2022 Submission and Freelance Writing Opportunities

Find our 2023 list of submission and freelance writing opportunities here. 

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Posted December 9

Driftwood Press: accepting fiction (novellas and short stories), poetry, comics, and art.  The submissions for its fiction and poetry contests close January 15, 2023. 

Feminist Press: seeking manuscript proposals. Submissions close January 15, 2023.

The Margins: accepting poetry, short stories, audio, video, photography, translation, art criticism, artist interviews, essays, and genre-blurring work by queer artists from the South Asian subcontinent and the South Asian diaspora. Submissions close December 31, 2022.

Overtly Lit:  looking for poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, and art. 

Querencia Press: looking for “work across all genres, including visual art, about any and all issues that come with being a woman, queer, trans, or Non-Binary person” for its ongoing project of anthologies. Submissions close February 15, 2023. 

Salt Hill: seeking poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and art. Poetry and fiction submissions close January 31, 2023. 

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Posted November 18

Baltimore Review: seeking flash fiction, flash creative nonfiction, and prose poetry until November 30, 2022, for its contest period. Its also open to creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry for its regular issue.

Bennington Review: looking for poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, film writing, and translations. Submissions close January 9, 2023.

Mississippi Review: seeking poetry, fiction, and nonfiction submissions for its annual contest with prizes of $1,000. Submissions close January 1, 2023.

Ninth Letter: seeking poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction for its print edition. Submissions close Feb 28, 2023. 

OROBORO: accepting submissions for the Penrose Poetry Prize until January 15. Its also open to comics, fiction, and poetry for its regular issue.

Porter House Review: looking for work that “illuminates the writing life and demystifies the mechanics of writing and publishing” for its Field Notes craft blog. 

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Posted October 28

128 Lit: accepting poetry, fiction, prose, essays, translations, hybrid works, and art that “startle and move.”

Beatdom Literary Journal: open for submissions of essays, interviews, and reviews related to the environment and the Beat Generation. Submissions close March 1.

Calliope: seeking short stories and flash fiction in any type of genre fiction (high fantasy, operatic sci-fi, heart-wrenching romance, etc) for their upcoming interactive app. Calliope takes rolling submissions at a rate of $0.05/word.

Cake Creative/Electric Postcard Entertainment: looking for writing samples to be considered for writing project assignments in the middle grade and chapter book space, as well as the adult and YA-crossover market.

Pine Hills Review: accepting nonfiction and fiction under 3,000 words, poetry, and hybrid/visual work. Submissions close April 30.

MAYDAY: accepting essays between 2000 and 7500 words exploring the theme of disappearance (of people, places, things, etc) for their Creative Nonfiction Prize of $1,000 and publication. Submissions close November 1.

൪uartet: seeking poetry by women fifty and over. Submissions close November 8.

Wendy’s Subway looking for full-length manuscripts from emerging writers for its open reading period and the Carolyn Bush Award. Seeking work that “manifests in innovative, hybrid, and cross-genre forms that imagine new possibilities and expressions of the poetic, the political, and the social.” Submissions close October 31.

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Posted October 14: Publications Seeking Speculative Fiction and Horror (compiled by Megan Kiekel Anderson)

Apex: open for fantastical short fiction. Open indefinitely; Asian and Pacific Islander focused bonus issue closes for submissions on October 31.

The Black Girl Survives in This One: seeking young adult horror fiction by unagented Black women and Black nonbinary writers. Stories must feature a Black teenage girl protagonist who survives until the end. Submissions close October 31.

The Dark: accepting horror and dark fantasy.

The Deadlands: looking for speculative fiction, essays, and poetry that “concerns itself with death—but also everything death may involve.”

The Dread Machine: seeking futuristic dark fiction, speculative fiction, cyberpunk, slipstream, and science fiction.

f(r)iction: open for short stories, creative nonfiction, flash fiction, and poetry from any genre, style, or origin. Experimental work is encouraged.

Khōréō: seeking speculative element fiction, nonfiction, art, and voice acting by writers who identify as immigrants or members of a diaspora. Especially interested in work “exploring some aspect of migration.” Submissions close October 31.

parABnormal Magazine: looking for stories, poems, articles, reviews, interviews, and art concerning the paranormal. Submissions close November 30.

