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) smokingpenpress (dotcom) for more information.
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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 work before 15 December!
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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:
Full details and submission formatting requirements can be found on their website. (Click the “Submit Here!” button for even more information.)
Idaho magazine has announced a call for “imaginative, well-developed stories … with a distinctly Idaho flavor.”
There’s a very modest entry fee. The deadline for submissions (and they must be MAILED) is 31 January 2022.
WritersCache are open to submissions through 30 Dec. 2021 on the theme of “second chance at love.”
Read more details on their website
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The Cabin are accepting submissions through 7 March 2022 for their Writers in the Attic edition “loosely themed”: moon.
There is a modest entry fee, and submissions (stories or poems) must not exceed 1500 words.
The Timberline Review and the Kay Snow Awards submissions are open through 15 December. (You can submit the same work to either or both programs.)
Use this Submittable link – but be sure to read the guidelines for detailed information!
Choices include:
Further, categories WW are looking for are:
