Creative Writers Opportunities

Muse/A Journal is open for submissions of poetry and lyric essays for Online Issue /11 from October 1st, 2019 through December 31st, 2019. Muse/A looks for the playful, the lyrical, the inventive, the moving, the raw. We are a paying market, and all submission fees go towards paying our contributors and producing the journal. You can submit here:  https://museajournal.submittable.com/submit Best, Anna Sandy-Elrod  Editor Muse/A Journal  

Subject: call for submissions: Foundry Foundry   is open for poetry submissions. Expedited submissions are open through Wednesday, November 6 ($5 for a response within three days).  One dollar from every expedited submission will be donated to  Project Night Night, an organization that gives care packages filled with books, stuffed animals, and security blankets to children who are homele ss. General poetry submissions are open for free through January 31. We pay $20 per poem.  Foundry  publishes a range of styles and forms, from short lyric poems to prose poems and longer narratives. We are committed to inclusivity and warmly welcome submissions from marginalized voices.  Guidelines: https://www.foundryjournal.com/submit.html We look forward to reading your work!

Beginning with our fourth issue (June, 2020), Orca will dedicate one issue per year to publishing Literary Speculative fiction. Be imaginative. Be artful. Guidelines here:  https://orcalit.com/literary-speculative-issue-guidelines/ Before you submit, it's important to understand what we mean by each of those terms. Literary: A style of writing in which the focus is on language and character, and plot is often secondary. A literary story is about ideas. It has an overarching theme distinct from the narrative and a leitmotif running through it. It treats its characters as real human beings and not as props to move espouse an author's opinion or to simply move the plot forward. It approaches language as art: a literary writer pays attention to every sentence, every word. Speculative: The term "speculative" has been employed by writers and editors to connote works from a variety of genres, such as scien...

submit by October 31 prize: $1000 and publication View this email in your browser Last Day! Ends today, Thurs Oct 31!   Omnidawn Fabulist Fiction Chapbook   Novelette / Short Story Contest Accepting electronic & postal submissions September 1 – October 31, 2019. The Fabulist Fiction Prize will be awarded for a novelette or series of short stories. Omnidawn's Fabulist Fiction Prize Last Day! Ends today, Thurs Oct 31 ! www.omnidawn.com/contest/fiction Please note that this year's contest has changed from a chapbook contest to a chapbook contest for ei...

Subject: Frontier Poetry Open Will Award $5000 For a Poem From Frontier Poetry, a trusted Winning Writers      F...

Subject: Call for Submissions (No fee)  Parentheses Journal  seeks poetry, prose, artwork, and photography for Issue Eight, due to release in January 2020.  We welcome diverse and interdisciplinary narratives and seek work that straddles across varied paradigms, in form and content.  The deadline for submissions to Issue Eight is  December 10 , 2019 . We encourage you to peruse our previous issues and submission guidelines before sending your work.  We encourage submissions from women, POC, immigrant, LGBTQ, and disabled folks.  We nominate the works of our contributors for a host of major awards and prizes. Inquiries may be directed to  editors@parenthesesjournal.com   PLEASE READ OUR SUBMISSION GUIDELINES CAREFULLY. WORK THAT DOESN'T ADHERE TO THE GUIDELINES WILL BE AUTOMATICALLY REJECTED. Submission guidelines:  http://www.parenthesesjournal.com/submit/   Link to previous issues:  http://www.parenthesesjournal.com/issue...

Subject: Call for Submissions - Gyroscope Review Gyroscope Review seeks contemporary poetry for its quarterly digital/print journal. No-fee submissions accepted through Submittable; no more than 4 poems per reading period. If you write seasonal poetry, winter-themed only please. Back issues available online to see what we like in a poem. Visit www.gyroscopereview.com for guidelines. This reading period: Oct 1-Dec 07, 2019.   

Tahoma Literary Review is reading prose and poetry for its Spring 2020 issue. Submissions are open through November 30.   Program directors & faculty: Please share with your colleagues and students Tahoma Literary Review is Reading Poetry and Prose Through November 30 Tahoma Literary Review editors are reading now through November 30 for the Spring 2020 issue. Our feedback option presents a unique opportunity for your students to interact with our editors. Our contributors have gone on to win awards and place their work in anthologies. We regularly feature writers whose work is being published for the first time. We welcome the chance to consider work from those in your program.  TL...