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Parabola Journal Is Accepting Submissions/ How To Submit (Pay: $400)

Parabola Journal is a quarterly journal dedicated to exploring the quest for meaning through the lens of myths, symbols, and religious traditions.  With each issue organized around a specific theme, Parabola delves into the relationship between ancient wisdom and contemporary life.  The upcoming theme for the Summer 2024 issue is ‘Reality,’ with subsequent themes including...

St. Martin’s Minotaur/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Competition($10,000 + Publication)

Minotaur Books and Mystery Writers of America (MWA) is seeking submissions of manuscripts with crime at the heart of the story. Previously unpublished writers are encouraged to submit their full-length Manuscript to St. Martin’s Minotaur/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Competition for consideration. Submission Deadline is December 15th, 2023 by 11:59 pm EST Eligibility for the St. Martin’s...

Sapiens Plurum Short Fiction Contest (Prize: $1800)

Sapiens Plurum is excited to announce the eighth annual short fiction writing contest “Building Communities in the Face of Climate Change”.  They invite stories that explore how we can use science and technology to build resilient communities in a rapidly changing world. They are most interested in the ways that science and technology can help...

The Graywolf Press African Fiction Prize 2023/ How to Submit ($12,000 advance + Publishing deal)

The Graywolf Press Prize for African Fiction 2023 is now open. The Press is a leading independent publisher committed to the discovery and energetic publication of twenty-first century American and international literature. The Graywolf Press Prize for African Fiction 2023 will be open from February 1st to February 28th, 2023. Do you have your first novel manuscript...

The Miles Morland Foundation Scholarship 2021/ How to submit (£18,000 + Publication)

The Miles Morland Foundation Scholarship 2021 is currently open for submissions. The scholarship is awarded annually to writers, to allow them time to write the book they propose to write, the first draft of a complete book. The scholarship is awarded in the fiction category and in the nonfiction category. Previous winners of the Miles Morland Foundation...

The Cesar Egido Serrano Foundation Flash Fiction Contest/How to enter ($26,000 + Publication)

The Cesar Egido Serrano Foundation Flash Fiction Contest is open for submission for writers over 14 years of age. Submission deadline September 30, 2021 Eligibility for the Cesar Egido Serrano Foundation Flash Fiction Contest Writers can be from anywhere in the world Writers must be over 14 years of age  The participation of the workers...

Exclusive Fee-Free Submission Period for BIPOC Writers By The Common

Submissions are encouraged from writers who are Black, Indigenous, people of color, disabled, LGBTQIA+-identifying, immigrant, international, and/or otherwise from communities underrepresented in U.S. literary magazines and journals. The Common seeks stories, essays, poems, and dispatches that embody a strong sense of place: pieces in which the setting is crucial to character, narrative, mood, and language....