150 Ways to Get Published: Fresh Submission Calls for Writers
Authortunities #105 │March 15 — April 12
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🔴📖 APR 1 · The Craven Companion: Essays on Wes Craven’s Films is closing for “essays or reflections on specific Wes Craven films” from 1,200 – 2,000 words. Edited by Mark Guyer. Payment is 8 cents per word (paid 30 days after publication). Read more about this sub here.
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🟢 opening for submissions
🔴 closing to submissions
🚀 fiction prose
📖 nonfiction
🪶 poetry
🎨 visual art
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🏆 awards, contests & grants
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🟢🚀 WEEKLY· Reedsy Prompts is open until the following Friday for short fiction between 1,000 - 3,000 words based on one of five prompts. Writers have until the following Friday at 11.59 pm EST to enter. No fee to enter and have work posted. $5 fee to be eligible for the $250 cash prize. This week’s prompt is: Words, Words, Words 💬.
https://blog.reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts/
🔴🚀🏆 MAR 15 · On The Premises contest is open until March 28 for submissions of fiction from 1—5k words written to the theme of “Somewhere Else.” “On The Premises aims to promote newer and/or relatively unknown writers who can write what we feel are creative, compelling stories told in effective, uncluttered, and evocative prose. Entrants pay no fees, and winners receive cash prizes in addition to… publication.” Payment is a $250 USD first prize.
https://duotrope.com/contest/on-the-premises-2287
🔴🚀 MAR 15 · Banshee is open until March 31 for submissions of poetry, short and flash fiction written to the theme of “Speculative Fiction, or It doesn’t have to be this way.” “Banshee is a journal of exciting, accessible, contemporary writing from Ireland and around the world.” Payment is EUR €75 for flash fiction; €250 for a story.
https://bansheepress.org/submit
🔴🚀🪶 MAR 15· Bethlehem Writers Roundtable is open until March 31 for submissions of short and flash fiction written to the theme of “Barbecued Beef: Tales of Disagreement.” Payment is USD $50 for featured authors; $20 if published on their &More page, $10 for poems.
https://bwgwritersroundtable.com/submissions-contacts/
🔴🚀🪶 MAR 15 · 2025 BWR Short Story Award is open until March 31 for submissions of never-published stories of 2,500 words or fewer on the theme of Speculative Fiction. Awards range from $250—50 USD. This year’s judge is Adrian Tchaikovsky.
https://bwgwritersroundtable.com/short-story-award-2/
🔴🚀🏆MAR 28 · Dark Moments Drabble Monthly Challenge closes for speculative flash written to the theme “Harmacy & Medical Horror.” The BEST 12 drabbles will be chosen for publication in APRIL 2025. Semi-pro payment. Details: USD $0.04/word.
https://www.blackharepress.com/submissions/#toggle-id-2
🔴🚀🏆 MAR 28 · Parsec Short Story Contest closes to entries up to 3500 words of speculative fiction by “non-professional writers– those who have not met eligibility requirements for SFWA or equivalent.” The theme for 2024 is A.I. Mythology. First-place receives $200 and publication in the Confluence program book. Second-place receives $100, third-place receives $50. Additional $50 category prize for best story submitted by someone age 19 and under (as long as they are still enrolled in high school). The 2025 Contest theme is “ROOTS.”
https://parsec-sff.org/short-story-contest/
🔴🪶 MAR 15 · Eye to the Telescope, a project of Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA), is closing for speculative poetry. Each issue is guest-edited, and submission guidelines will vary for each issue. Payment USD $0.04/word, rounded to nearest dollar; min. $4, max. $25.
https://www.eyetothetelescope.com/submit.html
🔴🚀🪶🎨♻️ MAR 15 · Penumbric Speculative Fiction Magazine closes for speculative fiction (up to 10,000 words) and poetry submissions that explore diverse viewpoints, including race, ethnicity, gender, and orientation. Visual art, animation, and music submissions remain always open. Reprints are allowed. Pay ranges from Token payment to Professional payment. Occasionally pays royalties. Details: USD $10, plus royalties.
https://duotrope.com/magazine/penumbric-speculative-fiction-magazine-29943
🔴 MAR 15 · Plott Hound Magazine closes for submissions of animal-centric speculative fiction, poetry, and essays. They seek stories with anthropomorphized animal protagonists in genres like fantasy, science fiction, and horror. Underrepresented voices (BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, disabled, neurodivergent) are encouraged to submit. Payment is $0.08 per word for fiction, $50 per poem, and $100 per essay.
https://plotthoundmag.com/submissions/
🔴🚀🪶🎨 MAR 15 · Heroic Fantasy Quarterly is closing for submissions of “unapologetic sword and sorcery” poetry and fiction. Pay ranges from Semi-pro payment to Professional payment. Details: USD $25 per story under 1,000 words; $50 per story 1,000-5,000 words; $75 per story 5,000-7,500 words; $100 per story 7,500 words and over.
