 
The Writing Submission Calendar 2013

compiled by Josh Karaczewski

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# Table of Contents

Introduction

Acknowledgements

How to use this guide

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Journals that accept year-round

Journals that accept whenever they feel like it

Journals of mysterious status

Farewell – Journals that have passed on

About the Author

# Introduction

Let me be blunt, a writer's time has many parasites: spouses, boyfriends/girlfriends, paramours, mistresses, parents, stepparents, grandparents, siblings, children, extended family, friends, acquaintances, customers, colleagues, enemies; jobs, careers, volunteering, religious institutions, community service, incarceration; commuting, traveling, exercising; lawn care, home improvement, sweeping, mopping, dusting, washing and folding laundry, recycling; shopping for, preparing, enjoying, and cleaning up after meals; showering, bathing, using the lavoratory, brushing teeth, ironing clothes, dressing, applying makeup, doing your hair, manicures, pedicures, shaving, manscaping.

For example, so far during my writing of this introduction I have listened to seven comments from my eldest son about his Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D game, fielded thirteen solicitations to do various activities from my youngest son of which I agreed to assist with three, spoke to my wife and daughter about several topics, prepared three lunches, read a story to my youngest son and put him down for a nap, picked up the foam letters from one of the _various_ activities, cleaned up lunch dishes and trash, and used the lavatory once.

Now, I'm not going to debate that many of the abovementioned people and activities have their own flavor of merit, because I'm here in the capacity of Josh Karaczewski, the semi-pseudonym I use as an writer, and as a writer, the thing I crave above all else is more time to write. But then, when we have managed to write something we think others may enjoy reading, there comes the time-bleeding activities of publishing: formatting manuscripts, researching markets, and following directions for submission.

After publishing my novel, and then a collection of previously published short stories, I decided to use my limited writer-time to revise and submit some of my unpublished short stories for publication. I would enjoy revisiting a story, and finding ways to improve it with revision, but then fun would necessarily turn to business when I would try to find a journal to be a home for my story. When I first started publishing, this would mean pulling out that cinderblock of a book _Writer's Market 20XX_ ; now it means visiting the even more overwhelming Newpages or Duotrope websites. My system for Newpages would be to head straight for the "Big List of Literary Magazines," pick a letter at random to narrow the surfeit of journals to search, then click on whatever title first caught my eye; at Duotrope, I'd browse through the open themes. I would then sift through a journal's website, browsing through any samples they had provided to see if my story might appeal to them. After searching through a dozen or so journals, taking anywhere from twenty minutes to over an hour, say I found one that I consider might be a fit: I would click on their _Writer's Guidelines_ or _Submission Guide,_ or however else they decided to title their link, and find that the period when they accept submissions was several months away. I would then curse, maybe write a note on my calendar with the date I could submit, and start the whole frustratingly long process of journal research over again. Enough of this cycle occurred that I thought, "Wouldn't it be nice to have a schedule with all of these submission-period dates listed?" A search of the internet informed me that if I wanted such an item, I would have to create it myself. Further thought, which occurred in the shower (a cliché I would never use in a story, but which occurs often), on what I would like in my schedule, led me to think that if _I_ would like such a schedule, other writers probably would too.

So here we are! The guide you have before you is a tool to help you as a writer spend less time on the process of publishing, so you can spend more time writing. By organizing the information I have found and collected on the submission dates and periods for journals, magazines, contests, etc., I hope that you can be more strategic and successful in your publishing endeavors.

If you find a journal, magazine, contest, etc that I missed, send me an email and I'll include it in an update. I'll also recognize your contribution in the acknowledgement section, and send you a coupon code for one of my books. Send this information, with any other constructive comments or suggestions to: joshkaraczewski@sbcglobal.net

# Acknowledgements

My first thanks are due to my fabulous wife, who allowed me to use her (faster) work laptop to compile this schedule.

Those who deserve thanks for contributing feedback, ideas, suggestions, comments, etc. to this guide include:

Marjorie F. Baldwin, Catrina Barton, Hypervorean, Ingrid, Dennis Nord, Ted Summerfield, Miranda Weingartner.

#  How to use this guide

Say you have written something, revised it into something presentable, and then formatted it. Say it is October when this latest masterpiece is ready for submission to a literary journal. You fire up your trusty copy of Writing Submission Schedule Guide, and have several options for how to use it.

**The First Way** : you can click on October in the Table of Contents. This will take you to the "Chapter" where I have compiled every journal I have found that does not read year-round, but reads in the month of October. You will see there that on October 1st The Adirondack Journal has their 46er Poetry Contest going on. It says, "reading period CONTINUES", meaning that the contest has already begun, but they are still accepting submissions in October. If you had clicked on September, under September 1st the same contest would have said "reading period BEGINS," meaning that the journal began accepting submissions on that date; if you had clicked on January, and scrolled down to under the heading _January 31_ st you would see "reading period ENDS," meaning that the contest will stop accepting submissions on that date.

Got it? BEGINS = the journal has stated that they will begin accepting submissions on this date; CONTINUES = you can still submit for this journal's reading period; ENDS means that you have either missed it, or will have to hustle with that submission if you want this journal to consider your writing this time.

**The Second Way** : say you want a sure thing, regardless of when the story is ready. In that case you would click on "Journals that accept year-round" in the Table of Contents. This will take you to a list of every journal and magazine I have found that will take your writing whenever you're ready to submit it.

However, this leads to an explanation of **K's Notes**. Occasionally there will be a little section in brackets where I will share some advice, or detail that I have found about a journal, to help you out. For example, about the journal Ascent you will find the following note:

[K's note: they open submissions at the beginning of each month, and close when they reach 200 entries.]

Making them a "K's Note" helps me from having to write out "Karaczewski's Note" whenever I want to talk directly to you.

Now, my K's Note about using the Journals that accept year-round would read thus: while some journals, particularly in the summer when colleges are on break, will _accept_ your writing year-round, that doesn't guarantee that they will read it right away. Some will let submissions pile up while they are on vacation, or have other commitments during certain time periods where they will not be able to read. So submitting your work to a journal with a limited reading period _may_ ensure that your writing is read sooner after your submission— something you will want to consider if the journal does not accept simultaneous submissions.

**The Third Way** : say you're feeling lucky. Go ahead and click on "Journals that accept whenever they feel like it." The journals here may be accepting submissions when you're ready, or they may not be. You'll just have to check for yourself.

**The Fourth Way** : say you're feeling adventurous. Try clicking on "Journals of mysterious status." I couldn't figure out how to submit to these journals, or even determine if some are still in existence, but you might be more savvy than I am. If they work for you let me know.

Other Notes that really only have to do with my personal style:

1. I have placed journals whose titles begin with numbers alphabetically based on the number's spelling: for example, you can find 34th Parallel under T, for _T_ _hirty-Fourth_.

2. I use "hybrid" for any cross-genre, mixed genre, or any other term that for a compound of prose and poetry.

3. I use "drama" for any short plays other than one-act plays, monologues, or screenplays.

4. As I am most interested in submissions of writing, I only listed when a journal accepts art or photography when I felt like it. Most times I felt like it, but I made no effort at being comprehensive in these listings.

One last quick note before I let you go, to protect myself and you. **USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.** This schedule has been compiled to the best of my ability, but I am a one man show here. As some of this was compiled very late at night, or under the distraction of children and/or students, and owing to the fact that I am a fallible human being, it is possible that I have made mistakes. I apologize in advance. The mature and professional way to deal with potential mistakes in the listings is to inform me of my missteps so that I can correct them. Time spent writing attacks against me is time taken away from your creative work and publishing. Even sites like Newpages and Duotrope get it wrong sometimes (I certainly found mistakes on both sites while compiling this guide), and rely on users to assist in corrections/updates.

On the topic of comprehensiveness, I don't pretend to have _every_ literary journal listed. And with new journals continuously popping up, or adding contests or calls for submissions, it would be impossible to keep up with them all. I found zines that the staff(s) at Newpages didn't have on Duotrope, and vice versa. If a "them" can't do it, an "I" certainly couldn't either. But this "I" is committed to getting as many markets added as possible, because this "I" is motivated to finding good homes for his own writing.

Also, by the transient and tenuous nature of many literary journals, deadlines can shrink or expand, zines can die at the roots and still give the appearance of health, technological gremlins can merrily wreak havoc with websites, and editors can fail in their articulation. I will update this guide with corrected or updated information monthly at the least (unless I have no corrections/updates to make), but understand that everything I have posted in this schedule I assumed (and in some cases, inferred) to be correct at the time of its posting. I take no responsibility for deficiencies of communication and technology, or the whims and circumstances of editors.

That's all there is to it. All that's left for me to say now is "Good luck, and happy submitting!"

# January

_January 1_ st

Acorn reading period begins [haiku poetry]

The Adirondack Review – 46er Prize for Poetry – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

Agni reading period CONTINUES [poetry, fiction, essays]

Alaska Quarterly Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, drama, poetry, photo essays, and literary nonfiction]

American Letters & Commentary – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, poetry]

American Literary Review – reading period CONTINUES [poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction]

and/or \- reading period BEGINS [fiction, flash fiction, poetry]

 The Antigonish Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, poetry, book reviews]

The Antioch Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry, nonfiction]

Arc Poetry Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [poetry, essays, reviews]

Arroyo Literary Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, personal essays and memoir, translations, drama.]

Arsenic Lobster \- reading period CONTINUES [poetry, essays & reviews on poetry]

Artful Dodge – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, narrative essay, poetry, translations]

Arts & Letters – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, drama, poetry, creative nonfiction]

 Ashville Poetry Review's The Williams Matthews Poetry Prize – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

Assaracus – reading period BEGINS [LGBT poetry]

Atlanta Review International Poetry Competition – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

Barely South Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Barnwood – reading period CONTINUES [poetry; _K's NOTE: the link wasn't working the last time I tried it, so good luck_ ]

Barrow Street Journal – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

Basalt Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry, hybrid]

Bateau Lit Mag – reading period CONTINUES [flash fiction, flack nonfiction, playlets, poetry]

Bayou Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Belladonna Publishing-Black Apples Anthology – reading period CONTINUES [gothic fairy tale fiction starring the classic fairytale princess]

Bellevue Literary Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry "related to our themes of health, healing, illness, the mind, and the body"]

 Bellingham Review Contest – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Big Bridge – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The Binnacle Ultra-Short Competition – reading period CONTINUES [fiction up to 150 words, poetry up to 16 lines and 150 words]

The Bitter Oleander – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry]

Black Lantern Publishing – reading period CONTINUES [macabre fiction, poetry]

Blackbird – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, drama, poetry]

Blood Orange Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Blue Earth Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The Blue Pencil – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama by writers aged 12–18]

The Blue Pencil's Elizabeth Bishop Prize – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry, and playwriting]

The Blue Route – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry]

Bomb Magazine – reading period BEGINS [fiction, poetry]

Booth Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, comics]

Boston Review – fiction reading period CONTINUES [nonfiction, poetry read year-round]

Boulevard Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Bound Off – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction in audio]

Brilliant Corners – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The Cape Rock Vern Cowles Prize for a Trinity of Poems reading period CONTINUES [series of 3 poems]

Callalo – reading period BEGINS [scholarly articles, book reviews, interviews, nonfiction essays, short fiction, poetry, and visual art by and for African Americans]

Carbon Copy Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, short drama, art]

The Chattahoochiee Review-The Lamar York Prizes for Fiction and Nonfiction – reading period CONTINUES [prose up to 5000 words, $15 entry fee, $1000 prize each for fiction and nonfiction]

The Cincinnati Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, reviews, translations, poetry, art]

 The Claremont Review Annual Contest – reading period CONTINUES [13-19 year olds only. 3 cash prizes each for fiction (one 5000 word, or three 500 word pieces) and poetry (three poems, one poem per page); $20 entry fee; $25 if submitting to both fiction and poetry]

 Colorado Review-Colorado Prize for Poetry – reading period CONTINUES [48-100 pages of poetry; $28 entry fee]

 Colorado Review-Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction – reading period BEGINS [up to 15 pages; $15 entry fee]

The Comstock Review – reading period BEGINS [poetry]

Confrontation Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, memoir, poetry, drama]

Connecticut Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, essays, poetry, interviews, translations, art]

Contemporary Haibun – reading period BEGINS [haibun poetry]

The Country Dog Review-The Argos Prize – reading period BEGINS [poetry; $500 prize; $10 fee for each entry of 3 poems]

Crab Creek Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Crazyhorse – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Crazyhorse Fiction Prize, Nonfiction Prize, and Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize – reading period BEGINS [$2000 prize in each category; $20 per entry fee (includes a subscription)]

The Cream City Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Cumberland River Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, poetry, art]

CutBank – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Defenestration – fiction and poetry reading period CONTINUES [nonfiction open year-round]

Delmarva – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, short reviews]

Ducts – reading period BEGINS [fiction, essays, memoir, poetry, humor, reviews, profiles, drama]

Ecotone – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, novel or memoir excerpts, nonfiction, poetry]

Emerge Literary Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, poetry]

 The Emerson Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Enizagam – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Enizagam-Writing Contest – reading period CONTINUES [fiction and poetry categories; $1000 prizes in each category; $20 fee per entry]

 Epoch – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The Examined Life Journal-Contest – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, and poetry categories. $300 and $150 prizes for each category; $25 fee per entry]

 Exit 7 – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Fact-Simile – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Faultline – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, translation, art]

Feile-Festa – reading period CONTINUES [flash fiction (up to 500 words), articles] "... our preference is for creative work related to Irish and Italian/Sicilian themes... Mediterranean cultures...or the diasporas to America, Canada, etc. We are also interested in writing that evokes life in New York City."]

Fiction – reading period CONTINUES [fiction]

Field – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

Florida English – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, interviews, book reviews]

The Florida Review-Editor's Award – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prize in prose and poetry categories;$15 entry fee (includes subscription)]

Flyway – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art "that delve into place or environment"]

Foliate Oak Literary Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Folio – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Folio-Folio Poetry Contest – reading period CONTINUES [poetry; $500 first prize, two $150 prizes; $15 reading fee includes subscription)]

Fourteen Hills – reading period ENDS [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, experimental/hybrid]

Fourth River – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Fox Cry Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Fugue Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

 Georgetown Review- Poetry Manuscript Contest – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prize for 48-80 page poetry manuscript. $20 entry fee]

Georgia Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, book reviews, poetry, graphics]

 Gertrude-Chapbook Contest – reading period CONTINUES [$100 award in fiction and poetry categories; 16-20 pages of fiction or poetry; $15 post / $17 online submission entry fees]

The Gettysburg Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, poetry]

Ghost Town – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, narrative nonfiction, poetry]

Gigantic Sequins – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Glass: a Journal of Poetry – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

Glimmer Train – Standard reading period BEGINS fiction]; [Glimmer Train-Very Short Fiction Contest – reading period BEGINS [$1500, $500, $300 prizes; $15 fee per entry (limit 3)]

Grain-Short Grain Writing Contest – reading period CONTINUES [fiction (to 2500 words) and poetry (to 100 lines) categories; $1000, $750, $500 prizes in each category; $35 Canadian/$40 US fee per entry includes subscription)]

Green Mountains Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, interviews, book reviews, poetry]

Gulf Coast – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, poems, interviews, reviews]

Halfway Down the Stairs – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Hamilton Stone Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The Hart House Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The Hart House Review-Literary Contest – reading period CONTINUES [fiction up to 3000 words; $150, $100, $50 prizes; for Hart House members only]

The Hart House Review-Poetry Contest – reading period CONTINUES [poetry up to 250 lines; $150, $100, $50 prizes; for Hart House members only]

 Harvard Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, short drama, poetry]

Helping Orphans Worldwide (H.O.A.) Journal-Poetry Contest – reading period CONTINUES [poetry; $100 prize; no entry fee-but donations welcome]

The Healing Muse – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry "particularly but not exclusively focusing on themes of medicine and healing"]

Hotel Amerika – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The Hudson Review – reading period BEGINS [nonfiction only: essays, book reviews, literary criticism, "articles on contemporary cultural developments"]

Hyacinth Girl Press-Absinthe AnthologyProject – reading period CONTINUES ["poetry inspired by, in homage to, or written under the influence of absinthe."]

The Idaho Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry; longer work: query first]

Illuminations – reading period CONTINUES ["Greek" theme issue: fiction, nonfiction, essays, journalism, poetry, art]

Interim Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, reviews, poetry)

International Poetry Review – reading period CONTINUES [poetry in translation]

The Iowa Review Awards – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction (25 page limit each) and poetry (10 page limit) categories; $1000, $750 prizes in each category; $20 entry fee]

Jelly Bucket – reading period BEGINS [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Jellyfish – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

jubilat – reading period CONTINUES [poetry, prose about poetry, art]

 jubilat – Makes a Chapbook Contest – reading period CONTINUES [15-20 pages of poetry from UMass undergraduates only; Prize is publication & copies; no entry fee]

The Kenyon Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, drama, poetry]

Kestrel – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Konundrum – reading period BEGINS [chapbook collections of poetry only]

Lana Turner – print edition reading period BEGINS ( online edition = year-round) [poetry, nonfiction]

The Laurel Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, reviews, poetry]

The Ledge – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry]

The Ledge-2013 Fiction Awards Competition – reading period CONTINUES[fiction up to 7500 words; $1000, $250, $100 prizes; $12 fee for first entry, $6 each additional entry]

The Ledge-3013 Poetry Award Competition – reading period CONTINUES [poetry; $1000, $250, $100 prizes; $12 entry fee for first three poems, $6 each additional poem]

Lit Magazine – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The Literary Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, essays, poetry, translations]

Little Patuxent Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

 The Madison Review-Phyllis Smart Young Prize in Poetry – reading period CONTINUES [triad of poems/ 15 page maximum; $1000 prize; $10 entry fee (one submission limit)]

 The Madison Review-Chris O'Malley Prize for Fiction – reading period CONTINUES [fiction up to 30 pages; $1000 prize; $10 entry fee (one submission limit)]

Mandala Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art on the theme "shelter"]

Mascara Literary Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, reviews, poetry, translations]

The Massachusetts Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translations]

Matrix-The Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry – reading period CONTINUES [poetry manuscript "by an emerging Canadian writer (a writer who has published fewer than two books)"; $500 (Canadian) advance on publication prize; $30 (Canadian) entry fee]

Mayday – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, reviews, poetry, translations, graphic narrative, visual art]

The Meadow – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, screenplays, comics, art & photography]

 The Meadowland Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, poetry, art & photography]

The Medulla Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, poetry]

Memoir – reading period CONTINUES [memoir, poetry, graphic & photographic narrative]

Meridian – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Midway Journal – reading period BEGINS [fiction, flash fiction, sudden fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

 The Minnesota Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, critical nonfiction, reviews, interviews, poetry]

MiPOesias – reading period CONTINUES [poetry on the theme "The Blues"]

The Muse – reading period BEGINS [poetry, research papers]

Nashville Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Naugatuck River Review – open reading period BEGINS [poetry]

New Delta Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, book reviews, interviews, poetry]

New Delta Review-NDR Chapbook Contest – reading period CONTINUES [$100 prize for fiction, poetry, or hybrid; $15 entry fee]

New England Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, drama, poetry, translation]

New Letters – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

New Letters-Literary Awards – reading period CONTINUES [$1500 prizes in: The New Letters Prize for Poetry, the Dorothy Churchill Cappon Prize for the Essay, and The Alexander Patterson Cappon Prize for fiction; fiction, nonfiction up to 8000 words, six poems; $15 for first entry, $10 each additional entry]

New Millennium Writings – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

New Millennium Writings-Contest – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prizes in fiction (up to 6000 words), flash fiction (up to 1000) words, nonfiction (up to 6000 words), and poetry (3 poems up to 5 pages total) categories; $20 entry fee]

New Ohio Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

New Plains Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry "social commentary"]

 the new river – reading period CONTINUES [digital writing and art]

New South – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, essays, poetry]

New South-Writing Contests – reading period CONTINUES [fiction or nonfiction (to 9000 words), and poetry categories; $15 per entry (1 prose piece or up to 3 poems)]

Nimrod – reading period BEGINS [fiction, essays, poetry]

Nimrod-Lasting: Writers over 57 – reading period BEGINS [fiction, essays, poetry]

Nimrod Literary Awards – reading period BEGINS [$2000, $1000 prizes in fiction (to 7500 words) and poetry (3-10 pages) categories; $20 fee per entry]

Ninth Letter – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The Normal School-Normal Prize in Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prize in each category; fiction, nonfiction up to 10087 words, poetry up to 5 poems, up to five pages total; $20 fee per entry

North Carolina Literary Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction only]

 North Carolina Literary Review-Doris Betts Fiction Prize – reading period BEGINS [fiction (up to 6000 words) by current or former N. Carolina residents only; $10 entry fee for subscribers/members, otherwise $20]

North Central Review – reading period CONTINUES fiction, creative nonfiction, drama, poetry, hybrid, art] [Emerging Writers Spotlight – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 scholarship in fiction, poetry categories by high school students]

 North Dakota Quarterly – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Notre Dame Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, poetry]

Obsidian – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, critical essays, drama, poetry "from within, about, and contextualizing the African Diaspora"]

Ocean State Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

On the Premises – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction on the theme "Holiday"[Holidays like Christmas, not vacations]

One Story – reading period CONTINUES [fiction]

 Otis Nebula-Poetry Prize – reading period CONTINUES [$250 prize for a book length poetry collection, $50 runner-up; $15 reading fee]

Oval – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry art from University of Montana undergraduates only]

Pacific Review – "urban mythos" theme issue reading period ENDS [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, graphic narrative, photography]

Paddlefish – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry, graphic memoir]

Painted Bride Quarterly- 50/50 Fiction Contest – reading period CONTINUES [fiction from 50-5000 words on the theme of "50/50"; prize is 50% of Contest Fees; $20 per entry]

Palabra – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, novel excerpts, drama, hybrid]

Passager – reading period CONTINUES [poetry contest for writers over 50]

Passages North-Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize – reading period BEGINS [$1000 prize; $15 entry fee for up to 3 poems]

Passages North-Thomas J. Hruska Memorial Nonfiction Prize – reading period BEGINS [$1000 prize for fiction up to 7500 words; $15 entry fee]

 Paterson Literary Review – reading period CONTINUES [flash fiction, poetry, art & photography]

Pearl – reading period BEGINS [fiction, poetry, b & w art]

Pebble Lake Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, reviews, interviews, poetry]

Permafrost – online edition reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Phantom Drift – reading period BEGINS ["fabulist" fiction, flash fiction, essays, academic research papers, reviews, poetry]

Phoebe – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The Pinch Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

The Pinch Literary Awards in Fiction and Poetry – reading period CONTINUES [$1500 fiction (to 5000 words) prize; $1000 poetry prize; $20 entry for one fiction, or 1-3 poems, $10 each additional entry]

Pleides – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, poetry]

Ploughshares – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

poemmemoirstory (PMS) – reading period BEGINS [fiction, memoir, poetry]

 Poetry is Dead – reading period CONTINUES [poetry on the theme "Mental Health Inside/Out"]

Poetry Northwest – reading period CONTINUES [essays, reviews, poetry]

Polaris – reading period CONTINUES [undergraduate fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Polyphony H. S. – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry from high school students]

Pool Poetry – reading period BEGINS [poetry]

Potomac Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

PRISM International-Short Fiction Contest – reading period CONTINUES [$2000, $300, $200 prizes for fiction up to 6000 words; $35 (Canadian) entry fee, $40 (US), $5 each additional submission]

PRISM International-Earle Birney Prize for Poetry – reading period CONTINUES ]$1000, 300, $200 prizes for poetry; $35 (Canadian) entry fee, $40 (US) for three poems, $5 each additional submission]

Prole Laureate Competition – reading period CONTINUES [£130, £30 prizes; £3.00 for the first entry, £2.50 additional entries.]

Prune Juice – reading period BEGINS [senryu, kyoka poetry]

A Public Space – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Puerto Del Sol – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, drama, criticism, poetry, translations, art

The Quotable – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, art]

Raven Chronicles – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry; theme: "Why we do what we do"]

Red Rock Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

 Red Wheelbarrow – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, drama, poetry, art & photography, comics

Relief – reading period CONTINUES [Christian fiction, poetry]

 Review Americana – reading period BEGINS [fiction, creative nonfiction, craft essays, writing education essays, drama, poetry]

Río Grande Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, criticism, poetry, comics, art]

River Teeth – reading period CONTINUES [creative nonfiction, "narrative reportage," essays, memoirs]

 Roanoke Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry]

The Round – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, drama, poetry, translations, art & photography]

 Rubbertop Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, one-act plays, poetry, art "from both students at The University of Akron and greater Ohio"]

Saint Ann's Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, novel excerpts nonfiction, drama, poetry, translations]

St. Petersburg Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, drama, poetry]

St. Petersburg Review-Poetry Contest – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prize for poetry; $20 entry fee for 3 poems]

Salamander – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, memoir, poetry]

Salt Hill Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Saranac Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, hybrid, translation]

Segue – reading period BEGINS [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Seneca Review – reading period CONTINUES [nonfiction essays, poetry]

713 Flash – reading period BEGINS [science fiction, fantasy flash fiction on the theme "An Undelivered Valentine"]

Sewanee Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Shadowbox – reading period CONTINUES creative nonfiction][K's Note: Click on the dice for the guidelines. But you can't actually submit directly from Shadowbox's site. You need to go through [Tell It Slant's site]

Shenandoah – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Slice Magazine – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Sliver of Stone Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, essays, poetry, art]

So to Speak – reading period BEGINS ["feminist" fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

So to Speak-Fiction Contest – reading period BEGINS [$500 prize for fiction up to 4500 words; $15 entry fee]

Solo Novo – reading period BEGINS [poetry on the theme "Art & Revolution"]

Soundings East – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

South Loop Review – reading period ENDS [creative nonfiction, essays, memoir, art & photography]

Southern California Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction, memoir, personal essays, drama, poetry]

Southern Indiana Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction, reviews, interviews, poetry, art & photography

The Southern Review – reading period CONTINUES [poetry only]

Sou'wester – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry; female writers only for this issue]

Southwest Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction articles, poetry]

Southword Journal – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry in English and Irish]

Spinning Jenny – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

The Spoon River Poetry Review – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

The Spoon River Poetry Review-Editor's Prize – reading period CONTINUES [$1000, two $100 prizes for poetry; $20 entry fee for up to 3 poems (maximum 10 pages) includes subscription]

Spout Press – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, opinion, poetry, art, cartoons]

Stone Boat – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, photo essays, b&w art]

StoryQuarterly – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction]

Subtropics – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, novel excerpts, essays, poetry, translations]

Superstition Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Switchback – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art; Editor's Prize \- $200, $75, $50 prizes "to the submission best addressing the issue theme (Broken);" no entry fee]

Switched-on-Gutenberg – reading period CONTINUES [poetry on the themes "No Cute Pets" and/or "Velvet Elvis: Bad Art"]

Sycamore Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Sycamore Review-Wabash Prize for Fiction – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prize for fiction up to 7500 words; $15 entry fee includes subscription]

Talking River – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, book reviews, poetry]

 The Teacher's Voice-Chapbook Contest – reading period CONTINUES [$200, $100, $75 prizes for 16 pages of prose or 16-24 pages of poetry, or any combination; $20 entry fee]

10X3 Plus – reading period BEGINS [poetry]

Texas Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Thin Air Magazine – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Third Coast – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction (reportage, essays, memoir), drama, poetry, translations]

Third Coast Fiction and Poetry Contest – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prizes in fiction (up to 9000 words) and poetry categories; $16 entry fee for each story or three poems, includes subscription]

The Threepenny Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, critical articles, "Table Talk," poetry]

Thrice Fiction – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, fiction that "may also be poetry]

Tidal Basin Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Tifaret-Writing Contest – reading period BEGINS [$400 prizes in fiction, essay/interview (both up to 20 pages), poetry categories; $20 fee per entry (1 prose, or up to 6 poems)]

Tin House – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, interviews, poetry; open theme and "Lost & Founds about the Wild" theme accepted]

TINGE – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

TriQuarterly Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, drama, poetry, hybrid; reviews or interviews: query first]

Timber – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry]

 2 Bridges Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Upstairs at Duroc – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, prose poems, hybrid, translations, art]

Upstreet – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, prose poems]

Versal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, poetry]

Verse Wisconson – reading period CONTINUES [essays, book reviews, interviews, poetry]

Vine Leaves Literary Journal – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry in vignettes]

Wag's Revue-Winter Writer's Contest – reading period CONTINUES [$1000, $500, and $100 prizes in fiction, nonfiction (both up to 10000 words) and poetry (maximum 10 pages) categories; $22.09 fee per entry]

Washington Square – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry]

Watershed – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction articles, personal essays, poetry, photography "All work must have a strong sense of place, and in some way bring to mind the Susquehanna region"]

Weave Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, drama, art]

West Branch – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, translation]

West Marin Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Western Humanities Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, hybrid]

Whiskey Island – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry]

The White Review Short Story Prize – reading period CONTINUES [£2,500 prize for fiction (2000-7000 words) "by a writer resident in the UK and Ireland who has yet to secure a publishing deal"; £15 entry fee]

Whitefish Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art & photography]

Willow Springs – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Witness – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, interviews, poetry]

The Worchester Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, literary articles, poetry, art & photography]

Zoetrope-All Story – reading period BEGINS [fiction, one-act plays]

_January 2_ nd

The New Renaissance-The Louise E. Reynolds Memorial Fiction Awards – reading period BEGINS [fiction from 2-36 pages; $500, $250, $100, $50 prizes; $16.50 entry fee ($11.50 for subscribers]

The New Renaissance-Poetry Award – reading period BEGINS [3-6 one-page poems, 2-4 two-page poems, one long poem per submission; $250, $125, $50, $25 prizes; $16.50 fee per entry ($11.50 for subscribers]

_January 4_ th

Unstuck – reading period ENDS [fiction]

_January 9_ th

Goblin Fruit – reading period BEGINS [poetry "of the fantastical"]

94 Creations – reading period BEGINS [fiction, flash fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction, one act plays, monologues, poetry, art]

_January 10_ th

Bare Root Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

The Examined Life Journal-Contest – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, and poetry categories. $300 and $150 prizes for each category; $25 fee per entry]

_January 13_ th

Hart House Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

_January 14_ th

 Colorado Review-Colorado Prize for Poetry – reading period ENDS [48-100 pages of poetry; $28 entry fee]

_January 15_ th

Ashville Poetry Review – reading period BEGINS [poetry]

 Ashville Poetry Review's The Williams Matthews Poetry Prize – reading period ENDS [poetry]

Belladonna Publishing-Black Apples Anthology – reading period ENDS [gothic fairy tale fiction starring the classic fairytale princess]

Gulf Stream – reading period BEGINS [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Hamilton Stone Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

jabberwock review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, poetry]

Jabberwock Review-Editor's Prize \- reading period BEGINS [poetry; $500 prize; $15 per entry fee for up to 3 poems includes subscription.]

The Kenyon Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, drama, poetry]

Mason's Road – reading period BEGINS [theme fiction, poetry]

New Madrid – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

New Plains Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry "social commentary"]

Nimrod-Lasting: Writers over 57 – reading period ENDS [fiction, essays, poetry]

The Normal School –reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, recipes]

MiPOesias – reading period ENDS [poetry on the theme "The Blues"]

Ploughshares – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Prairie Schooner Book Prize – reading period BEGINS [$3000 prizes for a fiction (short story collection; no novels) manuscript at least 150 pages, and a poetry manuscript at least 50 pages long; $25 entry fee]

St. Petersburg Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, creative nonfiction, drama, poetry]

Sliver of Stone Magazine – reading period ENDS [fiction, creative nonfiction, essays, poetry, art]

Third Coast Fiction and Poetry Contest – reading period ENDS [$1000 prizes in fiction (up to 9000 words) and poetry categories; $16 entry fee for each story or three poems, includes subscription]

Versal – reading period ENDS [fiction, flash fiction, poetry]

_January 20_ th

713 Flash – reading period ENDS [science fiction, fantasy flash fiction on the theme "An Undelivered Valentine"]

Southern California Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, flash fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction, memoir, personal essays, drama, poetry]

_January 21_ st

Iron Horse Literary Review-2013 Single-Author Issue – reading period BEGINS [15000-20000 words of fiction; $1000 prize; $15 entry fee includes subscription]

_January 23_ rd

 Jubilat – Makes a Chapbook Contest – reading period ENDS [15-20 pages of poetry from UMass undergraduates only; Prize is publication & copies; no entry fee]

_January 25_ th

PRISM International-Short Fiction Contest – reading period ENDS [$2000, $300, $200 prizes for fiction up to 6000 words; $35 (Canadian) entry fee, $40 (US), $5 each additional submission]

PRISM International-Earle Birney Prize for Poetry – reading period ENDS ]$1000, 300, $200 prizes for poetry; $35 (Canadian) entry fee, $40 (US) for three poems, $5 each additional submission]

_January 30_ th

The Hopkins Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

_January 31_ st

Adanna Journal reading period begins [women only: poetry, fiction, drama, book reviews, interviews]

The Adirondack Review – 46er Prize for Poetry – reading period ENDS [poetry]

Arts & Letters – reading period ENDS [fiction, drama, poetry, creative nonfiction]

Assaracus – reading period ENDS [LGBT poetry]

The Chattahoochiee Review-The Lamar York Prizes for Fiction and Nonfiction – reading period ENDS [prose up to 5000 words, $15 entry fee, $1000 prize each for fiction and nonfiction]

Cider Press Review – reading period BEGINS [poetry]

Crazyhorse Fiction Prize, Nonfiction Prize, and Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize – reading period ENDS [$2000 prize in each category; $20 per entry fee (includes a subscription)]

Glimmer Train – Standard reading period ENDS fiction]; [Glimmer Train-Very Short Fiction Contest – reading period ENDS [$1500, $500, $300 prizes; $15 fee per entry (limit 3)]

The Iowa Review Awards – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction (25 page limit each) and poetry (10 page limit) categories; $1000, $750 prizes in each category; $20 entry fee]

Jellyfish – reading period ENDS [poetry]

Kestrel – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The Marathon Literary Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, flash fiction, poetry, art & photography]

Matrix-The Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry – reading period ENDS [poetry manuscript "by an emerging Canadian writer (a writer who has published fewer than two books)"; $500 (Canadian) advance on publication prize; $30 (Canadian) entry fee]

The Medulla Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, flash fiction, poetry]

On the Premises – reading period ENDS [fiction, flash fiction on the theme "Holiday"[Holidays like Christmas, not vacations]

 Poetry is Dead – reading period ENDS [poetry on the theme "Mental Health Inside/Out"]

Pool Poetry – reading period ENDS [poetry]

 Red Wheelbarrow – reading period ENDS [fiction, creative nonfiction, drama, poetry, art & photography, comics

Sou'wester – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry; female writers only for this issue]

 The Teacher's Voice-Chapbook Contest – reading period ENDS [$200, $100, $75 prizes for 16 pages of prose or 16-24 pages of poetry, or any combination; $20 entry fee]

Thrice Fiction – reading period ENDS [fiction, flash fiction, fiction that "may also be poetry]

Upstairs at Duroc – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, prose poems, hybrid, translations, art]

The Worchester Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, literary articles, poetry, art & photography]

# February

_February 1_ st

Adanna Journal reading period continues [women only: poetry, fiction, drama, book reviews, interviews]

The Adirondack Review – Fulton Prize for Short Fiction – reading period BEGINS [fiction]

Adventum – reading period BEGINS [haiku, creative nonfiction, essays, and memoir pieces]

Agni reading period CONTINUES [poetry, fiction, essays]

Alaska Quarterly Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, drama, poetry, photo essays, and literary nonfiction]

American Letters & Commentary – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, poetry]

American Literary Review – reading period CONTINUES [poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction]

The American Poetry Journal – reading period BEGINS [poetry, poetry reviews, essays on poetry]

The Ante Review – reading period BEGINS [Fiction, Creative nonfiction, poetry, drama, essays, book reviews]

 The Antigonish Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, poetry, book reviews]

The Antioch Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry, nonfiction]

Arc Poetry Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [poetry, essays, reviews]

Arroyo Literary Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, personal essays and memoir, translations, drama.

Arsenic Lobster \- reading period CONTINUES [poetry, essays & reviews on poetry]

Artful Dodge – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, narrative essay, poetry, translations]

Arts & Letters Annual Prize – reading period BEGINS [categories include: fiction, one-act plays, creative nonfiction essay, poetry]

Ashville Poetry Review – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

Atlanta Review International Poetry Competition – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

Baltimore Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Bare Root Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Barely South Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Barnwood – reading period CONTINUES [poetry; _K's NOTE: the link wasn't working the last time I tried it, so good luck_ ]

Barrow Street Journal – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

Basalt Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry, hybrid]

Bateau Lit Mag – reading period CONTINUES [flash fiction, flack nonfiction, playlets, poetry]

Bayou Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Bellevue Literary Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry "related to our themes of health, healing, illness, the mind, and the body"]

Bellevue Literary Review Literary Prizes – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry categories "award outstanding writing related to our themes of health, healing, illness, the mind, and the body"]

 Bellingham Review Contest – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The Binnacle Ultra-Short Competition – reading period CONTINUES [fiction up to 150 words, poetry up to 16 lines and 150 words]

The Bitter Oleander – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry]

Black Lantern Publishing – reading period ENDS [macabre fiction, poetry]

Blackbird – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, drama, poetry]

Blood and Thunder – reading period BEGINS [fiction, poetry about healthcare-related issues]

Blood Orange Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Blue Earth Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The Blue Pencil – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama by writers aged 12–18]

The Blue Pencil's Elizabeth Bishop Prize – reading period ENDS Noon EST[fiction, poetry, and playwriting]

Bomb Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry]

Booth Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, comics]

Boston Review – fiction reading period CONTINUES [nonfiction, poetry read year-round]

Boulevard Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Bound Off – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction in audio]

Brilliant Corners – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Callalo – reading period CONTINUES [scholarly articles, book reviews, interviews, nonfiction essays, short fiction, poetry, and visual art by and for African Americans]

Carbon Copy Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, short drama, art]

The Cape Rock Vern Cowles Prize for a Trinity of Poems reading period CONTINUES [series of 3 poems]

Cider Press Review – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

The Cincinnati Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, reviews, translations, poetry, art]

 The Claremont Review Annual Contest – reading period CONTINUES [13-19 year olds only. 3 cash prizes each for fiction (one 5000 word, or three 500 word pieces) and poetry (three poems, one poem per page); $20 entry fee; $25 if submitting to both fiction and poetry]

 Colorado Review-Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction – reading period CONTINUES [up to 15 pages; $15 entry fee]

The Comstock Review – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

Confrontation Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, memoir, poetry, drama]

Connecticut Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, essays, poetry, interviews, translations, art]

Contemporary Haibun – reading period CONTINUES [haibun poetry]

The Country Dog Review-The Argos Prize – reading period CONTINUES [poetry; $500 prize; $10 fee for each entry of 3 poems]

Crab Creek Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Crazyhorse – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The Cream City Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Cumberland River Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, poetry, art]

CutBank – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Defenestration – fiction and poetry reading period CONTINUES [nonfiction open year-round]

Delmarva – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, short reviews]

Drafthorse – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, visual art]

Ducts – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, memoir, poetry, humor, reviews, profiles, drama]

Ecotone – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, novel or memoir excerpts, nonfiction, poetry]

Emerge Literary Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, poetry]

 The Emerson Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Enizagam – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Enizagam-Writing Contest – reading period CONTINUES [fiction and poetry categories; $1000 prizes in each category; $20 fee per entry]

 Epoch – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Essays and Fictions – reading period BEGINS [fiction, essays]

 Exit 7 – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Fact-Simile – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Faultline – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, translation, art]

Fence-2013 Fence Modern Poets Series – reading period BEGINS [~80 page poetry manuscript; $1000 prize [K's Note: the entry fee wasn't posted last I checked]]

Fiction – reading period CONTINUES [fiction]

Field – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

Florida English – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, interviews, book reviews]

The Florida Review-Editor's Award – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prize in prose and poetry categories; $15 entry fee (includes subscription)]

Flyway – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art "that delve into place or environment"]

Foliate Oak Literary Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Folio – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Folio-Folio Poetry Contest – reading period CONTINUES [poetry; $500 first prize, two $150 prizes; $15 reading fee includes subscription)]

Fourth River – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Fox Cry Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Free Verse – reading period BEGINS [poetry, contemporary poetry book reviews]

Fugue Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

 Georgetown Review- Poetry Manuscript Contest – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prize for 48-80 page poetry manuscript. $20 entry fee]

Georgia Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, book reviews, poetry, graphics]

 Gertrude-Chapbook Contest – reading period CONTINUES [$100 award in fiction and poetry categories; 16-20 pages of fiction or poetry; $15 post / $17 online submission entry fees]

The Gettysburg Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, poetry]

Ghost Town – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, narrative nonfiction, poetry]

Gigantic Sequins – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Glass: a Journal of Poetry – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

Glimmer Train-Short Story Award for New Writers – reading period BEGINS [fiction from unpublished writers to 12000 words, $1500, $500, $300 prizes; $15 fee per entry (limit 3)]

Goblin Fruit – reading period CONTINUES [poetry "of the fantastical"]

Grain-Short Grain Writing Contest – reading period CONTINUES [fiction (to 2500 words) and poetry (to 100 lines) categories; $1000, $750, $500 prizes in each category; $35 Canadian/$40 US fee per entry includes subscription)]

Green Mountains Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, interviews, book reviews, poetry]

Gulf Coast – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, poems, interviews, reviews]

Gulf Stream – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Halfway Down the Stairs – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The Hart House Review-Literary Contest – reading period ENDS [fiction up to 3000 words; $150, $100, $50 prizes; for Hart House members only]

The Hart House Review-Poetry Contest – reading period ENDS [poetry up to 250 lines; $150, $100, $50 prizes; for Hart House members only]

 Harvard Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, short drama, poetry]

The Healing Muse – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry "particularly but not exclusively focusing on themes of medicine and healing"]

Helping Orphans Worldwide (H.O.A.) Journal-Poetry Contest – reading period CONTINUES [poetry; $100 prize; no entry fee-but donations welcome]

The Hopkins Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Hotel Amerika – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The Hudson Review – reading period CONTINUES [nonfiction only: essays, book reviews, literary criticism, "articles on contemporary cultural developments"]

Hyacinth Girl Press-Absinthe AnthologyProject – reading period ENDS ["poetry inspired by, in homage to, or written under the influence of absinthe."]

The Idaho Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry; longer work: query first]

Illuminations – reading period CONTINUES ["Greek" theme issue: fiction, nonfiction, essays, journalism, poetry, art]

Interim Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, reviews, poetry)

International Poetry Review – reading period CONTINUES [poetry in translation]

Iron Horse Literary Review-2013 Single-Author Issue – reading period CONTINUES [15000-20000 words of fiction; $1000 prize; $15 entry fee includes subscription]

Jabberwock Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry]

Jabberwock Review-Editor's Prize \- reading period BEGINS [poetry; $500 prize; $15 per entry fee for up to 3 poems includes subscription.]

