We publish well-written, evocative, concise stories. Short memoirs. Non-fiction. Up to  800 words. The shorter the better.

You’re welcome to write about all sorts of songs, including songs that are already here on the site. You can send us a story or you can pitch us an idea, just a few sentences. Either way, we’ll get back to you. Please include song title, a place and a time at the top of the story and, if possible, a link to a ...

Theme: 1980s & 1990s: IBM personal computer, fall of Berlin Wall, final episode of MASH, CNN launched, NASA Challenger disaster, first surrogate pregnancy, Super Mario Brothers, Wall Street crashed & Hubble Space Telescope, internet became publicly available, Dolly the sheep first animal to be cloned, Princess Diane died in car crash, Monica Lewinsky scandal, Columbine shooting, Oklahoma City bombing, LA riots...

June Contest Sponsor: Cheryl Wilkie

Theme: Poets' Choice

Form: Poets' Choice

Line Limit: 40

Entry fee: $5 per poem

Prizes: 1st Place: $25, 2nd Place: $15, 3rd Place: $10

Deadline: June 20, 2020

How did you help your child learn to forgive a friend after the friend had wronged him or her. We are not looking for lectures or object lessons. Instead, we want hands-on, practical. ideas that you or someone you know have done and that other parents can try to do. This is not the place for you to refine your voice as an author. At this time, this call for submissions is only fo...

Central Houston Inspirational Writers Alive Open Competition http://www.centralhoustoniwa.com/2020_Contest_Registration_Form_IWA_rev.pdf

Maximum of two entries in each category.

Category 1 Short Story—Fiction: Adult/young adult (15 to early twenties) themes; 700-2500 words

Category 2 Short Story—Fiction: Children/teens (to age 14); 750-1000 words  Category 3 Article: Nonfiction; 500-1500 words 

Category 4 Poetry: Rhymed/unrhymed; 48 lines or fewer 

Category 5 Devotional: 300 words or fewer, in...

CRICKET® magazine seeks to publish the highest quality fiction, poetry, and literary nonfiction to engage our audience of enthusiastic young readers. Editors consider unsolicited submissions from writers of every level of experience. Since its founding in 1973, CRICKET has published some of the most respected writers of children’s literature. It is also a wonderful opportunity for pro...

Tell us about your newborn nighttime routine: How do you keep your baby tranquil? How do you keep yourself tranquil when baby’s not sleeping well? We are not looking for lectures or object lessons. Instead, we want hands-on, practical. ideas that you or someone you know have done and that other parents can try to do. This is not the place for you to refine your voice as an auth...

Theme: Place
Fiction, Nonfiction, or Poetry

Whether that place is rural or urban, natural or constructed, real or imagined makes little difference. A place can haunt us. It can inspire us. A place can surprise and delight and despair. In short, we’re expecting stories and poetry which couldn’t exist outside its “place.” Point to your passion on a map, and we’ll follow. Deadline 6/15.

Prose categories are: Theme Contest: Writing Across Kansas: A Sense of Place (fiction or nonfiction), Humor (fiction or nonfiction) - Limit 1,000 words, Memoir or Inspirational (nonfiction) - Limit 1,50...

LADYBUG (for ages 3–6) is looking for short stories, poetry, rebus stories, and songs to fuel the young child’s imagination. We’re interested in work with an imaginative or magical twist, whether it’s a contemporary story of children at play, a gentle fantasy, a retelling of a folk or fairy tale, or an exaggerated story told by a narrator w...

BABYBUG®, a look-and-listen magazine for ages 6 months to 3 years, presents simple poems, stories, nonfiction, and activities that reflect the natural playfulness and curiosity of babies and toddlers. When reviewing submissions, the editors look for manuscripts that please the ear and beg to be read again, as well as those that capture a baby’s ongoi...

This contest is open to all writers worldwide with no limitations on the amount of poetry a writer has published. We recommend submissions should be 20–40 pages of poetry, not including front and back matter. First prize - $1,000 + publication.

Online entries must be received and postal entries must be postmarked between May 1 and June 15, 2020 at midnight Pacific Standard Time...

