Anthologies: Calls For Submissions
| A list of creative writing anthologies and calls for submissions. Each anthology or literary journal (print or online) has a particular theme and seeks a particular type of writing. See third-party websites or send any queries to the editors as needed. Advertisers are not affiliated with Writer's Relief. |
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| Deadline: | 5/31/2013 |
| Submit to: | Paper Tape. See link for email addresses. Submission Link |
| Theme: | Myth |
| Type: | Fiction and nonfiction (2,500 words preferred). Artwork accepted too. |
| Publisher: | See website |
| URL: | Paper Tape |
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| Deadline: | 5/31/2013 |
| Submit to: | The Gospel According to Poetry. Email Address |
| Theme: | Whether you call the source of your strength, God, Yahweh, Allah, or Bob, we want to hear the truth of what is inside you and how it shapes your life, and the lives of the others you touch. |
| Type: | Poetry |
| Publisher: | See website |
| URL: | The Gospel According to Poetry |
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| Deadline: | 5/31/2013 |
| Submit to: | Write for Light. Must attach a Submission and Copyright Release Form with your file. Email Address |
| Theme: | Hope and Courage, and finding light in the darkness. |
| Type: | Stories (500 words MIN). Poetry or illustrations are welcome. |
| Publisher: | See website |
| URL: | Write for Light |
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| Deadline: | 6/1/2013 |
| Submit to: | Flash Sequences. |
| Theme: | Flash fiction |
| Type: | Flash fiction (10 pages MAX) |
| Publisher: | See website |
| URL: | Flash Sequences |
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| Deadline: | 6/1/2013 |
| Submit to: | Hunger Mountain. Online Form |
| Theme: | Mentors and Tormentors |
| Type: | Poetry (3 to 10 poems), short stories, and creative nonfiction (10,000 words MAX) |
| Publisher: | See website |
| URL: | Hunger Mountain |
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| Deadline: | 6/1/2013 |
| Submit to: | Lake Region Review. Online Form |
| Theme: | Writers from Minnesota or the eastern Dakotas |
| Type: | Poetry (3 poems MAX, but upload one at a time), short stories (3,000 words MAX), and nonfiction (2,000 words MAX) |
| Publisher: | See website |
| URL: | Lake Region Review |
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| Deadline: | 6/1/2013 |
| Submit to: | MuseWrite Anthology. Email Address |
| Theme: | Seeking stories about major life shifts regarding unspoken needs, social change, community, and defining self. This book will be written by and for women about change. |
| Type: | Poetry, short stories, plays, and essays (3,000 words MAX) |
| Publisher: | See website |
| URL: | MuseWrite Anthology |
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| Deadline: | 6/1/2013 |
| Submit to: | Silly Tree Anthology. Send via email attachment with subject line Silly Tree Story Submission. Email Address |
| Theme: | Scary, terrifying, bone-chilling stories |
| Type: | Short stories (1,500 to 3,000 words) |
| Publisher: | See website |
| URL: | Silly Tree Anthology |
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| Deadline: | 6/1/2013 |
| Submit to: | Urban Knights. Send via email. Email Address |
| Theme: | Urban knights. MUST BE animal-based characters and writing. |
| Type: | Stories (12,000 words MAX) |
| Publisher: | Rabbit Valley |
| URL: | Urban Knights |
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| Deadline: | 6/1/2013 |
| Submit to: | Writers of the Portuguese Diaspora in the United States and Canada: An Anthology. Email Address |
| Theme: | Literary work by authors of Portuguese descent in the United States and Canada that explore the Portuguese migrant experience in all its various manifestations. |
| Type: | Poetry (5 poems MAX), short stories, and essays (2,000 words MAX) |
| Publisher: | See website |
| URL: | Writers of the Portuguese Diaspora in the United States and Canada |
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| Deadline: | 6/15/2013 |
| Submit to: | Dreams. Send via email. Email Address |
| Theme: | Dreams. MUST BE animal-based characters and writing. |
| Type: | Stories (10,000 words MAX) |
| Publisher: | Rabbit Valley |
| URL: | Dreams |
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| Deadline: | 6/15/2013 |
| Submit to: | Subprimal Poetry Art. Online Form |
| Theme: | Visions: those persons, places, and phenomena that give us something beyond ordinary life, things not easily explained, things that fall outside the realm of reason. |
| Type: | Poetry (3 poems MAX) |
| Publisher: | See website |
| URL: | Subprimal Poetry Art |
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| Deadline: | 6/15/2013 |
| Submit to: | Veils, Halos and Shackles. Send to both editors. Submission Link |
| Theme: | Poetry that responds to the horrifying incidence of rape and other forms of violence and oppression directed at women in our time. |
| Type: | Poetry (1 to 3 poems, 10 pages MAX) |
| Publisher: | See website |
| URL: | Veils, Halos and Shackles |
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| Deadline: | 6/20/2013 |
| Submit to: | Neverland's Library. Roger Bellini & Rebecca Lovatt, Editors. Send as DOC or RTF attachment via email. Email Address |
| Theme: | Sci fi/fantasy work on the topic of "rediscovery" |
| Type: | Short stories (2,000 to 8,000 words). |
| Publisher: | See website |
| URL: | Neverland's Library |