Jelly Bucket – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

jubilat – reading period CONTINUES [poetry, prose about poetry, art]

Konundrum – reading period CONTINUES [chapbook collections of poetry only]

Lana Turner – print edition reading period CONTINUES (online edition = year-round) [poetry, nonfiction]

The Laurel Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, reviews, poetry]

The Ledge – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry]

The Ledge-2013 Fiction Awards Competition – reading period CONTINUES[fiction up to 7500 words; $1000, $250, $100 prizes; $12 fee for first entry, $6 each additional entry]

The Ledge-3013 Poetry Award Competition – reading period CONTINUES [poetry; $1000, $250, $100 prizes; $12 entry fee for first three poems, $6 each additional poem]

Lit Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The Literary Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, essays, poetry, translations]

Little Patuxent Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The Los Angeles Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

 The Madison Review-Phyllis Smart Young Prize in Poetry – reading period ENDS [triad of poems/ 15 page maximum; $1000 prize; $10 entry fee (one submission limit)]

 The Madison Review-Chris O'Malley Prize for Fiction – reading period ENDS [fiction up to 30 pages; $1000 prize; $10 entry fee (one submission limit)]

Mandala Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art on the theme "shelter"]

Many Mountains Moving – print edition reading period BEGINS [fiction, essays, drama, poetry]

The Marathon Literary Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, poetry, art & photography]

Mascara Literary Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, reviews, poetry, translations]

Mason's Road – reading period CONTINUES [theme fiction, poetry]

The Massachusetts Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translations]

Mayday – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, reviews, poetry, translations, graphic narrative, visual art]

The Meadow – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, screenplays, comics, art & photography]

 The Meadowland Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry, art & photography]

Memoir – reading period CONTINUES [memoir, poetry, graphic & photographic narrative]

Meridian – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Midway Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, sudden fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

 The Minnesota Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, critical nonfiction, reviews, interviews, poetry]

The Muse – reading period CONTINUES [poetry, research papers]

Nashville Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Naugatuck River Review – open reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

New Delta Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, book reviews, interviews, poetry]

New England Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, drama, poetry, translation]

New Letters – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

New Letters-Literary Awards – reading period CONTINUES [$1500 prizes in: The New Letters Prize for Poetry, the Dorothy Churchill Cappon Prize for the Essay, and The Alexander Patterson Cappon Prize for fiction; fiction, nonfiction up to 8000 words, six poems; $15 for first entry, $10 each additional entry]

New Madrid – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

New Millennium Writings – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

New Ohio Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The New Poet – reading period BEGINS [poetry]

The New Renaissance-The Louise E. Reynolds Memorial Fiction Awards – reading period CONTINUES [fiction from 2-36 pages; $500, $250, $100, $50 prizes; $16.50 entry fee ($11.50 for subscribers]

The New Renaissance-Poetry Award – reading period CONTINUES [3-6 one-page poems, 2-4 two-page poems, one long poem per submission; $250, $125, $50, $25 prizes; $16.50 fee per entry ($11.50 for subscribers]

 the new river – reading period CONTINUES [digital writing and art]

New South – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, essays, poetry]

New South-Writing Contests – reading period CONTINUES [fiction or nonfiction (to 9000 words), and poetry categories; $15 per entry (1 prose piece or up to 3 poems)]

Newport Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry, one-act plays]

Nimrod – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, poetry]

Nimrod Literary Awards – reading period CONTINUES [$2000, $1000 prizes in fiction (to 7500 words) and poetry (3-10 pages) categories; $20 fee per entry]

94 Creations – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction, one act plays, monologues, poetry, art]

Ninth Letter – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The Normal School –reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, recipes]

The Normal School-Normal Prize in Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prize in each category; fiction, nonfiction up to 10087 words, poetry up to 5 poems, up to five pages total; $20 fee per entry

North Carolina Literary Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction only]

 North Carolina Literary Review-Doris Betts Fiction Prize – reading period CONTINUES [fiction (up to 6000 words) by current or former N. Carolina residents only; $10 entry fee for subscribers/members, otherwise $20]

North Central Review – reading period ENDS fiction, creative nonfiction, drama, poetry, hybrid, art] [Emerging Writers Spotlight – reading period ENDS [$1000 scholarship in fiction, poetry categories by high school students]

 North Dakota Quarterly – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Notre Dame Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry]

Obsidian – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, critical essays, drama, poetry "from within, about, and contextualizing the African Diaspora"]

Ocean State Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

One Story – reading period CONTINUES [fiction]

 Otis Nebula-Poetry Prize – reading period CONTINUES [$250 prize for a book length poetry collection, $50 runner-up; $15 reading fee]

Oval – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry art from University of Montana undergraduates only]

Ozone Park Journal – reading period BEGINS [fiction, creative nonfiction, drama, poetry, translations, art]

Paddlefish – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry, graphic memoir]

Painted Bride Quarterly- 50/50 Fiction Contest – reading period CONTINUES [fiction from 50-5000 words on the theme of "50/50"; prize is 50% of Contest Fees; $20 per entry]

Palabra – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, novel excerpts, drama, hybrid]

Passager – reading period CONTINUES [poetry contest for writers over 50]

Passages North-Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prize; $15 entry fee for up to 3 poems]

Passages North-Thomas J. Hruska Memorial Nonfiction Prize – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prize for fiction up to 7500 words; $15 entry fee]

 Paterson Literary Review – reading period CONTINUES [flash fiction, poetry, art & photography]

Pearl – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry, b & w art]

Pear Noir! – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art & photography]

Pebble Lake Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, reviews, interviews, poetry]

Permafrost – online edition reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Phantom Drift – reading period CONTINUES ["fabulist" fiction, flash fiction, essays, academic research papers, reviews, poetry]

Phoebe – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The Pinch Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

The Pinch Literary Awards in Fiction and Poetry – reading period CONTINUES [$1500 fiction (to 5000 words) prize; $1000 poetry prize; $20 entry for one fiction, or 1-3 poems, $10 each additional entry]

Pirenes Fountain – reading period BEGINS [poetry]

Pleides – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, poetry]

Ploughshares-Emerging Writer's Contest – reading period BEGINS [$1000 prizes in fiction, nonfiction (both to 6000 words) and poetry (3-5 pages) for writers yet to have published a book; $24 fee per entry includes subscription]

poemmemoirstory (PMS) – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, memoir, poetry]

Poetry Northwest – reading period CONTINUES [essays, reviews, poetry]

Polaris – reading period ENDS [undergraduate fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Polyphony H. S. – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry from high school students]

Post Road – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, drama, monologues, poetry, visual art]

Potomac Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Prairie Schooner Book Prize – reading period CONTINUES [$3000 prizes for a fiction (short story collection; no novels) manuscript at least 150 pages, and a poetry manuscript at least 50 pages long; $25 entry fee]

Prole Laureate Competition – reading period CONTINUES [£130, £30 prizes; £3.00 for the first entry, £2.50 additional entries.]

Prune Juice – reading period CONTINUES [senryu, kyoka poetry]

A Public Space – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Puerto Del Sol – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, drama, criticism, poetry, translations, art

The Quotable – reading period ENDS [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, art]

Raven Chronicles – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry; theme: "Why we do what we do"]

Red Rock Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

 Redheaded Stepchild – reading period BEGINS ["poems that have been rejected by other magazines"]

Relief – reading period CONTINUES [Christian fiction, poetry]

 Review Americana – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, craft essays, writing education essays, drama, poetry]

Río Grande Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, criticism, poetry, comics, art]

A River & Sound – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, humor, translation]

River Teeth – reading period CONTINUES [creative nonfiction, "narrative reportage," essays, memoirs]

 Roanoke Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, poetry]

The Round – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, drama, poetry, translations, art & photography]

 Rubbertop Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, one-act plays, poetry, art "from both students at The University of Akron and greater Ohio"]

Saint Ann's Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, novel excerpts nonfiction, drama, poetry, translations]

St. Petersburg Review-Poetry Contest – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prize for poetry; $20 entry fee for 3 poems]

Salamander – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, memoir, poetry]

Salmagundi Magazine – reading period BEGINS [fiction, personal essays, cultural criticism, poetry]

Salt Hill Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Saranac Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, hybrid, translation]

Segue – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Seneca Review – reading period CONTINUES [nonfiction essays, poetry]

713 Flash – reading period BEGINS [science fiction, fantasy flash fiction on the theme "Spring Training"]

Sewanee Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Shadowbox – reading period CONTINUES creative nonfiction][K's Note: Click on the dice for the guidelines. But you can't actually submit directly from Shadowbox's site. You need to go through [Tell It Slant's site]

Shenandoah – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Slice Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

So to Speak – reading period CONTINUES ["feminist" fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

So to Speak-Fiction Contest – reading period CONTINUES [$500 prize for fiction up to 4500 words; $15 entry fee]

Soundings East – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Southern Indiana Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction, reviews, interviews, poetry, art & photography

The Southern Review – reading period ENDS [poetry only]

Southwest Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction articles, poetry]

Southword Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry in English and Irish]

Spillway – reading period BEGINS [poetry on the theme _"The Road Taken/Not Taken"_ ]

Spinning Jenny – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

The Spoon River Poetry Review – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

The Spoon River Poetry Review-Editor's Prize – reading period CONTINUES [$1000, two $100 prizes for poetry; $20 entry fee for up to 3 poems (maximum 10 pages) includes subscription]

Spout Press – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, opinion, poetry, art, cartoons]

Stickman Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

The Stinging Fly – reading period BEGINS [fiction, novel excerpts, essays, book reviews, poetry "by Irish and international writers"]

Stone Highway Review – reading period BEGINS [flash fiction, flash nonfiction (both up to 750 words), poetry]

Stone Boat – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, photo essays, b&w art]

StoryQuarterly – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction]

Subtropics – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, novel excerpts, essays, poetry, translations]

Superstition Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Switchback – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art; Editor's Prize \- $200, $75, $50 prizes "to the submission best addressing the issue theme (Broken);" no entry fee]

Switched-on-Gutenberg – reading period CONTINUES [poetry on the themes "No Cute Pets" and/or "Velvet Elvis: Bad Art"]

Sycamore Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Sycamore Review-Wabash Prize for Fiction – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prize for fiction up to 7500 words; $15 entry fee includes subscription]

Talking River – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, book reviews, poetry]

Tar River Review – reading period BEGINS [poetry]

10X3 Plus – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

Texas Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Thin Air Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Third Coast – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction (reportage, essays, memoir), drama, poetry, translations]

The Threepenny Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, critical articles, "Table Talk," poetry]

Tidal Basin Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Tifaret-Writing Contest – reading period CONTINUES [$400 prizes in fiction, essay/interview (both up to 20 pages), poetry categories; $20 fee per entry (1 prose, or up to 6 poems)]

Timber – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry]

Tin House – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, interviews, poetry; open theme and "Lost & Founds about the Wild" theme accepted]

TINGE – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

TriQuarterly Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, drama, poetry, hybrid; reviews or interviews: query first]

 2 Bridges Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Upstreet – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, prose poems]

Verse Wisconson – reading period CONTINUES [essays, book reviews, interviews, poetry]

Vestal Review – reading period BEGINS [flash fiction]

Vine Leaves Literary Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry in vignettes]

Waccamaw Journal – reading period BEGINS [fiction, essays, poetry]

Wag's Revue-Winter Writer's Contest – reading period CONTINUES [$1000, $500, and $100 prizes in fiction, nonfiction (both up to 10000 words) and poetry (maximum 10 pages) categories; $22.09 fee per entry]

Washington Square – reading period ENDS [fiction, poetry]

Watershed – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction articles, personal essays, poetry, photography "All work must have a strong sense of place, and in some way bring to mind the Susquehanna region"]

Weave Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, drama, art]

West Branch – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, translation]

West Marin Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Western Humanities Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, hybrid]

Whiskey Island – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry]

The White Review Short Story Prize – reading period CONTINUES [£2,500 prize for fiction (2000-7000 words) "by a writer resident in the UK and Ireland who has yet to secure a publishing deal"; £15 entry fee]

Whitefish Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art & photography]

Willow Springs – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Zoetrope-All Story – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, one-act plays]

_February 3_ rd

Sprung Formal – reading period BEGINS [theme flash fiction, poetry, audio, video, art & photography

_February 5_ th

Fiction – reading period ENDS [fiction]

_February 14_ th

Mandala Journal – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art on the theme "shelter"]

Prole Laureate Competition – reading period ENDS [£130, £30 prizes; £3.00 for the first entry, £2.50 additional entries.]

_February 15_ th

Bateau Press Keel Short Short Fiction Chapbook Contest – reading period BEGINS [ 20-30 pages]

Chautauqua Literary Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, book reviews, poetry]

Crab Orchard Review – Winter/Spring issue reading period BEGINS [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, interviews (query first)]

CutBank – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Faultline – reading period ENDS [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, translation, art]

Folio-Folio Poetry Contest – reading period ENDS [poetry; $500 first prize, two $150 prizes; $15 reading fee includes subscription)]

Frogpond – reading period BEGINS [haiku, haibun, rengay, renku, essays, book reviews]

 Georgetown Review- Poetry Manuscript Contest – reading period ENDS [$1000 prize for 48-80 page poetry manuscript. $20 entry fee]

Halfway Down the Stairs – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

 North Carolina Review-Doris Betts Fiction Prize – reading period ENDS [fiction (up to 6000 words) by current or former N. Carolina residents only; $10 entry fee for subscribers/members, otherwise $20]

North Carolina Literary Review – reading period ENDS [fiction only]

North Carolina Literary Review – reading period BEGINS [poetry only]

North Carolina Literary Review-James Applewhite Poetry Prize – reading period BEGINS [$250 prize forpoetry by current or former N. Carolina residents only; $15 entry fee for 3 poems/$20 for 5 poems – no fee for subscribers/members]

Ocean State Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Oval – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry art from University of Montana undergraduates only]

Redivider-The Beacon Street Prize – reading period BEGINS [$500 prizes in fiction (up to 8000 words) and poetry (up to 3) categories; $15 entry fee]

The Spoon River Poetry Review – reading period ENDS [poetry]

_February 16_ th

Memoir – reading period ENDS [memoir, poetry, graphic & photographic narrative]

_February 20_ th

713 Flash – reading period ENDS [science fiction, fantasy flash fiction on the theme "Spring Training"]

_February 25_ th

Río Grande Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, criticism, poetry, comics, art]

_February 28_ th

Acorn reading period ENDS [haiku poetry]

The Ante Review – reading period ENDS [Fiction, Creative nonfiction, poetry, drama, essays, book reviews]

Basalt Magazine – reading period ENDS [fiction, poetry, hybrid]

Contemporary Haibun – reading period ENDS [haibun poetry]

Delmarva – reading period ENDS [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, short reviews]

Fence-2013 Fence Modern Poets Series – reading period ENDS [~80 page poetry manuscript; $1000 prize [K's Note: the entry fee wasn't posted last I checked]]

Glimmer Train-Short Story Award for New Writers – reading period ENDS [fiction from unpublished writers to 12000 words, $1500, $500, $300 prizes; $15 fee per entry (limit 3)]

Konundrum – reading period ENDS [chapbook collections of poetry only]

The Ledge-2013 Fiction Awards Competition – reading period ENDS[fiction up to 7500 words; $1000, $250, $100 prizes; $12 fee for first entry, $6 each additional entry]

Nashville Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Ninth Letter – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Paddlefish – reading period ENDS [fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry, graphic memoir]

Pirenes Fountain – reading period ENDS [poetry]

Raven Chronicles – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry; theme: "Why we do what we do"]

 Redheaded Stepchild – reading period ENDS ["poems that have been rejected by other magazines"]

The Stinging Fly – reading period ENDS [fiction, novel excerpts, essays, book reviews, poetry "by Irish and international writers"]

Superstition Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Switchback – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art; Editor's Prize - $200, $75, $50 prizes "to the submission best addressing the issue theme (Broken);" no entry fee]

Tidal Basin Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Timber – reading period ENDS [fiction, poetry]

Vine Leaves Literary Journal – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry in vignettes]

Waccamaw Journal – reading period ENDS [fiction, essays, poetry]

# March

_March 1_ st

Adanna Journal reading period continues [women only: poetry, fiction, drama, book reviews, interviews]

The Adirondack Review – Fulton Prize for Short Fiction – reading period CONTINUES [fiction]

Adventum – reading period CONTINUES [haiku, creative nonfiction, essays, and memoir pieces]

Agni reading period CONTINUES [poetry, fiction, essays]

Alaska Quarterly Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, drama, poetry, photo essays, and literary nonfiction]

American Letters & Commentary – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, poetry]

American Literary Review – reading period CONTINUES [poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction]

The American Poetry Journal – reading period CONTINUES [poetry, poetry reviews, essays on poetry]

 The Antigonish Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, poetry, book reviews]

The Antioch Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry, nonfiction]

Arc Poetry Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [poetry, essays, reviews]

Arroyo Literary Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, personal essays and memoir, translations, drama.

Arsenic Lobster \- reading period CONTINUES [poetry, essays & reviews on poetry]

Artful Dodge – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, narrative essay, poetry, translations]

Ashville Poetry Review – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

Atlanta Review International Poetry Competition – reading period ENDS [poetry]

Baltimore Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Bare Root Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Barely South Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Barnwood – reading period CONTINUES [poetry; _K's NOTE: the link wasn't working the last time I tried it, so good luck_ ]

Barrow Street Journal – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

Bateau Lit Mag – reading period CONTINUES [flash fiction, flack nonfiction, playlets, poetry]

Bateau Press Keel Short Short Fiction Chapbook Contest – reading period CONTINUES [20-30 pages]

Bayou Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Bellevue Literary Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry "related to our themes of health, healing, illness, the mind, and the body"]

Bellevue Literary Review Literary Prizes – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry categories "award outstanding writing related to our themes of health, healing, illness, the mind, and the body"]

 Bellingham Review Contest – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The Binnacle Ultra-Short Competition – reading period ENDS [fiction up to 150 words, poetry up to 16 lines and 150 words]

The Bitter Oleander – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry]

Black Lantern Publishing – reading period BEGINS [macabre fiction, poetry]

Blackbird – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, drama, poetry]

Blood and Thunder – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry about healthcare-related issues]

Blood Orange Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Blue Earth Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The Blue Pencil – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama by writers aged 12–18]

Bomb Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry]

Booth Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, comics]

Boston Review – fiction reading period CONTINUES [nonfiction, poetry read year-round]

Boulevard Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Bound Off – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction in audio]

Brilliant Corners – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Brink Magazine – reading period BEGINS [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, one-act plays, dramatic or novel sections, interviews, translations]

Callalo – reading period CONTINUES [scholarly articles, book reviews, interviews, nonfiction essays, short fiction, poetry, and visual art by and for African Americans]

Carbon Copy Magazine – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, short drama, art]

The Cape Rock Vern Cowles Prize for a Trinity of Poems reading period CONTINUES [series of 3 poems]

Chautauqua Literary Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, book reviews, poetry]

Cider Press Review – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

The Cincinnati Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, reviews, translations, poetry, art]

 The Claremont Review Annual Contest – reading period CONTINUES [13-19 year olds only. 3 cash prizes each for fiction (one 5000 word, or three 500 word pieces) and poetry (three poems, one poem per page); $20 entry fee; $25 if submitting to both fiction and poetry]

 Colorado Review-Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction – reading period CONTINUES [up to 15 pages; $15 entry fee]

Columbia Journal – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The Comstock Review – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

Confrontation Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, memoir, poetry, drama]

Connecticut Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, essays, poetry, interviews, translations, art]

The Country Dog Review-The Argos Prize – reading period CONTINUES [poetry; $500 prize; $10 fee for each entry of 3 poems]

Court Green – reading period BEGINS [poetry, and "creative responses to the work, life, and legacy of James Schuyler"]

Crab Creek Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Crab Orchard Review – Winter/Spring issue reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, interviews (query first)]

Crab Orchard Review-Literary Contests – reading period BEGINS [$2000 prizes in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction; $20.00 (post) or $22.50 (online) fee per entry, limit 3 entries]

Crannog Literary Magazine – reading period BEGINS [fiction, poetry]

Crazyhorse – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The Cream City Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Cumberland River Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, poetry, art]

Cutthroat – online edition reading period BEGINS [fiction, flash fiction, poetry]

Defenestration – fiction and poetry reading period CONTINUES [nonfiction open year-round]

Drafthorse – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, visual art]

Ducts – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, memoir, poetry, humor, reviews, profiles, drama]

Ecotone – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, novel or memoir excerpts, nonfiction, poetry]

Emerge Literary Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, poetry]

Enizagam – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Enizagam-Writing Contest – reading period CONTINUES [fiction and poetry categories; $1000 prizes in each category; $20 fee per entry]

 Epoch – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Essays and Fictions – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays]

 Exit 7 – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Fact-Simile – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Fairy Tale Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, creative nonfiction, essays, poetry, drama, comics]

Field – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

Fifth Wednesday Journal – reading period BEGINS [fiction, creative nonfiction, essays, poetry, b & w photography]

Florida English – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, interviews, book reviews]

The Florida Review-Editor's Award – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prize in prose and poetry categories;$15 entry fee (includes subscription)]

Flyway – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art "that delve into place or environment"]

Foliate Oak Literary Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Folio – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Fourteen Hills – reading period BEGINS [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, experimental/hybrid]

Fourth River – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Free Verse – reading period CONTINUES [poetry, contemporary poetry book reviews]

Frogpond – reading period CONTINUES [haiku, haibun, rengay, renku, essays, book reviews]

Fugue Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Georgia Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, book reviews, poetry, graphics]

 Gertrude-Chapbook Contest – reading period CONTINUES [$100 award in fiction and poetry categories; 16-20 pages of fiction or poetry; $15 post / $17 online submission entry fees]

The Gettysburg Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, poetry]

Ghost Town – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, narrative nonfiction, poetry]

Gigantic Sequins – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Glass: a Journal of Poetry – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

Glimmer Train-Fiction Open – reading period BEGINS [fiction 2000-20000 words, $2500, $1000, $600 prizes; $19 fee per entry (limit 3)]

Goblin Fruit – reading period CONTINUES [poetry "of the fantastical"]

Grain-Short Grain Writing Contest – reading period CONTINUES [fiction (to 2500 words) and poetry (to 100 lines) categories; $1000, $750, $500 prizes in each category; $35 Canadian/$40 US fee per entry includes subscription)]

Green Mountains Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, essays, interviews, book reviews, poetry]

Gulf Coast – reading period ENDS [fiction, essays, poems, interviews, reviews]

Gulf Stream – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Halfway Down the Stairs – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

 Harvard Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, short drama, poetry]

The Healing Muse – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry "particularly but not exclusively focusing on themes of medicine and healing"]

Helping Orphans Worldwide (H.O.A.) Journal-Poetry Contest – reading period CONTINUES [poetry; $100 prize; no entry fee-but donations welcome]

The Hopkins Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Hotel Amerika – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The Hudson Review – reading period CONTINUES [nonfiction only: essays, book reviews, literary criticism, "articles on contemporary cultural developments"]

The Idaho Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry; longer work: query first]

Illuminations – reading period CONTINUES ["Greek" theme issue: fiction, nonfiction, essays, journalism, poetry, art]

Interim Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, reviews, poetry)

International Poetry Review – reading period CONTINUES [poetry in translation]

Iron Horse Literary Review-2013 Single-Author Issue – reading period CONTINUES [15000-20000 words of fiction; $1000 prize; $15 entry fee includes subscription]

Jabberwock Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry]

Jabberwock Review-Editor's Prize \- reading period BEGINS [poetry; $500 prize; $15 per entry fee for up to 3 poems includes subscription.]

Jelly Bucket – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

jubilat – reading period CONTINUES [poetry, prose about poetry, art]

Lana Turner – print edition reading period CONTINUES ( online edition = year-round) [poetry, nonfiction]

The Laurel Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, reviews, poetry]

The Ledge – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry]

The Ledge-3013 Poetry Award Competition – reading period CONTINUES [poetry; $1000, $250, $100 prizes; $12 entry fee for first three poems, $6 each additional poem]

Lit Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The Literary Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, essays, poetry, translations]

Little Patuxent Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Many Mountains Moving – print edition reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, drama, poetry]

The Marathon Literary Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, poetry, art & photography]

Mascara Literary Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, reviews, poetry, translations]

Mason's Road – reading period CONTINUES [theme fiction, poetry]

The Massachusetts Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translations]

Mayday – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, reviews, poetry, translations, graphic narrative, visual art]

 The Meadowland Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, poetry, art & photography

The Medulla Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, flash fiction, poetry]

Meridian – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Midway Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, sudden fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

 The Minnesota Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, critical nonfiction, reviews, interviews, poetry]

The Muse – reading period CONTINUES [poetry, research papers]

Naugatuck River Review – open reading period ENDS [poetry]

New Delta Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, book reviews, interviews, poetry]

New England Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, drama, poetry, translation]

New Letters – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

New Letters-Literary Awards – reading period CONTINUES [$1500 prizes in: The New Letters Prize for Poetry, the Dorothy Churchill Cappon Prize for the Essay, and The Alexander Patterson Cappon Prize for fiction; fiction, nonfiction up to 8000 words, six poems; $15 for first entry, $10 each additional entry]

New Madrid – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

New Ohio Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The New Poet – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

The New Renaissance – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The New Renaissance-The Louise E. Reynolds Memorial Fiction Awards – reading period CONTINUES [fiction from 2-36 pages; $500, $250, $100, $50 prizes; $16.50 entry fee ($11.50 for subscribers]

The New Renaissance-Poetry Award – reading period CONTINUES [3-6 one-page poems, 2-4 two-page poems, one long poem per submission; $250, $125, $50, $25 prizes; $16.50 fee per entry ($11.50 for subscribers]

 the new river – reading period CONTINUES [digital writing and art]

New South – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, essays, poetry]

New South-Writing Contests – reading period CONTINUES [fiction or nonfiction (to 9000 words), and poetry categories; $15 per entry (1 prose piece or up to 3 poems)]

Newport Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry, one-act plays]

Nimrod – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, poetry]

Nimrod Literary Awards – reading period CONTINUES [$2000, $1000 prizes in fiction (to 7500 words) and poetry (3-10 pages) categories; $20 fee per entry]

94 Creations – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction, one act plays, monologues, poetry, art]

The Normal School –reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, recipes]

The Normal School-Normal Prize in Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prize in each category; fiction, nonfiction up to 10087 words, poetry up to 5 poems, up to five pages total; $20 fee per entry

North Carolina Literary Review – reading period CONTINUES [poetry only]

North Carolina Literary Review-James Applewhite Poetry Prize – reading period CONTINUES [$250 prize forpoetry by current or former N. Carolina residents only; $15 entry fee for 3 poems/$20 for 5 poems – no fee for subscribers/members]

 North Dakota Quarterly – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Notre Dame Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry]

Obsidian – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, critical essays, drama, poetry "from within, about, and contextualizing the African Diaspora"]

Ocean State Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

One Story – reading period CONTINUES [fiction]

Orange Coast Review – reading period BEGINS[fiction, narrative nonfiction, poetry, art]

 Otis Nebula-Poetry Prize – reading period CONTINUES [$250 prize for a book length poetry collection, $50 runner-up; $15 reading fee]

Ozone Park Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, drama, poetry, translations, art]

Painted Bride Quarterly- 50/50 Fiction Contest – reading period CONTINUES [fiction from 50-5000 words on the theme of "50/50"; prize is 50% of Contest Fees; $20 per entry]

Palabra – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, novel excerpts, drama, hybrid]

Passager – reading period CONTINUES [poetry contest for writers over 50]

Passages North-Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prize; $15 entry fee for up to 3 poems]

Passages North-Thomas J. Hruska Memorial Nonfiction Prize – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prize for fiction up to 7500 words; $15 entry fee]

 Paterson Literary Review – reading period CONTINUES [flash fiction, poetry, art & photography]

Pearl – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry, b & w art]

Pear Noir! – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art & photography]

Permafrost – online edition reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Phantom Drift – reading period CONTINUES ["fabulist" fiction, flash fiction, essays, academic research papers, reviews, poetry]

Phoebe – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The Pinch Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

The Pinch Literary Awards in Fiction and Poetry – reading period CONTINUES [$1500 fiction (to 5000 words) prize; $1000 poetry prize; $20 entry for one fiction, or 1-3 poems, $10 each additional entry]

Pleides – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, poetry]

Ploughshares-Emerging Writer's Contest – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prizes in fiction, nonfiction (both to 6000 words) and poetry (3-5 pages) for writers yet to have published a book; $24 fee per entry includes subscription]

poemmemoirstory (PMS) – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, memoir, poetry]

Poetry Northwest – reading period CONTINUES [essays, reviews, poetry]

Polyphony H. S. – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry from high school students]

Post Road – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, drama, monologues, poetry, visual art]

Potomac Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Prairie Schooner Book Prize – reading period CONTINUES [$3000 prizes for a fiction (short story collection; no novels) manuscript at least 150 pages, and a poetry manuscript at least 50 pages long; $25 entry fee]

Prune Juice – reading period CONTINUES [senryu, kyoka poetry]

A Public Space – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Puerto Del Sol – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, drama, criticism, poetry, translations, art

The Quotable – reading period BEGINS [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, art]

Red Rock Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Redivider-The Beacon Street Prize – reading period CONTINUES [$500 prizes in fiction (up to 8000 words) and poetry (up to 3) categories; $15 entry fee]

Relief – reading period ENDS [Christian fiction, poetry]

 Review Americana – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, craft essays, writing education essays, drama, poetry]

A River & Sound – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, humor, translation]

River Teeth – reading period CONTINUES [creative nonfiction, "narrative reportage," essays, memoirs]

The Round – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, drama, poetry, translations, art & photography]

 Rubbertop Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, one-act plays, poetry, art "from both students at The University of Akron and greater Ohio"]

Saint Ann's Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, novel excerpts nonfiction, drama, poetry, translations]

St. Petersburg Review-Poetry Contest – reading period ENDS [$1000 prize for poetry; $20 entry fee for 3 poems]

Salamander – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, memoir, poetry]

Salmagundi Magazine – reading period CONTINUES S [fiction, personal essays, cultural criticism, poetry]

Salt Hill Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Saranac Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, hybrid, translation]

Segue – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Seneca Review – reading period CONTINUES [nonfiction essays, poetry]

Sewanee Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Shadowbox – reading period CONTINUES creative nonfiction][K's Note: Click on the dice for the guidelines. But you can't actually submit directly from Shadowbox's site. You need to go through [Tell It Slant's site]

Shenandoah – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Shenandoah-Bevel Summers Prize – reading period BEGINS [$1000 prize for flash fiction up to 1000 words; $3 entry fee to submit 3 stories]

Sibling Rivalry Press – reading period BEGINS [poetry – particularly LGBT]

Slice Magazine – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

So to Speak – reading period CONTINUES ["feminist" fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

So to Speak-Fiction Contest – reading period CONTINUES [$500 prize for fiction up to 4500 words; $15 entry fee]

Soundings East – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Southern Indiana Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction, reviews, interviews, poetry, art & photography

 Southern Poetry Review-Guy Owen Award – reading period BEGINS [$1000 prize for poetry; $20 entry fee (3-5 poems up to 10 pages) includes subscriptions]

 The Southhampton Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, novellas, nonfiction, drama & screenplays, poetry, art & photography]

Southwest Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction articles, poetry]

Southword Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry in English and Irish]

The Sow's Ear-Chapbook Competition – reading period BEGINS [$1000 prize for 22-26 pages of poetry; $27 entry fee]

Spillway – reading period CONTINUES [poetry on the theme _"The Road Taken/Not Taken"_ ]

Spinning Jenny – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

The Spoon River Poetry Review-Editor's Prize – reading period CONTINUES [$1000, two $100 prizes for poetry; $20 entry fee for up to 3 poems (maximum 10 pages) includes subscription]

Spout Press – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, opinion, poetry, art, cartoons]

SpringGun Press – reading period BEGINS [fiction, poetry (book reviews, interviews, art & electronic literature = year-round)]

Sprung Formal – reading period CONTINUES [theme flash fiction, poetry, audio, video, art & photography

Stickman Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Stone Highway Review – reading period CONTINUES [flash fiction, flash nonfiction (both up to 750 words), poetry]

StoryQuarterly – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction]

Subtropics – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, novel excerpts, essays, poetry, translations]

Suspence Magazine Writing Contest – reading period BEGINS [Twelve books (some autographed) from each of the authors of the month for 2012, $50 Amazon gift card, $25 gift card prizes for suspence/mystery/thiller fiction between 1500-4000 words]

Switched-on-Gutenberg – reading period CONTINUES [poetry on the themes "No Cute Pets" and/or "Velvet Elvis: Bad Art"]

Sycamore Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Sycamore Review-Wabash Prize for Fiction – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prize for fiction up to 7500 words; $15 entry fee includes subscription]

Talking River – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, book reviews, poetry]

Tar River Review – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

10X3 Plus – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

Texas Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Thin Air Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Third Coast – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction (reportage, essays, memoir), drama, poetry, translations]

The Threepenny Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, critical articles, "Table Talk," poetry]

Tifaret-Writing Contest – reading period CONTINUES [$400 prizes in fiction, essay/interview (both up to 20 pages), poetry categories; $20 fee per entry (1 prose, or up to 6 poems)]

Tin House – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, interviews, poetry; open theme and "Lost & Founds about the Wild" theme accepted]

TINGE – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

TriQuarterly Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, drama, poetry, hybrid; reviews or interviews: query first]

 2 Bridges Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Upstreet – reading period ENDS [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, prose poems]

Verse Wisconson – reading period CONTINUES [essays, book reviews, interviews, poetry]

Wag's Revue – reading period BEGINS [fiction, essays, interviews, poems]

Watershed – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction articles, personal essays, poetry, photography "All work must have a strong sense of place, and in some way bring to mind the Susquehanna region"]

Weave Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, drama, art]

West Branch – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, translation]

West Marin Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Western Humanities Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, hybrid]

Whiskey Island – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry]

The White Review Short Story Prize – reading period ENDS [£2,500 prize for fiction (2000-7000 words) "by a writer resident in the UK and Ireland who has yet to secure a publishing deal"; £15 entry fee]

Whitefish Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art & photography]

Willow Springs – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Witness – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, interviews, poetry]

Zoetrope-All Story – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, one-act plays]

_March 3_ rd

Goblin Fruit – reading period ENDS [poetry "of the fantastical"]

_March 9_ th

New South-Writing Contests – reading period ENDS [fiction or nonfiction (to 9000 words), and poetry categories; $15 per entry (1 prose piece or up to 3 poems)]

Sprung Formal – reading period ENDS [theme flash fiction, poetry, audio, video, art & photography

_March 11_ th

Unstuck – reading period BEGINS [fiction]

_March 14_ th

 Colorado Review-Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction – reading period ENDS [up to 15 pages; $15 entry fee]

_March 15_ th

 Bellingham Review Contest – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

 The Claremont Review Annual Contest – reading period ENDS [13-19 year olds only. 3 cash prizes each for fiction (one 5000 word, or three 500 word pieces) and poetry (three poems, one poem per page); $20 entry fee; $25 if submitting to both fiction and poetry]

The Comstock Review – reading period ENDS [poetry]

Enizagam – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Enizagam-Writing Contest – reading period ENDS [fiction and poetry categories; $1000 prizes in each category; $20 fee per entry]

Fourth River – reading period ENDS [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Gulf Stream – reading period ENDS [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Illuminations – reading period ENDS ["Greek" theme issue: fiction, nonfiction, essays, journalism, poetry, art]

Iron Horse Literary Review-2013 Single-Author Issue – reading period ENDS [15000-20000 words of fiction; $1000 prize; $15 entry fee includes subscription]

Jabberwock Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, poetry]

Jabberwock Review-Editor's Prize \- reading period ENDS [poetry; $500 prize; $15 per entry fee for up to 3 poems includes subscription.]

Mason's Road – reading period ENDS [theme fiction, poetry]

New Madrid – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

 Peregrine – reading period BEGINS [fiction, poetry]

The Pinch Journal – reading period ENDS [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

The Pinch Literary Awards in Fiction and Poetry – reading period ENDS [$1500 fiction (to 5000 words) prize; $1000 poetry prize; $20 entry for one fiction, or 1-3 poems, $10 each additional entry]

Poetry Northwest – reading period ENDS [essays, reviews, poetry]

Prune Juice – reading period ENDS [senryu, kyoka poetry]

Shenandoah – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

So to Speak – reading period ENDS ["feminist" fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

So to Speak-Fiction Contest – reading period ENDS [$500 prize for fiction up to 4500 words; $15 entry fee]

Southword Journal – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry in English and Irish]

storySouth – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry "by writers from the new south"]

Tar River Review – reading period ENDS [poetry]

10,000 Tons of Black Ink – reading period BEGINS [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction]

Whitefish Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art & photography]

_March 17_ th

The Florida Review-Editor's Award – reading period ENDS [$1000 prize in prose and poetry categories; $15 entry fee (includes subscription)]

_March 18_ th

Unstuck – reading period ENDS [fiction]

_March 22_ nd

Passages North-Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize – reading period ENDS [$1000 prize; $15 entry fee for up to 3 poems]

Passages North-Thomas J. Hruska Memorial Nonfiction Prize – reading period ENDS [$1000 prize for fiction up to 7500 words; $15 entry fee]

_March 30_ th

Bare Root Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Sycamore Review-Wabash Prize for Fiction – reading period ENDS [$1000 prize for fiction up to 7500 words; $15 entry fee includes subscription]

_March 31_ st

American Letters & Commentary – reading period ENDS [fiction, essays, poetry]

Barely South Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Barrow Street Journal – reading period ENDS [poetry]

Blue Earth Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Cider Press Review – reading period ENDS [poetry]

Crab Creek Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Crannog Literary Magazine – reading period ENDS [fiction, poetry]

Free Verse – reading period ENDS [poetry, contemporary poetry book reviews]

Glimmer Train-Fiction Open – reading period ENDS [fiction 2000-20000 words, $2500, $1000, $600 prizes; $19 fee per entry (limit 3)]

The Hudson Review – reading period ENDS [nonfiction only: essays, book reviews, literary criticism, "articles on contemporary cultural developments"]

Lana Turner – print edition reading period ENDS (online edition = year-round) [poetry, nonfiction]

The Ledge – reading period ENDS [fiction, poetry]

The Marathon Literary Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, flash fiction, poetry, art & photography]

Mascara Literary Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, essays, reviews, poetry, translations]

New Delta Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, creative nonfiction, book reviews, interviews, poetry]

 Paterson Literary Review – reading period CONTINUES [flash fiction, poetry, art & photography]

Phantom Drift – reading period CONTINUES ["fabulist" fiction, flash fiction, essays, academic research papers, reviews, poetry]

poemmemoirstory (PMS) – reading period ENDS [fiction, memoir, poetry]

Puerto Del Sol – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, drama, criticism, poetry, translations, art

Shenandoah-Bevel Summers Prize – reading period ENDS [$1000 prize for flash fiction up to 1000 words; $3 entry fee to submit 3 stories]

Spillway – reading period ENDS [poetry on the theme _"The Road Taken/Not Taken"_ ]

Switched-on-Gutenberg – reading period ENDS [poetry on the themes "No Cute Pets" and/or "Velvet Elvis: Bad Art"]

Sycamore Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Third Coast – reading period ENDS [fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction (reportage, essays, memoir), drama, poetry, translations]

TINGE – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Witness – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, interviews, poetry]

# April

_April 1_ st

A cappella Zoo reading period begins. [Magical Realism fiction, poetry, drama]

Adanna Journal reading period continues [women only: poetry, fiction, drama, book reviews, interviews]

The Adirondack Review – Fulton Prize for Short Fiction – reading period CONTINUES [fiction]

Adventum – reading period CONTINUES [haiku, creative nonfiction, essays, and memoir pieces]

Agni reading period CONTINUES [poetry, fiction, essays]

Alaska Quarterly Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, drama, poetry, photo essays, and literary nonfiction]

American Literary Review – reading period CONTINUES [poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction]

The American Poetry Journal – reading period CONTINUES [poetry, poetry reviews, essays on poetry]

 The Antigonish Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, poetry, book reviews]

The Antioch Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry, nonfiction]

Arc Poetry Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [poetry, essays, reviews]

Arroyo Literary Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, personal essays and memoir, translations, drama.

