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Presses
7.13 Books / Now / Fiction / Fee: $5
Academy of American Poets — Ambroggio Prize / Due: February 15, 2022 / Poetry Translated from Spanish to English / Prize: $1,000 + Publication by University of Arizona Press / Judge: Raina J. León
Academy of American Poets — Harold Morton Landon Translation Award / Due: February 15, 2022 / Poetry Translated into English / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judge: David Shook
Airlie Press / January 1 – March 15, 2022 / Poetry / Fee: $25 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
American Poetry Review — APR/Honickman First Book Prize / Due: November 1, 2022 / Poetry / Fee: $25 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication with Copper Canyon Press / Judge: Jericho Brown
Another New Calligraphy / Now / Music, Books
Apocalypse Party / Year-Round / All Genres
Autumn House Press — Contests / January 1, 2022 – May 31, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $30 / Prize: $2,500 + Publication / Judges: Carl Phillips (Poetry), Venita Blackburn (Fiction), Lia Purpura (Nonfiction)
AWP Award Series 2022 / January 1 – February 28, 2022 / Poetry, Short Fiction, Novel, Nonfiction / Fee: $20 / Prize: $5,500 (Poetry and Short Fiction) or $2,500 (Novel and Nonfiction) + Publication / Judges: Naomi Shihab Nye (Poetry), ZZ Packer (Short Fiction), TBA (Novel), Brian Turner (Nonfiction)
Baobab Press / Year-Round / Short Fiction, Novels, Creative Nonfiction, Comics and Visual Narrative
Black Lawrence Press — The Big Moose Prize / November 1, 2021 – January 31, 2022 / Novels / Fee: $25 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
Black Lawrence Press — The Hudson Prize / January 1 – March 31, 2022 / Poetry, Short Fiction / Fee: $27 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
Black Lawrence Press — Immigrant Writing Series / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose, and Hybrids from Immigrant Writers / Prize: $500 + Publication
Calamari Archive, Ink / Now / Proposals for Books and Albums
Canis Major Books / Year-Round / Fiction / Fee: $20
Center for African American Poetry and Poetics — First or Second Book Prize / Due: February 15, 2022 / Poetry, Hybrid, Speculative Prose, Translation / Fee: FREE / Prize: $3,000 + Publication with Autumn House Press / Judge: Evie Shockley
co•im•press / Now / Translations
Cooper Dillon Books / Year-Round / Poetry / Fee: $10 (or Buy a Book)
Colorado Review — Colorado Prize for Poetry / Due: January 14, 2022 / Poetry / Fee: $28 / Prize: $2,500 + Publication / Judge: Gillian Conoley
Counterpath Press / Year-Round / Queries
Cowboy Jamboree Press / Now / Fiction or Nonfiction / Fee: $5 Speed Read Donation
Deep Vellum Publishing / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Translations
Disorder Press / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Art Work, Photography
Driftwood Press / Now / Novellas, Graphic Novels / Fee: $20 (Novellas Only) / Prize: $200 – $500 (Graphic Novels) or $400 (Novella) + Publication
Folly X.O. / Year-Round / Novels, Novellas, Short Story Collections, Nonfiction, Serials, Hybrid
Four Way Books – Levis Prize in Poetry / January 1 – March 31, 2022 / Poetry / Fee: $30 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judge: Jericho Brown
Futurepoem 2021/2022 Open Reading Period / Due: January 25, 2022 / Poetry, Prose, or Multi-Genre Work / Admin Fee: $4 – $8 / Publication / Guest Editors: Kay Gabriel, Renee Gladman, and Seth Price
GASHER Press / Due: February 18, 2022 / Poetry / Fee: $10 or Book Purchase
Ghost Peach Press/ January 1 – May 1, 2022 / Poetry / Fee: $22 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judge: Eduardo C. Corral
GRIEVELAND / Now / Poetry, Poetry-Like Things, Hybrid Work, and Miscellany
Half Mystic Press / Year-Round / Poetry, Novel, Novella, Short Story and Essay Collection, Memoir, Drama, Experimental
Homebound Publications — Little Bound Books / Novellas, Nonfiction
Inlandia Books / Books from Writers with a Connection to Inland Southern California / Now
Inlandia Books — The Eliud Martínez Prize / First Books of Fiction or Nonfiction by Hispanic, Latino/a/x, or Chicana/o/x Writers / Now / Fee: $17 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
Inside the Castle — The Castle Freak / January 1- March 1, 2022 / All Genres
KERNPUNKT Press / Year-Round / Novels, Novellas / Fee: $10
Kiddiepunk / Year-Round / Zines and Books Centered Around Childhood
Long Day Press / September 1 – Oct. 31, 2022 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid / Fee: Purchase of One Long Day Title
Milkweed Editions – Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry / January 1 – February 15, 2022 / Poetry from Poets Residing in Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, or Michigan / Prize: $10,000 + Publication / Judge: TBA
Moon City Press – Poetry Award / Due: May 1, 2022 / Poetry / Fee: $25 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
National Poetry Series / January 1 – March 15, 2022 / Poetry / Fee: $35 / Prize: $10,000 + Publication by Penguin Books, Beacon Press, University of Georgia Press, Milkweed Editions, or Ecco
New American Press – New American Poetry Prize / Due: January 16, 2022 / Poetry / Fee: $20 / Prize: $1,500 + Publication / Judge: Eduardo C. Corral
Omnidawn — First/Second Poetry Book Contest / January 1 – February 14, 2022 / Poetry / Fee: $27 / Prize: $3,000 + Publication / Judge: Mary Jo Bang
OOMPH! Press / Now / Poetry in Translation, Short Prose in Translation
Orison Books – Orison Prizes in Poetry and Fiction / Due: April 1, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction / Fee: $30 / Prize: $1,500 + Publication / Judges: Rajiv Mohabir (Poetry), Tania James (Fiction)
Outpost19 / Year-Round / Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid
PANK — Big Books / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Experimental, Collaborative, Hybrid / Fee: $15
Persea Books – Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award / January 1 – March 7, 2022 / Poetry Debuts / Fee: $30 / Prize: $2,000 + Publication
Punctum Books / Now / Proposals for Unconventional Scholarly Work
Red Hen Press / Now / All Genres / Fee: $20