Quill & Crow: Rituals & Grimoires: accepting short stories offering “gothic tales of dark magic and wizardry.” Submissions close October 31.

Tales to Terrify: open to horror fiction of any subgenre. Short story submissions close October 31; flash fiction submissions are open year-round.

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Posted September 30: Publications that Accept Work in Translation

Acumen: looking for unpublished poems, translations of poems, articles, and debate on poetry covering a wide variety of topics and with different writing styles.

American Short Fiction: accepting short fiction, including works translated into English. Submissions close  December 31. 

the borderline: seeking photography, artwork, poetry, and prose, including works translated into English. It is especially searching for “words from the margins.” 

The Common Magazine: looking for fiction, nonfiction, translations, and poetry. Submissions close December 1. 

Exchanges: accepting translations into English of poetry, short or excerpted fiction, plays, and literary nonfiction. Submissons close October 4.

Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts: seeking translations of prose (up to twenty pages double-spaced) and poetry for its print edition. It is also open to fiction, poetry, reviews, interviews, lyric essays, and art writing. Submissions for translations close March 2, 2023. 

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Posted September 16

The Adroit Journal: seeking  poetry, prose, art, and interviews and reviews. Submissions close October 31, 2022.

American Literary Review: open for regular submissions of poetry, fiction, and essays, as well as to entries for its short fiction and poetry contests. Submission for the reading period close May 1, 2022. Submissions for contests close October 1, 2022. 

​Anti-Heroin Chic: looking for poetry, photography, artwork, stories, essays, interviews. It is particularly interested in work from those who have been “left out in the cold in all sorts of ways,” as well as from writers who have experienced addiction or known people who have. 

Archer: accepting pitches for articles and images about sexuality, gender and identity from a diverse range of writers/artists, from all levels of experience. 

BBC Worklife: seeking pitches of reported, narrative features (generally between 1,200 to 2,000 words) that dig deeper than the headlines in the categories of  “How We Work,” “How We Live,” and “How We Think.” 

The Pages Project: Seeking 400-word essays from entry-level professionals and students for a book entitled “The Pages Project,” which will be a visual archive and analysis exploring marginalia. Writers will be paid $65 per essay (negotiable) and be asked to respond to pages with marginalia similar to those on this website. Email Erik Schmitt at [email protected] for more information.

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Posted September 2

365tomorrows: looking for flash fiction stories under 600 words.

433: seeking non-fiction, fiction, poetry, visual art, interviews, reviews, and criticism that feel “of-the-moment.”

Abditory: looking for poems and stories created by multiple authors/artists that show the coziness of the fall. Submissions close September 16.

BOA Editions: seeking full-length poetry collections as part of its American poets Continuum Series. Submissions close September 30.

Condé Nast Traveler: accepting pitches that cover travel in a way that helps people travel better, smarter, and more safely.  

The Guardian: accepting pitches for its music section with a strong personal, social, political, or historical angle, and a timely reason for covering the topic.

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Posted August 26

101 Words: seeking fiction stories that are exactly 101 words.

3:AM Magazine: journal of radical literature and philosophy looking for criticism and non-fiction.

Anomaly: accepting poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and translations until September 1. Folio proposals are accepted on a rolling basis year-round.

Astra Magazine: seeking submissions for its BROKE themed issue. Submissions open September 1 and close October 1.

DAME: accepting pitches of people-first narratives that “reveal what’s new, unusual, or surprising about a particular topic or issue.”

Day Job Journal: looking for art and poetry submissions, particularly poems about work.

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Posted August 5

Alternative Press Magazine: seeking pitches that cover alternative music, culture, and style. Rates will vary from $125-$450 based on the story length and type. Email Ilana Kaplan at [email protected].

CineVue: accepting applications from writers interested in covering the APA experience in media to become contributors to its publication. This opportunity is currently unpaid. Email your resume, two to three writing samples of your previous works, and a cover letter to [email protected].

