Where to Submit: August + September
Presses:
Ashland Creek Press – Siskiyou Prize for New Environmental Literature / Deadline: September 1, 2015 / Fiction, Nonfiction / Prize: $1000 + Publication / Judge: Ann PancakeAtticus Books / Now / Fiction, Memoir, Translations
Bellevue Literary Press / Year-Round / Fiction, Nonfiction
Black Lawrence Press – St. Lawrence Book Award / Deadline: August 31, 2015 / Fiction, Poetry / $25 / Prize: $1000 + Publication
BlazeVOX / Now / Poetry, Fiction
BOA Editions – A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize / August 1 – November 30, 2015 / Poetry / Prize: $1500 + Publication / Judge: Jericho Brown
Burnside Review Press Book Award / August 15 – November 30, 2015 / Poetry / $25 / Prize: $1000 + Publication / Judge: Mary Syzbist
Caketrain Competition / Deadline: October 15, 2015 / Poetry / $15 / Final Judge: Dara Wier / First Place: Publication, $250, 25 Contributor Copies
Calamari Archive / Now / All Genres
Counterpath Press / Year-Round
Dalkey Archive Press / Now / Fiction
Deep Vellum Publishing / Year-Round / Translations of Fiction and Nonfiction
Double Life Press / Now / All Genres
Dzanc Books – Short Story Collection Competition / Deadline: September 25, 2015 / Short Story Collections / $25 / Prize: $1000 Advance + Publication
FC2 – Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Contest / August 15 – November 1, 2015 / Fiction / $25 / Prize: $1500 + Publication / Final Judge: Joanna Ruocco
FC2 – Catherine Doctorow Innovcative Fiction Prize / August 15 – November 1, 2015 / Fiction from a Writer with at Least Three Books of Fiction Published / $25 / Prize: $15000 + Publication / Final Judge: Steven Graham Jones
Horse Less Press – Open Reading: Book and Chapbook Manuscripts by Writers of Color / Now / Poetry, Hyrbid
Jellyfish Highway / Now / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction / $3
Les Figues Press – NOS Book Contest / Deadline: September 15, 2015 / All Genres / $25 / Prize: $1000 + Publication / Judge: lê thi diem thúyNational Poetry Review Press / Deadline: August 31, 2015 / $27 / Prize: $1000 + Publication
Outpost 19 / Year-Round / Fiction, Nonfiction
PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction / Deadline: August 15, 2015 / Fiction / $25 / Prize: $25000 + Publication with Algonquin Books
Phillip Levine Prize in Poetry / Deadline: September 30, 2015 / Poetry / $28 / Prize: $2000 + Publication by Anhinga Press / Judge: C. G. Hanzlicek
Plays Inverse Press / Now / Plays, Cross-Genre, Performance Lit
Queen’s Ferry Press / March 1 – August 31, 2015 / Fiction
Red Hen Press – Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award / Deadline: August 31, 2015 / $25 / Prize: $3000 + Publication / Judge: Carl Phillips
Red Mountain Press Poetry Prize / Deadline: September 15, 2015 / Poetry / $27 / Prize: $1000 + Publication
Sarabande Books – Open Essay Submissions / September 1 – 30, 2015 / Nonfiction
Skylight Press / Now / Fiction, Poetry, Esoteric
Sidebrow / August 1 – 31, 2015 / Prose, Poetry, Cross-Genre, Collaborative / $20
Subito Press Book Prizes / Deadline: August 15, 2015 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction / $25 / Judges: Ruth Ellen Kochler (Poetry), Jeffrey DeShell (Fiction), John D’Agata (Nonfiction)
Trembling Pillow Press / Now / $15 / Poetry, Poetry Translations, Essays About Poetry
Tupelo Press / Year-Round / Fiction, Nonfiction
Two Dollar Radio / Now / Fiction
Two Lines Press / Now / Translations of Novels and Short Story Collections
Ugly Duckling Press / Deadline: October 1, 2015 / Queries for Books Not Classified as Translation
University of Arkansas Press – Miller Williams Poetry Series / Deadline: September 30, 2015 / Poetry / $28
University of Notre Dame Press – Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry / Deadline: September 1, 2015 / Poetry / $15 / Prize: $1000 + Publication / Judges: Joyelle McSweeney and Orlando Ricardo Menes
Chapbooks:
alice blue shotgun wedding series / Now / Prose and Poetry from Writers in the Pacific NorthwestBatcat Press / June 1 – August 31, 2015 / All Genres
