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JUNE OPENINGS
- Black Lawrence Press – Open Reading Period / JUNE 1 – JUNE 30, 2018 / All Genres
- Interim – Test Site Poetry Series Contest / JUNE 1 – November 1, 2018 / Poetry / $25 / Prize: Publication by the University of Nevada Press
- Four Way Books Open Reading Period / JUNE 1 – 30, 2018 / Poetry, Fiction / $30
- Paloma Press / JUNE 1-30, 2018 / Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction Queries
- PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction / Deadline: JUNE 1 – October 12, 2018 / Fiction / $25 / Prize: $25,000 + Publication with Algonquin Books
- Rescue Press – Black Box Poetry Prize / JUNE 1-30, 2018 / Poetry / Judge: Jos Charles
- WTAW Press / JUNE 1-30, 2018 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid / $28
JUNE 6 DEADLINE
JUNE 15 DEADLINE
- Akron Poetry Prize / April 15 – JUNE 15, 2018 / Poetry / $25 / Prize: $1,500 + Publication / Judge: Dianne Seuss
- Bitter Oleander Press – Library of Poetry Book Award / May 1 – JUNE 15, 2018 / Poetry / $28 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
- Blair – Bakwin Award for Writing by a Woman / Deadline: JUNE 15, 2018 / Novels, Short Story Collections, Memoir / $20 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication by Blair
- The Muriel Press / Deadline: JUNE 15, 2018 / Poetry
- New American Press – New American Fiction Prize / Deadline: JUNE 15, 2018 / Fiction / $25 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judge: John McNally
- Omnidawn First/Second Book Prize / May 1 – JUNE 18, 2018 / Poetry / $27 / Prize: $3,000 + Publication / Judge: Srikanth Reddy
- Willow Springs Books – Spokane Prize for Short Fiction / January 15, 2018 – JUNE 15, 2018 / Short Story Collections / $27.50 / Prize: $2,000 + Publication
JUNE 30 DEADLINE
- Autumn House Press – Literary Prizes / Deadline: JUNE 30, 2018 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / $30 / Prize: $1,000 + $1,500 Toward Book Promotion + Publication / Judges: Kimiko Hahn (Poetry), Daisy Johnson (Fiction), Daisy Hernández (Nonfiction)
- Barrow Street Press – Book Prize / Deadline: JUNE 30, 2018 / Poetry / $28 / Prize: $1,500 + Publication / Judge: Ada Limón
- Bauhan Publishing – May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize / Deadline: JUNE 30, 2018 / Poetry / $25 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judge: David Blair
- Black Lawrence Press – Open Reading Period / JUNE 1 – JUNE 30, 2018 / All Genres
- Cider Press Review Editors’ Prize Book Award / April 1 – JUNE 30, 2018 / Poetry / $26 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
- The Elephants / May 1 – JUNE 30, 2018 / All Genres / $10
- Four Way Books Open Reading Period / JUNE 1 – 30, 2018 / Poetry, Fiction / $30
- Milkweed Editions – Max Ritvo Poetry Prize / Deadline: May 1 – JUNE 30, 2018 / Poetry / $25 / Prize: $10,000 + Publication / Judge: Henri Cole
- Paloma Press / JUNE 1-30, 2018 / Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction Queries
- Parlor Press – New Measure Poetry Prize / Deadline: JUNE 30, 2018 / Poetry / $28 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
- Rescue Press – Black Box Poetry Prize / JUNE 1-30, 2018 / Poetry / Judge: Jos Charles
- University of North Texas – Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction / May 1 – JUNE 30, 2018 / $25 / Short Fiction Collection / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
- University of Pittsburgh Press – Drue Heinz Literature Prize / May 1 – JUNE 30, 2018 / Collections of Short Fiction / $25 / Prize: $15,000 + Publication
- WTAW Press / JUNE 1-30, 2018 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid / $28
JULY 1 DEADLINE
JULY 10 DEADLINE
JULY 30 DEADLINE
JULY 31 DEADLINE
AUGUST 1 DEADLINE
AUGUST 15 DEADLINE
AUGUST 31 DEADLINE
- Black Lawrence Press – St. Lawrence Book Award / JULY 1 – August 31, 2018 / Poetry and Short Story Collections / $25 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
- Ex Ophidia Press Poetry Book Prize / Deadline: August 31, 2018 / Poetry / $25 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
- Grid Books – Off the Grid Poetry Prize / May 1 – August 31, 2018 / Poetry by Poets Over 60 / $25 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
- Miami University Press Novella Prize / Deadline: August 31, 2018 / $25 / Prize: $750 + Publication / Judge: Daisy Hernández
- Red Hen Press – Quill Award for Queer Prose / Deadline: August 31, 2018 / Prose by Queer Writers / $10 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
- Tinderbox Editions / JULY 1 – August 31, 2018 / Prose / $22 (Free from JULY 1-7)
SEPTEMBER & BEYOND
- Willow Books / Deadline: September 1, 2018 / Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction by Writers of Color / $25
- Red Mountain Press Poetry Prize / Deadline: September 15, 2018 / Poetry / $30 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
- Dzanc Books Fiction Prize / Deadline: September 30, 2018 / Fiction / $25 / Prize: $5,000 + Publication