Electric Literature: seeks submissions for Both/And: a new limited essay series centering the voices of trans and GNC writers of color. Submissions close August 31.

Omnidawn Publishing: open to submissions for its Omnidawn Open poetry book contest. Submissions close August 15.

Pigeon Pages: accepting submissions for its flash contest. Submissions close September 1.

Ploughshares: looking for fiction, poetry, and nonfiction during its Regular Reading Period. Submissions close January 15, 2023.

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Posted July 22

Asian American Writers' Workshop: open to pitches for a monthly column on Asian language, culture, and translation. 

BuzzFeed Culture: accepting pitches of reviews and takes on TV, movies, and music. Email [email protected].

Futurepoem: open to submissions of unpublished full-length prose, poetry, or multi-genre work that “challenges conventions of genre and language, content and form” for its The Other Futures award. Submissions close August 15. 

Haymarket Books: accepting submissions for a Palestinian global anglophone poetry anthology focusing on contemporary poems written from 2000 onwards. Submissions close August 15.

khõréõ: accepting speculative fiction by immigrant and diaspora writers for its music-themed issue. Submissions close July 31.

A Public Space: seeking creative nonfiction submissions for a special portfolio exploring the unspeakable, particularly in the context of translation, or translated works. Submissions close July 31. 

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Posted July 8

Apogee: accepting nonfiction, fiction, and poetry, as well as submissions to Atlas: Skin/Blood/Bone Bodymaps, a folio of disabled Latinx poets. Submission close August 1.

The Dodge: looking for fiction and nonfiction in eco-writing, writing about animals, and translation. We look forward to reading your work! 

Empty House Press: welcomes submissions of poetry, prose poems, flash fiction, nonfiction, and hybrid work that addresses “the way narrative and presence adhere to place and the way they vanish.”

Prism: accepting pitches for reported news stories, features, profiles, op-eds, commentaries, and short personal essays that explore issues of racial justice, mass incarceration and policing, workers’ rights, gender justice, electoral justice, and the climate emergency.

൪uartet: seeking poetry by women fifty and over. Submissions close August 8.

The Rumpus: looking for essays, interviews, and book reviews. Submissions for essays close July 31. 

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Posted June 24

The Acentos Review is accepting work by Latinx artists and writers until August 1 for their October issue.

The Adroit Journal is currently open to Adroit Prize entries in poetry and prose by secondary  or undergraduate students.

Cagibi is open to submissions year-round for their quarterly online issues. They accept fiction, poetry, nonfiction, craft essays, and works in translation.

New Scientist is open to pitches on the environment, climate, biology, human evolution, and archaeology. Email sam.wong at newscientist.com. (Twitter post here.)

Roxane Gay is open to unagented book submissions of novels, short fiction, memoirs, essay collections, and nonfiction. They are also open essays by emerging writers for Roxane’s newsletter, The Audacity.

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Posted June 10

DMs Are Open: BBC’s new show on Radio 4 Extra is accepting submissions of sketches, jokes, and voice notes that are a mix of trending and topical stories about what life is like in 2022. Submissions close for sketches on June 20 and for one-liners on June 21. 

Baffling Magazine: open for speculative flash fiction. Submissions close June 15.

Diode Editions: seeking work by all poets who write in English, including translations, for The Diode Editions Book & Chapbook contests. Submissions close September 30.

Joyland Magazine: accepting short fiction, novel excerpts, and creative nonfiction through June 15 (submissions are free for Black writers). Joyland is also seeking works of fiction between 1,500 and 8,000 words for the Open Border Fiction Prize through July 31.

Sine Theta Magazine: open for works by Sino-diaspora writers that “consider the second law of thermodynamics—that entropy always increases with time” for their “EMBER 炎” themed issue. Submissions close June 24.

Vagabond City: accepting art, creative nonfiction, fiction, interviews, poetry, and reviews year-round.

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Posted May 27

10000 Minds on Fire: looking for fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, hybrid genre writing, and visual art on the theme of “The City.” Submissions are open on a rolling basis.

1843 Magazine: accepting pitches for features that “explore our emotional and social lives in unusual and revealing ways,” as well as shorter features that “add a human dimension to a news story.” Find who to pitch in their pitch guide.

