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Riverside Community College's #litmag MUSE's general reading period is open to submissions! Send fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by January 31. No reading fee!
Their Spangler Award is also open to poems about a child or childhood. $5 fee. $200 prize & publication.
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Their Spangler Award is also open to poems about a child or childhood. $5 fee. $200 prize & publication.
#callforsubmissions #writers
RCC MUSE Now Accepting Submissions & Spangler Poetry Award Entries
Submit poetry or prose to RCC MUSE by Jan 31, 2026 for the Spring 2025 edition + poetry submissions are open to $200 Spangler Award.
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November 25, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Riverside Community College's #litmag MUSE's general reading period is open to submissions! Send fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by January 31. No reading fee!
Their Spangler Award is also open to poems about a child or childhood. $5 fee. $200 prize & publication.
#callforsubmissions #writers
Their Spangler Award is also open to poems about a child or childhood. $5 fee. $200 prize & publication.
#callforsubmissions #writers
If you have self-published, indie-published, or university-published a book in English in the past 2 calendar years, consider entering it to the National Indie Excellence Awards. There is a fee. Cash prizes & sponsorship awards give across a variety of categories. Deadline: March 31.
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2026 National Indie Excellence© Awards
Submit your book to the 2026 National Indie Excellence© Awards and get recognized for excellence and distinction in self and independent publishing.
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November 25, 2025 at 1:00 AM
If you have self-published, indie-published, or university-published a book in English in the past 2 calendar years, consider entering it to the National Indie Excellence Awards. There is a fee. Cash prizes & sponsorship awards give across a variety of categories. Deadline: March 31.
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One month remains to polish your unpublished story collections to enter Press 53's Award for Short Fiction. $30 reading fee. Winner receives $1,000 cash advance, book publication, & 53 author copies. Enter by December 31.
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2026 Press 53 Award for Short Fiction
Enter the 2026 Press 53 Award for Short Fiction—open to short story collections. Winner receives publication and $1,000.
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November 24, 2025 at 11:00 PM
One month remains to polish your unpublished story collections to enter Press 53's Award for Short Fiction. $30 reading fee. Winner receives $1,000 cash advance, book publication, & 53 author copies. Enter by December 31.
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#writers #writingcontest
Happy Monday! Dive into new issues of lit mags, new book releases, & a prompt asking you to pause and reflect as the month ends. Plus, enjoy 136 submission opportunities & upcoming events! Plenty of November 30 deadlines.
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November 24, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Happy Monday! Dive into new issues of lit mags, new book releases, & a prompt asking you to pause and reflect as the month ends. Plus, enjoy 136 submission opportunities & upcoming events! Plenty of November 30 deadlines.
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#literarycommunity #writers
Editor's Choice spotlights 'Empowered: A Woman Faculty of Color's Guide to Teaching and Thriving' by Chavella T. Pittman, who offers scholars expert guidance, encouragement, and practical strategies drawn from decades of experience.
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Books Received - January 26, 2012 :: The NewPages Guide to Indie & University Presses
Discover Books Received - January 26, 2012 at the NewPages.com Guide to Independent and University Presses.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Editor's Choice spotlights 'Empowered: A Woman Faculty of Color's Guide to Teaching and Thriving' by Chavella T. Pittman, who offers scholars expert guidance, encouragement, and practical strategies drawn from decades of experience.
#booknews #newreleases #academia #readingcommunity
#booknews #newreleases #academia #readingcommunity
Jami Macarty reviews 'all one in the end—/water' by Soham Patel, who offers readers poems as "lyrical sites where we think together about where we live and how we care for it and each other..."
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Book Review :: all one in the end—/water by Soham Patel
Patel’s poems foster community, challenge capitalist perspectives, and use inventive forms to reimagine care and accountability.
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November 23, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Jami Macarty reviews 'all one in the end—/water' by Soham Patel, who offers readers poems as "lyrical sites where we think together about where we live and how we care for it and each other..."
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Jami Macarty reviews 'Stock' by Jennifer Bowering Delisle, in which "the poet seeks to expose the manipulative and biased undercurrents of stock images." Read more at NewPages!
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Book Review :: Stock by Jennifer Bowering Delisle
Delisle uses stock imagery to critique clichéd narratives, gendered roles, digital artifice, and representation’s complexities.