- Dzanc Books – Short Story Collection Competition / Deadline: September 30, 2018 / Short Story Collections / $25 / Prize: $2,500 Advance + Publication
- Dzanc Books Nonfiction Prize / Deadline: September 30, 2018 / Nonfiction / $25 / Prize: $1,500 Advance + Publication
- Moon City Press – Short Fiction Award / Deadline: October 1, 2018 / Collections of Short Fiction / $25 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
- 7.13 Books / Deadline: November 1, 2018 / Fiction / $5
- Harpoon Books / Deadline: December 31, 2018 / Poetry, Flash Fiction, and Essay Collections / $10
OPEN / NOW
- Another New Calligraphy / Now / Music, Books
- Apocalypse Party / Year-Round / All Genres
- Bellevue Literary Press / Year-Round / Fiction, Nonfiction
- BlazeVOX / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction
- BLF Press / Now / Fiction by Black Women Writers
- Boost House / Now / Poetry
- Brain Mill Press – Kindred Books / Now / Fiction by Marginalized Writers
- Cinestate / Now / Fiction
- co•im•press / Now / Translations
- corrupt press / Now / Poetry
- Counterpath Press / Year-Round / Queries
- Damaged Goods Press / Now / Poetry, Essays, and Hybrid Writing from Queer and Trans Writers
- Deep Vellum Publishing / Year-Round / Translations of Fiction and Nonfiction
- Disorder Press / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Art Work, Photography
- El Balazo Press / Now / All Genres
- Fiction Advocate / Now / Literary Criticism, Hybrid Fiction, Novels
- Get Fresh Books / Now / Poetry Queries
- HVTN / Now / Poetry and Short Stories Collections
- Inlandia Books / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry by Writers from Inland Southern California
- Inside the Castle / Now / Prose, Poetry
- Kernpunkt Press / Year-Round / Fiction / $10
- Kiddiepunk / Now / Zines and Books Centered Around Childhood
- The Operating System / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Drama, Cross-Genre
- Orison Books / Now / Nonfiction, Poetry in Translation
- Outpost 19 / Year-Round / Fiction, Nonfiction
- PANK / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Experimental, Collaborative, Hybrid / $25
- Platypus Press / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
- Plays Inverse Press / Now / Plays, Cross-Genre, Performance Lit
- Punctum Books / Now / Proposals for Unconventional Scholarly Work
- Red Hen Press – General Submissions / Now / All Genres / $20
- Resolute Publishing / Now / Fiction and Nonfiction by Women of Color
- Schism Press / Now / Philosophy, Theory
- See Sharp Press / Now / Nonfiction and Science Fiction Queries
- Spork Press / Now / Fiction, Poetry, Hybrid
- Spuyten Duyvil / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose, Cross-Genre
- Trembling Pillow Press / Now / Poetry, Poetry Translations, Essays About Poetry / $15
- Tupelo Press / Year-Round / Fiction, Nonfiction / $45
- Two Dollar Radio / Now / Fiction / $3
- Two Lines Press / Now / Translations of Novels and Short Story Collections
- Vegetarian Alcoholic Press / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose
JUNE OPENINGS
JUNE 15 DEADLINE
- Gazing Grain Press Chapbook Contests / Deadline: JUNE 15, 2018 / Poetry, Prose / $15 / Prize: Publication + Book Release Event at George Mason University / Judge: Khadijah Queen
- Litmus Press / Deadline: JUNE 15, 2018 / Poetry, Criticism, Collaborative and Cross-Genre Forms of Inquiry
JUNE 30 DEADLINE
JULY 1 DEADLINE
JULY 4 DEADLINE
JULY 15 DEADLINE
- Emrys Press Chapbook Prize / Deadline: JULY 15, 2018 / Poetry / $20 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication + 1-Week Residency at Rensing Center in Greenville, SC
JULY 31 DEADLINE
AUGUST OPENINGS
- Oversound Chapbook Prize / August 1 – September 30, 2018 / $18 / Poetry / Prize $1,000 + Publication / Judge: Solmaz Sharif
AUGUST 15
AUGUST 31
OPEN / NOW
- above/ground press / Now / Poetry
- AngelHousePress / Now / Poetry Queries from Women, Genderqueer, and Marginalized Writers
- Anstruther Press / Year-Round / Poetry by Canadian Poets
- ATTN: Open Archive Series / Now / Multiple-Author Poetry Collections and Archives
- ATTN: Correspondences / Now / Poetry Collaborations
- bird, buried press / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose, and Art from Ontario Writers and Artists
- Bottlecap Press / Now / Poetry, Fiction
- CWP Collective Press / Now / Poetry
- DevilHousePress / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction, and Drama from Women and Genderqueer Writers
- Disorder Press / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
- drDOCTOR / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Queries / Payment: $300
- Epigraph – Digital Chapbooks / Now / Poetry
- Fathom Books – Systems \ Circulatory Series / Now / Video Game Writing
- Francis House / Now / Poetry / $7.50
- Homebound Publications – Little Bound Chapbook Series / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction
- HVTN / Now / Poetry
- Long Day Press / Now / Prose
- Neck Press / Year-Round / Poetry
- The Operating System / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Drama, Cross-Genre
- PANK / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid / $20
