Call for Submissions about the Writing Process: The Headlight Review

The Headlight Review, the online literary journal at Kennesaw State University, seeks multimedia pieces that reimagine the writing process. Tell us about how you do it, the messes you make, your favorite tools, or the role of collaboration or technology in your work. How do your process and today’s tools shape literary art?

Essays may include hand-scrawled notebook pages, relevant photos, or be in video or audio format. All writers, ascending to established, are eligible.

Length requirements: 1500 words (plus images); up to 15 minutes of video/audio.

Submissions are open until May 31 with priority given to early submissions. Payment of $100 upon publication. 

Submit your work here.

Call for Blurred Genre Submissions: Redivider

Redivider’s Blurred Genre summer special edition explores the fluid boundaries between genres. We welcome all hybrid, genre-blurring and experimental work. Submit your flash nonfiction, visual sci-fi poetry, memoir comics, mixed-media fiction collage with a dash of cultural critique, digital or drawn media—all fall in the broad spectrum of possibilities!

Please send us one piece per submission of 3,000 words or less (ten pages or less of graphic media). All submissions must be the author’s original, unpublished work.

In your cover letter, please specify in a sentence how your submitted piece blurs the line between textual genre.

Submissions will be open from May 1 to June 1. The issue will be released in late summer.

More information and submission portal here.

Call for Poetry Submissions: Pedestal Magazine

As editors of Pedestal Magazine, we intend to support both established and burgeoning writers. We are committed to promoting artistic diversity and celebrating the voice of the individual.

 

Pedestal Magazine does not accept previously published work, unless specifically requested; however, we will accept simultaneous submissions, if so noted. Please inform us immediately if your submission is accepted elsewhere. We do not accept submissions by regular mail. Neither do we accept email submissions. We now accept all work through Submittable.com. Please do not submit more than once per reading cycle.

 

Current and Upcoming Guidelines:

 

For Pedestal 94 (posting in June 2024), editors will be accepting submissions of poetry. No restrictions on theme, style, length, or genre. Please submit up to 5 poems and include all work in a single file.

 

Open for submissions: May 6 – June 2
Payment: $50 per accepted poem.

 

Pedestal Magazine publishes reviews of full-length poetry collections (we are no longer able to review chapbooks). Most of our reviews are selected and handled in-house by staff reviewers; however, if you are interested in submitting a title for possible review, or would like to review a specific title, please query at:

 

pedmagazine@carolina.rr.com 

 

How to Submit Your Writing:

As mentioned above, Pedestal Magazine does not accept previously published material, unless specifically requested. The editors ask for first rights to any piece selected. At the time of publication, all rights revert back to the author/artist; however, Pedestal Magazine retains the right to publish the piece(s) in any subsequent issue or anthology, whether in print or online, without additional payment. Should you decide to republish the piece elsewhere, we ask that you cite Pedestal Magazine as a place of previous publication and provide Pedestal Magazine’s web address.

We do our best to respond to submissions in 4-6 weeks. Please do not query regarding status of a submission until at least 8 weeks have passed. All questions pertaining to submissions should be addressed to the editor at:

 

pedmagazine@carolina.rr.com

Thank you for your interest in Pedestal Magazine.

To submit, please click here.

Call for Submissions on Theme of "Create Dangerously": MQR Mixtape

Edited by Kabelo Sandile Motsoeneng

In “Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work” Edwidge Danticat writes, “to create dangerously” means “to create fearlessly, boldly embracing the public and private terrors that would silence us, then bravely moving forward even when it feels as though we are chasing or being chased by ghosts.” To contend with the danger of the everyday demands courage and boldness, the doubt notwithstanding. For this issue, MQR Mixtape seeks original, brave, and inventive work that bears witness to and reckons with human peril. We are particularly interested in work that troubles its genre, language, and the very idea of “danger” or speaking. For this issue, we seek honest work that contends with what impels them to stay silent but demands an unsilencing through art. What is the place of humor in works about imperiled lives.

What does a dangerous story look like? What does a dangerous essay look like? What is the literary possibility of danger?