Regulus Press invites you to enter the 2020 LITERARY TAXIDERMY SHORT STORY COMPETITION for your chance to win up to $500 in cash as well as publication in the next Literary Taxidermy Anthology. Our previous competitions were such a success, we couldn't wait to come back!

To enter, you must produce an original story of up to 2500 words in any genre. The catch: We provide your opening and closing lines chosen from a clas...

$1,000 and publication awarded for the winning group of three poems by a poet who has not yet published a book of poetry with a nationally distributed press. 

All entries must be postmarked by June 1, 2020 or submitted online by midnight CT. Entry fee is $16 per group of three poems and $16 for each additional group. Fee includes a one-year subscription. Make checks payable to Boulevard.

Canadice Press will be accepting literary submissions for “Owl Light Literary 2020” beginning 12:01am, April 1, 2020 through 12:01am, June 2, 2020 (Midnight:01 June 1).

The theme for Owl Light Literary 2020 is Turning Points (to be interpreted in whatever ways you wish). We are looking for submissions that take us new and exciting places. There is no submission fee. All entries mus...

We accept previously unpublished work in many genres of fiction as well as memoir. We accept previously unpublished poetry. We do not accept essays or other nonfiction genres.

We do not accept horror or erotica. This means no graphic violence...

Submissions open March 1 through May 31, 2020. It is our practice to read each submission without knowing the identity of the poet. There is a $15 submission fee. Poets may submit up to 3 poems, 5 pages maximum.

Texas Review Press publishes poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and scholarly works. We are currently open for new book project proposals, please see below for guidelines. Topics we are interested in include 20th/21st Century American Poetry, Environmental Writing, Ecopoetics, Contemporary Poetics, Creative Writing Pedagogy, Southern Literature, Southern Issues, Texas/Louisiana Literature, Texas/Louisiana History, Fol...

The War Cry, now in its 137th year, represents the Salvation Army’s mission through news, profiles, commentaries and stories. It looks to bring people to Christ, help believers grow in faith and character, and promotes redemptive cultural practices from the perspective of Salvation Army programs, ministries and doctrines. Readership consists of those in and involved with The Salvation Army as well as the general ...

We publish well-written, evocative, concise stories. Short memoirs. Non-fiction. Up to  800 words. The shorter the better.

You’re welcome to write about all sorts of songs, including songs that are already here on the site. You can send us a story or you can pitch us an idea, just a few sentences. Either way, we’ll get back to you. Please include song title, a place and a time at the top of the story and, if possible, a link to a ...

Theme: 1980s & 1990s: IBM personal computer, fall of Berlin Wall, final episode of MASH, CNN launched, NASA Challenger disaster, first surrogate pregnancy, Super Mario Brothers, Wall Street crashed & Hubble Space Telescope, internet became publicly available, Dolly the sheep first animal to be cloned, Princess Diane died in car crash, Monica Lewinsky scandal, Columbine shooting, Oklahoma City bombing, LA riots...

June Contest Sponsor: Cheryl Wilkie

Theme: Poets' Choice

Form: Poets' Choice

Line Limit: 40

Entry fee: $5 per poem

Prizes: 1st Place: $25, 2nd Place: $15, 3rd Place: $10

Deadline: June 20, 2020

How did you help your child learn to forgive a friend after the friend had wronged him or her. We are not looking for lectures or object lessons. Instead, we want hands-on, practical. ideas that you or someone you know have done and that other parents can try to do. This is not the place for you to refine your voice as an author. At this time, this call for submissions is only fo...

Central Houston Inspirational Writers Alive Open Competition http://www.centralhoustoniwa.com/2020_Contest_Registration_Form_IWA_rev.pdf

Maximum of two entries in each category.

Category 1 Short Story—Fiction: Adult/young adult (15 to early twenties) themes; 700-2500 words

Category 2 Short Story—Fiction: Children/teens (to age 14); 750-1000 words  Category 3 Article: Nonfiction; 500-1500 words 

Category 4 Poetry: Rhymed/unrhymed; 48 lines or fewer 

Category 5 Devotional: 300 words or fewer, in...