- pitymilk press / Now / Poetry, Hybrid
- Platypus Press – Digital Shorts / Now / Fiction
- Throwback Books / Now / Poetry, Prose
JUNE OPENING
- Buddy / JUNE 1 – JULY 4, 2018 / Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction about Mental Health
- The Hunger / JUNE 1 – August 15, 2018 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Hybrid/Experimental, Art
- Interim / JUNE 1 – September 1, 2018 / Poetry, Translation, Criticism, Reviews, Hybrid / $3
- Nightjar Review / JUNE 1-30, 2018 / Poetry
- Anomaly / JUNE 1 – September 1, 2018 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Translations, Comics / $3 (Waiver Available for Financial Hardship)
- The Asian American Literary Review / JUNE 1 – September 1, 2018 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Translations
- Black Warrior Review / JUNE 1 – September 1, 2018 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Comics, Art / $3
- GlitterMOB / JUNE 1 – JULY 31, 2018 / Poetry, Art (Year-Round)
- The Gravity of the Thing / JUNE 1 – JULY 31, 2018 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
- K’in / JUNE 1 – September 30, 2018 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
- Shirley – Themed Issue: Doubles / JUNE 1 – August 31, 2018 / Fiction
JUNE 15 DEADLINE
- Another Chicago Magazine / January 15 – JUNE 15, 2018 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / $3
- COVER / Deadline: JUNE 15, 2018 / Fiction, Poetry, Image, Video, Audio, Mixed Media, Experimental
- Elastic Magazine / Deadline: JUNE 15, 2018 / Poetry, Prose, Art from Asian Writers and Artists
- Grist: A Journal of the Literary Arts / JUNE 15 – September 15, 2018 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Craft Essays / $4
- the museum of americana / May 15 – JUNE 15, 2018 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Reviews, Interviews, Art
- MICRO//MACRO / Deadline: JUNE 15, 2018 / Micro Fiction, Image Macros
- Up The Staircase Quarterly / Deadline: JUNE 15, 2018 / Poetry, Reviews, Interviews, Art
JUNE 17-18 DEADLINE
JUNE 23 DEADLINE
- Rambutan Literary / Deadline: JUNE 23, 2018 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, and Art from Southeast Asian Writers
JUNE 30 DEADLINE
- Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review / Deadline: JUNE 30, 2018 / Poetry, Essays, Reviews
- briars lit / May 12 – JUNE 30, 2018 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Hybrid
- BLF Press – Black From the Future: A Collection of Black Speculative Writing / Deadline: JUNE 30, 2018 / Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction from Black Women Writers
- Cha: An Asian Literary Journal – Writing Singapore Issue / Deadline: JUNE 30, 2018 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Photography, Art
- Meridian / Deadline: JUNE 30, 2018 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Art
- Poet Lore / Deadline: JUNE 30, 2018 / Poetry
- Radar Poetry / October 1, 2017 – JUNE 30, 2018 / Poetry
- Reservoir / Deadline: JUNE 30, 2018 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
- Sixth Finch / Deadline: JUNE 30, 2018 / Poetry, Art
JULY OPENINGS
- Bat City Review / JULY 1 – November 1, 2018 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Art, Cross-Genre
- Beech Street Review / JULY 1-31, 2018 / Poetry
- The Wire’s Dream Magazine / JULY 1 – November 1, 2018 / Fiction, Poetry, Art, Nonfiction, Photography, Mixed Graphics
- The Woven Tale Press – WTP Hamptons Poetry Competition / JULY 15 – September 15, 2018 / Poetry / $25 / Prize: One-Week Retreat in the Hamptons, NY / Judge: Joyce Peseroff
JULY 1 DEADLINE
JULY 4 – 6 DEADLINE
JULY 15 DEADLINE
- Breakwater Review – Peseroff Poetry Contest / Deadline: JULY 15, 2018 / $10 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judge: Lillian-Yvonne Bertram
- Driftwood Press – Adrift Short Story Competition / Deadline: JULY 15, 2018 / Fiction, Visual Fiction, Hybrid, Collaborations / $10 / Prize: $300 + Publication + Interview / Judge: David Jauss
- Foglifter / Deadline: JULY 15, 2018 / Poetry, Prose, Drama, Cross-Genre
JULY 31 DEADLINE
- 3Elements Review / Deadline: JULY 31, 2018 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Art, Photography
- Cigar City Poetry Journal / March 1 – JULY 31, 2018 / Poetry, Translations, Spanish Language Poetry
- The Collagist / March 1 – JULY 31, 2018 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction
- GlitterMOB / JUNE 1 – JULY 31, 2018 / Poetry, Art (Year-Round)
- The Gravity of the Thing / JUNE 1 – JULY 31, 2018 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
- LitMag / Deadline: JULY 31, 2018 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry (Closes JUNE 30)
- Papercuts / Deadline: JULY 31, 2018 / Poems, Stories, Essays, Artwork
- petrichor / Deadline: JULY 31, 2018 / Poetry, Visual Poetry, Hybrid
- River Styx / Deadline: JULY 31, 2018 / Fiction, Nonfiction / $2.50
- Rhino / April 1 – JULY 31, 2018 / Poetry, Translations of Poetry, Flash Fiction
AUGUST OPENINGS
- HVTN / August 1-31, 2018 / Poetry, Fiction, Theory, Art