https://www.heroicfantasyquarterly.com/?page_id=39
🔴📖🚀🪶🎨♻️ MAR 15 · swim meet lit mag closes for submissions of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and visual art. They welcome diverse creative works, with a particular interest in pieces from swimmers or about swimming, though all themes are considered. Submissions are free and accepted through an online form. Payment is available only to Australian contributors: AUD $30 minimum for flash fiction and poetry, and AUD $50 minimum for longer works. Simultaneous and reprint submissions are allowed.
https://swimmeetlitmag.com/submit/
🔴📖🚀🪶🎨 MAR 15 · kitchen work, a printed journal of food and the table, is closing for fiction, nonfiction, poetry and art on “big kitchens and small kitchens, about cooking, the business of food and the state of restaurants, about family and friends and strangers. What and how we eat and drink.” Current theme is “cities.” Payment is USD $0.20/word, $100 per visual piece.
https://www.kitchenwork.com/submissions
🔴🚀♻️ MAR 15 · Solstitia, a project of Fiction Fans Podcast, is closing for fiction from Flash to Novella length, nonfiction, poetry and visual art that “celebrates all things genre.” Current theme is “Coffeeshop!AU.” Payment: USD $50 per piece.
https://www.fictionfanspodcast.com/solstitia
🔴📖🚀🪶 MAR 15 · Fahmidan Journal's Summer Issue submissions close for poetry and fiction and nonfiction prose. Payment: USD $25 per piece.
https://www.fahmidan.net/journal-submissions
🔴🚀♻️ MAR 15 · Modern Mummies Anthology from Cat Eye Press is closing their call exclusively for BIPOC, 2SLGBTQ+, Disabled, Neurodiverse, and other underrepresented voices with short fiction that updates the “mummy genre” from 1,500 - 5,000 words. There will be a March 1—15 submission window exclusively for BIPOC, 2SLGBTQ+, Disabled, Neurodiverse, and other underrepresented voices. Payment is $0.05 USD per word; $0.01 for reprints.
https://www.cateyepress.com/submissions
🔴🚀🪶🎨♻️ MAR 17 · Collaborature Monthly Contest is closing for fiction and poetry “written by more than one author or include a collaboration of two people (i.e., art and poetry).” Reprints are allowed. Payment is $20 USD.
https://collaborature.blogspot.com/p/contests.html
⭐ MAR 15 · The Submission & Editorial Process: Understanding the Literary World Fahmidan's workshops are as little as $5 with pay-what-you-can options up to $25. All workshops will be recorded via Zoom. Check the listing for times.
https://fahmidanjournal.submittable.com/submit/308885/fahmidan-workshops-2024-2025
🟢📖🚀🪶 MAR 16 · Fahmidan Journal's Autumn Issue submissions open for diverse voices in poetry, fiction and nonfiction prose. Payment: $25 per piece.
https://www.fahmidan.net/journal-submissions
🪶⭐ MAR 16 · Rattlecast livestreams, is part interview and open mic with a prompt-based open mic. Hangout with Rattle editor Timothy Green and Katie Dozier. Each Rattlecast begins with an interview, a writing prompt, and poets reading from the last week’s prompt. | Rattlecast at 8 pm EST.
⭐ MAR 16-22 · The Future of Publishing Mastermind and Writer MBA Conference The Writer MBA Conference is the only writer conference that focuses on creating a cross-disciplinary career across different modalities while bringing together the Author Ecosystem methodology. The mastermind is an elite group of hand-selected authors and publishers in New Orleans. Costs $699 to attend the conference alone, or $2,499 to attend the conference and mastermind. Tickets are discounted to $600 and $2,000.
🔴🚀 MAR 17 · The Apparatus Almanac: Gizmology & Technomancy anthology closes submissions for speculative fiction exploring the intersection of technology and magic ("gizmology and technomancy"). Accepts flash fiction, short stories, and novelettes up to 12,000 words. Pay ranges from Token payment to Semi-pro payment. Details: USD $5 per 1,000 words. Reprints are accepted.
https://www.jayhenge.com/submissions.html
🔴📖🚀 MAR 18 · Profiles Journal closes for fiction submissions of short stories (up to 5,000 words) and flash fiction. They accept literary fiction and creative nonfiction that deeply explores characters and their stories. Payment is EUR €200 for non-commissioned written work.
https://duotrope.com/magazine/profiles-journal-37311
🔴 MAR 19 · Qwerty Magazine closes for submissions of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. They seek innovative works in both literary and experimental styles. Fiction and creative nonfiction should be up to 5,000 words, double-spaced, in 12-point font. Poetry submissions can include up to six pages, with each poem starting on a new page within a single document. Payment is CAD $15 per accepted piece, plus a complimentary copy of the issue. Submissions are accepted through Submittable. Simultaneous submissions are allowed; reprints are not accepted.
https://www.qwertymagazine.ca/submissions
⭐ MAR 18-20 · Ireland’s Publishing Show: On the Wild Atlantic Way will run in Co. Clare, which is on part of the Wild Atlantic Way route. It is for any writer who is interested in publishing a book, for those who have published and want to scale up, and for anyone who is unsure as to where their career is headed. Costs €279, in Dromoland, County Clare, Ireland.