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| Deadline: | 6/24/2013 |
| Submit to: | Best of Ohio Short Stories. Submission Link |
| Theme: | Writers MUST BE from Ohio and/or have lived in Ohio for five consecutive years. |
| Type: | Short stories (1,000 to 10,000 words) |
| Publisher: | See website |
| URL: | Best of Ohio Short Stories |
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| Deadline: | 8/1/2013 |
| Submit to: | The First Line. Send via attachment. Email Address |
| Theme: | Every story starts the same. This first line: There must have been thousands standing in the rain that day. |
| Type: | Short stories (3,000 words MAX) |
| Publisher: | See website |
| URL: | The First Line |
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| Deadline: | 8/31/2013 |
| Submit to: | Technoculture: The Retro Issue. Online Form |
| Theme: | Work that focuses on lost, ancient, old or dead technologies, technologies that no one uses, or very few people still employ. |
| Type: | Creative work and essays |
| Publisher: | See website |
| URL: | Technoculture |
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| Deadline: | 9/1/2013 |
| Submit to: | Kudzu Review. Online Form |
| Theme: | Show us the “new-nature” with your place, post-colonial, post-gender, and activist writing. Give us new takes on what “natural” even means. |
| Type: | Poetry (5 poems, 10 pages MAX), short stories, and nonfiction (3,500 words MAX) |
| Publisher: | See website |
| URL: | Kudzu Review |
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| Deadline: | 9/1/2013 |
| Submit to: | The Repository of Imagination. Put "Submission" and title of work in the subject line. Email Address |
| Theme: | Weird legends, appropriate for 11-year-olds and older. No sex, violence, etc. |
| Type: | Poetry (3 pages) and short stories (10,000 words MAX) |
| Publisher: | See website |
| URL: | The Repository of Imagination |
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| Deadline: | 10/1/2013 |
| Submit to: | Stealing Time Magazine. Online Form |
| Theme: | Milestones. Query for exact deadline. |
| Type: | Poetry (2 pages MAX) and stories (3,000 words MAX). MUST BE related to parenting. |
| Publisher: | See website |
| URL: | Stealing Time Magazine |
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| Deadline: | 12/1/2013 |
| Submit to: | Such Sweet Thunder. Query for any specific deadlines. Email Address |
| Theme: | Essays that center around a particular album (or series of albums by an artist) and how it figured in the writer’s life. |
| Type: | Personal essays |
| Publisher: | See website |
| URL: | Such Sweet Thunder |
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| Deadline: | 12/15/2013 |
| Submit to: | Fourth River. Online Form |
| Theme: | Women and nature. Must identify your submission is for their special call in your cover letter. |
| Type: | Poetry and creative nonfiction |
| Publisher: | See website |
| URL: | Fourth River |
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| Deadline: | 12/31/2013 |
| Submit to: | The Higgs Weldon. Robin Higgins and Paige Weldon, Editors. Submit via pasted-in text. Email Address |
| Theme: | Comedy submissions of all types. Submissions accepted year-round. |
| Type: | Fiction and nonfiction (1,000 words MAX). |
| Publisher: | See website |
| URL: | The Higgs Weldon. |
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| Deadline: | 12/31/2013 |
| Submit to: | Workers Write! Blue Cubicle Press, PO Box 250382, Plano, TX 75025-0382. Or send via email. Email Address |
| Theme: | More Tales from the Cubicle |
| Type: | Short stories (5,000 words MAX) |
| Publisher: | See website |
| URL: | Workers Write! |
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| Deadline: | 1/15/2014 |
| Submit to: | The Indian River Review. Send via email attachment. See submission link for specific email addresses. Submission Link |
| Theme: | Technology |
| Type: | Poetry (5 poems MAX), short stories, and essays (4,000 words) |
| Publisher: | See website |
| URL: | The Indian River Review |
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A free list of calls for submissions to upcoming anthologies, compiled and updated regularly by Writer’s Relief. An anthology is a collection of short fiction (like short stories or flash fiction), short nonfiction (personal essays, reflections, and memoir), or poetry (free verse, rhyme, etc.). Most often, the selections in anthologies are joined by a common theme (such as motherhood, surviving cancer, or any other topic). Editors will often put out a
call for submissions for their anthology. Sometimes the editor will already have a publisher lined up. Other times, the editor may wait to select works of creative writing for the anthology, then begin pitching a publisher. If you submit to an anthology that already has a publisher, you will have the security of knowing that your work will likely be published. If you submit to an anthology that does not have a publisher, you have less of a guarantee of publication. Some anthologies are scrapped before they are submitted to agents and editors, but some go on to do very well and sell many copies. Weigh your options before you submit. And never sign a publishing contract that will waive your rights unless you’re certain of publication. Consult a lawyer about contracts. We hope you enjoy our calls for submissions list for upcoming creative writing anthologies. Please feel free to share this list with your writer friends. These editors are waiting to receive your work!