Poetry Competitions, Submissions & Opportunities – August 2017

It’s the beginning of the month and that can only mean one thing… Loads of great lots of poetry competitions, submissions and opportunities with deadlines in August 2017.

Good luck!

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August 2017

Jazz Cigarette – Poetry (Formal: Villanelle, Pantoum, Triolet etc.)  – closes 1 Aug (submit online)

Porkbelly Press Micro Chapbook – Poetry, Micro Fiction & Creative Non-fiction (10-12 pages) – closes 1 Aug (submit online)

Winter Tangerine Awards – Poetry, Fiction (New and emerging)  – closes 1 Aug (submit online)

The Fortnight Prize – Poetry (prize awarded every 14 days) – closes 2 Aug (submit online)

The Blue Nib – Poetry & Flash – closes 6 Aug (submit online)

Free Verse: The Poetry Book Fair Competition – Poetry, theme: Hope – closes 7 Aug (submit online)

Over The Edge New Writer of the Year – Poetry, Fiction – closes 9 Aug (submit online)

POESIOMAT: Poetry Jukebox – Recordings of original poems (max. 2 mins / Ireland only) – closes 10 Aug (submit online)

Red Line Book Festival Poetry Competition – Poetry (new and emerging writers) – closes 11 Aug (submit online)

The Limerick Competition – Poetry – closes 11 Aug (submit online)

The Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award – Poetry – closes 11 Aug (submit online)

The Lonely Crowd – Poetry – closes 14 Aug (submit online)

Second Light Poetry Competition – Poetry, Long & Short Poems by Women (under / over 50 lines) – closes 15 Aug (submit online)

The Adroit Journal – Poetry, Fiction, Art – closes 15 Aug (submit online)

Magma – Poetry, theme: Europe – closes 15 Aug (submit online)

Dromineer Literary Festival Competitions – Poetry, Flash – closes 15 Aug (submit online)

Sixteen – Poetry & Fiction, theme: Turquoise – closes 16 Aug (submit online)

The Fortnight Prize – Poetry (prize awarded every 14 days) – closes 16 Aug (submit online)

The Resurgence Prize – Poetry, theme: Eco-poetry – closes 17 Aug (submit online)

Robert Graves Prize – Poetry – closes 17 Aug (submit online)

Poetry-Scotland Writing Residency – Poetry – closes 25 Aug (submit online)

Brisons Veor Residency – All writers, low income – closes 26 Aug (submit online)

Buzzwords Open Poetry Competition – Poetry (70 lines max.) – closes 26 Aug (submit online)

The A3 Review May Contest – Poetry, Fiction, Art, theme: Silver Things  – closes 26 Aug (submit online)

The Oxford Brookes International Poetry Competition – Poetry  – closes 28 Aug (submit online)

The Fortnight Prize – Poetry (prize awarded every 14 days) – closes 30 Aug (submit online)

Aesthetica Magazine Creative Writing Award – Poetry & Fiction – closes 31 Aug (submit online)

Antarctic Poetry Exhibition – Poetry, theme: Antarctic – closes 31 Aug (submit online)

Bray Literary Festival Writing Competitions – Poetry & Flash – closes 31 Aug (submit online)

Max Ritvo Poetry Prize – Poetry, debut collection (US only) – closes 31 Aug (submit online)

The Eyewear Review – Poetry, Fiction, Essays – closes 31 Aug (submit online)

The Melita Hume Poetry Prize – Poetry, full length first collection by poet under 35 – closes 31 Aug (submit online)

The Pickled Body: Issue 3.3 – Poetry, theme: Trash – closes 31 Aug (submit online)

The Ogham Stone – Poetry, Fiction, Non-fiction, Memoir – closes 31 Aug (submit online)

Visual Verse – Poetry, Flash, Non-Fiction – closes 31 Aug (submit online)

Words By Water Poetry Competition – Poetry – closes 31 Aug (submit online)

Glebe House International Poetry Competition – Poetry – closes 1 Sept (submit online)

Hannah Greally International Literary Awards – Poetry, Fiction, theme: Beneath Western Skies – closes 1 Sept (submit online)

Naugatuck River Review Poetry Competition – Narrative Poetry – closes 1 Sept (submit online)

Overton Poetry Prize – Poetry pamphlet (300 lines max.) – closes 1 Sept (submit online)

