Deadlines: Ongoing
Orbis seeks submissions from international writers. Submit four poems or two prose pieces (500-1000 words). Readers' Award: £50 for piece receiving the most votes in each issue; £50 split between runners-up; and Featured Writer receives £50. Provides proofs with editorial suggestions. More details...
Ricepaper (BC) seeks poetry, fiction, non-fiction and drama by Asian Canadians. Also publishes articles (query first). Payment: modest honorarium. More details...
Lies With Occasional Truth seeks "the very best writing by the very best writers in Canada (and sometimes by Americans who pretend, in their cover letters, to be Canadian)." Publishes fiction only, 3000 words max. Especially fond of plot-driven, humorous, and topical stories (also zombies and werewolves). Accepts submission year-round. Publishes quarterly. More details...
The New Quarterly (ON) invites submissions of fiction, poetry, interviews, and writing about writing. Wants to be delighted by a story well-told. Payment: $200 per short story, novel excerpt, and essay, and $30 per poem or "postscript" story. More details...
Groundwood Books (ON) seeks novel-length character-driven fiction for children of all ages. No anthropomorphic animals or elves/fairies as main characters. More details...
Orca Book Publishers (BC) seeks submissions for high-interest novels with contemporary themes, written expressly for teens reading below grade level. More details...
Douglas and McIntyre are accepting queries for literary fiction and non-fiction books. More details...
Online literary journal Cha seeks quality poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, photography, graphic fiction and reviews from and about Asia. More details...
Writers from Canada and around the world are being invited to enter a monthly short story competition run by Certys Limited (County Durham, England). Prizes: £100 for the monthly competition; £250 for the annual competition. Entry fee: £5. Deadline: ongoing; last day of each month. More details...
Freehand Books is a new literary book publishing operation by Broadview Press of Calgary and Guelph. The new press aims to discover and publish new and established writers of literary fiction, poetry, memoir, biography,
and creative non-fiction on a variety of timely topics. Submit manuscripts with SASE to: Freehand Books, 412-815-1st Street S.W., Calgary T2P 1N3.
Inscribed seeks novel manuscripts. Length: 80-800 pages. Ensure manuscript is well-proofed. Payment: royalties.
Submissions are invited for new travel 'zine Travel Thru History. Publishes travel memoirs, reflections on literary journeys, and pieces on history, archaeology, and culture. Length: 500 -1500 words. Payment: small honorarium paid on publication. More details...
Online magazine Dance to Death seeks poetry and micro fiction submissions for its next issue. Appreciates work that is concise, original, dark, humorous, and sensitive. English and French submissions welcome. More details...
The Malahat Review is now publishing at least one work of creative-non fiction (personal essay, memoir, cultural criticism, nature writing, literary journalism) per issue. No restrictions for subject matter or approach. Length: 1000-3500 words. Payment: $40 per published page plus a one-year subscription. More details...
The Interpreter's House (UK) seeks submissions of poetry and fiction. Send up to five poems or short stories (2000 words max). Welcomes work from international writers. More details...
Black Static is accepting horror stories for their next issue. Length: 8000 words max. Postal submissions only. More details...
New publisher of "slim books for big minds" booksHANDmade (ON) is looking for creative people to submit poems and one-page stories about Canada for publication in a new book "Pages of Canada". Publication to occur when 100 pieces have been accepted. Deadline: May 30, 2008. Payment: copy of book. More details...
The Malahat Review (BC) invites submissions of creative non-fiction, poetry, fiction, personal essay, and critical texts for a special Winter issue. Theme: British Columbia and its relationship to the planet (What is wilderness? What is the relationship between language and nature?). Focus on creativity over manifesto. Open to all writers (non just from BC). Payment: $40 per page, plus subscription. Deadline: June 1, 2008. More details...
34thParallel (US) seeks submissions of fiction and poetry from new and emerging writers. Deadline: ongoing. More details...
The Wry Writer is looking for stories featuring strong female protagonists and lesbian characters portrayed in a positive light. Open to a variety of material including adventure, crime, romance, and drama. Accepts flash-fiction (1000 words max.), short stories (1000 - 7500) and novelette-length stories (17500 words max.). Payment: $10 for short fiction. More details...
Ramble Underground seeks fiction and poetry submissions. Submit one story or up to 3 poems, 100-4000 words. Pays US$15 per story. More details...
The Capilano Review (BC) seeks experimental and adventurous writing for open and themed issues. Themes: "Collaborations" and "North Shore". Submit poetry (4 pages min.) and fiction (6000 words max.). Payment: $50 per page to $200 max. Deadline: ongoing. More details...
The Fiddlehead (NB) invites poetry and fiction from Canadian and international writers. Submit fiction (4000 words max.) and poetry (3 to 5 is best). Payment: $20 per published page, plus contributor's copy. Accepts submissions year-round. More details...
Queen's Quarterly (ON) is accepting submissions of articles, reviews, short stories (2500-3000 words) and poetry (up to six poems). Payment determined at time of acceptance and paid upon publication. More details...
Rubicon Press (AB) produces unique chapbooks of poetry from writers around the world. Seeks work that resonates, moves, inspires and affects. More details...
Insomniac Press invites submissions of commercial and creative non-fiction. Appreciates subjects such as business and personal finance, gay and lesbian studies, and black Canadian studies. More details...
Scholastic Education (ON) is accepting short stories for Grade 6 readers. Stories should be at a reasonable high reading level and include literary devices such as flashbacks, time change, figurative languages, foreshadowing, different perspectives, symbolism, subplots, dear reader (acknowledging the reader device). Also alliteration, allusion, hyperbole, irony, metaphor, onomatopoeia, oxymoron, personification, rhetorical question, simile, understatement. Length: 3000 words max. No pets, witchcraft, or demons. Send questions to Laura Smith at lsmith@scholastic.ca. Send submissions to: Laura Smith, Scholastic Canada, 175 Hillmount Road, 3rd Floor, Markham, ON, L6C 1Z7. (via Saskatchewan Writers' Guild)
Small feminist publisher Second Story Press (ON) is currently accepting unsolicited manuscripts of special interest to women. Accepts fiction, non-fiction and children’s books. More details...
Faber & Faber (UK) seeks unsolicited poetry submissions. More details...
Online journal Blue Skies seeks poetry submissions. Publishes emerging and established poets. Especially appreciates writing by Canadians. Submit 3 poems plus brief bio. More details...
