Authortunities #32 Oct. 28—Nov. 25
S&T NONFICTION Selections! ➕ FREE Dancing in the Shadows 😪 ➕ FREE Space and Time #24 from May 1974 〓 188 author opportunities for you!
📖Read free for a good cause! Dancing in the Shadows: A Tribute to Anne Rice edited by Elaine Pascale and Rebecca Rowland [from Yuriko Publishing] is free on Kindle from Wednesday, October 25, 2023 to Sunday, October 29, 2023. If you download the book and read to the end, money is earned for the Animal Rescue of New Orleans.
Read for free here: 🔗https://amzn.to/40g2LRn
✅ Thank you everyone who voted! Cover color combo #1 wound up actually being #1 by a landslide. That was my original design choice but then I second guessed myself. I actually had a lot of fun seeing everyone’s input. Here are the official results:
🗳️I think I’ll do another poll. This week I want to know…
📦Last week I mentioned that Amazon no longer allows authors to publish links in their Author Central bios. Disappointing, since most of us connect to our newsletters and webpages. I reached out to Amazon and here is the underwhelming response I received:
From Amazon: Warmest greetings from Eddy with Author Central! It is a pleasure for me to assist you today. I have received your email and would love to explain the guidelines permitted by Amazon now.
As you mentioned, now Amazon will not let you put websites or URLs in your biography, and if you used to have them, now if you want to add something more to your bio, you will have the error pop up message, saying that you are not meeting the guidelines. To learn more about Author biography guidelines, check our help page:
🔗https://author.amazon.com/help/G4C8HLZYK4ZHKNR2
I hope my email has clarified your doubts, otherwise I remain attentive to your questions.
I took the liberty of taking a screen of the “Author biography guidelines” mentioned…
What are your thoughts on this?
🚀📦Speaking of Amazon, collect your free issue of Space and Time magazine! This week’s free issue is #24 from May 1974 and will be free from Sunday, October 29, 2023, 12:00 AM PDT Thursday, November 2, 2023, 11:59 PM PDT.
This is a win for all of us. When you read for free you support the magazine with your Kindle Edition Normalized Page Count (KENPC). That’s money in our pocket that didn’t come from yours. As always, reviews and shares are welcome.
Read for free: 🔗https://amzn.to/46Luo7n
🚀And speaking of Space and Time, here are the nonfiction selections for the upcoming issue #145 to be out in late November.
Our nonfiction selections S&T’s #145 Fall issue are:
“Word Ninja” by Linda D. Addison
”From Mushrooms to Writers' Minds” by Rami Ungar
”The Definitive, Indisputable, All Time Top 7 (my favorite) Autumn Horror(ish) Movies Ever Released” by Briant Laslo
”Take Two on the Movies: The Lovable Scientist Next Door” by Daniel M. Kimmel
”The Writer’s Log” by Michael Wyatt
”FUD Is Bad, So Why Are You Spreading It?” by R. Leigh Hennig
❓Ever wonder where I gather the information for my calendar? I have some great sources and they all deserve credit. My awesome assistant Lenoff and I keep an eye on them all week looking for new opportunities. If you prefer to go to the source, I keep a list at 🔗https://angelaysmith.com/subscribe/
🧡And that’s it from me this week. Enjoy this week’s Authortunities and go write something that matters… because the world needs it.
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In this entire calendar share you will find:
21 newly opened submissions 🟢
127 submission deadlines 🔴
3 events for authors ⭐
9 reprint markets ♻️
28 award 🏆
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⭐ OCT 28 · Writing the Occult: Vampires A day exploring the world of vampires and writing vampire fiction, featuring talks, panels, workshops and more! Organized by Alex Davis. Saturday 28th October, 1pm-9pm (UK time). Ticket Price: £45/$52 (until 26 October).
🔗 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/writing-the-occult-vampires-tickets
🔴 OCT 30 · Embrace the Silence Anthology is open to Australian and New Zealand authors who identify as neurodivergent. Genre: Apocalyptic stories featuring neurodivergent characters. Payment: $20-$50. The deadline is October 30, 2023.
🔗 https://deadsetpress.com/submissions/
🔴 OCT 30 · Mythaxis is accepting speculative fiction submissions with a payment of $20. The deadline is October 30, 2023. 🔗 https://mythaxis.co.uk/submissions.html
🔴 OCT 30 · Agbowo, a publication that exclusively publishes work by African origin writers, is open for submissions in various categories, including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, plays, interviews/reviews, and art/photography. They offer a range of payments, including $25-50 for poetry, $50 for one-act plays, $60 for fiction and nonfiction, and $35 for art. Additionally, there is an editor’s prize for poetry, offering $100. Please submit only one piece per reading period. The deadline for the current reading period is October 30, 2023.