The 2017 Beverly Prize – Poetry, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Criticism (Full Manuscripts) – closes 1 Sept (submit online)

Bailieborough Poetry Prize – Poetry – closes 2 Sept (submit online)

Mslexia Issue 76 – Poetry, Fiction, Plays, theme: Yesteryear – closes 4 Sept (submit online)

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JOURNALS / OPPORTUNITIES WITH OPEN SUBMISSION PERIODS IN AUGUST:

Milk: An Anthology of Eroticism – Poetry, Fiction, Non-Fiction (needs more submissions from female writers) – currently open / publication in 2017 (submit online)

OMI International Arts Center Residency 2018 – all genres – opens 15 Aug (submit online)

Coast to Coast to Coast – Poetry – closes 15 Sept (submit online)

Southword – Poetry (English & Irish language) – closes 15 Sept (submit online)

Ink Sweat & Tears Pamphlet Commission Competition – Poetry (12 pages plus outline) – closes 22 Sept (submit online)

The Bedford International Writing Competition – Poetry – closes 30 Sept (submit online)

Ambit – Poetry – opens 1 Aug – closes 1 Oct (submit online)

Mslexia Issue 77 – Poetry, Fiction, Plays, theme: Bewitched – closes 4 Dec (submit online)

Ploughshares – Poetry – closes 15 January 2018 (submit online)

2 Elizabeths – Poetry, Fiction, Flash – open (submit online)

400 & Falling – Poetry, Fiction, Non-fiction, Translation, Artwork (emerging writers)  – (submit online)

Acumen – Poetry – open (submit online)

Algebra of Owls – Poetry – open (submit online)

Apple Picking Press – Poetry – open (submit online)

Ambit – Poetry, Short Fiction – open (submit online)

Antiphon – Poetry – open (submit online)

Apartment Poetry – Poetry – open (submit online)

Atrium – Poetry – open (submit online)

Brittle Star – Poetry, Fiction – open (submit online)

By and By Poetry – Poetry – open (submit online)

Carve Magazine – Poetry, Fiction, Creative Non-Fiction – open (submit online)

Cheat River Review – Poetry, Fiction, Flash, Non-Fiction – open (submit online)

Driftwood Press – Poetry, Fiction, Literary Criticism – open (submit online)

Fields Magazine – Poetry, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Artwork – open (submit online)

FIVE:2:ONE – Poetry, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Artwork by underrepresented writers (POC, LGTBQ, non-binary, neurodivergent, trauma survivors etc.) – open (submit online)

GFT Press – Poetry, Fiction, Flash, Non-fiction – open (submit online)

Gravel – Poetry, Fiction, Flash, Creative Non-Fiction, Artwork – open (submit by post)

Guernica – Poetry, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Photo Essays – open (submit by post)

HCE Review – Poetry, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Photo Essays – open (submit online)

Hosking Houses Trust Residencies – Women writers over 40 (all genres – must have contract to publish / broadcast / perform) – open (submit online)

Idler – Poetry, Fiction, Essays – open (submit online)

Ink Sweat & Tears – Poetry – closed until 2 Oct (submit online)

Inside the Bell Jar – Poetry, Fiction, theme: mental illness – open (submit online)

Irish Literary Review – Poetry – open (submit online)

Lighthouse Literary Journal – Poetry & Short Fiction – open (submit online)

LitMag – Poetry, Fiction, Creative Non-Fiction, Essays – open (submit online)

Memorius – Poetry, Fiction – open (submit online)

Noepe Center Residency Program – Poetry, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Memoir, Plays – open (submit online)

One – Poetry, a single poem – open (submit online)

Poetry Ireland Review – Poetry – open (submit by post)

Peepal Tree Press – Poetry, Fiction, Non-Fiction manuscripts from Black & Carribean writers – open (submit online)

Rattle – Poetry – open (submit by post and online)

Shakespeare & Co Tumbleweeds Residency – all writers – open (submit online)

Spry Literary Journal – Poetry, Fiction, Flash, Creative Non-fiction, Artwork – open (submit online)

Squawk Back – Poetry, Fiction, Non-fiction, Reviews, Plays – open (submit online)

Stepaway Magazine – Poetry, Flash Fiction, theme: walking in the city – open (submit online)

The American Journal of Poetry – Poetry – open (submit online)

The Brooklyn Quarterly – Poetry, Fiction, Non-fiction, Translation, Humour – open (submit online)

