Here are two dozen calls for submissions with deadlines in July. All of these markets pay writers, some quite handsomely, others just "token" amounts.
As always, there is a wide variety of genres and styles, from literary, to hybrid, to "weird." Stories, poetry, and nonfiction are all welcome.
Note: For links to sites that regularly post calls for submissions - both paid and unpaid - go to Calls for Submissions.
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THEMA
Theme: Second Thoughts
Genre: Short stories, essays, poems
Payment: Short story, $25; short-short piece (up to 1000 words), $10; poem
Deadline: July 1, 2016
Reprints accepted.
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The Deaf Poets Society
"We're looking for compelling prose or cross-genre works (including flash, works that combine ASL and English, and more) that convey and critically examine some aspect of the disability experience. We're looking for poems that will change our readers in some way as well as validate their experiences. We especially want work that is intersectional and that challenges the dominant rhetoric about disability in fiercely innovative ways."
Genres: Poetry, prose/cross-genre work, book reviews, and art
Payment: Not specified
Deadline: July 1, 2016
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Existere
Genres: All genres and forms of art and literature are welcome including and not limited to: poetry, short plays, short stories, postcard/flash fiction, art and literature reviews, critical essays, interviews, sketches, photos, etc.
Payment: Small honorarium
Deadline: July 1, 2016
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Polychrome Ink
"Here at Polychrome Ink, we believe that your cultural identity, who you're attracted to, how you feel about your gender, your neurological configuration, and your physical ability are important factors. We seek to bring under-represented voices and narratives into the public eye by focusing on authors and poets who do not embody the majority of the publishing industry. In doing so, we hope to normalize diversity, rather than allowing it to remain marginalized."
Genre: Poetry, fiction, non-fiction.
Payment: $15 short fiction, $25 poem, $40 longer fiction
Deadline: July 1, 2016
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NonBinary Review
Theme: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Genres: Full length submissions of fiction, essays, short stories, poetry, and hybrid work
Payment: 1 cent/word (prose), $10 per poem
Deadline: July 1, 2016
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The Suburban Review: Volume 7: Writers of Colour
Genre: Fiction, poetry
Payment: $75-$150 for fiction, $75 per poem
Deadline: July 3, 2016
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Briarpatch Magazine
Theme: Labour
Genre: Nonfiction writing and artwork on a wide range of topics, including current events, grassroots activism, electoral politics, economic justice, ecology, labour, food security, gender equity, indigenous struggles, international solidarity, and other issues of political importance.
Payment: $50-$150
Deadline: July 10, 2016
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Wordrunner eChapbooks
Genre: Fiction collections by one author.
Length: Stories may be flash or longer, from 750 up to 3,500 words each, totaling a minimum of approximately 8,000 and a maximum of 16,000 words for the collection. Minimum of five stories, but no more than 15 (if flash fiction). They need not be linked, but it would be a plus if they belong together for some reason, be it theme, location or character/s. Novel excerpts also considered. No genre fiction, unless a story is good enough to transcend genre. At least one-fourth of any collection should be previously unpublished.
Simultaneous submissions are acceptable, but only one submission per author. Please notify Wordrunner eChapbooks if your collection, or any part of it, is accepted elsewhere. In the cover letter, indicate which, if any pieces, were previously published and where.
Payment: $100
Deadline: July 15, 2016
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Detroit Neighborhood Guidebook
"We’re looking for essays, poetry, short fiction (yes, short fiction), photography and art about your neighborhood story. In addition to your story, tell us what stands out about your neighborhood: What bars to stumble out of, what schools everybody went to, what bakeries have the best sweets. And we want all the neighborhoods citywide; not just downtown and Midtown."
Restrictions: Open to past and present residents of Detroit
Payment: TBA
Deadline: July 15, 2016
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Outlook Springs Magazine
Genres: Fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction tinged with the strange
Payment: Up to $25 per piece
Deadline: July 15, 2016
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Miel Dickinson House
Theme: Softness
Genres: Text or image-text in all forms—prose, poetry, fragments, hybrid or null forms, incomplete objects, notes
Payment: Honorarium
Deadline: July 15, 2016
Accepts reprints
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Feminine inq.
Genre: Short stories, poem collections, personal narratives, academic essays, paintings, drawings, lithographies, comics, flash fiction, political essays, sonnets, plays, and anything else you can think of submitting
Payment: Not specified
Deadline: July 20, 2016
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Splickey
Theme: Who says October has to be gloomy? Let’s shine a little light on the dark night of All Hallows Eve by showcasing grim humor, graveyard mischief, and good old-fashioned Halloween fun. From fun and silly to creepy and quirky, what embodies the spirit of Halloween for you?"