🔗https://agbowo.org/submissions/
🔴♻️ OCT 31 · Short Story on Substack is closed for short stories from 6- 10,000 words in any genre. Payment is $100 + 50% of subscription revenue to be sent by Paypal, Zelle, or check. Selected story to be announced on the 15th. Reprints welcome.
🔗https://shortstory.substack.com/about?nthPub=601
🔴 OCT 31 · MetaStellar closes their flash speculative fiction submission window on October 31, 2023. This is a paying opportunity, and they're looking for your best enthralling, imaginative, or bone-chilling original fiction stories, as long as they're 1,200 words or fewer. They also welcome unpaid submissions and pitches all year round — in the form of reviews, essays, excerpts, and reprints. Payment: $0.08/word.
🔴 OCT 31 · Brick, a well-regarded Canadian literary journal, is currently open for literary nonfiction submissions. They prefer pieces ranging from 1,000 to 5,000 words and accept submissions during the month of October. Brick encourages writers of underrepresented identities to submit their literary non-fiction. Payment: $65-$720.
🔗 https://brickmag.com/submissions/
🔴 OCT 31 · Cutleaf is also open for nonfiction submissions of 1,500-6,000 words with a payment range of $100-$400. The submission deadline is October 31, 2023.
🔗 https://eastoverpresscutleafjournal.submittable.com/submit
🔴 OCT 31 · New York Times: Modern Love, a nonfiction column in the New York Times, accepts honest personal essays about contemporary relationships. They welcome essays on various aspects of love, and submissions are open from September through December. Writers are paid, and they encourage work from historically underrepresented writers, as well as those outside the US. Details can be found here.
🔗 https://www.nytimes.com/article/how-to-submit-a-modern-love-essay.html
🔴 OCT 31 · The Paris Review is open for poetry and poetry translation submissions during October. Their Submittable portal will close when the cap is reached, but they will continue to accept mailed submissions through October. Payment varies.
🔗 https://www.theparisreview.org/about/submissions
🔴🏆 OCT 31 · The Edgar® Awards, sponsored by the Mystery Writers of America, honor the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction, television, film, and theater. Submissions close for books published in September. Books must be submitted during the month of publication. In addition, the book MUST arrive to the judges within 30 days of sending the submission form to the national office.
🔗https://mysterywriters.org/edgars/edgar-submission-information/
🔴 OCT 31 · Engen Books and Kit Sora Photography have teamed up to offer the “Flash Fiction Photography Contest” which calls for ekphrastic flash prose pieces of 250 words or less inspired by the photography of Kit Sora. Payment is 10 cents a word.
🔴 OCT 31 · Diet Milk Magazine, a “biannual literary magazine devoted to Gothic” closes for submissions of “ micro and flash fiction for its December series, IN THE BLEAK MIDWINTER” for $3 per micro fiction and $2 per flash fiction. “Twenty-five works will be chosen to be posted from December 1st through Christmas to our website and boosted on twitter.”
🔗https://duotrope.com/duosuma/submit/diet-milk-magazine-rv29z
🔴 OCT 31 · Silver Blade Magazine [Silver Pen Writers Association] closes for Flash (250 to 1,000 words), Short Stories (1,000 to 7,500 words) Novellas (7,500 to 20,000 words) and poetry for a flat fee of $15 for novellas, $3 for flash fiction, $8 for short stories, and $8 for single poems.
🔗https://www.silverblade.net/submissions-2/
🔴 OCT 31 · Rattle Magazine’s Ekphrastic Poetry challenge calls for poems inspired by a visual art prompt posted on their site. Poets have until the end of the month to write. Two winners will receive online publication and $100 each.
🔗https://www.rattle.com/ekphrastic/
🔴 OCT 31 · Ofic is open for short fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, and art submissions. Various genres accepted. Payment: Small honorarium. Deadline: October 31, 2023.
🔗 https://mythaxis.co.uk/submissions.html
🔴 OCT 31 · Black Lawrence Press is seeking books of poetry, prose (fiction or nonfiction), and hybrid texts of poetry and prose from immigrants living in the U.S. Payment includes a travel stipend of $500. Deadline: October 31, 2023.
🔗 https://blacklawrencepress.com/submissions-and-contests/immigrant-writing-series/
🔴 OCT 31 · MetaStellar closes their flash speculative fiction submission window on October 31, 2023. This is a paying opportunity, and they're looking for your best enthralling, imaginative, or bone-chilling original fiction stories, as long as they're 1,200 words or fewer. They also welcome unpaid submissions and pitches all year round — in the form of reviews, essays, excerpts, and reprints. Payment: $0.08/word.
