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SCAD’s Port City Review seeks work
SCAD’s student-curated literary arts journal Port City Review is seeking work. The deadline is Oct. 30 at 11:30 p.m. Visit the website for more information.
Australian Book Review seeks contest entries
Australian Book Review, Australia’s premier literary magazine, offers three major international literary prizes with lucrative prize money for poetry, short stories and nonfiction essays. Entries are now open for the 2017 Peter Porter Poetry Prize (worth a total of AU$7,500). The prize is for an original single-authored poem of up to 75 lines, written in English. Anyone in the world is eligible to enter.
Visit the website for more information. Entry costs AU$15 for ABR subscribers and AU$20 for non-subscribers. For just $55 entrants can enter one poem and receive ABR Online (the digital edition) for one year. Entries close at midnight (ABR time) Dec. 1. ABR will be announcing the winner at a special event in early 2017 and the shortlisted poems will be published in the magazine.
The Blueshift Journal is accepting work through Dec. 1
The Blueshift Journal is a student-run, international, tri-annual publication with two online issues and one print issue. The journal prints poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction. What kind of work do the editors want?
On a microscopic level, scientists say that nothing ever touches. Electrons repel each other; our very atoms shy away from trembling connection. Even in someone’s arms, we are galaxies apart, orbiting. We are impossibly distant. Hugely empty, dangerously full, our inability to touch draws us together. We long to reach our fingers out and feel the reverberations through the empty air of a heart that is not our own. We yearn enough to make the stars rush in towards us. In emptiness, we aspire to collision, to explosion, to that patterned disorder that created us and burns in us still. Blueshift is the yearning, the telltale sign that we have never been alone.
Visit the website for more information. To submit, visit the journal’s Submittable page.
Columbia Journal is seeking entries for its winter contest
Columbia Journal was founded in 1977 and has published work from Nobel laureates and lesser-known writers, National Book-award winners and newcomers. Archives include everyone from Raymond Carver to Lorrie Moore to Louise Glück to Philip Gourevitch to Noam Chomsky to Etgar Keret. Recent issues have featured Lydia Davis, Deb Olin Unferth, Karl Taro Greenfeld, Richard Ford, and Michael Ondaatje, as well as Amy Bloom and Philip Lopate.
The Journal is now accepting submissions of nonfiction, fiction and poetry for the 2016 Winter Contest, judged by Roxane Gay, Eula Biss and Mary Ruefle. The winners in each category will receive cash prizes of $500 and have their winning work published in the print edition of the journal, which comes out in the spring. Deadline for submissions is Dec. 12. For more information, and to submit, visit the website.
Submit work to five80split
Literary journal five80split is getting ready to launch Volume 19, and is seeking submissions. For more information, visit the website.
Online journal indicia seeks work
Art, poetry and fiction publication indicia is seeking work that is experimental, understated, othered and outcast, childlike, and/or bizarre. Guidelines:
• Up to six poems of not more than 10 pages total.
• Up to three flash fiction stories of not more than 750 words each.
• Up to five high-quality image files.
• Longer stories obtained through solicitation by our fiction editors only.
• Use “Poetry,” “Flash,” or “Art” + “Submission” for the subject line.
• To be considered for inclusion in the winter issue, send work by Oct. 31.
All work must be previously unpublished. Send a single .doc / .docx (.pdf also if formatting requires) or multiple .jpg/.gif/.png images to the editors. It is free to submit; all contributors will receive a pdf version of the issue.
Submit to JuxtaProse
JuxtaProse is sponsoring a short story contest with a $500 first prize. The literary magazine also is open to general submissions in poetry, fiction, nonfiction and art. One of the primary goals of JuxtaProse is to provide a platform where emerging authors (specifically students) can have their work published alongside established voices in the field. Since formation two years go, contributors have included Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award nominees as well as poet laureates from places as diverse as Scotland and Israel. JuxtaProse also has published the work of seven debut authors and countless students. Visit the website for submission guidelines.
Magical Realism Short Story Contest deadline is Oct. 31
The first-place winner earns $200 in prize money. The second-place winner earns $50 in prize money. Both winners will be featured on the website and published in the First Annual Two Sisters Writing and Publishing Anthology of Fresh Writers. Target publication date: December 2017. Target word count: 2,000-4,000 words. To submit, visit the Submittable page.
Mona Schreiber Prize deadline is Dec. 1
The Mona Schreiber Prize for Humorous Fiction and Nonfiction invites writers of comedic essays, articles, short stories, poetry shopping lists and other forms to submit work to win $500, $250 or $100. Visit the website for complete rules and winning entries. “Uniqueness is encouraged. Weirdness is preferred.”
New literary magazine The Rush seeks work
The Rush is a new literary magazine that is accepting work for its first publication. It is free to submit and open to all who are interested. To submit, visit the magazine’s Submittable page.
The Spectacle seeks new and emerging writers
The Spectacle, an online literary and arts magazine, is interested in diverse, provocative writing. Submissions are open during the month of October. The Spectacle editors said they are excited to receive work from new and emerging writers, as well as those with more established voices. They also read submissions for the blog, The Revue, on a rolling basis. Submit online via The Spectacle website.
Literary and fine arts magazine seeks work
The Woven Tale Press publishes emerging and established writers, including multiple Pushcart nominees.
With a combined following of 8,000, and 2700 monthly visitors, WTP has gained international notice and prestige. Visit the website for more information.