The Collapsar – Poetry, Fiction, Non-Fiction – open (submit online)

The Curlew – Poetry, Fiction, Non-Fiction, theme: the natural world – open (submit online)

The Ellis Review – Poetry, published weekly – open (submit online)

The Galway Review – Poetry, Fiction, Non-fiction, Reviews, Plays – open (submit online)

The Great American Literary Magazine – Poetry, Fiction, Non-fiction, Reviews, Plays – open (submit online)

The Lascaux Review – Poetry, Fiction, Essays – open (submit online)

The MacGuffin – Poetry, Fiction, Creative Non-Fiction, Artwork – open (submit online)

The Missouri Review – Poetry, Fiction, Non-Fiction – open (submit online)

The Next Review – Poetry, Fiction, Reviews – open (submit online)

The Nottingham Review – Poetry & Fiction – open (submit online)

The Ofi Press Magazine – Poetry & Short Fiction – open (submit online)

The Quill Magazine – Poetry, Prose, All Genres (new writers only) – open (submit online)

The Southeast Review – Poetry, Fiction, Creative Non-Fiction, Reviews, Artwork – open (submit online)

The Sun Magazine – Poetry, Fiction, Essays, Interviews – open (submit online)

Three Drops From a Cauldron – Poetry, Flash, theme: Myth, Folklore, Fables, Fairytales – open (submit online)

Vending Machine Press – Poetry, Flash, Memoir, Non-Fiction, Essay – open (submit online)

Best of luck!

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If you have a competition or journal with a deadline in August 2017, and it is not included above, feel free to add the details with a link in the comments section below!

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(Illustration by Nicole Ray via Etsy)

Poetry Competitions, Submissions & Opportunities – July 2017

Summertime and the living is easy… Unless your laptop goes phhtttz…. and your new laptop follows suit. But I’m happy to report all technical difficulties have been overcome and there are still loads of great lots of poetry competitions, submissions and opportunities with deadlines in July 2017.

Good luck!

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July 2017

 

Knightmare Press 2017 Poetry Competition – Poetry, theme: Change – closes 1 Jul (submit online)

Live Canon Poetry Competition – Poetry – closes 1 Jul (submit online)

The Blue Nib – Poetry – closes 9 Jul (submit online)

Words Ireland: Call for Mentors – Poetry, Fiction (Adult, YA, Children) – closes 10 Jul (submit online)

Words Ireland: Call for Mentees – Poetry, Fiction (Adult, YA, Children) – closes 10 Jul (submit online)

The Stinging Fly – Poetry, Fiction, Non-fiction, theme: Housing & Homelessness – closes 12 July (submit online)

Ledbury Poetry Competition – Poetry – closes 13 July (submit online)

Tincture Journal – Poetry – closes 13 July (submit online)

The Tangerine – Poetry, Fiction, Photography, Illustration – closes 14 July (submit online)

The Wasafiri New Writing Prize 2017 – Poetry, Fiction, Life Writing – closes 14 July (submit online)

Ambit Annual Summer Poetry Competition – Poetry – closes 15 Jul (submit online)

Ashville Poetry Review – Poetry – closes 15 Jul (submit online)

Fairy Tale Review Awards – Poetry, Prose, theme: Resistance and Protest – closes 15 Jul (submit online)

Rattle Poetry Prize – Poetry – closes 15 Jul (submit online)

Vallum Award for Poetry – Poetry – closes 15 Jul (submit online)

Impossible Archetype – Poetry (LGBTQ+, all genders) – closes 16 Jul (submit online)

Sixteen – Poetry & Fiction, theme: Tan – closes 16 Jul (submit online)

The Poetry School: ‘Drawing Poetry’ residency – Poets, Artists (London-based) – closes 17 Jul (submit by post)

Dodging the Rain – Poetry & Fiction, Artwork – closes 18 Jul (submit online)

The Fortnight Prize – Poetry (prize awarded every 14 days) – closes 19 Jul (submit online)

Bangor Poetry Prize – Poetry, theme: Journeys – closes 21 Jul (submit online)

The A3 Review May Contest – Poetry, Fiction, Art  – closes 22 Jul (submit online)

The Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award – Poetry – closes 28 Jul (submit online)

Bradford-on-Avon Arts Festival Poetry Competition – Poetry, theme: Flights of fancy – closes 30 July (submit online)

