A regularly updated post with all the submission/application opportunities that I’ve found in my travels around social media and have been sent to me.
When an opportunity has passed I will remove it from the list to not clog it up with old news.
I know that it isn’t that big right now but we have to start somewhere!
This post is going to be free for a while but will eventually only be available to paid subscribers.
Time limited opportunities.
- Becoming a Writer Course, with Farhana Shaikh – open for applications, apply by 12/12/21
- Black Writer Residency, open to writers 18+ African & African Caribbean heritage who live, work or study in Birmingham & The Black Country closes 16/12/21
- Broken Sleep Books, submissions open for poetry pamphlets (up to 40 pages), closes 30/11/21
- Café Writers 2021 Poetry Competition open for submission, closes 30/11/21
- époque press, an e-zine on the theme of ‘Withdrawal’, closes 31/03/22
- Ginkgo Prize for EcoPoetry, closes 21/12/21
- Heat Series 3, Giramondo’s literary journal open for submission during the months of October and November
- The Literary Consultancy Free Reads, free manuscript assessment scheme from New Writing South, closes 07/01/22
- Truffle Magazine, submissions open for Issue 5, not sure of closing day yet
- The Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, nominations open 01/02/22
- Write Mentor flash and short story writing competitions, theme is Climate Change any genre but main protagonist must be a child or teen, closes 28/11/21
- Writing Competition, Fiction and Poetry competitions with a large prize fund, closes 28/01/22
Always open for submissions.
- Fictive Dreams [are open for short story submissions between 500 and 2,500 words]
- Little Island, [open for submissions of quality fiction, with a leaning toward Irish authors]
- Lunate [accepts submissions of poetry and short stories without a genre limitation]
- Paragraph Planet [Your submission can be a short story, an extract from a novel or the capturing of a moment. The main rule is that it needs to be EXACTLY 75 words long including the title.]
- Phlogiston Press [short form speculative fiction, old style, slipstream, horror, fantasy, science fiction, literary, poetry, flash with a maximum length of 7,000 words]
- Product magazine [We publish short stories, nonfiction, poetry + photography. Everyone welcome, especially new/early career writers + artists.]
- wildness [accepts submissions of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction and considers work in most styles, forms, or genres.]
If you are a publisher or have other writing opportunities that you would like me to add to this list please email me contact@bigbeardedbookseller.com