Arsenic Lobster \- reading period CONTINUES [poetry, essays & reviews on poetry]

Artful Dodge – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, narrative essay, poetry, translations]

Ashville Poetry Review – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

Baltimore Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Barnwood – reading period CONTINUES [poetry; _K's NOTE: the link wasn't working the last time I tried it, so good luck_ ]

Bateau Lit Mag – reading period CONTINUES [flash fiction, flack nonfiction, playlets, poetry]

Bateau Press Keel Short Short Fiction Chapbook Contest – reading period CONTINUES [ 20-30 pages]

Bayou Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Bellevue Literary Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry "related to our themes of health, healing, illness, the mind, and the body"]

Bellevue Literary Review Literary Prizes – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry categories "award outstanding writing related to our themes of health, healing, illness, the mind, and the body"]

The Bitter Oleander – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry]

Black Lantern Publishing – reading period CONTINUES [macabre fiction, poetry]

Blackbird – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, drama, poetry]

Blood and Thunder – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry about healthcare-related issues]

Blood Orange Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Bloodroot Literary Magazine – reading period BEGINS [literary fiction, poetry (free verse and sonnets only]

The Blue Pencil – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama by writers aged 12–18]

Bomb Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry]

Booth Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, comics]

Boston Review – fiction reading period CONTINUES [nonfiction, poetry read year-round]

Boulevard Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Bound Off – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction in audio]

Brilliant Corners – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Brink Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, one-act plays, dramatic or novel sections, interviews, translations]

Callalo – reading period CONTINUES [scholarly articles, book reviews, interviews, nonfiction essays, short fiction, poetry, and visual art by and for African Americans]

The Cape Rock Vern Cowles Prize for a Trinity of Poems reading period ENDS [series of 3 poems]

Chautauqua Literary Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, book reviews, poetry]

The Cincinnati Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, reviews, translations, poetry, art]

Columbia Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The Comstock Review- Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award – reading period BEGINS [poetry. $5 entry fee per poem; 40 pages per poem maximum; Cash awards are $1000, $250, and $100]

Confrontation Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, memoir, poetry, drama]

Connecticut Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, essays, poetry, interviews, translations, art]

Contemporary Haibun – reading period BEGINS [haibun poetry]

 Contemporary Verse 2-The 2 Day Poetry Contest – reading period BEGINS [poetry using 10 words the journal gives on midnight of Saturday the 13th, with only 2 days to write the poems; $16 entry fee, or $26 with a subscription; $500, $300, $200 prizes]

The Country Dog Review-The Argos Prize – reading period CONTINUES [poetry; $500 prize; $10 fee for each entry of 3 poems]

Court Green – reading period CONTINUES [poetry, and "creative responses to the work, life, and legacy of James Schuyler"]

Crab Orchard Review – Winter/Spring issue reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, interviews (query first)]

Crab Orchard Review-Literary Contests – reading period BEGINS [$2000 prizes in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction; $20.00 (post) or $22.50 (online) fee per entry, limit 3 entries]

Crazyhorse – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The Cream City Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Cumberland River Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, poetry, art]

Cutthroat – online edition reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, poetry]

Defenestration – fiction and poetry reading period CONTINUES [nonfiction open year-round]

Drafthorse – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, visual art]

Ducts – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, memoir, poetry, humor, reviews, profiles, drama]

Ecotone – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, novel or memoir excerpts, nonfiction, poetry]

Emerge Literary Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, poetry]

 Epoch – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Essays and Fictions – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays]

 Exit 7 – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Fact-Simile – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Fairy Tale Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, essays, poetry, drama, comics]

Field – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

Fifth Wednesday Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, essays, poetry, b & w photography]

Florida English – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, interviews, book reviews]

Flyway – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art "that delve into place or environment"]

Foliate Oak Literary Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Fourteen Hills – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, experimental/hybrid]

Frogpond – reading period CONTINUES [haiku, haibun, rengay, renku, essays, book reviews]

Fugue Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Georgia Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, book reviews, poetry, graphics]

 Gertrude-Chapbook Contest – reading period CONTINUES [$100 award in fiction and poetry categories; 16-20 pages of fiction or poetry; $15 post / $17 online submission entry fees]

The Gettysburg Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, poetry]

Ghost Town – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, narrative nonfiction, poetry]

Glass: a Journal of Poetry – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

Grain-Short Grain Writing Contest – reading period ENDS [fiction (to 2500 words) and poetry (to 100 lines) categories; $1000, $750, $500 prizes in each category; $35 Canadian/$40 US fee per entry includes subscription)]

Halfway Down the Stairs – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

 Harvard Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, short drama, poetry]

The Healing Muse – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry "particularly but not exclusively focusing on themes of medicine and healing"]

Helping Orphans Worldwide (H.O.A.) Journal-Poetry Contest – reading period ENDS [poetry; $100 prize; no entry fee-but donations welcome]

The Hopkins Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Hotel Amerika – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The Hudson Review – reading period BEGINS [poetry only]

The Idaho Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry; longer work: query first]

Interim Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, reviews, poetry)

International Poetry Review – reading period CONTINUES [poetry in translation]

Iron Horse Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, essays, poetry]

Jelly Bucket – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

jubilat – reading period ENDS [poetry, prose about poetry, art]

The Laurel Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, reviews, poetry]

The Ledge-3013 Poetry Award Competition – reading period CONTINUES [poetry; $1000, $250, $100 prizes; $12 entry fee for first three poems, $6 each additional poem]

Lit Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The Literary Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, essays, poetry, translations]

Many Mountains Moving – print edition reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, drama, poetry]

The Massachusetts Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translations]

Mayday – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, reviews, poetry, translations, graphic narrative, visual art]

 The Meadowland Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, poetry, art & photography]

The Medulla Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, poetry]

Meridian – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Midway Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, sudden fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

 The Minnesota Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, critical nonfiction, reviews, interviews, poetry]

The Muse – reading period CONTINUES [poetry, research papers]

New England Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, drama, poetry, translation]

New Letters – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

New Letters-Literary Awards – reading period CONTINUES [$1500 prizes in: The New Letters Prize for Poetry, the Dorothy Churchill Cappon Prize for the Essay, and The Alexander Patterson Cappon Prize for fiction; fiction, nonfiction up to 8000 words, six poems; $15 for first entry, $10 each additional entry]

New Millennium Writings – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

New Ohio Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The New Poet – reading period ENDS [poetry]

The New Renaissance-The Louise E. Reynolds Memorial Fiction Awards – reading period CONTINUES [fiction from 2-36 pages; $500, $250, $100, $50 prizes; $16.50 entry fee ($11.50 for subscribers]

The New Renaissance-Poetry Award – reading period CONTINUES [3-6 one-page poems, 2-4 two-page poems, one long poem per submission; $250, $125, $50, $25 prizes; $16.50 fee per entry ($11.50 for subscribers]

 the new river – reading period ENDS [digital writing and art]

New South – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, essays, poetry]

Newport Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry, one-act plays]

Nimrod – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, poetry]

Nimrod Literary Awards – reading period CONTINUES [$2000, $1000 prizes in fiction (to 7500 words) and poetry (3-10 pages) categories; $20 fee per entry]

94 Creations – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction, one act plays, monologues, poetry, art]

The Normal School –reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, recipes]

The Normal School-Normal Prize in Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prize in each category; fiction, nonfiction up to 10087 words, poetry up to 5 poems, up to five pages total; $20 fee per entry

North Carolina Literary Review – reading period CONTINUES [poetry only]

North Carolina Literary Review-James Applewhite Poetry Prize – reading period CONTINUES [$250 prize forpoetry by current or former N. Carolina residents only; $15 entry fee for 3 poems/$20 for 5 poems – no fee for subscribers/members]

 North Dakota Quarterly – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Obsidian – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, critical essays, drama, poetry "from within, about, and contextualizing the African Diaspora"]

One Story – reading period CONTINUES [fiction]

Orange Coast Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, narrative nonfiction, poetry, art]

 Otis Nebula-Poetry Prize – reading period CONTINUES [$250 prize for a book length poetry collection, $50 runner-up; $15 reading fee]

Ozone Park Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, drama, poetry, translations, art]

Painted Bride Quarterly- 50/50 Fiction Contest – reading period CONTINUES [fiction from 50-5000 words on the theme of "50/50"; prize is 50% of Contest Fees; $20 per entry]

Palabra – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, novel excerpts, drama, hybrid]

Passager – reading period ENDS [poetry contest for writers over 50]

Pearl – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry, b & w art]

Pearl-Short Story Prize – reading period BEGINS [$250 prize for fiction up to 4000 words; $10 entry fee]

Pear Noir! – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art & photography]

Permafrost – online edition reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

 Peregrine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry]

Phoebe – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Pleides – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, poetry]

Ploughshares-Emerging Writer's Contest – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prizes in fiction, nonfiction (both to 6000 words) and poetry (3-5 pages) for writers yet to have published a book; $24 fee per entry includes subscription]

Polyphony H. S. – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry from high school students]

Post Road – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, drama, monologues, poetry, visual art]

Potomac Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Prune Juice – reading period BEGINS [senryu, kyoka poetry]

A Public Space – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The Quotable – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, art]

Red Rock Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

 Red Wheelbarrow – student submission reading period BEGINS [fiction, creative nonfiction, drama, poetry, art & photography, comics]

Redivider-The Beacon Street Prize – reading period CONTINUES [$500 prizes in fiction (up to 8000 words) and poetry (up to 3) categories; $15 entry fee]

 Review Americana – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, craft essays, writing education essays, drama, poetry]

Rhino – reading period BEGINS [flash fiction, poetry, translations]

A River & Sound – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, humor, translation]

River Teeth – reading period CONTINUES [creative nonfiction, "narrative reportage," essays, memoirs]

 Rubbertop Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, one-act plays, poetry, art "from both students at The University of Akron and greater Ohio"]

Saint Ann's Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, novel excerpts nonfiction, drama, poetry, translations]

Salamander – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, memoir, poetry]

Salmagundi Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, personal essays, cultural criticism, poetry]

Salt Hill Journal – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Saranac Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, hybrid, translation]

Segue – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Seneca Review – reading period CONTINUES [nonfiction essays, poetry]

Sewanee Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Shadowbox – reading period CONTINUES creative nonfiction][K's Note: Click on the dice for the guidelines. But you can't actually submit directly from Shadowbox's site. You need to go through [Tell It Slant's site]

Sibling Rivalry Press – reading period CONTINUES [poetry – particularly LGBT]

Southern Indiana Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction, reviews, interviews, poetry, art & photography

 Southern Poetry Review-Guy Owen Award – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prize for poetry; $20 entry fee (3-5 poems up to 10 pages) includes subscriptions]

 The Southhampton Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, novellas, nonfiction, drama & screenplays, poetry, art & photography]

Southwest Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction articles, poetry]

The Sow's Ear-Chapbook Competition – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prize for 22-26 pages of poetry; $27 entry fee]

Spinning Jenny – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

The Spoon River Poetry Review-Editor's Prize – reading period CONTINUES [$1000, two $100 prizes for poetry; $20 entry fee for up to 3 poems (maximum 10 pages) includes subscription]

Spout Press – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, opinion, poetry, art, cartoons]

SpringGun Press – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry (book reviews, interviews, art & electronic literature = year-round)]

Stickman Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Stone Highway Review – reading period CONTINUES [flash fiction, flash nonfiction (both up to 750 words), poetry]

StoryQuarterly – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction]

storySouth – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry "by writers from the new south"]

Subtropics – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, novel excerpts, essays, poetry, translations]

Suspence Magazine Writing Contest – reading period CONTINUES [Twelve books (some autographed) from each of the authors of the month for 2012, $50 Amazon gift card, $25 gift card prizes for suspence/mystery/thiller fiction between 1500-4000 words]

Talking River – reading period ENDS [fiction, creative nonfiction, book reviews, poetry]

10X3 Plus – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

10,000 Tons of Black Ink – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction]

Texas Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Thin Air Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Three Coyotes – reading period BEGINS [fiction, novel excerpts, nonfiction, essays, poetry, art]

The Threepenny Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, critical articles, "Table Talk," poetry]

Thrice Fiction – reading period BEGINS [fiction, flash fiction, fiction that "may also be poetry]

Tifaret-Writing Contest – reading period CONTINUES [$400 prizes in fiction, essay/interview (both up to 20 pages), poetry categories; $20 fee per entry (1 prose, or up to 6 poems)]

Tin House – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, interviews, poetry; open theme and "Lost & Founds about the Wild" theme accepted]

Toasted Cheese-A Midsummer Tale Contest – reading period BEGINS [theme fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction; prizes are Amazon giftcards, with amounts dependant on how many entries are received; no entry fee]

Trachodon – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction and art exploring "artisian culture"]

TriQuarterly Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, drama, poetry, hybrid; reviews or interviews: query first]

 2 Bridges Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

U. S. 1 Worksheets – reading period BEGINS [flash fiction, poetry]

Verse Wisconson – reading period CONTINUES [essays, book reviews, interviews, poetry]

Vestal Review – reading period CONTINUES [flash fiction]

Vine Leaves Literary Journal – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry in vignettes]

Wag's Revue – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, interviews, poems]

Watershed – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction articles, personal essays, poetry, photography "All work must have a strong sense of place, and in some way bring to mind the Susquehanna region"]

Weave Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, drama, art]

West Branch – reading period ENDS [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, translation]

West Marin Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Western Humanities Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, hybrid]

Whiskey Island – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry]

Willow Springs – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Zoetrope-All Story – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, one-act plays]

_April 2_ nd

Ploughshares-Emerging Writer's Contest – reading period ENDS [$1000 prizes in fiction, nonfiction (both to 6000 words) and poetry (3-5 pages) for writers yet to have published a book; $24 fee per entry includes subscription]

Red Cedar Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, flash fictions, creative nonfiction, poetry, graphic narratives, hybrid/cross genre

_April 5_ th

Defenestration – fiction and poetry reading period ENDS [nonfiction open year-round]13th

_April 9_ th

Goblin Fruit – reading period BEGINS [poetry "of the fantastical"]

_April 14_ th

 Contemporary Verse 2-The 2 Day Poetry Contest – reading period ENDS @ 11:59 [poetry using 10 words the journal gives on midnight of Saturday the 13th, with only 2 days to write the poems; $16 entry fee, or $26 with a subscription; $500, $300, $200 prizes]

_April 15_ th

Blackbird – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, drama, poetry]

Chautauqua Literary Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, book reviews, poetry]

Cider Press Review Editor's Prize book award – reading period BEGINS [book-length poetry manuscript]

The Cincinnati Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, reviews, translations, poetry, art]

The Country Dog Review-The Argos Prize – reading period ENDS [poetry; $500 prize; $10 fee for each entry of 3 poems]

Ecotone – reading period ENDS [fiction, novel or memoir excerpts, nonfiction, poetry]

 Epoch – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Florida English – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, interviews, book reviews]

Frogpond – reading period ENDS [haiku, haibun, rengay, renku, essays, book reviews]

Ghost Town – reading period ENDS [fiction, flash fiction, narrative nonfiction, poetry]

The Idaho Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry; longer work: query first]

Meridian – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The Normal School –reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, recipes]

The Normal School-Normal Prize in Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry – reading period ENDS [$1000 prize in each category; fiction, nonfiction up to 10087 words, poetry up to 5 poems, up to five pages total; $20 fee per entry

Phoebe – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Polyphony H. S. – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry from high school students]

A Public Space – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Salmagundi Magazine – reading period ENDS [fiction, personal essays, cultural criticism, poetry]

Shadowbox – reading period ENDS creative nonfiction][K's Note: Click on the dice for the guidelines. But you can't actually submit directly from Shadowbox's site. You need to go through [Tell It Slant's site]

The Spoon River Poetry Review-Editor's Prize – reading period ENDS [$1000, two $100 prizes for poetry; $20 entry fee for up to 3 poems (maximum 10 pages) includes subscription]

Subtropics – reading period ENDS [fiction, flash fiction, novel excerpts, essays, poetry, translations]

Western Humanities Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, hybrid]

_April 20_ th

Defenestration – fiction and poetry reading period BEGINS [nonfiction open year-round]

_April 24_ th

Foliate Oak Literary Magazine – reading period ENDS [flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

_April 26_ th

Iron Horse Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, essays, poetry]

_April 30_ st

Adanna Journal reading period ENDS [women only: poetry, fiction, drama, book reviews, interviews]

American Literary Review – reading period ENDS [poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction]

 American Short(er) Fiction Prize – reading period ENDS [fiction]

Arsenic Lobster \- reading period ENDS [poetry, essays & reviews on poetry]

Bateau Lit Mag – reading period ENDS [flash fiction, flack nonfiction, playlets, poetry]

Crab Orchard Review – Winter/Spring issue reading period ENDS [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, interviews (query first)]

Cumberland River Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, essays, poetry, art]

Drafthorse – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, visual art]

International Poetry Review – reading period ENDS [poetry in translation]

The Ledge-3013 Poetry Award Competition – reading period ENDS [poetry; $1000, $250, $100 prizes; $12 entry fee for first three poems, $6 each additional poem]

Many Mountains Moving – print edition reading period ENDS [fiction, essays, drama, poetry]

New Millennium Writings – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

New South – reading period ENDS [fiction, flash fiction, essays, poetry]

Nimrod Literary Awards – reading period ENDS [$2000, $1000 prizes in fiction (to 7500 words) and poetry (3-10 pages) categories; $20 fee per entry]

Obsidian – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, critical essays, drama, poetry "from within, about, and contextualizing the African Diaspora"]

Palabra – reading period ENDS [fiction, flash fiction, novel excerpts, drama, hybrid]

Pear Noir! – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art & photography]

Salamander – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, memoir, poetry]

Segue – reading period ENDS [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Southern Indiana Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction, reviews, interviews, poetry, art & photography

SpringGun Press – reading period ENDS [fiction, poetry (book reviews, interviews, art & electronic literature = year-round)]

Stickman Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Stone Highway Review – reading period ENDS [flash fiction, flash nonfiction (both up to 750 words), poetry]

# May

_May 1_ st

A cappella Zoo reading period continues. [Magical Realism fiction, poetry, drama]

The Adirondack Review – Fulton Prize for Short Fiction – reading period CONTINUES [fiction]

Adventum – reading period CONTINUES [haiku, creative nonfiction, essays, and memoir pieces]

Agni reading period CONTINUES [poetry, fiction, essays]

Alaska Quarterly Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, drama, poetry, photo essays, and literary nonfiction]

The American Poetry Journal – reading period CONTINUES [poetry, poetry reviews, essays on poetry]

The Antioch Review – fiction and nonfiction reading period CONTINUES; poetry reading period ENDS.

Arc Poetry Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [poetry, essays, reviews]

 Aries – reading period BEGINS [fiction, creative nonfiction, essays, one-act plays, poetry, black & white art from North Carolina artists and writers]

Armchair Shotgun – reading period BEGINS [fiction, reviews, essays, poetry]

Arroyo Literary Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, personal essays and memoir, translations, drama.

Artful Dodge – reading period ENDS [fiction, narrative essay, poetry, translations]

Arts & Letters Prime Poetry Prize – reading period BEGINS [poetry]

Ashville Poetry Review – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

Assaracus – reading period BEGINS [LGBT poetry]

Baltimore Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Barnwood – reading period CONTINUES [poetry; _K's NOTE: the link wasn't working the last time I tried it, so good luck_ ]

Bateau Press Keel Short Short Fiction Chapbook Contest – reading period CONTINUES [ 20-30 pages]

Bayou Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Bellevue Literary Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry "related to our themes of health, healing, illness, the mind, and the body"]

Bellevue Literary Review Literary Prizes – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry categories "award outstanding writing related to our themes of health, healing, illness, the mind, and the body"]

The Bitter Oleander – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry]

The Bitter Oleander Library of Poetry Book Award – reading period BEGINS [48-80 page poetry manuscript]

Black Lantern Publishing – reading period ENDS [macabre fiction, poetry]

Blood and Thunder – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry about healthcare-related issues]

Blood Orange Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Bloodroot Literary Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [literary fiction, poetry (free verse and sonnets only]

The Blue Pencil – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama by writers aged 12–18]

Bomb Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry]

Booth Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, comics]

Boston Review – fiction reading period CONTINUES [nonfiction, poetry read year-round]

Boulevard Magazine – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Bound Off – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction in audio]

Brilliant Corners – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Brink Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, one-act plays, dramatic or novel sections, interviews, translations]

Callalo – reading period CONTINUES [scholarly articles, book reviews, interviews, nonfiction essays, short fiction, poetry, and visual art by and for African Americans]

Carbon Copy Magazine – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, short drama, art]

Cider Press Review Editor's Prize book award – reading period CONTINUES [book-length poetry manuscript]

Columbia Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The Comstock Review- Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award – reading period BEGINS [poetry. $5 entry fee per poem; 40 pages per poem maximum; Cash awards are $1000, $250, and $100]

Confrontation Magazine – reading period CONTINUESS [fiction, nonfiction, memoir, poetry, drama]

Connecticut Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, essays, poetry, interviews, translations, art]

Contemporary Haibun – reading period CONTINUES [haibun poetry]

Court Green – reading period CONTINUES [poetry, and "creative responses to the work, life, and legacy of James Schuyler"]

Crab Orchard Review-Literary Contests – reading period CONTINUES [$2000 prizes in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction; $20.00 (post) or $22.50 (online) fee per entry, limit 3 entries]

Crazyhorse – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Cutthroat – online edition reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, poetry]

Defenestration – fiction and poetry reading period CONTINUES [nonfiction open year-round]

Ducts – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, memoir, poetry, humor, reviews, profiles, drama]

Essays and Fictions – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays]

 Exit 7 – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Fairy Tale Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, essays, poetry, drama, comics]

Field – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

Field Poetry Prize – reading period BEGINS [poetry manuscript between 50-80 pages; $1000 prize [K's Note: I couldn't find any entry fee posted]

Fifth Wednesday Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, essays, poetry, b & w photography]

Flyway – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art "that delve into place or environment"]

Fourteen Hills – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, experimental/hybrid]

Free Verse Editions-The New Measure Poetry Prize – reading period BEGINS [manuscript of poetry; $1000 prize; $25 entry fee]

Fugue Journal – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Georgia Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, book reviews, poetry, graphics]

 Gertrude-Chapbook Contest – reading period CONTINUES [$100 award in fiction and poetry categories; 16-20 pages of fiction or poetry; $15 post / $17 online submission entry fees]

The Gettysburg Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, poetry]

Glass: a Journal of Poetry – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

Glimmer Train-Short Story Award for New Writers – reading period BEGINS [fiction from unpublished writers to 12000 words, $1500, $500, $300 prizes; $15 fee per entry (limit 3)]

Goblin Fruit – reading period CONTINUES [poetry "of the fantastical"]

Halfway Down the Stairs – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

 Harvard Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, short drama, poetry]

The Healing Muse – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry "particularly but not exclusively focusing on themes of medicine and healing"]

The Hopkins Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Hotel Amerika – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The Hudson Review – reading period CONTINUES [poetry only]

Interim Magazine – reading period ENDS [fiction, essays, reviews, poetry)

Jelly Bucket – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Kestrel – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The Laurel Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, essays, reviews, poetry]

Lit Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The Literary Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, essays, poetry, translations]

Mascara Literary Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, essays, reviews, poetry, translations]

The Massachusetts Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translations]

Mayday – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, reviews, poetry, translations, graphic narrative, visual art]

 The Meadowland Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry, art & photography]

The Medulla Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, poetry]

Midway Journal – reading period ENDS [fiction, flash fiction, sudden fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

The Muse – reading period CONTINUES [poetry, research papers]

Nashville Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

New England Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, drama, poetry, translation]

New Letters – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

New Ohio Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

New Plains Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry "social commentary"]

The New Renaissance-The Louise E. Reynolds Memorial Fiction Awards – reading period CONTINUES [fiction from 2-36 pages; $500, $250, $100, $50 prizes; $16.50 entry fee ($11.50 for subscribers]

The New Renaissance-Poetry Award – reading period CONTINUES [3-6 one-page poems, 2-4 two-page poems, one long poem per submission; $250, $125, $50, $25 prizes; $16.50 fee per entry ($11.50 for subscribers]

Newport Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry, one-act plays]

Nimrod – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, poetry]

94 Creations – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction, one act plays, monologues, poetry, art]

North Carolina Literary Review – reading period ENDS [poetry only]

North Carolina Literary Review-James Applewhite Poetry Prize – reading period ENDS [$250 prize forpoetry by current or former N. Carolina residents only; $15 entry fee for 3 poems/$20 for 5 poems – no fee for subscribers/members]

 North Dakota Quarterly – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Notre Dame Review-Sandeen Prize in Poetry – reading period BEGINS [poetry manuscript by a poet that has published at least one collection of poems; $1000 prize, $500 award, and a $500 advance; $15 reading fee]

Notre Dame Review-Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction – reading period BEGINS [short story manuscript by a writer that has published at least one collection of stories; $1000 prize, $500 award, and a $500 advance; $15 reading fee]

One Story – reading period CONTINUES [fiction]

Orange Coast Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, narrative nonfiction, poetry, art]

 Otis Nebula-Poetry Prize – reading period CONTINUES [$250 prize for a book length poetry collection, $50 runner-up; $15 reading fee]

Ozone Park Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, drama, poetry, translations, art]

Pearl – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry, b & w art]

Pearl-Poetry Prize – reading period BEGINS [$1000 prize for a poetry manuscript 48-64 pages; $25 entry fee]

Pearl-Short Story Prize – reading period BEGINS [$250 prize for fiction up to 4000 words; $10 entry fee]

 Peregrine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry]

Pleides – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, poetry]

Poetica Magazine-Annual Chapbook Contest – reading period BEGINS [$250 and five $100 runner-up prizes; 16-24 pages of poetry; $15 entry fee]

Potomac Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Printer's Devil Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Prune Juice – reading period CONTINUES [senryu, kyoka poetry]

The Quotable – reading period ENDS [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, art]

Red Cedar Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fictions, creative nonfiction, poetry, graphic narratives, hybrid/cross genre

Red Rock Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

 Red Wheelbarrow – student submission reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, drama, poetry, art & photography, comics]

Redivider-The Beacon Street Prize – reading period CONTINUES [$500 prizes in fiction (up to 8000 words) and poetry (up to 3) categories; $15 entry fee]

Relief – reading period BEGINS [Christian fiction, poetry]

 Review Americana – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, craft essays, writing education essays, drama, poetry]

Rhino – reading period CONTINUES [flash fiction, poetry, translations]

A River & Sound – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, humor, translation]

River Styx – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, essays poetry, translations, art]

River Teeth – reading period CONTINUES [creative nonfiction, "narrative reportage," essays, memoirs]

Saint Ann's Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, novel excerpts nonfiction, drama, poetry, translations]

Saranac Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, hybrid, translation]

Seneca Review – reading period ENDS [nonfiction essays, poetry]

Sewanee Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Sibling Rivalry Press – reading period CONTINUES [poetry – particularly LGBT]

 Southern Poetry Review-Guy Owen Award – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prize for poetry; $20 entry fee (3-5 poems up to 10 pages) includes subscriptions]

 The Southhampton Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, novellas, nonfiction, drama & screenplays, poetry, art & photography]

Southwest Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction articles, poetry]

The Sow's Ear-Chapbook Competition – reading period ENDS [$1000 prize for 22-26 pages of poetry; $27 entry fee]

Spinning Jenny – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

Spout Press – reading period ENDS [fiction, essays, opinion, poetry, art, cartoons]

StoryQuarterly – reading period ENDS [fiction, creative nonfiction]

storySouth – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry "by writers from the new south"]

Suspence Magazine Writing Contest – reading period CONTINUES [Twelve books (some autographed) from each of the authors of the month for 2012, $50 Amazon gift card, $25 gift card prizes for suspence/mystery/thiller fiction between 1500-4000 words]

10X3 Plus – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

10,000 Tons of Black Ink – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction]

Texas Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Thin Air Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Three Coyotes – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, novel excerpts, nonfiction, essays, poetry, art]

The Threepenny Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, critical articles, "Table Talk," poetry]

Thrice Fiction – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, fiction that "may also be poetry]

Tifaret-Writing Contest – reading period CONTINUES [$400 prizes in fiction, essay/interview (both up to 20 pages), poetry categories; $20 fee per entry (1 prose, or up to 6 poems)]

Tin House – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, interviews, poetry; open theme and "Lost & Founds about the Wild" theme accepted]

Toasted Cheese-A Midsummer Tale Contest – reading period CONTINUES [theme fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction; prizes are Amazon giftcards, with amounts dependant on how many entries are received; no entry fee]

Trachodon – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction and art exploring "artisian culture"]

TriQuarterly Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, drama, poetry, hybrid; reviews or interviews: query first]

 2 Bridges Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

U. S. 1 Worksheets – reading period CONTINUES [flash fiction, poetry]

Verse Wisconson – reading period CONTINUES [essays, book reviews, interviews, poetry]

Vestal Review – reading period CONTINUES [flash fiction]

Vine Leaves Literary Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry in vignettes]

Wag's Revue – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, interviews, poems]

Watershed – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction articles, personal essays, poetry, photography "All work must have a strong sense of place, and in some way bring to mind the Susquehanna region"]

Weave Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, drama, art]

West Marin Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Whiskey Island – reading period ENDS [fiction, poetry]

Willow Springs – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The Worchester Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, literary articles, poetry, art & photography]

Zoetrope-All Story – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, one-act plays]

_May 3_ rd

The Blue Pencil – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama by writers aged 12–18]

Crab Orchard Review-Literary Contests – reading period ENDS [$2000 prizes in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction; $20.00 (post) or $22.50 (online) fee per entry, limit 3 entries]

_May 8_ th

Ozone Park Journal – reading period ENDS [fiction, creative nonfiction, drama, poetry, translations, art]

_May 10_ th

The Muse – reading period ENDS [poetry, research papers]

_May 14_ th

Connecticut Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, essays, poetry, interviews, translations, art]

_May 15_ th

Adventum – reading period ENDS [haiku, creative nonfiction, essays, and memoir pieces]

Alaska Quarterly Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, drama, poetry, photo essays, and literary nonfiction]

Blood and Thunder – reading period ENDS [fiction, poetry about healthcare-related issues]

Brilliant Corners – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Breakwater Review Poetry Contest – reading period ENDS [1 poem]

Confrontation Magazine – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, memoir, poetry, drama]

Denver Quarterly – reading period BEGINS [fiction, essays, interviews, reviews, poetry]

Georgia Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, essays, book reviews, poetry, graphics]

 Gertrude-Chapbook Contest – reading period ENDS [$100 award in fiction and poetry categories; 16-20 pages of fiction or poetry; $15 post / $17 online submission entry fees]

Halfway Down the Stairs – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

 Hippocampus Magazine-Remember in November Contest for Creative Nonfiction – reading period BEGINS [personal essays and memoir excerpts up to 3500 words; $150, $75, $50, $10, $5 prizes; $10 fee per entry, with $1 going to the Alzheimer's Association]

Inscape Magazine – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry)

 Otis Nebula-Poetry Prize – reading period ENDS [$250 prize for a book length poetry collection, $50 runner-up; $15 reading fee]

 Peregrine – reading period ENDS [fiction, poetry]

Pleides – reading period ENDS [fiction, essays, poetry]

 Red Wheelbarrow – student submission reading period ENDS [fiction, creative nonfiction, drama, poetry, art & photography, comics]

Salamander-Fiction Prize – reading period BEGINS [$1500 prize for fiction up to 35 pages; $15 entry fee]

Salt Hill Journal-Philip Booth Poetry Prize – reading period BEGINS [$500 prize; $15 entry fee for up to 3 poems]

Saranac Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, hybrid, translation]

Shadowbox – reading period BEGINS creative nonfiction][K's Note: Click on the dice for the guidelines. But you can't actually submit directly from Shadowbox's site. You need to go through [Tell It Slant's site]

Spinning Jenny – reading period ENDS [poetry]

_May 18_ th

New Letters-Literary Awards – reading period ENDS [$1500 prizes in: The New Letters Prize for Poetry, the Dorothy Churchill Cappon Prize for the Essay, and The Alexander Patterson Cappon Prize for fiction; fiction, nonfiction up to 8000 words, six poems; $15 for first entry, $10 each additional entry]

_May 30_ th

Baltimore Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Barnwood – reading period ENDS [poetry; _K's NOTE: the link wasn't working the last time I tried it, so good luck_ ]

 Red Ochre Literature-Chapbook Competition – reading period BEGINS [3 prizes for fiction, nonfiction, or poetry between 25-80 pages; $15 entry fee][K's Note: the prize here is publication and copies; money raised from fees are donated to their "Southeast Asia fund"]

Redivider-The Beacon Street Prize – reading period ENDS [$500 prizes in fiction (up to 8000 words) and poetry (up to 3) categories; $15 entry fee]

_May 31_ st

Agni reading period ENDS [poetry, fiction, essays]

All Rights Reserved reading period Ends [poetry, short fiction, creative non-fiction, literary stories told through visual art/photography]

The American Poetry Journal – reading period ENDS [poetry, poetry reviews, essays on poetry]

American Poetry Review Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize reading period ENDS [poetry]

The Antioch Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, poetry]

Arc Poetry Magazine – reading period ENDS [poetry, essays, reviews]

Arroyo Literary Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, personal essays and memoir, translations, drama.

Artful Dodge – reading period ENDS [fiction, narrative essay, poetry, translations]

Assaracus – reading period ENDS [LGBT poetry]

Bateau Press Keel Short Short Fiction Chapbook Contest – reading period ENDS [20-30 pages]

Booth Journal – reading period ENDS [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, comics]

Callalo – reading period ENDS [scholarly articles, book reviews, interviews, nonfiction essays, short fiction, poetry, and visual art by and for African Americans]

Contemporary Haibun – reading period ENDS [haibun poetry]

Crazyhorse – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Essays and Fictions – reading period ENDS [fiction, essays]

Fairy Tale Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, creative nonfiction, essays, poetry, drama, comics]

Field – reading period ENDS [poetry]

Field Poetry Prize – reading period ENDS [poetry manuscript between 50-80 pages; $1000 prize [K's Note: I couldn't find any entry fee posted]

Fifth Wednesday Journal – reading period ENDS [fiction, creative nonfiction, essays, poetry, b & w photography]

Glass: a Journal of Poetry – reading period ENDS [poetry]

Glimmer Train-Short Story Award for New Writers – reading period ENDS [fiction from unpublished writers to 12000 words, $1500, $500, $300 prizes; $15 fee per entry (limit 3)]

The Hopkins Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

The Literary Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, essays, poetry, translations]

The Medulla Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, flash fiction, poetry]

Midway Journal – reading period ENDS [fiction, flash fiction, sudden fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

New England Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, drama, poetry, translation]

Pearl-Short Story Prize – reading period ENDS [$250 prize for fiction up to 4000 words; $10 entry fee]

Red Rock Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

A River & Sound – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, humor, translation]

River Teeth – reading period ENDS [creative nonfiction, "narrative reportage," essays, memoirs]

Southwest Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction articles, poetry]

Three Coyotes – reading period ENDS [fiction, novel excerpts, nonfiction, essays, poetry, art]

Thrice Fiction – reading period ENDS [fiction, flash fiction, fiction that "may also be poetry]

Tin House – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, interviews, poetry; open theme and "Lost & Founds about the Wild" theme accepted]

Trachodon – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction and art exploring "artisian culture"]

Verse Wisconson – reading period ENDS [essays, book reviews, interviews, poetry]

Vestal Review – reading period ENDS [flash fiction]

Vine Leaves Literary Journal – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry in vignettes]

Wag's Revue – reading period ENDS [fiction, essays, interviews, poems]

Weave Magazine – reading period ENDS [fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, drama, art]

Willow Springs – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

# June

_June 1_ st

A cappella Zoo reading period CONTINUES [Magical Realism fiction, poetry, drama]

The Adirondack Review – Fulton Prize for Short Fiction – reading period CONTINUES [fiction]

 Aries – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, essays, one-act plays, poetry, black & white art from North Carolina artists and writers]

Armchair Shotgun – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, reviews, essays, poetry]

Arts & Letters Prime Poetry Prize – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

Ashville Poetry Review – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

Bacoba Literary Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Barn Owl Review – reading period BEGINS [poetry]

Bat City Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Bayou Magazine – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Bellevue Literary Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry "related to our themes of health, healing, illness, the mind, and the body"]

Bellevue Literary Review Literary Prizes – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry categories "award outstanding writing related to our themes of health, healing, illness, the mind, and the body"]

The Bitter Oleander – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry]

The Bitter Oleander Library of Poetry Book Award – reading period BEGINS [48-80 page poetry manuscript]

Black Lantern Publishing – reading period BEGINS [macabre fiction, poetry]

Blood Orange Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Bloodroot Literary Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [literary fiction, poetry (free verse and sonnets only]

Bomb Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry]

Boston Review – fiction reading period CONTINUES [nonfiction, poetry read year-round]

Boulevard Magazine Poetry Contest – reading period ENDS [3 poems]

Bound Off – reading period ENDS [fiction, flash fiction in audio]

Brink Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, one-act plays, dramatic or novel sections, interviews, translations]

Caesura – non-Poetry Center San Jose member reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Carbon Copy Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, short drama, art]

Cider Press Review Editor's Prize book award – reading period CONTINUES [book-length poetry manuscript]

 The Cincinatti Review Robert and Adele Schiff Prose and Poetry Prizes – reading period BEGINS [$1000 prose (fiction or creative nonfiction) and poetry prizes. $26 per entry]

Columbia Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The Comstock Review- Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award – reading period BEGINS [poetry. $5 entry fee per poem; 40 pages per poem maximum; Cash awards are $1000, $250, and $100]

Consequence Magazine – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, interviews, art, reviews "primarily focused on the culture of war and social injustice"]

The Consequence Prize in Poetry – reading period BEGINS [submit 1-3 "poem(s) [that] should address the consequences of war." No entry fee]

Court Green – reading period CONTINUES [poetry, and "creative responses to the work, life, and legacy of James Schuyler"]

Cream City Review Annual Poetry and Fiction Contests – reading period BEGINS [$1000 prize in each category; $15 entry fee]

Cutthroat – online edition reading period ENDS [fiction, flash fiction, poetry]

Defenestration – fiction and poetry reading period CONTINUES [nonfiction open year-round]

Denver Quarterly – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, interviews, reviews, poetry]

Ducts – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, memoir, poetry, humor, reviews, profiles, drama]

Emerge Literary Journal – reading period BEGINS [fiction, flash fiction, poetry]

Epiphany Editions Fiction Chapbook Contest – reading period BEGINS [18-40 pages of fiction; $17 fee per entry includes Book Kit of winning entry and subscription to Epiphany Journal]

Fourteen Hills – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, experimental/hybrid]

Free Verse Editions-The New Measure Poetry Prize – reading period CONTINUES [manuscript of poetry; $1000 prize; $25 entry fee]

Frogpond – reading period BEGINS [haiku, haibun, rengay, renku, essays, book reviews]

The Gettysburg Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, essays, poetry]

Gigantic Sequins – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Glimmer Train-Fiction Open – reading period BEGINS [fiction 2000-20000 words, $2500, $1000, $600 prizes; $19 fee per entry (limit 3)]

Goblin Fruit – reading period ENDS [poetry "of the fantastical"]

Grain Magazine – reading period BEGINS [fiction, literary nonfiction, poetry]

Halfway Down the Stairs – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

 Hippocampus Magazine-Remember in November Contest for Creative Nonfiction – reading period CONTINUES [personal essays and memoir excerpts up to 3500 words; $150, $75, $50, $10, $5 prizes; $10 fee per entry, with $1 going to the Alzheimer's Association]

The Hudson Review – reading period CONTINUES [poetry only]

Inscape Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry)

Jelly Bucket – reading period ENDS [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Kestrel – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Mascara Literary Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, reviews, poetry, translations]

 The Meadowland Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, poetry, art & photography]

The Museum of Americana – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, American Songbook, art & photography; query first for reviews and interviews]

Nashville Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

New Plains Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry "social commentary"]

The New Poet – reading period BEGINS [poetry]

The New Renaissance-The Louise E. Reynolds Memorial Fiction Awards – reading period CONTINUES [fiction from 2-36 pages; $500, $250, $100, $50 prizes; $16.50 entry fee ($11.50 for subscribers]

The New Renaissance-Poetry Award – reading period CONTINUES [3-6 one-page poems, 2-4 two-page poems, one long poem per submission; $250, $125, $50, $25 prizes; $16.50 fee per entry ($11.50 for subscribers]

Newport Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry, one-act plays]

Nimrod – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, poetry]

94 Creations – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction, one act plays, monologues, poetry, art]

Notre Dame Review-Sandeen Prize in Poetry – reading period BEGINS [poetry manuscript by a poet that has published at least one collection of poems; $1000 prize, $500 award, and a $500 advance; $15 reading fee]

Notre Dame Review-Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction – reading period BEGINS [short story manuscript by a writer that has published at least one collection of stories; $1000 prize, $500 award, and a $500 advance; $15 reading fee]

One Story – reading period CONTINUES [fiction]

Orange Coast Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, narrative nonfiction, poetry, art]

Passager – reading period BEGINS [poetry from writers over 50]

Pearl – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry, b & w art]

Pearl-Poetry Prize – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prize for a poetry manuscript 48-64 pages; $25 entry fee]

Ploughshares – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Poetica Magazine-Annual Chapbook Contest – reading period CONTINUES [$250 and five $100 runner-up prizes; 16-24 pages of poetry; $15 entry fee]

Post Road – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, drama, monologues, poetry, visual art]

Printer's Devil Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Prune Juice – reading period CONTINUES [senryu, kyoka poetry]

The Quotable – reading period BEGINS [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, art]

Red Cedar Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fictions, creative nonfiction, poetry, graphic narratives, hybrid/cross genre

 Red Ochre Literature-Chapbook Competition – reading period CONTINUES [3 prizes for fiction, nonfiction, or poetry between 25-80 pages; $15 entry fee][K's Note: the prize here is publication and copies; money raised from fees are donated to their "Southeast Asia fund"]

Reed Magazine – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Reed Magazine-John Steinbeck Award – reading period BEGINS [$1000 prize for fiction up to 6000 words; $15 fee per entry]

Reed Magazine-Edwin Markham Prize in Poetry – reading period BEGINS [$1000 prize for poetry; $15 fee per entry of 3-5 poems]

Relief – reading period CONTINUES [Christian fiction, poetry]

 Review Americana – reading period ENDS [fiction, creative nonfiction, craft essays, writing education essays, drama, poetry]

Rhino – reading period CONTINUES [flash fiction, poetry, translations]

River Styx – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, essays poetry, translations, art]

Saint Ann's Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, novel excerpts nonfiction, drama, poetry, translations]

Salamander-Fiction Prize – reading period CONTINUES [$1500 prize for fiction up to 35 pages; $15 entry fee]

Salt Hill Journal-Philip Booth Poetry Prize – reading period CONTINUES [$500 prize; $15 entry fee for up to 3 poems]

Sewanee Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Shadowbox – reading period CONTINUES creative nonfiction][K's Note: Click on the dice for the guidelines. But you can't actually submit directly from Shadowbox's site. You need to go through [Tell It Slant's site]

Sibling Rivalry Press – reading period ENDS [poetry – particularly LGBT]

 Southern Poetry Review-Guy Owen Award – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prize for poetry; $20 entry fee (3-5 poems up to 10 pages) includes subscriptions]

 The Southhampton Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, novellas, nonfiction, drama & screenplays, poetry, art & photography]

The Stinging Fly – reading period BEGINS [fiction, novel excerpts, essays, book reviews, poetry "by Irish and international writers"]

Stone Highway Review – reading period BEGINS [flash fiction, flash nonfiction (both up to 750 words), poetry]

StoryQuarterly-Annual Fiction Contest – reading period BEGINS [$1000, $300, $200 prizes for fiction up to 8000 words; $18 entry fee includes subscription][K's Note: their website states both "Open to short stories and novel excerpts of 8,000 words or less" _and_ "No flash fiction, novel excerpts, previously published work or memoirs."]

storySouth – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry "by writers from the new south"]

Suspence Magazine Writing Contest – reading period CONTINUES [Twelve books (some autographed) from each of the authors of the month for 2012, $50 Amazon gift card, $25 gift card prizes for suspence/mystery/thiller fiction between 1500-4000 words]

10X3 Plus – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

10,000 Tons of Black Ink – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction]

Thin Air Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The Threepenny Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, critical articles, "Table Talk," poetry]

Tifaret-Writing Contest – reading period ENDS [$400 prizes in fiction, essay/interview (both up to 20 pages), poetry categories; $20 fee per entry (1 prose, or up to 6 poems)]

Toasted Cheese-A Midsummer Tale Contest – reading period CONTINUES [theme fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction; prizes are Amazon giftcards, with amounts dependant on how many entries are received; no entry fee]

TriQuarterly Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, drama, poetry, hybrid; reviews or interviews: query first]

 2 Bridges Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

U. S. 1 Worksheets – reading period CONTINUES [flash fiction, poetry]

Wag's Revue-Summer Writer's Contest – reading period BEGINS [$1000, $500, and $100 prizes in fiction, nonfiction (both up to 10000 words) and poetry (maximum 10 pages) categories; $22.09 fee per entry]

Watershed – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction articles, personal essays, poetry, photography "All work must have a strong sense of place, and in some way bring to mind the Susquehanna region"]

The Worchester Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, literary articles, poetry, art & photography]

Zoetrope-All Story – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, one-act plays]

_June 4_ th

94 Creations – reading period ENDS [fiction, flash fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction, one act plays, monologues, poetry, art]

_June 15_ th

The Bitter Oleander Library of Poetry Book Award – reading period ENDS [48-80 page poetry manuscript]

Boston Review – fiction reading period ENDS [nonfiction, poetry read year-round]

Grist – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Pen America – reading period BEGINS [fiction, personal and lyric essays, memoirs, drama, poetry]

Prune Juice – reading period ENDS [senryu, kyoka poetry]

Salamander-Fiction Prize – reading period ENDS [$1500 prize for fiction up to 35 pages; $15 entry fee]

 Southern Poetry Review-Guy Owen Award – reading period ENDS [$1000 prize for poetry; $20 entry fee (3-5 poems up to 10 pages) includes subscriptions]

storySouth – reading period E NDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry "by writers from the new south"]

_June 21_ st

Toasted Cheese-A Midsummer Tale Contest – reading period ENDS [theme fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction; prizes are Amazon giftcards, with amounts dependant on how many entries are received; no entry fee]

_June 30_ th

A cappella Zoo reading period ENDS. [Magical Realism fiction, poetry, drama]

The Asian American Literary Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction by Asian Americans]

Barrow Street Press – contest ENDS [unpublished poetry manuscript (50-70 pages)]

Bellevue Literary Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry "related to our themes of health, healing, illness, the mind, and the body"]

The Bitter Oleander – reading period ENDS [fiction, poetry]

Brink Magazine – reading period ENDS [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, one-act plays, dramatic or novel sections, interviews, translations]

Cider Press Review Editor's Prize book award – reading period ENDS [book-length poetry manuscript]

Court Green – reading period ENDS [poetry, and "creative responses to the work, life, and legacy of James Schuyler"]

Free Verse Editions-The New Measure Poetry Prize – reading period ENDS [manuscript of poetry; $1000 prize; $25 entry fee]

Glimmer Train-Fiction Open – reading period ENDS [fiction 2000-20000 words, $2500, $1000, $600 prizes; $19 fee per entry (limit 3)]

The Hudson Review – reading period ENDS [poetry only]

The Museum of Americana – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, American Songbook, art & photography; query first for reviews and interviews]

The New Renaissance-The Louise E. Reynolds Memorial Fiction Awards – reading period ENDS [fiction from 2-36 pages; $500, $250, $100, $50 prizes; $16.50 entry fee ($11.50 for subscribers]

The New Renaissance-Poetry Award – reading period ENDS [3-6 one-page poems, 2-4 two-page poems, one long poem per submission; $250, $125, $50, $25 prizes; $16.50 fee per entry ($11.50 for subscribers]

Pearl – reading period ENDS [fiction, poetry, b & w art]

Pearl-Poetry Prize – reading period ENDS [$1000 prize for a poetry manuscript 48-64 pages; $25 entry fee]

 Red Ochre Literature-Chapbook Competition – reading period ENDS [3 prizes for fiction, nonfiction, or poetry between 25-80 pages; $15 entry fee][K's Note: the prize here is publication and copies; money raised from fees are donated to their "Southeast Asia fund"]

The Stinging Fly – reading period ENDS [fiction, novel excerpts, essays, book reviews, poetry "by Irish and international writers"]

The Threepenny Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, critical articles, "Table Talk," poetry]

U. S. 1 Worksheets – reading period ENDS [flash fiction, poetry]

# July

_July 1_ st _:_

Acorn – reading period begins [Haiku Poetry]

Amerarcana – reading period BEGINS [poetry, creative or critical prose]

Apt – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, reviews, essays, poetry]

 Aries – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, essays, one-act plays, poetry, black & white art from North Carolina artists and writers]

Armchair Shotgun – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, reviews, essays, poetry]

Arts & Letters Prime Poetry Prize – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

Ashville Poetry Review – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

The Asian American Literary Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction by Asian Americans]

Atlanta Review International Poetry Competition – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

Bacoba Literary Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Barn Owl Review – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

Bat City Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Big Muddy-Mighty River Short Story Contest – reading period CONTINUES [fiction]

Big Muddy-The Wilda Hearne Flash Fiction Contest – reading period CONTINUES [fiction]

Black Lantern Publishing – reading period CONTINUES [macabre fiction, poetry]

Black Warrior Review Contest – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry, and nonfiction categories]

Bloodroot Literary Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [literary fiction, poetry (free verse and sonnets only]

 Blueline – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry "relating to the Adirondacks and regions similar in geography and spirit"]

Boiler Journal First Annual 500 Flash Fiction Challenge – reading period CONTINUES [flash fiction up to 500 words]

Bomb Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry]

Boulevard Magazine Short Fiction Contest for Emerging Writers – reading period CONTINUES [fiction to 8000 words]

 Briar Cliff Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, humor, poetry]

The Broken Plate – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry from everyone; screenplays, art from Ball State undergraduates only]

Buddhist Poetry Review – reading period BEGINS [poetry on the theme of _sati_ (mindfulness)]

Caesura – Poetry Center San Jose member reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The Cape Rock Vern Cowles Prize for a Trinity of Poems – reading period CONTINUES [series of 3 poems]

Carbon Copy Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, short drama, art]

 The Cincinatti Review Robert and Adele Schiff Prose and Poetry Prizes – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prose (fiction or creative nonfiction) and poetry prizes. $26 per entry]

Columbia Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The Comstock Review- Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award – reading period ENDS [poetry. $5 entry fee per poem; 40 pages per poem maximum; Cash awards are $1000, $250, and $100]

Consequence Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, interviews, art, reviews "primarily focused on the culture of war and social injustice"]

The Consequence Prize in Poetry – reading period CONTINUES [submit 1-3 "poem(s) [that] should address the consequences of war." No entry fee]

Contemporary Haibun – reading period BEGINS [haibun poetry]

Copperdome Poetry Chapbook Competition – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

Crannog Literary Magazine – reading period BEGINS [fiction, poetry]

Cream City Review Annual Poetry and Fiction Contests – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prize in each category; $15 entry fee]

Defenestration – fiction and poetry reading period CONTINUES [nonfiction open year-round]

Denver Quarterly – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, interviews, reviews, poetry]

Ducts – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, memoir, poetry, humor, reviews, profiles, drama]

Emerge Literary Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, poetry]

Epiphany Editions Fiction Chapbook Contest – reading period CONTINUES [18-40 pages of fiction; $17 fee per entry includes Book Kit of winning entry and subscription to Epiphany Journal]

foam:e – reading period BEGINS [poetry]

Fourteen Hills – reading period ENDS [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, experimental/hybrid]

Frogpond – reading period CONTINUES [haiku, haibun, rengay, renku, essays, book reviews]

Gigantic Sequins – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Glimmer Train – Standard reading period BEGINS fiction]; [Glimmer Train-Very Short Fiction Contest – reading period BEGINS [$1500, $500, $300 prizes; $15 fee per entry (limit 3)]

Grain Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, literary nonfiction, poetry]

Grist – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

 Gulf Coast Magazine's Barthelme Prize for Short Prose – reading period CONTINUES [flash fiction, prose poetry, essays up to 500 words]

Halfway Down the Stairs – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

 Hippocampus Magazine-Remember in November Contest for Creative Nonfiction – reading period CONTINUES [personal essays and memoir excerpts up to 3500 words; $150, $75, $50, $10, $5 prizes; $10 fee per entry, with $1 going to the Alzheimer's Association]

Inscape Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry)

Jonathan – reading period BEGINS [fiction by emerging and established gay, bisexual, and transgendered authors]

Kestrel – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Mascara Literary Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, reviews, poetry, translations]

 The Meadowland Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, poetry, art & photography]

The Medulla Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, flash fiction, poetry]

The Muse – reading period BEGINS [poetry, research papers]

Naugatuck River Review – contest reading period BEGINS [poetry up to 50 lines; $1000, $250, $100 prizes; $20 entry fee for 3 poems]

New Plains Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry "social commentary"]

The New Poet – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

Nilson Literary Prize for a First Novel – reading period CONTINUES [fiction novel, or series of interconnected short stories]

Nimrod – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, poetry]

Notre Dame Review-Sandeen Prize in Poetry – reading period BEGINS [poetry manuscript by a poet that has published at least one collection of poems; $1000 prize, $500 award, and a $500 advance; $15 reading fee]

Notre Dame Review-Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction – reading period BEGINS [short story manuscript by a writer that has published at least one collection of stories; $1000 prize, $500 award, and a $500 advance; $15 reading fee]

Orange Coast Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, narrative nonfiction, poetry, art]

Passager – reading period CONTINUES [poetry from writers over 50]

Pen America – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, personal and lyric essays, memoirs, drama, poetry]

Ploughshares – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Poetica Magazine-Annual Chapbook Contest – reading period CONTINUES [$250 and five $100 runner-up prizes; 16-24 pages of poetry; $15 entry fee]

Post Road – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, drama, monologues, poetry, visual art]

Prairie Wolf Press Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, art]

Printer's Devil Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Prune Juice – reading period BEGINS [senryu, kyoka poetry]

The Quotable – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, art]

Red Cedar Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fictions, creative nonfiction, poetry, graphic narratives, hybrid/cross genre

Reed Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Relief – reading period CONTINUES [Christian fiction, poetry]

 Review Americana – reading period BEGINS [fiction, creative nonfiction, craft essays, writing education essays, drama, poetry]

Rhino – reading period CONTINUES [flash fiction, poetry, translations]

Rhino-Founder's Prize – reading period BEGINS [$300, two $50 prizes for poetry "with a distinctive voice; $10 entry fee to submit 5 poems]

River Styx – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, essays poetry, translations, art]

Saint Ann's Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, novel excerpts nonfiction, drama, poetry, translations]

Salt Hill Journal-Philip Booth Poetry Prize – reading period CONTINUES [$500 prize; $15 entry fee for up to 3 poems]

Saw Palm – reading period BEGINS [fiction, creative nonfiction, reviews, interviews, poetry]

Shadowbox – reading period CONTINUES creative nonfiction][K's Note: Click on the dice for the guidelines. But you can't actually submit directly from Shadowbox's site. You need to go through [Tell It Slant's site]

Southword Journal – reading period BEGINS [poetry in English; prose, literary criticism in Irish]

Spillway – reading period BEGINS [poetry on the theme _"The Long & the Short of It"_]

Spiral Orb – reading period BEGINS [poetry]

SpringGun Press – reading period BEGINS [fiction (novels, novellas) & poetry manuscripts]

Stone Highway Review – reading period CONTINUES [flash fiction, flash nonfiction (both up to 750 words), poetry]

StoryQuarterly-Annual Fiction Contest – reading period CONTINUES [$1000, $300, $200 prizes for fiction up to 8000 words; $18 entry fee includes subscription][K's Note: their website states both "Open to short stories and novel excerpts of 8,000 words or less" _and_ "No flash fiction, novel excerpts, previously published work or memoirs."]