Red Hen Press — Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award / Due: October 31, 2022 / Poetry / Fee: $25 / Prize: $3,000 + Publication / Judge: TBA
Red Hen Press — Women’s Prose Prize / Due: February 28, 2022 / Prose by Women Writers / Fee: $25 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judge: Melanie Conroy-Goldman
Sarabande Books – Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry / January 1 – February 15, 2022 / Poetry / Fee: $29 / Prize: $2,000 + Publication / Judge: Terrance Hayes
Sarabande Books – Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction / January 1 – February 15, 2022 / Short Fiction / Fee: $29 / Prize: $2,000 + Publication / Judge: Susan Minot
Saturnalia Books — Poetry and Editors’ Prizes / February 15 – April 5, 2022 / Poetry / Fee: $30 / Prize: $2,000 (Poetry Prize) or $500 (Editors’ Prize) + Publication
Schism Press / Now / Philosophy, Theory, Antithetical Literary Works, Experimental Works
Southeast Missouri State University Press – Cowles Poetry Prize/ Due: April 1, 2022 / Poetry / Fee: $25 / Prize: $2,000 + Publication
Southern Indiana Review Press – Michael Waters Poetry Prize / Due: February 1, 2022 / Poetry / Fee: $25 / Prize: $5000 + Publication / Judge: Michael Waters
Split/Lip Press / January 1 – March 1, 2022 / Fiction, Flash Fiction / Fee: $15
Spurl Editions / Now / Prose, Translations of Prose
Spuyten Duyvil / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose, Cross-Genre
Stillhouse Press / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction
Stillhouse Press — Novella Contest / Due: March 31, 2022 / Fiction / Fee: $25 / Prize: $500 + Publication
Switchback Books / January 1 – March 31, 2022 / First and Second Books of Poetry by Self-Identified Women and Nonbinary Writers / Fee: $15 or $25 with Book
Terrapin Books / January 24 – February 28, 2022 / Poetry / Fee: $12
Texas Review Press – The Clay Reynolds Novella Prize / January 1 – March 31, 2022 / Novellas / Fee: $20 / Prize: $500 + Publication
Texas Review Press – Southern Poetry Breakthrough Series: West Virginia / Due: February 28, 2022 / Poetry from West Virginian Poets / Series Editor: J. Bruce Fuller
Tinderbox Editions / Due: January 30, 2022 / Poetry, Hybrid / Fee: $25
Trio House Press — Trio Award for First or Second Book and Louise Bogan Award for Artistic Merit and Excellence / Due: April 30, 2022 / Poetry / Fee: $25 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
Tupelo Press / Now / Translations / Prize: $2,500 – $3000 + Publication
Two Dollar Radio / Now / Fiction / Fee: $3
Two Lines Press / Now / Novels and Short Story Collections in Translation
University of Alberta Press / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction
University of Arkansas Press – Etel Adnan Poetry Series / Due: April 15, 2022 / First or Second Books of Poetry by a Writer of Arab Heritage / Fee: $28 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Series Editors: Hayan Charara and Fady Joudah
University of Arkansas Press – Miller Williams Poetry Series / Due: September 30, 2022 / Poetry / Fee: $28 / Prize: $5,000 + Publication / Series Editor: Patricia Smith
Willow Springs Books – Emma Howell Rising Poet Prize / Due: January 15, 2022 / Debut Poetry Collections from Poets Under 35 / Fee: $25 / Prize: $2,000 + Publication
Chapbooks
Cooper Dillon Books / Year-Round / Poetry / Fee: $10 (or Buy a Book)
Cowboy Jamboree Magazine / Now / Fiction or Nonfiction / Fee: $5 Speed Read Donation
CutBank Chapbook Contest / January 1 – May 31, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Cross-Genre / Fee: $20 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
Damaged Goods Press / Now / Poetry, Essays, and Hybrid Writing from Queer and Trans Writers
DIAGRAM 2022 Chapbook Contest / Due: April 29 / Prose, Poetry, Combination, Between Genres / Fee: $24 / Award: Publication +$1,000, Finalist Chapbooks Also Considered for Publication
Disorder Press / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Francis House / Due: May 2, 2022 (Chaplets, Zines) / Poetry, Chaplets, Zines / Fee: $10 (Chapbooks), $5 (Chaplets, Zines)
Green Linden Press / December 21, 2021 – March 20, 2022 / Poetry
Greying Ghost Press- Pamphlet and Art Zine Submissions / Now / Nonfiction, Art
Harbor Review — The Editor’s Prize / Due: January 31, 2022 / Poetry / Fee: $10 / Prize: $200 + Publication
Homebound Publications – Little Bound Books / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction
Iron Horse Review – Poetry Chapbook Competition/ January 15 – March 15, 2022 / Poetry / Fee: $15 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication as an Issue of Iron Horse Review / Judge: TBA
The Massachusetts Review — Working Titles / Year-Round / Prose, Interactive / Fee: $3
Newfound — Prose Prize / September 15, 2021 – March 15, 2022 / Prose / Fee: $15 / Prize: $500 + Publication / Judge: Erika T. Wurth
Overcup Press / Year-Round / Nonfiction, Art and Culture
PANK — Little Books / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid / Fee: $12
Schaffner Press –– Nicholas Schaffner Award for Music in Literature / Due: February 2, 2022 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry / Fee: $25 / Prize: $1,000 Advance + Publication
Seven Kitchens Press — The Summer Kitchen Series / January 1 – 31, 2022 / Poetry
Tammy / Due: January 15, 2022 / All Genres / Fee: $12
Throwback Books> / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Variant Lit / Due: January 31, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Verse – Tomaž Šalamun Prize / Due: March 15, 2022 / Poetry / Fee: $17 ($13 for Students) / Prize: $1,000 + Publication with Factory Hollow Press + 1-Month Residency in Ljubljana, Slovenia / Judge: Ilya Kaminsky
Journals + Anthologies
32 Poems / Year-Round / Poetry, Reviews / Fee: $3 (Free for Reviews)
34 Orchard / January 1, 2022 – January 31, 2022 / Fiction and Poetry / Paid: $50 via PayPal
8 Poems / Year-Round / Poetry
A Public Space / Due: January 1, 2022 – January 31, 2022 / Stories, Essays, Poems / Paid: Honorarium
Aaduna / Due: March 14, 2022 / Poetry, Prose, Visual Art
A&U Magazine / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Drama and Pitches Related to HIV/AIDS
The Account / Due: March 1, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
The Acentos Review / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Translation, Cross-Genre, Art