- New Delta Review / Opens August 6, 2018 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Art, Other / $3
- The Southampton Review / August 15 – October 15, 2018 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Drama / $3
- The Spectacle / August 1-31, 2018 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
- SPF Lit Mag / August 1-31, 2018 / Poetry, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Mixed Media
- tinywords / August 1-31, 2018 / Haiku, Micropoetry
- Waccamaw / August 1-31, 2018 / Nonfiction, Poetry, Fiction
AUGUST 1 DEADLINE
- Pigeon Pages – Flash Contest / Deadline: August 1, 2018 / Fiction, Nonfiction / $7-$15 / Prize: $250 + Publication / Judge: Alexander Chee
- Memoir Mixtapes / Deadline: August 1, 2018 / Nonfiction and Poetry about Music
- Mom Egg Review / Deadline: August 1, 2018 / All Genres / $3
- Potluck Magazine – Online / August 1-31, 2018 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Multimedia, Art
- Washington Square Review / August 1 – October 15, 2018 / Poetry, Fiction, Translations
AUGUST 15 DEADLINE
- The Hunger / JUNE 1 – August 15, 2018 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Hybrid/Experimental, Art
- Parentheses Journal / Deadline: August 15, 2018 / Poetry, Prose, Art
- Psychopomp / Deadline: August 15, 2018 / Fiction
AUGUST 31 DEADLINE
- Wigleaf / Final Week of August, 2018 / Flash Fiction
- The Bookends Review / May 1 – August 31, 2018 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Essays, Interviews, Reviews, Music, Art
- HVTN / August 1-31, 2018 / Poetry, Fiction, Theory, Art
- indicia / August 31, 2018 / Flash Fiction, Poetry, Art
- Potluck Magazine – Online / August 1-31, 2018 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Multimedia, Art
- Shirley – Themed Issue: Doubles / JUNE 1 – August 31, 2018 / Fiction
- The Spectacle / August 1-31, 2018 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
- SPF Lit Mag / August 1-31, 2018 / Poetry, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Mixed Media
- tinywords / August 1-31, 2018 / Haiku, Micropoetry
- Waccamaw / August 1-31, 2018 / Nonfiction, Poetry, Fiction
SEPTEMBER & BEYOND
- Interim / JUNE 1 – September 1, 2018 / Poetry, Translation, Criticism, Reviews, Hybrid / $3
- The Account / Deadline: September 1, 2018 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
- apt / Deadline: September 1, 2018 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction
- Anomaly / JUNE 1 – September 1, 2018 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Translations, Comics / $3 (Waiver Available for Financial Hardship)
- The Florida Review – Latinx/Latina/Latino Lit Special Feature / Deadline: September 1, 2018 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Graphic Narrative, Art / $3
- Hobo Camp Review – Issue 35: Flash Around the Campfire Competition / Deadline: September 3, 2018 / Flash Fiction, Poetry / Prize: $25
- cahoodaloodaling – Issue 27: Joy Sticks / Deadline: September 14, 2018 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Reviews, Art, Music
- Dark Wood / Deadline: September 15, 2018 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Photography, Video, Audio
- Grist: A Journal of the Literary Arts / JUNE 15 – September 15, 2018 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Craft Essays / $4
- Raspa Magazine / January 15 – September 15, 2018 / Fiction, Essays, and Poetry by Queer Latinos
- Red Hen Press – American Muslims: An Anthology of Contemporary Writing / Deadline: September 15, 2018 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Cross-Genre / Editor: Kazim Ali
- WSQ – Together Issue / Deadline: September 15, 2018 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
- The Woven Tale Press – WTP Hamptons Poetry Competition / JULY 15 – September 15, 2018 /
- Poetry / $25 / Prize: One-Week Retreat in the Hamptons, NY / Judge: Joyce Peseroff
- Infinite Rust / Deadline: September 30, 2018 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art, Photography
- K’in / JUNE 1 – September 30, 2018 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
- Anastamos / Deadline: October 10, 2018 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art, Academic
- Hunger Mountain / Deadline: October 15, 2018 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, YA, Children’s Lit / $3
- The Southampton Review / August 15 – October 15, 2018 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Drama / $3
- The Wire’s Dream Magazine / JULY 1 – November 1, 2018 / Fiction, Poetry, Art, Nonfiction, Photography, Mixed Graphics
- Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry / January 1 – November 30, 2018 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction
- Quiddity / May 1 – December 15, 2018 / Poetry, Prose / $3
OPEN / NOW
- 3:AM / Now / Nonfiction, Collaborative Poetry, Visual Poetry
- 32 Poems / Year-Round / Poetry / $3
- 4squarereview / Now / Poetry Book Reviews
- A VELVET GIANT / Now / All Genres, Cross-Genre, Experimental, Art
- A&U Magazine / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Drama, and Nonfiction Related to HIV/AIDS
- Aaduna / Now / Prose, Poetry, Visual Art