🔴 OCT 31 · Brick, a well-regarded Canadian literary journal, is currently open for literary nonfiction submissions. They prefer pieces ranging from 1,000 to 5,000 words and accept submissions during the month of October. Brick encourages writers of underrepresented identities to submit their literary non-fiction. Payment: $65-$720.
🔗 https://brickmag.com/submissions/
🔴 OCT 31 · Cutleaf is also open for nonfiction submissions of 1,500-6,000 words with a payment range of $100-$400. The submission deadline is October 31, 2023.
🔗 https://eastoverpresscutleafjournal.submittable.com/submit
🔴 OCT 31 · The Paris Review is open for poetry and poetry translation submissions during October. Their Submittable portal will close when the cap is reached, but they will continue to accept mailed submissions through October. Payment varies.
🔗 https://www.theparisreview.org/about/submissions
🔴 OCT 31 · Engen Books invites Canadian writers to submit short fiction (under 7000 words) focused on cryptids. Payment: $0.01 CAD per word to an upper limit of 7,000 words. Deadline: October 31, 2023.
🔗 https://www.engenbooks.com/short-story-calls
🔴 OCT 31 · Diet Milk is accepting gothic micro/flash fiction for their 'In The Bleak Midwinter' theme. Payment: $3 for micro fiction, $5 for flash fiction. Submission period runs from October 1–31.
🔗 https://www.dietmilkmag.com/submit
🔴 OCT 31 · Bath Magg is seeking poetry submissions with a payment of £20. The deadline is October 31, 2023.
🔗 https://www.bathmagg.com/submissions/
🔴 OCT 31 · JMS Books is looking for LGBT romance stories based on favorite tropes. Length: 12,000 words or higher. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: October 31, 2023.
🔗https://www.jms-books.com/2021-submissions-calls-lgbtq-romance-stories-ezp-36.html
🔴 OCT 31 · Silver Blade is open for science fiction, slipstream, classic and modern fantasy submissions, including short fiction, flash fiction, novellas, and poetry. Payment varies by category. Deadline: October 31, 2023.
🔗 https://www.silverblade.net/submissions-2/
🔴 OCT 31 · MetaStellar is seeking science fiction, fantasy, or horror flash fiction with a maximum word count of 1000 words. Payment: 8 cents per word. Deadline: October 31, 2023.
🔗 https://www.metastellar.com/write-for-us/flash-fiction-story-submission/
🔴 OCT 31 · How2Conquer is open for nonfiction book submissions with payment in royalties. Deadline: October 31, 2023. 🔗 https://www.how2conquer.com/submit
🔴 OCT 31 · Hub City Press is seeking new and extraordinary voices from the American South in literary fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, regional nonfiction, nature, and art. Payment is through royalties. Don't miss the October 31, 2023 deadline!
🔗 https://hubcity.submittable.com/submit
🔴 OCT 31 · Dragon Soul Press is looking for Christmas stories in all genres for "A Winter Promise." Happily Ever After is not required. Payment will be through ,mB?;lufxi0royalties. Submit your Christmas-themed tale by October 31, 2023.
🔗 https://dragonsoulpress.com/anthologies/
🔴 OCT 31 · Orison Books is open to submissions of novels, short story or flash fiction collections, novellas, personal or lyric essays, and memoirs. They offer a small advance and royalties. The deadline is October 31, 2023.
🔗 https://duotrope.com/duosuma/submit/orison-books-open-reading-period-I1jr7
🔴 OCT 31 · Kissing Dynamite is seeking poetry microchap manuscripts and offers a payment of $50. Submit your work by October 31, 2023.
🔗 https://www.kissingdynamitepoetry.com/microchap-submission-guidelines.html
🔴 OCT 31 · FIYAH, which publishes speculative fiction by Black writers of the African Diaspora, is currently accepting submissions for an unthemed issue. The length guidelines are 1,000-15,000 words for fiction and up to 1,000 words for poetry. Payment is $0.08/word for fiction and $50/poem. The deadline is October 31, 2023.
🔗 https://fiyahlitmag.com/submissions/
🔴 OCT 31 · The Temz Review welcomes prose (fiction and creative non-fiction) submissions up to 10,000 words. They offer a payment of $20. Submit your work by October 31, 2023.
🔗 https://www.thetemzreview.com/submissions.html
🔴 OCT 31 · Crimson Quill Quarterly is seeking sword & sorcery, dark fantasy, and grimdark subgenres of fantasy fiction up to 10,000 words. They offer a payment of $25. Submit your dark fantasy tale by October 31, 2023.
🔗https://crimsonquillquarterly.com/#what-we-want
🔴 OCT 31 · Manawaker Studio's Flash Fiction Podcast is open to flash fiction submissions and offers a minimum payment of $3. They also accept reprints. Submit your flash fiction by October 31, 2023.
