Calls For Submissions
ANDREW KEATING, author of Participants and former MLB mascot, is accepting submissions for Cobalt’s all-baseball issue to be published during this year’s MLB All-Star weekend. Any baseball-themed writing (fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, journalism, etc.) will be considered. Previously published work is also allowed. One author featured in the all-baseball issue will receive the first Jim Palmer Baseball Writing Prize. Click here for more details (link: http://cobalt.submittable.com/submit/18440). Deadline: June 15.
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CACTUS HEART seeks submissions for Issue #5. Online submission deadline: July 1, 2013. Cactus Heart seeks new and original poetry, fiction, nonfiction, book reviews, art & photography for e-Issue #5, due out in September. Send us your spiny, your sharp, your relentless; we want work coursing with energy and able to thrive in the harshest of places, all while maintaining a vulnerable, succulent interior. Make us swoon. Open: May 1 - July 1. Full guidelines: www.cactusheartpress.com/submit/ Questions: sara@cactusheartpress.com
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CECILE’S WRITERS MAGAZINE where intercultural writers connect. We are seeking short stories, flash fiction and personal essays for our first edition. Please see our website for submission guidelines: http://www.cecileswriters.com/mag/
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CHANTEPLEURE PRESS is happy to announce that our next chapbook submissions period will begin on June 1st! "Chantepleure" is an archaic French word meaning "to sing and cry simultaneously", and we're looking for poignant, unique manuscripts that make us want to do exactly that. Please send your 20-30 page flash fiction or poetry manuscripts as MS Word attachments to chantepleurepress@gmail.com by Thursday, August 1st. In the event of publication, the authors will retain the rights to their works. We will accept manuscripts with previously published pieces provided that the author submits, with the manuscript, an acknowledgements page referential to those pieces.
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DIGITAL AMERICANA. The reading period for our Spring/Summer 2013 issue is now open. We seek outstanding Americana in every form: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, spoken word, and visual art. See our guidelines for full details. http://thedigitalamericana.com/submissions
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GIGANTIC SEQUINS will be opening for submissions June 1-September 1 2013. We are also opening our second annual contest June 1, which will run until August 15th & is being judged by Lauren Grodstein (flash fiction) & Jericho Brown (poetry). http://giganticsequins.com/
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GRAND PIANO PASSION. The online magazine Grand Piano Passion™ is calling all writers with a literary bent who are either practicing pianists or musicians with a hearing loss. We are seeking personal essays, 500 to 800 words, on one of two topics: how studying the piano as an adult has caused transformation in life at large, or the challenges of making music despite a hearing loss. The magazine will make a $20 donation to your favorite charity upon publication of your piece. Once published on the site, writers become eligible to be considered for our paid Contributing Writer position. Interested writers should apply directly to Founding Editor Nancy M. Williams at grandpianopassion@gmail.com. No attachments; summarize your writing experience and provide a clip in the body of the email.
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HEART— Human Equity through Art — Online seeks unpublished, artistically crafted, powerful poems, stories, essays, photos, visual art and music that challenge the status quo, fight discrimination and promote social justice by tackling hard issues of gender, race, class, sex, etc. Join Kim Addonizio, Denise Duhamel, Stacey Waite, Sonia Sanchez, Sapphire, Terrance Hayes, Martín Espada, Kara Walker and more, who use art to further social reform. Visit http://heartjournalonline.com to submit. We read year-round. Peace. Justice. Community.
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KENNING JOURNAL is open for submission! Send us your prose poems, your funny poems, your spoken word poems or your favorite poems. Please submit 3-5 poems at http://www.kenningjournal.com/submission-guidelines. We can't wait to read your poems!
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RATTLE magazine is seeking submissions of Love Poems for our Spring 2014 issue. Poems may be traditional or experimental; the more unusual the better. Deadline: October 15. Send up to five poems and/or a relevant essay by email or hard copy. Guidelines: www.rattle.com/poetry/submissions/.
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THE RIVETER is a new magazine that aims to close the gender byline gap, one riveting story at a time. We publish original longform pieces written by women; the content is for everyone. We are looking for original pieces of longform ranging from timely investigative works to poignant personal narratives. For more information or to submit your riveting content go to therivetermagazine.com.
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SWARM is currently looking for submissions of fiction and poetry for our third issue (Summer 2013), due out in August. Each issue of Swarm contains only 2 poems and 2 stories, so we aim to showcase terrific writing worth having the spotlight placed on it. Submissions of up to 3 poems or one story (up to 4,000 words) will be taken until our reading period closes July 31. Detailed guidelines on our site: http://swarmlit.com
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