Peter McAllister

Two Contests to Enter this Month 🖋️ - mailchi.mp/afe8ed7cd584... Find details on our Kingfisher Poetry Prize and the First Page Cage in this Pulp Mystery newsletter...

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Curdle Creek Nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award For fans of “The Lottery” and The Hunger Games, this novel set in a small town with a sinister tradition is chillin...

I hadn't heard about Curdle Creek by Yvonne Battle-Felton until it won the Shirley Jackson Award for best novel, but the description immediately sucked me in. Gothic, surreal, literary horror. Gotta pick this one up!
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Submissions open. Theme: CONTAGION. Deadline: 24th August. Background: virus microbe.

Poetry: 1-3, 40 lines max. Fiction: 1-2, 2k words max. Script: 1-2, 15 mins max. Essay: 1-2, 2k words max. Art: 1-5. Full guidelines on our website. Background: virus microbe.

☆ SUBMISSIONS FOR ISSUE 04 ARE OPEN ☆
Theme: CONTAGION

Give us contagious laughter. Give us catching feelings. Give us plague. Give us mob mentality.

Submit here: forms.gle/N8HUjshpzWrZ...

DEADLINE JULY 31ST! Our Adrift Writing Contests are closing at the end of this month. Use the link in our bio to submit your poetry chapbook or short story for a chance to get PAID to be PUBLISHED! #writingcontest #closingsoon

Rebecca Swift Foundation Launches Women Poets Anthology - Rebecca Swift Foundation The Rebecca Swift Foundation will join forces with Fly on the Wall Press to publish an anthology of women poets in the UK.

Poets! The news is out...

Submissions to "Woman, Mapped" to open shortly @foundationswift.bsky.social

www.rebeccaswiftfoundation.org/news/rebecca... #poets #submissions

Tomorrow is the last day before the submission window for Oatleaf's July competition closes! See our submission guidelines and submit your last minute entries! This month's theme: message bottle at sea

The winner will be announced on the 25th!
#poetry #oatleaf

www.oatleafpoetry.com/p/submit.html

We are again open for fiction and poetry submissions! (We've received 15 of 200 possible written submissions for 15 July to 14 August.)

We're now approaching our final week. Fantastic work so far but we'd love to see more! #sciencefiction #art #contest

L.M. and I are reading your BLAZING submissions, and we're loving what we're seeing! 🔥

If you have something that fits our current FIERY theme, make sure to send it our way before Aug 1.

Guidelines can be found here:

The Broken Spine Summer Competition 2025: Submit Bold Poetry and Fearless Prose for Publication - The Broken Spine This August, The Broken Spine opens submissions for our 2025 Summer Competition. We’re seeking poetry and prose that refuses to flinch, writing that risks,

If you’ve been locked out, shut down, left out of the room—walk into this one. The Broken Spine opens Aug 1–31.
👉 shorturl.at/eTSjI
👤 @AlanParry83.bsky.social

Submissions for Journal 15 will open on July 17. Our theme is Tension. See our Submission Guidelines for all the dirt.
We can’t wait to read your work. Enjoy the flower.

www.muleskinnerjournal.com/submit

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#poetryjournals

#writingprompt #writing #inspiration

Yes, we're officially closed to submissions, but pitch sessions can be a way to get our attention even when we're not reading subs. We will be looking for unique ecofiction, especially novellas, especially BIPOC and/or Canadian.

More pitch opportunities to come! Some in-person!

Send us a flash fiction piece of up to 704 words that engages the reader intellectually, packs an emotional punch, and has something important to teach us about a deep human truth.

Submissions are open!

See details at the link below:

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#writingcommunity

Submissions for LOST & FOUND close in ONE WEEK ✨️📅

Visit our website for more information:
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We can't wait to see your creations!

Submission Guidelines L’Esprit Literary Review publishes work written in the fearless, risk-adept, and revolutionary spirit of High Modernism. We accept short fiction, creative non-fiction, novel extracts, literar…

#callforsubmissions: L'Esprit seeks stories, essays, translation, reviews.

Consciousness-forward, language-driven, risk-adept. Send us writing beyond convention.

G’Lines + open calls: lespritliteraryreview.org/submission-g...

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#Essays
#bookreviews
#litmag
#shortstories
#creativewriting

DEADLINE APPROACHING: You have until July 15th to submit to our writing contests! Use the link in our bio for details. #writingcontest #deadlinesoon

Quick update on @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social
Submission guidelines. Submit up to 3 stories in one doc and submit via online submission manager Moksha:
gooseberrypielit.moksha.io

Interested in submitting to Augur Press? 👀✨

We open to novelettes & novellas from agented and unagented writers later this week—

Don’t miss this AMA with our Publisher!

Tiac timely open for urgent submissions. We won’t wait for a curated edition to publish if the issue matters now.

We’re always open for TiaC timely. Despair, fear, heartache, rage need release. Spirals aren’t only negative, art and writing help reverse the flow, clear blocks, give care. If you feel it, send it. It doesn’t have to be perfect, real is enough.
templeinacity.com/submit-writi...

Fantastic evening listening to Samantha Harvey talk about her Booker-winning novel, Orbit. Just in the queue now to get my copy signed…
#booker #orbit #literaryfiction

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We are officially OPEN to submissions for Issue 7: Fire through 7/31! 🔥 Creative kids ages 5-13, send your writing, art, and photos for consideration. Also, check out our cover art contest, open through the end of July. Keep shining! ✨
litkidsmagazine.wixsite.com/lit-kids-mag...

#kidlit #parents

Issue No. 10 MANUS AETERNUM is out now. Read here everscribemag.com/issue-10

Want to be a part of our future issues? Everscribe is always open for #submissions!

Issue Three is coming soon! Watch for it on July 20, and get your submissions of prose, art and poems ready for the next window, which opens August 1!

Two more days and some change!!

Print submissions for Protean Magazine: Issue VI are now open.

Send us your most affecting poems, or your best essay pitches and/or drafts—we want to read your incisive, rigorous, lyrical critiques of American decay, social pathology, and imperial decline.

Guidelines: proteanmag.com/submissions

The Sunshine Coast north of Vancouver, Canada

We have ONE ROOM LEFT at our Rainforest Writers Retreat in February.

Fancy a trip to the rugged Pacific Northwest this winter?

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Some lovely submissions came in over the weekend. We're deeply thankful to everyone who has considered us as a potential home for their stories. Four more days to go if you want to send us your work! We close on July 3, midnight EST. Sub here: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/submit
#namjooning

Protests, Opinions, Prophetic Voices, Flytings, and Poetic Battles Submit your alliterative poems to Forgotten Ground Regained by July 1

Just over two days now to submit #aliterative #poems to Forgotten Ground Regained.

alliteration.net/call-for-sub... #alliterative #poetry #CallForSubmissions #poetrycommunity #poetrysky

The #anthology of short stories I co-published with @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social has been shortlisted in the Holyer an Gof awards this year!!

#booksky #award #shortlist #shortlisted #literaryfiction