Black Lawrence Press – The Fall Black River Chapbook Competition / September 1 – October 31, 2015 / Poetry, Fiction / $15
Cartridge Lit – Push [START] to Begin Chapbook Contest / July 1 – December 31, 2015 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry / Free / Prize: $150 + Digital Publication
Autumn House Press – Coal Hill Review Chapbook Contest / August 1 – November 1, 2015 / Poetry / $20 / Prize: $1000 + Publication
Fact-Simile Open Chapbook Reading Period / Deadline: September 30, 2015 / $12
Gold Line Press Chapbook Competitions / Deadline: August 15, 2015 / Poetry, Fiction / $15 / Prize: $500 + Publication / Judges: David Treuer (Fiction) and Anna Journey (Poetry)
H_NGM_N / Now / Poetry, Prose / $5
The Head & The Hand Press – Breadbox Chapbook Series / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction
Horse Less Press – Poetry & Pints Chapbook Release Series / Now / Poetry, Hybrid
Newfound – The Anzaldúa Poetry Prize / Deadline: August 15, 2015 / $15 / Prize: $500 + Publication / Judge: Carmen Giménez Smith
Omnidawn Fabulist Fiction Chapbook Contest / August 1 – October 26, 2015 / $18 / Prize: $1000 + Publication / Judge: Brian Evenson
Sixth Finch / Deadline: November 3, 2015 / Poetry / $12 /
Tammy / Year-Round
Tupelo Press – Sunken Garden Chapbook Prize / August 1 – October 31, 2015 / $25 / Poetry / Prize: $1000 + Publication / Judge: Peter Stitt
Journals & Anthologies:
3:AM / Now / Nonfiction, Poetry, Reviews32 Poems / Year-Round / Poetry / $3
6×6 / Year-Round
The Account / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
The American Literary Review Awards / Deadline: October 1, 2015 / $15 / Prize: $1000 + Publication / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Assaracus: A Journal of Gay Poetry / Now / Poetry
Asymptote / Year-Round / Translations of Drama, Fiction, Poetry, and Nonfiction
Banango Street / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
Bat City Review / Deadline: October 1, 2015
Big Lucks / Now / Prose, Poetry
Birdfeast / Year-Round / All Genres
Black Sun Lit / Year-Round / Prose, Verse, Essays
Black Warrior Review / Deadline: September 1, 2015 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Graphic Prose
Black Warrior Review – Eleventh Annual Contest / Deadline: September 1, 2015 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / $20 / Prize: $1000, Publication / Judges: Mary Roach (Nonfiction), Heather Christle (Poetry), Alissa Nutting (Fiction)
Blue Mesa Review: Annual Contest / Deadline: August 31, 2015 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction / $12 / Prize: Publication, $500 / Judges: Antonya Nelson (Fiction), Julie Carr (Poetry), Wendy C. Ortiz (Nonfiction)
BOAAT / Year-Round / Poems, Video-Poems, Fiction, Nonfiction
Body Parts Magazine / Now / Horror, Erotica, Speculative Fiction
BORT Quarterly / Deadline: August 31, 2015 / Poetry
Bombay Gin 42: Reprogramming the Wilderness / Deadline: August 15, 2015 / Prose, Poetry, Cross-Genre
Bone Bouquet / Now / Writing by Female-Identified Poets
Brooklyn Arts Press – Brooklyn Poets Anthology / Deadline: August 31, 2015
The Butter / Now / Essays, Short Fiction
Caketrain / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Cahoodaloodaling #18: Historical (Re)Tell / Deadline: September 19, 2015 / All Genres / Guest Editor: Laura Madeline Wiseman
Cartridge Lit / Year-Round / Fiction, Poetry, Essays
Carve Magazine / Year-Round / Short Stories / $3
Chronopolis / Now / All Genres
The Collagist / March 1 – August 31, 2015 / Fiction, Poetry, Non-fiction, Novel Excerpts
Corium Magazine / Year-Round / Short Fiction, Very Short Fiction, Artwork
Curbside Splendor Monthly E-Zine / Now / Fiction, Poetry
decomP Magazine / Year-Round/ Prose, Poetry, Art
DIAGRAM / Year-Round / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction
DREGINALD / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose, Art
elsewhere / Now / Prose Poetry, Flash Fiction, Photography