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November 22, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Jami Macarty reviews 'Stock' by Jennifer Bowering Delisle, in which "the poet seeks to expose the manipulative and biased undercurrents of stock images." Read more at NewPages!
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This week’s creative challenge: “Talking Past Each Other.”
Write or create a piece where two people believe they’re aligned—but every word pulls them further apart. Misunderstandings can be hilarious, tense, or tragic. How will yours unfold?
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Write or create a piece where two people believe they’re aligned—but every word pulls them further apart. Misunderstandings can be hilarious, tense, or tragic. How will yours unfold?
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Where to Submit Roundup: November 21, 2025
Happy Friday! Drop by the NewPages Blog to discover 130+ opportunities in our where to submit rouindup for March 21, 2025.
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November 21, 2025 at 11:00 PM
This week’s creative challenge: “Talking Past Each Other.”
Write or create a piece where two people believe they’re aligned—but every word pulls them further apart. Misunderstandings can be hilarious, tense, or tragic. How will yours unfold?
#WritingPrompt #ArtPrompt #CreativeChallenge
Write or create a piece where two people believe they’re aligned—but every word pulls them further apart. Misunderstandings can be hilarious, tense, or tragic. How will yours unfold?
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Happy Friday! Drop by the NewPages Blog for today's roundup featuring 130+ active submission opportunities including general #litmag calls & writing & book contests.
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Where to Submit Roundup: November 21, 2025
Happy Friday! Drop by the NewPages Blog to discover 130+ opportunities in our where to submit rouindup for March 21, 2025.
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November 21, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Happy Friday! Drop by the NewPages Blog for today's roundup featuring 130+ active submission opportunities including general #litmag calls & writing & book contests.
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#writers #AmWriting #SubmissionOpps
Palooka is open to bold voices and brave stories year-round! They love daring prose, art, photography, comics, & chapbooks. They do charge a small reading fee. Check out recent publications & submit today.
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Palooka Seeks Chapbooks, Prose, Poetry, Artwork, Photography
Palooka is a global literary magazine seeking bold voices and brave stories. Submit chapbooks, prose, poetry, artwork, photography, and comics year-round. Anonymous reading.
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November 21, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Palooka is open to bold voices and brave stories year-round! They love daring prose, art, photography, comics, & chapbooks. They do charge a small reading fee. Check out recent publications & submit today.
#callforsubmissions #writers #litmag
#callforsubmissions #writers #litmag
RCC MUSE is accepting fiction, nonfiction, and poetry for their Spring 2026 issue. There is no reading fee! Send work by January 31. Their annual Spangler Award is also open through January 31!
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#writers #litmag #callforsubmissions
RCC MUSE Now Accepting Submissions & Spangler Poetry Award Entries
Submit poetry or prose to RCC MUSE by Jan 31, 2026 for the Spring 2025 edition + poetry submissions are open to $200 Spangler Award.
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November 21, 2025 at 12:00 AM
RCC MUSE is accepting fiction, nonfiction, and poetry for their Spring 2026 issue. There is no reading fee! Send work by January 31. Their annual Spangler Award is also open through January 31!
#writers #litmag #callforsubmissions
#writers #litmag #callforsubmissions
The 12th William Saroyan International Prize for Writing is open to books of fiction & nonfiction published by writers with less than 3 published books. $50 fee. Two prizes of $5,000 awarded. Enter by January 30.
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#writers #bookaward
2026 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing
Submit by Jan 30, 2026 for the Saroyan Prize. $5,000 awards for fiction & nonfiction. Open to emerging writers with fewer than 3 published books.
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November 20, 2025 at 9:59 PM
The 12th William Saroyan International Prize for Writing is open to books of fiction & nonfiction published by writers with less than 3 published books. $50 fee. Two prizes of $5,000 awarded. Enter by January 30.
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#writers #bookaward
In 'A Spoonie's Guide to Self-Acceptance,' poet Kelly Esparza examines the complicated question: "How do you live life to the fullest when you’re diagnosed with a chronic illness in your twenties?" Read more at NewPages!
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New Book :: A Spoonie's Guide to Self-Acceptance
Poet Kelly Esparza chronicles grief, resilience, and hope while navigating life-changing chronic illness in her twenties.