After the Art / Year-Round / Personal Review Essays about Reading and Art
Afternoon Visitor / Year-Round / Poetry, Visual Poetry, Hybrid, Visual Art
American Literary Review / Jan. 1 – May 1 / Poetry, Fiction, Essays / Fee: $3
American Poetry Review / Now / Poetry, Nonfiction, Reviews, Interviews / Fee: $3
American Poetry Review — Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize / Due: May 15, 2022 / Poetry / Fee: $15 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
Angime / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Art, and Translations in English, Russian, or Kazakh
Annulet: A Journal of Poetics / Now / Poetry, Prose, Translations, Reviews, Annulets
Anomaly / Due: March 1, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translations, Comics, Proposals for Guest-Edited Themed Folios (Year-Round) / Fee: $3 (Waiver Available for Financial Hardship and for Black and Indigenous Writers)
Another Chicago Magazine / Now / Drama, Reviews, Interviews, Audiovisual
Anti-Heroin Chic / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Interviews, Photography
Apartment Poetry / Open: February 2022 / Poetry
*apo-press / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Critical Theory, Rituals, Spells, Reviews, Art, Music, Performances, and Hybrid Work with an Accompanied Translation
Arcturus / Year-Round / Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid
The Arkansas International / Due: January 20 – April 20, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Translations, Graphic Literature / Fee: $4 (Waivers Available to BIPOC Writers and Those Needing Financial Assistance)
Arts & Letters / Due: January 31, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $3
Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies / Now / Scholarly Writing about Nonfiction, Syllabi
Asymptote / Year-Round / Translations of Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, and Drama; Criticism; Reviews; Visual Art / Fee: $10 (Free for Those Based in Africa or Translating Work from African countries)
Atlas and Alice Literary Magazine / January 15, 2022 – February 25, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Atticus Review / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction, Mixed Media
Autofocus / Now / Poetry, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction, Hybrid
AzonaL / Year-Round / Poetry in Translation
bæst: a journal of queer forms & affects / Year-Round / All Genres
Barrelhouse / Now / Reviews
Barzakh Magazine / Now / Poetry, Prose, Hybrid, Art
Bayou Magazine / Due: May 1, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art / Fee: $3 (Fiction Only)
Bear Review / Now / Poetry / Fee: $3
beestung / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, and Art Writers Under the Two-Spirit and/or Non-Binary Umbrellas
beestung — all fiction issue / Due: March 20, 2022 / Fiction by Writers Under the Two-Spirit and/or Non-Binary Umbrellas
beestung — TRANS IS THE FUTURE. THE FUTURE IS TRANS. / Due: July 5, 2022 / Speculative and Genre-Bending Work by Writers Under the Two-Spirit and/or Non-Binary Umbrellas
Bending Genres / Due: January 14, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Microreviews
Bennington Review / Due: May 8, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Writing on Film, Cross-Genre
Better Than Starbucks / Year-Round / Free Verse Poetry, Formal Poetry, Haiku, Experimental/Form/Visual Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Poetry Translations, Art / Payment: Free eBook or PDF & $20 to Ten Featured Contributors
Big Other / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Cross-Genre, Hybrid, Art, Reviews, Interviews, Book Excerpts / Fee: $3 (All Genres Except Interviews and Reviews), $10 (Book Excerpts)
Birdcoat Quarterly / Now / Poetry, Nonfiction / Fee: $3
Biscuit Hill / Now / Poetry, Prose Poetry, Visual Poetry, Hybrids
Black Sun Lit — digital vestiges / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Translation, Drama, Art, Fragments, Ephemera
Black Warrior Review / Due: March 1, 2022 / Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction, Translations, Cross-Genre, Art / Fee: $3 (Free for Black and Indigenous Writers)
Blood Orange Review / Due: April 1, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $3
Blue Earth Review / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
Blue Mesa Review / October 1, 2021 – February 28, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
Bodega Magazine / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Bone Bouquet / Now / Poetry Reviews from Women and Non-Binary Poets
The Bookends Review / Due: January 31, 2022 / Poetry, Prose, Interviews, Reviews, Music, Art
Booth / Due: March 31, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Comics, Lists / Fee: $3
Border Crossing / Due: January 15, 2022 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
Boulevard / Due: May 1, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $3
Breakwater Review/ Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art / Fee: $3 (Free for Art)
Bridge Eight / Now / Interviews, Reviews
Brilliant Flash Fiction / Year-Round / Flash Fiction
The Broadkill Review / Now / Poetry, One Acts, Short Fiction, CNF
Broadsided Press / Now / Poetry, Prose / Fee: $3
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo / Due: January 1, 2022 – May 1, 2022 / Poetry
Cagibi / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Translations, Interviews
CALAMITY / Year-Round / Poetry, Art
Call Me [Brackets] / January 15, 2022 – April 1, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Visual Art / No Fee
The Capra Review / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
The Carolina Quarterly / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art / Fee: $2.50
Cartridge Lit / Now / Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction Inspired by Video Games
Cartridge Lit – The Airship Blog / Year-Round / Essays About Video Games
Carve Magazine / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $3
Causeway Lit / Now / Craft Essays / Fee: $2
The Centifictionist / Year-Round / Microfiction / Fee: $3
Chestnut Review / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction, Hybrid, Art, Photography / Fee: $5 (4-6 Poems, Fiction, and Nonfiction)