Genre: Flash fiction, 300-100 words
Payment: $0.02 per word via PayPal
Deadline: July 22, 2016
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Enchanted Conversation
Theme: Fairy Godmothers
Genre: Fiction, poetry - fairy tales
Payment: $30 per story, $10 per poem
Deadline: July 30, 2016
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Virginia Quarterly
Genres: Poetry, fiction, nonfiction.
Payment: $200 per poem, up to 4 poems; for a suite of 5 or more poems, usually pays $1,000. Short fiction, $1,000 and up.
Deadline: July 31, 2016
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Phobos Four: Deep Black Sea
Genre: Weird fiction. "We want short stories, flash, and poetry hauled from the brine of oceans both real and fantastic: the shipwrecked rocket bobbing in the black ocean waves of a starless planet, its bloodied crew and their flashlights at the hatch that opens into the perfect dark, and the heavy thump against the hull; the work song of a dozen sailors, and the lilting mezzo-soprano that begins to harmonize from the empty crow's nest; the fleeing galleon's dreadful captive gnawing the last rivet from its iron box; the granddaughter that chucks a sharpened stick and spears a skull-sized opal blob galloping across the sand on its little wet fingers."
Payment: 5 cents/word
Deadline: July 31, 2016
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Ceto's Brine Anthology
Genre: Horror, dark fantasy. "Open to ocean-themed horror – selkies, doorways to other dimensions, ghost ships, curses, madness, mythical beasts from beyond, Lovecraftian horrors, and demonic forbidden love are just a few of the tales we’re looking for." (No mermaids)
Length: 5,000-12,000 words. Query for shorter/longer
Payment: $30 USD plus a copy of print, electronic, and audiobook formats
Deadline: July 31, 2016
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Hidden Lives: Coming Out on Mental Illness
"We are looking for three additional creative nonfiction/personal essays written by writers domiciled in the United States that address experiences with mental health issues. We seek a variety of work that will speak to all aspects, including direct experience from those who have received a diagnosis, as well as the experiences of spouses, siblings, and children. Writing from more than one family member would be of interest, especially if it rounds out the view. We are not looking for therapeutic accounts from therapists, nor do we seek prescriptive essays of the self-help variety. By mental health issues we refer to some of the more extreme diagnoses such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, severe depression, and autism. We recognize that many people suffer with depression and addiction, but at this time we are not seeking writing on these topics unless they are part of a dual diagnosis, or in the case of depression have resulted in psychosis or other extreme manifestation." Questions / submissions: lenore@lenorerowntree.com or andboden@gmail.com
Genre: Personal essays
Payment: $200 per piece
Deadline: July 31, 2016
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Otter Libris: The Solstice Lady
"Many of the Christmas stories we hold dear in Western culture focus around male figures – Santa Claus, Saint Nicholas, the Krampus, Rudolph and Frosty. But if you look to the past, female figures were central to family and hearth celebrations occurring on or around the Winter Solstice. Do some research and tell us your own unique story about the feminine spirit in the Yuletide."
Genre: Short stories
Length: 3,000 to 10,000 words
Payment: $25 per piece
Deadline: July 31, 2016
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Room Magazine
"We eat for survival, remedy, comfort, adventures, nostalgia, growth, gathering, and love. We consume, crave, feast, forage, fast, share, and struggle. As women, our relationship with food can be casual, blissful, or complicated."
Genres: Poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction wanted for 40.1 Issue: Food |
Payment: $50-$120 per piece
Deadline: July 31, 2016
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Shoreline of Infinity
Genre: Science fiction short stories
Payment: £10 per 1000 words
Deadline: July 31, 2016
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Thrice Fiction
Genre: Novellas, 18,000-35,000 words
Payment: Not specified
Deadline: July 31, 2016
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Fun Dead: Chilling Christmas Tales
Genre: Gothic. "We are looking for stories in the vein of Dickens, or ‘Between the Lights’ by E.F. Benson, or ‘The Kit-Bag’ by Algernon Blackwood. Ghosts and legends are encouraged, historical fiction is preferable for this collection."
Payment: $10
Deadline: July 31, 2016
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Triskaidekaphilia Book #1 — Urban Legends
Genre: Short stories. "We’re looking for stories inspired by recognizable urban legends, but with a romantic twist"
Payment: $10
Deadline: July 31, 2016
Reprints accepted
As always, there is a wide variety of genres and styles, from literary, to hybrid, to "weird." Stories, poetry, and nonfiction are all welcome.
