The Festival Seeking New and Diverse Voices for Fall Issue
Deadline: Rolling
The Festival Review seeks new and diverse voices in literature and media arts for upcoming Fall 2019 issue. Anything under 5k words accepted. No special formatting required. Free to submit. Small stipend paid to contributors. Submit or inquire to thefestivalreview@gmail.com
Manzano Mountain Review Seeks Submissions!
Deadline: October 1, 2019
Manzano Mountain Review, an online literary journal based in New Mexico, seeks flash prose, poetry, short prose, & image.
“We love flash—little pieces that explode in our hands. We like plot, but not at the expense of character. Brevity, lyric, place, experiment. The terse and the lyrical. Work that crosses boundaries. Provoke us. The theme is “Wilderness.”
Site: manzanomountainreview.com/submissions
Experimental, traditional, playful, prayerful, celebratory, challenging: human—try us. Show us a new way to tell one of the millions of stories under that glorious sun.
Submission Guidelines
(Note: For writers ages 12-7, please see the specific guidelines at the Young Writers tab.)
General:
We publish two issues a year, online only—May and November. We are open for submissions on a rolling basis.
Submissions are accepted only through Submittable. Please include a brief cover letter and bio of not more than 50 words.
For all submissions, please include name, contact information, and 50-word third-person bio in the document as well as in the online form. All submissions should be formatted with 1-inch margins and numbered pages. Prose manuscripts should be double-spaced.
Do not send previously published work (either print or online, including personal blogs). Upon submission to K’in, you agree that your work is original, unpublished, and that you are the author.
If accepted, K’in acquires First North American Serial Rights and First Electronic Rights. All rights revert to the writer after publication. Contributors agree to credit K’in if the work is subsequently reproduced online or in print.
Submissions will be responded to within three months. If you haven’t heard from us after three months, feel free to inquire by sending us a note through Submittable. For any work that is accepted, we will require an updated third-person bio of not more than fifty words.
Please wait six months before resubmitting.
Detailed Submission Guidelines Here!
Change Seven
Call for Submissions
Change Seven, an online literary journal, seeks submissions for an official relaunch in Fall 2019. The editors seek poetry, prose, artwork, photography, multimedia, and book reviews from both new and established talents.
“We most enjoy writing that comes from experience, is well-crafted, lyrical, distinctive, and accessible. Give us something that in some way resonates with us deeply like only the human heart in conflict with itself knows how to do.”
Open submission period August 1 through August 31.
Experimental, traditional, playful, prayerful, celebratory, challenging: human—try us. Show us a new way to tell one of the millions of stories under that glorious sun.
We’d love to read your work! Complete Submission Details Here!
Tiferet: Fostering Peace Through Literature & Art
Call for Submissions on Special Borders Issue
Deadline: September 1, 2019
Currently accepting submissions for a special issue of Tiferet Journal entitled “Borders.” In this issue, we will focus on breaking down walls and crossing borders of culture, faith, gender, and spiritual beliefs to promote understanding, compassion and cross-cultural connections.
Complete Submissions Details Here
Thanks to Sammy Greenspan and all the good folks at Kattywompus Press ❤ Here’s a peek into this odd, little book ❤
Woman Made of Pond Water and Mud
mouth o’ing like fish, fighting for breath in the run-off, in the sludge, in what’s left
of the autumn light gold-slicking the green green surface. She fights to recall what it means to keep breathing.
Meaning is, she knows, manufactured, manufacturing, making, made. What will
we construct today, this day where cold rain pools all across the yard, and where
the gathering dark makes it hard for even the slightest steps of dreaming?
As a child she learned early to clean fish, buckets of struggle she and her brothers carried
home from the creek, the pond, the river, home to the scrape, the knife, the filet,
the tweezer pull of pin bones, careful delicate extractions, lessons in vigilance,
before her mama’s sure hands transformed their catch into sustenance.
She never could look in there, in the pail, couldn’t watch as those fish–
bass, stripe, crappie, cats–fought so hard, banged in circles against the smooth
unending plastic, ramming and gasping, drowning in air. She didn’t have to, look,
or ask, when even now her own small amphibious heart thudded
within the curve of her ribs, this breath, then that, the only meaning
even vaguely in reach of her grasp.
-Mary Carroll-Hackett, (Un)Hinged, Kattywompus Press, 2019
We’re reading for our November issue!
Experimental, traditional, playful, prayerful, celebratory, challenging: human—try us. Show us a new way to tell one of the millions of stories under that glorious sun.
Complete Submission Guidelines Here!
Willawaw Journal Fall Submission Window: August 1 through September 1
Deadline: September 1, 2019
The current prompt is from Poet Laureate Joanne Townsend, “Somewhere near Odessa, 1900.” The editor invites you to explore your departure(s) to points unknown, whether as an immigrant, asylum seeker, climate refugee, or perhaps a college student or “empty-nester.” We are a planet of moving populations, now more than ever. Please share your story. (General Submissions are always welcome.)
See guidelines HERE.
Send your submissions to submissions@willawawjournal.com
Hoxie Gorge Review seeks Submissions of Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction
Deadline: October 15, 2019
Hoxie Gorge Review is a new online literary journal, committed to publishing innovative poetry, fiction, and nonfiction by both emerging and established contemporary writers.
“We seek poetry, short fiction, and nonfiction for our first issue. We seek work that compels us, that challenges us, that breaks us open. Send us your best. No fee to submit.”
For more information, visit hoxiegorgereview.com.
To submit, visit hoxiegorgereview.submittable.com/submit
Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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