Harpur Palate Award: The Harpur Palate Award for creative nonfiction’s deadline for submissions swiftly approaches. The deadline for this award is Nov. 15 and the winner receives $500. There is a $15 entry fee and you are also more than welcome to submit work to their regular fall submissions period, which also ends Nov. 15. […]

Found Polaroids is a project that attempts to create stories from old pictures. These photographs have been found, but everything about them has been forgotten. They have no family, no story, no history. Writers can submit stories to go along with these found images and should be flash fiction (250-350 words) about what’s happening in […]

The Belmont Story Review is looking for submissions for their premiere issue. They are accepting work in the categories of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. They’re also open to submissions of narrative journalism in the areas of music, publishing, creativity, collaboration, faith, and culture. The submissions deadline for their first, winter 2016 issue is Dec. […]

CRATE, the official literary journal of the University of California Riverside’s Creative and Performing Arts Writing MFA programs, is seeking provocative, imaginative work to publish. They are accepting fiction, poetry, non-fiction, dramatic work, and visual arts for their Fall issue. Fiction and non-fiction must be 5000 words or less, plays can only be up to […]

The Quaker, an undergraduate literary journal published by Malone University’s Creative Writing Department is accepting submissions to their journal from now until Dec. 15. While their journal is two years old, this will be the first time they are calling for national submissions. They are looking for work in the realms of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, […]

Palaver, UNCW’s interdisciplinary journal housed by their Graduate Liberal Studies program, is currently accepting academic submissions that “defy the confines of a single discipline.”  They do not accept works that run longer than 25 pages or previously published work. Submissions are taken year round, but published bi-annually in winter and spring.

Essay Press is conducting their first ever digital chapbook contest. Ideally, they would like manuscripts to be between 30 and 50 pages, but no one will be turned away for having something too short or too long. Accepted genres are the following: lyric essays, prose poems or poetics, experimental biography and autobiography, innovative approaches to […]

Atticus Review Atticus Review is seeking submissions for their Water Issue: At the River’s Edge. They are looking for narratives, literary nonfiction, lyrical essays and reportage up to 7,000 words that fit into the theme of water in some way. It can be why you’re afraid of water or why you love it, as long […]

580 Split is now open for submissions 580 Split is looking for stories, essays, poems, and visual art to publish in their spring 2016 journal. The theme is transcendence and your work should reflect that idea. Previously published work is not accepted, but simultaneous entries are allowed. Do not include contact information on the file […]

Writers of the World

September 30, 2015 | Leave a Comment

Author of the bestselling novel The War of the Roses, Warren Adler, is launching a campaign allowing creative writers to submit their personal stories about why they began writing and why it’s emotionally significant to them. Contributions only need to be a paragraph (about 150-250 words is best) about why they began writing. They will […]

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