Suspence Magazine Writing Contest – reading period CONTINUES [Twelve books (some autographed) from each of the authors of the month for 2012, $50 Amazon gift card, $25 gift card prizes for suspence/mystery/thiller fiction between 1500-4000 words]

10X3 Plus – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

10,000 Tons of Black Ink – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction]

Thin Air Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

TriQuarterly Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, drama, poetry, hybrid; reviews or interviews: query first]

 2 Bridges Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Vine Leaves Literary Journal – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry in vignettes]

Wag's Revue-Summer Writer's Contest – reading period CONTINUES [$1000, $500, and $100 prizes in fiction, nonfiction (both up to 10000 words) and poetry (maximum 10 pages) categories; $22.09 fee per entry]

 West Wind Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The Worchester Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, literary articles, poetry, art & photography]

Zoetrope-All Story – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, one-act plays]

_July 2_ nd

Red Cedar Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, flash fictions, creative nonfiction, poetry, graphic narratives, hybrid/cross genre

_July 9_ th

Goblin Fruit – reading period BEGINS [poetry "of the fantastical"]

94 Creations – reading period BEGINS [fiction, flash fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction, one act plays, monologues, poetry, art]

_July 15_ th

Ashville Poetry Review – reading period ENDS [poetry]

Cutthroat – print edition reading period BEGINS [fiction, flash fiction, poetry]

Cutthroat-Joy Harjo Poetry Award & Rick DeMarinis Short Story Award – reading period BEGINS [$1250 & $250 prizes in both categories; $17 fee per entry]

The Lindenwood Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, personal essay, poetry]

TriQuarterly Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, drama, poetry, hybrid; reviews or interviews: query first]

_July 31_ st

 The Cincinatti Review Robert and Adele Schiff Prose and Poetry Prizes – reading period ENDS [$1000 prose (fiction or creative nonfiction) and poetry prizes. $26 per entry]

Crannog Literary Magazine – reading period ENDS [fiction, poetry]

Glimmer Train – Standard reading period ENDS fiction]; [Glimmer Train-Very Short Fiction Contest – reading period ENDS [$1500, $500, $300 prizes; $15 fee per entry (limit 3)]

Kestrel – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

 2 Bridges Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The Worchester Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, literary articles, poetry, art & photography]

# August

_August 1_ st _:_

Adventum – reading period BEGINS [haiku, creative nonfiction, essays, and memoir pieces]

Amerarcana – reading period CONTINUES [poetry, creative or critical prose]

Amoskeag Journal – reading period BEGINS [Theme: Identity; fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction]

 The Antigonish Great Blue Heron Poetry Contest – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

Apt – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, reviews, essays, poetry]

 Aries – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, essays, one-act plays, poetry, black & white art from North Carolina artists and writers]

Armchair Shotgun – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, reviews, essays, poetry]

Arts & Letters Prime Poetry Prize – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

The Asian American Literary Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction by Asian Americans]

Asymptote Journal – special reading period CONTINUES [poetry that explores foreignness]

Atlanta Review International Poetry Competition – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

Bacoba Literary Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Barn Owl Review – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

Bat City Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Beloit Fiction Journal – reading period BEGINS [literary fiction]

Big Muddy Mighty River Short Story Contest – reading period CONTINUES [fiction]

Big Muddy-The Wilda Hearne Flash Fiction Contest – reading period CONTINUES [fiction]

The Bitter Oleander – reading period BEGINS [fiction, poetry]

Black Lantern Publishing – reading period ENDS [macabre fiction, poetry]

Black Warrior Review Contest – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry, and nonfiction categories]

Bloodroot Literary Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [literary fiction, poetry (free verse and sonnets only]

 Blueline – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry "relating to the Adirondacks and regions similar in geography and spirit"]

Boiler Journal First Annual 500 Flash Fiction Challenge – reading period CONTINUES [flash fiction up to 500 words]

Bomb Magazine's literary supplement First Proof – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry]

Boulevard Magazine Short Fiction Contest for Emerging Writers – reading period CONTINUES [fiction to 8000 words]

 Briar Cliff Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, humor, poetry]

Broad River Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Broad River Review Rash Awards Contest – reading period BEGINS [fiction, poetry]

The Broken Plate – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry from everyone; screenplays, art from Ball State undergraduates only]

Buddhist Poetry Review – reading period BEGINS [poetry on the theme of _sati_ (mindfulness)]

Carbon Copy Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, short drama, art]

The Cape Rock Vern Cowles Prize for a Trinity of Poems – reading period CONTINUES [series of 3 poems]

Coal Hill Review – reading period BEGINS [poetry; K's Note: all submissions must come through their Annual Contest, including a $20 entry fee / $1000 prize]

Columbia Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Columbia Poetry Review – reading period BEGINS [poetry]

The Comstock Review-Jessie Bryce Niles Chapbook Competition – reading period BEGINS [25-34 pages of poetry at 38 lines/page maximum; $25 entry fee]

Consequence Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, interviews, art, reviews "primarily focused on the culture of war and social injustice"]

The Consequence Prize in Poetry – reading period CONTINUES [submit 1-3 "poem(s) [that] should address the consequences of war." No entry fee]

Contemporary Haibun – reading period CONTINUES [haibun poetry]

Copperdome Poetry Chapbook Competition – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

The Cream City Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Cream City Review Annual Poetry and Fiction Contests – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prize in each category; $15 entry fee]

Cutthroat – print edition reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, poetry]

Cutthroat-Joy Harjo Poetry Award & Rick DeMarinis Short Story Award – reading period CONTINUES [$1250 & $250 prizes in both categories; $17 fee per entry]

Defenestration – fiction and poetry reading period CONTINUES [nonfiction open year-round]

Denver Quarterly – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, interviews, reviews, poetry]

Dogwood – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Dogwood-Contest – reading period BEGINS [$1000 grand prize for best entry in fiction, nonfiction, or poetry, $250 for the other two genres; $15 fee per entry]

Drafthorse – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, visual art]

Ducts – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, memoir, poetry, humor, reviews, profiles, drama]

Ellipsis – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Emerge Literary Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, poetry]

Emrys Journal – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Epiphany Editions Fiction Chapbook Contest – reading period CONTINUES [18-40 pages of fiction; $17 fee per entry includes Book Kit of winning entry and subscription to Epiphany Journal]

 Exit 7 – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Field – reading period BEGINS [poetry]

Fifth Wednesday Journal – reading period BEGINS [fiction, creative nonfiction, essays, poetry, b & w photography]

foam:e – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

Foliate Oak Literary Magazine – reading period BEGINS [flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Frogpond – reading period ENDS [haiku, haibun, rengay, renku, essays, book reviews]

Ghost Town – reading period BEGINS [fiction, flash fiction, narrative nonfiction, poetry]

Gigantic Sequins – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Glimmer Train-Short Story Award for New Writers – reading period BEGINS [fiction from unpublished writers to 12000 words, $1500, $500, $300 prizes; $15 fee per entry (limit 3)]

Goblin Fruit – reading period CONTINUES [poetry "of the fantastical"]

Grain Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, literary nonfiction, poetry]

Grist – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Halfway Down the Stairs – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

 Hippocampus Magazine-Remember in November Contest for Creative Nonfiction – reading period CONTINUES [personal essays and memoir excerpts up to 3500 words; $150, $75, $50, $10, $5 prizes; $10 fee per entry, with $1 going to the Alzheimer's Association]

Inkwell – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Inscape Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry)

jabberwock review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, poetry]

Jet Fuel Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, reviews, poetry]

Jonathan – reading period CONTINUES [fiction by emerging and established gay, bisexual, and transgendered authors]

Kenyon Review-Earthworks Prize for Indigenous Poetry – reading period BEGINS ["first or second collection of poems by an Indigenous writer" 50-70 pages of poetry; $1000 prize; no entry fee]

The Lindenwood Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, personal essay, poetry]

Lumina Journal – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Mascara Literary Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, reviews, poetry, translations]

 The Meadowland Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry, art & photography]

The Medulla Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, poetry]

 The Minnesota Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, critical nonfiction, reviews, interviews, poetry]

Mississippi Review Prize – reading period BEGINS [$1000 prizes in fiction (1000-8000 words), and poetry (up to 10 pages); $15 fee per entry)

The Muse – reading period CONTINUES [poetry, research papers]

Naugatuck River Review – contest reading period CONTINUES [poetry up to 50 lines; $1000, $250, $100 prizes; $20 entry fee for 3 poems]

New Plains Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry "social commentary"]

The New Poet – reading period ENDS [poetry]

Newport Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry, one-act plays]

Nilson Literary Prize for a First Novel – reading period CONTINUES [fiction novel, or series of interconnected short stories]

Nimrod – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, poetry]

94 Creations – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction, one act plays, monologues, poetry, art]

Notre Dame Review-Sandeen Prize in Poetry – reading period BEGINS [poetry manuscript by a poet that has published at least one collection of poems; $1000 prize, $500 award, and a $500 advance; $15 reading fee]

Notre Dame Review-Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction – reading period BEGINS [short story manuscript by a writer that has published at least one collection of stories; $1000 prize, $500 award, and a $500 advance; $15 reading fee]

Octopus Magazine – reading period BEGINS [poetry, book reviews, "Recovery Projects" (reviews of out of print books)]

Orange Coast Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, narrative nonfiction, poetry, art]

Oyez – reading period BEGINS [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, art]

Passager – reading period CONTINUES [poetry from writers over 50]

Pear Noir! – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art & photography]

Pen America – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, personal and lyric essays, memoirs, drama, poetry]

Ploughshares – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Poetica Magazine-Annual Chapbook Contest – reading period CONTINUES [$250 and five $100 runner-up prizes; 16-24 pages of poetry; $15 entry fee]

Post Road – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, drama, monologues, poetry, art]

Prairie Wolf Press Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, art]

Printer's Devil Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Prune Juice – reading period CONTINUES [senryu, kyoka poetry]

The Quotable – reading period ENDS [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, art]

 Redheaded Stepchild – reading period BEGINS ["poems that have been rejected by other magazines"]

Reed Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Reed Magazine-John Steinbeck Award – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prize for fiction up to 6000 words; $15 fee per entry]

Reed Magazine-Edwin Markham Prize in Poetry – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prize for poetry; $15 fee per entry of 3-5 poems]

Relief – reading period ENDS [Christian fiction, poetry]

 Review Americana – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, craft essays, writing education essays, drama, poetry]

Rhino – reading period CONTINUES [flash fiction, poetry, translations]

Rhino-Founder's Prize – reading period CONTINUES [$300, two $50 prizes for poetry "with a distinctive voice; $10 entry fee to submit 5 poems]

A River & Sound – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, humor, translation]

River Styx – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, essays poetry, translations, art]

Salt Hill Journal – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Salt Hill Journal-Philip Booth Poetry Prize – reading period ENDS [$500 prize; $15 entry fee for up to 3 poems]

Saw Palm – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, reviews, interviews, poetry]

Shadowbox – reading period CONTINUES creative nonfiction][K's Note: Click on the dice for the guidelines. But you can't actually submit directly from Shadowbox's site. You need to go through [Tell It Slant's site]

 SLAB – reading period BEGINS [fiction, creative nonfiction, "text-based graphic art"]

Snail Mail Review – reading period BEGINS [flash fiction, poetry]

Southword Journal – reading period CONTINUES [poetry in English; prose, literary criticism in Irish]

Spillway – reading period CONTINUES [poetry on the theme _"The Long & the Short of It"_]

Spiral Orb – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

SpringGun Press – reading period CONTINUES [fiction (novels, novellas) & poetry manuscripts]

Stickman Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Stone Highway Review – reading period CONTINUES [flash fiction, flash nonfiction (both up to 750 words), poetry]

StoryQuarterly-Annual Fiction Contest – reading period CONTINUES [$1000, $300, $200 prizes for fiction up to 8000 words; $18 entry fee includes subscription][K's Note: their website states both "Open to short stories and novel excerpts of 8,000 words or less" _and_ "No flash fiction, novel excerpts, previously published work or memoirs."]

Suspence Magazine Writing Contest – reading period CONTINUES [Twelve books (some autographed) from each of the authors of the month for 2012, $50 Amazon gift card, $25 gift card prizes for suspence/mystery/thiller fiction between 1500-4000 words]

Sycamore Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Sycamore Review-Wabash Prize for Nonfiction – reading period BEGINS [$1000 prize for nonfiction up to 7500 words; $15 entry fee includes subscription]

Sycamore Review-Wabash Prize for Poetry – reading period BEGINS [$1000 prize for poetry; $15 entry fee per 3 poems (up to 6 pages) includes subscription, $5 each additional poem]

Sycamore Review-Wabash Prize for Fiction – reading period BEGINS [$1000 prize for fiction up to 7500 words; $15 entry fee includes subscription]

Talking River – reading period BEGINS [fiction, creative nonfiction, book reviews, poetry]

10X3 Plus – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

10,000 Tons of Black Ink – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction]

Thin Air Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Thrice Fiction – reading period BEGINS [fiction, flash fiction, fiction that "may also be poetry]

Tidal Basin Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Timber – reading period BEGINS [fiction, poetry]

Vestal Review – reading period BEGINS [flash fiction]

Vine Leaves Literary Journal – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry in vignettes]

Waccamaw Journal – reading period BEGINS [fiction, essays, poetry]

Wag's Revue-Summer Writer's Contest – reading period CONTINUES [$1000, $500, and $100 prizes in fiction, nonfiction (both up to 10000 words) and poetry (maximum 10 pages) categories; $22.09 fee per entry]

Washington Square – reading period BEGINS [fiction, poetry]

 West Wind Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Zoetrope-All Story – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, one-act plays]

_August 5_ th

Defenestration – fiction and poetry reading period ENDS [nonfiction open year-round]

_August 15_ th

Alaska Quarterly Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, drama, poetry, photo essays, and literary nonfiction]

 Alligator Juniper National Writing Contest in Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, and Poetry Contest – reading period BEGINS [fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction]

American Poetry Review APR / Honickman First Book Prize Contest – reading period BEGINS [book-length collection of poems]

Arts & Letters – reading period BEGINS [fiction, drama, poetry, creative nonfiction]

Baltimore Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Chautauqua Literary Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, book reviews, poetry]

The Cincinnati Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, reviews, translations, poetry, art]

Crab Creek Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Ecotone – reading period BEGINS [fiction, novel or memoir excerpts, nonfiction, poetry]

 The Emerson Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Epiphany Editions Fiction Chapbook Contest – reading period ENDS [18-40 pages of fiction; $17 fee per entry includes Book Kit of winning entry and subscription to Epiphany Journal]

Freshwater – reading period BEGINS [poetry]

Georgia Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, essays, book reviews, poetry, graphics]

Halfway Down the Stairs – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Meridian – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Meridian-Editors' Prize Contests – reading period BEGINS [$1000 prizes in fiction (up to 10000 words) and poetry (up to 4 poems, 10000 words altogether) categories; $8 fee per entry, limit two entries; not open to writers who have published more than two books.]

New Delta Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, creative nonfiction, book reviews, interviews, poetry]

New Delta Review-NDR Chapbook Contest – reading period BEGINS [$100 prize for fiction, poetry, or hybrid; $15 entry fee]

New Madrid – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

New Plains Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry "social commentary"]

Pen America – reading period ENDS [fiction, personal and lyric essays, memoirs, drama, poetry]

Phoebe – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Phoebe-Winter Fiction Contest – reading period BEGINS [$1000 prize for fiction up to 7500 words; $15 entry fee]

Phoebe-Greg Grummer Poetry Award – reading period BEGINS [$1000 prize for poetry; $15 entry fee for 4 poems, altogether up to 10 pages]

Phoebe-Annual Creative Nonfiction Prize – reading period BEGINS [$500 prize for nonfiction up to 5000 words; $15 entry fee]

The Pinch Journal – reading period BEGINS [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Pleides – reading period BEGINS [fiction, essays, poetry]

So to Speak – reading period BEGINS ["feminist" fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

So to Speak-Nonfiction Contest – reading period BEGINS [$500 prize for nonfiction up to 4500 words; $15 entry fee]

So to Speak-Poetry Contest – reading period BEGINS [$500 prize for poetry up to 10 pages; $15 entry fee to submit 5 poems (altogether up to 10 pages)]

West Branch – reading period BEGINS [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, translation]

Whiskey Island – reading period BEGINS [fiction, poetry]

Whitefish Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art & photography]

_August 16_ th

Confrontation Magazine – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, memoir, poetry, drama]

_August 20_ th

Defenestration – fiction and poetry reading period BEGINS [nonfiction open year-round]

_August 27_ th

Crab Orchard Review – Summer/Fall issue reading period BEGINS [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, interviews (query first)]

_August 30_ th

Five Points – reading period BEGINS [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

_August 31_ st

Acorn – reading period ENDS [Haiku Poetry]

Arts & Letters Prime Poetry Prize – reading period ENDS [poetry]

Bomb Magazine – reading period ENDS [fiction, poetry]

Buddhist Poetry Review – reading period ENDS [poetry on the theme of _sati_ (mindfulness)]

Contemporary Haibun – reading period ENDS [haibun poetry]

Ducts – reading period ENDS [fiction, essays, memoir, poetry, humor, reviews, profiles, drama]

Glimmer Train-Short Story Award for New Writers – reading period ENDS [fiction from unpublished writers to 12000 words, $1500, $500, $300 prizes; $15 fee per entry (limit 3)]

Grain Magazine – reading period ENDS [fiction, literary nonfiction, poetry]

Jonathan – reading period ENDS [fiction by emerging and established gay, bisexual, and transgendered authors]

Kenyon Review-Earthworks Prize for Indigenous Poetry – reading period ENDS ["first or second collection of poems by an Indigenous writer" 50-70 pages of poetry; $1000 prize; no entry fee]

Octopus Magazine – reading period BEGINS [poetry, book reviews, "Recovery Projects" (reviews of out of print books)]

Orange Coast Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, narrative nonfiction, poetry, art]

 Redheaded Stepchild – reading period ENDS ["poems that have been rejected by other magazines"]

Spillway – reading period ENDS [poetry on the theme _"The Long & the Short of It"_]

SpringGun Press – reading period ENDS [fiction (novels, novellas) & poetry manuscripts]

Stone Highway Review – reading period ENDS [flash fiction, flash nonfiction (both up to 750 words), poetry]

Vine Leaves Literary Journal – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry in vignettes]

Waccamaw Journal – reading period ENDS [fiction, essays, poetry]

Wag's Revue-Summer Writer's Contest – reading period ENDS [$1000, $500, and $100 prizes in fiction, nonfiction (both up to 10000 words) and poetry (maximum 10 pages) categories; $22.09 fee per entry]

Zoetrope-All Story – reading period ENDS [fiction, one-act plays]

# September

_September 1_ st _:_

Abyss & Apex – reading period BEGINS [Speculative fiction, flash fiction, poetry]

The Adirondack Review – 46er Prize for Poetry – reading period BEGINS [poetry]

Adventum – reading period CONTINUES [haiku, creative nonfiction, essays, and memoir pieces]

Agni – reading period BEGINS [poetry, fiction, essays]

Alaska Quarterly Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, drama, poetry, photo essays, and literary nonfiction]

Albion Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry from undergraduates]

 Alligator Juniper National Writing Contest in Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, and Poetry Contest – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction]

Amerarcana – reading period CONTINUES [poetry, creative or critical prose]

American Poetry Review APR / Honickman First Book Prize Contest – reading period CONTINUES [book-length collection of poems]

Amoskeag Journal – reading period CONTINUES [Theme: Identity; fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction]

Apt – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, reviews, essays, poetry]

Arc Poetry Magazine – reading period BEGINS [poetry, essays, reviews]

 Aries – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, essays, one-act plays, poetry, black & white art from North Carolina artists and writers]

Armchair Shotgun – reading period ENDS [fiction, reviews, essays, poetry]

Arsenic Lobster – reading period BEGINS [poetry, essays & reviews on poetry]

Artful Dodge – reading period BEGINS [fiction, narrative essay, poetry, translations]

Arts & Letters – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, drama, poetry, creative nonfiction]

 Ashville Poetry Review's The Williams Matthews Poetry Prize – reading period BEGINS [poetry]

The Asian American Literary Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction by Asian Americans]

Assaracus – reading period BEGINS [LGBT poetry]

Asymptote Journal – special reading period ENDS [poetry that explores foreigness]

Atlanta Review International Poetry Competition – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

Baltimore Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Bare Root Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Barely South Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Barn Owl Review – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

 Barnwood – reading period BEGINS [poetry; _K's NOTE: the link wasn't working the last time I tried it, so good luck_ ]

Bat City Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Bateau Lit Mag – reading period BEGINS [flash fiction, flack nonfiction, playlets, poetry]

Bayou Magazine – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Bellevue Literary Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry "related to our themes of health, healing, illness, the mind, and the body"]

Beloit Fiction Journal \- reading period CONTINUES [literary fiction]

Big Muddy Mighty River Short Story Contest – reading period CONTINUES [fiction]

Big Muddy-The Wilda Hearne Flash Fiction Contest – reading period CONTINUES [fiction]

The Bitter Oleander – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry]

Black Warrior Review Contest – reading period ENDS [fiction, poetry, and nonfiction categories]

Blood Orange Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Bloodroot Literary Magazine – reading period ENDS [literary fiction, poetry (free verse and sonnets only]

Bloom – reading period BEGINS ["queer" fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Blue Earth Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

 Blueline – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry "relating to the Adirondacks and regions similar in geography and spirit"]

The Blue Route – reading period BEGINS [fiction, poetry]

Boiler Journal First Annual 500 Flash Fiction Challenge – reading period CONTINUES [flash fiction up to 500 words]

Booth Journal – reading period BEGINS [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, comics]

Boulevard Magazine Short Fiction Contest for Emerging Writers – reading period CONTINUES [fiction to 8000 words]

Bound Off – reading period BEGINS [fiction, flash fiction in audio]

 Briar Cliff Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, humor, poetry]

Brink Magazine – reading period BEGINS [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, one-act plays, dramatic or novel sections, interviews, translations]

Brilliant Corners – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Broad River Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Broad River Review Rash Awards Contest – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry]

The Broken Plate – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry from everyone; screenplays, art from Ball State undergraduates only]

The Brooklyn Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, multimedia, art, photography]

Bryant Literary Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, poetry, art, photography]

Callalo – reading period BEGINS [scholarly articles, book reviews, interviews, nonfiction essays, short fiction, poetry, and visual art by and for African Americans]

Carbon Copy Magazine – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, short drama, art]

The Cape Rock Vern Cowles Prize for a Trinity of Poems – reading period CONTINUES [series of 3 poems]

Chautauqua Literary Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, book reviews, poetry]

The Cincinnati Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, reviews, translations, poetry, art]

Columbia Journal – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Columbia Poetry Review – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

The Common – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry; K's Note: subscribers can submit for free—all others pay $1.50 per submission]

The Comstock Review-Jessie Bryce Niles Chapbook Competition – reading period CONTINUES [25-34 pages of poetry at 38 lines per page maximum; $25 entry fee]

Confrontation Magazine – reading period CONTINUESS [fiction, nonfiction, memoir, poetry, drama]

Connecticut Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, essays, poetry, interviews, translations, art]

Consequence Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, interviews, art, reviews "primarily focused on the culture of war and social injustice"]

The Consequence Prize in Poetry – reading period CONTINUES [submit 1-3 "poem(s) [that] should address the consequences of war." No entry fee]

Copperdome Poetry Chapbook Competition – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

Crab Creek Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Crab Orchard Review – Summer/Fall issue reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, interviews (query first)]

The Cream City Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Cream City Review Annual Poetry and Fiction Contests – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prize in each category; $15 entry fee]

Cumberland River Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, essays, poetry, art]

Cutthroat – print edition reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, poetry]

Cutthroat-Joy Harjo Poetry Award & Rick DeMarinis Short Story Award – reading period CONTINUES [$1250 & $250 prizes in both categories; $17 fee per entry]

Defenestration – fiction and poetry reading period CONTINUES [nonfiction open year-round]

Denver Quarterly – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, interviews, reviews, poetry]

Dogwood – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Dogwood-Contest – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 grand prize for best entry in fiction, nonfiction, or poetry, $250 for the other two genres; $15 fee per entry]

Drafthorse – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, visual art]

Drash – reading period BEGINS [fiction, essays, poetry "on Jewish and Northwest theme"]

Ecotone – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, novel or memoir excerpts, nonfiction, poetry]

Ellipsis – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Emerge Literary Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, poetry]

 The Emerson Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Emrys Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Enizagam – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Enizagam-Writing Contest – reading period BEGINS [fiction and poetry categories; $1000 prizes in each category; $20 fee per entry]

Epiphany Editions Poetry Chapbook Contest – reading period BEGINS [18-40 pages of fiction; $17 fee per entry includes Book Kit of winning entry and subscription to Epiphany Journal]

Essays and Fictions – reading period BEGINS [fiction, essays]

The Evansville Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The Evansville Review-Willis Barnstone Translation Prize – reading period BEGINS [translations of poetry; $1000 prize; $5 fee for first entry, $3 for each additional entry]

 Exit 7 – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Fiction International – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, visuals]

Field – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

Fifth Wednesday Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, essays, poetry, b & w photography]

Five Points – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Five Points-James Dickey Prize for Poetry – reading period BEGINS [poetry; $1000 prize; $20 fee per entry for up to 3 poems 50 lines or up to (includes subscription)]

Flyway – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art "that delve into place or environment"]

Flyway-Creative Non-Fiction Contest – reading period BEGINS [creative nonfiction; $500 1st prize, $50 runner-up; $12 per entry, or $15 with a print back issue)

foam:e – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

Foliate Oak Literary Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Folio – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Folio-Folio Poetry Contest – reading period BEGINS [poetry; $500 first prize, two $150 prizes; $15 reading fee includes subscription)]

Fourteen Hills – reading period BEGINS [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, experimental/hybrid]

Fourth River – reading period BEGINS [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Fox Cry Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Free Verse – reading period BEGINS [poetry, contemporary poetry book reviews]

Freshwater – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

Fugue Journal – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

 Georgetown Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, novel excerpts, nonfiction, poetry]

 Georgetown Review-Magazine Contest – reading period BEGINS [$1000 for short story, poem, or essay; $10 entry fee / $5 each additional entry]

 Georgetown Review- Poetry Manuscript Contest – reading period BEGINS [$1000 prize for 48-80 page poetry manuscript. $20 entry fee]

Georgia Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, book reviews, poetry, graphics]

 Gertrude-Chapbook Contest – reading period BEGINS [$100 award in fiction and poetry categories; 16-20 pages of fiction or poetry; $15 post / $17 online submission entry fees]

Gettysburg Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, essays, poetry]

Ghost Town – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, narrative nonfiction, poetry]

Gigantic Sequins – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Glass: a Journal of Poetry – reading period BEGINS [poetry]

Glimmer Train-Fiction Open – reading period BEGINS [fiction 2000-20000 words, $2500, $1000, $600 prizes; $19 fee per entry (limit 3)]

Goblin Fruit – reading period ENDS [poetry "of the fantastical"]

Green Mountains Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, essays, interviews, book reviews, poetry]

Grist – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Gulf Coast – reading period BEGINS [fiction, essays, poems, interviews, reviews]

Gulf Coast-Barthelme Prize for Short Prose – reading period ENDS [prose, $1000 prize; $17 entry fee]

Halfway Down the Stairs – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Harpur Palate-The Milton Kessler Memorial Prize for Poetry – reading period BEGINS [poetry; $500 prize; $15 entry fee includes subscription; up to 5 poems per entry]

Harpur Palate-Prize for Creative Nonfiction \- reading period BEGINS [creative nonfiction up to 8000 words; $500 prize; $15 per entry fee includes subscription]

 Hawai'I Pacific University – reading period BEGINS [fiction, essays, poetry]

The Healing Muse – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry "particularly but not exclusively focusing on themes of medicine and healing"]

 Hippocampus Magazine-Remember in November Contest for Creative Nonfiction – reading period CONTINUES [personal essays and memoir excerpts up to 3500 words; $150, $75, $50, $10, $5 prizes; $10 fee per entry, with $1 going to the Alzheimer's Association]

The Hopkins Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Hotel Amerika – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The Hudson Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction only]

The Idaho Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry; longer work: query first]

Illuminations – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, essays, journalism, poetry, art]

Inkwell – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Inscape Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry)

International Poetry Review – reading period BEGINS [poetry in translation]

The Iowa Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction, book reviews, drama, poetry]

jabberwock review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry]

Jet Fuel Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, reviews, poetry]

jubilat – reading period BEGINS [poetry, prose about poetry, art]

Konundrum – reading period BEGINS [poetry only]

The Laurel Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, essays, reviews, poetry]

 The Licking River Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, creative nonfiction, critical essays, poetry, art]

The Lindenwood Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, personal essay, poetry]

Lit Magazine – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The Literary Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, essays, poetry, translations]

Lowestoft Chronicle – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry; "Preference will be given to humorous submissions with an emphasis on travel."]

Lumina Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Lunch Ticket – reading period BEGINS [fiction, creative fiction, poetry, "for young people"]

Magnolia Journal – reading period BEGINS [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry: "Socially engaged works...that interact with and challenge social injustices of our time."]

Mascara Literary Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, reviews, poetry, translations]

Mason's Road – reading period BEGINS [theme fiction, poetry]

The Meadow – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, screenplays, comics, art & photography]

 The Meadowland Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, poetry, art & photography]

The Medulla Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, poetry]

Meridian – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Meridian-Editors' Prize Contests – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prizes in fiction (up to 10000 words) and poetry (up to 4 poems, 10000 words altogether) categories; $8 fee per entry, limit two entries; not open to writers who have published more than two books.]

 The Minnesota Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, critical nonfiction, reviews, interviews, poetry]

Mississippi Review Prize – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prizes in fiction (1000-8000 words), and poetry (up to 10 pages); $15 fee per entry)

Moon City Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, book reviews]

The Muse – reading period CONTINUES [poetry, research papers]

Nashville Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

 Nassau Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, flash nonfiction; critical prose, poetry]

Naugatuck River Review – contest reading period ENDS [poetry up to 50 lines; $1000, $250, $100 prizes; $20 entry fee for 3 poems]

New Delta Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, book reviews, interviews, poetry]

New Delta Review-NDR Chapbook Contest – reading period CONTINUES [$100 prize for fiction, poetry, or hybrid; $15 entry fee]

New England Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, drama, poetry, translation]

New Madrid – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The New Renaissance-The Louise E. Reynolds Memorial Fiction Awards – reading period BEGINS [fiction from 2-36 pages; $500, $250, $100, $50 prizes; $16.50 entry fee ($11.50 for subscribers]

 the new river – reading period BEGINS [digital writing and art]

New South – reading period BEGINS [fiction, flash fiction, essays, poetry]

Newport Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry, one-act plays]

Nilson Literary Prize for a First Novel – reading period CONTINUES [fiction novel, or series of interconnected short stories]

Nimrod – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, poetry]

94 Creations – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction, one act plays, monologues, poetry, art]

Ninth Letter – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The Normal School –reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, recipes]

 North Dakota Quarterly – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Notre Dame Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, poetry]

Notre Dame Review-Sandeen Prize in Poetry – reading period ENDS [poetry manuscript by a poet that has published at least one collection of poems; $1000 prize, $500 award, and a $500 advance; $15 reading fee]

Notre Dame Review-Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction – reading period ENDS [short story manuscript by a writer that has published at least one collection of stories; $1000 prize, $500 award, and a $500 advance; $15 reading fee]

Obsidian – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, critical essays, drama, poetry "from within, about, and contextualizing the African Diaspora"]

One Story – reading period BEGINS [fiction]

Oyez – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, art]

Ozone Park Journal – reading period BEGINS [fiction, creative nonfiction, drama, poetry, translations, art]

Palabra – reading period BEGINS [fiction, flash fiction, novel excerpts, drama, hybrid]

Passager – reading period CONTINUES [poetry from writers over 50]

Pear Noir! – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art & photography]

Permafrost – print edition reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Pebble Lake Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, reviews, interviews, poetry]

Phoebe – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Phoebe-Winter Fiction Contest – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prize for fiction up to 7500 words; $15 entry fee]

Phoebe-Greg Grummer Poetry Award – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prize for poetry; $15 entry fee for 4 poems, altogether up to 10 pages]

Phoebe-Annual Creative Nonfiction Prize – reading period CONTINUES [$500 prize for nonfiction up to 5000 words; $15 entry fee]

The Pinch Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Pirenes Fountain – reading period BEGINS [poetry]

Pleides – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, poetry]

Ploughshares – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Poetica Magazine-Annual Chapbook Contest – reading period CONTINUES [$250 and five $100 runner-up prizes; 16-24 pages of poetry; $15 entry fee]

Polaris – reading period BEGINS [undergraduate fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Potomac Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Prairie Wolf Press Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, art]

Prune Juice – reading period CONTINUES [senryu, kyoka poetry]

Red Rock Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

 Red Wheelbarrow – reading period BEGINS [fiction, creative nonfiction, drama, poetry, art & photography, comics

Reed Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Reed Magazine-John Steinbeck Award – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prize for fiction up to 6000 words; $15 fee per entry]

Reed Magazine-Edwin Markham Prize in Poetry – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prize for poetry; $15 fee per entry of 3-5 poems]

 Review Americana – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, craft essays, writing education essays, drama, poetry]

Rhino – reading period CONTINUES [flash fiction, poetry, translations]

Rhino-Founder's Prize – reading period CONTINUES [$300, two $50 prizes for poetry "with a distinctive voice; $10 entry fee to submit 5 poems]

A River & Sound – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, humor, translation]

River Styx – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, essays poetry, translations, art]

River Teeth – reading period BEGINS [creative nonfiction, "narrative reportage," essays, memoirs]

 Roanoke Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, poetry]

The Round – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, drama, poetry, translations, art & photography]

Saint Ann's Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, novel excerpts nonfiction, drama, poetry, translations]

St. Petersburg Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, creative nonfiction, drama, poetry]

St. Petersburg Review-Poetry Contest – reading period BEGINS [$1000 prize for poetry; $20 entry fee for 3 poems]

Salamander – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, memoir, poetry]

Salt Hill Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Saranac Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, hybrid, translation]

Saw Palm – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, reviews, interviews, poetry]

Seneca Review – reading period BEGINS [nonfiction essays, poetry]

Sewanee Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Shadowbox – reading period CONTINUES creative nonfiction][K's Note: Click on the dice for the guidelines. But you can't actually submit directly from Shadowbox's site. You need to go through [Tell It Slant's site]

 SLAB – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, "text-based graphic art"]

 Slant – reading period BEGINS [poetry]

Snail Mail Review – reading period CONTINUES [flash fiction, poetry]

So to Speak – reading period CONTINUES ["feminist" fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

So to Speak-Nonfiction Contest – reading period CONTINUES [$500 prize for nonfiction up to 4500 words; $15 entry fee]

So to Speak-Poetry Contest – reading period CONTINUES [$500 prize for poetry up to 10 pages; $15 entry fee to submit 5 poems (altogether up to 10 pages)]

Soundings East – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

South Loop Review – reading period BEGINS [creative nonfiction, essays, memoir, art & photography]

Southern California Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, flash fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction, memoir, personal essays, drama, poetry]

Southern Indiana Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction, reviews, interviews, poetry, art & photography

The Southern Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, essays, poetry]

 The Southhampton Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, novellas, nonfiction, drama & screenplays, poetry, art & photography]

Sou'wester – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Southwest Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction articles, poetry]

Southword Journal – reading period CONTINUES [poetry in English; prose, literary criticism in Irish]

The Sow's Ear-Poetry Competition – reading period BEGINS [$1000 prize for poetry (no length limit); $27 entry fee for up to 5 poems]

Spiral Orb – reading period ENDS [poetry]

Spout Press – reading period BEGINS [fiction, essays, opinion, poetry, art, cartoons]

Stickman Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

StoryQuarterly-Annual Fiction Contest – reading period CONTINUES [$1000, $300, $200 prizes for fiction up to 8000 words; $18 entry fee includes subscription][K's Note: their website states both "Open to short stories and novel excerpts of 8,000 words or less" _and_ "No flash fiction, novel excerpts, previously published work or memoirs."]

storySouth – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry "by writers from the new south"]

Subtropics – reading period BEGINS [fiction, flash fiction, novel excerpts, essays, poetry, translations]

Superstition Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Suspence Magazine Writing Contest – reading period CONTINUES [Twelve books (some autographed) from each of the authors of the month for 2012, $50 Amazon gift card, $25 gift card prizes for suspence/mystery/thiller fiction between 1500-4000 words]

Switchback – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Sycamore Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Sycamore Review-Wabash Prize for Nonfiction – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prize for nonfiction up to 7500 words; $15 entry fee includes subscription]

Sycamore Review-Wabash Prize for Poetry – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prize for poetry; $15 entry fee per 3 poems (up to 6 pages) includes subscription, $5 each additional poem]

Sycamore Review-Wabash Prize for Fiction – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prize for fiction up to 7500 words; $15 entry fee includes subscription]

Talking River – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, book reviews, poetry]

Tampa Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Tampa Review Prize for Poetry – reading period BEGINS [$2000 prize for poetry manuscripts between 60-100 pages; $25 entry fee]

Tampa Review-Danahy Fiction Prize – reading period BEGINS [$1000 prize for fiction between 500-5000 words; $20 entry fee]

Tar River Review – reading period BEGINS [poetry]

10X3 Plus – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

10,000 Tons of Black Ink – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction]

Texas Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Thin Air Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Thrice Fiction – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, fiction that "may also be poetry]

Tidal Basin Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Tiferet Journal – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, interviews, poetry, art "at the nexus of literature and spirituality"]

Timber – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry]

TINGE – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Upstreet – reading period BEGINS [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, prose poems]

Verse Wisconson – reading period BEGINS [essays, book reviews, interviews, poetry]

Vestal Review – reading period CONTINUES [flash fiction]

Wag's Revue – reading period BEGINS [fiction, essays, interviews, poems]

Washington Square – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry]

Weave Magazine – reading period BEGINS [fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, drama, art]

West Branch – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, translation]

 West Wind Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Western Humanities Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, hybrid]