🔗 http://www.manawaker.com/ffp-submissions/
🔴 OCT 31 · Infrarrealista is interested in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, comics, reviews, and interviews, with a preference for writers from Texas, especially central Texas. They offer a payment of 15 cents/word up to 300 words and 5 cents/word after that. Submit your work by October 31, 2023. 🔗 https://infrarrealistas.org/submission/
🔴 OCT 31 · Open Minds Quarterly is seeking writing and art from individuals with lived experience of mental health challenges, mental illness, madness, and neurodiversity. They offer a payment of $25 CAD. Submit your work by October 31, 2023.
🔗 https://openmindsquarterly.submittable.com/submit
🔴 OCT 31 · Open Minds Quarterly is currently accepting submissions on the theme of 'Identity.' They welcome writing and art from individuals with lived experiences of mental health challenges, mental illness, madness, and neurodiversity. Payment is CAD25 for prose of up to 3,000 words or up to 4 poems. The deadline is October 31, 2023.
🔗 https://openmindsquarterly.submittable.com/submit
🔴 OCT 31 · Dragon Soul Press Dragons & Heroes is in search of all dragon stories with a male main character. All genres are accepted. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: October 31, 2023.
🔗 https://dragonsoulpress.com/anthologies/
🔴 OCT 31 · Hearth Stories publishes speculative fiction and poetry exploring themes of connection, family, relationships, and the natural world. Stories often fall into fantasy, science fiction, or magical realism. Payment: 1¢ per word for accepted stories (with a minimum of $20 regardless of length). Deadline: October 31, 2023.
🔗 https://hearthstories.org/submissions.html
🔴 OCT 31 · New Writing Scotland is open to writers resident in Scotland or Scots by birth, upbringing, or inclination. They accept all forms of writing. Payment: £25 per published page. Deadline: October 31, 2023.
🔗 https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/newwriting/nwssubs/
🔴 OCT 31 · Nonbinary Review seeks poetry, fiction, essays, and art on the theme "Lies 52for Children." Payment: 1 cent per word for prose, and a flat fee of $10 for poetry. Deadline: October 31, 2023. Closes when cap is reached, so submit early.
🔗 https://nonbinaryreview.submittable.com/submit/202881/nbr-27-shared-worlds
🔴 OCT 31 · Brick is open for nonfiction submissions. Payment: $55–685, depending on the length of accepted work, plus two copies of the issue the work appears in and a one-year subscription to the magazine. Deadline: October 31, 2023.
🔗 https://brickmag.com/about/#submissions
🔴 OCT 31 · From the Yonder seeks horror stories based on regional/cultural legends or tall-tales from any location or culture in the world. Payment: $5. Deadline: October 31, 2023.
🔗 https://warmonkeypublications.com/submissions
🔴 OCT 31 · Nightlight (Podcast) is in search of horror flash fiction (750–1,500 words). Restrictions: At least one of your birth parents must be Black. Payment: 5 cents per word. Deadline: October 31, 2023. 🔗 https://nightlightpod.com/submissions/
🔴 OCT 31 · khōréō welcomes speculative stories, essays, and art from writers who identify as immigrants or members of diaspora communities. Genres include fantasy, sci-fi, horror, and more with a speculative element. Payment: 8 cents/word for fiction, $100 for nonfiction, and $40–300 for art. Deadline: October 31, 2023.
🔗 https://www.khoreomag.com/submissions/
🔴 OCT 31 · Nine Arches is open for poetry collections. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: October 31, 2023. 🔗 https://www.ninearchespress.com/submissions.html
🔴 OCT 31 · Hub City Press seeks literary fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and regional nonfiction with a focus on new voices from the American South. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: October 31, 2023. Note: Submit nonfiction only.
🔗 https://hubcity.submittable.com/submit
🔴 OCT 31 · Harbor Review is looking for poetry and art. Payment: $10. Deadline: October 31, 2023. 🔗 https://www.harbor-review.com/submit
🔴 OCT 31 · Haven Speculative is open for speculative fiction and poetry. Payment: 1 cent/word for fiction and $5–$10 for poetry. Deadline: October 31, 2023.
🔗 https://www.havenspec.com/submit/
🔴 OCT 31 · The Rumpus is accepting essays that emphasize marginalized voices and unique perspectives. Payment: $300 divided among all contributors. Deadline: October 31, 2023.
🔗 https://therumpus.submittable.com/submit
🔴 OCT 31 · The Worcester Review is seeking fiction. Payment: $20. Deadline: October 31, 2023. (No submission fee for BIPOC writers)
🔗 https://www.theworcesterreview.org/submit
🔴 OCT 31 · Split Lip Magazine closes tip jar submissions for poems, memoirs, flash, fiction, art, interviews/reviews, and mini-reviews. Payment is $75 per author for poems, memoirs, flash, fiction, and art, $50 for interviews/reviews, and $25 for mini-reviews.
