Prairie Schooner’s Inaugural Creative Nonfiction Contest

We Want Pulp

Pulp is story. Plot. Forward progression. Uncut and unabashed entertainment. For the Pulp Special Issue, tell me a story. Sex and high adventure, fun and guns, splatter and solemnity. Or any other category you can come up with. As long … Continue reading →

Call For Submissions: Specter Magazine’s Hip-Hop Issue

Submissions for Specter Magazine’s first themed issue, The Hip-Hop Issue, are now open. We’re looking for fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and art/photography which embodies a hip-hop aesthetic. The Hip-Hop issue is scheduled for a June 4th, 2012 release (subject to change). … Continue reading →

Design Our Next Cover?

We’re looking for a cover designer for PANK 6.  If you’re interested, please e-mail us at awesome at pankmagazine.com with a link, if possible, to a portfolio. We do offer a small honorarium for cover design.

Two Calls for Submission

The Splinter Generation, a literary journal for and about people born between 1973 and 1993, has begun its next reading period and is now accepting submissions for creative nonfiction, fiction and poetry from October 1-December 1. Do Talk to Strangers, our … Continue reading →

1,001 Awesome Words Contest

We are now accepting entries for our third annual writing competition, 1,001 Awesome Words. We think it suits the PANK ethos to leave it at that. This time, we have a guest judge, the one and only Michael Martone. Not enough, … Continue reading →

We Are Still Here, Still Queer

Submissions are now open for  PANK’s second  special issue featuring Queer prose, poetry & art, guest edited by Tim Jones-Yelvington. Submit fiction, poetry, art and unidentified or hybrid literary text objects  by September 1, 2011 through the special issue submission … Continue reading →

CFS: Pushing the Boundaries

PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES postmark deadline: June 13, 2011 Creative Nonfiction is currently seeking experimental nonfiction for our “Pushing the Boundaries” section (“experimental,” “boundaries,” yes, these can be loaded terms). We want writing that blows our minds with its ingenuity, essays … Continue reading →

Special Issue: Science and Fiction

Sometimes, we want to branch out with our offerings so in coming months, we’ll publish an issue on the first and the fifteenth to accomodate some exciting special issues we have planned. Our June special  issue, London Calling, debuts next … Continue reading →

Black Warrior Review Contest

The Seventh Annual Black Warrior Review Contest has begun! Send us your dearest-beloved (stories/poems/essays)! Guest Judges for 2011 are: Gary Lutz (Fiction) John D’Agata (Nonfiction) Prageeta Sharma (Poetry) Payment must be made online (the Submission Manager will direct you to do so). To … Continue reading →

Two Announcements from Knee Jerk Magazine

Knee-Jerk’s 2011 Essay Contest Knee-Jerk is excited to announce its first annual essay contest! What do we mean by essay? Something that tickles us in strange places; that depicts a person, place, thing or idea in a unique light and … Continue reading →

Buzznet Poetry Contest

In honor of poetry month, Buzznet, the web’s largest social magazine written for youth by youth, has partnered with BUST Magazine and actress and author Amber Tamblyn, to launch a poetry competition which invites aspiring young writers, poets and creatives to … Continue reading →

A Woman’s Touch

Bull is looking for stories with a woman’s touch. Editor Jarrett Haley writes Last week my wife and I had our second child, a daughter.  This is the biggest of deals for me, coming from a family where men outnumber … Continue reading →

Hint Fiction, Part Trois

Robert Swartwood says: Hint Fiction is two years old. Hard to believe that what originally started as a not-so-serious essay which was intended to be read by only a handful of people turned into something this big. After all, Hint Fiction: An … Continue reading →

Two Calls for Submission

Monkeybicyle is looking for awesome writing, particularly for their online imprint. Send them brilliance. Full guidelines, here. — Annalemma 8: Creation Only the most proficient of techies among us would be able to fix their mobile phone if it broke, or … Continue reading →