Western Humanities Review-Annual Utah Writer's Contest – reading period BEGINS [$500 prizes in Poetry [5 poems up to 10 pages] and Prose [up to 25 pages] by Utah writers only]

Whiskey Island – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry]

Whitefish Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art & photography]

Willow Springs – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Witness – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, interviews, poetry]

_September 2_ nd

The Antioch Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, poetry, nonfiction]

Bacoba Literary Review Contest – reading period BEGINS [individual prizes for fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

_September 4_ th

Tin House – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, interviews, poetry; open theme and "Lost & Founds about the Wild" theme accepted]

 Words and Images – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

_September 6_ th

The Blue Pencil – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama by writers aged 12–18]

The Blue Pencil's Elizabeth Bishop Prize – reading period BEGINS [fiction, poetry, and playwriting]

Ocean State Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Rio Grande Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, criticism, poetry, comics, art]

_September 12_ th

Bartleby Snopes Writing Contest – contest ENDS [fiction, flash fiction entirely in dialogue]

_September 15_ th

Amethyst Arsenic – reading period BEGINS [poetry, art]

Bateau Press Boom Poetry Chapbook Contest – reading period BEGINS [poetry 20-30 pages]

Bellingham Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Boston Review – fiction reading period BEGINS [nonfiction, poetry read year-round]

Crab Creek Review 2013 Fiction Contest – reading period begins [fiction; $10 entry fee; $200 Prize]

Crazyhorse – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Denver Quarterly – reading period ENDS [fiction, essays, interviews, reviews, poetry]

 Epoch – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Faultline – reading period BEGINS [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, translation, art]

Fiction – reading period BEGINS [fiction]

Frogpond – reading period BEGINS [haiku, haibun, rengay, renku, essays, book reviews]

Grist – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Gulf Stream – reading period BEGINS [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

 Hippocampus Magazine-Remember in November Contest for Creative Nonfiction – reading period ENDS [personal essays and memoir excerpts up to 3500 words; $150, $75, $50, $10, $5 prizes; $10 fee per entry, with $1 going to the Alzheimer's Association]

The Hollins Critic – reading period BEGINS [nonfiction "surveys of the whole bodies of contemporary writers' work", book reviews, poetry]

The Kenyon Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, drama, poetry]

Monday Night – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, essays, poetry, translations]

New Ohio Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Passager – reading period ENDS [poetry from writers over 50]

Poetry Northwest – reading period BEGINS [essays, reviews, poetry]

Prune Juice – reading period ENDS [senryu, kyoka poetry]

A Public Space – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Puerto Del Sol – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, drama, criticism, poetry, translations, art

Shadowbox – reading period ENDS creative nonfiction][K's Note: Click on the dice for the guidelines. But you can't actually submit directly from Shadowbox's site. You need to go through [Tell It Slant's site]

Shenandoah – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Southword Journal – reading period ENDS [poetry in English; prose, literary criticism in Irish]

Spinning Jenny – reading period BEGINS [poetry]

The Spoon River Poetry Review – reading period BEGINS [poetry]

The Spoon River Poetry Review-Editor's Prize – reading period BEGINS [$1000, two $100 prizes for poetry; $20 entry fee for up to 3 poems (maximum 10 pages) includes subscription]

storySouth – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry "by writers from the new south"]

10,000 Tons of Black Ink – reading period ENDS [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction]

Third Coast – reading period BEGINS [fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction (reportage, essays, memoir), drama, poetry, translations]

Third Coast Fiction and Poetry Contest – reading period BEGINS [$1000 prizes in fiction (up to 9000 words) and poetry categories; $16 entry fee for each story or three poems, includes subscription]

_September 30_ th

Amerarcana – reading period ENDS [poetry, creative or critical prose]

Apt – reading period ENDS [fiction, reviews, essays, poetry]

Assaracus – reading period ENDS [LGBT poetry]

The Comstock Review-Jessie Bryce Niles Chapbook Competition – reading period ENDS [25-34 pages of poetry at 38 lines/page maximum; $25 entry fee]

Glimmer Train-Fiction Open – reading period ENDS [fiction 2000-20000 words, $2500, $1000, $600 prizes; $19 fee per entry (limit 3)]

The Marathon Literary Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, flash fiction, poetry, art & photography]

Mascara Literary Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, essays, reviews, poetry, translations]

The Medulla Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, flash fiction, poetry]

Pirenes Fountain – reading period ENDS [poetry]

Thrice Fiction – reading period ENDS [fiction, flash fiction, fiction that "may also be poetry]

# October

_October 1_ st _:_

The Adirondack Review – 46er Prize for Poetry – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

Adventum – reading period CONTINUES [haiku, creative nonfiction, essays, and memoir pieces]

Agni – reading period CONTINUES [poetry, fiction, essays]

Alaska Quarterly Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, drama, poetry, photo essays, and literary nonfiction]

Albion Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry from undergraduates]

 Alligator Juniper National Writing Contest in Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, and Poetry Contest – reading period ENDS [fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction]

American Letters & Commentary – reading period BEGINS [fiction, essays, poetry]

American Literary Review – reading period BEGINS [poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction]

American Poetry Review APR / Honickman First Book Prize Contest – reading period CONTINUES [book-length collection of poems]

Amethyst Arsenic – reading period CONTINUES [poetry, art]

Amoskeag Journal – reading period CONTINUES [Theme: Identity; fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction]

 The Antigonish Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, essays, poetry, book reviews]

The Antioch Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry, nonfiction]

Arc Poetry Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [poetry, essays, reviews]

 Aries – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, essays, one-act plays, poetry, black & white art from North Carolina artists and writers]

Arsenic Lobster \- reading period CONTINUES [poetry, essays & reviews on poetry]

Artful Dodge – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, narrative essay, poetry, translations]

Arts & Letters – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, drama, poetry, creative nonfiction]

 Ashville Poetry Review's The Williams Matthews Poetry Prize – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

Atlanta Review International Poetry Competition – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

Avatar Review – reading period BEGINS [poetry, short fiction, essays, visual art and prose poems]

Bacoba Literary Review Contest – reading period CONTINUES [individual prizes for fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Baltimore Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Bare Root Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Barely South Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Barn Owl Review – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

Barnwood – reading period CONTINUES [poetry; K's NOTE: the link wasn't working the last time I tried it, so good luck]

Barrow Street Journal – reading period BEGINS [poetry]

Basalt Magazine – reading period BEGINS [fiction, poetry, hybrid]

Bat City Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Bateau Lit Mag – reading period CONTINUES [flash fiction, flack nonfiction, playlets, poetry]

Bateau Press Boom Poetry Chapbook Contest – reading period CONTINUES [poetry 20-30 pages]

Bayou Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Bellevue Literary Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry "related to our themes of health, healing, illness, the mind, and the body"]

Bellingham Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Beloit Fiction Journal \- reading period CONTINUES [literary fiction]

Big Muddy Mighty River Short Story Contest – reading period ENDS [fiction]

Big Muddy-The Wilda Hearne Flash Fiction Contest – reading period ENDS [fiction]

The Bitter Oleander – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry]

Black Lantern Publishing – reading period CONTINUES [macabre fiction, poetry]

Black Market Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, art]

Blood Orange Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Bloom – reading period CONTINUES ["queer" fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Blue Earth Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

 Blueline – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry "relating to the Adirondacks and regions similar in geography and spirit"]

The Blue Pencil – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama by writers aged 12–18]

The Blue Pencil's Elizabeth Bishop Prize – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry, and playwriting]

The Blue Route – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry]

Boiler Journal First Annual 500 Flash Fiction Challenge – reading period CONTINUES [flash fiction up to 500 words]

Booth Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, comics]

Boston Review – fiction reading period CONTINUES [nonfiction, poetry read year-round]

Boulevard Magazine – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Boulevard Magazine Short Fiction Contest for Emerging Writers – reading period CONTINUES [fiction to 8000 words]

Bound Off – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction in audio]

 Briar Cliff Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, humor, poetry]

Brink Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, one-act plays, dramatic or novel sections, interviews, translations]

Brilliant Corners – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Broad River Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Broad River Review Rash Awards Contest – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry]

The Brooklyn Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, multimedia, art, photography]

Bryant Literary Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry, art, photography]

Cactus Heart – reading period BEGINS [fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Calyx – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry by and for women]

The Cape Rock Vern Cowles Prize for a Trinity of Poems – reading period CONTINUES [series of 3 poems]

The Chattahoochiee Review-The Lamar York Prizes for Fiction and Nonfiction – reading period BEGINS [prose up to 5000 words, $15 entry fee, $1000 prize each for fiction and nonfiction]

Chautauqua Literary Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, book reviews, poetry]

The Cincinnati Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, reviews, translations, poetry, art]

Columbia Poetry Review – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

The Common – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry; K's Note: subscribers can submit for free—all others pay $1.50 per submission]

Confrontation Magazine – reading period CONTINUESS [fiction, nonfiction, memoir, poetry, drama]

Connecticut Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, essays, poetry, interviews, translations, art]

Consequence Magazine – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, interviews, art, reviews "primarily focused on the culture of war and social injustice"]

The Consequence Prize in Poetry – reading period ENDS [submit 1-3 "poem(s) [that] should address the consequences of war." No entry fee]

Contemporary Haibun – reading period BEGINS [haibun poetry]

Copperdome Poetry Chapbook Competition – reading period ENDS [poetry]

Crab Creek Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Crab Creek Review 2013 Fiction Contest – reading period CONTINUES [fiction; $10 entry fee; $200 Prize]

Crab Orchard Review – Summer/Fall issue reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, interviews (query first)]

Crazyhorse – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The Cream City Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Cream City Review Annual Poetry and Fiction Contests – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prize in each category; $15 entry fee]

Cumberland River Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, poetry, art]

CutBank – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

CutBank-Big Fish Online Flash Fiction/Prose Poetry Prize – reading period BEGINS [$200 prize for flash fiction, prose poetry, etc. up to 500 words; $9 fee per entry]

Cutthroat – print edition reading period ENDS [fiction, flash fiction, poetry]

Cutthroat-Joy Harjo Poetry Award & Rick DeMarinis Short Story Award – reading period CONTINUES [$1250 & $250 prizes in both categories; $17 fee per entry]

Defenestration – fiction and poetry reading period CONTINUES [nonfiction open year-round]

Dogwood – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Dogwood-Contest – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 grand prize for best entry in fiction, nonfiction, or poetry, $250 for the other two genres; $15 fee per entry]

Drafthorse – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, visual art]

Drash – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, poetry "on Jewish and Northwest themes"]

Ecotone – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, novel or memoir excerpts, nonfiction, poetry]

Ellipsis – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Emerge Literary Journal – reading period ENDS [fiction, flash fiction, poetry]

 The Emerson Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Emrys Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Enizagam – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Enizagam-Writing Contest – reading period CONTINUES [fiction and poetry categories; $1000 prizes in each category; $20 fee per entry]

Epiphany Editions Poetry Chapbook Contest – reading period CONTINUES [18-40 pages of fiction; $17 fee per entry includes Book Kit of winning entry and subscription to Epiphany Journal]

 Epoch – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Essays and Fictions – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays]

The Evansville Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The Evansville Review-Willis Barnstone Translation Prize – reading period CONTINUES [translations of poetry; $1000 prize; $5 fee for first entry, $3 for each additional entry]

 Exit 7 – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Faultline – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, translation, art]

Feile-Festa – reading period BEGINS [flash fiction (up to 500 words), articles] "... our preference is for creative work related to Irish and Italian/Sicilian themes... Mediterranean cultures...or the diasporas to America, Canada, etc. We are also interested in writing that evokes life in New York City."]

Fiction – reading period CONTINUES [fiction]

Field – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

Fifth Wednesday Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, essays, poetry, b & w photography]

Five Points – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Five Points-James Dickey Prize for Poetry – reading period CONTINUES [poetry; $1000 prize; $20 fee per entry for up to 3 poems 50 lines or up to (includes subscription)]

Florida English – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, interviews, book reviews]

Flyway – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art "that delve into place or environment"]

Flyway-Creative Non-Fiction Contest – reading period CONTINUES [creative nonfiction; $500 1st prize, $50 runner-up; $12 per entry, or $15 with a print back issue)

foam:e – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

Foliate Oak Literary Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Folio – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Folio-Folio Poetry Contest – reading period CONTINUES [poetry; $500 first prize, two $150 prizes; $15 reading fee includes subscription)]

Fourteen Hills – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, experimental/hybrid]

Fourth River – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Fox Cry Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Free Verse – reading period CONTINUES [poetry, contemporary poetry book reviews]

Freshwater – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

Frogpond – reading period CONTINUES [haiku, haibun, rengay, renku, essays, book reviews]

Fugue Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

 Georgetown Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, novel excerpts, nonfiction, poetry]

 George Town Review-Magazine Contest – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 for short story, poem, or essay; $10 entry fee / $5 each additional entry]

 Georgetown Review- Poetry Manuscript Contest – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prize for 48-80 page poetry manuscript. $20 entry fee]

Georgia Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, book reviews, poetry, graphics]

 Gertrude-Chapbook Contest – reading period CONTINUES [$100 award in fiction and poetry categories; 16-20 pages of fiction or poetry; $15 post / $17 online submission entry fees]

The Gettysburg Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, poetry]

Ghost Town – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, narrative nonfiction, poetry]

Glass: a Journal of Poetry – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

Green Mountains Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, interviews, book reviews, poetry]

Gulf Coast – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, poems, interviews, reviews]

Gulf Stream – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Halfway Down the Stairs – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Harpur Palate-The Milton Kessler Memorial Prize for Poetry – reading period CONTINUES [poetry; $500 prize; $15 entry fee includes subscription; up to 5 poems per entry]

Harpur Palate-Prize for Creative Nonfiction \- reading period CONTINUES [creative nonfiction up to 8000 words; $500 prize; $15 per entry fee includes subscription]

 Harvard Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, short drama, poetry]

 Hawai'I Pacific University – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, poetry]

The Healing Muse – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry "particularly but not exclusively focusing on themes of medicine and healing"]

The Hollins Critic – reading period CONTINUES [nonfiction "surveys of the whole bodies of contemporary writers' work", book reviews, poetry]

The Hopkins Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Hotel Amerika – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The Hudson Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction only]

The Idaho Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry; longer work: query first]

Illuminations – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, essays, journalism, poetry, art]

Inkwell – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Inscape Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry)

Interim Magazine – reading period BEGINS [fiction, essays, reviews, poetry)

International Poetry Review – reading period CONTINUES [poetry in translation]

The Iowa Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction, book reviews, drama, poetry]

Jabberwock Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry]

Jet Fuel Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, reviews, poetry]

jubilat – reading period CONTINUES [poetry, prose about poetry, art]

The Kenyon Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, drama, poetry]

Konundrum – reading period CONTINUES [poetry only]

The Laurel Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, reviews, poetry]

The Ledge – reading period BEGINS [fiction, poetry]

 The Licking River Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, critical essays, poetry, art]

The Lindenwood Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, personal essay, poetry]

The Lindenwood Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, personal essay, poetry]

Lit Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The Literary Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, essays, poetry, translations]

Lowestoft Chronicle – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry; "Preference will be given to humorous submissions with an emphasis on travel."]

Lumina Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Lunch Ticket – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative fiction, poetry, "for young people"]

Magnolia Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry: "Socially engaged works...that interact with and challenge social injustices of our time."]

Many Mountains Moving – print edition reading period BEGINS [fiction, essays, drama, poetry]

The Marathon Literary Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, poetry, art & photography]

Mason's Road – reading period CONTINUES [theme fiction, poetry]

The Massachusetts Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translations]

Mayday – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, reviews, poetry, translations, graphic narrative, visual art]

The Meadow – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, screenplays, comics, art & photography]

Meridian – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Meridian-Editors' Prize Contests – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prizes in fiction (up to 10000 words) and poetry (up to 4 poems, 10000 words altogether) categories; $8 fee per entry, limit two entries; not open to writers who have published more than two books.]

 The Minnesota Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, critical nonfiction, reviews, interviews, poetry]

Mississippi Review Prize – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prizes in fiction (1000-8000 words), and poetry (up to 10 pages); $15 fee per entry)

Monday Night – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, essays, poetry, translations]

Moon City Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, book reviews]

The Muse – reading period CONTINUES [poetry, research papers]

Nashville Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

 Nassau Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, flash nonfiction; critical prose, poetry]

New Delta Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, book reviews, interviews, poetry]

New Delta Review-NDR Chapbook Contest – reading period CONTINUES [$100 prize for fiction, poetry, or hybrid; $15 entry fee]

New England Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, drama, poetry, translation]

New Letters – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

New Letters-Literary Awards – reading period BEGINS [$1500 prizes in: The New Letters Prize for Poetry, the Dorothy Churchill Cappon Prize for the Essay, and The Alexander Patterson Cappon Prize for fiction; fiction, nonfiction up to 8000 words, six poems; $15 for first entry, $10 each additional entry]

New Madrid – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

New Ohio Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The New Poet – reading period BEGINS [poetry]

The New Renaissance-The Louise E. Reynolds Memorial Fiction Awards – reading period CONTINUES [fiction from 2-36 pages; $500, $250, $100, $50 prizes; $16.50 entry fee ($11.50 for subscribers)]

 the new river – reading period CONTINUES [digital writing and art]

New South – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, essays, poetry]

Newport Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry, one-act plays]

Nilson Literary Prize for a First Novel – reading period CONTINUES [fiction novel, or series of interconnected short stories]

Nimrod – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, poetry]

94 Creations – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction, one act plays, monologues, poetry, art]

Ninth Letter – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The Normal School –reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, recipes]

North Central Review – reading period BEGINS fiction, creative nonfiction, drama, poetry, hybrid, art] [Emerging Writers Spotlight – reading period BEGINS [$1000 scholarship in fiction, poetry categories by high school students]

 North Dakota Quarterly – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Notre Dame Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry]

Obsidian – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, critical essays, drama, poetry "from within, about, and contextualizing the African Diaspora"]

Ocean State Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

One Story – reading period CONTINUES [fiction]

Oyez – reading period ENDS [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, art]

Ozone Park Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, drama, poetry, translations, art]

Palabra – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, novel excerpts, drama, hybrid]

Pear Noir! – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art & photography]

Pebble Lake Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, reviews, interviews, poetry]

Permafrost – print edition reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Phoebe – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Phoebe-Winter Fiction Contest – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prize for fiction up to 7500 words; $15 entry fee]

Phoebe-Greg Grummer Poetry Award – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prize for poetry; $15 entry fee for 4 poems, altogether up to 10 pages]

Phoebe-Annual Creative Nonfiction Prize – reading period CONTINUES [$500 prize for nonfiction up to 5000 words; $15 entry fee]

The Pinch Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Pleides – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, poetry]

Ploughshares – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Poems and Plays – reading period BEGINS [poetry, drama; Tennessee Chapbook Prize; 20-24 pages of poetry, drama, or a combination of both; $15 entry fee]

Poetica Magazine-Annual Chapbook Contest – reading period CONTINUES [$250 and five $100 runner-up prizes; 16-24 pages of poetry; $15 entry fee]

Poetry Northwest – reading period CONTINUES [essays, reviews, poetry]

Polaris – reading period CONTINUES [undergraduate fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Potomac Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Printer's Devil Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Prune Juice – reading period BEGINS [senryu, kyoka poetry]

A Public Space – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Puerto Del Sol – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, drama, criticism, poetry, translations, art

The Quotable – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, art]

Red Rock Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

 Red Wheelbarrow – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, drama, poetry, art & photography, comics

Reed Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Reed Magazine-John Steinbeck Award – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prize for fiction up to 6000 words; $15 fee per entry]

Reed Magazine-Edwin Markham Prize in Poetry – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prize for poetry; $15 fee per entry of 3-5 poems]

 Review Americana – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, craft essays, writing education essays, drama, poetry]

Rhino – reading period ENDS [flash fiction, poetry, translations]

Rhino-Founder's Prize – reading period ENDS [$300, two $50 prizes for poetry "with a distinctive voice; $10 entry fee to submit 5 poems]

Río Grande Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, criticism, poetry, comics, art]

A River & Sound – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, humor, translation]

River Styx – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, essays poetry, translations, art]

River Teeth – reading period CONTINUES [creative nonfiction, "narrative reportage," essays, memoirs]

 Roanoke Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry]

The Round – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, drama, poetry, translations, art & photography]

 Rubbertop Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, creative nonfiction, one-act drama, poetry, art "from both students at The University of Akron and greater Ohio"]

Saint Ann's Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, novel excerpts nonfiction, drama, poetry, translations]

St. Petersburg Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, drama, poetry]

St. Petersburg Review-Poetry Contest – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prize for poetry; $20 entry fee for 3 poems]

Salamander – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, memoir, poetry]

Salt Hill Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Saranac Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, hybrid, translation]

Saw Palm – reading period ENDS [fiction, creative nonfiction, reviews, interviews, poetry]

Seneca Review – reading period CONTINUES [nonfiction essays, poetry]

Sewanee Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Shenandoah – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Shenandoah-The Graybeal-Gowen Prize – reading period BEGINS [$500 prize for a Virginia poet; submit up to 3 poems; no entry fee]

 SLAB – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, "text-based graphic art"]

 Slant – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

Snail Mail Review – reading period CONTINUES [flash fiction, poetry]

So to Speak – reading period CONTINUES ["feminist" fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Soundings East – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

South Loop Review – reading period CONTINUES [creative nonfiction, essays, memoir, art & photography]

Southern California Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction, memoir, personal essays, drama, poetry]

Southern Indiana Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction, reviews, interviews, poetry, art & photography

The Southern Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, poetry]

 The Southhampton Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, novellas, nonfiction, drama & screenplays, poetry, art & photography]

Sou'wester – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Southwest Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction articles, poetry]

 Southword-The Gregory O'Donoghue International Poetry Competition – reading period BEGINS [€1000 w/a trip to Cork, Ireland, €500, €250, and ten €30 prizes for poetry up to 40 lines; €5 entry fee per poem / 5 poems for €20]

The Sow's Ear-Poetry Competition – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prize for poetry (no length limit); $27 entry fee for up to 5 poems]

Spinning Jenny – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

The Spoon River Poetry Review – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

The Spoon River Poetry Review-Editor's Prize – reading period CONTINUES [$1000, two $100 prizes for poetry; $20 entry fee for up to 3 poems (maximum 10 pages) includes subscription]

Spout Press – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, opinion, poetry, art, cartoons]

SpringGun Press – reading period BEGINS [fiction, poetry (book reviews, interviews, art & electronic literature = year-round)]

Stickman Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

The Stinging Fly – reading period BEGINS [fiction, novel excerpts, essays, book reviews, poetry "by Irish and international writers"]

Stone Highway Review – reading period BEGINS [flash fiction, flash nonfiction (both up to 750 words), poetry]

StoryQuarterly – reading period BEGINS [fiction, creative nonfiction]

StoryQuarterly-Annual Fiction Contest – reading period ENDS [$1000, $300, $200 prizes for fiction up to 8000 words; $18 entry fee includes subscription][K's Note: their website states both "Open to short stories and novel excerpts of 8,000 words or less" _and_ "No flash fiction, novel excerpts, previously published work or memoirs."]

storySouth – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry "by writers from the new south"]

Subtropics – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, novel excerpts, essays, poetry, translations]

Superstition Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Suspence Magazine Writing Contest – reading period CONTINUES [Twelve books (some autographed) from each of the authors of the month for 2012, $50 Amazon gift card, $25 gift card prizes for suspence/mystery/thiller fiction between 1500-4000 words]

Switchback – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Sycamore Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Sycamore Review-Wabash Prize for Nonfiction – reading period ENDS [$1000 prize for nonfiction up to 7500 words; $15 entry fee includes subscription]

Sycamore Review-Wabash Prize for Poetry – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prize for poetry; $15 entry fee per 3 poems (up to 6 pages) includes subscription, $5 each additional poem]

Sycamore Review-Wabash Prize for Fiction – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prize for fiction up to 7500 words; $15 entry fee includes subscription]

Talking River – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, book reviews, poetry]

Tampa Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Tampa Review Prize for Poetry – reading period CONTINUES [$2000 prize for poetry manuscripts between 60-100 pages; $25 entry fee]

Tampa Review-Danahy Fiction Prize – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prize for fiction between 500-5000 words; $20 entry fee]

Tar River Review – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

10X3 Plus – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

Texas Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Thin Air Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Third Coast – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction (reportage, essays, memoir), drama, poetry, translations]

Third Coast Fiction and Poetry Contest – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prizes in fiction (up to 9000 words) and poetry categories; $16 entry fee for each story or three poems, includes subscription]

Three Coyotes – reading period BEGINS [fiction, novel excerpts, nonfiction, essays, poetry, art]

Tidal Basin Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Tiferet Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, interviews, poetry, art "at the nexus of literature and spirituality"]

Timber – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry]

Tin House – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, interviews, poetry; open theme and "Lost & Founds about the Wild" theme accepted]

TINGE – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Toasted Cheese-Dead of Winter Contest – reading period BEGINS [horror fiction (2000-3000 words) set in winter; prizes are Amazon giftcards, with amounts dependant on how many entries are received; no entry fee]

Trachodon – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction and art exploring "artisian culture"]

 2 Bridges Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Upstairs at Duroc – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, prose poems, hybrid, translations, art]

Upstreet – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, prose poems]

Verse Wisconson – reading period CONTINUES [essays, book reviews, interviews, poetry]

Vestal Review – reading period CONTINUES [flash fiction]

Vine Leaves Literary Journal – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry in vignettes]

Wag's Revue – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, interviews, poems]

Washington Square – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry]

Water~Stone Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction, memoir excerpts, poetry]

Weave Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, drama, art]

West Branch – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, translation]

Western Humanities Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, hybrid]

Western Humanities Review-Annual Utah Writer's Contest – reading period CONTINUES [$500 prizes in Poetry [5 poems up to 10 pages] and Prose [up to 25 pages] by Utah writers only]

Whiskey Island – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry]

Whitefish Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art & photography]

Willow Springs – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Witness – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, interviews, poetry]

 Words and Images Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

_October 3_ rd

Soliloquies – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Words and Images-The Andres Dubus Award in Short Fiction – reading period BEGINS [$300 prize for fiction (up to 4000 words); $15 fee per entry]

 Words and Images-The Betsy Sholl Award in Poetry – reading period BEGINS [$300 prize for poetry; $15 fee per entry of 5 poems]

_October 4_ th

94 Creations – reading period ENDS [fiction, flash fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction, one act plays, monologues, poetry, art]

_October 9_ th

Goblin Fruit – reading period BEGINS [poetry "of the fantastical"]

_October 15_ th

Copper Nickel – reading period BEGINS [fiction, poetry]

Cutthroat-Joy Harjo Poetry Award & Rick DeMarinis Short Story Award – reading period ENDS [$1250 & $250 prizes in both categories; $17 fee per entry]

Dogwood – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Dogwood-Contest – reading period ENDS [$1000 grand prize for best entry in fiction, nonfiction, or poetry, $250 for the other two genres; $15 fee per entry]

 George Town Review-Magazine Contest – reading period ENDS [$1000 for short story, poem, or essay; $10 entry fee / $5 each additional entry]

Jabberwock Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, poetry]

Jet Fuel Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, reviews, poetry]

New Madrid – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Shadowbox – reading period BEGINS creative nonfiction][K's Note: Click on the dice for the guidelines. But you can't actually submit directly from Shadowbox's site. You need to go through [Tell It Slant's site]

So to Speak – reading period ENDS ["feminist" fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

So to Speak-Nonfiction Contest – reading period ENDS [$500 prize for nonfiction up to 4500 words; $15 entry fee]

So to Speak-Poetry Contest – reading period ENDS [$500 prize for poetry up to 10 pages; $15 entry fee to submit 5 poems (altogether up to 10 pages)]

Tar River Review – reading period ENDS [poetry]

Washington Square – reading period ENDS [fiction, poetry]

Western Humanities Review-Annual Utah Writer's Contest – reading period ENDS [$500 prizes in Poetry [5 poems up to 10 pages] and Prose [up to 25 pages] by Utah writers only]

Whitefish Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art & photography]

_October 16_ th

TriQuarterly Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, drama, poetry, hybrid; reviews or interviews: query first]

_October 18_ th

Mandala Journal – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art on the theme "shelter"]

_October 26_ th

Unstuck – reading period BEGINS [fiction]

_October 29_ th

Albion Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry from undergraduates]

_October 31_ st

 Alligator Juniper National Writing Contest in Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, and Poetry Contest – reading period ENDS [fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction]

American Poetry Review APR / Honickman First Book Prize Contest – reading period ENDS [book-length collection of poems]

Amoskeag Journal – reading period ENDS [Theme: Identity; fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction]

The Broken Plate – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry from everyone; screenplays, art from Ball State undergraduates only]

Drafthorse – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, visual art]

Free Verse – reading period ENDS [poetry, contemporary poetry book reviews]

Inscape Magazine – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The New Renaissance-The Louise E. Reynolds Memorial Fiction Awards – reading period ENDS [fiction from 2-36 pages; $500, $250, $100, $50 prizes; $16.50 entry fee ($11.50 for subscribers]

Pear Noir! – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art & photography]

Río Grande Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, criticism, poetry, comics, art]

Soliloquies – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Stickman Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

The Stinging Fly – reading period BEGINS [fiction, novel excerpts, essays, book reviews, poetry "by Irish and international writers"]

Superstition Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Thin Air Magazine – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

# November

_November 1_ st _:_

The Adirondack Review – 46er Prize for Poetry – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

Adventum – reading period CONTINUES [haiku, creative nonfiction, essays, and memoir pieces]

Agni – reading period CONTINUES [poetry, fiction, essays]

Alaska Quarterly Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, drama, poetry, photo essays, and literary nonfiction]

American Letters & Commentary – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, poetry]

American Literary Review – reading period CONTINUES [poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction]

Amethyst Arsenic – reading period CONTINUES [poetry, art]

 The Antigonish Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, poetry, book reviews]

The Antioch Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry, nonfiction]

Arc Poetry Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [poetry, essays, reviews]

 Aries – reading period ENDS [fiction, creative nonfiction, essays, one-act plays, poetry, black & white art from North Carolina artists and writers]

Arsenic Lobster \- reading period CONTINUES [poetry, essays & reviews on poetry]

Artful Dodge – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, narrative essay, poetry, translations]

Arts & Letters – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, drama, poetry, creative nonfiction]

 Ashville Poetry Review's The Williams Matthews Poetry Prize – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

Atlanta Review International Poetry Competition – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

Avatar Review – reading period CONTINUES [poetry, short fiction, essays, visual art and prose poems]

Bacoba Literary Review Contest – reading period CONTINUES [individual prizes for fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Baltimore Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Bare Root Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Barely South Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Barn Owl Review – reading period ENDS [poetry]

Barnwood – reading period CONTINUES [poetry; _K's NOTE: the link wasn't working the last time I tried it, so good luck_ ]

Barrow Street Journal – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

Basalt Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry, hybrid]

Bat City Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Bateau Lit Mag – reading period CONTINUES [flash fiction, flack nonfiction, playlets, poetry]

Bateau Press Boom Poetry Chapbook Contest – reading period CONTINUES [poetry 20-30 pages]

Bayou Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Bellevue Literary Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry "related to our themes of health, healing, illness, the mind, and the body"]

Bellingham Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Beloit Fiction Journal – reading period CONTINUES [literary fiction]

The Bitter Oleander – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry]

Black Lantern Publishing – reading period ENDS [macabre fiction, poetry]

Black Market Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, art]

Blackbird – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, drama, poetry]

Blood Orange Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Blue Earth Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

 Blueline – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry "relating to the Adirondacks and regions similar in geography and spirit"]

The Blue Pencil – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama by writers aged 12–18]

The Blue Pencil's Elizabeth Bishop Prize – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry, and playwriting]

Bloom – reading period CONTINUES ["queer" fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The Blue Route – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry]

Boiler Journal First Annual 500 Flash Fiction Challenge – reading period CONTINUES [flash fiction up to 500 words]

Booth Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, comics]

Boston Review – fiction reading period CONTINUES [nonfiction, poetry read year-round]

Boulevard Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Boulevard Magazine Short Fiction Contest for Emerging Writers – reading period CONTINUES [fiction to 8000 words]

Bound Off – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction in audio]

 Briar Cliff Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, humor, poetry]

Brilliant Corners – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Brink Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, one-act plays, dramatic or novel sections, interviews, translations]

Broad River Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Broad River Review Rash Awards Contest – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry]

The Brooklyn Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, multimedia, art, photography]

Bryant Literary Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry, art, photography]

The Cape Rock Vern Cowles Prize for a Trinity of Poems – reading period CONTINUES [series of 3 poems]

Cactus Heart – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Calyx – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry by and for women]

Carbon Copy Magazine – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, short drama, art]

Chautauqua Literary Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, book reviews, poetry]

The Chattahoochiee Review-The Lamar York Prizes for Fiction and Nonfiction – reading period CONTINUES [prose up to 5000 words, $15 entry fee, $1000 prize each for fiction and nonfiction]

The Cincinnati Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, reviews, translations, poetry, art]

Columbia Poetry Review – reading period ENDS [poetry]

The Common – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry; K's Note: subscribers can submit for free—all others pay $1.50 per submission]

Confrontation Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, memoir, poetry, drama]

Connecticut Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, essays, poetry, interviews, translations, art]

Contemporary Haibun – reading period CONTINUES [haibun poetry]

Copper Nickel – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry]

Crab Creek Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Crab Creek Review 2013 Fiction Contest – reading period CONTINUES [fiction; $10 entry fee; $200 Prize]

Crab Orchard Review – Summer/Fall issue reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, interviews (query first)]

Crannog Literary Magazine – reading period BEGINS [fiction, poetry]

Crazyhorse – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The Cream City Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Cream City Review Annual Poetry and Fiction Contests – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prize in each category; $15 entry fee]

Cumberland River Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, poetry, art]

CutBank – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

CutBank-Big Fish Online Flash Fiction/Prose Poetry Prize – reading period ENDS [$200 prize for flash fiction, prose poetry, etc up to 500 words; $9 fee per entry]

Defenestration – fiction and poetry reading period CONTINUES [nonfiction open year-round]

Delmarva – reading period BEGINS [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, short reviews]

Drash – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, poetry "on Jewish and Northwest themes"]

Ecotone – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, novel or memoir excerpts, nonfiction, poetry]

Ellipsis – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

 The Emerson Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Emrys Journal – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Enizagam – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Enizagam-Writing Contest – reading period CONTINUES [fiction and poetry categories; $1000 prizes in each category; $20 fee per entry]

Epiphany Editions Poetry Chapbook Contest – reading period CONTINUES [18-40 pages of fiction; $17 fee per entry includes Book Kit of winning entry and subscription to Epiphany Journal]

 Epoch – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Essays and Fictions – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays]

The Evansville Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The Evansville Review-Willis Barnstone Translation Prize – reading period CONTINUES [translations of poetry; $1000 prize; $5 fee for first entry, $3 for each additional entry]

 Exit 7 – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Faultline – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, translation, art]

Feile-Festa – reading period CONTINUES [flash fiction (up to 500 words), articles] "... our preference is for creative work related to Irish and Italian/Sicilian themes... Mediterranean cultures...or the diasporas to America, Canada, etc. We are also interested in writing that evokes life in New York City."]

Fence-Fence Modern Prize in Prose – reading period BEGINS [novel; $2500 prize; $28 entry fee]

Fiction – reading period CONTINUES [fiction]

Field – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

Fifth Wednesday Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, essays, poetry, b & w photography]

Five Points – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Five Points-James Dickey Prize for Poetry – reading period CONTINUES [poetry; $1000 prize; $20 fee per entry for up to 3 poems 50 lines or up to (includes subscription)]

Florida English – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, interviews, book reviews]

Flyway – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art "that delve into place or environment"]

Flyway-Creative Non-Fiction Contest – reading period CONTINUES [creative nonfiction; $500 1st prize, $50 runner-up; $12 per entry, or $15 with a print back issue)

foam:e – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

Foliate Oak Literary Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Folio – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Folio-Folio Poetry Contest – reading period CONTINUES [poetry; $500 first prize, two $150 prizes; $15 reading fee includes subscription)]

Fourteen Hills – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, experimental/hybrid]

Fourth River – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Fox Cry Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Freshwater – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

Frogpond – reading period CONTINUES [haiku, haibun, rengay, renku, essays, book reviews]

Fugue Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

 Georgetown Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, novel excerpts, nonfiction, poetry]

 Georgetown Review- Poetry Manuscript Contest – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prize for 48-80 page poetry manuscript. $20 entry fee]

Georgia Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, book reviews, poetry, graphics]

 Gertrude-Chapbook Contest – reading period CONTINUES [$100 award in fiction and poetry categories; 16-20 pages of fiction or poetry; $15 post / $17 online submission entry fees]

The Gettysburg Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, poetry]

Ghost Town – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, narrative nonfiction, poetry]

Glass: a Journal of Poetry – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

Glimmer Train-Short Story Award for New Writers – reading period BEGINS [fiction from unpublished writers to 12000 words, $1500, $500, $300 prizes; $15 fee per entry (limit 3)]

Goblin Fruit – reading period CONTINUES [poetry "of the fantastical"]

Green Mountains Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, interviews, book reviews, poetry]

Gulf Coast – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, poems, interviews, reviews]

Gulf Stream – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Halfway Down the Stairs – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Harpur Palate-The Milton Kessler Memorial Prize for Poetry – reading period CONTINUES [poetry; $500 prize; $15 entry fee includes subscription; up to 5 poems per entry]

Harpur Palate-Prize for Creative Nonfiction \- reading period CONTINUES [creative nonfiction up to 8000 words; $500 prize; $15 per entry fee includes subscription]

 Harvard Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, short drama, poetry]

 Hawai'I Pacific University – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, poetry]

The Healing Muse – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry "particularly but not exclusively focusing on themes of medicine and healing"]

The Hollins Critic – reading period CONTINUES [nonfiction "surveys of the whole bodies of contemporary writers' work", book reviews, poetry]

The Hopkins Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Hotel Amerika – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The Hudson Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction only]

The Idaho Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry; longer work: query first]

Illuminations – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, essays, journalism, poetry, art]

Inkwell – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Interim Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, reviews, poetry)

International Poetry Review – reading period CONTINUES [poetry in translation]

The Iowa Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction, book reviews, drama, poetry]

jubilat – reading period CONTINUES [poetry, prose about poetry, art]

The Kenyon Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, drama, poetry]

The Kenyon Review-The Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers – reading period BEGINS [poetry from high school sophomores or juniors; prize is a full scholarship to the Kenyon Reviews summer workshop; no entry fee]

Kestrel – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Konundrum – reading period CONTINUES [poetry only]

The Laurel Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, reviews, poetry]

The Ledge – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry]

 The Licking River Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, critical essays, poetry, art]

The Lindenwood Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, personal essay, poetry]

Lit Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The Literary Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, essays, poetry, translations]

Lowestoft Chronicle – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry; "Preference will be given to humorous submissions with an emphasis on travel."]

Lumina Journal – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Lumina Journal-Fiction Contest – reading period ENDS [fiction up to 5000 words; $500 Prize]

Lunch Ticket – reading period ENDS [fiction, creative fiction, poetry, "for young people"]

Magnolia Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry: "Socially engaged works...that interact with and challenge social injustices of our time."]

Mandala Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art on the theme "shelter"]

Many Mountains Moving – print edition reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, drama, poetry]

The Marathon Literary Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, poetry, art & photography]

Mascara Literary Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, essays, reviews, poetry, translations]

Mason's Road – reading period CONTINUES [theme fiction, poetry]

The Massachusetts Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translations]

Mayday – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, reviews, poetry, translations, graphic narrative, visual art]

The Meadow – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, screenplays, comics, art & photography]

The Medulla Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, flash fiction, poetry]

Meridian – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Meridian-Editors' Prize Contests – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prizes in fiction (up to 10000 words) and poetry (up to 4 poems, 10000 words altogether) categories; $8 fee per entry, limit two entries; not open to writers who have published more than two books.]