🔗https://splitlipthemag.com/submit
🔴 OCT 31 · The T4T Project is a zine by and for trans writers and artists of color. They feature 20 creators per issue with a rolling deadline.
🔗 https://t4tproject.carrd.co/
🔴 OCT 31 · diaCRITICS, with a mission to represent Vietnamese and Southeast Asian diasporic literature, art, and culture, currently has a special call for the theme 'Southeast Asia Now.' They are seeking English translations of Southeast Asian writing, including short fiction, poetry, essays, memoirs, interviews, profiles, and hybrid work about contemporary Southeast Asia. Payment for this themed issue is $75 per prose piece or interview and $50 per poem. The deadline is October 31.
🔗 https://dvan.org/diacritics/submit/
🔴🏆 OCT 31 · River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Book Contest is open to all writers. They are offering a prize of $1,000 along with a publication opportunity. The entry fee is $27, and the deadline for submissions is October 31, 2023. For more details and to submit your work, visit the link:
🔗http://www.riverteethjournal.com/contests.
🔴🏆 OCT 31 · Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award is open to all writers and offers a prize of $3,000 along with publication. The entry fee is $25, and the deadline is October 31, 2023.
🔗https://redhen.org/awards/benjamin-saltman-poetry-award/
🔴🏆 OCT 31 · Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry seeks female poets who have yet to publish a full-length book of poems. The prize includes $1,000, publication, and a residency opportunity. The deadline for submissions is October 31, 2023.
🔗https://www.perseabooks.com/lexi-rudnitsky-prize-award/
🔴🏆 OCT 31 · THE LETTER REVIEW PRIZE FOR SHORT FICTION is accepting submissions with a $20 entry fee. The deadline is October 31, 2023. Three winners will be published and share a total prize pool of $1,000 USD. Twenty writers will be longlisted. All entries will be considered for publication and submission to the Pushcart Prize and other anthologies. There are no genre or theme restrictions, and the word limit is 5,000 words. Open to writers worldwide.
🔗https://letterreview.com/information/
🔴 OCT 31 (may close early if full) · The Hamilton Stone Review is open for prose submissions for the Fall 2023 Issue #49 from October 3, 2023, through October 31, 2023 (please note it may close early if the issue fills). Fiction and nonfiction submissions should be e-mailed as attachments to Dorian Gossy at HSRproseDEG@gmail.com. For more details, visit
🔗 www.hamiltonstone.org/hsr.html#submissions.
🔴🏆 OCT 31 · THE LETTER REVIEW PRIZE FOR NONFICTION is open for submissions with a $20 entry fee. The deadline is October 31, 2023. Three winners will be published and share a total prize pool of $1,000 USD. Twenty writers will be longlisted. All entries will be considered for publication and submission to the Pushcart Prize and other anthologies. This contest is open to writers worldwide and accepts various forms of nonfiction, including memoir, journalism, interviews, essay, creative nonfiction, and more. The word limit is 5,000 words.
🔗https://letterreview.com/information/
🍂 🍃 NOVEMBER
🔴 NOV 1 · The Bad Day Book-Wedding, Vacation, Work, Sports Edition Edition calls for fiction and poetry for $40-75 until November 1.
🔗https://thebaddaybook.com/faq/
🔴🏆 NOV 1 · Lit/South Awards are open to current or former residents of North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, and Georgia. These awards offer a prize of $1,000 plus publication, with an entry fee of $10. The deadline for submissions is November 1, 2023, and the genre is multi-genre. For complete guidelines, visit
🔗https://www.charlottelit.org/press/awards/
🏆 🔴 NOV 1 · The Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence welcomes all writers. This prize offers $1,000 plus publication and has an entry fee of $20. Submissions must be made by November 1, 2023, and the genre is multi-genre. For more information, visit
🔗http://puritan-magazine.com/submit-austin-clarke-prize/.
🔴 NOV 1 · The First Line is open for fiction, poetry, and nonfiction using a provided first line. Payment: $25–$50 for fiction, $5–$10 for poetry, and $25 for nonfiction. Deadline: November 1, 2023.