https://irelandspublishingshow.com/
🔴 MAR 20 · rainy weather days: a defiant literary magazine closes for submissions of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that challenge the current status quo and oppose ideologies such as right-wing extremism, Nazism, authoritarianism, Christian nationalism, and white supremacy. Prose submissions should be between 1,500 and 15,000 words; poets may submit up to 5 poems. Payment is USD $25 per prose piece and $10 per poem. Reprints are not accepted; simultaneous submissions are allowed.
https://rainyweatherdays.com/submissions/
🔴🪶 MAR 21 · Rattle Magazine’s “Poets Respond” challenge calls for poems inspired by “a news story or public event from the previous week, and has been written in the time since.” Selected poems will appear as the Sunday poem at Rattle.com which appear to over 10,000 people via RSS feed and daily email service. Poets will receive $100 and a free print magazine subscription. Each week's deadline is Friday midnight PST.
https://rattle.submittable.com/submit/30232/poets-respond-online
⭐🪶 MAR 23 · Rattlecast livestreams, is part interview and open mic with a prompt-based open mic. Hangout with Rattle editor Timothy Green and Katie Dozier. Each Rattlecast begins with an interview, a writing prompt, and poets reading from the last week’s prompt. | Rattlecast at 8 pm EST.
🔴🚀 MAR 23 · Short Fiction: The Visual Literary Journal closes for submissions of short stories and flash fiction. They welcome both traditional character-driven narratives and innovative, non-conformist works. Flash fiction should be between 500 and 1,000 words; short stories between 1,000 and 5,000 words. Payment is GBP £0.02 per word, rounded to the nearest 100 words, with a minimum of £30 and a maximum of £100. Submissions are accepted via Submittable. Simultaneous submissions are allowed; reprints are not accepted. Note: Submissions are restricted to individuals who are not from the USA.
https://www.shortfictionjournal.co.uk/subs
🔴🚀 MAR 25 · MudRoom Magazine closes for submissions of poetry and prose. Poetry submissions should include 3-5 original, previously unpublished poems in a single .DOC/.DOCX or PDF file, with one poem per page (eight pages maximum). Prose submissions, including fiction, essays, and essays in translation, should be previously unpublished works no longer than 6,000 words, double-spaced, in 12-point Times New Roman font. Payment is USD $15 per accepted piece. Submissions are accepted via email. Simultaneous submissions are encouraged; reprints are not accepted.
https://www.mudroommag.com/submissions
🔴 JUN 25 · The Ex-Puritan closes for submissions of fiction, essays, poetry, interviews, reviews, and experimental/hybrid work. They seek innovative and thought-provoking pieces across various genres. Submissions are free and accepted through Submittable. Payment rates are as follows: CAD $150 per work of fiction, $200 per essay, $100 per interview, $100 per review, and $50 per poem (or $100 per poet if multiple poems are accepted). Simultaneous submissions are allowed; reprints are not accepted.
https://ex-puritan.ca/submissions
🔴 MAR 25 · The Stygian Lepus Magazine closes for submissions of dark speculative fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and visual art. They welcome works in genres such as horror, science fiction, and fantasy. No specific word count limits are provided for fiction and nonfiction; poetry submissions have no line limits, and the number of pieces is unspecified. Visual art submissions are open to various media and styles. Payment is AUD $5 per accepted piece. Reprints are accepted; simultaneous submissions are not allowed. Submissions are accepted via email.
https://stygianlepus.com/submissions/
🔴🪶 MAR 28 · Rattle Magazine’s “Poets Respond” challenge calls for poems inspired by “a news story or public event from the previous week, and has been written in the time since.” Selected poems will appear as the Sunday poem at Rattle.com which appear to over 10,000 people via RSS feed and daily email service. Poets will receive $100 and a free print magazine subscription. Each week's deadline is Friday midnight PST.
https://rattle.submittable.com/submit/30232/poets-respond-online
🔴🚀🏆 MAR 28 · On The Premises contest closes for submissions of fiction from 1—5k words written to the theme of “Somewhere Else.” “On The Premises aims to promote newer and/or relatively unknown writers who can write what we feel are creative, compelling stories told in effective, uncluttered, and evocative prose. Entrants pay no fees, and winners receive cash prizes in addition to… publication.” Payment is a $250 USD first prize.
https://duotrope.com/contest/on-the-premises-2287
🔴🚀🏆MAR 28 · Dark Moments Drabble Monthly Challenge closes for speculative flash written to the theme “Harmacy & Medical Horror.” The BEST 12 drabbles will be chosen for publication in APRIL 2025. Semi-pro payment. Details: USD $0.04/word.
https://www.blackharepress.com/submissions/#toggle-id-2
🔴🚀🏆 MAR 28 · Parsec Short Story Contest closes to entries up to 3500 words of speculative fiction by “non-professional writers– those who have not met eligibility requirements for SFWA or equivalent.” The theme for 2024 is A.I. Mythology. First-place receives $200 and publication in the Confluence program book. Second-place receives $100, third-place receives $50. Additional $50 category prize for best story submitted by someone age 19 and under (as long as they are still enrolled in high school). The 2025 Contest theme is “ROOTS.”
https://parsec-sff.org/short-story-contest/
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