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Friday Call for Submissions Love <3 Leaping Clear

Leaping Clear Accepting Submissions for Spring 2018 Issue

Deadline: January 1, 2018

Their call: 

“Leaping Clear is dedicated to featuring accomplished artists and writers worldwide who work from a ground of contemplative practice. We present both emerging and established writers and artists from diverse backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives. We accept all forms of contemporary writing, art, music, and video. We value art that asks, “What is this?” and invites readers/viewers/listeners to explore deeply the difficulties, wonders, perplexities, joys, and mysteries of being alive now. For our next issue, we’re especially interested in fiction, essays, prose poems, and hybrid forms.”

Visit www.leapingclear.org for more information.

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Friday Call for Submissions Love <3 The Rush

The Rush

Call for Submissions

From their call:
“We are officially open for submissions in fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and visual art & photography. We seek high-energy pieces that reflect the rush of life, and we are delighted in our ability to pay writers.”
 
All submissions must be submitted through Submittable by November 15, 2017.
 
Submissions: https://therushmag.submittable .com/submit
 
Visit The Rush Website

 

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Some Diversity Call for Submissions Love <3 Let Us Gather: Diversity and the Arts at Nimrod International Journal 

Call for Submissions: Diversity and the Arts

Deadline: November 5, 2017

 

For their Spring/Summer 2018 issue, Let Us Gather: Diversity and the ArtsNimrod International Journal is seeking poetry, short stories, and creative nonfiction pieces that explore or demonstrate the idea of the arts as a gathering place for diverse and unique perspectives. 

“We also invite writing that addresses and confronts the times when the arts have not been as diverse as they could be—including the present. Poetry may be up to 8 pages; fiction/creative nonfiction may be up to 7,500 words.

Manuscripts may be mailed or submitted online:  nimrodjournal.submittable.com/submit.

For complete guidelines, email nimrod@utulsa.edu or visit our website: www.utulsa.edu/nimrod.

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Some All-Women Call For Submissions Love <3 Gambling the Aisle

Gambling the Aisle Seeks Submissions for an All-Women’s Edition

Deadline: December 2, 2017

 

Gambling the Aisle is now accepting submissions for its first All-Women’s edition. The pages of issue 13 will be dedicated to, and filled by, female artists and writers of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, visual art, and other genre-bending creations.

If you identify as a woman, for more information and to submit, please visit their Submittable page.

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Call for Submissions Love <3 In Laymen's Terms: Innovation

In Layman’s Terms Seeks Submissions Related to Theme of Innovation

Deadline: January 7, 2018

 

In Layman’s Terms seeks submissions related to the theme of “Innovation.”

“We welcome poetry, creative nonfiction, photography, and visual art that showcases ingenious designs, technology, and structures, whether made by humans or found in nature. From duct tape to tools used by New Caledonian crows, we want to know about inventive solutions to problems. No fee to submit.”

For full submission guidelines, visit www.iltreview.com/submit 

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Friday Call for Submissions Love <3 Placeholder

 Placeholder Magazine Seeking Submission 

No submission fee. Year-round reading period. Seeking original poetry, nonfiction, fiction, and visual arts.
From their call: “Placeholder Magazine is a fiercely independent critical voice covering contemporary arts, culture, and literature. We are a not-for-profit arts organization led entirely by volunteers. Through print and digital mediums, we provide an accessible forum for diverse voices.”


To see what has been published on Placeholder check out their website: www.placeholdermag.com


Their Guidelines
Nonfiction:
Nonfiction includes news articles, opinion pieces, how-to articles, profile and interview pieces, exposés, human interest articles, essays, humor and satire, historical articles, inspirational pieces, research articles, and round-ups. We’re open to a lot. Surprise us!


We accept all narrative styles and forms. Send us your masterpiece! Short stories must be under 6,000 words.


Poetry:Fiction:
Poetry can be of any length, style, or topic. You may send up to 5 poems at a time.


Visual Media:
Art and Photography must have a quality of 72+ DPI, without a watermark. Please include a description of your work/submission. Accepted file types are JPG, JPEG, PNG and total email file size should be under 10MB. Can be individual images or a series/project. If it is a project and file size exceeds 10MB, send it through Google Drive or Dropbox.


Submissions:
To submit your work, email to submissionsATplaceholdermagDOTcom. Please include the type of submission in the subject line (Example: Opinion Submission, Photo Submission, Satire Submission, etc.)

For more information regarding submissions please visit: www.placeholdermag.com/get-involved/

 
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Friday Call for Submissions Love <3 Tinge Magazine

TINGE Magazine

TINGE Magazine, Temple University’s online literary journal, is seeking submissions of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.
T
he submission period for the next issue is open from September 1 until November 1, 2017.

Please go to tingemagazine.org for more information.

Submissions Guidelines Here

Friday Call for Submissions Love <3 Solidago, Seeking Tradition

Solidago Journal is open for submissions!

“We’re looking for prose, poetry, and art for our Fall 2017 issue. The theme is TRADITION, and our cover image (to which we also invite responses) can be found on our website (link below). We can’t pay our contributors, but all contributors will receive a complimentary copy of our print edition. No submission fee. We look forward to reading your work!”

Website: http://www.solidagojournal.com/

Submissions: http://www.solidagojournal.com/submissions/

 

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Friday Call for Submissions Love <3 Two Calls from Anomaly

Better late than never 🙂 Since I missed yesterday….

Anomaly (formerly known as Drunken Boat) is accepting submissions in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, comics, and translation from June 1 – September 1. Send your best, most challenging work through Submittable today! anmly.org/submit

SPECIAL CALL: Anomaly’s GLITTERBRAIN folio seeks work by queer and trans indigenous people and people of color who identify as mentally-ill, neurodivergent, or as having mental illness. Send up to 5 pieces, and a brief bio to sarahATanomalouspressDOTorg by August 15th.

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Some Weekend Call for Submissions Love <3 Firefly 

Firefly Magazine

From their website: 

Submit

Here at Firefly we are mainly looking for submissions of:
*Short Stories (1 piece up to 3000 words)
*Flash Fiction (1-3 pieces up to 500 words each)
*Poetry ( 3-5 short/average length poems OR 1 long poem)

Multiple submissions are fine, but only submit one of each type before hearing back from us. Example: One Fiction submission and one Flash Fiction submission, or one submission of all three types (Fiction, Poetry, Flash). *Above are what we’ll accept as 1 submission per type.
They should also be separate email submissions. Don’t send us your poetry and fiction in one submission, please. It angers the elves.

Simultaneous submissions are welcome, but please do notify us immediately if it is accepted elsewhere.

Previously published pieces are okay, but they will have to be very, very good to be seriously considered. Please cite where it was published first.

We read on a rolling basis, so we’re taking submissions year round. To submit, email us at editorfirefly@gmail.com 

Submission time for Issues close on the 24th of each month. Everything we get after the 24th will be considered for the following Issue. 

To submit, make the subject of the email “Firefly Submission” plus the category you are submitting to. For example: “Firefly Submission Flash Fiction” or “Firefly Submission Poetry”. Please attach works as a Word.doc or .docx. Keep all submissions in one single document, which each new piece beginning on a separate page.

We also accept illustrations/artwork/photography. Send those to us as a .jpg with the subject line “Firefly Submission Artwork”. Up to 5 pieces at a time, please.

We will try to respond as quickly as we can; responses can be expected within the month of submission. If a month has passed from the day you have submitted to us and you haven’t heard from us, please feel free to send a query with either “Query” or “What The Heck” in the subject line. We find the latter more cathartic. It’s up to you. “

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