Chicago Review / Due: June 15, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction (Year-Round) / Fee: $5 (Poetry, Fiction)
The Cincinnati Review — miCRo / Year-Round / Poetry, Flash Fiction, Flash Nonfiction
Ciphertext / Year-Round / All Genres
Clade Song / Year-Round / Poetry, Flash Fiction, Audio, Video
Cleaver Magazine / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction / Fee: $5
Coal Hill Review / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Reviews / Fee: $3 (Reviews Free)
Colorado Review / Due: April 30, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction (Year-Round), Reviews (Year-Round) / Fee: $3 (Reviews Free)
Columbia Review / January 1 – April 1, 2022 / All Genres
The Concrete Desert Review / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Children’s Poetry and Stories, Art
Construction Magazine / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Border and Architecture Columns / Fee: $3
The Continental Review / Year-Round / Video Poetry
Copper Nickel / Due: January 15 – March 1, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Essays, Translation Folios
Cordite Poetry Review / Due: February 12, 2022 / Poetry
The Cortland Review / Now / Poetry, Translations, Review Queries
Cosmonauts Avenue / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Multimedia, Comics
Cotton Xenomorph / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Art
Court Green / January 1 – March 31, 2022 / Poetry / Fee: $3
CRAFT / Year-Round / Fiction, Flash Fiction, Craft Essays, Interviews, Reviews, Annotations
Crazyhorse — Prizes / January 1 – 31, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $20 / Prize: $2,000 + Publication / Judges: Aimee Nezhukumatathil (Poetry), Venita Blackburn (Fiction), Matt Ortile (Nonfiction)
Cream City Review / January 1 – April 1, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction, Hybrid, Art
CutBank / Due: February 1, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
CutBank — Prizes / Due: February 1, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $20 / Prize: $500 + Publication / Judges: William Jolliff (Poetry), Emily Ruskovich (Fiction), Peter Godwin (Nonfiction)
Dead Alive Magazine / Now / Cross-Genre, Experimental, Multimedia
Dead Skunk Mag / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash, Hybrid / No Fee
Denver Quarterly / Due: February 15, 2022 / Poetry, Prose, Translations, Conversations, Critiques, Performances, Art
Denver Quarterly — HAPTIC ACTS: sites and studies of embodiment / Due: February 15, 2022 / Poetry, Prose, Flash Prose, Translations, Performances
diaCRITICS / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Interviews, and Reviews from Writers of the Vietnamese/Southeast Asian Diaspora
DIAGRAM / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art, New Media
Doubleback Review / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction and Hybrid Published in Now-Defunct Journals
Dream Pop Journal / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
DREGINALD / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose, Art, Recordings, Formless Blobs, Etc.
Driftwood Press / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Visual Arts, Hybrid, Interviews, Comics, Art / Fees: $2.99 (Poetry), $3.99 (Fiction)
Driftwood Press — Contests / Due: January 15, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction / Fees: $10 (Poetry), $12 (Fiction) / Prize: $400 (Poetry) or $500 (Fiction) + Publication
Drizzle Review / Year-Round / Essays, Interviews, and Reviews Focusing on Marginalized Writers
EcoTheo Review / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose, Interviews, Reviews, Art
Ecotone / January 20 – February 2, 2022 (Fee-Free, BIPOC-only Submission Window: January 20 – 25, 2022) / Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction Engaging with the Climate Crisis / Fee: $3
ellipsis… Literature & Art / Due: January 31, 2022 / Art
elsewhere / Now / Prose Poetry, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Photography
Empty House Press / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Empty Mirror / Year-Round / Poetry, Nonfiction, Visual Art, Reviews, Interviews, Criticism
Epiphany / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $5
Exacting Clam / Now / Short Fiction, Poetry, Book, Art and Music Reviews, Essays, Interviews, and Visual Art/Illustrations
Exilé Sans Frontières / Year-Round / Poetry (Including Translations), Flash Fiction, Nonfiction (Essays and Reviews), Visual Arts / Free
Fairy Tale Review / Due: July 17, 2022 (Opens in March) / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Translation (Year-Round), Hybrid, Graphic Novel, Drama, Visual Art
Fecund / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Interviews, Reviews, Fashion Writing and Photography, Photography, Criticism, Art, Digital Media
Fiction International — Dream / Due: February 15, 2022 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Indeterminate Prose, Visuals
Figure 1 / Year-Round / Poetry
FIVE:2:ONE / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
FIVE:2:ONE — #thesideshow / Year-Round / Micro Poetry, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
F I V E S: A Companion to Denver Quartlery / Now / Interdisciplinary and Cross-Genre Work Not Typically Publishable in Print Form
Five South / Due: January 14, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction / Fee: $3
The Florida Review / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction Graphic Narrative, Reviews, Art / Fee: $2 (for Aquifer Online) $3 (for Print)
Flypaper / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Interviews, Reviews
Flyway / January 15, 2022 – February 15, 2022 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry / Fee: $3 (Waiver Available for BIPOC Authors and Authors Facing Financial Hardship)
Foglifter / Year-Round / Art from Queer Artists
Foothill / January 1 – August 31, 2022 / Poetry by Poets Enrolled in a Graduate Program
Forever Magazine / Year-Round / All Genres
Free State Review / Due: January 31, 2022 / Fiction, Nonfiction, One-Minute Plays / Fee: $3
F(r)iction / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $2.50
Fugue / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Reviews / Fee: $3 (Free for Reviews)
