JACK GRAPES POETRY PRIZE: is an annual contest from Cultural Weekly. The prize recognize three winners with $500 each, plus publication. Nine finalists will receive $100 and publication. No simultaneous submissions. Submit early before they close!
The Forge Literary Magazine pays $75 fiction, flash fiction, micro-fiction under 3,000 words m Deadline: They open to fee-free submissions on the first of each month and close when they reach their quota.
Scum Magazine is seeking for feminist-friendly work of any variety, but as a general rule your piece should be under 2000 words (50 lines for poetry, max. 3 poems) and able to be classified as “fiction”, “culture”, “memoir”, “column”, “poetry”, and/or “review”. Payment: $60 AUD. Deadline is August 7, 2021.
Abyss and Apex: is currently seeking speculative fiction and poetry. No horror. Payment: USD $.06/word (six cents a word) up to 1,250 words, and a flat payment of $75.00 for longer stories. Deadline: August 7, 2021.
Perennial Press: Arthropoda: wants speculative fiction and poetry about insects, crustaceans, arachnids, or myriapods. Payment: $20. Deadline: August 7, 2021. Accepts reprints
The Best Nnew True Crime Stories: Unsolved Crimes & Mysteries seeks nonfiction, true crime accounts of unsolved criminal cases and mysteries that can take place anywhere in the world and be from any time period. Payment: $130. Deadline: September 1, 2021
The Southampton Review wants poetry, prose, art. Payment: Prose: $100+, Poetry: $75 per poem. Illustration: $100 per page. Art Portfolios: $200 for up to 12 images Deadline: September 1, 2021. Submit early in the month to avoid fees.
Vautrin seeks Gritty urban fiction, Crime/Mystery Fiction, Ghosts, The Supernatural, Literary Essays. “We’re interested in essays that talk about contemporary crime fiction, or essays that walk the path between, say, 19th century fiction and fiction in the here and now.” Payment: $130.00 and two contributor’s copies for fiction over 2,000 words. $65.00 and two contributor’s copies for fiction under 2,000 words. $50.00 and two contributor’s copies for literary essays. Deadline: September 1, 2021.
Split Lip Magazine wants your fiction (flash and short stories), memoirs, and poetry. With a pop-culture twist. Payment: $50 per author (via PayPal) for our web issues. Payment for print is $5 per page, minimum of $20, plus 2 contributor copies and a 1-year subscription. Deadline: August 31, 2021. They are open for free submissions in the early week of August.
Nightlight is open to Black writers. Genre: Horror. 10,000 words max. Audio format. Payment: $75 – $200 depending on length. $50 for reprints. Deadline: August 31, 2021
Brink wants hybrid, cross-genre fiction, nonfiction poetry. Payment: $25 Poem; $50 Work (less than 1500 words); $50 Art (1-3 Images); $100 Art (4+ Images); $100 Work (more than 1501 words). Deadline: August 31, 2021
Westerly needs your short stories, poetry, memoir and creative non-fiction, essays and literary criticism. Payment: Poems: $120 for one poem or $150 for two or more poems; Stories: $180; Articles: $180; Visual art/Intro essay: $120; Reviews: $100; Online Publication: $100. “We expect our contributors to be subscribers of the Magazine. While we will accept submissions from non-subscribers, should your work be accepted for publication in this instance, you will be asked to accept a subscription to the Magazine as part payment for your work.” Deadline: August 16, 2021.
Ruminate is accepting fiction under 5,500 words. Payment: $20 per 400 words. Deadline: August 15, 2021. Note: Ruminate also accepts short fiction on a rolling basis.
ROXANE GAY BOOKS is open for both agented and unagented submissions of novels, short fiction, memoirs, essay collections, and nonfiction; “only non-fiction will be considered on proposal.” Prioritizes underrepresented writers
In the first week of August, GUERNICA will only be reading work from those who have been published fewer than 5 times. This submission period runs from August 1st-6th. Guernica pays “honoraria of $50 for poetry, $100 for original essays, and $150 for original fiction and for reportage
FAT COYOTE features “neurodivergent voices,” will re-open on August 1. Pays: for poetry, $1.00/word ($30 minimum/$70 maximum); for prose, $0.03 per word ($30 minimum/$120 maximum). Also publishes and pays for art, photography, and comics.
WEST BRANCH, which welcomes “submissions of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and translation” is open for submissions. Payment: “$50 per submission of poetry, $10/page of printed prose with a maximum payment of $100, and $.05/word of online prose with a maximum payment of $100,” plus copies and a subscription. Note: “Book reviews are typically arranged by assignment, and we publish only poetry reviews. If you are interested in writing reviews, please query with a sample. Our pay rate for reviewing is highly competitive.
THE RIALTO is open for poetry submissions until August 14. Pays: “£20 per poem on publication.
A PUBLIC SPACE Editorial Fellow Miguel Coronado is currently seeking for poems addressing what it means “to write ‘between’ or ‘across’ countries,” from first-generation immigrants, “including both people born in another country who relocated, and residents of a country whose parents were born elsewhere….International submissions are welcome. Multilingual submissions are welcome, provided that English is the primary language used.” Pays “an honorarium.” Deadline is August 15.
NEON DOOR, wants submissions for their inaugural exhibit Emotional Nudity, which debuts in Fall-Winter 2021. They pay for accepted submissions [starting with $25 for an image, $50 for a poem, and $75 for prose].” Deadline is in September 1.
CUNNING LINGUISTS: LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, AND LECHERY “seeks clever, diverse stories exploring the role of words as well as the senses in erotic experiences. Stories should be body positive and sex positive, with all characters affirmatively consenting.” Payment: $30 for flash fiction, $100 for short stories 2500-6000 words. Deadline is September 1.
IOWA SHORT FICTION AND JOHN SIMMONS SHORT FICTION AWARD is seeking for “a collection of short stories in English of at least 150 word-processed, double-spaced pages.” Must send via postal mail. Winning manuscripts are published by the University of Iowa Press “under the Press’s standard contract.” Writers “are still eligible if they are living abroad or are non-US citizens writing in English. Entries: August 1-September 30.
TONI BEAUCHAMP PRIZE IN CRITICAL ART WRITING
Considers “submissions of work that have been written (or published) within the last year. A variety of creative approaches and formats to writing on the visual arts are encouraged, and can include thematic essays, exhibition reviews, and scholarly essays.” Confers one first-place prize of $3,000 and two runners-up awards of $1,000 each. Publication for winner; possible publication for runners-up. Final judge: Jenna Wortham. Deadline: August 31.
ACADEMY FOR TEACHERS “STORIES OUT OF SCHOOL” FLASH FICTION CONTEST
Deadline: September 1. Annual contest aims “to inspire great stories about teachers and the rich and crazy world of schools.” Entrants need not be teachers; “the story’s protagonist, or its narrator, must be a K-12 teacher.” Prize confers $1,000 plus publication in A Public Space. Final judge: Julia Alvarez
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