2022 Submission and Freelance Writing Opportunities

Posted May 13

Alice James Books: looking for poetry manuscripts for the 2023 Alice James Award. Submissions close October 16. 

Creative Writing Ink: open for submissions to its international short story competition.  Submissions close September 30. 

FICTIVE: seeking hybrid prose, poetry, artwork, design, and multimedia creativity for its upcoming issue merging literary fiction with art criticism. Submissions are accepted on a rolling basis. 

Ghost Proposal: accepting manuscripts between sixteen and forty-four pages for its chapbook contest. Submissions close June 30. 

Haymarket Books: open call for Asian Pacific Islander poets, spoken word poets, slam poets, and poets who consider themselves part of various oral traditions, to be published in Haymarket Books's AAPI anthology. Submissions close July 1. 

University of Akron Press: accepting entries for the 2022 Akron Poetry Prize. Submissions close June 15.

*

Posted April 29

BOA Editions: looking for submissions for its Short Fiction Prize. Submissions close May 31. 

Capsule Stories: seeking stories, poems, and essays that explore "a season of change in life—falling, leaving, and letting go." Submissions close June 30. 

The Massachusetts Review: accecpting poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and hybrid work by Disabled and/or D/deaf artists. Submissions close June 1.

Narratively: seeking entries for its Spring 2022 Memoir Prize. Submissions close June 27.

Ploughshares: accepting fiction, poetry, and nonfiction by writers who have yet to publish a book for its Emerging Writer’s Contest. Submissions close May 15.

TouchPoint Press: seeking scary stories that "send a chill down your spine and send your imagination into overdrive" for its Nightmares of Strangers Anthology and "wholesome stories that inspire" for its Christmas Anthology. Submissions close May 31. 

*

Posted April 15

The Bitter Fruit Review: accepting all forms of art including poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, artwork (digital & analogue), and hybrid work.

Ghost Proposal: seeking visual poetry submissions for its inaugural Ultraslant Prize.  Submissions close May 15.

hex: looking for speculative short stories and prose poems that are weird, uncanny, or surreal, or that intersect with genres like sci-fi, fantasy, or horror.

൪uartet: seeking poetry by women 50 and over. Submissions close May 8. 

The Rupture: Alice Maglio,  the reviews editor, is looking for finished reviews or pitches of small press books in any genre. Send reviews and pitches  to [email protected]

Tadpole Press: accepting submissions of any genre for its 100 Word Writing Contest. Submissions close April 30.

*

Posted March 31

BOMB Magazine: accepting poetry submissions for BOMB’s biennial poetry contest. Submissions close May 1.

Ugly Duckling Presse: accepting submissions in the fields of poetry, prose, nonfiction, and visual art for publication in UDP's second factory journal. Submissions close April 18.

Mother Jones: seeking pitches for 1500-2500 word reported essays, profiles, and culture dispatches, especially those that examine structures of power, explore identity, or illuminate cultural undercurrents. Email pitches to [email protected] with “culture pitch” in the subject line.

khōréō: open to fiction, non-fiction, and art from writers that identify as immigrants or members of a diaspora.

Beestung: considering poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, hybrids, and art, by creators who fall under the non-binary umbrella or who are two-spirit. Multilingual work and work in translation are welcome. Email pieces to [email protected] with a brief biographical note.

Earth Journalism Network: offering twelve reporting grants to support the production of in-depth stories that will call attention to critical environmental issues in the Pacific region. Applications close April 30.

*

Posted March 18

Ample Remains: looking for poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, and everything in-between. Submissions close April  1. 

Barrelhouse: accepting book reviews, preferred on titles from the past two years published by small presses.   

Electric Literature: accepting essay pitches at [email protected].

FiveThirtyEight: open to pitches for written pieces from reporters, academics, analysts, visual journalists, computational journalists, and other contributors.

Vox: seeking pitches in a wide range of subjects. 

The Women's Media Center: accepting pitches for reported stories, opinion pieces,  personal essays, and interviews on a number of different subjects. 

*

Posted March 4

Catapult magazine: Executive Editor Matt Ortile is seeking pitches of argument-driven personal essays that incorporate cultural analysis (read his pitch guide here). Editorial Assistant Eliza Harris is looking for comics.

Indiana Review: looking for poetry and short stories for its Poetry and Fiction prizes. Submissions close March 31.

Nieman Lab: is open for pitches that “attempt to help journalism figure out its future in an internet age.”

Persea Books: seeking manuscripts from Americans (including American citizens living anywhere in the world or anyone living in the US regardless of residency status) with at least one previous collection of poems for Lexi Rudnitsky’s Editor's Choice Award. Submissions close March 7.

Split Lip Magazine: accepting pitches for interviews and reviews.

*

Posted February 18

HuffPost: accepting pitches in a number of categories including wellness, food, style, reported stories, and stories told from the first person.

Longleaf Review: open to fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, and hybrid work. Submissions close February 28. 

Ninth Letter: accepting fiction, nonfiction, and poetry for its print edition until February 28 and for its online edition until March 31. It is also seeking  “poems that are visual in their experimentation” until March 18. 

Pigeon Pages: extended the deadline for its poetry contest until February 21.

Sustainable Arts Foundation: seeking submissions from writers and visual artists with children under 18 years old for an award of $5,000. Submissions close February 25. 

*

Posted February 4

Autumn House Press: The CAAPP Book Prize! Seeking submissions of first or second books of poetry (or genres that intersect with poetry) from writers of African descent. Submissions close February 15. 

Capsule Stories: looking for stories, poems, and essays that explore slipping into the water and finding yourself. Submissions close on March 20.

The Dedalus Press: accepting love poems from poets older than seventeen born or currently residing in Ireland. Submissions close February 28. 

The Rumpus: open for nonfiction and fiction submissions. Submissions close February 28. 

*

Posted January 21

Academy of American Poets: seeking submissions for The 2022 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award. Submissions close on February 15. 

Kitchen Table Quarterly: looking for poetry, nonfiction, and artwork submissions for their spring issue. Submissions close February 7. 

൪uartet: looking for poetry submissions from women fifty years and older. Submissions close February 8.  

Resistance & Resilience: seeking literary fiction and nonfiction, poetry, essays, reviews, and photography for its digital publication dedicated to amplifying Black music, art, and culture. Submissions close February 28. 

Studio ATAO: accepting pitches from new and emerging writers on a variety of social justice topics including transformative justice, nonprofit industrial complex, and decentralization of power. Email [email protected] and [email protected]  with your pitch.  

WIRED: seeking ideas for argument-driven essays on science and tech for their Ideas section by journalists, academics, and other subject-matter experts. 

*

Posted January 7

The Bookends Review:  looking for “good creative and/or intellectual work,” including features, creative nonfiction, flash fiction, short stories, poetry, and multimedia work. Submissions close January 31. 

Dinner Bell Mag: seeking submissions of no more than 1,000 words in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and visual art. Submissions close January 31. 

Driftwood Press: accepting submissions for their in-house poetry and fiction contests. Submissions close January. 

Paper Brigade:  seeking short stories that expand com­mon­ly held ideas of what con­sti­tutes the Jew­ish expe­ri­ence for their 2022 issue. Submissions close February 1.

VISIBLE: looking for poetry and prose from anyone who has the experience of living with an invisible disability (such as mental health conditions, chronic pain, brain injuries, autoimmune diseases, autism, etc.). Submissions close February 1. 

*

Do you know of a literary magazine with an upcoming submission deadline you'd like to see included on a future list? Please email our editor, Eliza, at [email protected] to make a suggestion.

• 0