Empty Oaks / Now / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Art
FENCE / August 1 – 31, 2015 / Fiction, Poetry / Subscribers Only
Finery / Now / Poetry, Prose, Visual Art
Flag + Void / Year-Round / Poetry, Art
Fruita Pulp / Now / Poetry
Fugue / September 1, 2015 – May 1, 2016 / Poetry, Fiction, Essays / $3
Gigantic Sequins – Summer Contest Series / Deadline: September 10, 2015 / $5 / Prize: $75, Broadside of the Winning Work, Publication / Judges: Ronaldo V. Wilson (Poetry), Leesa Cross Smith (Flash Fiction)
Gigantic Sequins – General Submissions / Deadline: September 15, 2015
GlitterMOB / Now / Poetry
Gone Lawn: Issue #19 / Now / All Genres
Guernica / Now / Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, Art
Gulf Coast / September 1, 2015 – March 1, 2016 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
Gulf Coast – Barthelme Prize for Short Prose / Deadline: August 31, 2015 / Prose Under 500 Words / Prize: $1000 + Publication / Judge: Steve Almond
Gulf Coast – Prize in Translation / Deadline: August 31, 2015 / Translations of Fiction and Nonfiction / Prize: $1000 + Publication / Judge: Ammiel Alcalay
H_NGM_N / September 15 – December 15, 2015 / Poetry, Prose
Hobart online / Now / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction
Horse Less Review / Now / Poetry, Hybrid
Hunger Mountain / Now / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, YA and Children’s Lit / $3
Iowa Review / September 1 – November 30, 2015 / $4 Online Submissions / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Inch / Now / Flash Fiction, Flash Nonfiction, Short Poems
Jenny / Deadline: September 1, 2015 / Fiction, Poetry, Creative Nonfiction
jmww / Year-Round / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Flash Fiction
jubilat / September 1, 2015 – April 1, 2016 / Poetry
Juked / Year-Round / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
Lazy Fascist Review / Now / Fiction, Poetry
Leveler / Year-Round / Poetry
Lumina – Fiction Contest / Deadline: October 1, 2015 / $12 / Prize: $500 + Publication / Judge: Roxane Gay
McNeese Review online / Now / Short Fiction, Poetry, Literary Nonfiction, Translations, Interviews, Art
The Meadow / September 1, 2015 – February 1, 2016 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Comics
Midwestern Gothic – The Lake Prize / Deadline: August 31, 2015 / Midwest Fiction and Poetry / $5 / Prize: $500 + Publication / Judges: Charles McLeod (Fiction), Marcus Wicker (Poetry)
Mississippi Review Prize / August 1, 2015 – January 1, 2016 / Poetry, Fiction / $16 / Prize: $1000 + Publication in Mississippi Review
Monkeybicycle / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction
NANO Fiction: The Queer Issue / June 15 – October 1, 2015 / Flash Fiction
NANO Prize / Deadline: September 1, 2015 / Flash Fiction / $20 / Prize: $1000 + Publication / Judge: Amber Sparks
New South / September 1, 2015 – April 30, 2016 / Fiction, Poetry, Essays
the Electric Encyclopedia of Experimental Literature/The Shrug / Now / All Genres / $5
Nightblock / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction
Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry / January 1 – November 30, 2015 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction / Submit by Post
Nonbinary Review / Now / All Genres
The Nottingham Review / Now / Short Stories, Flash Fiction
The Offing / Now / Nonfiction, Micro, Humor, Translations
PANK / Now / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction
Phantom / Year-Round / Poetry
‘Pider / Now / Poetry
Pinball / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction, Comics
PLINTH / Now / All Genres
Poor Claudia – 10 Sources and Phenome / Now / Bibliographies, Poetry / $3
Prelude / Now / Poetry / $2
Pretty Owl Poetry / Now / Poetry, Flash Fiction
Puerto del Sol / September 15 – December 1, 2015 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Translations, Art, Criticism
Queen Mob’s Treehouse / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Art, Videos, Essays
Quiddity / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose
Requited / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Performance Text, Visual/Video
Revolution John / Now / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Flash Fiction
Rhino / April 1 – August 31, 2015 / Poetry, Translations of Poetry, Flash Fiction
Rhino – Founders’ Prize Contest / September 1 – October 31, 2014 / Poetry / $10 / Prize: $300 + Publication
Saw Palm: Florida Literature and Art – Cuba Theme / Deadline: October 1, 2015 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art, Photography, Comics
Seattle Review / Year-Round / Essays and Fiction over 40 pages, Poems over 10 Pages / $3
Salamander Magazine / September 1, 2015 – April 30, 2016 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Shirley / Year-Round / Fiction
Sixth Finch / Deadline: October 15, 2015 / Poetry, Art
Slant / September 1 – November 15, 2015 / Poetry
small po[r]tions journal / Deadline: August 16, 2015 / All Genres
SmokeLong Quarterly / Year-Round / Flash Fiction
Sonora Review / September 1, 2015 – May 1, 2016 / $3 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction
Southeast Review / Year-Round / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction
Sporklet / Now / Fiction, Poetry
Squalorly / Now / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction
Sundog Lit / Now / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction
Swarm / August 15 – October 31, 2015 / Fiction, Poetry
Sycamore Review / September 1, 2015 – March 31, 2016 / Poetry, Prose, Nonfiction, Art
Tammy / September 1 – December 1, 2015 / $3 / All genres
Tell Us A Story / Year-Round / Flash Nonfiction, Poetry, Plays
TENDE RLOIN / Now / Poetry
Third Coast / September 15 – December 15, 2015 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Drama
The Tishman Review / Year-Round / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction
TRACT/TRACE / Now / Essays, Conversations, Interviews, Notes, Book Reviews
Trafika Europe / Now / Fiction, Poetry, Translation
Two Lines / Now / Translations of Poetry, Fiction, and Essays
TYPO / Now / Poetry
Up the Staircase Quarterly / Deadline: October 15, 2015 / Poetry, Art
upstreet / Deadline: September 1, 2015 – March 1, 2016 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction
Voicemail Poems / Now / Audio Poetry
The Volta / Year-Round / Poetry, Essays
wigleaf / Final Week of August and September, 2015 / Flash Fiction
Willow Springs / September 1, 2015 – May 31, 2015 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction
Word For/Word / Now / Poetry, Prose, Poetics, Criticism, Visuals
Wreck Park / Now / Prose, Criticism
Zoetic Press / Now / Electronic & Interactive Literature
ZYZZYVA / August 1 – November 30, 2015 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry / Submit by Post
Residencies, Fellowships, & Conferences:
Barrelhouse – Proposals for “Conversations and Connections: Practical Advice on Writing” Conference / Deadline: September 13, 2015 / Conference: October 10, 2015 in PittsburghBuzzFeed Emerging Writer Fellowship / Deadline: October 1, 2015
Hub City Writers House / Deadline: October 15, 2015 / Residency: 15 Weeks in Early 2016 + $150/Week
Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts Residency (Session 1) / Deadline: September 1, 2015 / $35 / Residency: 2-8 Weeks + $100/Week
MacDowell Colony (Spring Residencies) / Deadline: September 15, 2015 / $30
Millay Colony / Deadline: October 1, 2015 / $35
Omi International Arts Center – Writers Omi / Deadline: October 20, 2015
PEN Center USA – Emerging Voices Fellowship / Deadline: August 10, 2015 / Fellowship: Mentorship and Classes + $1000 Stipend
Sarabande Writing Residency at Bernheim Forest / Deadline: September 30, 2015 / Writer-In-Residence: D.A. PowellUcross Foundation Writer’s Residency (Spring Session) / Deadline: October 1, 2015 / $40
Vermont Studio Center / Deadline: October 1, 2015
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Wow-- a great list. I'd better get moving!
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