- The Acentos Review / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Translation, Cross-Genre, Art
- The Adroit Journal / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Art
- After Happy Hour Review / Year-Round / Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Art
- Always Crashing / Now / Fiction, Poetry, Video, Audio, Other
- Angry Old Man Magazine / Year-Round / All Genres
- Anomaly / Rolling Submissions / Proposals for Themed Folios for Upcoming Issues
- Apartment Poetry / Year-Round / Poetry
- apt – Online / Now / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Reviews, Comics, Video
- American Short Fiction / Year-Round / Fiction / $3
- Arcturus / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid
- Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies / Now / Scholarly Writing about Nonfiction
- Atticus Review / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
- Automata Review / Year-Round / Fiction
- Bad Pony / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
- bæst: a journal of queer forms & affects / Year-Round / All Genres
- Bear Review / Now / Poetry, Flash Fiction, Flash Nonfiction, Art
- Beyond the Block / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry from Incarcerated or Imprisoned Writers
- Big Echo: Critical Science Fiction / Now / Speculative Poetry, Science Fiction Poetry
- Birds Piled Loosely / Now / All Genres
- Black Napkin Press / Now / Poetry, Art
- Black Sun Lit / Year-Round / Prose, Poetry, Essays, Translations, Art
- Blue Earth Review / Year-Round / Nonfiction, Poetry
- BOAAT / Now / Poetry
- Bodega Magazine / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
- Boston Accent / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
- Cabildo Quarterly / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction
- Cagibi / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Translations
- CALAMITY / Year-Round / Poetry, Art
- Callaloo / Now / Essays, Fiction, Poetry, Art
- The Capra Review / Year-Round / Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
- The Cardiff Review / Now / Prose, Poetry, Reviews, Illustrations, Photography, Comics
- Cartridge Lit / Now / Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction Inspired by Video Games
- Cartridge Lit – The Airshop Blog / Year-Round / Essays About Video Games
- Carve Magazine / Year-Round / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction / $3
- Catapult / Now / Nonfiction
- Cheers from the Wasteland / Now / Writers and Artists with Ties to San Jose, CA
- Cleaver Magazine / Now / Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Radio Plays
- Clade Song / Year-Round / Poetry, Flash Fiction, Audio, Video
- Cloud Rodeo / Year-Round / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
- ctrl+v / Now / Poetry Collage, Collage (Visual, Multimedia, Digital, Sound, Video, Other)
- The Collapsar / Now / Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, Reviews
- Columbia Review / Year-Round / All Genres
- The Conium Review / Year-Round / Fiction / $3
- Construction Magazine / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Border and Architecture Columns
- con•text / Year-Round / Reviews, Essays
- The Continental Review / Year-Round / Video Poetry
- Cosmonauts Avenue / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
- Cotton Xenomorph / Year-Round / Poetry, Flash Fiction, Art
- COUNTERCLOCK / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
- Crab Fat Magazine / Now / Fiction, Flash Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Art, Reviews
- CRAFT / Year-Round / Fiction
- CRAG / Year-Round / Fiction Under 1,000 Words
- Dead Alive Magazine / Now / Cross-Genre, Experimental, Multimedia
- Decentre / Now / Fiction, Poetry
- decomP Magazine / Year-Round/ Prose, Poetry, Art
- Deluge / Year-Round / Poetry, Essays, Fiction, Reviews, Criticism, Poem-films, Photography, Art
- The Destroyer / Now / Poetry, Prose, Cross-Genre, Video, Audio, New Media, Art, Reviews
- DIAGRAM / Year-Round / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction
- Dogbird / Year-Round / Collaborative Writing
- Dream Pop Journal / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose, Art
- Dream Noir / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
- DREGINALD / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose, Art
- Dryland / Year-Round / Prose, Poetry, Art
- DUM DUM Zine / Year-Round / Fiction, Letters, Nonfiction, Poetry, Visual Art
- El Balazo Press / Now / Poetry, Short Fiction, Essays
- ELKE “A Little Journal” / Year-Round / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Translations, Comics, Art
- Elm Leaves Journal / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Interviews, Reviews
- elsewhere / Now / Prose Poetry, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Photography
- Empty Mirror / Year-Round / Poetry, Nonfiction, Visual Art, Reviews, Interviews, Criticism
- Entropy / Year-Round / Essays, Reviews, Interviews, Fiction, Poetry, More – See here for a comprehensive list of what Entropy editors want to publish in 2018.