CRICKET® magazine seeks to publish the highest quality fiction, poetry, and literary nonfiction to engage our audience of enthusiastic young readers. Editors consider unsolicited submissions from writers of every level of experience. Since its founding in 1973, CRICKET has published some of the most respected writers of children’s literature. It is also a wonderful opportunity for pro...

Tell us about your newborn nighttime routine: How do you keep your baby tranquil? How do you keep yourself tranquil when baby’s not sleeping well? We are not looking for lectures or object lessons. Instead, we want hands-on, practical. ideas that you or someone you know have done and that other parents can try to do. This is not the place for you to refine your voice as an auth...

Theme: Place
Fiction, Nonfiction, or Poetry

Whether that place is rural or urban, natural or constructed, real or imagined makes little difference. A place can haunt us. It can inspire us. A place can surprise and delight and despair. In short, we’re expecting stories and poetry which couldn’t exist outside its “place.” Point to your passion on a map, and we’ll follow. Deadline 6/15.

Prose categories are: Theme Contest: Writing Across Kansas: A Sense of Place (fiction or nonfiction), Humor (fiction or nonfiction) - Limit 1,000 words, Memoir or Inspirational (nonfiction) - Limit 1,50...

LADYBUG (for ages 3–6) is looking for short stories, poetry, rebus stories, and songs to fuel the young child’s imagination. We’re interested in work with an imaginative or magical twist, whether it’s a contemporary story of children at play, a gentle fantasy, a retelling of a folk or fairy tale, or an exaggerated story told by a narrator w...

BABYBUG®, a look-and-listen magazine for ages 6 months to 3 years, presents simple poems, stories, nonfiction, and activities that reflect the natural playfulness and curiosity of babies and toddlers. When reviewing submissions, the editors look for manuscripts that please the ear and beg to be read again, as well as those that capture a baby’s ongoi...

This contest is open to all writers worldwide with no limitations on the amount of poetry a writer has published. We recommend submissions should be 20–40 pages of poetry, not including front and back matter. First prize - $1,000 + publication.

Online entries must be received and postal entries must be postmarked between May 1 and June 15, 2020 at midnight Pacific Standard Time...

Regulus Press invites you to enter the 2020 LITERARY TAXIDERMY SHORT STORY COMPETITION for your chance to win up to $500 in cash as well as publication in the next Literary Taxidermy Anthology. Our previous competitions were such a success, we couldn't wait to come back!

To enter, you must produce an original story of up to 2500 words in any genre. The catch: We provide your opening and closing lines chosen from a clas...

$1,000 and publication awarded for the winning group of three poems by a poet who has not yet published a book of poetry with a nationally distributed press. 

All entries must be postmarked by June 1, 2020 or submitted online by midnight CT. Entry fee is $16 per group of three poems and $16 for each additional group. Fee includes a one-year subscription. Make checks payable to Boulevard.

Canadice Press will be accepting literary submissions for “Owl Light Literary 2020” beginning 12:01am, April 1, 2020 through 12:01am, June 2, 2020 (Midnight:01 June 1).

The theme for Owl Light Literary 2020 is Turning Points (to be interpreted in whatever ways you wish). We are looking for submissions that take us new and exciting places. There is no submission fee. All entries mus...

We accept previously unpublished work in many genres of fiction as well as memoir. We accept previously unpublished poetry. We do not accept essays or other nonfiction genres.

We do not accept horror or erotica. This means no graphic violence...

Submissions open March 1 through May 31, 2020. It is our practice to read each submission without knowing the identity of the poet. There is a $15 submission fee. Poets may submit up to 3 poems, 5 pages maximum.

Texas Review Press publishes poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and scholarly works. We are currently open for new book project proposals, please see below for guidelines. Topics we are interested in include 20th/21st Century American Poetry, Environmental Writing, Ecopoetics, Contemporary Poetics, Creative Writing Pedagogy, Southern Literature, Southern Issues, Texas/Louisiana Literature, Texas/Louisiana History, Fol...

The War Cry, now in its 137th year, represents the Salvation Army’s mission through news, profiles, commentaries and stories. It looks to bring people to Christ, help believers grow in faith and character, and promotes redemptive cultural practices from the perspective of Salvation Army programs, ministries and doctrines. Readership consists of those in and involved with The Salvation Army as well as the general ...