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November 20, 2025 at 3:10 PM
In 'A Spoonie's Guide to Self-Acceptance,' poet Kelly Esparza examines the complicated question: "How do you live life to the fullest when you’re diagnosed with a chronic illness in your twenties?" Read more at NewPages!
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Blue Collar Review Summer 2025 give a platform to working class voices unafraid to confront cultural inequities and global atrocities. Read more at NewPages!
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Magazine Stand :: Blue Collar Review - Summer 2025
Blue Collar Review Summer 2025 promotes poetry confronting oppressive labor, climate and war crises, and urging collective resistance.
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November 20, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Blue Collar Review Summer 2025 give a platform to working class voices unafraid to confront cultural inequities and global atrocities. Read more at NewPages!
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You have until Nov 30 to submit an unpublished collection of poetry, flash fiction, or a combo of both to Cloudbank's Vern Rutsala Book Prize. Winner receives $1,000, book publication, & 50 copies. $25 fee. Judge is Robert Morgan.
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Vern Rutsala Book Prize Deadline Extended!
Submit 70–90 pages of poetry or flash fiction to the 2026 Vern Rutsala Book Contest. $1,000 prize, publication, and 50 author copies.
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November 20, 2025 at 3:00 AM
You have until Nov 30 to submit an unpublished collection of poetry, flash fiction, or a combo of both to Cloudbank's Vern Rutsala Book Prize. Winner receives $1,000, book publication, & 50 copies. $25 fee. Judge is Robert Morgan.
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The annual swamp pink prizes open in January. You have plenty of time to write & edit your short stories, essays, & poems to submit. Deadline: January 31. Winner in each genre receives $2,000 & publication. $20 fee. All entries considered for publication.
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The swamp pink Prizes in Fiction, Poetry, & Nonfiction
The 2026 swamp pink Prizes will be open to fiction, essays, and poetry during the month of January. $20 fee. $2,000 awarded per genre.
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November 20, 2025 at 1:00 AM
The annual swamp pink prizes open in January. You have plenty of time to write & edit your short stories, essays, & poems to submit. Deadline: January 31. Winner in each genre receives $2,000 & publication. $20 fee. All entries considered for publication.
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Love baseball or softball? The National Baseball Poetry Festival is calling for poems dealing with any aspect of gamesmanship, nature, and atmosphere of these two sports for its annual contest. Free entry (limit 1 poem). Deadline: March 27.
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#poets #baseball #poetrycontest #callforsubmissions
National Baseball Poetry Festival Call for Submissions
Submit one baseball or softball-themed poem to the National Baseball Poetry Festival by March 27, 2026. Free entry.
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November 19, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Love baseball or softball? The National Baseball Poetry Festival is calling for poems dealing with any aspect of gamesmanship, nature, and atmosphere of these two sports for its annual contest. Free entry (limit 1 poem). Deadline: March 27.
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Poets in the Pine is open to submissions for a new Made from Midnight anthology: Delirium. Send poetry, flash fiction, hybrid prose, art, & experimental structures. No fee. Paid feedback option available. Deadline: January 16.
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Made from Midnight: Delirium Anthology Call for Submissions
Submit poetry, flash fiction, hybrid prose, artwork, and experimental writing to Made From Midnight: Delirium, the second Poets in the Pines anthology.
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November 19, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Poets in the Pine is open to submissions for a new Made from Midnight anthology: Delirium. Send poetry, flash fiction, hybrid prose, art, & experimental structures. No fee. Paid feedback option available. Deadline: January 16.
#writers #callforsubmissions
#writers #callforsubmissions
Celebrating 20 years of honoring indie publishing, the National Indie Book Awards are open to all genres from indie, university, & self-published authors. Enter by March 31. There is a fee. Cash awards & sponsorship prizes available.
#writers #bookawards
#writers #bookawards
2026 National Indie Excellence© Awards
Submit your book to the 2026 National Indie Excellence© Awards and get recognized for excellence and distinction in self and independent publishing.
www.newpages.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Celebrating 20 years of honoring indie publishing, the National Indie Book Awards are open to all genres from indie, university, & self-published authors. Enter by March 31. There is a fee. Cash awards & sponsorship prizes available.