- Epigraph / Now / Poetry
- Fairy Tale Review – Digital / Now / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction
- Fantastic Floridas / Now / Fiction, Poetry, and Nonfiction Related to Florida
- The Fanzine / Now / Personal Essays, Writing on Film, Essays on Modern Instances of Duende
- Fathom Books – Queer Anti-Dreams: 2000-2018 / Now / Poetry, Nonfiction, Flash Fiction
- FIELD / Now / Poetry
- Figroot Press / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose, Visual Art
- Figure 1 / Year-Round / Poetry
- FIVE:2:ONE / Year-Round / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Art
- Flag + Void / Year-Round / Poetry
- Foundry / Year-Round / Poetry
- The Florida Review / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Graphic Narrative, Reviews, Art / $2-3
- Foothill / Year-Round / Poetry by Poets Enrolled in a Graduate Program
- For the Sonorous / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, and Visual Art from Women of Color and Non-Binary People of Color
- Free State Review / Now / Poetry, Prose / $3
- F(r)iction / Year-Round / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Comics / $5
- Full Stop / Now / Reviews, Interviews, Nonfiction, Cultural Criticism
- GASHER Journal / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
- Gertrude Press / Now / Nonfiction, Poetry, Art
- Ghost Proposal / Year-Round / Windowframes: Image+Text Fragments
- Gimmick Press – Worthless Treasures / Now / Poetry, Flash Fiction, Micro Essays
- Golden Walkman / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Craft Essays
- Gold Wake Live / Now / All Genres / $2
- Goodnight, Sweet Prince / Now / Essays About Side Characters
- GRACKLE Magazine / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction from People of Color and Queer People of Color
- Gravel / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Hybrid, Art, Videos, Reviews, Interviews
- Graviton / Now / Science-Inspired Poetry and Art
- Greying Ghost Press- Pamphlet and Art Zine Submissions / Now / Poetry, Essays, Translations, Lists, Art
- Grimoire Magazine / Year-Round / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Dreams, Dead Letters, Séances
- Gritty Silk / Now / Collaborative Poetry and Hybrid Writing
- Guernica / Now / Nonfiction, Poetry, Fiction
- h& / Now / Visual/Concrete Poetry
- The Harpoon Review / Now / All Genres
- Hardly Doughnuts / Year-Round / Poetry, Micro Fiction
- Heavy Feather Review – #NoMorePresidents / Year-Round / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Journalism, Comics, Hybrids
- Hinchas de Poesia / Now / Poesia, Prosa, Artefactos, Reseñas
- Hobart – Online / Now / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction
- Homonym Journal / Year-Round / Multilingual and Translation-Minded Writing and Art
- HOOT Review / Year-Round / Flash Fiction, Flash Nonfiction, Poetry / $2
- Horny Poetry Review / Now / Poetry, Experimental Prose
- Huizache / Now / Prose, Poetry
- ICHNOS / Now
- Identity Theory / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
- Indianapolis Review / Year-Round / Poetry, Art
- Inlandia: A Literary Journey / Now / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Images
- Inpatient Press / Now
- Jarfly Magazine / Year-Round / Poetry, Reviews, Art, Poetry-Based Essays and Pedagogy
- The Journal / Year-Round / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Art, Interviews, Reviews
- jmww / Year-Round / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Flash Fiction
- Josephine Quarterly / Now / Poetry, Art
- Joyland / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction / $4
- Juked / Year-Round / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
- JuxtaProse / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Art, Photography
- Kartika Review / Now / Fiction, Poetry and Nonfiction from Asian Pacific Islander American Writers
- La Vague / Year-Round / Poetry and Art by Women
- Lambda Literary’s Poetry Spotlight / Now / Poetry by LGBT Poets
- Lame Kid Zine / Now / All Genres
- Lavender Review / Year-Round / Poetry and Art by Lesbians
- Leopardskin & Limes / Year-Round / Fiction, Poetry, Art
- LEVELER / Year-Round / Poetry
- Linden Avenue Literary Journal / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
- LIT / Now / Poetry, Prose
- littletell / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose, Audio, Visual
- Long Day Press / Now / Prose
- LOST iN / Year-Round / Place-Based Fiction
- Man in the Street Magazine / Year-Round / Poetry, Flash Fiction and Nonfiction
- Mantra Review / Year-Round / Poetry
- many gendered mothers / Now / Essays by Writers on the Women, Femme, Trans, and Non-Binary Writers Who Have Influenced Them
- The Margins / Now / Poetry, Nonfiction
- Master’s Review – New Voices / Year-Round / Fiction
- Matador Review / Year-Round / Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Fiction, Poetry, Visual Art
- Matter Monthly / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose
- Maudlin House / Now / Fiction, Flash Fiction, Poetry
- Meshes Journal / Now / Poetry, Critique, Moving Image, Photography, Choreographic Notation, Any/All Relation to Dance and Movement
- Metaphorosis Magazine / Now / Science Fiction, Fantasy
- Minor Literatures / Year-Round / Cross-Genre, Essays, Reviews, Interviews, Fiction (JUNE Only)
- MISTRESS / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Visual Work with Textual Components
- Moko: Caribbean Arts and Letters / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Essays, Reviews, Art, Videos