We want to know, so please submit:

Fiction: up to 5,000 words

Nonfiction: up to 4,500 words

Poetry: 1–4 poems, up to 6 pages total

Hybrid work, visual art and/or audiovisual: 250-word abstract and sample

Only previously unpublished work will be considered. Simultaneous submissions are permitted, but please notify us immediately if your work is accepted by another publication. Please send only one submission per window; subsequent submissions will be rejected automatically.

The deadline for submissions is May 31, 2024.

MQR is a paying market.

Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions from Baby Boomers: BoomSpeak

BoomSpeak offers original content that is FOR baby boomers and BY baby boomers. It’s a website that appeals to the interests and changing priorities of baby boomers, including travel, culture, fiction and personal essays. All the content embraces our motto: “Your whole life’s in front of you.” BoomSpeak is about possibilities, and the vital and energizing things you can do with the rest of your life.

We welcome your input and suggestions.

Want to contribute to BoomSpeak?

We are looking for 400 word essays, fiction, art and travel pieces that would be of interest to baby boomers. BoomSpeak is FOR baby boomers and BY baby boomers, so no writers under 50 years of age, please.

Send all submissions in the body of your message using the form below. We cannot accept attachments. Be sure to give us a byline for your contribution, including an optional affiliation link (e.g. to your own website or to a site where your work is published). Sorry, but we can include only one link.

We will try to read or review every contribution, but that does not always mean you will receive a reply. Please don’t be offended.

We ask for the following rights:

• First electronic rights, including HTML, PDF, and plain text.

• Distribution will be through this Web site.

• After publication, your story will remain in our searchable archives unless you ask us to remove it.

Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions from LGBTQ+ Writers on Theme of "Dream": Rough Cut Press

We seek work of all genres by writers from the LGBTQIA community. We do not define or gatekeep what it means to be a queer writer: if you think your work belongs here, then it belongs here. To get a sense of what we publish please read some of our former issues. We don’t know what we like until we see it. Each month we announce a different theme, but don’t worry if the work you submit doesn’t quite fit: we often build issues and themes around work that takes us by surprise.

 

Simultaneous submissions are encouraged; we ask that you notify us if your work is accepted elsewhere.

 

Written submissions are limited to 650 words. Please leave your name off of the submission itself and send one piece per submission, in PDF format. We do not charge a submission fee or a subscription fee; we offer all published artists a $25 honorarium as compensation.*

 

Deadline: May 27, 2024

 

Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions from Black Writers: Lucky Jefferson Awake Issue

Writing allows us to imagine a world where oppression and trauma don’t exist. And there is a reality where we are not defined by our trauma(s), but through our power—And you’re invited to be a part of that.

Awake is a digital zine and collection of work by Black authors that explores the power we each hold. For a second time, Awake, [Issue 6], will be in print!

Use the prompt below to complete your submission:

What survival skills are necessary to exist?

Submit poetry, essays, creative nonfiction, and more, about your experiences outdoors and how Black people survive, thrive, navigate oppression and privilege in nature.

*All poetic expressions are welcome (haikus, creative non-fiction, art, poetry, etc.)*

Examples of what we're looking for: The Bison Run with Chango by Frank X Walker / First Fire by Camille T. Dungy

PAYMENT (UPON ACCEPTANCE):

$15 — Haiku, Short Poems (<14 lines), Micro Fiction (under 100-300 words)

SUBMIT UP TO 3 PIECES PER UPLOAD

$25 — Prose, Short Story, Flash fiction, Creative-Nonfiction (under 1000 words)

SUBMIT NO MORE THAN 1 PIECE PER UPLOAD

$50 — Hybrid, Experimental, Essays, Long-form pieces. (under 2000 words)

SUBMIT NO MORE THAN 1 PIECE PER UPLOAD

$50 — All Artwork (includes comics, paintings, etc.)

SUBMIT UP TO 3 PIECES PER UPLOAD

Upon acceptance, submissions will be included on our website, in print, and will be eligible to be publicized on social media.

Accepted authors will receive a payout of $15, $25, or $50, each accepted submission

We do not accept translations or work that has been previously published in print or online.

Deadline: May 31, 2024

Submit your work here.