 The Minnesota Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, critical nonfiction, reviews, interviews, poetry]

Mississippi Review Prize – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prizes in fiction (1000-8000 words), and poetry (up to 10 pages); $15 fee per entry)

Monday Night – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, essays, poetry, translations]

Moon City Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, book reviews]

The Muse – reading period CONTINUES [poetry, research papers]

 Nassau Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, flash nonfiction; critical prose, poetry]

New Delta Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, book reviews, interviews, poetry]

New Delta Review-NDR Chapbook Contest – reading period CONTINUES [$100 prize for fiction, poetry, or hybrid; $15 entry fee]

New England Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, drama, poetry, translation]

New Letters – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

New Letters-Literary Awards – reading period CONTINUES [$1500 prizes in: The New Letters Prize for Poetry, the Dorothy Churchill Cappon Prize for the Essay, and The Alexander Patterson Cappon Prize for fiction; fiction, nonfiction up to 8000 words, six poems; $15 for first entry, $10 each additional entry]

New Ohio Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The New Poet – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

 the new river – reading period CONTINUES [digital writing and art]

New South – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, essays, poetry]

Nilson Literary Prize for a First Novel – reading period ENDS [fiction novel, or series of interconnected short stories]

Nimrod – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, poetry]

Ninth Letter – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The Normal School –reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, recipes]

North Central Review – reading period CONTINUES fiction, creative nonfiction, drama, poetry, hybrid, art] [Emerging Writers Spotlight – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 scholarship in fiction, poetry categories by high school students]

 North Dakota Quarterly – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Notre Dame Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, poetry]

Obsidian – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, critical essays, drama, poetry "from within, about, and contextualizing the African Diaspora"]

Ocean State Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

One Story – reading period CONTINUES [fiction]

Ozone Park Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, drama, poetry, translations, art]

Palabra – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, novel excerpts, drama, hybrid]

Pebble Lake Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, reviews, interviews, poetry]

Permafrost – print edition reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Phoebe – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Phoebe-Winter Fiction Contest – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prize for fiction up to 7500 words; $15 entry fee]

Phoebe-Greg Grummer Poetry Award – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prize for poetry; $15 entry fee for 4 poems, altogether up to 10 pages]

Phoebe-Annual Creative Nonfiction Prize – reading period CONTINUES [$500 prize for nonfiction up to 5000 words; $15 entry fee]

The Pinch Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Pleides – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, poetry]

Ploughshares – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Poems and Plays – reading period CONTINUES [poetry, drama; Tennessee Chapbook Prize; 20-24 pages of poetry, drama, or a combination of both; $15 entry fee]

Poetica Magazine-Annual Chapbook Contest – reading period CONTINUES [$250 and five $100 runner-up prizes; 16-24 pages of poetry; $15 entry fee]

Poetry Northwest – reading period CONTINUES [essays, reviews, poetry]

Polaris – reading period CONTINUES [undergraduate fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Potomac Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Printer's Devil Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Prune Juice – reading period CONTINUES [senryu, kyoka poetry]

A Public Space – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Puerto Del Sol – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, drama, criticism, poetry, translations, art

The Quotable – reading period ENDS [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, art]

Red Rock Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

 Red Wheelbarrow – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, drama, poetry, art & photography, comics

Reed Magazine – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Reed Magazine-John Steinbeck Award – reading period ENDS [$1000 prize for fiction up to 6000 words; $15 fee per entry]

Reed Magazine-Edwin Markham Prize in Poetry – reading period ENDS [$1000 prize for poetry; $15 fee per entry of 3-5 poems]

Relief – reading period BEGINS [Christian fiction, poetry]

 Review Americana – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, craft essays, writing education essays, drama, poetry]

A River & Sound – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, humor, translation]

River Styx – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, essays poetry, translations, art]

River Teeth – reading period CONTINUES [creative nonfiction, "narrative reportage," essays, memoirs]

 Roanoke Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry]

The Round – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, drama, poetry, translations, art & photography]

 Rubbertop Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, one-act plays, poetry, art "from both students at The University of Akron and greater Ohio"]

Saint Ann's Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, novel excerpts nonfiction, drama, poetry, translations]

St. Petersburg Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, drama, poetry]

St. Petersburg Review-Poetry Contest – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prize for poetry; $20 entry fee for 3 poems]

Salamander – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, memoir, poetry]

Salt Hill Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Saranac Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, hybrid, translation]

Seneca Review – reading period CONTINUES [nonfiction essays, poetry]

Sewanee Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Shadowbox – reading period CONTINUES creative nonfiction][K's Note: Click on the dice for the guidelines. But you can't actually submit directly from Shadowbox's site. You need to go through [Tell It Slant's site]

Shenandoah – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Shenandoah-The Graybeal-Gowen Prize – reading period CONTINUES [$500 prize for a Virginia poet; submit up to 3 poems; no entry fee]

 SLAB – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, "text-based graphic art"]

 Slant – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

Snail Mail Review – reading period CONTINUES [flash fiction, poetry]

Soundings East – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

South Loop Review – reading period CONTINUES [creative nonfiction, essays, memoir, art & photography]

Southern California Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction, memoir, personal essays, drama, poetry]

Southern Indiana Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction, reviews, interviews, poetry, art & photography

The Southern Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, poetry]

 The Southhampton Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, novellas, nonfiction, drama & screenplays, poetry, art & photography]

Sou'wester – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Southwest Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction articles, poetry]

 Southword-The Gregory O'Donoghue International Poetry Competition – reading period CONTINUES [€1000 w/a trip to Cork, Ireland, €500, €250, and ten €30 prizes for poetry up to 40 lines; €5 entry fee per poem / 5 poems for €20]

The Sow's Ear-Poetry Competition – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prize for poetry (no length limit); $27 entry fee for up to 5 poems]

Spinning Jenny – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

The Spoon River Poetry Review – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

The Spoon River Poetry Review-Editor's Prize – reading period CONTINUES [$1000, two $100 prizes for poetry; $20 entry fee for up to 3 poems (maximum 10 pages) includes subscription]

SpringGun Press – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry (book reviews, interviews, art & electronic literature = year-round)]

Stone Highway Review – reading period CONTINUES [flash fiction, flash nonfiction (both up to 750 words), poetry]

StoryQuarterly – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction]

storySouth – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry "by writers from the new south"]

Subtropics – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, novel excerpts, essays, poetry, translations]

Suspence Magazine Writing Contest – reading period CONTINUES [Twelve books (some autographed) from each of the authors of the month for 2012, $50 Amazon gift card, $25 gift card prizes for suspence/mystery/thiller fiction between 1500-4000 words]

Switchback – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Sycamore Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Sycamore Review-Wabash Prize for Poetry – reading period ENDS [$1000 prize for poetry; $15 entry fee per 3 poems (up to 6 pages) includes subscription, $5 each additional poem]

Sycamore Review-Wabash Prize for Fiction – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prize for fiction up to 7500 words; $15 entry fee includes subscription]

Talking River – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, book reviews, poetry]

Tampa Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Tampa Review Prize for Poetry – reading period CONTINUES [$2000 prize for poetry manuscripts between 60-100 pages; $25 entry fee]

Tampa Review-Danahy Fiction Prize – reading period ENDS [$1000 prize for fiction between 500-5000 words; $20 entry fee]

10X3 Plus – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

Texas Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Third Coast – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction (reportage, essays, memoir), drama, poetry, translations]

Third Coast Fiction and Poetry Contest – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prizes in fiction (up to 9000 words) and poetry categories; $16 entry fee for each story or three poems, includes subscription]

Three Coyotes – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, novel excerpts, nonfiction, essays, poetry, art]

Tidal Basin Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Tiferet Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, interviews, poetry, art "at the nexus of literature and spirituality"]

Timber – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry]

Tin House – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, interviews, poetry; open theme and "Lost & Founds about the Wild" theme accepted]

TINGE – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Toasted Cheese-Dead of Winter Contest – reading period CONTINUES [horror fiction (2000-3000 words) set in winter; prizes are Amazon giftcards, with amounts dependant on how many entries are received; no entry fee]

Trachodon – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction and art exploring "artisian culture"]

TriQuarterly Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, drama, poetry, hybrid; reviews or interviews: query first]

 2 Bridges Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Unstuck – reading period ENDS [fiction]

Upstairs at Duroc – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, prose poems, hybrid, translations, art]

Upstreet – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, prose poems]

Verse Wisconson – reading period CONTINUES [essays, book reviews, interviews, poetry]

Vestal Review – reading period CONTINUES [flash fiction]

Vine Leaves Literary Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry in vignettes]

Wag's Revue – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, interviews, poems]

Water~Stone Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction, memoir excerpts, poetry]

Weave Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, drama, art]

West Branch – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, translation]

Western Humanities Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, hybrid]

Whiskey Island – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry]

Willow Springs – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Witness – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, interviews, poetry]

The Worchester Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, literary articles, poetry, art & photography]

 Words and Images Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Words and Images-The Andres Dubus Award in Short Fiction – reading period CONTINUES [$300 prize for fiction (up to 4000 words); $15 fee per entry]

 Words and Images-The Betsy Sholl Award in Poetry – reading period CONTINUES [$300 prize for poetry; $15 fee per entry of 5 poems]

_November 3_ rd

Crab Orchard Review – Summer/Fall issue reading period ENDS [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, interviews (query first)]

New Plains Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry "social commentary"]

Newport Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry, one-act plays]

 Otis Nebula-Poetry Prize – reading period BEGINS [$250 prize for a book length poetry collection, $50 runner-up; $15 reading fee]

Paddlefish – reading period BEGINS [fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry, graphic memoir]

Río Grande Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, criticism, poetry, comics, art]

_November 6_ th

Flyway-Creative Non-Fiction Contest – reading period ENDS [creative nonfiction; $500 1st prize, $50 runner-up; $12 per entry, or $15 with a print back issue)

_November 7_ th

Mason's Road – reading period ENDS [theme fiction, poetry]

_November 9_ th

The Examined Life Journal-Contest – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, and poetry categories. $300 and $150 prizes for each category; $25 fee per entry]

_November 10_ th

Adventum – reading period ENDS [haiku, creative nonfiction, essays, and memoir pieces]

The Muse – reading period ENDS [poetry, research papers]

_November 15_ th

Bare Root Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Bat City Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Boiler Journal First Annual 500 Flash Fiction Challenge – reading period ENDS [flash fiction up to 500 words]

Broad River Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Broad River Review Rash Awards Contest – reading period ENDS [fiction, poetry]

Chautauqua Literary Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, book reviews, poetry]

Copper Nickel – reading period ENDS [fiction, poetry]

Freshwater – reading period ENDS [poetry]

Frogpond – reading period ENDS [haiku, haibun, rengay, renku, essays, book reviews]

Gulf Stream – reading period ENDS [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Halfway Down the Stairs – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Harpur Palate-The Milton Kessler Memorial Prize for Poetry – reading period ENDS [poetry; $500 prize; $15 per entry fee includes subscription; up to 5 poems per entry]

Harpur Palate-Prize for Creative Nonfiction \- reading period ENDS [creative nonfiction up to 8000 words; $500 prize; $15 per entry fee includes subscription]

ILK Journal – reading period BEGINS [poetry, hybrid]

Inkwell – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Oval – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry art from University of Montana undergraduates only]

Prune Juice – reading period ENDS [senryu, kyoka poetry]

Shenandoah-The Graybeal-Gowen Prize – reading period ENDS [$500 prize for a Virginia poet; submit up to 3 poems; no entry fee]

 Slant – reading period ENDS [poetry]

_November 30_ th

Bacoba Literary Review Contest – reading period ENDS [individual prizes for fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Baltimore Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Barely South Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

 Blueline – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry "relating to the Adirondacks and regions similar in geography and spirit"]

Contemporary Haibun – reading period ENDS [haibun poetry]

Crannog Literary Magazine – reading period ENDS [fiction, poetry]

Fence-Fence Modern Prize in Prose – reading period ENDS [novel; $2500 prize; $28 entry fee]

foam:e – reading period ENDS [poetry]

Glimmer Train-Short Story Award for New Writers – reading period ENDS [fiction from unpublished writers to 12000 words, $1500, $500, $300 prizes; $15 fee per entry (limit 3)]

The Hudson Review – reading period ENDS [fiction only]

The Iowa Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction, book reviews, drama, poetry]

The Kenyon Review-The Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers – reading period ENDS [poetry from high school sophomores or juniors; prize is a full scholarship to the Kenyon Reviews summer workshop; no entry fee]

The Marathon Literary Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, flash fiction, poetry, art & photography]

Nimrod – reading period ENDS [fiction, essays, poetry]

Poems and Plays – reading period ENDS [poetry, drama; Tennessee Chapbook Prize; 20-24 pages of poetry, drama, or a combination of both; $15 entry fee]

A River & Sound – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, humor, translation]

River Styx – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, essays poetry, translations, art]

 SLAB-Elizabeth R. Curry Poetry Contest – reading period ENDS [poetry; $10 entry fee for 3 poems includes subscription]

SpringGun Press – reading period ENDS [fiction, poetry (book reviews, interviews, art & electronic literature = year-round)]

Tampa Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

10X3 Plus – reading period ENDS [poetry]

Three Coyotes – reading period ENDS [fiction, novel excerpts, nonfiction, essays, poetry, art]

TINGE – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Trachodon – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction and art exploring "artisian culture"]

Vestal Review – reading period ENDS [flash fiction]

Vine Leaves Literary Journal – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry in vignettes]

Wag's Revue – reading period ENDS [fiction, essays, interviews, poems]

# December

_December 1_ st _:_

The Adirondack Review – 46er Prize for Poetry – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

Agni – reading period CONTINUES [poetry, fiction, essays]

Alaska Quarterly Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, drama, poetry, photo essays, and literary nonfiction]

American Letters & Commentary – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, poetry]

American Literary Review – reading period CONTINUES [poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction]

Amethyst Arsenic – reading period CONTINUES [poetry, art]

 The Antigonish Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, poetry, book reviews]

The Antioch Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry, nonfiction]

Arc Poetry Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [poetry, essays, reviews]

Arroyo Literary Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, personal essays and memoir, translations, drama.

Arsenic Lobster – reading period CONTINUES [poetry, essays & reviews on poetry]

Artful Dodge – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, narrative essay, poetry, translations]

Arts & Letters – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, drama, poetry, creative nonfiction]

 Ashville Poetry Review's The Williams Matthews Poetry Prize – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

Atlanta Review International Poetry Competition – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

Avatar Review – reading period CONTINUES [poetry, short fiction, essays, visual art and prose poems]

Barnwood – reading period CONTINUES [poetry; _K's NOTE: the link wasn't working the last time I tried it, so good luck_ ]

Barrow Street Journal – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

Basalt Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry, hybrid]

Bateau Lit Mag – reading period CONTINUES [flash fiction, flack nonfiction, playlets, poetry]

Bateau Press Boom Poetry Chapbook Contest – reading period CONTINUES [poetry 20-30 pages]

Bayou Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Bellevue Literary Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry "related to our themes of health, healing, illness, the mind, and the body"]

Bellingham Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

 Bellingham Review Contest – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Beloit Fiction Journal – reading period ENDS [literary fiction]

The Binnacle Ultra-Short Competition – reading period BEGINS [fiction up to 150 words, poetry up to 16 lines and 150 words]

The Bitter Oleander – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry]

Black Lantern Publishing – reading period BEGINS [macabre fiction, poetry]

Black Market Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, art]

Blackbird – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, drama, poetry]

Blood Orange Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Blue Earth Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The Blue Pencil – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama by writers aged 12–18]

The Blue Pencil's Elizabeth Bishop Prize – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry, and playwriting]

The Blue Route – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry]

Booth Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, comics]

Boston Review – fiction reading period CONTINUES [nonfiction, poetry read year-round]

Boulevard Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Boulevard Magazine Short Fiction Contest for Emerging Writers – reading period CONTINUES [fiction to 8000 words]

Bound Off – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction in audio]

Brilliant Corners – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Brink Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, one-act plays, dramatic or novel sections, interviews, translations]

The Brooklyn Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, multimedia, art, photography]

Bryant Literary Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, poetry, art, photography]

The Cape Rock Vern Cowles Prize for a Trinity of Poems reading period CONTINUES [series of 3 poems]

Cactus Heart – reading period ENDS [fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Calyx – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry by and for women]

Carbon Copy Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, short drama, art]

The Chattahoochiee Review-The Lamar York Prizes for Fiction and Nonfiction – reading period CONTINUES [prose up to 5000 words, $15 entry fee, $1000 prize each for fiction and nonfiction]

The Cincinnati Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, reviews, translations, poetry, art]

The Common – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry; K's Note: subscribers can submit for free—all others pay $1.50 per submission]

Confrontation Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, memoir, poetry, drama]

Connecticut Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, essays, poetry, interviews, translations, art]

Crab Creek Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Crab Creek Review 2013 Fiction Contest – reading period CONTINUES [fiction; $10 entry fee; $200 Prize]

Crazyhorse – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Cream City Review Annual Poetry and Fiction Contests – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prize in each category; $15 entry fee]

Cumberland River Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, poetry, art]

CutBank – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Defenestration – fiction and poetry reading period CONTINUES [nonfiction open year-round]

Delmarva – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, short reviews]

Drash – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, poetry "on Jewish and Northwest themes"]

Ecotone – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, novel or memoir excerpts, nonfiction, poetry]

Emerge Literary Journal – reading period BEGINS [fiction, flash fiction, poetry]

 The Emerson Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Enizagam – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Enizagam-Writing Contest – reading period CONTINUES [fiction and poetry categories; $1000 prizes in each category; $20 fee per entry]

Epiphany Editions Poetry Chapbook Contest – reading period CONTINUES [18-40 pages of fiction; $17 fee per entry includes Book Kit of winning entry and subscription to Epiphany Journal]

 Epoch – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Essays and Fictions – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays]

The Evansville Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The Evansville Review-Willis Barnstone Translation Prize – reading period ENDS [translations of poetry; $1000 prize; $5 fee for first entry, $3 for each additional entry]

The Examined Life Journal-Contest – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, and poetry categories. $300 and $150 prizes for each category; $25 fee per entry]

 Exit 7 – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Faultline – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, translation, art]

Feile-Festa – reading period CONTINUES [flash fiction (up to 500 words), articles] "... our preference is for creative work related to Irish and Italian/Sicilian themes... Mediterranean cultures...or the diasporas to America, Canada, etc. We are also interested in writing that evokes life in New York City."]

Fiction – reading period CONTINUES [fiction]

Field – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

Fifth Wednesday Journal – reading period ENDS [fiction, creative nonfiction, essays, poetry, b & w photography]

Five Points – reading period ENDS [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Five Points-James Dickey Prize for Poetry – reading period ENDS [poetry; $1000 prize; $20 fee per entry for up to 3 poems up to 50 lines (includes subscription)]

Florida English – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, interviews, book reviews]

Flyway – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art "that delve into place or environment"]

Foliate Oak Literary Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Folio – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Folio-Folio Poetry Contest – reading period CONTINUES [poetry; $500 first prize, two $150 prizes; $15 reading fee includes subscription)]

Fourteen Hills – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, experimental/hybrid]

Fourth River – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Fox Cry Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Fugue Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

 Georgetown Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, novel excerpts, nonfiction, poetry]

 Georgetown Review- Poetry Manuscript Contest – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prize for 48-80 page poetry manuscript. $20 entry fee]

Georgia Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, book reviews, poetry, graphics]

 Gertrude-Chapbook Contest – reading period CONTINUES [$100 award in fiction and poetry categories; 16-20 pages of fiction or poetry; $15 post / $17 online submission entry fees]

The Gettysburg Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, poetry]

Ghost Town – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, narrative nonfiction, poetry]

Gigantic Sequins – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Glass: a Journal of Poetry – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

Glimmer Train-Fiction Open – reading period BEGINS [fiction 2000-20000 words, $2500, $1000, $600 prizes; $19 fee per entry (limit 3)]

Goblin Fruit – reading period ENDS [poetry "of the fantastical"]

Green Mountains Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, interviews, book reviews, poetry]

Gulf Coast – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, poems, interviews, reviews]

Halfway Down the Stairs – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

 Harvard Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, short drama, poetry]

 Hawai'I Pacific University – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, poetry]

The Healing Muse – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry "particularly but not exclusively focusing on themes of medicine and healing"]

The Hollins Critic – reading period ENDS [nonfiction "surveys of the whole bodies of contemporary writers' work", book reviews, poetry]

The Hopkins Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Hotel Amerika – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The Idaho Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry; longer work: query first]

ILK Journal – reading period CONTINUES [poetry, hybrid]

Illuminations – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, essays, journalism, poetry, art]

Interim Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, reviews, poetry)

International Poetry Review – reading period CONTINUES [poetry in translation]

jubilat – reading period CONTINUES [poetry, prose about poetry, art]

The Kenyon Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, drama, poetry]

Kestrel – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Konundrum – reading period CONTINUES [poetry only]; fiction reading period BEGINS

The Laurel Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, reviews, poetry]

The Ledge – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry]

 The Licking River Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, critical essays, poetry, art]

The Lindenwood Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, personal essay, poetry]

Lit Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The Literary Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, essays, poetry, translations]

 The Madison Review-Phyllis Smart Young Prize in Poetry – reading period BEGINS [triad of poems/ 15 page maximum; $1000 prize; $10 entry fee (one submission limit)

 The Madison Review-Chris O'Malley Prize for Fiction – reading period BEGINS [fiction up to 30 pages; $1000 prize; $10 entry fee (one submission limit)]

Magnolia Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry: "Socially engaged works...that interact with and challenge social injustices of our time."]

Mandala Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art on the theme "shelter"]

Many Mountains Moving – print edition reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, drama, poetry]

Mascara Literary Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, reviews, poetry, translations]

The Massachusetts Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translations]

Mayday – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, reviews, poetry, translations, graphic narrative, art]

The Meadow – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, screenplays, comics, art & photography]

The Medulla Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, poetry]

Meridian – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Meridian-Editors' Prize Contests – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prizes in fiction (up to 10000 words) and poetry (up to 4 poems, 10000 words altogether) categories; $8 fee per entry, limit two entries; not open to writers who have published more than two books.]

Mississippi Review Prize – reading period ENDS [$1000 prizes in fiction (1000-8000 words), and poetry (up to 10 pages); $15 fee per entry)

Monday Night – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, essays, poetry, translations]

Moon City Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, book reviews]

The Museum of Americana – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, American Songbook, art & photography; query first for reviews and interviews]

 Nassau Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, flash nonfiction; critical prose, poetry]

New Delta Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, book reviews, interviews, poetry]

New Delta Review-NDR Chapbook Contest – reading period CONTINUES [$100 prize for fiction, poetry, or hybrid; $15 entry fee]

New England Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, drama, poetry, translation]

New Letters – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

New Letters-Literary Awards – reading period CONTINUES [$1500 prizes in: The New Letters Prize for Poetry, the Dorothy Churchill Cappon Prize for the Essay, and The Alexander Patterson Cappon Prize for fiction; fiction, nonfiction up to 8000 words, six poems; $15 for first entry, $10 each additional entry]

New Ohio Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

New Plains Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry "social commentary"]

The New Poet – reading period ENDS [poetry]

 the new river – reading period CONTINUES [digital writing and art]

New South – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, essays, poetry]

New South-Writing Contests – reading period BEGINS [fiction or nonfiction (to 9000 words), and poetry categories; $15 per entry (1 prose piece or up to 3 poems)]

Ninth Letter – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

The Normal School –reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, recipes]

North Carolina Literary Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction only]

North Central Review – reading period CONTINUES fiction, creative nonfiction, drama, poetry, hybrid, art] [Emerging Writers Spotlight – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 scholarship in fiction, poetry categories by high school students]

 North Dakota Quarterly – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Obsidian – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, critical essays, drama, poetry "from within, about, and contextualizing the African Diaspora"]

Ocean State Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

One Story – reading period CONTINUES [fiction]

 Otis Nebula-Poetry Prize – reading period CONTINUES [$250 prize for a book length poetry collection, $50 runner-up; $15 reading fee]

Oval – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry art from University of Montana undergraduates only]

Ozone Park Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, drama, poetry, translations, art]

Paddlefish – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry, graphic memoir]

Palabra – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, novel excerpts, drama, hybrid]

 Paterson Literary Review – reading period BEGINS [flash fiction, poetry, art & photography]

Pebble Lake Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, reviews, interviews, poetry]

Permafrost – print edition reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Phoebe – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Phoebe-Winter Fiction Contest – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prize for fiction up to 7500 words; $15 entry fee]

Phoebe-Greg Grummer Poetry Award – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prize for poetry; $15 entry fee for 4 poems, altogether up to 10 pages]

Phoebe-Annual Creative Nonfiction Prize – reading period CONTINUES [$500 prize for nonfiction up to 5000 words; $15 entry fee]

The Pinch Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Pleides – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, poetry]

Ploughshares – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Poetica Magazine-Annual Chapbook Contest – reading period CONTINUES [$250 and five $100 runner-up prizes; 16-24 pages of poetry; $15 entry fee]

Poetry Northwest – reading period CONTINUES [essays, reviews, poetry]

Polaris – reading period CONTINUES [undergraduate fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Potomac Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Printer's Devil Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

A Public Space – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Puerto Del Sol – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, drama, criticism, poetry, translations, art

The Quotable – reading period BEGINS [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, art]

Red Rock Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

 Red Wheelbarrow – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, drama, poetry, art & photography, comics

Relief – reading period CONTINUES [Christian fiction, poetry]

 Review Americana – reading period ENDS [fiction, creative nonfiction, craft essays, writing education essays, drama, poetry]

Río Grande Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, criticism, poetry, comics, art]

River Styx-Schlafly Beer Micro-Fiction Contest – reading period CONTINUES [$1500 and a case of Schlafly Micro-brew beer for flash fiction up to 500 words; $20 entry fee includes subscription]

River Teeth – reading period CONTINUES [creative nonfiction, "narrative reportage," essays, memoirs]

 Roanoke Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry]

The Round – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, drama, poetry, translations, art & photography]

 Rubbertop Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, one-act plays, poetry, art "from both students at The University of Akron and greater Ohio"]

Saint Ann's Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, novel excerpts nonfiction, drama, poetry, translations]

St. Petersburg Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, drama, poetry]

St. Petersburg Review-Poetry Contest – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prize for poetry; $20 entry fee for 3 poems]

Salamander – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, memoir, poetry]

Salt Hill Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Saranac Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, hybrid, translation]

Seneca Review – reading period CONTINUES [nonfiction essays, poetry]

Sewanee Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Shadowbox – reading period CONTINUES creative nonfiction][K's Note: Click on the dice for the guidelines. But you can't actually submit directly from Shadowbox's site. You need to go through [Tell It Slant's site]

Shenandoah – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

 SLAB – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, "text-based graphic art"]

Snail Mail Review – reading period CONTINUES [flash fiction, poetry]

Soundings East – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

South Loop Review – reading period CONTINUES [creative nonfiction, essays, memoir, art & photography]

Southern California Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction, memoir, personal essays, drama, poetry]

Southern Indiana Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction, reviews, interviews, poetry, art & photography

The Southern Review – poetry reading period CONTINUES; fiction & essays reading period ENDS

 The Southhampton Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, novellas, nonfiction, drama & screenplays, poetry, art & photography]

Sou'wester – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Southwest Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction articles, poetry]

 Southword-The Gregory O'Donoghue International Poetry Competition – reading period CONTINUES [€1000 w/a trip to Cork, Ireland, €500, €250, and ten €30 prizes for poetry up to 40 lines; €5 entry fee per poem / 5 poems for €20]

Spinning Jenny – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

The Spoon River Poetry Review – reading period CONTINUES [poetry]

The Spoon River Poetry Review-Editor's Prize – reading period CONTINUES [$1000, two $100 prizes for poetry; $20 entry fee for up to 3 poems (maximum 10 pages) includes subscription]

Spout Press – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, essays, opinion, poetry, art, cartoons]

Still: the Journal – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Stone Highway Review – reading period CONTINUES [flash fiction, flash nonfiction (both up to 750 words), poetry]

StoryQuarterly – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction]

storySouth – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry "by writers from the new south"]

Subtropics – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, novel excerpts, essays, poetry, translations]

Suspence Magazine Writing Contest – reading period CONTINUES [Twelve books (some autographed) from each of the authors of the month for 2012, $50 Amazon gift card, $25 gift card prizes for suspence/mystery/thiller fiction between 1500-4000 words]

Switchback – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Switched-on-Gutenberg – reading period BEGINS [theme poetry]

Sycamore Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Sycamore Review-Wabash Prize for Fiction – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prize for fiction up to 7500 words; $15 entry fee includes subscription]

Talking River – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, book reviews, poetry]

Tampa Review Prize for Poetry – reading period CONTINUES [$2000 prize for poetry manuscripts between 60-100 pages; $25 entry fee]

Texas Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Third Coast – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction (reportage, essays, memoir), drama, poetry, translations]

Third Coast Fiction and Poetry Contest – reading period CONTINUES [$1000 prizes in fiction (up to 9000 words) and poetry categories; $16 entry fee for each story or three poems, includes subscription]

Thrice Fiction – reading period BEGINS [fiction, flash fiction, fiction that "may also be poetry]

Tidal Basin Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction, poetry]

Tiferet Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, interviews, poetry, art "at the nexus of literature and spirituality"]

Timber – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry]

Tin House – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, interviews, poetry; open theme and "Lost & Founds about the Wild" theme accepted]

Toasted Cheese-Dead of Winter Contest – reading period CONTINUES [horror fiction (2000-3000 words) set in winter; prizes are Amazon giftcards, with amounts dependant on how many entries are received; no entry fee]

TriQuarterly Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, drama, poetry, hybrid; reviews or interviews: query first]

 2 Bridges Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Upstairs at Duroc – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, prose poems, hybrid, translations, art]

Upstreet – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, prose poems]

Verse Wisconson – reading period CONTINUES [essays, book reviews, interviews, poetry]

Wag's Revue-Winter Writer's Contest – reading period BEGINS [$1000, $500, and $100 prizes in fiction, nonfiction (both up to 10000 words) and poetry (maximum 10 pages) categories; $22.09 fee per entry]

Water~Stone Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction, memoir excerpts, poetry]

Weave Magazine – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, drama, art]

West Branch – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, translation]

Western Humanities Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, hybrid]

Whiskey Island – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, poetry]

The White Review Short Story Prize – reading period BEGINS [£2,500 prize for fiction (2000-7000 words) "by a writer resident in the UK and Ireland who has yet to secure a publishing deal"; £15 entry fee]

Willow Springs – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Witness – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, interviews, poetry]

The Worchester Review – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, literary articles, poetry, art & photography]

 Words and Images Journal – reading period CONTINUES [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Words and Images-The Andres Dubus Award in Short Fiction – reading period CONTINUES [$300 prize for fiction (up to 4000 words); $15 fee per entry]

 Words and Images-The Betsy Sholl Award in Poetry – reading period CONTINUES [$300 prize for poetry; $15 fee per entry of 5 poems]

_December 5_ th

Defenestration – fiction and poetry reading period ENDS [nonfiction open year-round]

_December 8_ th

Ozone Park Journal – reading period ENDS [fiction, creative nonfiction, drama, poetry, translations, art]

_December 14_ th

Amethyst Arsenic – reading period ENDS [poetry, art]

_December 15_ th

Avatar Review – reading period ENDS [poetry, short fiction, essays, visual art and prose poems]

Bateau Press Boom Poetry Chapbook Contest – reading period ENDS [poetry 20-30 pages]

Boulevard Magazine Short Fiction Contest for Emerging Writers – reading period ENDS [fiction to 8000 words]

Brink Magazine – reading period ENDS [fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, one-act plays, dramatic or novel sections, interviews, translations]

The Brooklyn Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, multimedia, art, photography]

Clare Literary Review – reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Crab Creek Review 2013 Fiction Contest – reading period ENDS [fiction; $10 entry fee; $200 Prize]

Drash – reading period ENDS [fiction, essays, poetry "on Jewish and Northwest themes"]

Epiphany Editions Poetry Chapbook Contest – reading period ENDS [18-40 pages of fiction; $17 fee per entry includes Book Kit of winning entry and subscription to Epiphany Journal]

The Hopkins Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

ILK Journal – reading period ENDS [poetry, hybrid]

The Lindenwood Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, personal essay, poetry]

Lit Magazine – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Monday Night – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, essays, poetry, translations]

The Normal School-Normal Prize in Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry – reading period BEGINS [$1000 prize in each category; fiction, nonfiction up to 10087 words, poetry up to 5 poems, up to five pages total; $20 fee per entry

Permafrost – print edition reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Permafrost – online edition reading period BEGINS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Phoebe-Winter Fiction Contest – reading period ENDS [$1000 prize for fiction up to 7500 words; $15 entry fee]

Phoebe-Greg Grummer Poetry Award – reading period ENDS [$1000 prize for poetry; $15 entry fee for 4 poems, altogether up to 10 pages]

Phoebe-Annual Creative Nonfiction Prize – reading period ENDS [$500 prize for nonfiction up to 5000 words; $15 entry fee]

The Pinch Literary Awards in Fiction and Poetry – reading period BEGINS [$1500 fiction (to 5000 words) prize; $1000 poetry prize; $20 entry for one fiction, or 1-3 poems, $10 each additional entry]

 Southword-The Gregory O'Donoghue International Poetry Competition – reading period ENDS [€1000 w/a trip to Cork, Ireland, €500, €250, and ten €30 prizes for poetry up to 40 lines; €5 entry fee per poem / 5 poems for €20]

storySouth – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry "by writers from the new south"]

Washington Square – reading period BEGINS [fiction, poetry]

_December 20_ th

Defenestration – fiction and poetry reading period BEGINS [nonfiction open year-round]

 Nassau Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, flash nonfiction; critical prose, poetry]

_December 21_ st

Toasted Cheese-Dead of Winter Contest – reading period ENDS [horror fiction (2000-3000 words) set in winter; prizes are Amazon giftcards, with amounts dependant on how many entries are received; no entry fee]

 Words and Images Journal – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art]

Words and Images-The Andres Dubus Award in Short Fiction – reading period ENDS [$300 prize for fiction (up to 4000 words); $15 fee per entry]

 Words and Images-The Betsy Sholl Award in Poetry – reading period ENDS [$300 prize for poetry; $15 fee per entry of 5 poems]

_December 26_ th

Unstuck – reading period BEGINS [fiction]

_December 30_ th

Meridian-Editors' Prize Contests – reading period ENDS [$1000 prizes in fiction (up to 10000 words) and poetry (up to 4 poems, 10000 words altogether) categories; $8 fee per entry, limit two entries; not open to writers who have published more than two books.]

_December 31_ st

Calyx – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry by and for women]

Cream City Review Annual Poetry and Fiction Contests – reading period ENDS [$1000 prize in each category; $15 entry fee]

Essays and Fictions – reading period ENDS [fiction, essays]

 Georgetown Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, novel excerpts, nonfiction, poetry]

Glimmer Train-Fiction Open – reading period ENDS [fiction 2000-20000 words, $2500, $1000, $600 prizes; $19 fee per entry (limit 3)]

 Hawai'I Pacific University – reading period ENDS [fiction, essays, poetry]

Konundrum – poetry reading period ENDS [fiction CONTINUES]

 The Licking River Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, creative nonfiction, critical essays, poetry, art]

Magnolia Journal – reading period ENDS [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry: "Socially engaged works...that interact with and challenge social injustices of our time."]

Many Mountains Moving – print edition reading period ENDS [fiction, essays, drama, poetry]

Moon City Review – reading period ENDS [fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, book reviews]

The Museum of Americana – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry, American Songbook, art & photography; query first for reviews and interviews]

Poetica Magazine-Annual Chapbook Contest – reading period ENDS [$250 and five $100 runner-up prizes; 16-24 pages of poetry; $15 entry fee]

River Styx-Schlafly Beer Micro-Fiction Contest – reading period ENDS [$1500 and a case of Schlafly Micro-brew beer for flash fiction up to 500 words; $20 entry fee includes subscription]

 SLAB – reading period ENDS [fiction, creative nonfiction, "text-based graphic art"]

Snail Mail Review – reading period ENDS [flash fiction, poetry]

Still: the Journal – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, poetry]

Stone Highway Review – reading period ENDS [flash fiction, flash nonfiction (both up to 750 words), poetry]

Suspence Magazine Writing Contest – reading period ENDS [Twelve books (some autographed) from each of the authors of the month for 2012, $50 Amazon gift card, $25 gift card prizes for suspence/mystery/thiller fiction between 1500-4000 words]

Tampa Review Prize for Poetry – reading period ENDS [$2000 prize for poetry manuscripts between 60-100 pages; $25 entry fee]

Tiferet Journal – reading period ENDS [fiction, nonfiction, interviews, poetry, art "at the nexus of literature and spirituality"]

#  Journals that accept year-round

These journals will accept work anytime you want to send it to them. The links will take you directly to their submission policies page.

Aaduna – fiction, novel excerpts, essays, poetry; art that projects a "thematic story"; Summer Issue deadline = March 30th; Fall Issue deadline = June 30th; Second Anniversary Winter/Spring Issue deadline = November 18th

Able Muse – poetry, fiction, essays, interviews

Abramelin – poetry

About Place Journal – fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry; upcoming theme deadlines include: "Peaks and Valleys", 8/1/2012; "Trees", 2/1/2013, "Wall Street", 11/1/2013

Acentos Review – fiction, nonfiction, poetry [August 15th "Music" theme Issue deadline = July 1st; November 15th "Youth" theme issue deadline [Latin American authors under 25 preferred] = October 1st; February 15 issue deadline = January 1st; May 15th issue deadline = April 1st

The Adirondack Review – poetry, fiction, nonfiction, translation, reviews, interviews, and art and photography

Aethlon – poetry, fiction, creative fiction on sports

Agriculture Reader – fiction, poetry, criticism [send query only]

Airplane Reading – creative nonfiction up to 1000 words related to air travel

Albatross – poetry

Alice Blue Review – prose, poetry, reviews

Alimentum – fiction, nonfiction, poetry about food

Amarillo Bay – fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction

Ambit Magazine – fiction, poetry

American Poetry Review – poetry, essays, book reviews, interviews

 American Short Fiction – fiction

American Tanka – tanka poetry

Ampersand Review – fiction, poetry, nonfiction

Amphibi.us – fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry

Anak Sastra – fiction by Southeast Asians, or about Southeast Asia

Analog Press – fiction, nonfiction, poetry

Anastomoo – poetry [K's Note: the page _is_ the online mag, so you'll have to scroll down for the submission info – which is essentially send your poems to the site's email address (anastomoo@yahoo.com.au), and if he/she/they like them he'll/she'll/they'll publish them on the site.]

Anderbo – fiction, poetry, nonfiction

&Review – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art [K's note: the links were a little screwy last time I checked]

The Angler – fiction or essays in French in or about Louisiana, apparently

Animal – fiction, genre fiction, nonfiction, personal essays, memoir, humor, poetry

Anobium – Nonfiction for the website; Fiction accepted _whenever they feel like it._

Anti- – poetry

Antiphon Poetry Magazine – poetry

Apalachee Review – fiction, nonfiction, poetry

Appalachian Heritage – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, about the Southern Appalachian Region

The Apple Valley Review – fiction, essays, poetry

The Arava Review – poetry, art

Arcadia Magazine – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and just about everything else you can think of.

Arch Literary Journal – fiction, nonfiction, poetry

Arkansas Review – fiction, nonfiction, poetry that "focuses on the seven-state Mississippi River Delta"

Arlington Literary Journal – fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry K's Note: you won't find any submission guidelines on their site. Send a query and short bio to [givalpress@yahoo.com with "ArLiJo" in the subject line]

Ars Medica – fiction, personal narratives, creative nonfiction, poetry "that explores the interface between the arts and medicine"; spring issue deadline February 28th, Fall issue deadline July 30th

Artichoke Haircut – fiction (up to 2000 words), poetry

Ascent – fiction, poetry, nonfiction [K's note: they open submissions at the beginning of each month, and close when they reach 200 entries.]

Ascent Aspirations – fiction (literary, science fiction, fantasy and horror or dark main stream) and nonfiction (up to 1000 words), poetry

 Asia Literary Review – "literary fiction and non-fiction, reportage, memoir, travel writing, the essay, humour, poetry, documentary and themed photographic essays, and art" from or about Asia.

Assisi Journal – fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction

 Asymptote Journal – fiction, poetry, drama, literary nonfiction, interviews, and criticism translations into English.

Altanta Review – poetry [Fall issue deadline June 1st, Spring issue deadline December 1st]

Atticus Review – fiction, flash fiction, poetry, essays

Aufgabe – poetry, essays, reviews

Aurorian – poetry and contests only have deadlines by what issue they are reading for Spring/Summer Issue Deadline February 15th; Fall/Winter Issue Deadline August 15th], [Aurorian Seasonal Poetic Quote Contest, Aurorian Editor's Chapbook Choice Contest, Aurorian Creative Writing Student Outstanding Haiku Contest

Awosting Alchemy – fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, art

The Bad Version – fiction, nonfiction, poetry; deadlines are only for their next issue: July 15th

The Bacon Review – fiction, nonfiction, poetry

Banipal Magazine of Modern Arab Literature – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and reviews in translation "exclusively featuring authors from the Arab world"

The Barcelona Review – fiction, articles, reviews

The Barefoot Review – prose (up to 1000 words), poetry "by people who have or have had physical difficulties in their lives" and "for caretakers, families, significant others and friends to write about their experiences and relationships to the person"

Barge Journal – "Literature against the literary" which I take to mean fiction, nonfiction, poetry

Barnstorm – "read and publish on a rolling basis" fiction, poetry

Barrow Street Press – unpublished poetry manuscript (50-70 pages), deadline June 30th.

Bartleby Snopes – fiction, flash fiction

Bartleby Snopes Writing Contest – stories entirely in dialogue; annual deadline September 12 th.

Bathhouse Hypermedia Journal – "all forms of visual/linguistic art" – accepts year-round, but doesn't read in the summer.

The Battered Suitcase – fiction, poetry [K's Note: Not sure if the magazine is still about, because the website only lists submissions for "non-formulaic" novels, novellas, novellettes in a variety of genres.]

Beatdom – primarily accepts essays on the Beat Generation, with a little fiction and poetry. Upcoming theme issues include Nature (issue 11) and Crime (issue 12), but they don't list any submission deadlines for them.

Beecher's Magazine – will accept submissions year-round, but only reads during the period "that coincides with the academic year in question." Fiction, nonfiction, poetry

Behind Closed Doors – fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, art & photography

The Believer – Nonfiction, interviews, reviews, poetry, illustrations.

Beloit Poetry Journal – poetry

Berkeley Fiction Review – fiction; "Since our staff is composed of student volunteers, expect a delay if you submit during the summer."

Bidoun – "arts and culture coverage of the Middle East" [K's Note: I couldn't figure out how to contribute – it could be by commission only – so, good luck!]

Big Luck – fiction, poetry

Big Muddy – fiction, nonfiction, poetry "Interdisciplinary...Topics related to the Mississippi River Valley are encouraged and given preference"

Bilingual Review – "Scholarly/literary journal focusing on the linguistics and literature of bilingualism and bilingual education. Publishes scholarly articles, literary criticism, and book reviews as well as creative literature: poetry, short stories, essays, and short theater"

The Binnacle – fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry; the reading period for the Fall Edition is from March 1st to October 1st, reading for the Spring Edition is from September 15th to March 1st.

Birdfeast Magazine – poetry

Birmingham Arts Journal – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art

Birmingham Poetry Journal – poetry; issue deadlines are June 1st and December 1st.

Bizarrocast – "bizarre" fiction in audio

Black & White Journal – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, photography

Black Magnolias – fiction, poetry, nonfiction to "examine and celebrate the social, political, economic, and aesthetic accomplishments of African Americans with an emphasis on Afro-Mississippians and Afro-Southerners."

Black Warrior Review – fiction, nonfiction, poetry

Blackberry – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art. "Its goal is to expose readers to the diversity of the black woman's experience and strengthen the black female voice in both the mainstream and independent markets."

Blackbox Manifold – reviews, essays, poetry

BlazeVOX – fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry

Blip Magazine – fiction, nonfiction, poetry

Blood Lotus – fiction, poetry, reviews

The Bloomsbury Review – book reviews, interviews, short poetry

Blue Collar Review – fiction, essays and reviews up to 1250 words, and poetry to "promote  
a progressive working class vision of culture that inspires us and that moves us forward as a class."

Blue Collar Review Poetry Contest – poetry, reading is year-round, but deadline is May 15th.

Blue Lake Review – fiction, essays, editorials, poetry

Blue Lotus Review – literature, multimedia

Blue Mesa Review – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, book reviews, interviews

The Blue Penny Quarterly – fiction

Bluestem – fiction, nonfiction, poetry

The Boiler – fiction, nonfiction, poetry

Boneshaker – "literary bicycle-related submissions," art

Book Forum – nonfiction, book reviews

Borderlands – poetry, poetry book reviews, essays on poetry. June 15th deadline for the Fall/Winter issue, December 15th deadline for the Spring/Summer issue.

Borderline – poetry

Boston Literary Magazine – flash fiction (in 50, 100, 250 word limit categories), poetry, haiku

Boston Review – nonfiction, poetry (fiction only accepted September 15th – June 15th)

 Botticelli Magazine – fiction, poetry, art, flash

 Bottle Rockets – haiku, senryu, tanka, and haibun poetry

Box of Jars – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, music art

Breakwater Review – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art. April 15th deadline for the June issue, November 15th deadline for the January issue.

Brick – literary nonfiction [K's note: everything else is solicited by the editorial board]

BRICKrhetoric – poetry, creative nonfiction, persuasive essays, art, "science as art", and photography that is "identifiable with the premises of multiculturalism, urban life and/or community action/engagement"

The Broken City – fiction, essays, poetry, book/music reviews, comics, illustrations

Bull Magazine – fiction, essays, interviews, columns, illustrations that "address men's issues, span male perspectives, or otherwise appeal to a male audience"

Burnside Review – fiction, poetry

Burnt District – poetry

Burningword – flash fiction, poetry; issue deadlines are: January Issue – December 15th; April Issue – March 15th; July Issue – June 15th; October Issue – September 15th.

Bust Down the Door and Eat All the Chickens – absurdist and surreal fiction

 Buzzard Picnic – fiction, memoir, essay, criticism, book and story reviews, and author interviews

C4 – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama art

Café Irreal – Fantastic fiction; issue deadlines are January 1, April 1, July 1, and October 1

The Café Review – poetry, reviews, art

 Cahoots – nonfiction, poetry by and for women

Caketrain – fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, art

Caliban Online – "avant garde writing"

California Literary Review – Book reviews, nonfiction

Camas – fiction, essays, reviews, poetry, art & photography "that examines the complex relationships between individuals, communities, and the natural world." Summer issue deadline: March 15th; Winter issue deadline: October 15th

Camera Obscura – fiction, photography

Canadian Review – poetry, nonfiction, articles, reviews

Canary – fiction, poetry, essays "that explores one's engagement with the natural world"

Canteen – fiction, nonfiction

 The Cape Rock – poetry

The Capilano Review – experimental fiction, poetry

 The Caribbean Writer – fiction, nonfiction, poetry. "Issues unique to the Caribbean should be central in the work, or the work should reflect a Caribbean heritage, experience, or perspective."

The Carolina Quarterly – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, book reviews, art. Mail submissions not accepted May-August

Carte Blanche – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translations, graphic fiction, audio; Spring issue deadline: March 1st; Fall issue deadline September 15th [K's note: though year-round, it is recommended that you not submit "in the few weeks following each deadline date"]

Cartys Poetry Journal – Poetry, Haiku

Carve – "good honest" fiction

Catch Up – fiction, flash fiction, interviews, poetry, comics [K's Note: according to their website, "Catch Up will no longer accept unsolicited fiction submissions unless they are submitted to the Emerging Writers category below."]

Cerise – fiction, essays, interviews, poetry – including translations in French, Chinese, Spanish (more through queries), art, photography

Certain Circuits – multimedia, poetry, experimental prose, new media. "It is impossible to get into one of our print issues without first being accepted as part of one of our multimedia issues online."

Cha – fiction, poetry, photography, art "dedicated to publishing quality creative works from and about Asia" [K's Note: also, which is very cool, the have what is called "Lost Teas", which are "Works...which have been previously published in journals/magazines that have now folded." I prefer to call these stories that have risen from dead zines ZOMBIE STORIES!]

The Chaffey Review – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art

Chagrin River Review – fiction, poetry. Spring issue deadline: Dec. 31st.

Chantarelle's Notebook – poetry

chaparral – poetry

The Chariton Review – fiction, essays, poetry

The Chariton Review Short Fiction Prize – fiction to 5000 words, $20 submission fee, yearly deadline of September 31st.