Note: For links to sites that regularly post calls for submissions - both paid and unpaid - go to Calls for Submissions.
____________________
THEMA
Theme: Second Thoughts
Genre: Short stories, essays, poems
Payment: Short story, $25; short-short piece (up to 1000 words), $10; poem
Deadline: July 1, 2016
Reprints accepted.
____________________
The Deaf Poets Society
"We're looking for compelling prose or cross-genre works (including flash, works that combine ASL and English, and more) that convey and critically examine some aspect of the disability experience. We're looking for poems that will change our readers in some way as well as validate their experiences. We especially want work that is intersectional and that challenges the dominant rhetoric about disability in fiercely innovative ways."
Genres: Poetry, prose/cross-genre work, book reviews, and art
Payment: Not specified
Deadline: July 1, 2016
____________________
Existere
Genres: All genres and forms of art and literature are welcome including and not limited to: poetry, short plays, short stories, postcard/flash fiction, art and literature reviews, critical essays, interviews, sketches, photos, etc.
Payment: Small honorarium
Deadline: July 1, 2016
____________________
Polychrome Ink
"Here at Polychrome Ink, we believe that your cultural identity, who you're attracted to, how you feel about your gender, your neurological configuration, and your physical ability are important factors. We seek to bring under-represented voices and narratives into the public eye by focusing on authors and poets who do not embody the majority of the publishing industry. In doing so, we hope to normalize diversity, rather than allowing it to remain marginalized."
Genre: Poetry, fiction, non-fiction.
Payment: $15 short fiction, $25 poem, $40 longer fiction
Deadline: July 1, 2016
____________________
NonBinary Review
Theme: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Genres: Full length submissions of fiction, essays, short stories, poetry, and hybrid work
Payment: 1 cent/word (prose), $10 per poem
Deadline: July 1, 2016
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The Suburban Review: Volume 7: Writers of Colour
Genre: Fiction, poetry
Payment: $75-$150 for fiction, $75 per poem
Deadline: July 3, 2016
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Briarpatch Magazine
Theme: Labour
Genre: Nonfiction writing and artwork on a wide range of topics, including current events, grassroots activism, electoral politics, economic justice, ecology, labour, food security, gender equity, indigenous struggles, international solidarity, and other issues of political importance.
Payment: $50-$150
Deadline: July 10, 2016
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Wordrunner eChapbooks
Genre: Fiction collections by one author.
Length: Stories may be flash or longer, from 750 up to 3,500 words each, totaling a minimum of approximately 8,000 and a maximum of 16,000 words for the collection. Minimum of five stories, but no more than 15 (if flash fiction). They need not be linked, but it would be a plus if they belong together for some reason, be it theme, location or character/s. Novel excerpts also considered. No genre fiction, unless a story is good enough to transcend genre. At least one-fourth of any collection should be previously unpublished.
Simultaneous submissions are acceptable, but only one submission per author. Please notify Wordrunner eChapbooks if your collection, or any part of it, is accepted elsewhere. In the cover letter, indicate which, if any pieces, were previously published and where.
Payment: $100
Deadline: July 15, 2016
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Detroit Neighborhood Guidebook
"We’re looking for essays, poetry, short fiction (yes, short fiction), photography and art about your neighborhood story. In addition to your story, tell us what stands out about your neighborhood: What bars to stumble out of, what schools everybody went to, what bakeries have the best sweets. And we want all the neighborhoods citywide; not just downtown and Midtown."
Restrictions: Open to past and present residents of Detroit
Payment: TBA
Deadline: July 15, 2016
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Outlook Springs Magazine
Genres: Fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction tinged with the strange
Payment: Up to $25 per piece
Deadline: July 15, 2016
_____________________
Miel Dickinson House
Theme: Softness
Genres: Text or image-text in all forms—prose, poetry, fragments, hybrid or null forms, incomplete objects, notes
Payment: Honorarium
Deadline: July 15, 2016
Accepts reprints
____________________
Feminine inq.
Genre: Short stories, poem collections, personal narratives, academic essays, paintings, drawings, lithographies, comics, flash fiction, political essays, sonnets, plays, and anything else you can think of submitting
Payment: Not specified
Deadline: July 20, 2016
____________________
Splickey
Theme: Who says October has to be gloomy? Let’s shine a little light on the dark night of All Hallows Eve by showcasing grim humor, graveyard mischief, and good old-fashioned Halloween fun. From fun and silly to creepy and quirky, what embodies the spirit of Halloween for you?"
