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Bold voices, brave stories. That's the kind of work Palooka publishes in their #litmag & chapbooks. They do charge a reading fee. Check out past issues & titles & submit prose, poetry, comics, & more today. Open year-round.
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The Missouri Review is accepting entries of fiction, poetry, & essays engaging in evocative ways with health, wellness, & medicine. $1k & publication awarded/genre. $15 early bird fee. Deadline: March 15.
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Applications are now open to the Kerouac Project of Orlando's 2026-27 residencies. 6 time slots available per year. Enjoy 7 weeks of uninterrupted writing with $600 grocery stipend & paid utilities. Apply by April 14.
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There's still time to enter poems & short stories into the Prime Number Magazine Awards. $15 fee. Winner in each genre receives $1k & publication. Two runners-up in each category receive $250 and publication. Deadline: March 31.
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The Missouri Review Winter 2025 issue features award-winning writing as well as fresh fiction, nonfiction, and poetry on the theme "Strange Bedfellows." Read more at NewPages!
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We're all south of somewhere is the edict of The Blue Mountain Review, a journal o culture. They are open to submissions of poetry, microfiction, fiction, & essays year-round. Read a recent issue & submit today. $5 fee.
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It's Friday the 13th. A good day to stay home and work on your writing & submission goals. Stop on by the NewPages Blog for today's weekly roundup featuring 130+ verified & vetted opportunities.
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The Beautiful Pause Prize is an annual award for nonfiction - manuscripts and pitches accepted with cash and publication for first and runner-up selections. Read more at NewPages!
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Check out recent titles from JackLeg Press to see if your work may be a fit & consider querying them for your own short fiction collections, poetry collections, novels, and creative nonfiction. Open year-round. $5 fee.
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You have until February 27 to join the latest Jerboa Lit Mini Contest! This is a prompt-based contest. Prompts will be pulled on the 27 & you will have until March 1 to enter your 250-word story. $15 fee. $500 grand prize.
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Have an unpublished novel? The Gutsy Great Novelist Chapter One Prize is open to submissions of outstanding first chapters. $20 fee. Grand prize is $1,000! Deadline: March 3.
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Decolonial Passage will open to submissions in April on the theme of ecology. They seek poetry, short stories, & creative nonfiction where human beings interact with their natural environment & take into consideration arguments of decolonial ecology.
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Calling all queer writers! ALOCASIA seeks creative writing about plants, nature, & horticulture from emerging & established writers. View their current garden & consider submitting your traditional & weird works. Open year-round. Paying market!
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$5,000 post-publication book prize, the New American Voices Award is accepting prose works illuminating the complexity of the human experience as told by immigrants. $20 fee. Previous winners include Shubha Sunder & Rachel Heng.
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Sand Hills Literary Magazine is celebrating 50 years & is seeking prose, poetry, & art from emerging & established writers & artists in the United States. Open through March 8. $3 fee.
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Calling all emerging writers (haven't published/self-published a book)! Ploughshares' Emerging Writers' Contest is open to submissions of fiction, nonfiction, & poetry through March 31. $30 fee (includes 1-year subscription). Winners receive $2k & publication.
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New writing prompt is up: Auditory Illusions.
We’re exploring the sounds we think we hear: echoes of past relationships, a voice calling your name in an empty room, strange in‑betweens where emotion reshapes perception.
What does your character hear that no one else does?
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February 22 is the deadline for writers living in Michigan to submit work to Qua Literary & Fine Arts Magazine's Winter 2026 issue. Open to fiction, CNF, poetry, visual art, photography, & more. No reading fee!
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New Lit on the Block announces The Dolomite Review and its reader-centered inaugural issue, open access online, with poetry, stories, and essays with connections to the Midwest. Read more at NewPages!
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The Lake online journal of poetry and poetics February 2026 issue is now available to read open access, with new poems, reviews of recent books, and sample poems from published collections.
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With the Superbowl behind us, it's time to think spring & baseball! The National Baseball Poetry Festival is open to single poems about any aspect of the game of baseball or softball. No reading fee. Enter by Noon on March 27.
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From genre fiction to poetry collections to self-help to story collections & more, the National Indie Excellence Awards are open to a wide variety of genres of books published in the last calendar year from indie presses & self-published authors. $75 fee. Deadline: March 31.
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Happy Monday! Hopefully your neck of the woods is experiencing warmer temperatures & a break in winter storms. If you'd still rather stay in than go out, our newsletter features new lit mag issues, recommended reads, bookstore updates, & 170+ submission opportunities.
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Announcing the Tupelo Press Dorset Prize for Poetry Winner: 'The Andrew Wyeth Chronicles' by Janée J. Baugher, a book-length narrative of ekphrastic poems influenced by sixty-three Wyeth paintings. Read more at NewPages!
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Indie publisher JackLeg Press is on the lookout for the next great thing. They want bold, vibrant, and authentic writers. They focus on poetry, short fiction collections, select novels, and nonfiction. Query today. $5 fee.
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We're leaning into momentum this week with a collaborative prompt. We provide the echo; you provide the translation.
The Spark: A plea for mercy, a cold refusal, and a final blow.
The Challenge: Don't just read it. Reimagine it.
What does "no mercy for the damned" look like in your world?
Happy February. We have a brand-new layout and look for our weekly roundup of submission opportunities. Enjoy 120+ open calls to submit your work to. New items and no fee items are marked for easy discoverability. Plus, enjoy a new prompt.
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Future Palooka writers include Cierra G. Rowe, Jeff Newberry, Emma Tozer, Pardeep Toor, & Judith Skillman. Check out recent issues & titles & consider sending them your own fiction, poetry, nonfiction, graphic narratives, & art. Fee varies. Open year-round.
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The Prime Number Magazine Awards are open to submissions of poetry and short stories through March 31. $15 entry fee. Winners receive $1,000 and publication. Two runners-up will receive $250 and publication.
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The Kerouac Project of Orlando reopens applications to their residency on Feb 7! 6 time slots available per year. Writers enjoy 7 weeks in Orlando, Fl, $600 grocery stipend, & paid utilities. Open to fiction, CNF, poetry, plays, & screenplays.
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