Deadlines: January 12
In My Bed Magazine (Canada) seeks erotic submissions for its next issue: Playing it up with Gender Roles. Deadline: January 21, 2012.
Tending Your Inner Garden (US), a women's personal growth program, is seeking women's essays, stories and poems for four seasonal books to be published in 2012. Payment in books. Maximum length: 600 words. Deadlines: January 15, February 15, March 15 and April 15, 2012.
Here Be Monsters (Canada) are looking for submissions for their speculative fiction anthology. Length: 10000 words max. Payment: $30. Deadline: January 16, 2012. Open to Canadian residents.
Online journal Crossed Out Magazine (US) seeks fast-paced, direct, character-driven, and socially aware stories for their debut winter issue. Any genre/style. No submission fee. Payment: US$20 per story; also considered for future print issue.
Carleton University's Literary Magazine in/words seeks poetry (up to 5 pieces) and fiction (up to 2000 words) submissions for its upcoming Winter 2012 issue. Selected pieces may be read on Ottawa community radio.
Toronto writer and journalist seeks stories by male writers about father-loss through death, divorce, abandonment or emotional distance for a collection called 'Lonely Boy.' The stories must be creatively rendered, not merely a chronology of events, tell an emotional truth, and depict a journey of awareness, whether or not it is resolved. Anthology to be published in Spring 2013. Deadline: January 31, 2012
Submissions are now open for the 2012 print edition of The Hart House Review (Toronto, ON). Accepts fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, critical book reviews and art. Deadline: January 9, 2012.
Prism International (BC) welcomes entries for their 2012 literary contests. Literary Non-Fiction Contest: First prize of $1500; deadline: November 30, 2011. Short Fiction Contest: First prize of $2000; deadline: January 27, 2012. Poetry Contest: First prize of $1000; deadline January 27, 2012. Entry fee: $28 (includes subscription).
New U.S. press Matrices Press is seeking submissions from diverse voices for a 2012 anthology. Accepting poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, short plays, comics and artwork. Welcomes writers from a range of cultures, backgrounds and perspectives. Deadline: January 31, 2012. Anticipated publishing date: late 2012. Payment not indicated.
Cha (China, UK) invites entries for its "Encountering" Poetry Contest. First prize: £50; additional prizes available. Deadline: January 15, 2012.
Bluevoices (Canada) is accepting submissions for its first issue. Seeks prose poetry, postcard stories, flash fiction, short stories, and creative non-fiction. Submissions should deal with a contemporary social issue. Previously published work accepted. Deadline: January 1, 2012. Payment: Copy. Send submission in the body of an email plus a short bio to the editor at Bluevoices(monkeytail)aol.com.