Genre: Flash fiction, 300-100 words
Payment: $0.02 per word via PayPal
Deadline: July 22, 2016
_____________________
Enchanted Conversation
Theme: Fairy Godmothers
Genre: Fiction, poetry - fairy tales
Payment: $30 per story, $10 per poem
Deadline: July 30, 2016
____________________
Virginia Quarterly
Genres: Poetry, fiction, nonfiction.
Payment: $200 per poem, up to 4 poems; for a suite of 5 or more poems, usually pays $1,000. Short fiction, $1,000 and up.
Deadline: July 31, 2016
____________________
Phobos Four: Deep Black Sea
Genre: Weird fiction. "We want short stories, flash, and poetry hauled from the brine of oceans both real and fantastic: the shipwrecked rocket bobbing in the black ocean waves of a starless planet, its bloodied crew and their flashlights at the hatch that opens into the perfect dark, and the heavy thump against the hull; the work song of a dozen sailors, and the lilting mezzo-soprano that begins to harmonize from the empty crow's nest; the fleeing galleon's dreadful captive gnawing the last rivet from its iron box; the granddaughter that chucks a sharpened stick and spears a skull-sized opal blob galloping across the sand on its little wet fingers."
Payment: 5 cents/word
Deadline: July 31, 2016
____________________
Ceto's Brine Anthology
Genre: Horror, dark fantasy. "Open to ocean-themed horror – selkies, doorways to other dimensions, ghost ships, curses, madness, mythical beasts from beyond, Lovecraftian horrors, and demonic forbidden love are just a few of the tales we’re looking for." (No mermaids)
Length: 5,000-12,000 words. Query for shorter/longer
Payment: $30 USD plus a copy of print, electronic, and audiobook formats
Deadline: July 31, 2016
____________________
Hidden Lives: Coming Out on Mental Illness
"We are looking for three additional creative nonfiction/personal essays written by writers domiciled in the United States that address experiences with mental health issues. We seek a variety of work that will speak to all aspects, including direct experience from those who have received a diagnosis, as well as the experiences of spouses, siblings, and children. Writing from more than one family member would be of interest, especially if it rounds out the view. We are not looking for therapeutic accounts from therapists, nor do we seek prescriptive essays of the self-help variety. By mental health issues we refer to some of the more extreme diagnoses such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, severe depression, and autism. We recognize that many people suffer with depression and addiction, but at this time we are not seeking writing on these topics unless they are part of a dual diagnosis, or in the case of depression have resulted in psychosis or other extreme manifestation." Questions / submissions: lenore@lenorerowntree.com or andboden@gmail.com
Genre: Personal essays
Payment: $200 per piece
Deadline: July 31, 2016
____________________
Otter Libris: The Solstice Lady
"Many of the Christmas stories we hold dear in Western culture focus around male figures – Santa Claus, Saint Nicholas, the Krampus, Rudolph and Frosty. But if you look to the past, female figures were central to family and hearth celebrations occurring on or around the Winter Solstice. Do some research and tell us your own unique story about the feminine spirit in the Yuletide."
Genre: Short stories
Length: 3,000 to 10,000 words
Payment: $25 per piece
Deadline: July 31, 2016
_____________________
Room Magazine
"We eat for survival, remedy, comfort, adventures, nostalgia, growth, gathering, and love. We consume, crave, feast, forage, fast, share, and struggle. As women, our relationship with food can be casual, blissful, or complicated."
Genres: Poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction wanted for 40.1 Issue: Food |
Payment: $50-$120 per piece
Deadline: July 31, 2016
____________________
Shoreline of Infinity
Genre: Science fiction short stories
Payment: £10 per 1000 words
Deadline: July 31, 2016
_____________________
Thrice Fiction
Genre: Novellas, 18,000-35,000 words
Payment: Not specified
Deadline: July 31, 2016
_______________________
Fun Dead: Chilling Christmas Tales
Genre: Gothic. "We are looking for stories in the vein of Dickens, or ‘Between the Lights’ by E.F. Benson, or ‘The Kit-Bag’ by Algernon Blackwood. Ghosts and legends are encouraged, historical fiction is preferable for this collection."
Payment: $10
Deadline: July 31, 2016
_____________________
Triskaidekaphilia Book #1 — Urban Legends
Genre: Short stories. "We’re looking for stories inspired by recognizable urban legends, but with a romantic twist"
Payment: $10
Deadline: July 31, 2016
Reprints accepted
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