The Chattahoochee Review – fiction, nonfiction, interviews, poetry, reviews, visual art

Chicago Quarterly Review – fiction, nonfiction, personal essays, poetry, visual art

Chicago Review – fiction, book reviews, poetry

Chickenbones – fiction, essays, poetry by and for African Americans

Chinese Literature Today – nonfiction articles, essays, book reviews

Cimarron Review – fiction, nonfiction, essays, poetry, art

Citron Review – microfiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, photography and digital art

The Claremont Review – fiction, poetry, drama by authors 13-19 years old

Clarkesworld – science fiction, interviews, articles, audio

The Cleveland Review – fiction, nonfiction, poetry by authors from, or about, the Rust Belt

Cliterature – fiction, nonfiction, poetry "dedicated to women's sexuality"

Clockhouse Review – fiction, creative nonfiction, memoir, poetry, short drama or screenplay, literary comics. Summer issue deadline: Dec. 15th

Cloudbank – fiction, nonfiction, poetry

Clover-a Literary Rag – fiction, poetry

Cobalt – fiction, nonfiction, poetry

Coe Review – experimental fiction, poetry. Poetry issue deadline: September 15th; Fiction issue deadline: February 15th

The Coffin Factory – fiction, essays

Cold Mountain Review – fiction, creative nonfiction, interviews, poetry

The Collagist – fiction, novel excerpts, book reviews, poetry

College Hill Review – articles, essays, reviews "related to style in the arts and humanities"

 College Literature – scholarly/academic essays, book reviews

Colorado Review – fiction, nonfiction, poetry

Common Ground Review – poetry, creative nonfiction (fall/winter issue only; deadline August 31) fiction (spring/summer issue only; deadline March 1)

The Commonline Journal – fiction, nonfiction, essays, articles, profiles, poetry, art

Conduit – prose, poetry

Conium Review – fiction, flash fiction, novella, poetry; issue deadline: November 1st

Conjunctions – fiction, memoir, poetry

Connotation Press – fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, drama, screenplays, art, interviews, book reviews, music reviews, videos

Conte – "narrative" fiction, novel excerpts, nonfiction, poetry

Contemporary Poetry Review – nonfiction: poetry criticism

Contemporary Verse 2 – poetry, nonfiction, articles, interviews

Contrary Magazine – fiction, poetry, commentary, reviews, hybrid works.

Convergence Journal – flash fiction, poetry, art; Spring and Summer issue deadline: January 5th

Cordite Poetry Review – flash fiction, poetry, prose poems

The Cortland Review – fiction, poetry, reviews (query first)

Cosmoetica – poetry, essays

The Cossack Review – fiction, nonfiction, poetry

The Country Dog Review – poetry, reviews (query first), interviews (with poets only), Fall/Winter issue postmark deadline November 15th

Crack the Spine – fiction, flash fiction, microfiction, poetry, personal essays, book reviews, art/photography

Creative Nonfiction – creative nonfiction, also check the website for current themes

Cricket Online Review – fiction, poetry, essays, sound, film, short drama, experimental visual art

Criminal Class Press – crime fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, art; accepts year-round, but only reads March 1st to August 1st

The Critical Flame – critical essays and book reviews on fiction, verse and non-fiction

Crossed Out Magazine – "socially aware, fast paced, and concisely written short fiction stories"; accepts year-round, but only reads November 1st-November 30th.

Crosstimbers – fiction, nonfiction, book reviews, articles, poetry

The Cupboard – fiction, nonfiction, prose poetry [K's Note: year-round submissions for subscribers only; open submissions in October only]

Curbside Splendor – fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, art "based in contemporary urban (and sometimes sub-urban) settings."

Curly Red Stories – flash fiction [visit website for themes; May issue theme, "Paper," submissions due April 10]

Cyphers – fiction, poetry, translations in English and Irish

The Dalhousie Review – fiction, nonfiction articles, book reviews, poetry

Damazine – fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry with "focus on authors based in or with ties to the Muslim world in the largest sense"

damselfly – fiction, nonfiction, poetry "from female writers of all experiences"

Danse Macabre – fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction, travel narratives, humour, poetry, art & photography

Dark Matter Journal – speculative fiction, flash fiction,essays, poetry, "musings"

Dead Mule – fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, flash essays, poetry

Dear Sir, \- "Send short or long poems in English, German or French, submit narratives, fragments, notations of sound poems, marginalia, experiments and manifestos, send traditional forms revamped, dialogues, monologues and monosyllables. Dear Sir, leans towards the poetic, the speculative and the cross-genre"

decomP – prose, poetry, art

Defenestration Magazine: humorous nonfiction and "fake" nonfiction only accepted year-round

defunct – essays on anything that has become "defunct"

Delaware Poetry Review – poetry [K's note: I couldn't find any submission guildlines—good luck!]

Descant – fiction, novel excerpts, drama, essays, interviews, poetry, musical scores, visual presentations. Graphic Literature Issue deadline: June 7th; Berlin themed issue deadline: August 16th; Winston Collins / Descant Prize for Best Canadian Poem – Deadline October 1st ($1000 prize; $30 per entry (includes subscription)

Devil's Lake – fiction, poetry

Devilfish Review – science fiction, fantasy, and horror fiction & flash fiction

The Diagram – "interesting text, images, and new media" fiction, poetry, art; 2013 Innovative Fiction Contest – fiction up to 10000 words, deadline March 30th ($1000 prize, $15 fee per entry); 2013 Chapbook Contest – prose and/or poetry, deadline April 1st ($1000 prize; $18 fee per entry); Diagram Essay Contest deadline October 31st ($1000 prize; $15 fee per entry)

diode – "poetry that excites and energizes"

The Dirty Napkin – fiction, poetry, letters

disquieting muses quarterly \- poetry

ditch, \- poetry "work that is non-linear, abstract, surreal, avant-garde, alternative, innovative, visual, concrete and/or experimental."

Diverse Voices Quarterly – fiction, creative nonfiction, personal essays, poetry, art & photography; Issue deadlines: Spring Issue—February 1st; Summer issue—May 1st; Autumn Issue—August 1st; Winter issue—November 1st.

 Do Not Look at the Sun – fiction, poetry, "as well as notes, thoughts, diary entries and other words that have no place elsewhere"

The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review – fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry;  The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review-The Gertrude Stein Award – fiction up to 5000 words, $1000 prize, $10 fee per entry, January 1st Midnight deadline

Dogzplot – flash fiction up to 200 words

Draft – fiction, drafts, articles, interviews about the writing process; Draft Contest – fiction [K's Note: essentially, like a cover song, you would reinterpret a passage from a story that draft provides]; $50 prize, $2 entry fee, no discernible deadline]

Dragnet – flash fiction up to 1000 words, poetry, humor

The Dream People – flash fiction up to 1000 words (5-500 preferred), Literary microcriticism (500 words), reviews, interviews; "high-quality, stylized fiction that escapes the boundaries of reality & attempts to represent the unrepresentable by way of absurdity, irrealism, the grotesque, narrative experimentation, dark humor, & ultimately a cult sensibility."

Dreaming Methods – "Dreaming Methods is a portfolio of electronic literature established in 1999 by digital writer/artist Andy Campbell. The site contains fictional stories and poetry told through visually rich, often highly immersive, web-based environments developed using a spectrum of technologies. Andy Campbell currently creates new work in collaboration with other pioneering digital writers."

 The Drum – fiction, flash fiction, essays

Drunken Boat – fiction, poetry

The Dublin Review – fiction, nonfiction

Earth's Daughters – fiction, poetry

Eclectica – fiction, poetry; issue deadlines are March 1st, June 1st, October 1st, and December 1st

Educe – fiction, nonfiction, poetry "from queer folk across the globe"

Ekphrasis – poetry

 Elder Mountain – "Ozarks-focused manuscripts from all disciplinary perspectives, (particularly anthropology, economics, folklore, geography, geology, history, literature, music, and political science), as well as interdisciplinary approaches. In addition, high-quality, Ozarks-oriented short stories, poems, and works of creative nonfiction are of keen interest, as is visual art that explores the Ozarks." Deadline: December 31st; if the link at the left is dead, try this [one.]

Eleven Eleven – fiction, nonfiction, art & literary criticism, poetry, art; deadlines: March 1st, and November 1st.

Electric Velocipede – fiction, nonfiction, poetry

Entasis – fiction, nonfiction, poetry

EOAGH – fiction, nonfiction, poetry that is "contemporary avant-garde, experimental, and innovative"

Epiphany – fiction, nonfiction, poetry

E-ratio – postmodern poetry

Esopus – fiction, nonfiction, poetry

Euphony – fiction, nonfiction, essays, drama, poetry, translations

Event – fiction, nonfiction, poetry K's note: They will accept, but not read, submissions from July to August, or December to January]; [Event Annual Non-Fiction Contest – essays up to 5000 words; $1500 in prizes altogether; $34.95 fee per entry, includes subscription; deadline April 15th

Exercise Bowler – poetry

Existere – fiction, nonfiction, postcard stories, poetry

Ezra – flash fiction, novel excerpts and poetry in translation

Failbetter – fiction, poetry, art;

Fawlt Magazine – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art and photography "that incorporate humanity's quirks and tragic flaws in funny or sobering ways"

Featherlit – literary erotic flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry

Fence – fiction, poetry

The Fertile Source – fiction, literary essays, poetry, art & photos "on fertility-related themes"

ffrrfr – fiction, experimental fiction

the fib review – Fibonacci poetry

Fickle Muses – fiction, poetry "engaged with myth and legend"

Fiction Fix – fiction, flash fiction, novel excerpts, art; issue deadlines February 1st, August 1st

FictionNow – fiction, flash fiction

Fiction Writers Review \- essays, reviews, interviews

The Fiddleback – fiction, novellas, nonfiction, book reviews, album reviews, poetry, art

Fiddleblack – fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry

The Fiddlehead – fiction, poetry

50 to 1 – flash fiction (up to 50 words)

50-Word Stories – flash fiction (up to 50 words)

Filling Station – experimental fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry; _Experimental Writing by Women_ theme issue deadline: February 15th

First Inkling – fiction, nonfiction, poetry by undergraduates and postgraduates

The First Line – fiction using the "first lines" they provide, critical essays on a favorite first line. Spring issue first line: "On a perfect spring morning with flat seas and clear blue skies, Captain Eli P. Cooke made a terrible mistake." Deadline February 1st. Summer issue first line: "I started collecting secrets when I was just six years old." Deadline May 1st. Fall issue first line: "There must have been thousands standing in the rain that day." Deadline August 1st. Winter issue first line: "I came of age in a time of no heroes." Deadline November 1st.

First of the Month – nonfiction articles, political commentary, cultural criticism

Fish Drum – fiction, nonfiction, essays, prose, art, scores, cartoons

5 Minute Mystery – mystery fiction [K's Note: you will have to go to the site to make sure your story follows their format, and the story must be at a middle school level]

Five Quarterly – fiction, poetry

The 5-2: Crime Poetry Weekly – crime poetry

Fjords – fiction, articles, reviews, poetry, art

Floodwall – fiction, poetry

The Florida Review – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, graphic narrative, book reviews, interviews K's Note: they accept year-round, but only read August to May.]; [Jeanne Leiby Memorial Chapbook Award (up to 35 pages of poetry; $1000 prize, $25 entry fee (includes subscription)) deadline: December 1st at Midnight.

Flycatcher – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art; query first for book reviews, interviews

Fogged Clarity – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art

Forge – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art & photography, comics; Issue deadlines: September 30th, December 31st, March 31st, June 30th

Forklife, Ohio – poetry (queries only; no unsolicited submissions)

Found Poetry Review – found poetry

Four and Twenty – short form poetry, art; monthly deadlines for issue released two months later.

4 Star Stories – science fiction, fantasy fiction

491 Magazine – poetry, art

4th Realm – fiction [K's Note: by becoming a member on their site, you can participate in groups forums to critique and edit your work before submitting.]

Fractured West – flash fiction

Freefall – fiction, nonfiction, poetry; Issue deadlines: Fall = April 30th, Winter = August 31st; Annual Prose & Poetry Contest, $300, $150, $75, and $25 prizes in fiction and poetry categories; $21 fee per entry includes subscription; Contest Issue deadline = December 31st

Freight Stories – fiction

Frigg – fiction, flash fiction, poetry

Fringe Magazine – fiction, nonfiction, criticism, features, poetry

From the Depths – fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry

Front Porch Journal – fiction, nonfiction, poetry

Frostwriting – fiction, flash fiction, poetry, "postcards"

The Furnace Review – fiction, poetry, art & photography; Issue deadlines: March 1st, June 1st, September 1st, December 1st.

Gambling the Aisle – fiction, nonfiction, interviews, poetry, art

Gangway – fiction, nonfiction, poetry

 Garbanzo Literary Journal – flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry

Gemini Magazine – fiction, essays, memoirs, short drama, poetry; Gemini Poetry Open Contest: $1000, $100, $50 prizes; $5 entry fee for up to 3 poems; deadline January 2nd.

The G. W. Review – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art

Gertrude – fiction, novel excerpts, interviews, poetry, art; "Subject matter need not be LGBTQA-specific and we welcome writers and artists from all backgrounds."

Ghost Ocean Magazine – flash fiction, poetry

Gigantic – flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry (online edition only)

Ginosko Literary Journal – fiction, creative nonfiction, interviews, poetry

Glass Mountain – undergraduate fiction, creative nonfiction, literary essays, poetry, art; Glass Mountain Poetry/Prose Contest – $250 prize in fiction (up to 4000 words) & poetry (8-10 pages) categories; $8 entry fee includes subscription.

Glasschord Magazine – fiction, nonfiction, poetry; monthly themes

Glassworks – fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, flash nonfiction, craft essays, poetry, hybrid, new media; General issue deadline December 1st; Theme issue, "utility and beauty," deadline March 1st

Glitterwolf – fiction, nonfiction, poetry "dedicated to showcasing the work of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) contributors from around the world." "All contributors must identify as belonging to the LGBT spectrum." "Submissions for each Issue close roughly three weeks before publication date [February, June and October]."

Global Graffiti Magazine – fiction, excerpts, essays, poetry, reviews; literary, artistic and cultural criticism, visual art

Granta – fiction, memoir, reportage, poetry, art

Grasslimb – fiction, book & music reviews, poetry

Green Hills Literary Lantern – fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry

Greenprints – prose, poetry about gardening

Greensilk Journal – fiction, essay, book reviews, poetry

The Greensboro Review – fiction, poetry; issue deadlines: September 15th, February 15th; Robert Watson Literary Prizes \- $1000 prizes in fiction, poetry categories; $14 fee per entry includes subscription; deadline September 15th.

 Gray Sparrow Journal – fiction, flash fiction, poetry, art & photography

Guernica – fiction, features, interviews, poetry, art & photography

Gutter Eloquence – poetry (year-round is for e-zine only)

Habitus: A Diaspora Journal – fiction, nonfiction, essay, memoir, poetry

 Hamilton Arts & Letters – nonfiction, art

Helping Orphans Worldwide (H.O.W.) Journal – fiction, nonfiction, poetry

Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review – poetry

Hanging Loose Press – fiction, poetry

Harper's – fiction, nonfiction

Harpur Palate – fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry; issue deadlines: April 15th, November 15th

Hayden's Ferry – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art

The Heartland Review – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art

Heavy Feather Review – fiction, creative nonfiction, essays, book reviews, drama, poetry, hybrid

The Helix – fiction, nonfiction, drama, poetry, art

The Hell Gate Review – urban and immigrant fiction, essays, interviews, poetry, art

Her Royal Majesty – theme fiction, creative nonfiction, essays, poetry; "Luck" theme issue deadline March 1st.

The Heron's Nest – haiku, senryu; issue deadlines: March 15th, June 15th, September 15th, December 15th

High Chair – Filipino personal essays of communal interest poetry, poetry book reviews, poetry

High Desert Review – fiction, creative nonfiction, memoirs, book reviews, interviews, poetry, visual art; "We accept work from residents of the interior West working with any theme, and from anyone living outside of this region creating with an element or theme of the interior West."

Hippocampus – memoir excerpt, personal essay, flash creative nonfiction, experimental creative nonfiction

Hiram Poetry Review – poetry

Hobart – [online edition only is year-round] fiction, nonfiction, craft based interviews, poetry

Hoot Review –flash fiction, flash nonfiction, memoir, book reviews, poetry, postcard-sized graphic fiction/nonfiction [All submissions must be under 150 words]

 Hospital Drive – fiction, poetry

Hot Metal Bridge – fiction, nonfiction, poetry; "we hold a special place in our hearts for stories by authors living in and around the Pittsburgh area, stories that speak to and about us regionally."

Hunger Mountain – fiction, creative nonfiction, craft shorts (500 words) and essays, poetry, YA & Children's writing (picture books, middle grade, YA, YA crossover text); The Howard Frank Mosher Short Fiction Prize – fiction up to 10000 words; $1000, and two $100 prizes; $20 fee per entry; Deadline June 30th;  Creative Nonfiction Prize – creative nonfiction up to 10000 words; $1000, and two $100 prizes; $20 fee per entry; Deadline September 10th; The Ruth Stone Poetry Prize – enter up to three poems; $1000, and two $100 prizes; $20 fee per entry; Deadline December 10th;  Katherine Paterson Prize for Young Adult and Children's Writing \- ; one $1000, and three $100 prizes in Young Adult, Middle Grade, and Picture Book or Writing for Young Children categories; ; $20 fee per entry; Deadline June 20th.

The HyperTexts – poetry (no unsolicited submissions)

The Ides of March – historically themed poetry

Image Journal – fiction, nonfiction, poetry "Bridging [Christian] Faith and Imagination"

Imitation Fruit – fiction, nonfiction, poetry

In Our Own Words – poetry; Burning Bush Poetry Prize \- $200 prize; $12 entry fee for up to 3 poems; Deadline June 1st.

Inch – flash fiction (to 750 words), flash nonfiction (to 700 words), poetry (9 line limit)

Inlandia – fiction, novel excerpts, nonfiction, memoir, poetry "by writers and artists whose work is in some way grounded in the Inland Southern California region"

Indiana Review – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art

In Digest Magazine – fiction, creative nonfiction, drama, audio fiction, poetry

Inertia – fiction, critical prose, personal essays, poetry

Infinity's Kitchen – experimental fiction, "informed" essays, criticism, reviews, poetry

The Innisfree Poetry Journal – poetry

Inter/rupture – fiction, poetry, visual art

In Stereo Press – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, music, art for an audio magazine

Interrobang Magazine – fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, creative essays, "polemical ramblings," poetry, art & photography

iO Poetry – poetry

Iodine Poetry Journal \- poetry

Irish Pages – fiction, creative nonfiction, memoirs, essays, reviews, nature writing, literary journalism, poetry, "and other autobiographical, historical, religious and scientific writing of literary distinction."

Ithica Lit – nonfiction, poetry, visual art

J Journal – fiction, creative nonfiction (1st person narrative, personal essay, memoir), poetry "that examines questions of justice"

J & L Illustrated – fiction, illustrations

 James Dickey Review – fiction, creative nonfiction (including Dickey reminiscences and anecdotes), scholarly articles, book reviews, poetry

Jenny – fiction, nonfiction, poetry [K's Note: they have a "Submit for publication in our next issue – powered by Submishmash" button on their site, but it doesn't work last I checked].

Jersey Devil – fiction

JMWW – fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, essays, poetry, art

The Journal – fiction, nonfiction, reviews, poetry

Journal of Literacy & Cultural Disability Studies – articles, book reviews that "focus on the literary representation of disability, but has added cultural studies to the multidisciplinary mix" [K's Note: The submission guide link in the page of the above link will download as a PDF form]

 Journal of Ordinary Thought – "features selected writing from participants in our weekly writing workshops."

Juked – fiction, nonfiction, poetry

Kaleidoscope – fiction, nonfiction, poetry; "The material chosen for _Kaleidoscope_ challenges and overcomes stereotypical, patronizing, and sentimental attitudes about disability."

Kartika Review – Asian Pacific Islander American fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, art

ken*again – fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, art & photography, cartoons

Keyhole Magazine – fiction, nonfiction, poetry

KGB Bar Lit – fiction, nonfiction, book reviews, artists on writers

Kitty Snacks – fiction, flash fiction, essays, poetry, lyrics, art, "doodles"

Knock Magazine – fiction, nonfiction, interviews (query first), short drama, poetry, cartoons, art

Kritya – Indian poetry, articles (on: Literature written in other languages, Indian Writings in English, Colonial and Postcolonial Literature, Cultural Studies, Aesthetic Studies, Critical theories, Literature and Environment, Philosophy and Art, History of Art) translations, art & photography

Kudzu Review – fiction, essays, poetry "that is outstanding and motivated by concerns with human's place in the world"

Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, black & white art

La Petite Zine – flash fiction and flash essays up to 1000 words, poetry

 Lake Effect – fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry

Lalitamba – fiction, essays, translations, interviews; "a journal of contemporary spiritual literature _._ "

Lana Turner– online edition only (print reads January through March); nonfiction "essays or reviews of recent books of poetry, albums, literary criticism, films, film theory, and accounts of contemporary political economy. Accepting proposals for various kinds of journalistic reports."

Lavender Review – poetry

Left Curve – fiction, nonfiction, poetry "that addresses the problem(s) of cultural  
forms, emerging from the crisis of modernity, that strive to be independent from the control  
of dominant institutions, and free from the shackles of instrumental rationality."

Liminal – fiction, poetry, art from teens

Limestone Journal – fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, prose poems, comic strips, art & photography; annual issue deadline March 1st. "We typically do not read from late May to mid August."

Linden Journal – fiction, flash fiction, poetry

Lines and Stars – poetry

Lingerpost – fiction, essays, poetry

Lishanu – bilingual haiku, senryu, tanka, haiga poetry (submit in original language, and English translation), essays, reviews; issue deadline December 31st.

Literal Latte – fiction, personal essays, short drama, poetry, art, literary cartoons. Fiction Awards – fiction up to 8000 words; $1000, $300, $200 prizes; $10 entry fee, $15 for two stories; annual deadline January 15th. Food Verse Contest – poems with food as an ingredient, up to 2,000 words; $500 prize; $10 entry fee for six poems, $15 for ten poems; annual deadline January 31st. Short Short Contest – fiction up to 2000 words; $500 prize; $10 entry fee for three stories, $15 for six; annual deadline June 30th. Poetry Awards – poetry up to 2000 words; $1000, $300, $200 prizes; $10 entry fee for six poems, $15 for ten poems; annual deadline July 15th. Essay Awards – essays up to 8000 words; $1000, $300, $200 prizes; $10 entry fee, $15 for two stories; annual deadline September 15th.

The Literarian – fiction, interviews

Literary Bohemian – "postcard prose" up to 350 words, travel notes, poetry

Literary Fever – fiction, nonfiction, features, poetry, art, music, multimedia

 Literary Imagination – fiction, nonfiction, essays, criticism, drama, poetry, translations

Literary Juice – fiction, "pulp fiction" (up to 25 words), poetry

Literary Laundry – fiction, poetry [K's Note: only subscribers to the magazine can submit]

Literary Review of Canada – nonfiction, reviews, poetry ( **Jan-Feb** : sonnets; **March** : poems from the margins, e.g. pieces from/about our prisons, reserves, North, rural areas, etc.; **April** : short poems, of less than 50 words—they can be haikus, tankas, rubaiyats, tweet-poems, triolets, etc.; **May** : poems on the elements—e.g. fire, earth, water, air, wood; **June** : villanelles; **July-August** : ekphrastic poetry, i.e. pieces inspired by other art forms (visual arts, film, music, etc.); **September** : prose poems; **October** : poems inspired by family; **November** : ghazals; **December** : poems inspired by food); submission deadlines May 1st, December 5th

Litro Magazine – print: themed fiction, nonfiction, art; online: fiction, novel excerpts, longform nonfiction, features, reviews

The Little Magazine – "a journal of literature in new media" fiction, poetry, hybrid; audio, animation, art: query first

Little Red Leaves – poetry

Little Star – fiction, nonfiction, poetry

Loaded Bicycle – poetry, translations, art

The Long Story – fiction; "We read all year-round, though prefer no submissions in July and August"

Lost in Thought – flash fiction up to 1500 words, art

Louisiana Literature – fiction, nonfiction, poetry

The Louisville Review – fiction, nonfiction, drama, poetry; also accepts submissions from K-12 students for "The Children's Corner"

Lungfull – fictin, nonfiction, poetry

The Lyric Poetry Magazine – poetry; The Lyric College Poetry Contest – poetry up to 39 lines, $500, $100 prizes; no entry fee

The MacGuffin – fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry

Mad Hatters' Review – fiction, flash fiction, mini interviews (3-5 questions), audio works, visuals, multimedia

The Madison Review – fiction, poetry, art

Main Street Rag – fiction, creative nonfiction (query first), reviews, interviews, poetry, art & photography; Annual Poetry Book Award – 48-84 pages of poetry; $1200, 50 books prize; $25 entry fee/ $27 online entry fee; Deadline January 31st.

Make Magazine – fiction, essays, poetry in English or Spanish, usually on a theme. "Though you are welcome to submit your work online throughout the year, our reading periods happen in the weeks before and after each posted deadline"

The Malahat Review – fiction, creative nonfiction, reviews of Canadian books, poetry, art. Open Seasons Awards – $1000 (Canadian) prizes in fiction (up to 2500 words), nonfiction (up to 2500 words), and poetry (up to 100 lines) categories; $35 entry fee Canadian/$40 American/$45 International includes subscription; deadline November 1st. The Novella Prize – contest held in odd-numbered years only] fiction between 10000-20000 words; $35 entry fee Canadian/$40 American/$45 International includes subscription; deadline February 1st, 2014. [The Long Poem Prize – contest held in even-numbered years only] single poem or cycle of poems from 10-20 thirty-two line pages; $35 entry fee Canadian/$40 American/$45 International includes subscription; deadline February 1st. [ Far Horizons Awards for Short Fiction – fiction in odd-numbered years, poetry in even-numbered years; $1000 (Canadian) prize; fiction up to 3500 words by authors that "have yet to publish their fiction in book form"; $25 entry fee Canadian/$30 American/$35 International includes subscription; deadline May 1st.  Far Horizons Award for Poetry – poetry up to 60 lines from "poets that] have yet to publish their poetry in book form"; $25 entry fee Canadian/$30 American/$35 International includes subscription; deadline May 1st, 2014. [ Constance Rooke Creative Nonfiction Prize – nonfiction from 2000-3000 words; $1000 (Canadian) prize; $35 entry fee Canadian/$40 American/$45 International includes subscription; deadline August 1st.

Mala Revija – essays, reviews, travel writing, poetry "of Slovene culture"

Mangrove – undergraduate fiction, nonfiction, narrative travel writing, book reviews/criticism (especially those "relevant to the University of Miami") poetry, art; The Isaac Bashevis Prize in Fiction – $100 prize; fiction up to 15 pages; no entry fee; open to University of Miami undergraduates only. The Laurence Donovan Prize in Poetry – poetry up to 10 single-spaced pages; no entry fee; open to University of Miami undergraduates only. The Cover Art Contest – art; no entry fee; open to University of Miami undergraduates only.

The Manila Envelope – fiction, essays, poetry, art

Many Mountains Moving – fiction, essays, drama, poetry online only; print submissions are October-December, and February-April]. [MMM Press Poetry Book Prize – 50-100 pages of poetry; $1000 prize, $25 reading fee; deadline December 11th.

map literary – fiction, flash fiction, novel excerpts, essays, manifestos, book/cultural reviews, poetry, prose poems, art & photography

Marco Polo – _query first for any submission of_ fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, essays, poetry, film/video, hybrid, art, multimedia; any work inspired by Francois Truffaut [K's Note: Awesome!], or Los Angeles.

 Mary – fiction, nonfiction, reviews, interviews, poetry

matchbook – flash fiction, video

Matterhorn – Fort Collins related nonfiction, interviews, poetry [query first]

Maynard – "Our main focus is poetry, however we do occasionally publish short fiction, essays, critical work, photography, short film, and music." [K's Note: accepts year-round, but only reads submissions in May and November]

 McSweeney's Internet Tendency – flash nonfiction [up to 1500 words]; Amanda Davis Fiction Award – fiction in progress from 5000-40000 words; $2500 prize, $20 reading fee; Deadline December 15th

Measure – essays, reviews, interviews, poetry, poetry manuscripts

Meat for Tea – fiction, nonfiction, poetry

Melusine – flash fiction, book reviews, poetry "work that explores all angles of the contemporary female experience, especially those sharp, jagged angles. Men are welcome to submit work as well"; creative fiction up to 2000 words for their blog only.

Memorious – fiction, flash fiction, poetry

Menacing Hedge – fiction, poetry, art [K's Note: besides having a special place in my heart—as all of the journals that have published my work have— _Menacing Hedge_ has an awesome section of their journal titled "Scary Bush" where contributors share "cringe-worthy" early writings.]

 Mezzo Cammin – poetry, essays on poetry & poets by women

Mgversion2datura – fiction, flash fiction, novel excerpts, drama, poetry, illustrations

Michigan Quarterly Review – fiction, flash fiction, essays, poetry, Lawrence Foundation Prize – $1000 for best short story published every year; Laurence Goldstein Prize – $1000 for best poem/group of poems published that year;  Page Davidson Clayton Prize for Emerging Poets –$500 for best poet appearing in the Review "that has yet to publish a book." No entry fees for any contests.

 Mid-American Review – fiction, nonfiction, personal essays, essays on writing, short reviews, poetry, translations;  Fineline Competition for Prose Poems, Short Shorts, and Anything In Between \- $1000 Prize for a poem or flash fiction up to 500 words; $10 entry fee for each set of 3 poems, or 3 flash fiction piece; Deadline June 1st;  Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award – $1000 Prize for fiction up to 6000 words, $10 entry fee for each story.  The James Wright Poetry Award –$1000 Prize in poetry; $10 entry fee for each set of 3 poems

The Midwest Quarterly – theme poetry; upcoming themes include: "Rural and Urban" deadline March 1st; "Trash and Treasure" deadline June 1st; "Work and Play" deadline September 1st.

 The Missouri Review – fiction, "general interest" nonfiction, poetry.  The William Peden Prize \- $1000 for the year's best fiction submission; no entry fee  The Tom McAfee Discovery Feature \- $1000 "to showcase the work of an outstanding new poet who has not yet published a book;" no entry fee.  Jeffrey E. Smith Editor's Prize in Fiction, Essay, and Poetry \- $5000 prize in each category; fiction and nonfiction up to 25 pages, poetry up to 10 pages; $20 fee per entry includes subscription; Deadline October 8th.

Mixed Fruit Magazine – fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, translations, "Miscellany" hybid/experimental, art

Mizna – fiction, nonfiction, poetry "on Arab-American themes that reflect the diversity of our community."

Mobius – fiction, poetry, art "dealing with themes of social change"

Modern Haiku – haiku, senryu, haikai, haibun, haiga, rengku, tanka poetry, nonfiction (query first) [K's Note: occasionally I feel a compulsion to write, and then attempt to publish, haiku. So far, my experiments with verse have been failures, but the editor, Charles Trumbull, is always gracious about offering criticism and commentary on my poems. Far and away the best rejections I receive.]

Modern Poetry in Translation – poetry in translation, nonfiction articles about poetry

Molotov Cocktail – flash fiction

Monkey Bicycle – flash fiction, one-sentence stories

Moria – poetry, poetry reviews, poetry theory articles, e-books

Mosaic – essays, interviews, literary-focused articles "by writers of African descent"

Mount Hope – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, graphic novels/excerpts, photography

Mudfish – poetry [K's Note: I sure couldn't figure out how to submit to them]

Mudlark – essays on poetry, poetry

Muse India – fiction, "major literary essays", literary articles, book reviews "with the primary objective of showcasing Indian writings in English"

Mused – fiction, nonfiction, drama, poetry

Mythium – fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry

n+1 – fiction, nonfiction

Nano Fiction – flash fiction (up to 300 words); Nano Prize – fiction up to 300 words; $500 Prize, $15 entry fee for three stories; deadline September 5th.

NAP – flash fiction (up to 799 words), poetry

Narrative – fiction, flash fiction, novellas, serializations, reader narratives/memoir, one-act plays, poetry; Fall Story Contest – fiction, nonfiction up to 15000 words; $2500, $1000, $500, and ten $100 prizes; $22 entry fee; deadline November 30th. Six Word Stories – fiction of six words; $50 for each published story; $15 entry fee for five stories; ongoing-no deadline. Story of the Week – fiction, nonfiction up to 10000 words; $150 payment, $400 for Top Five Stories of the Week; ongoing-no deadline. Poem of the Week – poetry; $25 reprints payment, $50 payment, $200 for Top Five Poems of the Week; $16 entry fee for up to 5 poems; ongoing-no deadline. iStory – fiction, nonfiction up to 150 words; $250 payment; $22 entry fee; ongoing-no deadline. iPoem – poetry up to 150 words; $50 payment; $20 entry fee; ongoing-no deadline.

Natural Bridge – fiction, personal essays, poetry, translation; doesn't read from May 1st to August 1st

Neon – fiction, nonfiction, poetry

 New Haven Review – fiction, nonfiction, book reviews, poetry

New Orleans Review – fiction, nonfiction, poetry; The Walker Percy Prize in Short Fiction – $1000 prize for fiction (up to 7500 words); $15 entry fee; Deadline December 12th

The New Quarterly – Canadian fiction, "postscript" story, poetry; The Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest – $1000 "for one glorious poem"; $40 (Canadian) for 2 poems/$5 each additional poem; deadline February 28th. The Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest – $1000 prize; $40 (Canadian) per entry; deadline March 28th. The Peter Hinchcliffe Fiction Award – $1000 prize for fiction by an author "who has not yet published a first novel or short story collection"; $40 (Canadian) per entry; deadline May 28th

The Newtowner – fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, art & photography; Youth Expressions – fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, art & photography by middle or high school students. Issue deadlines: January 1st, July 1st; accepts year-round, but only reads September to May

New Walk Magazine – fiction, poetry

The New York Quarterly – poetry

91st meridian – fiction, nonfiction, essays, book reviews, poetry

95Notes – fiction, essays, poetry

971 Menu – fiction, nonfiction

NōD – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art

Noon Annual – fiction

North American Review – fiction, nonfiction, poetry; James Hearst Poetry Prize \- $1000, $100, $50 prizes; $20 per entry of 5 poems, includes subscription; deadline October 31st.

North Atlantic Review – fiction, novel excerpts, poetry; also, they are "open to submissions on war and its effect on the environment or the environment and its effects on war. We invite you to write an essay, short story, poem, song, or journal based on personal experience or philosophy."

Northern Wanderer – "poetry and prose devoted to walking in the North East"

Northwind Magazine – fiction, nonfiction, poetry

Obsession Magazine – fiction, essays, poetry

Off Course – fiction, essays, reviews, poetry

Off the Coast – poetry, art & photography; issue deadlines March 15th, June 15th, September 15th, December 15th

The Oklahoma Review – fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry [accepts year-round, but only reads August 1st-November 15th, January 5th-April 15th

1 Bookshelf – flash fiction "relevant to books in some way," essays about "one bookshelf"

100 word story – flash fiction, nonfiction, memoir, prose poems of 100 words "no more or no less"

101 Fiction – flash science fiction, fantasy, horror, surreal "101 words long, consisting of a one word title and one hundred word story."

The Open Face Sandwich – "unconventional" prose

Open Letters Monthly – nonfiction on "on the arts, from staple subjects such as books, movies, and music to fields as specialized and diverse as medicine, cooking, or video games"; poetry accepted in May and October only.

Opium Magazine – fiction, flash fiction, poetry

Organs of Vision and Speech (OVS) Magazine – poetry, art

Ostrich Review – fiction, poetry, art

The Other Journal – "an intersection of theology and culture" theme fiction, critical essays, reviews, poetry, art; Issue deadlines: "The Body Issue" = January 1st; "The Geography Issue" = May 1st; "The Trauma Issue" = August 31st

Otis Nebula – fiction, nonfiction, reviews, poetry, photography

Out of Print – fiction

The Oxford American – fiction, nonfiction, poetry "from or about the South"

Oxford Magazine – fiction, essays, new media, poetry "We do not read submissions with anything resembling regularity during the summer months, though you are welcome to submit during this time"

The Packinghouse Review – fiction, poetry

Palimpsest – fiction, creative nonfiction, drama, poetry, art

Palooka – fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, lyric essays, graphic essays, drama, poetry,graphic short stories, comic strips, art & photography

Pank – fiction, nonfiction, book reviews, poetry

Paper Darts – fiction, nonfiction, flash fiction, poetry, art, comics

Paper Nautilus – fiction, poetry, hybrid; "our response time varies seasonally, with October – January having the slowest response time"

Papers on Language and Literature (PLL) – nonfiction "on literary history, theory, and interpretation, as well as original materials such as letters, journals, and notebooks"

Paradise Review – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art [K's Note: for a $2.10 fee, they will give feedback on your submission]

Parcel – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art

The Paris Review – fiction, nonfiction, poetry

Passages North – fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry, spoken word poetry, hybrid

Pembroke Magazine – ficion, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, micro memoir, poetry

Pennsylvania Literary Journal – fiction, critical essays, interviews, reviews, poetry, art & photography

Penduline – theme fiction, flash fiction, prose poetry; upcoming themes include: "Bound" deadline February 15th, "Ireland" deadline April 15th.

Perihelion – poetry, essays, reviews

Peripheral Surveys (PS) – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, photography

Persimmon Tree \- fiction, nonfiction, flash nonfiction , poetry, art by women over 60

 Phantom Limb – poetry, reviews

Phoenix in the Jacuzzi Journal – fiction, poetry

Phren-Z – fiction, nonfiction, drama & monologues, poetry by Santa Cruz Writers

Pif Magazine – fiction, essays, author interviews, poetry

Pilgrimage – literary nonfiction, poetry; fiction by solicitation only. The "favor writing on themes related to soul, spirit, place, and social justice."

Ping Pong – fiction, poetry, art

Pinstripe Fedora – poetry

Pithead Chapel – fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction

Plain Spoke – fiction, poetry

Plume – poetry

Poecology – fiction, nonfiction, poetry

Poemeleon – theme poetry, craft essays, book reviews; "The Unreal" [fabulist, magical realist, etc.] issue deadline June 30th.

Poetica – fiction, nonfiction, poetry "that have the courage to acknowledge, challenge, and celebrate modern Jewish life, beyond distinctions of secular and sacred"

Poet Lore – poetry, critical essays, reviews

Poetry Bay – poetry

Poetry East – poetry

Poetry Flash – poetry; reviews (query first)

 Poetry International Web – poetry (no unsolicited submissions)

 Poetry Kanto \- poetry

 Poetry Magazine[Print] – poetry

Poetry Magazine[Online] – poetry

Poetry Miscellany – essays, interviews, poetry, translations

Poetry Nation (PN) Review – poetry

Poetry Quarterly \- poetry

Poetry Salzburg Review – essays, interviews, poetry, translations

Poets and Artists – poetry

Polari – fiction, nonfiction, scholarly articles, poetry "by and about LGBT persons"

Porchlight Zine – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics, art

Portland Review – fiction, nonfiction, poetry

 Postmedieval – nonfiction on medieval studies on a theme.

Post Poetry – nonfiction, poetry

P-Queue – essays, poetry

Prairie fire – fiction, nonfiction, poetry. Banff Centre Bliss Carman Poetry Award, Short Fiction and Creative Nonfiction Contests – $1250, $500, $250 awards in fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry categories; $32 fee per entry (Canadian) includes subscription; annual deadline November 30th.

Precipitate – fiction, nonfiction, reviews, poetry, art

Prick of the Spindle – fiction, flash fiction, novelettes, short films, art

Prime Mincer – fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, graphic narrative

Prime Number Magazine – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art

PRISM International – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translation. Literary Nonfiction Contest – $1500, $300, $200 prizes for nonfiction up to 6000 words; $35 (Canadian) entry fee, $40 (US), $5 each additional submission; deadline November 28th. Short Fiction Contest \- $2000, $300, $200 prizes for fiction up to 6000 words; $35 (Canadian) entry fee, $40 (US), $5 each additional submission; deadline January 25th. Earle Birney Prize for Poetry \- $1000, 300, $200 prizes for poetry; $35 (Canadian) entry fee, $40 (US) for three poems, $5 each additional submission; deadline January 25th.

Prole – fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry; The Prolitzer Prize for Prose Writing – £130, £30 prizes; Prole Laureate Competition – £130, £30 prizes; £3.00 for the first entry, £2.50 additional entries.

The Prompt – fiction, flash fiction, essays, flash non-fiction, poetry

Prize Americana for Poetry – 50-100 page manuscript of poetry; $25 entry fee; January 5th deadline.

Prize Americana for Prose – 130-200 page manuscript for fiction, nonfiction/memoir; $25 entry fee; June 5th deadline.

Pudding Magazine – flash fiction, essasy, articles, poetry

Pyrta – fiction, novel excerpts, nonfiction, interviews, poetry, art sketches/comics, photo essays, local morsels "A conversation overheard in a bus, your grocer's love story. Anything, from anywhere you call home. Accompanied, if necessary, by an image/mp3 file (<10mb)/video (<10mins)"

Quarter After Eight – fiction, flash fiction, creative and critical nonfiction, flash nonfiction, interviews, reviews, memoirs, letters, drama, poetry, prose poems, translations. Robert J. Demott Short Prose Contest – $1000 prize for flash fiction, flash nonfiction, prose poems up to 500 words; $15 entry fee for 3 submissions includes subscription; deadline December 31st

The Quarterly Conversation – "book reviews, essays, and interviews that address literature (broadly conceived) from original and provocative perspectives"

Quarterly Literary Review Singapore (QLRS) – fiction, nonfiction, poetry; issue deadlines = March 31st, June 30th, September 30th, December 31st

Quarterly West – fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art. Undergraduate Contest – fiction or nonfiction up to 20 pages, or 1 poem. Novella Contest – on hiatus.

Quickly – "We will consider work that is either poetry, prose poetry, experimental poetry, traditional poetic form, found poem, fiction, tale, tall tale, memoir, travelogue, lyrical essay, personal essay, journalism, essay, drama, fragment, flash fiction, yarn, novel excerpt, screenplay, brevity, micro fiction, song, incantaion, boast, review, blur, spell, glimpse, sketch, script, fable, inventory, profile, interview, confession, catalogue, mixed genres, mongrels, impure forms, or a hybrid between any of the above, or even that thing you are writing that doesn't seem to be included here that you have no one else to send to except us, or the next new form/genre/hybrid/thing invented by starters of crazes"

Quiddity – fiction, nonfiction, poetry. Teresa A. Write Literary Award: "Buck-a-Word" Contest held in odd-numbered years]. [The Linda Hodge Bromberg Literary Award [held in even-numbered years]

Quills – poetry (Canadian citizens only)

Raft – fiction, literary essays, book reviews, poetry

The Rag – fiction, flash fiction, poetry

The Raintown Review – poetry, "We have a strong bias toward formal/metrical poetry. However our interpretation of form ranges from the traditional to the experimental."

The Raleigh Quarterly – fiction, essays, poetry

Raleigh Review – flash fiction, book reviews, poetry

Raritan – fiction, essays, review essay, poetry, translations

Rattapallax – essays, poetry, video

Rattle – essays, reviews, interviews, poetry

Raven Chronicles – articles on food and culture, Nature Writing, Northwest Writing; fiction and poetry accepted for theme issues, January 1st to February 28th theme: "Why we do what we do"; check the website for other issue deadlines.

The Reader – fiction, nonfiction, poetry

Red Fez – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, audio, video, art, comics

Red Ochre Lit – fiction, nonfiction, essays, poems, art

Red River Review – poetry; issue deadlines: March 1st, June 30th, September 30th, December 31st

Redivider – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, The Beacon Street Prize \- $500 prizes in fiction (up to 8000 words) and poetry (up to 3) categories; $15 entry fee; submission period February 15-May 30th

Regarding Arts & Letters (REAL) – fiction, nonfiction, poetry; Spring Issue theme "Texana" "devoted to all things Texas."