🔗 http://www.thefirstline.com/submission.htm
🔴 NOV 1 · Leaders Igniting Generational Healing and Transformation (LIGHT) is currently open for submissions for the third issue of “LIGHT Magazine.” This annual literary magazine in public health aims to connect, create, and curate content by and for the public. If you have a unique perspective on reimagining healing and transformation with cancer, whether through art, letters, stories, or poetry, we invite you to share your experiences. No entry fee is required, and prize money will be awarded to the top three contestants in each category (1st: $500, 2nd: $375, 3rd: $125). The submission deadline is November 1, 2023, at 11:59 PM CST. Learn more and submit your work via Submittable at
🏆 🔴 NOV 1 · Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Contest: Calling all U.S. writers, here's your chance to shine! Enter the Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Contest for a shot at the $1,500 prize and the opportunity to be published. The entry fee is $25, and the deadline for fiction submissions is November 1, 2023. Don't miss this opportunity to showcase your unique literary creations. For more information and to submit your work, visit
🔗http://www.fc2.org/prizes.html
🔴🏆 NOV 1 · Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize: U.S. writers with a minimum of three published fiction books, this is for you! The Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize offers a grand prize of $15,000 and the chance to get your work published. To enter, there is a $25 submission fee, and the fiction submission deadline is November 1, 2023. Take this opportunity to share your innovative stories with the world. Learn more and submit your work at
🔗http://www.fc2.org/prizes.html
🔴🏆NOV 1 · John Steinbeck Award is open to all writers. This competition offers a prize of $1,000 with an entry fee of $20. The submission deadline is November 1, 2023, and the genre is fiction. For detailed information, visit
🔗https://www.reedmag.org/john-steinbeck-award-for-fiction
🔴🏆 NOV 1 · The Gabriele Rico Creative Nonfiction Challenge welcomes all writers to participate. The prize for this challenge is $1,333, and the entry fee is $20. Submissions must be non-fiction and can be submitted until November 1, 2023. For complete guidelines, visit
🔗https://www.reedmag.org/gabriele-rico-challenge-for-nonfict
🔴🏆 NOV 1 · The Edwin Markham Prize is open to all poets. This competition offers a prize of $1,000 with an entry fee of $20. The submission deadline is November 1, 2023, and the genre is poetry. For detailed information, visit
🔗https://www.reedmag.org/edwin-markham-prize-for-poetry
🔴 NOV 1 · Kelp Journal accepts fiction, nonfiction, and poetry with oceanic themes. Payment: $35. Deadline: November 1, 2023. 🔗 https://www.kelpjournal.com/about
🔴🏆 NOV 1 · North American Review Kurt Vonnegut Speculative Fiction Prize: The North American Review is accepting submissions for the Kurt Vonnegut Speculative Fiction Prize. The deadline for entry is November 1, 2023. To participate, submit a short story, work of flash fiction, or novel excerpt of up to 10,000 words. The entry fee is $23, which also includes an issue of North American Review. The winner will receive a cash prize of $1,000 and have their work published in the North American Review. For detailed guidelines and to submit your speculative fiction work, visit
🔗http://northamericanreview.org
🔴 NOV 1 · The Iowa Review is seeking nonfiction. Payment: $0.08 per word for prose ($100 minimum). Deadline: November 1, 2023. No fee for snail mail submissions, $4 fee for online submissions.
🔗 https://iowareview.org/content/writers-guidelines
🔴 NOV 1 · Adroit Journal is open for fiction, poetry, and art. Payment: $50. Deadline: November 1, 2023. Note: Open to high school students and up.
🔗 https://theadroitjournal.org/about/submissions/
🔴 NOV 1 · Cutleaf is accepting fiction, nonfiction prose, and poetry. Payment: $100–$400 for published nonfiction prose, $50–$200 for published poetry, and $100–$400 for published fiction. Deadline: Opens November 1, 2023. Note: Submission window closes when their cap is reached.
🔗 https://cutleafjournal.com/submit/
🔴 NOV 1 · Thema seeks fiction, poetry, and art on the theme "The Missing Piece of the Puzzle." Payment: $10–$25 for short fiction and artwork, $10 for poetry. Deadline: November 1, 2023. Accepts reprints.
🔗 http://themaliterarysociety.com/submissions.html
🔴 NOV 1 · Olit is looking for fiction, nonfiction, poetry, hybrid, artwork, and photography, with a strong preference for Orlando-based writers or submissions about Orlando and surrounding areas. Payment: $10. Deadline: November 1, 2023.
🔗 https://www.olitmag.com/submit
🔴 NOV 1 · Foglifter, a journal for LGBTQ+ contributors, accepts fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, hybrid works, and drama. They are especially interested in cross-genre, intersectional, marginal, and transgressive work. The deadline is November 1, 2023.
🔗https://foglifterjournal.com/submit/
🔴 NOV 1 · The Blue Route accepts fiction and creative nonfiction from current undergraduate writers. Payment: $25. Deadline: November 1, 2023.
🔗 https://widenerblueroute.org/submission-guidelines/
🔴 NOV 1 · Last Girls Club is open for feminist horror short stories and poems on specified themes. Payment: Varies. Deadline: November 1, 2023.
🔗 https://duotrope.com/duosuma/submit/last-girls-club-lImp7
🔴 NOV 1 · Heathens and Heroes seeks sword and sorcery/heroic fantasy stories (5,000–10,000 words). Payment: Royalties. Deadline: November 1, 2023.