- Moon City Review / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Translations, Graphic Narrative, Reviews
- MoonPark Review / Now / Flash Fiction, Prose Poetry, Hybrid
- Moonsick Magazine / Year-Round / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
- Monkeybicycle / Now / Fiction, One-Sentence Stories
- Monstering / Now / Poetry, Prose
- Mortar / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction
- Moss / Now / Fiction and Nonfiction from the Pacific Northwest
- Muzzle Magazine / Now / Poetry
- Neck / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Art
- New Orleans Review – Online / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Reviews / $3
- New Poetry in Translation / Year-Round / Poetry in Translation
- Newfound / Year-Round / Reviews, Translation, Art
- Night Music Journal / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose, Hybrid
- Nightblock / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Comics, Short Films
- NonBinary Review / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Fiction, Poetry, Hybrid, Art
- Nthanda Review / Year-Round / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
- NUNUM / Now / Flash Fiction, Art / $3
- The Occulum / Year-Round / Prose, Poetry
- The Offing / Now / Nonfiction, Poetry, Fiction, Translation, Art / $3
- The Operating System / Now / Field Notes, Conversations
- Opossum / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash, and Poetry Related to Music
- Other People’s Flowers – A Podcast for Rejected Stories, Essays, and Poems / Now / Fiction, Essays, Poetry, Reviews, Interviews
- OUT/CAST / Year-Round / Flash Fiction & Nonfiction, Poetry, Art
- Oxidant | Engine / Year-Round / Poetry
- Pacifica Literary Review / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Photography, Art
- Painted Bride Quarterly / Year-Round / Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry / $3
- PERM PRESS / Now / Recipes, Poetry, Fiction, Art, Recommendations, Dreams, Music, Short Films / $3
- Permafrost Magazine / Now / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Art / $3
- ‘Pider / Now / Poetry
- Pithead Chapel / Year-Round / Fiction, Nonfiction, Prose Poetry, Art
- pitymilk press – DUETDUET / Now / Poetry
- Plath Poetry Project / Now / Poems in Response to Work by Sylvia Plath
- POETRYSEEN / Year-Round / Video Poetry, Art
- Poets for Living Waters/Big Energy Poets / Year-Round / All Genres In Response to Prompts from Big Energy Poets: Ecopoetry Thinks Climate Change
- Poor Claudia / Now / Poetry, Prose / $3
- Pretty Owl Poetry / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Art
- Prism Review / Year-Round / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction / $2
- Puerto del Sol – Black Voices Series / Now / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Multimedia
- Punch Drunk Press / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Art
- Queen Mob’s Tea House / Now / Poetry, Art, Fiction, Essays
- Rabid Oak / Year-Round / Poetry, Flash Fiction, Flash Nonfiction
- Rag Queen Periodical / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose, Reviews, Art
- The Real Story / Now / Nonfiction, Reviews
- Reality Beach / Now / Poetry, Video
- Reality Hands / Now / Short Stories, Poetry
- Redivider / Year-Round / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Comics, Art / $3
- Requited / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Performance Text, Visual, Video
- Reverberations Mag / Year-Round / Personal Essays Responding to Art
- Rise Up Review / Year-Round / Poetry, Essays, Art
- Rivet / Now / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Translations, Reviews, Interviews, Art
- rivulet / Year-Round / Essays, Visuals, Reviews, Translations, Poetry
- Robocup Press – hence, tirade / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose, Art
- Rougarou / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
- SCAB / Year-Round / Prose, Poetry, Art
- Screen Door Review / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Comics
- The Shallow Ends / Year-Round / Poetry
- Sidereal Magazine / Deadline: September 1, 2018 / Poetry, Essays
- Sinister Wisdom / Now / Poems, Stories, Essays, and Art by Lesbians
- Sleepingfish / Now / Music
- SmokeLong Quarterly / Year-Round / Flash Fiction
- Solstice / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry / $3
- Sorority Mansion / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art, Hybrid
- South Dakota Review / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translation
- Southeast Review / Year-Round / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction / $3
- The Spectacle – The Revue Blog / Now / Fragments, Interviews, Reviews, Humor, Flash Prose
- Spider Mirror / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Art, Audio, Video, Reviews, Interviews, Editorials
- Sporklet / Now / Fiction, Poetry
- Squalorly / Now / Fiction ($3), Nonfiction
- The Stay Project / Now / Responses to the Political Present
- Stirring: A Literary Collection / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Reviews, Art
- sublet press / Now / Poetry, Flash Fiction, Cross-Genre, Nonfiction, Art, Other
- Sundog Lit / Now / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction
- SUSAN / The Journal / Now / Poetry, Flash Fiction
- sx salon / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Reviews, and Interviews Related to the Caribbean
- TAGVVERK / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Art
- The Talking Book / Year-Round / Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, Comics