GASHER Journal / Due: January 17, 2022 / Poetry, Visual Poetry Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
The Georgia Review / Due: May 15, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Reviews / Fee: $3
Gertrude Press / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, and Art from Queer Writers and Artists
Gettysburg Review / Due: May 31, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art / Fee: $3
Ghost City Review / Year-Round / All Genres
The Ghost Story — The Screw Turn Flash Fiction Competition / Due: January 31, 2022 / Supernatural Short Stories / Fee: $15 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judge: Tara Lynn Masih
Gigantic Sequins / Due: January 15, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art (Year-Round), Comics (Year-Round)
Golden Walkman / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Audio
Good River Review / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose, Drama, Writing for Children
Graviton / Now / Science-Inspired Poetry and Art
Grimoire Magazine / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art, Interviews, Dreams, Dead Letters, Séances
Guernica / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Reportage
Gulf Coast / Due: March 1, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Critical Art Writing / Fee: $3
Gulf Coast — Prizes / February 15 – April 15, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: TBA / Prize: $1,500 + Publication / Judges: TBA
Half Mystic / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid and Drama Pertaining to Music
Harbor Review / Now / Interviews, Reviews
Harpy Hybrid Review / January 15 – February 15, 2022 / Hybrids, Art
Harvard Review / Year-Round / Online and In print / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Translation, Drama / Pitches Only for Reviews
Hayden’s Ferry Review / Now / Translations, Art
Heavy Feather Review – The Future, Side A, Flavor Town USA, Bad Survivalist, Haunted Passages, and #NoMorePresidents / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Journalism, Comics, Hybrid
Heron Tree / Due: January 15, 2022 / Found Poetry Using Pre-1927 Sources
Hinchas de Poesía / Now / Poetry, Prose, Translations, Reviews, Art
Hindsight Magazine / Year-Round / Prose Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Graphic / Fee: $2
Hobart / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Photo Essays, Comics
Hobart After Dark (HAD) / Sporadically / Poetry, Flash Fiction, Flash Nonfiction
HOOT Review / Year-Round / Poetry, Flash Fiction, Flash Nonfiction, Reviews / Fee: $2
Hot Metal Bridge / February 1 – March 15, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
The Hunger / Due: April 1, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Art
Identity Theory / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
The Ilanot Review — Earth / Due: January 31, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Art / Fee: $3 (Free for First 500 Submissions)
The Indianapolis Review / Due: March 1, 2022 – December 1, 2022 / Free
indicia / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose, Flash Prose, Art
Interpret Magazine / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, and Translations in English and/or French
The Iowa Review — Awards / Due: January 1, 2022 – 31, 2022 / Fee: $4 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $20 / Prize: $1,500 + Publication
Iron Horse Literary Review / Due: February 1, 2022 – March 15, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
J Journal / Year-Round / Fiction, Poetry, Personal Narrative with Tangential Connections to Justice
Jellyfish Review/ Now / Flash Fiction, Flash Nonfiction
jmww / Due: May 31, 2022 / Poetry
Josephine Quarterly / Now / Poetry, Art
The Journal / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Interviews, Reviews, Art
Joyland / Year-Round / Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $4.50 (Free for Black Writers)
Juked / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
just femme & dandy / Open: April 1, 2022 / All Genres from LGBTQIA+ Creatives Related to Fashion and the Theme of Sustain / No Fee / Paid
JuxtaProse / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art / Fee: $3
Kartika Review / Now / Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction from Asian Pacific Islander American Writers
Ki / Due: January 15, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Autotheory, Flash Scholarship, Fieldnotes, Glossaries, Myths, Visual and Sonic Arts, and Any Other Brief, Critical Interventions
K’in / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Work from Young Writers (Ages 12-17)
Kissing Dynamite / February 1 – 7, 2022 / Poetry, Visual Poetry
Kithe / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction, Hybrid, Art / Fee: $3
Kweli Journal / Due: May 30, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, and Multimedia from Writers of Color
Lammergeier / January 1 – February 28, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction, Hybrid
LandLocked / Due: April 1, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
Lavender Review / Year-Round / Poetry and Art by Lesbians
The Letters Page / Year-Round / All Genres in a Letter Format
Levitate Literary Magazine / Due: February 28, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction, Art
LIT / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Translations, Reviews, Art
Litbreak / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Reviews / Fee: $3
Long Long Journal / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose
Los Angeles Review / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Translations / Fee: $3
Lumiere Review / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose, Art
Lunch Ticket / Now / Art
Mammouth Poetry / Now / Poetry
The Mantle / Year-Round / Poetry
The Margins — WINE / Due: January 31, 2022 / Poetry, Prose, and Translations by Asian American Writers
Masque & Spectacle / Due: January 31, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Drama, Reviews, Art, Video, Sound
Matter Monthly / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose
Maudlin House / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction
The Meadow / Due: February 1, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Metatron – #MicroMeta/ Now / Micro-Poetry, Video Poetry