🔗 https://threeravenspublishing.com/heathens-and-heros/
🔴 NOV 1 · Insurgent [Lost Boys Press] seeks “ stories about rebels, insurgents and insurrectionists set in a secondary world” of 2000 – 9000 words for $40 flat rate until November 1.
🔗https://www.lostboyspress.com/insurgent
🔴NOV 1 · The First Line closes for fiction and poetry submissions that begin with the first line: “It was the farthest north they had ever been.” for “ $25.00 - $50.00 for fiction, $10.00 for poetry, and $25.00 for nonfiction” in USD. There is also a submission call for their sister publication, The Last Line.
🔗http://www.thefirstline.com/submission.htm
🟢 NOV 1 · Split Lip Magazine opens free submissions for poems, memoirs, flash, fiction, art, interviews/reviews, and mini-reviews until November 30 or free cap is reached. Payment is $75 per author for poems, memoirs, flash, fiction, and art, $50 for interviews/reviews, and $25 for mini-reviews.
🔗https://splitlipthemag.com/submit
🟢 NOV 1 · Air and Nothingness Press opens for submissions on any genre revolving around the theme “Resource Scarcity.” Preferred genres are: hopepunk (losing a resource leads to something unforeseen and positive), solarpunk (a pollution laden resource leads to a better solution), fantasy (the last dragon). Paying $0.08/word if published.
🔗http://aanpress.com/submissions.html
🟢 NOV 1 · Apparition Lit’s Reality Show Madness Flash Fiction Prompt opens for submissions of speculative flash fiction (under 1k words) prompted by “Do your worst month (Canada’s Worst Handyman, America’s Ugliest House, Nailed It)” until the 14th. Payment is $30 USD.
🔗https://apparitionlit.com/submissions/
🟢 NOV 1 · Songs of Eretz Poetry Review seeks winter solstice poems for their winter issue for “a semi-professional rate of seven dollars per poem.”
🔗http://www.songsoferetz.com/p/poetry-and-artwork-guidelines.html
🟢 NOV 1 · Rattle Magazine’s Ekphrastic Poetry challenge calls for poems inspired by a visual art prompt posted on their site. Poets have until the end of the month to write. Two winners will receive online publication and $100 each.
🔗https://www.rattle.com/ekphrastic/
🟢 NOV 1 · Flame Tree Fiction Newsletter calls for monthly themed submissions from newsletter subscribers only (free to subscribe) up to 1k words for $0.08 per word USD for original fiction.
🔗https://www.flametreepress.com/submissions/
🟢♻️ NOV 1 · Flash Fiction Online calls for speculative fiction flash from 500-1k words for $80 USD flat rate until November 21 or “unless we reach our submission cap of 425 stories”.
🔗https://ffo.submittable.com/submit
🟢 NOV 1 · evOke is open to "art and music" themed submissions of artwork, poetry, short fiction, essays, interviews, lifestyle and reviews on things "Pagan, polytheist, and witchy" until the 15th of the month. Also interested in video and audio content. Payment is $5.
🔗https://ev0kepublication.com/contributors/
🟢♻️ NOV 1 · The Other Stories Podcast calls for 2,000 word speculative fiction on the theme of “Infestation” for a $15 GBP flat rate until November 11.
🔗https://theotherstories.net/submissions/
🟢 NOV 1 · The Forge Literary Magazine calls for fiction and nonfiction under 3,000 words including flash and micro fiction for $75 flat rate until the free submissions quota is full. “If there is no free link, we’ve hit our quota.”
🔗https://forgelitmag.com/submit/
🟢♻️ NOV 1 · Showcase: Object & Idea seeks flash fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. A poem and a prose piece are selected for each monthly issue, and the authors answer questions about the meaning behind their work. Payment is $50. Reprints accepted.
🔗https://theshowcase.submittable.com/submit
🟢 NOV 1 · Submissions open for the DBS Press call for 1500-5000 word stories at .05 cents a word for “Issue 4: The Brides of Dracula.” Simultaneous submissions accepted. Closing Dec. 31. Cover art also sought.
🔗https://www.dbspress.com/submissions
🟢 NOV 1 · Black Lawrence Press seeks innovative, electrifying manuscripts in various categories, such as novel, novella, short story collection, poetry, biography & cultural studies, translation from German, and creative nonfiction. The deadline for submissions is November 30. They do request submitters to select one Black Lawrence Press publication at a discounted price ($14, including shipping for print editions). Proceeds from the open reading period will go directly back into supporting the activities of the press.
🟢♻️ NOV 1 · Short Story on Substack is open for short stories from 6-10,000 words in any genre. Payment is $100 + 50% of subscription revenue to be sent by Paypal, Zelle, or check. Selected story to be announced on the 15th. Reprints welcome.
