Category: Submission opportunities
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Submissions (list of 50)
50 magazines and anthologies publishing speculative fiction (sciFi, fantasy, horror, etc.) from Authors Publish. Many offer payment. Submission dates vary. As always: writer, beware–vet all submission opportunities well.
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Poetry + Polar Science
A national open call for poetry in dialogue with polar science. PRAx, Spring Creek Project and Terrain.org invite poets to create one to three original poems in response to polar science research papers from Oregon State University scientists, with topics ranging from deep time, arctic drift, ice algae, humpback whale migration, and more. Poets will…
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Riot Act: New Play
Riot Act, Inc. (of Jackson, Wyoming) announces the opening of submissions to our New Play Festival playwriting competition. Three one-act plays will be selected for production during our Annual Series of Shorts in September 2026. Submissions open 1 May and are due by 20 June (2026). There is a small fee ($20). First-, second-, and…
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Submit to WITA
Every year, for (mumble-mumble) years*, The Cabin in Boise has published a new book in their Writers in the Attic series. *just looked it up: this is the fifteenth year And where does the content for these books come from? From YOU and YOU and YOU. Yes–submissions are now open until the end of day…
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Be Very Wary
Over the years, who of us hasn’t enjoyed: Asimov’s Science Fiction, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine and Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine..? And as authors, perhaps we’ve submitted to them, or plan on doing so in the future. They’ve been a benchmark in genre fiction publishing for decades. Be…
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Poetry!
Ah! No-fee contest. Possible win-win for Idaho poets. PoetryJumpsOffTheShelf looks to have been in operation for 20 years. We received a request to publish notice of this no-fee contest — something we don’t do at the drop of a hat, but we couldn’t find anything alarming in our online searches. That being said, do your…
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Writers in Residence
Idaho is graced with several Writers in Residence. (Note: If you know of others, feel free to let me know and I will add to this post as appropriate.) Idaho Kerri Webster is the state of Idaho’s Writer in Residence for 2024-2025. She is the recipient of numerous prizes for her work and is the…
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Weird Weather? Submissions Open
Smoking Pen Press is pleased to announce a new Call for Submissions for a short story anthology for our Read on the Run series. We’re seeking stories about weather. But we aren’t interested in fair winds or ordinary weather, we are looking for Ill Winds and Wild Weather. All genres are considered. Contact spp (at)…
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Literary Fiction Your Thing?
You may be interested in this extensive database of over 1,000 literary magazines publishing fiction and/or creative non-fiction. (Note, regionalized and genre publications are probably not included.)
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Curated Calls & Competitions
Today IWU would like to acknowledge what looks to be a terrifically useful resource — a wealth of over 80* no-fee, paying opportunities for writers. *and that’s just for this issue of her newsletter Erika Dreifus regularly serves up these huge piles of contests, competitions, and other opportunities — potentially saving writers an appreciable amount…
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The Theme is Dream
Submit your work (1 November through 15 December 2022) for consideration for the Timberline Review (Willamette Writers, Oregon) and, for the first time, you’ll be entered into the Kay Snow Awards competition as well — no extra fee. Categories are: The entry fee is modest and the instructions are thorough, so read carefully. Enter your…
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Too many newsletters?
It happens to all of us: something or someone looks interesting, you subscribe to their newsletter, and then . . . your inbox explodes. (An aside: we do earnestly hope that you’re subscribing to the IWU newsletter — always short and sweet.) That being said, your IWU editor has found a few newsletters here and…
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Prose & Poetry on Pollinators
The Ada Soil & Water Conservation District is accepting entries through midnight 15 February for their 2022 Treasure Valley Pollinator Project Zine on “pollinators, flowers, or native plants told through the lens of conservation”. Entries can be: Short stories (max. 700 words) Essays (max. 700 words) Poems (max. 20 lines) Full details and submission formatting…