Review of Contemporary Fiction – "critical essays on fiction writers whose work resists convention and easy categorization"

Revolution House – fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, graphic fiction or nonfiction. The Flash Fictin Contest – 25% of entry fees (minimum $100) for flash fiction up to 750 words; $7.50 per entry, two entries for $12.

Ricepaper – nonfiction by or about Asian Canadians

Right Hand Pointing – flash fiction, poems, art & photography; March theme "The Future"

r. kv r. y. quarterly – fiction, flash fiction, essays, flash non-fiction, poetry

Roadrunner Journal – haiku poetry; query first for essays, reviews, translations

Rock & Sling – Christian fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art & photography

Room – fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, art & photography "by and about women"

 Rosebud – fiction, essays, poetry

Rougarou – fiction, creative nonfiction, book reviews, poetry

 Rufus City Review – "poetic prose," poetry, art

Ruminate Magazine – fiction, creative nonfiction, reviews, interviews, poetry, art; Issue deadlines: February 15th, May 15th, August 15th, November 15th. William Van Dyke Short Story Prize – $1000 prize for fiction up to 5500 words; $15 fee per entry; deadline October 26th. VanderMey Nonfiction Prize – $1000 prize for nonfiction up to 5500 words; $15 fee per entry; deadline January 15th. Janet B. McCabe Poetry Prize – $1000 prize for poetry up to 40 lines; $15 fee per entry of two poems; deadline May 1st.

Russian Life – nonfiction articles about Russia

Rust Moth – poetry, photography

Rusty Toque – fiction, nonfiction, reviews, poetry, graphic short fiction.

Sakura Review – fiction, nonfiction, poetry

Saltwater Quarterly – fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry

Santa Clara Review – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art

Santa Fe Writer's Project (sfWP) – fiction, creative nonfiction, book reviews

Santa Monica Review – fiction, essays, interviews

Scintilla – fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, art

Scissors and Spackle – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art & photography, audio, video

ScissorTale Review – fiction, flash fiction, poetry

The Scrambler – fiction, reviews, poetry

Scythe – poetry

Seattle Review – "long poems" [K's Note: online submissions taken year-round, mail only accepted October 1 to May 31]

Sentence – prose poetry

Sentinel Quarterly – fiction, essays, drama, reviews, interviews, poetry

Seven By Twenty – fiction (up to 140 words), posted on twitter

751 Magazine – fiction, nonfiction, reviews, poetry

Shady side review – flash fiction, poetry

Shampoo – poetry

Shelf Life – fiction, articles, poetry, art

THE SHOp – Irish poetry

Short, Fast, and Deadly – flash fiction (up to 420 characters), poetry (up to 140 characters), word art

Shot Glass Journal – poetry, prose poetry

 Sierra Nevada Review – fiction, flash fiction, poetry

Silk Road Review – fiction, first chapters from novels, essays, poetry, translations

The Sim Road – fiction, flash fiction, poetry

Sinister Wisdom – "multicultural lesbian" fiction, essays, poetry, art

Sirena – critical essays, poetry in English or Spanish

6X6 – poetry

 69 Flavors of Paranoia – fantasy, horror, slipstream, speculative, urban-fantasy fiction, flash fiction

Slipstream – poetry, art & photography; Poetry Contest – $1000 prize for up to 40 pages of poetry; $20 entry fee; annual deadline December 1st.

Slow Train – fiction, essays, poetry "that reflect the spirit of adventure, the exploration of the soul, the energies of imagination, and the experience of Big Fun"

Slush Pile – fiction, essays, poetry

Smartish Pace – poetry; Erskine J. Poetry Prize – $200 prize in poetry; $5 entry fee per 3 poems; deadline September 1st.

Smokebox – poetry, fiction, essays, culture, music, sports, photography

Smokelong Quarterly – flash fiction

Snakeskin – poetry

SN Review – fiction, creative nonfiction, essays, poetry

So and So Magazine – poetry, poetry book/chapbook reviews

Solstice – fiction, novel excerpts, nonfiction, nonfiction book excerpts, memoir, poetry

Sonora Review – fiction, nonfiction, poetry; "we do not respond to submissions during the summer months." Poetry Contest – $500 prize for poetry; $15 entry fee; deadline January 15th

South Carolina Review – fiction nonfiction (essays, scholarly articles, criticism), poetry

South Dakota Review – fiction, creative nonfiction, scholarly essays, poetry

The Southeast Review – fiction, creative nonfiction, book reviews, interviews, poetry, art. World's Best Short-Short Story Contest – $500 prize for fiction up to 500 words; $16 entry fee for 3 stories; deadline March 25th. Gearhart Poetry Contest – $500 prize for poetry up to 10 pages; $16 entry fee for 3 poems (altogether up to 10 pages); deadline March 25th. Narrative Nonfiction Contest – $500 prize for fiction up to 6000 words; $16 entry fee; deadline March 25th.

Southern Humanities Review – fiction, essays, poetry; Mail submissions click here; Online submissions click here

Southern Literary Journal – nonfiction "scholarly essays on southern writers and southern writing"

 Southern Poetry Review – poetry

The Southern Quarterly – fiction, nonfiction, reviews, interviews, poetry, art, music

 Southern Women's Review – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, photography; "You must be a woman who was born in or grew up in the U.S. South; currently live in the U.S. South; or write about the U.S. South. For editorial purposes, we consider the U.S. South to be an area comprised of Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and Maryland, Washington DC, and West Virginia." Annual submission deadline December 1st. Poetry Contest

Southwest Review-The Morton Marr Poetry Prize – $1000, $500 prizes for poetry from "writers who have not yet published a first book of poetry;" $5 fee per poem entry; annual deadline September 30th

Southwest Review-The David Nathan Meyerson Prize for Fiction – $1000, $500 prizes for fiction (up to 8000 words) from "writers who have not yet published a first book of fiction;" $25 fee per poem entry; annual deadline May 1st

The Sow's Ear – poetry, hybrid, art

Spittoon – fiction (especially experimental), flash fiction, nonfiction (especially lyric essays), poetry

Splash of Red – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, graphic narrative, art

Split Lip Magazine – fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, flash nonfiction, memoir, poetry

The Spoon Café Journal – fiction, nonfiction

Sport Literate – creative nonfiction (essays, interviews), poetry on sports and pastimes

Steel Toe Review – fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, essays, poetry, multimedia "preference is given to writers, artists, and subject matter with some connection to the Birmingham area "

Stepaway Magazine – urban flash fiction, poetry "literature that evokes the sensory experience of walking in specific neighborhoods, districts or zones within a city"

 Still Point Arts Quarterly – fiction, essays, articles about art

Stirring: A Literary Collection – fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, photography

 Stone Voices – fiction, poetry that is "an exploration of the connections between visual arts and the spiritual journey"

Storm Cellar – fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, "ideas penned on envelopes in buses and train cars," "with a special emphasis on the Midwest."

Storychord – fiction, art & photography, music

Storyglossia – flash fiction

Storyscape Journal – fiction, nonfiction, poetry in the catagories "Truth, Untruth" "We Don't Know" and "They Won't Tell Us"

The Straddler – fiction, essays, criticism, poetry

Straightforward Poetry – poetry, academic essays & blogs about poetry, photography

Straighjackets Magazine – fiction, book excerpts, essays, political commentary, personal memoirs, poetry

Strange Machine – poetry

Straylight Literary Arts Magazine – print: "character-based" fiction; online: flash fiction, serialized work, poetry

Stride Magazine – poetry, prose poems, articles, reviews

Stymie Magazine – "a journal of sport & literature" fiction, creative nonfiction, essays, reviews, poetry

Subliminal Interiors – nonfiction, poetry, photography; "The deadline for submissions is the first of the month."

subTerrain – fiction, nonfiction, poetry; upcoming theme "Heat" deadline February 15th. Lush Triumphant Literary Awards - $750, $250 (Canadian) prizes in fiction (up to 3000 words), nonfiction (up to 4000 words), and poetry ("a suite of 5 related poems (maximum 15 pages)); $27.50 (Canadian) entry fee per entry; annual deadline May 15th.

SubtleTea – fiction, novel excerpts, nonfiction, essays, reviews, poetry, art & photography

The Summerset Review – fiction, nonfiction, poetry

 The Sun Magazine – fiction, essays (personal, political, cultural, or philosophical), poetry

Sunsets and Silencers – fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, essays, poetry, paintings, photography, comic strips

Sundog Lit – fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, hybrid (especially flash fiction and comic collaborations), art & photography. Photogene Contest – flash fiction, flash nonfiction, poetry up to 500 words on a piece of art/photography; also art & photography for picture prompts [K's Note: Photogene Contest rounds submission periods are _Whenever they feel like it_ ]

The Survivor Chronicles – fiction, nonfiction, poetry "dedicated to trauma release, healing and survival"

Survivor's Review – fiction, essays, poetry "that explores the heart of one or more aspects of the cancer journey"

Suspense Magazine – suspence, mystery, or thriller fiction. Writing Contest \- Twelve books (some autographed) from each of the authors of the month for 2012, $50 Amazon gift card, $25 gift card prizes for suspence/mystery/thiller fiction between 1500-4000 words; submit between March 1st and December 31st.

Susquehanna Review – fiction, nonfiction, poetry; Gary Fincke Creative Writing Prize \- $100 prize for best piece of prose and poetry in the issue; no entry fee; no posted deadline (though the magazine launch date is February 17th.

Swamp – postgraduate fiction, creative nonfiction, memoir, poetry

Swamp Biscuits and Tea – fiction

Sweet – creative nonfiction, poetry

Swink – fiction, essay, memoir, poetry, "and category-defying work in our three departments: "Wit's End (humor), You Are Here (pieces about place), and Dead Letter Office (epistles never sent)"

tak'til – "sense-oriented" fiction, nonfiction, poetry; issue deadlines: March 15th, June 15th, September 15th, December 15th

Talking Writing – fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, "why I write" essays, personal essays, interviews, reviews, poetry

Tenemos – fiction, novel excerpts, nonfiction, poetry, art. "Our reading period...is only August through April."

Terrain – "a journal of Built & Natural Environments" fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, reviews, poetry, art & photography; upcoming deadlines: March 1st ("Craft" theme issue), June 1st, September 1st, December 1st; Contest – $250 prizes in fiction, nonfiction (up to 6000 words), and poetry (a set of 3-5, or one 5+ page poem) categories on the theme "Elemental"; $10 per submission (1 prose, or 3-4 poems); annual deadline September 1st.

Thema – theme fiction, essays, poetry, photographs; upcoming themes: "The left handed club" deadline March 1st; "Ten minutes is a LONG time!" deadline July 1st; "Under the shadow of the shark" deadline November 1st]

Theodate \- poetry

13 magazine – fiction, poetry; "While submissions are welcome and encouraged to directly address mental illness and issues surrounding it, they are absolutely not required to."

13th Moon – "feminist" fiction, essays "on women's writing," drama, poetry, translation, art

34th Parallel – fiction, creative nonfiction, essay, script, poetry, art & photography, photo essay, comics, cartoons, graphic stories

32 Poems – poetry (up to 32 lines)

This Literary Magazine – fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, essays, poetry, graphic novels/comics, art; annual deadlines: February 1st, May 1st, August 1st, November 1st; Poet Spotlight reading period: June 15th-August 1st

Thoughtsmith – fiction, nonfiction, essays, articles, poetry, art & photography

3 &5 – literary science fiction & fantasy fiction, flash fiction, Three Quarters Review – fiction, nonfiction, poetry "at least 75 percent true

365 tomorrows – flash science fiction (up to 600 words)

Thrush – poetry

Tiny Lights – personal narrative essays, "Flashpoint" flash-personal narrative (up to 1000 words) [K's Note: all submissions are Contest submissions: $350, $250, $150, and two $100 standard prizes, and three $100 "Flashpoint" prizes; $15 entry fee, $10 each additional entry; Deadline February 17th]

Tipton Poetry Journal – poetry, reviews (of books by former contributers only)

Toad – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art

Toasted Cheese – fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry; Issue deadlines: March 31st, June 30th, September 30th, December 31st. Three Cheers and a Tiger Contest – fiction written within 48 hours: guidelines posted at their forum, Just the Place for a Snark, at the start of the contest; spring edition (Mystery) posted February, autumn edition (Science Fiction/Fantasy) posted August; prizes are Amazon gift cards, with the amounts dependant on how many entries they receive; no entry fee. A Midsummer Tale Contest – April 1st-June21st annually. Dead of Winter Contest – horror fiction, October 1st-December 21st annually.

Torrid Literature Journal – fiction, poetry, art

Toska Magazine – nonfiction, photography

The Tower Journal – fiction, essays, poetry

Town Creek Poetry – poetry

Trachodon – flash fiction for their Cheek Teeth Blog; general submissions of fiction, nonfiction and art "on artisanal culture" accepted April-May, October-November.

trans lit mag – fiction, flash fiction, novel excerpts, serialized novels, reviews, criticism, open letters, sketches, drama, poetry, art, translations

 Translation Review – essays (on themes of translation), interviews with translators, profiles

Tran(s)tudies – "creative non-fiction essays and scholarly articles, as well as hybrids of the same, pertaining to the trans-personal, trans-cultural, and trans-national, with an emphasis on synthesis and contemporary relevance"

Treehouse – flash fiction, flash creative nonfiction, screenplays (up to 5 pages), flash hybrid

 Triggerfish – poetry

Tuesday Journal – poetry, photography, prints

Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature – articles, notes, Archives essays about female writers "in every genre," or "on _women_ and _writing_ "

The Tusculum Review – fiction, nonfiction, drama, poetry, hybrid. The Tusculum Review Prize in Fiction and Poetry – $1000 prizes for fiction (up to 25 pages) and poetry (5 poems up to 10 pages total) categories; $15 entry fee; deadline March 15th]

The 22 Magazine – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, music, art, animation

Two Hawks Quarterly – fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, hybrid, photography, video, mixed media

2 River – poetry; issue deadlines: August 31st, November 30th, February 28th, May 31st.

Ultra – flash fiction (600-2000 words)

Umbrella Factory – fiction, flash fiction

Under the Gum Tree – creative nonfiction, personal essays, memoir; also for "Fork and Spoon" (food), "Sound Track" (music), "24 Frames a Second" (film), "Stomping Ground" (family), and "1000 Words" (photo essays) departments. Issue deadlines: February 22nd, May 24th, August 23rd, November 22nd.

Under the Sun – flash nonfiction (2-3 pages)

Underground Voices – fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry

Union Station Mag – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art & photography

Unsplendid – poetry

Used Furniture – fiction, nonfiction, book reviews, poetry, art

Vain – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art

 Valley Voices – "literature, culture, and criticism," "dedicated to readers and writers with a purpose to promote works of the Valley students and of the writers from the Delta and other regions and foster appreciation of the literary diversity of our multicultural society in the Mississippi Delta."

Valparaiso Ficiton Review – fiction

Valparaiso Poetry Review – poetry, essays, interviews, book reviews

Verdad – fiction, poetry, art; Issue deadline: March 31st

Verse – website: flash fiction poetry; print: chapbook-length fiction, nonfiction, criticism, interviews, journals/notebooks, poetry

Vine Leaves Literary Journal – book reviews only year-round; vignettes of fiction, nonfiction, poetry accepted January 1st-February 28th, April 1st-May 31st, July 1st-August 31st, October 1st-November 1st.

V+L-A=K – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art & photography K's Note: it's unclear how to submit to this journal. My best guess is to [contact them with a query.]

Voices de la Luna – fiction, flash fiction, poetry; also accepts student writing, high school (18 years old) and under.

 The Wallace Stevens Journal – "Articles range from interpretive criticism of his poetry and essays to comparisons with other writers, from biographical and contextual studies to more theoretically informed reflections. Also welcome are previously unpublished primary or archival material and photographs, proposals for guest-edited special issues, as well as original Stevens-inspired artistic and creative works."

War, Literature and the Arts – fiction, essays (critical, personal), memoir, book reviews, drama, poetry. About WLA

Warscapes – fiction, nonfiction, interviews, reviews, retrospectives, poetry, photo-essays, translations "that provides a lens into current conflicts across the world."

Wasafiri – fiction, articles, interviews, reviews, poetry

The White Review – fiction, nonfiction (query first), poetry

The Whole Mitten – fiction "with conflict"

Wild River Review – fiction, flash fiction, novel excerpts, novellas, essays, memoirs, book reviews, poetry, art, comics, photo essays

Wild Violet – fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, gonzo journalism, political essays, humorous essays, interviews, reviews, poetry, art & photography. Contest – Poetry & Fiction Contest - $100 prize in poetry (up to 200 lines), fiction (up to 2500 words) categories; $5 fee per entry; deadline November 16th.

Wilderness House Literary Review – fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, interviews, poetry; issue deadlines: March 1st, June 1st, September 1st, December 1st.

Willows Wept – "seasonally themed" fiction, nonfiction, poetry

WomenArts Quarterly – fiction, personal essays, music reviews, poetry, art [K's Note: despite the journal's title, there is no expressed guidelines about whether they only accept submissions from women.]

Word for/Word – fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, criticism, reviews, poetry, poetics, visuals [K's Note: Now, in the process of completing this guide, I've encountered a few thousand literary website. Word for/Word definitely takes top prize for originality.]

Word Riot – fiction, flash fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction, reviews, interviews, poetry

Wordgathering-A Journal of Disability Poetry – fiction, essays (query first for both); poetry, art & music

Words without Borders – original translations of theme fiction, poetry; "We do not publish literature written in English, and we do not consider work that has already been published in English translation;" Upcoming themes (as of December 2012) include: graphic novels, LGBT, black markets.

Work – fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, interviews, poetry, art & photography; also: inter-office memos, chat, and conversations, pink slips, interviews, photocopy & office supply art, failed resumes and cover letters. Also check their "Call for Submissions"

World Literature Review – fiction, essays, book reviews, interviews, poetry

 The Write Place At the Write Time – fiction, nonfiction, poetry.  Annual Fiction, Poetry, and Non-fiction Contest – book, magazine subscription, and gift card prizes for fiction (up to 3000 words), nonfiction (up to 2500 words), and poetry (up to 20 lines) categories

The Writing Disorder – fiction, nonfiction, poetry

Xavier Review – fiction, critical essays, personal essays, poetry, translations with "a focus on African American, Caribbean and Southern literature, as well as works that touch on issues of religion and spirituality."

XCP-Cross Cultural Poetics – poetry, poetics, ethnography, culture

The Yale Review – fiction, nonfiction, poetry

Yalobusha – fiction, nonfiction, poetry

Yemassee – fiction, creative nonfiction, reviews, interviews, drama, poetry, art

Yes, Poetry – reviews, interviews, poetry, music, photography

Yew – poetry, hybrid, art & photography "by women"

Ygdrasil – fiction, drama, poetry

Zoland Poetry – poetry with "a political awareness;" poetry reviews, interviews with poets

Zone 3 – fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry

Zyzzyva – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art

#  Journals that accept whenever they feel like it

These journals accept submissions for a while then stop when they have received enough for their current issue, or don't have a set submission date during their school year, or have some other mysterious reason for their transient submission schedules that they don't wish to share. If I find a concrete submission period I'll list it above – otherwise, you'll have to check their website occasionally, or get on their e-newsletter mailing list (if they offer one) to see if they are accepting submissions when you are ready to submit.

Abraxis – poetry, essays, criticism, reviews

Absent Magazine – poetry

Absinthe Magazine – translations of European poetry, novel excerpts, short stories, drama, essays, or interviews

Action, Yes – poetry, prose, criticism

Adroit Journal – poetry, fiction, and art/photography

Aesthetix – poetry on a featured title

Aldus – "translations into English from any language, in any genre, from any time, and from any place, as well as essays on the art of translation."

Alehouse – poetry

Algebra – poetry, may or may not be exclusive to Scotland – your guess is as good as mine.

A-Minor Magazine – fiction, flash fiction, poetry

Anemone Sidecar – not accepting submissions last time I checked [poetry, fiction]

Annalemma – fiction, nonfiction

Anobium – fiction, in the print Journal; Nonfiction accepted year-round; K's Note: there is also the [R. Dower Book Series that has been "temporarily suspended" as of the last time I checked]

Anomalous – Fiction, nonfiction, poetry; sign up for their newsletter for a submission schedule

Another Chicago Magazine – fiction, nonfiction, poetry

At Length Magazine – fiction, nonfiction, poetry

 Autumn Sky Poetry – poetry; also check the blog for submission updates.

Avery – fiction, including several contests

Barrelhouse – fiction, poetry, nonfiction – only certain genres are accepted at a time.

Beeswax Magazine – fiction, poetry

Beltway Poetry Quarterly – poetry from Washington DC writers; publishes several theme issues

Big Bridge – fiction, nonfiction, reviews, poetry; will begin accepting again January 2013

Big Fiction – fiction 7000 words and above.

Black Heart Magazine – fiction

Black Clock – fiction, poetry

 Black Herald Press – fiction, nonfiction essays, poetry, translations, in English or French

Blast Furnace – poetry

Bloom – "queer" fiction, nonfiction, poetry

Blossombones – poetry, hybrid

Blue Print Review – fiction, nonfiction, poetry

Bone Bouquet – female poets only: poetry, interviews, craft essays, and reviews of chapbooks/books of poetry

Bombay Gin – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, hybrid, art

Border Crossing – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translations, reviews, art

Born Magazine – fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction "writers and artists interested in collaborating to create experimental, interactive projects" [K's note: last I checked, they aren't accepting writing submissions]

Boxcar Poetry Review – poetry, reviews, interviews, art, photography

Breadcrumb Scabs – poetry

The Broken City – fiction, essays, poetry, book/music reviews, comics, illustrations. Check the website for the current issue theme.

Burner Magazine – fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry

Cabinet des Fees –nonfiction, on "fairy tales"

Café Solo – poetry

CaKe – fiction, nonfiction, book reviews, interviews, poetry, art from Florida A & M undergraduates and graduates. [K's Note: CaKe will do a blog post around October when they are accepting submissions]

Cave Wall – poetry, art

Cellar Roots – "literary arts" and "visual art" from students enrolled at Eastern Michigan University the current academic year

The Centrifugal Eye – poetry, "First-person essays about aspects of your "Writing Life," reviews of poetry books

Chiaroscuro – "dark" fiction

Cigale Literary Magazine – fiction, flash fiction

Clapboard House – fiction, poetry

Clapboard House-Best of the House Poetry Contest – poetry (three poems/pages) no fee, no monetary prize

Collision Literary Magazine – creative nonfiction, poetry, literary criticism, visual art & photography, music from undergraduates only

Conclave Journal – fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction poetry, and prose poems that show "character-driven writing"

Corium Magazine – fiction, flash fiction, poetry

The Coraddi – fiction, poetry, art

del sol review – fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, prose poetry

 Demeter's Spicebox – fiction, nonfiction

Digital Americana – fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, spoken word (Winter Issue Deadline: January 3rd)

Disclocate – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art; "We are primarily looking for work from Minnesotan writers and artist, but submissions are also open to artists from (or with a connection to) Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, and North/South Dakota."

Doorknobs & Bodypaint – theme flash fiction

Eccolinguistics – fiction, poetry, hybrid

Ekleksographia – poetry

Electric Literature – fiction

Esque – poetry

Evergreen Review – fiction, essays, articles, poetry

Everyday Genius – fiction, poetry

Farallon Review – fiction

The Fine Line – fiction, poetry

580 Split – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art

5 Poetry Journal – poetry

FlaRe-The Flagler Review – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, screenplays, drama

Floorboard Review – poetry

Fortunates – short (1-2 line) poetry

Fox Creek Review – fiction, poetry (no unsolicited submissions)

Full Metal Poem – poetry (currently by commission only)

Gargoyle – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, interviews, graphics

Glass Seed Annual – poetry; reading period reopens February 13th

GlitterPony – poetry

Glossolalia – flash fiction up to 500 words

Golden Handcuffs Review – fiction, essays, poetry, art; no unsolicited submissions

The Golden Key – "literary and speculative" fiction, poetry

The Golden Triangle – fiction, nonfiction, poetry

Gutter Eloquence – (print edition only) poetry; online = year-round)

Greatest Uncommon Denominator (GUD) – fiction, reports, poetry, comics, art

Haiga – haiga poetry

Hamilton Stone Review – fiction, nonfiction, poetry

Hart House Review – fiction, nonfiction, poetry

Hinchas de Poesía – fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, book reviews, poetry, translations, art

Hobart – (print edition only) fiction, nonfiction, craft based interviews, poetry; online = year-round

Hobble Creek Review – creative nonfiction, essays, poetry

Horse Less Review – fiction, poetry

Hyacinth Girl Press – chapbook length poetry collections (up to 30 pages)

The Ilanot Review – "Israeli...creative writing in English;" fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, memoir, travel writing, poetry; Spring issue deadline: March 31st

In Posse Review – flash fiction, flash nonfiction, poetry

In Words Magazine – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, visual art

Iron Horse Review – fiction, nonfiction, essays, poetry

Istanbul Literary Review – fiction, nonfiction articles, poetry [K's Note: The submission page only has what looks like that fake Latin they put on webpage templates]

Jackson Hole Review – fiction, essays, poetry, art & photography

Jellyfish – poetry

 Journal of Renga & Renku – renga, renku, and haibun poetry

Knockout – flash fiction, poetry, prose poems [K' Note: this zine will close their submissions whenever they get to 100, then reopen when they have read those 100 submissions]

Konch Magazine – fiction, essays, poetry

Kugelmass – fiction, essays, poetry, comics, illustrations "literary humor"

Labletter – print edition only: fiction, nonfiction, drama, poetry, art; flash prose up to 500 words, poetry, images accepted year-round. "In general, we post calls for submissions sometime during the summer"

Lantern Review – essays, book reviews, poetry, poem translations, art & photography

The Liner – epistolary fiction, letters (scans, or transcribed), poetry

Literary Mama – fiction, creative nonfiction, profiles, reviews, poetry "written by writers of all ages who are also self-identified mothers: biological, non-biological, step, transgendered, foster, grand, or adoptive."

Literary Orphans – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art

Little Patuxent Review – fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, art & photography

Los Angeles Review – fiction, nonfiction, poetry; next reading period opens February 1st

Lucky Peach – a journal of food and writing; theme essays, art & photography, recipes

The Lumberyard – poetry

Mandorla – poetry, criticism, art translations – no unsolicited submissions

Manoa – essays, poetry, art that "strives to bring the literature of Asia, the Pacific, and the Americas to English-speaking readers"

Mantis – essays, interviews, reviews of poetry, poetry, translations

Matter Journal – theme fiction, nonfiction, interviews, poetry, visual art & photography

Matrix – fiction, nonfiction, essays, interviews, reviews, humour writing, poetry, comics, art & photography. "Submissions are only accepted for the Dossier section of Matrix, and thus are always at the mercy of its guest editor(s)."

 McSweeney's Quarterly Concern – fiction, nonfiction; online = year-round

Mead – poetry

Midwestern Gothic – fiction, poetry, photography (year-round) "featuring or inspired by your time in the Midwest."

Mikrokosmos Journal (MOJO) – fiction, nonfiction, poetry; blog entries "related to the literary community: writing, editing, submitting, or satire about literary culture"

MiPOesias – poetry on a theme; poetry about "The Blues" for _The Blue Issue_ deadline January 15th.

Miracle Monocle – fiction, flash fiction, book reviews, interviews, poetry, art

Mississippi Review – fiction, poetry; no unsolicited submissions, though "Occasionally an editor will put out a call for work on specific topics."

Mixtini Matrix – flash fiction (to 1000 words), nonfiction (responses to art, (analysis of collaborative works and processes"), poetry, art, collaborations, drink recipes

The Mom Egg – fiction, nonfiction, features, poetry, art "by mothers about everything, and by everyone about mothers and motherhood."

The Monongahela Review – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art & photography

Moonshot – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics, art

Narwhal –fiction

The NE'ER-DO-WELL – fiction, nonfiction, comics

The New Guard – fiction, experimental poetry; Contests include: Machigonne Fiction Contest. Knightville Poetry Contest

The Newer York – fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, hybrid, unclassifiable, "absurd philosophy/religion/politics/theory/etc", "letters/epistolary/communication"

New Mirage Journal – fiction, nonfiction, poetry

New Purlieu Review – fiction, essays, poetry, art & photography "that address the unique issues of living in our time."

New York Tyrant – fiction, poetry

NOÖ – fiction, monologues, essays, poetry, art & photography

Nowhere – travel writing

Oatmeal Magazine – fiction, essays, poetry, "Ramblings, Open Letters, Letters to Master Oatmeal, Steel-Cut News, Tidbits, Travelogues, and Oat(meal); Flash Fiction Contest – flash fiction on a theme; no entry fee.

 Ocho – poetry K's Note: the guidelines link wasn't working last I checked; try [here if it's still down]

The Offending Adam – "New Writing" (poetry, poetic fiction), essays, book reviews, features

On Spec – speculative fiction, flash fiction, poetry

On the Premises – theme fiction, flash fiction [K's Note: all submissions are considered contests; though none of their "contests" require entry fees]

On and On Screen – poetry & video

1110 (One Photograph One Story Ten Poems) – fiction, poetry, photography

Ontologica – fiction, nonfiction, art

 Otoliths – fiction, essays, poetry, vispo, art & photography

Out of Nothing – "new works in image, sound, text and the digital arts, as well as works located at the intersections between these media."

Pacific Review – theme fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry, graphic narrative, photography

Painted Bride Quarterly – fiction, nonfiction, poetry

Paperbag Magazine – poetry, art, sound, video; prose (query first)

Parnassus-Poetry in Review – poetry (unsolicited submissions by mail only)

Paul Revere's Horse – fictin, nonfiction, poetry, translations

Per Contra – fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry

Petrichor Review – fiction, flash fiction, poetry

 Platte Valle Review – fiction, nonfiction, poetry

Poetry International – poetry

Poetry is Dead – theme poetry; essays, reviews (query first)

The Poetry Porch – poetry "The editors at The Poetry Porch read manuscripts in the spring. Watch the opening pages for an announcement calling for papers in January"

Poetry Sky – poetry with Chinese translation

Poetry South – poetry

Prairie Margins – undergraduate fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, art

Prism Review – fiction, poetry; Poetry Contest – $200 prize for 1-3 poems, up to 7 pages; $15 entry fee, deadline December 15th. Short Story Contest – $200 prize for fiction, up to 8000 words; $15 entry fee, deadline December 15th.

The Puritan – fiction, poetry

Qarrtsiluni – theme fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art

Ragazine – fiction, creative nonfiction, memoir, reviews, "informed political commentary (no rants), travel stories, poetry, cartoons & illustrations

Redactions – fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry

Red Booth Review \- poetry

Red Line Blues – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, photography, prints "The content of each issue of Red Line Blues is chosen through an open call for entries on the given theme. We announce the theme a few months before submissions are due."

Reunion-Dallas Review – fiction, creative nonfiction, academic essays, drama, poetry, translation, art, performance art projects. Undergrad Contest – fiction and poetry categories from UT Dallas Undergraduates only.

 Reverie – fiction, creative nonfiction, book reviews, poetry "by African Americans with "ties" to the Midwest." [K's Note: for submission guidelines you will have to download a document from their website]

riverbabble – fiction, flash fiction, essays, poetry

 Saltgrass – poetry

The Sand Hill Review – fiction, poetry [K's Note: it isn't clear how to submit. I'm guessing that you email one of the editors]

 The Santa Fe Literary Review – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art

The Savage Consortium – fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry; Flash Fiction Contest – fiction up to 1000 words; $300, $150, $50 prizes; $10 fee per entry; deadline November 15th.

Scapegoat Review – fiction, flash fiction, flash nonfiction, poetry book reviews, poetry

Scheherezade's Bequest – "fairy tales" fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics

Sea breeze journal – "contemporary Liberian" fiction, nonfiction, poetry

Sententia: The Journal – fiction, poetry

Shadowtrain – poetry, articles, reviews, translations

Sidebrow – fiction, nonfiction, art

Sink Review – poetry

Sixth Finch – poetry, art

Skidrow Penthouse – fiction, flash fiction, poetry

Sleeping Fish – "textual art"

Sleet Magazine – fiction, flash fiction, poetry

Sliver of Stone Magazine – fiction, creative nonfiction, essays, poetry, art

The Smoking Poet – fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction (travel essays, personal essays, memoirs), poetry

Solo – poetry

Solo Café – poetry

Solo Novo – Theme Poetry

Specs – fiction, nonfiction, cultural criticism, poetry, art

Specter – fiction, flash fiction, poetry, art

Sphere – undergraduate fiction, nonfiction, poetry

Spilling Ink Review – fiction, nonfiction, reviews, comics, art & photography;  Flash Fiction Prize – deadline March 31st.  Short Story Prize – deadline May 31st.  Speculative Fiction Prize – deadline July 31st.

The Splinter Generation – fiction, nonfiction, interviews of strangers, poetry, art

Split – fiction, poetry, art & photography

Sterling – fiction, flash fiction, poetry, comics; "We are primarily interested in Canadian writing but will consider all submissions."

Stone Canoe – "short fiction, creative nonfiction, technical writing, drama, poems, and works of visual art created by people who live or have lived in Upstate New York (not New York City)." K's Note: each category has an [annual award for the best submission by an emerging writer or artist]

Stone Boat – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, photo essays, b&w art

Strange Horizons – speculative fiction; nonfiction (critical articles, science and technology, interviews with speculative authors); SF, fantasy, horror, and "slipstream" poetry; art

String Poet – poetry

Structo Magazine – fiction ("particularly slipstream"), poetry, translations

Sugar House Review – poetry

Sugar Mule – fiction, nonfiction, poetry; upcoming theme "Family Secrets" deadline May 1st (prose only); work about or inspired by Walt Whitman accepted year-round

Super Arrow – "text, art, folio;" "A JOURNAL FOR EXPERIMENTS IN WRITING & ART"

Taddle Creek – fiction, poetry; nonfiction: query first

The Teacher's Voice – themes flash fiction, creative nonfiction, essays, poems

Temporary Infinity – novellas _[last time I checked, at least]_

Toad Suck Review – fiction, creative nonfiction, interviews, reviews, memoir, poetry "political rants, ecologically conscientious reflections, talk about literature, talk about culture, talk about teaching"

Tongue – poetry, translations, photography

Trickhouse – fiction, nonfiction, interviews, poetry, art, audio, video

TRNSFR – fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry

The Tulane Review – fiction, nonfiction, poetry

Vallum Mag – theme poetry; essays, reviews, interviews, letters, art accepted year-round

Versal – fiction, flash fiction, novel excerpts, poetry

Vice Versa Journal – theme fiction, nonfiction, creative essays, poetry, art, multimedia

Vinyl Poetry – fiction, flash fiction, poetry, hybrid

Virginia Quarterly Review – fiction, nonfiction, poetry

Wazee Journal – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art

Weber – fiction, creative nonfiction, personal narrative, critical commentary, poetry "that offer insight into the environment and culture (both broadly defined) of the contemporary western United States"

 Welter – fiction, essay, memoir, poetry, art & photography, comics

whiskey & fox – poetry, theory, and "queer-heterotopoi"

Women in Red Zine – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, audio, video

Worker's Write – theme fiction, flash fiction, poetry

Writer's Ink – fiction, nonfiction, screenplays, poetry

Yellow Medicine Review – fiction, nonfiction, poetry " **from an indigenous perspective"**

Zaum **– undergraduate/graduate fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art**

# Journals of Mysterious Status

The journals collected here are ones that might be abandoned, dead, waiting for resurrection, have some other technical issue that made their website link not work, haven't been updated in years, do not accept unsolicited submissions without saying so, or in some other way have failed to articulate how to submit to them. I've included them for completeness. If you know anything definitive about their status, or how to submit to them, let me know.

Artiface – fiction, nonfiction, poetry

The Black Boot – fiction, poetry

The Broome Review – fiction nonfiction, poetry, art

Cadence – fiction, nonfiction, poetry from the Cypriot community only.

Catfish Creek – undergraduate fiction, nonfiction, poetry

The Chaffin Journal – fiction, poetry

Chtenia – Russian fiction, translations. [K's Note: a sister publication to Russian Life, but I couldn't figure out how to submit to Chtenia]

The Corner Club Press – fiction, nonfiction, poetry

The Dirty Goat – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama

 Dublin Poetry Review – poetry K's Note: the left link will take you to their Facebook page; you can also try this [link, though it didn't work for me]

Riverbabble – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, reviews

Eastown Fiction – fiction

Emprise Review – fiction, nonfiction, poetry

Eyeshot – fiction, essays, reviews, poetry

Flashquake – fiction, nonfiction, poetry

The Folio Club – fiction, story-like essays, indie cartoon art [K's Note: this mag looks great, but I have no idea how to submit to them.]

14 by14 – sonnet poetry; from the website: " _14 by 14_ remains CLOSED TO SUBMISSIONS until further notice. We will definitely not be reopening for submissions in 2011. That is not an invitation to submit on January 1 2012. Whether we will reopen for submissions, and if so when, remains undecided for the present."

Fourth Genre – creative nonfiction

Fray – nonfiction

Get Born – essays, poetry, features that "celebrates "the underbelly of motherhood" [K's Note: the site is working fine, but the Editorial Calendar has 2010 dates on it.]

Global City Review – theme fiction, essays, memoir, interviews, poetry [K's Note: the site is working fine, but the themes listed are from 2007-2008]

Great River Review – fiction, nonfiction, poetry [K's Note: the site looks current – I just couldn't figure out how to submit]

Great Works – British modernist/postmodernist poetry

Hawk and Handsaw – fiction, nonfiction, poetry

The Honey Land Review – poetry, photography

Horizon Review – fiction, reviews, interviews, poetry

How2 – poetry, features, visuals, multimedia [K's Note: the site is working fine, but the _Call for Submissions_ is dated 2008]

The Hummingbird Review – fiction, nonfiction, essays, interviews, poetry

Lake – "essays, creative writing and visual arts related to the environment" [K's note: posted on their website "LAKE IS NO LONGER ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS OF ANY KIND FOR THE FORSEEABLE FUTURE."]

Literal-Latin American Voices \- fiction, nonfiction, news, essays, poetry, art, bilingual [K's note: the magazine looks healthy, but I sure couldn't figure out how to submit to it. The link is to their contact list, which is probably your best bet.]

Memoir – memoir, poetry, graphic memoir, narrative photography; _Memoir-Prizes for Memoir_ : the best regular submissions can win $500, $250, or several $100 prizes.

Monkey Puzzle – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translations, hybrid K's Note: I could only find submission information about their new magazine project, [The Savage Consortium, on their website]

ParaSpheres – "Fabulist and New Wave Fabulist" fiction, novellas [K's Note: The last posted submission deadline on their site was 3/31/08]

The Pedestal Magazine – poetry; from their website "Following the release of the December [2012] issue, the magazine will go on brief hiatus, during which time the vision of the magazine will be reshaped and the design revamped. The "new" _Pedestal_ will post sometime in Fall 2013 or Spring 2014"

Pemmican – poetry; from their website: "Pemmican is going on hiatus and will not be accepting new work except on an invitational basis. We've had a 20 year run and it's time for a break. We would like to say Thank You! to all of you who have read, supported and encouraged Pemmican over the years. Perhaps sometime in the future Pemmican will open its doors again."

Press 1 – fiction, nonfiction, poetry; from the website "Press 1 is on hiatus until further notice. See FB for announcements or write to Valerie Fox at vf25 @drexel.edu if you have questions."

Quicksilver – fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, art & photography [K's Note: The last reading period announced on the website was for Fall 2009]

The Sandstar Review – prose, poetry; from the website "Due to unforeseen circumstances, it is with great regret that we inform you that _The Sandstar Review_ will be taking an indefinite hiatus and is no longer taking submissions. We have thoroughly enjoyed reading your work and hope to open submissions back up again in the future."

17 Seconds – Canadian poetry, poetics [K's Note: the site looks healthy, they just have not posted how to submit]

Slake – fiction, narrative journalism, essay, memoir, poetry; from the website "We are on an indefinite hiatus and will not be able to accept submissions at this time."

Soundings – fiction, nonfiction, poetry

Tattoo Highway – flash fiction, nonfiction, drama, poetry, art &photography, comics; from the website " **We're on indefinite hiatus.** Do NOT send mss. I will feed them to my dogs!"

Tapestry – fiction, essays, poetry [K's Note: They say the journal "has expanded its scope to include writers from outside the Delta State service area" but I sure couldn't figure out how to submit]

 Telephone – "We are featuring four to five poems from one foreign poet in each issue, which are then translated roughly ten times by multiple different poets and translators" [K's Note: the zine sounds awesome, but I couldn't find any guidelines, and the site hasn't been updated since February 2012]

322 Review – fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry [K's Note: their website wasn't working last I checked]

20x20 Magazine – fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry [K's Note: their website wasn't working last I checked]

Two Bit Magazine – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, comics, graphic novel excerpts K's Note: unless they've gone to an all-Chinese edition, I'd say they defunct. [ This is the most English page I could find, dated 2009.]

Trigger – fiction, poetry, art; from the website: "The second edition of Trigger is the last under Status Hat Production's stewardship. Check back or subscribe below to receive noticde when Trigger is relaunched later this year! Existing subscribers will continue to receive updates." Last updated February 7, 2012.

Tule Review – poetry K's Note: The last submission deadline listed is for August 27th, 2011; I've found two links for the organization that puts out the Review-though neither worked last I checked them: [link one, link two]

Twelve Stories – fiction; from the website "We should be open again in early 2012." [K's Note: I checked it December 2012]

 The Village Pariah – fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry "and other works inspired by the writings and life of Mark Twain, his hometown of Hannibal, Missouri, the Mississippi River, the Midwest, and small town or rural life in America." [K's Note: The last deadline posted on the website was for August 1st, 2011]

Vulcan: a literary dis-allusion – fiction, poetry, art & photography, collage

Washington Pastime – fiction, nonfiction, poetry [K's Note: this site was listed as a "Reported Attack Page" by my antivirus software and Google, so I didn't look want to risk my computer's health to check into it.]

Western American Literature – critical essays [K's Note: last I heard, they're looking for a new patron/home.]

The Writer's Block Magazine – fiction, reviews, poetry, art & photography [K's Note: apparently their account has been suspended by their webhost]

Wicked Alice Poetry Journal – poetry

YB Poetry – poetry; from the website: "There are no current submission guidelines since the future of the journal is uncertain"

Yomimono – fiction, poetry [K's Note: the site looks healthy, they just have not posted how to submit]

#  Farewell

These journals have confirmedly passed on. Click the links to read their obituaries, or see what is left of their online presence.

Mad Luscious Press Online Quarterly – They have stopped publishing the quarterly to focus on publishing books; read past issues here.

Northwest Review – read the obituary here.

Rose & thorn – prose, poetry

The Sandstar Review – prose, poetry

Umbrella Journal – read past issues at the link.

Untitled Country Review – read past issues at the link.

# About the Author

Josh Karaczewski is the semi-pseudonym of a writer residing in the San Francisco Bay Area, who teaches for his career, and lives for his family. He hopes you find this guide useful, and thanks you for the opportunity to speak of himself in the third person.

Find out more about Josh at his Smashwords page, his Facebook page, his Goodreads page, Pinterest, and especially Oral Randomly, his blog. The more you visit the more energy he will invest in these sites.

Read Josh's novel "Alexander Murphy's Home for Wayward Celebrities", available at your preferred ebook web-retailer now (find the full list by clicking his blog link above). You'll laugh (hopefully), you'll cry (probably not), you'll have a good time (the best recommendation he can give is that he wrote a novel that he himself would love to read).

Also read, My Governor's House & other stories, a collection of the published writings (so far!) from author Josh Karaczewski, including the Pushcart Prize nominated titular story. Through mostly short stories, you will meet a homecoming warrior defeated by housework (ouch!), a lonely debut author impatient for recognition (imagine that!), a son losing a boyfriend because of his mother (imagine that!), boys doing boy stuff (no batteries required!), a man who is awakened into a new title (enjoy your sleep now!), rediscovering children's literature (Viva Sendak!), and the thoughts of someone who falls from great heights to the ground (on purpose!).

Likewise, further novels from Josh will arrive faster the more he receives interest in his writing.

Comments and other examples of existence are craved above all. Send them unanonymously to mailto:joshkaraczewski@sbcglobal.net, and he'll probably write back.