Rose Metal Press Open Reading Period

From February 15 through March 30, 2011, Rose Metal Press will be actively seeking full-length hybrid and cross-genre manuscripts for consideration for publication in 2012. They are particularly interested in short short, flash, and micro-fiction; prose poetry, novels-in-verse or book-length linked … Continue reading →

CFS: The Best Poems

Just passing this along… The Best Poems would like to call for submissions for its first annual Poetry print Anthology for the best 100 poems written in the year. The deadline for submission is 25 March 2011. All current members … Continue reading →

Call for Submissions: Hot Metal Bridge

Submissions are now open! Deadline for our spring issue: March 14th at midnight (eastern standard time). Fiction: In the Spring issue of Hot Metal Bridge, we are highlighting Flash Fiction. Or Microfiction. Or Short Shorts, or whatever people are calling them … Continue reading →

Looking for Projects for My Document Design Class

Are you a writer, small press, nonprofit, or small business, with a chapbook in need of a designer? Do you need a brochure designed? Do you need a poster designed? I am looking for projects for the students in my … Continue reading →

London Calling! Our Next Special Issue

Our first special issue was such a success (and we will be doing another Queer Issue in 2011) that we thought we do a special issue featuring writing from or about the United Kingdom. This issue will be edited by … Continue reading →

FOOD BLOG POSTS PLEASE TO SEND

Now that you’ve eaten some delicious turkey, make some great food blog recommendations. Here’s what the fine folks at Creative Nonfiction Have to say: Once again, Creative Nonfiction is seeking narrative blog posts to reprint in an upcoming issue. Since … Continue reading →

Girls With Insurance is Having a Contest

The folks at Girls With Insurance have this to say: It’s contest time. What we have up for the winning is a once-read (by yours truly) copy of Mather Schneider’s Drought Resistant Strain (Interior Noise Press, 2010,  $15–GwI review forthcoming). … Continue reading →

Rose Metal Press Chapbook Contest

Rose Metal Press’s  Fifth Annual Short Short Chapbook Contest submission period begins October 15 and ends December 1, 2010. This year’s 2010 judge will be  Kim Chinquee. During the submission period, please email your 25—40 page double-spaced manuscript of short … Continue reading →

Submit to Super Arrow 3

Super Arrow is a fine magazine in need of fine submissions, from you, from people you know, from people they know. They are looking for fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, experimental criticism, and any hybrid thereof. They are also looking for … Continue reading →

Two Calls for Submissions

A Midsummer Night’s Press announces a call for submissions for two anthologies celebrating queer Jewish poetry: FLAMBOYANT: A CELEBRATION OF JEWISH GAY POETRY edited by Lawrence Schimel and MILK AND HONEY: A CELEBRATION OF JEWISH LESBIAN POETRY edited by Julie … Continue reading →

We Want Readers for AWP 2011

We’re looking for ten readers for the PANK/Annalemma/mud luscious reading at AWP 2011 to join the five mud luscious press novella readers who have already been secured. This reading extravaganza will likely take place on Thursday evening at 7 or … Continue reading →

Submit to Annalemma 7: Endurance

Every day the world tests our will, our ability to keep moving forward. With this in mind we chose the theme for Annalemma Issue Seven: Endurance. The word has a connotation of athletic ability and physical stamina. But the mind … Continue reading →

Did You Miss Us? We Missed You!

.5 We have returned from AWP 2010 where many things happened, all of them good, nay, great. Lots of things have been happening. 1. There’s a new issue of PANK featuring Rachel Andelman, ZZ Boone, Julie Babcock, Leah Bailly, Nik … Continue reading →

Rose Metal Press Chapbook Competition

From the Editors of Rose Metal Press: Our Fourth Annual Short Short Chapbook Contest submission period begins October 15 and ends December 1, 2009. Our 2009 judge will be Dinty W. Moore. During the submission period, please email your 25 … Continue reading →

Friday Five!