Michigan Quarterly Review / January 15 – April 1, 2022 / Poetry, Prose, Translations
Michigan Quarterly Review — MQR Mixtape: Flow / Due: January 12, 2022 / All Genres
Minor Literatures / Year-Round / Interviews
Missouri Review / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Modern Poetry in Translation / Now / Poetry Translations
Moko: Caribbean Arts and Letters / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Reviews, Art and Videos Relevant to the Caribbean Experience
Moon City Review / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Translations, Graphic Narrative, Reviews
MoonPark Review / Now / Flash Fiction, Prose Poetry, Hybrid
Monkeybicycle / Now / Fiction, One-Sentence Stories
Mortar / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction
Muzzle Magazine / December 15, 2021 – January 15, 2022 / Poetry, Interviews, Reviews
Nashville Review / Open: January, May and September / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, and Translation / Paid: $25 for Poem and $100 for Prose and Art
A NEON GARDEN / Due: January 25, 2022 / Experimental Poems, Avant-Garde and Surreal Fiction
New Constellations Magazine / January 15 – February 15, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, and Art from High school Writers and Artists
New Delta Review / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Digital Media, Art, Reviews/Interviews / Free Submissions Until January 31, 2022
Newfound / Due: May 15, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction, Translations, Review Queries, Art
New Ohio Review / Due: January 15 – April 15, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
New Orleans Review / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Reviews / Fee: $3
New Poetry in Translation / Year-Round / Poetry in Translation
new sinews / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
New South / Due: March 31, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Reviews (Year-Round)
Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry / January 1 – November 30, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $3
Ninth Letter — Ekphrastic Poetry Contest / Due: February 28, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $3
Nixes Mate / January 15 – March 15, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
NOMATERIALISM / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Translation, Drama, Art, Fragments, Ephemera, Video, Visual Art
Nurture / Year-Round / Poetry, Flash Fiction, Flash Nonfiction, Hybrid
The Ocotillo Review / January 15 – March 31, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $3
Off Assignment / Year-Round / Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction
The Offing / Now / Nonfiction, Art, Science Writing
Okay Donkey Magazine / January and February 1 – 15, 2022 / Poetry, Flash Fiction
Old Pal Mag / Due: April 30, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Critical Non-Fiction, Comics, Audio, Mixed Media / Free / Paid
OOMPH! Press / Now / Recipes Originally Written in or Translated into English
The Operating System / Now / Field Notes, Conversations
Orca: A Literary Journal / Now / Fiction, Flash Fiction, Speculative Fiction / Fee: $3
Oxbow Magazine / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Art
Oyez Review / Jan 19th – Feb 3rd / Fiction, Essay, Hybrid, Visual Art, Special Folio: Collaborative Work
Pacifica Literary Review / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $3
Palette Poetry / Year-Round / Poetry
Pangyrus / January 15 – April 15, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Comics, Reviews / Fee: $3
Painted Bride Quarterly / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Reviews / Fee: $3
Parentheses Journal/ Due: March 10, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Art, Photography
Passages North / Due: April 15, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction (January 1 – February 15, 2022), Nonfiction, Hybrid, Writers on Writing
Peatsmoke: A Literary Journal / Year-Round / All Genres
Pidgeonholes / January and February 1 – 10, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art (Year-Round)
Pigeon Pages / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $5
The Pinch / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction, Art / Fee: $2-3 (Free for BIPOC Writers)
Pine Hills Review / Due: April 30, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid
Pithead Chapel / Year-Round / Prose Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Plath Poetry Project / Now / Poems in Response to Work by Sylvia Plath
Pleiades / Year-Round / Reviews
Poet Lore / January 1 – June 30, 2022 / Translations
Poetry Northwest / February 1 – March 31, 2022 / Poetry, Nonfiction (Year-Round), Reviews (Year-Round)
Poetry Northwest — James Welch Prize / Due: January 31, 2022 / Poetry from Indigenous Poets / Prize: Reading in Either Seattle, WA or Missoula, MT + Publication
Poetry Online / Now / Poetry, Visual Poetry, Cine-Poetry, Art
Poets Reading the News / Year-Round / Poetry About Current Events / Fee: $4
Porridge Magazine / Now / Nonfiction, Writings About Food
Posit / Due: June 15, 2022 / Poetry, Prose, Art (Year-Round), Video and Animation (Year-Round)
Prelude / Now / Poetry, Nonfiction / Fee: $3 (Poetry Only)
Press Pause Press / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art, Music, Family Room
Puerto del Sol/ Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Visual Art
Puerto del Sol – Black Voices Series / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Multimedia
Puerto del Sol — Voz Series/ Now / Poetry and Prose in Spanish
Q/A Poetry / Year-Round / Poetry by Poets of Marginalized Genders and Sexes
Qu Journal / Due: January 15, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Drama, Screenplays
Queer Southeast Asia / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose, Hybrid, Interviews, Reviews, Art
Quarterly West / February 1 – April 1, 2022 / Poetry, Prose, Translations (Year-Round), New Media (Year-Round), Reviews (Year-Round)
൪uartet / January 8 – February 8, April 8 – May 8, July 8 – August 8, October 8 – November 8 / Poetry by Women Fifty years and Over
Rabid Oak / Year-Round / Poetry, Flash Fiction, Flash Nonfiction