#writers #bookawards
#writers #bookawards
Girls Right the World believes girls' voices can transform the world for the better. They seek poetry, prose, & visual art for Issue 10. Open to girls & young, gender-expansive writers & artists ages of 14-21. No reading fee. Deadline: December 31.
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Call For Submissions From Girls Worldwide
Girls Right the World invites girls and gender-expansive youth (ages 14–21) to submit poetry, prose, or art by December 31, 2025.
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November 19, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Girls Right the World believes girls' voices can transform the world for the better. They seek poetry, prose, & visual art for Issue 10. Open to girls & young, gender-expansive writers & artists ages of 14-21. No reading fee. Deadline: December 31.
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#youngwriters #litmag #callforsubmissions
If love was oxygen, what would survival look like?
This week’s prompt invites you to explore love as a life force—essential, fragile, and maybe even dangerous.
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This week’s prompt invites you to explore love as a life force—essential, fragile, and maybe even dangerous.
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Love Like Oxygen: A Writing Prompt to Explore Essential Connections
Explore the idea of love as a life force with our “Love Like Oxygen” writing prompt. Create poetry, stories, art, or music.
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November 18, 2025 at 11:14 PM
If love was oxygen, what would survival look like?
This week’s prompt invites you to explore love as a life force—essential, fragile, and maybe even dangerous.
#WritingPrompt #AmWriting #Writers
This week’s prompt invites you to explore love as a life force—essential, fragile, and maybe even dangerous.
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The Press 53 Award for Short Fiction is open to unpublished story collections. Winner receives $1,000 cash advance, book publication, & 53 author copies. Kevin Morgan Watson will judge. Enter by December 31. $30 fee.
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2026 Press 53 Award for Short Fiction
Enter the 2026 Press 53 Award for Short Fiction—open to short story collections. Winner receives publication and $1,000.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:00 PM
The Press 53 Award for Short Fiction is open to unpublished story collections. Winner receives $1,000 cash advance, book publication, & 53 author copies. Kevin Morgan Watson will judge. Enter by December 31. $30 fee.
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South Dakota Review's annual double issue (59.3 & 59.4) is jam-packed with diverse poetry and prose wrapped in a gorgeous cover image and printed on luxurious ivory paper. Read more at NewPages!
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Magazine Stand :: South Dakota Review - 59.3 & 59.4
South Dakota Review champions diverse, innovative literature exploring the American West while engaging global literary conversations.
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November 18, 2025 at 8:10 PM
South Dakota Review's annual double issue (59.3 & 59.4) is jam-packed with diverse poetry and prose wrapped in a gorgeous cover image and printed on luxurious ivory paper. Read more at NewPages!
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Breathe in creativity, breathe out expression.
NewPages Newsletter #207 is live! Inside: fresh reads, 130+ open submission calls, and an inspiration prompt to stir the heart. Whether you’re writing, reading, or creating, this week’s issue is your oxygen.
NewPages Newsletter #207 is live! Inside: fresh reads, 130+ open submission calls, and an inspiration prompt to stir the heart. Whether you’re writing, reading, or creating, this week’s issue is your oxygen.
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November 17, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Breathe in creativity, breathe out expression.
NewPages Newsletter #207 is live! Inside: fresh reads, 130+ open submission calls, and an inspiration prompt to stir the heart. Whether you’re writing, reading, or creating, this week’s issue is your oxygen.
NewPages Newsletter #207 is live! Inside: fresh reads, 130+ open submission calls, and an inspiration prompt to stir the heart. Whether you’re writing, reading, or creating, this week’s issue is your oxygen.
The Main Street Rag Fall 2025 issue opens with the feature “The Art of Welcome: Joel Matthews in Conversation” an interview with Jess Hylton, then fills out the issue with new 'stories & such' as well as poetry and reviews.
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Magazine Stand :: The Main Street Rag - Fall 2025
The Main Street Rag Fall 2025 features an interview with Joel Matthew as well as a diverse selection of poetry, fiction, and visual art.
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November 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
The Main Street Rag Fall 2025 issue opens with the feature “The Art of Welcome: Joel Matthews in Conversation” an interview with Jess Hylton, then fills out the issue with new 'stories & such' as well as poetry and reviews.
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