We do a lot of rounding up on the PANK blog. It has its uses. But my favorite posts are the “writer’s life” ones. Our contributor interviews and ask-the-editor Q&As, the moms and dads and identity exploration posts, these I … Continue reading →

Splinter Generation: Submit NOW

Splinter Generation will be accepting submissions for only two more weeks and they want your writing. They say: The Splinter Generation is currently accepting submissions from writers who were born between 1973 and 1993 for an ongoing online generational literary … Continue reading →

Call for Submissions: Persona Poetry

Anthology: A Face to Meet the Faces The editors are pleased to announce a call for submissions for A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry. We are seeking poems that work within the literary tradition … Continue reading →

Call for Submissions

Call for Submissions Working Title: And Then It Shifted: Women Open Up About Leaving Men for Women (Seal Press, 2010) 2,000-4,000 words Payment: Upon publication. Amount will vary, depending on experience and other variables ($50 and up). Please include a … Continue reading →

Call for Submissions

SUBMISSION CALL: COON BIDNESS Greg Tate is starting a journal called COON BIDNESS (named in honor of the great St Louis jazz musician Julius Hemphill and his album of the same name*) in partnership with LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs as … Continue reading →

Heads up. Chapbooks!

Get your manuscripts ready. We’ll be officially announcing PANK’s first chapbook contest sometime in August, deadline October (probably), winner announced in November, with a release coinciding and packaged with PANK 4. Expect a small entrance fee to help us cover … Continue reading →

1,001 Awesome Words Contest

PANK Magazine is pleased to announce its first writing competition, 1,001 Awesome Words. And we think it suits the PANK ethos to leave it at that. Not enough, you say? Need key words, you say? Explode. Excite. Intrigue. Surprise. Blow. … Continue reading →

REAL SIMPLE Essay Contest

First, we are now offering PDFs of PANK 1, 2 or 3 for $3.5o. The awesome t-shirts we had at AWP are also available for sale. Details here: http://www.pankmagazine.com/subscribe.html REAL SIMPLE’s annual Life Lessons Essay Contest Topic: When did you … Continue reading →

Call for Submissions: Best New Poets

Best New  Poets, an annual anthology of 50 emerging writers, is now accepting submissions  for its open competition.   See  www.bestnewpoets.org  for details.   Submission deadline is midnight,  June 1, 2009.     Entering poets cannot have published a book-length … Continue reading →

NEW LETTERS LITERARY AWARDS

$4,500 IN TOTAL PRIZES, PLUS PUBLICATION, IN THE  NEW LETTERS  LITERARY AWARDS Call for Entries for fiction, poetry, and the essay, by  May 18, 2009 Dear Writer, I want to make sure that you know about the chance to compete … Continue reading →

ARTIFICE MAGAZINE announces open call for submissions

ARTIFICE MAGAZINE announces an open call for submissions for its upcoming Issue 1, to be published in  January  2010.   Submissions will be accepted year-round online at  http://www.artificemag.com/submissions/ Artifice Magazine is looking for previously-unpublished stories, prose works, and poems, pieces … Continue reading →

BOMB’s fiction contest

The deadline is fast approaching for BOMB’s annual Fiction Contest, judged by Jonathan Lethem.  First prize is $500 and publication  in BOMB’s literary supplement,  First Proof. Deadline April 15. Full info here:  http://bombsite.com/issues/0/articles/3254

Quirky Call: Menupoems

Call for menupoems! April is National Poetry Month Alimentum will once again publish a poetry broadside of menupoems for National Poetry Month. The poems are distributed to participating restaurants for diners to enjoy some poetry with their menu! We need … Continue reading →

FWD: Bellday Poetry Prize

BELLDAY POETRY PRIZE $2,000 PRIZE TO WINNING POET   Submission Deadline:  March 16, 2009   CONTEST FINAL JUDGE: Linda Gregerson Linda Gregerson is the author of four poetry collections:  Magnetic North  (2007),  Waterborne  (2002),  The Woman Who Died in Her … Continue reading →

