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Independent hybrid lit mag The Holler Box accepts submissions of poetry, fiction, lyric essays, nonfiction, and artwork year-round. Each issue is published online and in the form of a limited release handmade chapbook. Welcomes the alternative and experimental, as well as new and unpublished writers. Length: 5000 words max (prose) and poetry (up to 3).
The Dreadful Cafe (US) is looking for submissions for the inaugural anthology of independent fiction, Membrane. Seeking fiction of the strange and bizarre from 2,000 to 30,000 words. No restrictions on genre. Payment: $125 for short stories, $250 for novelettes, and $500 for novellas. Deadline: October 1, 2013.
Cha: An Asian Literary Journal (UK and China) is accepting submissions for its next issue. Theme: The Ancient Asia Issue: an edition of the journal devoted exclusively to work from and about Asia before the mid-nineteenth century. Accepting translations and original works of poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, and visual art. Deadline: June 20, 2013.
Print journal Room Magazine (Vancouver, BC) invites entries from all women writers for their annual contest. Categories: fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction. First prize in each category: $500 plus publication. Winners will be published in a 2014 issue. Entry fee: $30 (includes subscription). Deadline: July 15, 2013.
The Missing Slate, an online magazine with an international team of editors, is seeking submissions of poetry and fiction for the next issue. Send up to 3 pieces of fiction or 3 poems. Deadline: May 31, 2013.
The Puritan invites poetry and fiction entries for the Second Annual Thomas Morton Memorial Prize in Literary Excellence. Prizes: cash ($900/fiction and $600/poetry) and a collection of books (approx. $600 for each winner). Winning entries will appear in issue XXIII be honoured at a launch party. Deadline: September 30, 2013. Fee: $10.
New online literary monthly The Steel Chisel (Canada) is looking for prose and poetry from hungry Canadian writers. No word/line count limits. Deadline: Monthly on the 6th.
BareBacklit (Canada) is an online bi-monthly magazine seeking poetry, art, short stories, and flash fiction. Publishes up to four stories, five pieces of flash fiction, and ten poems per issue. Prefers work that is “unpretentious, minimalist… entertains first, and provokes thought later.”
strong, distinct voices who tell stories that are fresh and imaginative
Online journal Cactus Heart Literary Magazine (U.S.) seeks poetry, fiction, nonfiction, reviews, art & photos for e-Issue #5. Looking “your spiny, your sharp, your relentless… work coursing with energy and able to thrive in the harshest of places, while maintaining a vulnerable, succulent interior.” Deadline: July 1, 2013.
The Red Line Magazine (UK) is accepting submissions for Issue #3. Theme: The End. £50 prize for winning story of the issue. Shortlisted entries posted online. No entry fee. Length: 3500 words max. Deadline: May 17, 2013. Note: Website indicates April 30, but info confirmed by publisher. Submissions also open for Issue #4: Time. Deadline: June 30, 2013.
New queer arts and literary journal Plenitude Magazine (Canada) seeks literary fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and graphic narrative for Issue #3. Payment: $10-$25. Deadline: July 5, 2013.
Print publication Stone Voices (US) is seeking articles, essays, fiction, and poetry about the connection between art and spirituality as it relates to the making of art, history of art, spiritual awakening, mindfulness, and more. Deadline: May and August 2013.
Print journal Still Point Arts Quarterly (US) seeks a broad range of non-fiction, fiction, and poetry about art, the idea of art, the making of art, art history, being an artist, creativity, inspiration, the artist’s medium, etc. Deadline: May and August 2013.
New print and online journal Himalayan Walking Shoe (Elgin, ON) is accepting poetry and fiction for our their next issue. Theme: Food & Taxes. Also seeking original artwork and interviews with Canadian poets and musicians. Deadline: May 31, 2013.
Online quarterly The Puritan (Toronto) seeks fiction, poetry, reviews, literary essays, and interviews for Issue XXII: Summer 2013. “Submissions may push toward the symbolic frontier, challenging limitations and forging into previously unexplored aesthetic territory.” Deadline: June 21, 2013. Payment: $40-50 for prose and $15 for poetry.