EMERGENT LITERARY: seeking work from Black and brown makers in all genres, as well as “work that reaches across multiple genres or obscures the boundaries between them.” Submissions are open on a rolling basis. 

Game Over Books: open for submissions of poetry and/or prose starting June 1. Submissions close June 30.

Narratively: looking for first-person stories that “offer intimate takes on unusual personal experiences, pursuits and passions” for its Spring Memoir Prize. Submissions close June 27. 

The Poetry Project: seeking submissions for its  The Brannan Prize for emerging poets. Submissions close June 15. 

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Posted May 13

Alice James Books: looking for poetry manuscripts for the 2023 Alice James Award. Submissions close October 16. 

Creative Writing Ink: open for submissions to its international short story competition.  Submissions close September 30. 

FICTIVE: seeking hybrid prose, poetry, artwork, design, and multimedia creativity for its upcoming issue merging literary fiction with art criticism. Submissions are accepted on a rolling basis. 

Ghost Proposal: accepting manuscripts between sixteen and forty-four pages for its chapbook contest. Submissions close June 30. 

Haymarket Books: open call for Asian Pacific Islander poets, spoken word poets, slam poets, and poets who consider themselves part of various oral traditions, to be published in Haymarket Books's AAPI anthology. Submissions close July 1. 

University of Akron Press: accepting entries for the 2022 Akron Poetry Prize. Submissions close June 15.

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Posted April 29

BOA Editions: looking for submissions for its Short Fiction Prize. Submissions close May 31. 

Capsule Stories: seeking stories, poems, and essays that explore “a season of change in life—falling, leaving, and letting go.” Submissions close June 30. 

The Massachusetts Review: accecpting poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and hybrid work by Disabled and/or D/deaf artists. Submissions close June 1.

Narratively: seeking entries for its Spring 2022 Memoir Prize. Submissions close June 27.

Ploughshares: accepting fiction, poetry, and nonfiction by writers who have yet to publish a book for its Emerging Writer’s Contest. Submissions close May 15.

TouchPoint Press: seeking scary stories that “send a chill down your spine and send your imagination into overdrive” for its Nightmares of Strangers Anthology and “wholesome stories that inspire” for its Christmas Anthology. Submissions close May 31. 

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Posted April 15

The Bitter Fruit Review: accepting all forms of art including poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, artwork (digital & analogue), and hybrid work.

Ghost Proposal: seeking visual poetry submissions for its inaugural Ultraslant Prize.  Submissions close May 15.

hex: looking for speculative short stories and prose poems that are weird, uncanny, or surreal, or that intersect with genres like sci-fi, fantasy, or horror.

൪uartet: seeking poetry by women 50 and over. Submissions close May 8. 

The Rupture: Alice Maglio,  the reviews editor, is looking for finished reviews or pitches of small press books in any genre. Send reviews and pitches  to [email protected]

Tadpole Press: accepting submissions of any genre for its 100 Word Writing Contest. Submissions close April 30.

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Posted March 31

BOMB Magazine: accepting poetry submissions for BOMB’s biennial poetry contest. Submissions close May 1.

Ugly Duckling Presse: accepting submissions in the fields of poetry, prose, nonfiction, and visual art for publication in UDP's second factory journal. Submissions close April 18.

Mother Jones: seeking pitches for 1500-2500 word reported essays, profiles, and culture dispatches, especially those that examine structures of power, explore identity, or illuminate cultural undercurrents. Email pitches to [email protected] with “culture pitch” in the subject line.

khōréō: open to fiction, non-fiction, and art from writers that identify as immigrants or members of a diaspora.

Beestung: considering poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, hybrids, and art, by creators who fall under the non-binary umbrella or who are two-spirit. Multilingual work and work in translation are welcome. Email pieces to [email protected] with a brief biographical note.

Earth Journalism Network: offering twelve reporting grants to support the production of in-depth stories that will call attention to critical environmental issues in the Pacific region. Applications close April 30.

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Posted March 18

Ample Remains: looking for poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, and everything in-between. Submissions close April  1. 