FWD: ROOMS announces chapbook contest

ROOMS announces its inaugural chapbook contest.  The winning submission, chosen by  ROOMS’  editors, will be published by Articles Press, its parent non-profit organization and publisher.  The chapbook will receive a first printing of 200 copies to be sold for $5 … Continue reading →

Fwd: Ronald Sukenick/ABR Innovative Fiction Prize

Eligibility The Ronald Sukenick/American Book Review Innovative Fiction Contest is open to any writer of English who is a citizen of the United States and who has not previously published with Fiction Collective Two. Submissions  may  include a collection of … Continue reading →

FWD: From far, far away…

Hi I thought the readers of your website might be interested in our competition and was hoping you could post details on your site. Bookhabit.com, in association with the  New Zealand Poetry Society, are staging an international poetry competition that … Continue reading →

Hungry.

Matt wants to read something bright and young. Sock it to me,  http://www.hu.mtu.edu/SMS.

Narrative Magazine Under 30

Narrative Magazine is calling on writers, visual artists, photographers, performers, cartoonists, and filmmakers, ages 18-30, to tell us a story. We are interested in narrative in the many forms it takes: the word and the image, the traditional and the … Continue reading →

FWD: Call for Submissions – Missouri Review

Dear Writer, The October 1st deadline for our 18th annual Jeffrey E. Smith Prize for fiction, essay, and poetry is rapidly approaching. Once again, we’re offering prize amounts of $3,000 per genre plus publication in our spring issue, making this … Continue reading →

FWD: Call for Submissions – FENCE & SLS

Subject: New FENCE contest: win a free trip with SUMMER LITERARY SEMINARS Dear friend of FENCE, Summer Literary Seminars (SLS: http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http://www .http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http://sumlitsem.org) is announcing its annual 2009 unified (SLS-Italy, Lithuania, Kenya) literary contest, held this year in affiliation with Fence … Continue reading →

FWD: Call for Submissions – Coal Hill Review

Coal Hill is currently sponsoring a chapbook contest for its winter issue. I’d like to encourage any of you interested in submitting a chapbook, to check us out at www.coalhillreview.com and note the  guidelines. We’ll be considering single poems again … Continue reading →

FWD: Call for Submissions – Phoebe

*Phoebe—A Journal of Literature and Art* announces its annual winter contests: The Winter Fiction Contest & The Greg Grummer Poetry Award *$1000 Prize and Publication* Entries must be postmarked December 1st, 2008 and must include a $15 reading fee. Fiction … Continue reading →

FWD: Call for Submissions – Lumina

Dear Friends: *Lumina*, Sarah Lawrence College’s graduate literary journal of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, is accepting submissions for its 2009 issue and poetry contest, judged by Ilya Kaminsky. Deadline: November 15, 2008. For more information, visit slc.edu/lumina. Thank you for … Continue reading →

FWD: Call for Submissions – Narrative Magazine

ENTER TO WIN <https://narrativemagazine.com/2008-fall-fiction-contest> *Open to short stories, short shorts, and novel excerpts.* – First Place $3,000 – Second Place $1,500 – Third Place $750 – and ten finalists will each receive $100 – All entries will be considered for … Continue reading →

FWD: Call for Submissions – Lettre Sauvage

Greetings from Lettre Sauvage! We are a small, family-run letterpress printing studio based in Santa Paula, California. We specialize in printing fine, limited edition broadsides, prints, and chapbooks and we have collaborated on work with writers such as Stephen Dunn, … Continue reading →

FWD: Call for Submissions – Fiction Weekly

Call for Submissions Fiction Weekly is designed and dedicated to offering readers the best in new fiction 52 times a year. Our contributors come from a wide variety of backgrounds and include both established and previously unpublished authors. Fiction Weekly … Continue reading →

FWD: OSU Press/The Journal Award in Poetry and the ’09 Charles Wheeler Prize

September is the month! — Don’t forget to submit your manuscript for The Ohio State University Press/The Journal Award in Poetry and The 2009 Charles B. Wheeler Prize! You are welcome to submit your manuscript for the 2009 Ohio State … Continue reading →