- thread arts collective / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
- Threadcount Magazine / Year-Round / Hybrid, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
- Thrush Poetry Journal / Year-Round / Poetry
- TRACK//FOUR / Now / Poetry, Prose, and Art by Writers and Artists of Color
- trampset / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry / $3 (Free for Nonfiction)
- Transition / Now / Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, and Art about Africa and the African Diaspora
- Trop / Now / Humor, Essays, Short Fiction, Fake Reviews
- Two Lines / Now / Translations of Poetry, Fiction, and Essays
- Unbroken Journal / Now / Prose Poems, Poetic Prose
- Uncle Ken Presents / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction
- Under a Warm Green Linden / Year-Round / Poetry / $2.50 (Free for a Single Poem)
- Underwater New York / Now / Underwater Object-Inspired Poetry, Prose, and Art
- Union Station Magazine / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Photography
- Up North Lit / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Photography, Art
- Ursus Americanus Press – Landfill / Year-Round / Poetry
- Utterance / Now / Poetry, Nonfiction, Hybrid
- Vagabond City / Year-Round / Poetry, Nonfiction
- VIDA: Women in the Literary Arts / Rolling Submissions / Essays by Women and Non-Binary People About Gender Inequality in the Writing World
- Virga / Year-Round / Poetry, Hybrid
- Voicemail Poems / Year-Round / Audio Poetry
- The Wanderer / Now / Poetry in English and Spanish, Reviews
- weirderary / Now / Flash, Fiction, Nonfiction, Comics, Art, Hybrid
- Western Humanities Review / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid / $2
- where is the river : a poetry experiment / Now / Poetry
- The White Elephant / Year-Round / Fiction
- Wildness / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
- Willawaw Journal / Deadline: September 1, 2018 / Poetry, Poetry-Art Hybrids
- Window / Year-Round / All Genres
- Winter Tangerine – Lineage of Mirrors / Year-Round / Poetry from Poets of Color
- Wohe Lit / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
- Word For/Word / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose, Poetics, Criticism, Visuals
- The Woven Tale Press / Year-Round / Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Experimental
- Yalobusha Review / Now / Fiction
- yell/shout/scream / Year-Round / Poetry, Flash Fiction, Fiction and Nonfiction by Queer Writers of Color
- Yemassee / Year-Round / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Flash Nonfiction, Flash Fiction
- Yes Poetry / Now / Poetry, Reviews, Interviews
- ythm / Year-Round / Audio Poetry
- ZiN Daily / Year-Round / Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry in English, Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Montenegrin, French, German, and Italian
Residencies, Fellowships, Conferences, & Opportunities
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JUNE DEADLINE
- PEN Center USA – Emerging Voices Fellowship / JUNE 1 – August 1, 2018 / Fellowship: 7-Month Mentorship + Classes + $1,000 Stipend
- Headlands Center for the Arts – Artists in Residence / Deadline: April 2 – JUNE 8, 2018 / Residency: 4-10 Weeks in Marin Headlands, C
- Logan Nonfiction Program / Deadline: JUNE 15, 2018 / Nonfiction / Residency: 5-10 weeks in Upstate New York
- Vermont Studio Center / Deadline: JUNE 15, 2018 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction / Residency: 1 Month in Johnson, VT
- Hub City Writers House / Deadline: JUNE 17, 2018 / $30 / Residency: 15 Weeks + $150/Week
- &NOW 2018 – Call for Proposals / JUNE 30, 2018 / Panels, Presentations, Collaborations, Roundtables, Performances, Actions, Readings, Screenings, Conversations, Situations / Conference: October 5-7, 2018 in Notre Dame, IN
JULY DEADLINE
- Blue Mountain Center – Richard J. Margolis Award / Deadline: JULY 1, 2018 / Prize: $5,000 + Month-Long Residency in Blue Mountain Lake, NY
- Coffee House Press – Internships / Deadline: JULY 1, 2018 / Internship: 12-15 Hours per Week in Minneapolis, MN / Stipend: $1,200
- Kate Tufts Discovery Award / Deadline: JULY 1, 2018 / Post-Publication Prize for a First Book of Poetry / Prize: $10,000
- Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award / Deadline: JULY 1, 2018 / Post-Publication Prize for Book by a Mid-Career Poet / Prize: $100,000
- MacDowell Colony (Winter/Spring Residencies) / JULY 15 – September 15, 2018 / $30 / Residency: Up to 8 Weeks in Peterborough, NH
- Stormé DeLarverie Writing Residency / Deadline: JULY 15, 2018 / Prose, Poetry / $15 / Residency: 7 Days in Louisville, KY or Boone, NC + $500 Stipend
- Translation Lab at Ledig House / Deadline: JULY 15, 2018 / Collaborating Writer-Translator Teams / Residency: 12 Days at Omi International Arts Center in Ghent, NY
AUGUST DEADLINE
- Hambidge Creative Residency / August 1 – September 15, 2018 / $30 / Residency: 2-8 Weeks in Blue Ridge Mountains, GA / Residency Fee: $200/Week
- PEN Center USA – Emerging Voices Fellowship / JUNE 1 – August 1, 2018 / Fellowship: 7-Month Mentorship + Classes + $1,000 Stipend
- Yaddo Residencies / Deadline: August 1, 2018 / $35 / Residency: 2-8 Weeks in Saratoga Springs, NY
- Writing By Writers / Deadline: August 15, 2018 / $50 / Residency: November 2-16, 2018 in Bend, OR
- Scotland Writing Residency / Deadline: August 25, 2018 / $22 / Residency: 1 Week in Brora, Scotland
- Sustainable Arts Foundation Literary Awards / August 1 – August 31, 2018 / Writers with at Least One Child Under 18 / $20 / Award: $5,000
SEPTEMBER & BEYOND
OPEN / NOW