Barrelhouse: accepting book reviews, preferred on titles from the past two years published by small presses.   

Electric Literature: accepting essay pitches at [email protected].

FiveThirtyEight: open to pitches for written pieces from reporters, academics, analysts, visual journalists, computational journalists, and other contributors.

Vox: seeking pitches in a wide range of subjects. 

The Women's Media Center: accepting pitches for reported stories, opinion pieces,  personal essays, and interviews on a number of different subjects. 

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Posted March 4

Catapult magazine: Executive Editor Matt Ortile is seeking pitches of argument-driven personal essays that incorporate cultural analysis (read his pitch guide here). Editorial Assistant Eliza Harris is looking for comics.

Indiana Review: looking for poetry and short stories for its Poetry and Fiction prizes. Submissions close March 31.

Nieman Lab: is open for pitches that “attempt to help journalism figure out its future in an internet age.”

Persea Books: seeking manuscripts from Americans (including American citizens living anywhere in the world or anyone living in the US regardless of residency status) with at least one previous collection of poems for Lexi Rudnitsky’s Editor's Choice Award. Submissions close March 7.

Split Lip Magazine: accepting pitches for interviews and reviews.

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Posted February 18

HuffPost: accepting pitches in a number of categories including wellness, food, style, reported stories, and stories told from the first person.

Longleaf Review: open to fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, and hybrid work. Submissions close February 28. 

Ninth Letter: accepting fiction, nonfiction, and poetry for its print edition until February 28 and for its online edition until March 31. It is also seeking  “poems that are visual in their experimentation” until March 18. 

Pigeon Pages: extended the deadline for its poetry contest until February 21.

Sustainable Arts Foundation: seeking submissions from writers and visual artists with children under 18 years old for an award of $5,000. Submissions close February 25. 

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Posted February 4

Autumn House Press: The CAAPP Book Prize! Seeking submissions of first or second books of poetry (or genres that intersect with poetry) from writers of African descent. Submissions close February 15. 

Capsule Stories: looking for stories, poems, and essays that explore slipping into the water and finding yourself. Submissions close on March 20.

The Dedalus Press: accepting love poems from poets older than seventeen born or currently residing in Ireland. Submissions close February 28. 

The Rumpus: open for nonfiction and fiction submissions. Submissions close February 28. 

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Posted January 21

Academy of American Poets: seeking submissions for The 2022 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award. Submissions close on February 15. 

Kitchen Table Quarterly: looking for poetry, nonfiction, and artwork submissions for their spring issue. Submissions close February 7. 

൪uartet: looking for poetry submissions from women fifty years and older. Submissions close February 8.  

Resistance & Resilience: seeking literary fiction and nonfiction, poetry, essays, reviews, and photography for its digital publication dedicated to amplifying Black music, art, and culture. Submissions close February 28. 

Studio ATAO: accepting pitches from new and emerging writers on a variety of social justice topics including transformative justice, nonprofit industrial complex, and decentralization of power. Email [email protected] and [email protected]  with your pitch.  

WIRED: seeking ideas for argument-driven essays on science and tech for their Ideas section by journalists, academics, and other subject-matter experts. 

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Posted January 7

The Bookends Review:  looking for “good creative and/or intellectual work,” including features, creative nonfiction, flash fiction, short stories, poetry, and multimedia work. Submissions close January 31. 

Dinner Bell Mag: seeking submissions of no more than 1,000 words in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and visual art. Submissions close January 31. 

Driftwood Press: accepting submissions for their in-house poetry and fiction contests. Submissions close January. 

Paper Brigade:  seeking short stories that expand com­mon­ly held ideas of what con­sti­tutes the Jew­ish expe­ri­ence for their 2022 issue. Submissions close February 1.

VISIBLE: looking for poetry and prose from anyone who has the experience of living with an invisible disability (such as mental health conditions, chronic pain, brain injuries, autoimmune diseases, autism, etc.). Submissions close February 1. 

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Do you know of a literary magazine with an upcoming submission deadline you'd like to see included on a future list? Please email our editor, Eliza, at [email protected] to make a suggestion.

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