one-year subscription to Boulevard. The poems may be a sequence or unrelated."

CBC Poetry Prize → Deadline: Jun 1 | Fee: $25 | Prize: $10,000 flat | Open for Poetry — "When the competition is open you can submit an original, unpublished poem or collection of poems, up to 600 words in length. All Canadian citizens and permanent residents of Canada are welcome."

1000 Below: Flash Prose And Poetry Contest by Midway Journal → Deadline: Jun 1 | Fee: $10 | Prize: $800 flat | Open for Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction — "Entries and payments must be received through Midway Journal‘s online submission manager under “-1000 Below: Flash Prose and Poetry Contest.” You may submit an unlimited number of entries, but a new entry fee must be paid for each new submission. You may also submit to each genre. However, there is only one grand prize winner, one second prize winner and one third prize winner and not a winner in each genre. Paste the title of your submission and your contact information (name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address) in the cover letter box. Your name and contact information must not appear anywhere on the manuscript you upload. Previously published work will not be accepted. Simultaneous submissions are permitted, but must be withdrawn from the contest if accepted elsewhere. Prose (Fiction and Nonfiction): 1 piece per entry, up to 1,000 words per piece."

Auburn Witness Poetry Prize by Southern Humanities Review → Deadline: Jun 1 | Fee: $15 | Prize: $1,000 flat | Open for Poetry — "A prize of $1,000 and publication in Southern Humanities Review is given annually for a poem of witness in honor of the late poet Jake Adam York. The winner also receives travel expenses to give a reading at a poetry event at Auburn University in Alabama in October."

Dan Veach Prize for Younger Writers by Atlanta Review → Deadline: Jun 1 | Fee: No | Prize: $100 flat | Open for Poetry — "The Dan Veach Prize for Younger Poets solicits poems from college-age students, aged 18-23, on any subject or style. Poems with an international focus are especially welcome, but all poems must be written in English."

Geri Digiorno Prize by Raleigh Review → Deadline: Jun 1 | Fee: $7 | Prize: $300 flat | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Hybrid — "The contents of each submission can be either: - 2 poems and a work of visual art (Possible Cover Inclusion) created by one person. - 2 poems and a work of flash nonfiction (1000 word max on the flash nonfiction) created by one person. - 1 poem and 1 work of visual art and 1 work of flash nonfiction created by one person."

Room Magazine Creative Non-Fiction Contest by Room → Deadline: Jun 1 | Fee: CA$59 | Prize: $1,350 flat | Open for Nonfiction — "FIRST PRIZE: $1000 + publication in Room; SECOND PRIZE: $250 + publication in Room; THIRD PRIZE: $100 + publication on Room‘s website."

Bard Fiction Prize → Deadline: Jun 1 | Fee: No | Prize: Yes | Open for Fiction — "To apply, candidates should write a cover letter explaining the project they plan to work on while at Bard and submit a CV, along with three copies of the published book they feel best represents their work. No manuscripts will be accepted."

Annual Writing Competition → Deadline: Jun 2 | Fee: $20 | Prize: $23,000 flat | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry — "Writer’s Digest has been shining a spotlight on up-and-coming writers in all genres through its Annual Writing Competition for over 90 years. Enter our Annual Writing Competition for your chance to win and have your work be seen by editors and agents! Almost 500 winners will be chosen."

Jeannie Morgenstern

May 27

I had hybrid fiction, "Do Not Look Here," published in Brink's 9th Issue this week!

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Chen Du

Chen Du and Xisheng Chen's translation of Yan An's poems “Encounter With an Enigmatic Fish” and “Legendary Red of the Qin Mountains” was published by the Notre Dame Review (a journal of the University of Notre Dame College of Arts and Letters) in print in April 2025 in the USA, https://ndreview.nd.edu/issues/

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