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The Cupboard (US), a quarterly chapbook series, invites entries to its Third-Ever Contest. Prize: $500 plus publication. Accepting all prose submissions 4000-10000 words. All entries will be “considered as future volumes of The Cupboard. Entry fee: $10. Deadline: April 30, 2012..
ArtAscent Magazine invites entries for their current contest. Prizes: $50 plus publication (3 winners). Theme: Emergence (gradual beginning, coming forth, the start of something; growth in strength or number or importance, becoming becoming visible, etc.). Entries may include stories (500 words max.) and poems. Deadline: April 30, 2013. Entry fee: $7.
Deadline extended. Print journal Grain magazine (Canada) invites entries for the 25th annual Short Grain Contest. Prizes: $4500 CAD overall; $1000 first prize in each category. Categories: Poetry (100 lines max.) and short fiction (500 words max.). Entry fee $35 (includes subscription). Deadline: April 8, 2013.
Lunch Ticket, a literary magazine published by the Antioch University Los Angeles Creative Writing MFA Program, is accepting submissions for its next issue. Submit fiction, non-fiction, poetry, art, and YA writing. Genre: Open. Deadline: April 30, 2013.
Nickel95 Zine, an art and poetry, limited-run, handmade zine (London, ON) seeks submissions of poetry. Theme “kiss & make-up”. Looking for romance/love/falling out of love/etc. Payment: copy of the zine. Contact: san.ria.press@gmail.com. Deadline: April 26, 2013.
New literary magazine Joypuke (Mount Allison University, NB) seeks fiction and creative nonfiction (1500 words max.) and poetry (100 lines max.) Send submissions to underbridge@mta.ca. Deadline: April 20, 2013.
Entries are invited for the EVENT 2013 Non-Fiction Contest. Submit manuscripts exploring the creative non-fiction form. Prizes: $1500, plus publication. Length: 5000 words max. Entry fee: $34.95 (includes subscription). Deadline: April 15, 2013.
Only Interconnect, an anthology exploring the intersection between social media and short stories, seeks writing whose content and/or form are inspired by social media. Send your tales told through texting, Pinterest prose, irony over Instagram, or Facebook flash fiction. Deadline: April 30, 2013 (extended).
Registration is open for CV2‘s annual 2-Day Poem Contest 2013. Write an original poem in 48 hours including the ten words provided (released at midnight, Friday April 12). First prize: $500 +publication. Also “a whole weekend of wordy entertainment.” Entry fee: $16/26 (includes subscription). Deadline: April 5, 2013.
New Christian online and print magazine Praise Writers is seeking poetry, stories, meditations, and testimonies to uplift readers with inspirational content. Deadline: April 1, 2013. No payment.
Annual journal Echolocation (University of Toronto) seeks submissions for Issue 13. Accept short fiction (1000-1500 words), flash fiction (500 words max.), poetry (3-5), artwork, and b&w photography. Seeks work by writers in and around Toronto, and from North America. Deadline: April 8, 2013.
Guidelines: https://echolocationmag.submittable.com/submit
Entries open for Indiana Review‘s 2013 Poetry Prize. First prize: $1,000 and publication. Submit three poems per entry, 8 pages maximum. Entry fee: $20 (Note: +$7 for Canadian entrants). Fee includes one-year subscription.Deadline: April 1, 2013
The Rusty Toque (Western University) is accepting literary and innovative writing in the following genres: poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, graphic short fiction. Accepted work paid a small honorarium (approx. $50). Deadline: April 2013.
Cairn Press (US) seeks literary novel manuscripts with “prose that rises off the page” with strong characters and stories. Submission should include: a one-page query and the opening twenty pages. Deadline: April 30, 2013.
Interdisciplinary peer reviewed publication InTensions: E-Journal (York University, Toronto) seeks scholarly/artistic contributions for Issue 7. Theme: Fun and Games – Playing to the Limit. Invites papers (4000-6000 words), artist works, reviews, and interviews. Welcomes theoretical explorations, as well as reflections, experiments, reports, or ethnographies on play and playfulness in its lived, historical, and cultural contexts. Deadline: April 15, 2013.