Raconteur / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Illustrations
Random Sample Review/ Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction, Art
Raspa Magazine / February 15 – August 15, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, and Essays by Queer Latinxs
Redivider / Due: March 31, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Graphic Narrative, Visual Poetry / Fee: $3 (Fiction and Nonfiction)
Revolution John / Year-Round / Prose Poetry, Short Stories
Rise Up Review / Now / Poetry, Nonfiction
Ruminate / Now / Poetry / Fee: $3.50
Salamander Magazine / Due: April 1, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Salt Hill / January 1 – February 15, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction (Year-Round), Art (Year-Round)
Santa Fe Writers Project Quarterly / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction, Interviews, Reviews
Saw Palm / Now / Interviews, Reviews
SCAB / Year-Round / All Genres
Schlag Magazine / Year-Round / Poetry, Nonfiction, Critical Theory, Cultural Criticism, Art Writing, Art (Fashion, Photography, Drawing, Painting)
Screen Door Review / Now / Poetry and Flash Fiction from Queer Southern Writers
Scud / Year-Round / Poetry, Nonfiction, Interviews, Reviews
Seneca Review / February 1 – March 15, 2022 / Poetry, Nonfiction
Shenandoah / January 1 – 15, 2022 / Poetry, Comics (Year-Round)
Shirley Magazine / Now / Short Fiction
Sidereal Magazine / Due: April 1, 2022 / Poetry, Nonfiction
Sinister Wisdom / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction and Art by Lesbians
Sinister Wisdom — Common Lives/Lesbian Lives / Due: March 31, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction and Art by Lesbians
Sleepingfish / Now / Fiction, Flash Fiction, Flash Nonfiction, Hybrid, Art, Music, Video, Multimedia
Slouching Beast Journal / Year-Round / Poetry, Flash Fiction, Hybrid
Smartish Pace / Now / Poetry, Translations, Interviews, Reviews
SmokeLong Quarterly / Year-Round / Flash Fiction (English, Spanish, French, German, and by Children), Artwork
Solstice / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Graphic Narrative, Translations / Fee: $3
Sorority Mansion / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction and Art by Women
Southern Indiana Review / Due: September 15 – December 15 & February 1 – May 15 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry / Fee: $3 / Paid: $75-$150
Southword / Due: January 1, 2022 – March 31, 2022 / Fiction and Poetry / Paid: €250 (by PayPal Outside of Ireland)
So to Speak — Blog / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Reviews, Interviews, Videos, Podcasts, Art
South Dakota Review / Due: May 31, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Translation
The Southeast Review / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Interviews (Free) / Fee: $3 (Submission Fee Waived for Incarcerated Writers)
Southern Humanities Review / January 15 – March 14, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction (Year-Round), Reviews / Fee: $3
Split Lip Magazine / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Memoir, Art / Fee: $3 (Free for Black Writers Year-Round)
SPORAZINE / Now / Experimental and Visual Poetry by Trans People
Sporklet / Now / Reviews
Stirring: A Literary Collection / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Reviews, Art
Storm Cellar / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash, Images / Fee: $5
Strange Horizons / Year-Round / Speculative Poetry, Nonfiction, Reviews, Art
Superstition Review / January 1 – 31, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
Surfaces / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Theory, Art, Text Collage
SUSAN / The Journal / Now / Poetry, Flash Fiction
swifts & slows / Now / Text and/or Visual Collaborations and Dialogues
sx salon: a small axe literary platform / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Reviews, and Interviews Related to the Caribbean
Sweet: A Literary Confection / Now / Graphic Nonfiction
Sycamore Review / Due: March 31, 2022 / Poetry, Prose, Nonfiction, Art
TAGVVERK / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Essays, Reviews, Criticism, Art
Tahoma Literary Review / January, 15 2022 – March 30, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $4, Capped Number of Free Submissions for Writers from Historically Marginalized Groups
The Talking Book / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Comics, Audio
ThimblelitMag / Due: February 1 – 28, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
Thin Air Magazine — Online / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Art
The Thought Erotic / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, and Art Engaging Sexuality
The Threepenny Review / Now / Stories, Articles, Poems, Table Talk Pieces / Paid
Thrush / Year-Round / Poetry
The Tiger Moth Review / February 1 – April 31, 2022 / Poetry, Prose, Art, Photography
Tilted House / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Essays, Plays, Reviews, Art, Film
Tofu Ink Arts Press / Due: February 28, 2022 / Poetry, Art / Fee: $3
trampset / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $3
Transition / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Interviews, and Art about Africa and the African Diaspora
TriQuarterly / Year-Round / Interviews, Video Essays, Cinepoetry
Tupelo Quarterly / Due: January 15, 2022 / Poetry, Prose, Translations, Collaborations, Cross-Disciplinary Work, Art, Reviews (Year-Round) / Fee: $3 (Reviews Free)
Two Lines / Now / Translations of Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction
Under a Warm Green Linden / Year-Round / Poetry, Interviews, Reviews / Fee: $3 (Free for Interviews and Reviews)
Underblong / December 15, 2021 – February 28, 2022 / Poetry, Art
Untoward / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $3
Ursus Americanus Press – Landfill / Now / Poetry
Vagabond City / Year-Round / Poetry, Nonfiction, Reviews, Art
Vassar Review / Due: January 26, 2022 / All Genres
VIDA: Women in the Literary Arts — The VIDA Review / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Interviews and Reviews
The Waking / Due: April 30, 2022 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Interviews, Reviews / Fee: $3 (Free for Interviews and Reviews)