🔗https://shortstory.substack.com/about?nthPub=601
🟢♻️ NOV 1 · Poetry on Substack is open for poems with “a rhyme scheme or a rhythm scheme” (no blank or free verse) in any genre. Payment is $10 + 50% of subscription revenue to be sent by Paypal, Zelle, or check. Winners announced every Sunday. Reprints welcome.
🔗https://poetica.substack.com/about
🔴 NOV 1 · The African Poetry Book Fund Awards have two open poetry awards: the Evaristo Prize for African Poetry. These awards are for poets born in Africa, nationals of African countries, or those with African parentage who haven't yet published a full-length poetry book. They accept poems in English and offer a prize of £1,500.
🔗 https://africanpoetrybf.unl.edu/contest-prizes/evaristo-prize-for-african-poetry/
🟢 NOV 1-2 · Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores is open for new work, reprints, poetry (up to 40 lines) and prose from 1,000 words and up. Payment is .08 per word for new fiction, .02 per word for reprints, .02-.08 for new fact-based work, .01-.04 for reprinted fact-based work, $1 per line for original poetry, .50 per line for reprinted poetry. No simultaneous or multiple submissions.
🔗https://cosmicrootsandeldritchshores.com/submissions/
🔴 NOV 3 · 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 complimentary subscription to the print magazine. The deadline for each week is Friday at midnight PST.
🔗https://rattle.submittable.com/submit
🔴🏆 NOV 3 · F(r)iction Short Story Contest is available to all writers. This contest offers a prize of $1,000. The submission deadline is November 3, 2023, and the genre is fiction. To learn more, please visit
🔗https://frictionlit.org/contests/
🔴🏆 NOV 3 · “Conduit Books & Ephemera” invites submissions for the Minds on Fire Open Book Prize. The deadline is November 3, 2023. There is an entry fee of $25. The prize includes $1,500, publication by Conduit Books & Ephemera, and 30 author copies. The editors of Conduit Books & Ephemera will judge the competition. To participate, submit a manuscript of 48 to 90 pages. For detailed guidelines and to submit your book of poetry, please visit
⭐ NOV 3-5 · H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival - Mobile, AL has been a Portland institution for over two decades but this year it will also take place in Mobile, Alabama. This is the first H.P Lovecraft Film Festival event to be held in this location with 3 days of new & classic movies, guests, panels, and fun at the historic Saenger Theatre, Mobile, AL.
🔴 NOV 5 · Planet Scumm closes submissions for “Hard sci-fi, soft sci-fi, sci-fi that melts in your mouth-brain not your hand-brain” of no more than 5,000 words words. Payment is $0.06 per word.
🔗https://www.planetscumm.space/submit
🔴 NOV 5 · Cave Canem invites chapbook-length manuscripts by Black poets for the Derricotte/Eady Prize. The winner receives a $1,000 award, publication, 10 chapbook copies, a residency at The Writer’s Room, and a featured reading at the O, Miami Poetry Festival in April. The deadline is November 5, 2023.
🔴 NOV 5 · Speckled Trout Review is currently open for submissions with the theme "For the Ages" for their Fall 2023 (5.2) print issue. They seek up to 4 poems via email. Please note that attachments will not be read. Speckled Trout Review does not publish poems with overtly political messages. Specific submission guidelines are available at
🔗speckledtroutreview.com/2019/08/04/welcome-to-my-blog/
🟢 NOV 6 · The Fabulist Flash is an exciting flash-fiction project from The Fabulist Words & Art. They are actively seeking fantastical and speculative writings, with a maximum word count of 1,000 words. Upon contracted acceptance, they offer a flat fee of $100 for stories, equivalent to an SFWA-qualifying rate of $0.10 per word. The submission window for stories of up to 1,000 words is open from November 6 to November 12, 2023. Don't miss this opportunity!
🔗https://fabulistmagazine.com/about/submissions/
🔴 NOV 7 · Sand Hills literary magazine, in print since 1973, is now open for submissions for a special online Fall issue with the theme of the fantastical, unusual, and macabre. They welcome speculative, thrilling, eerie, gothic, supernatural, or anything in between. Both emerging and established writers and artists are encouraged to submit. The deadline is November 7, 2023. Get creative and submit your prose, poetry, and art at
🔴 NOV 10 · 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 complimentary subscription to the print magazine. The deadline for each week is Friday at midnight PST.
🔗https://rattle.submittable.com/submit
🔴♻️ NOV 11· The Other Stories Podcast is in search of 2,000 word speculative fiction on the theme of “Infestation” for a $15 GBP flat rate on November 11.
🔗https://theotherstories.net/submissions/
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