A couple of days late but still squillions of competitions, writing submissions and opportunities all with open periods or deadlines in the month of September!
Let this be the month you get those poems in front of editors and judges. Good luck!!
(Click on links for info)
A Furious Hope Anthology – Poetry, Flash Fiction – closes 3 Sept (submit online)
Cornwall Contemporary Poetry Festival Competition – Poetry – closes 3 Sept (submit online)
MPU International Poetry Competition – Poetry – closes 4 Sept (submit online or by post)
Primers: Mentoring & Publication Scheme (UK) – Emerging poets – closes 4 Sept (submit online)
The Stinging Fly – Poetry, Short Fiction – closes 4 Sept (submit online)
Three Drops From a Cauldron – Poetry – closes 4 Sept (submit by post)
Carousel Magazine – Poetry, Fiction – closes 5 Sept (submit online)
Mslexia Magazine – Poetry, Fiction, theme: Secret Fantasy – closes 5 Sept (submit online)
Los Gatos Listowel Writers Festival Competition – Poetry – closes 10 Sept (submit online)
The Allingham Writing Competitions – Poetry, Flash Fiction – closes 11 Sept (submit online)
Verve Poetry Competition – Poetry – closes 11 Sept (submit online)
Stanza Poetry Competition – Poetry (Poetry Society members only) – closes 12 Sept (submit online)
Live Canon International Poetry Competition – Poetry – closes 12 Sept (submit online)
Saltire Society Bursary – Poetry, Fiction, Spoken Word (Scottish, Ethnic Minorities only) – closes 14 Sept (submit online)
Apt – Poetry, Fiction Essays – 15 Sept (submit online)
The Chattahoochee Review – Poetry, Fiction, Non-Fiction, theme: Off the Record – closes 15 Sept (submit online)
Grist – Poetry, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Art – closes 15 Sept (submit online)
Inside the Bell Jar – Poetry, Short & Flash Fiction, theme: Mental Illness – closes 15 Sept (submit online)
New Rivers Press Anthology: Bob Dylan – Poetry – closes 15 Sept (submit online)
Olentangy Review – Poetry, Fiction, Non-Fiction – closes 15 Sept (submit online)
Radcliffe Fellowship – Harvard University residency programme, all disciplines – closes 15 Sept (submit online)
Words and Music Poetry Competition – Poetry – closes 15 Sept (submit online)
Künstlerdorf Schöppingen Artists Residency – Literature, all areas – closes 15 Sept (submit online)
MacDowell Colony Writers Residency – Literature, all areas – closes 15 Sept (submit online)
Sixteen – Poetry, Fiction – closes 16 Sept (submit online)
The Honest Ulsterman – Poetry, Prose, Critical Writing – closes 16 Sept (submit online and by post)
Zoomorphic Anthology of Oceanic Life – Poetry – closes 16 Sept (submit online)
Abridged 0-48: Mercury Red – Poetry – closes 23 Sept (submit online)
The Manchester Poetry Prize – Poetry – closes 23 Sept (submit online or by post)
Into the Void – Poetry, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Art – closes 25 Sept (submit online)
Tales From the Forest – Poetry, Fiction, Art, theme: We Were Little (youth and childhood) – closes 25 Sept (submit online)
Bedford International Writing Competition – Poetry – closes 30 Sept (submit online and by post)
Cold Mountain review – Poetry, Fiction, Non-Fiction, theme: Forests – closes 30 Sept (submit online)
Columbia Journal – Poetry, Fiction, Non-Fiction – closes 30 Sept (submit online)
Heinrich Boll Residency – Writers & Artists – closes 30 Sept (submit online)
New Writing Scotland – All genres (Scottish only) – closes 30 Sept (submit online)
Panorama: The Journal of Intelligent Travel – Poetry, Fiction, Non-Fiction, themes Treasure / Seen – closes 30 Sept (submit online)
Visual Verse – Poetry, Short Fiction, based on visual prompt, 50-500 words in 1 hour – closes 31 Aug (submit online)
JOURNALS / OPPORTUNITIES WITH OPEN SUBMISSION PERIODS IN AUGUST:
Ploughshares Journal – Poetry, Fiction, Non-Fiction – open 1 Jun – 15 Jan 2017 (submit online)
Luna Luna Magazine – Poetry, Fiction, Essays & more – opens 15 Aug (submit online)
Poetry Ireland Review – Poetry – open (submit by post)
Antiphon – Poetry – open (submit online)
Stepaway Magazine – Poetry, Flash Fiction, theme: walking in the city – open (submit online)
The Collapsar – Poetry, Fiction, Non-Fiction – open (submit online)
Memorius – Poetry, Fiction – open (submit online)
The Nottingham Review – Poetry & Fiction – open (submit online)
Lighthouse Literary Journal – Poetry & Short Fiction – open (submit online)
The Ofi Press Magazine – Poetry & Short Fiction – open (submit online)
Driftwood Press – Poetry, Fiction, Literary Criticism – open (submit online)
Referential Lit Mag – Poetry, Fiction, Essay, with reference to another work on mag website – open (submit online)
Apartment Poetry – Poetry – open (submit online)
GFT Press – Poetry, Fiction, Flash, Non-fiction – open (submit online)
The Brooklyn Quarterly – Poetry, Fiction, Non-fiction, Translation, Humour – open (submit online)
The Galway Review – Poetry, Fiction, Non-fiction, Reviews, Plays – open (submit online)
By and By Poetry – Poetry – open (submit online)
Epizootics – Poetry, Prose Poems, Essays, Reviews, Translations – open until 15 Jul (submit online)
Squawk Back – Poetry, Fiction, Non-fiction, Reviews, Plays – open (submit online)
One | Jacar Press – Poetry, a single poem – open (submit online)
The Great American Literary Magazine – Poetry, Fiction, Non-fiction, Reviews, Plays – open (submit online)
Rattle – Poetry – open (submit by post and online)
Best of luck!
If you have a competition or journal with a deadline in September 2016, and it is not included above, feel free to add the details with a link in the comments section below!
(Illustration by Nicole Ray via Etsy)