Washington Square Review / December 15, 2021 – February 1, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Translations
Watershed Review / January 1 – February 28, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Art / Fee: $3 (Free for Students and Those Experiencing Financial Hardship)
Wax Nine / Now / Poetry, Illustrations, Guest-Edited Issues / Free to Submit / Paid: $50/Issue
Western Humanities Review / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Reviews, Artwork / Fee: $2 (Free for Reviews and Artwork)
Western Humanities Review — Mountain West Writers Contest / Due: January 15, 2022 / Poetry and Prose from Writers Currently Living in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Wyoming, or Utah / Prize: $500 + Publication / Judges: Blas Falconer (Poetry), Susan Neville (Prose)
where is the river :: a poetry experiment / Now / Poetry
Whiskey Tit / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Art / Welcomes Submissions with Working Class Themes
Wigleaf / Final Weeks of January and February, 2022 / Flash Fiction
Wildness / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Willawaw Journal / February 1 – 28, 2022 / Poetry, Art
Willow Springs / Due: May 31, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction (Year-Round) / Fee: $3
Words Without Borders / Year-Round / Proposals for Monthly Special Sections
The Woven Tale Press / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Video, Sound, Art
Yalobusha Review / Due: February 28, 2022 (Poetry); May 1, 2022 (Fiction) / Poetry, Fiction
Yemassee / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Nonfiction / Fee: $3
ythm / Year-Round / Audio Poetry
ZiN Daily / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction in English, Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Montenegrin, French, German, Italian, or Slovenian
Zone 3 / Due: April 1, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $3
Fellowships + Other Opportunites
100 Days of Dante Poetry Contest / Due: January 31, 2022 / Poetry No More Than 30 Lines / Award: $500
Ako Caine Prize for African Writing / Due: January 31, 2022 / Short Story by African Writer / Award: £10,000
Anderson Center / Due: January 15, 2022 / Residency: 2-4 Weeks in Red Wing, MN / Fee: $20
Anderson Center — Deaf Artists Residency / Due: January 15, 2022 / Residency: 4 Weeks in Red Wing, MN + $1,100/Month Stipend + $500 Travel Honorarium
AWP — Writer to Writer Mentorship Applications / Year-Round
Barbara Deming Memorial Fund / January 1 – 31, 2022 / Fiction, Mixed Genre, and Art by Women / Fee: $25 / Prize: $500 – $1,000
Bread Loaf Writers Conference / Due: February 15, 2022 / Fee: $20 / Conference: August 17 – 27, 2022 in Ripton, VT
Bucknell University — Philip Roth Residence in Creative Writing / Due: February 1, 2022 / Fellowship: $5,000 + Lodging
Coffee House Press – Internships / January 15 – March 1, 2022 / Internship: 12-15 Hours per Week / Stipend: $1,800
Hambidge Creative Residency / Due: January 15, 2022 / Fee: $30 / Residency: 2-8 Weeks in Blue Ridge Mountains, GA / Residency Fee: $250/Week (Fellowships Available)
Hindsight Journal Climate Change Contest / Due: January 18, 2022 / Creative Nonfiction / Award: $600 First Place + $400 Second Place +Publication
Hurston/Wright Foundation — Award for College Writers / Due: January 31, 2022 / Poetry and Fiction by Black College Writers / Fee: $25 / Prize: $1,000
Hurston/Wright Foundation — Crossover Award / Due: January 31, 2022 / Nonfiction by Black Writers / Fee: $25 / Prize: $2,000
James Welch Prize for Indigenous Poets / Due: January 31, 2022 / Two Poems / Public Reading at Hugo House/Beargrass Writing Retreat + $1,000
Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize / Due: January 15, 2022 / Award: Prose Fiction Book-Length by Woman / Prize: $15,000
Jentel Writing and Visual Arts Residencies / Due: January 15, 2022 / Fee: $30 / Residency: 1 Month Near Bighorn Mountains, WY + $400/Month
Jerry Jazz Musician Short Fiction Contest / Due: January 31, 2022 / Best Original Unpublished Fiction 3x a Year / Award: Publication +$100
The Kerouac Project / January 1 – March 20, 2022 / Fee: $35 / Residency: 3 Months in the Jack Kerouac House in Orlando + $1,000 Stipend / Fall Residency Dates: September 1 – November 20, 2022
Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts / Due: March 1, 2022 / Fee: $35 / Residency: 2-8 Weeks in Nebraska City + $100 per Week
Levis Reading Prize / Due: January 15, 2022 / First or Second Book of Poetry / Award: Expenses Paid Reading + Honorarium
Lilith’s Annual Fiction Contest / Due: January 15, 2022 / Short Fiction 3,000 Words + Under / Prize: $250 + Publication
Lumiere Magazine Writing Contest / Due January 1-31 / Poems and Prose / Award: Publication + $100
MacDowell / Residency / Due: February 10, 2022 / Fee: $30 / Residency: September 1, 2022 – February 28, 2023
Millay Colony / Residency / Due: March 8, 2022 / Fee: $40 / Residency: Up to 1 Month in Austerlitz, NY
The Oxford American — Jeff Baskin Editorial Internship / Year-Round / Internship: $2,500 / Remote
Paterson Poetry Prize / Due: February 1, 2022 / Book of Poems 48 Pages or More / Award: Public Reading at Poetry Center + $1,000
Philip Roth Residence in Creative Writing / Due: February 1, 2022 / First or Second Book of Fiction or Creative Nonfiction / Award: Lodging in Bucknell’s Poetry Cottage + $5,000 Stipend
Roadrunner Prizes in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry / Due: January 31 / Current Undergraduate and Graduate Students Worldwide / Award: $100 in Each Category
Snarl Prose and Poetry Contests / Due: January 31, 2022 / US Marginalized Writers / Award: Publication + $300/All Entries Considered for Publication
Ucross Foundation Writer’s Residency (Spring Session) / Due: March 1, 2022 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Drama, Screenplays / Fee: $40 (Free for Native American Writers) / Residency: 2-6 Weeks in Sheridan, WY
Victor Howes Prize in Poetry / Due: January 1-31 / Poetry by English Majors at 2- and 4-year Colleges in New England / Award: $1,000
Wilkes University — James Jones First Novel Fellowship / Due: March 15, 2022 / Fee: $33 / Prize: $10,000
Zócalo Public Square Poetry Prize / Due: January 22, 2022 / Poetry / Award: Publication/Public Reading + $1,000
Heavy Feather Review 