Penfro Open Poetry Competition – Poetry, theme: Flights of fancy – closes 30 July (submit online)

Against the Grain Poetry Press – Poetry – closes 31 July (submit online)

Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival Creative Writing Competition – Poetry, Fiction, title: Being There – closes 31 July (submit online)

Butcher’s Dog – Poetry – closes 31 July (submit online)

Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award – Poetry, ages 11-17 – closes 31 July (submit online)

Scintilla – Poetry, metaphysical – closes 31 July (submit online)

Settle Sessions Poetry Competition – Poetry – closes 31 July (submit online)

Sylvia Plath: Letters, Words, Fragments – Call for papers / panels, academic and artistic responses – closes 31 July (submit online)

The David Burland Poetry Prize – Poetry – closes 31 July (submit online)

The Dermot Healy International Poetry Award – Poetry – closes 31 July (submit online)

Virginia Quarterly Review – Poetry, Fiction, Non-fiction – closes 31 July (submit online)

Visual Verse – Poetry, Flash, Non-Fiction – closes 31 July (submit online)

Winchester Poetry Prize – Poetry – closes 31 July (submit online)

Jazz Cigarette – Poetry (Formal: Villanelle, Pantoum, Triolet etc.)  – closes 1 Aug (submit online)

Porkbelly Press Micro Chapbook – Poetry, Micro Fiction & Creative Non-fiction (10-12 pages) – closes 1 Aug (submit online)

Winter Tangerine Awards – Poetry, Fiction (New and emerging)  – closes 1 Aug (submit online)

 

 

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JOURNALS / OPPORTUNITIES WITH OPEN SUBMISSION PERIODS IN JULY:

Milk: An Anthology of Eroticism – Poetry, Fiction, Non-Fiction (needs more submissions from female writers) – currently open / publication in 2017 (submit online)

Red Line Book Festival Poetry Competition – Poetry (new and emerging writers) – closes 11 Aug (submit online)

The Adroit Journal – Poetry, Fiction, Art – closes 15 Aug (submit online)

Magma – Poetry, theme: Europe – closes 15 Aug (submit online)

Dromineer Literary Festival Competitions – Poetry, Flash – closes 15 Aug (submit online)

Bray Literary Festival Writing Competitions – Poetry & Flash – closes 31 Aug (submit online)

The Ogham Stone – Poetry, Fiction, Non-fiction, Memoir – closes 31 Aug (submit online)

Bailieborough Poetry Prize – Poetry – closes 2 Sept (submit online)

Mslexia Issue 76 – Poetry, Fiction, Plays, theme: Yesteryear – closes 4 Sept (submit online)

Coast to Coast to Coast – Poetry – closes 15 Sept (submit online)

Ink Sweat & Tears Pamphlet Commission Competition – Poetry (12 pages plus outline) – closes 22 Sept (submit online)

The Bedford International Writing Competition – Poetry – closes 30 Sept (submit online)

Mslexia Issue 77 – Poetry, Fiction, Plays, theme: Bewitched – closes 4 Dec (submit online)

Ploughshares – Poetry – closes 15 January 2018 (submit online)

2 Elizabeths – Poetry, Fiction, Flash – open (submit online)

400 & Falling – Poetry, Fiction, Non-fiction, Translation, Artwork (emerging writers)  – (submit online)

Acumen – Poetry – open (submit online)

Algebra of Owls – Poetry – open (submit online)

Apple Picking Press – Poetry – open (submit online)

Ambit – Poetry, Short Fiction – open (submit online)

Antiphon – Poetry – open (submit online)

Apartment Poetry – Poetry – open (submit online)

Atrium – Poetry – open (submit online)

Brittle Star – Poetry, Fiction – open (submit online)

By and By Poetry – Poetry – open (submit online)

Carve Magazine – Poetry, Fiction, Creative Non-Fiction – open (submit online)

Cheat River Review – Poetry, Fiction, Flash, Non-Fiction – open (submit online)

Driftwood Press – Poetry, Fiction, Literary Criticism – open (submit online)

Fields Magazine – Poetry, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Artwork – open (submit online)

FIVE:2:ONE – Poetry, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Artwork by underrepresented writers (POC, LGTBQ, non-binary, neurodivergent, trauma survivors etc.) – open (submit online)

GFT Press – Poetry, Fiction, Flash, Non-fiction – open (submit online)

Gravel – Poetry, Fiction, Flash, Creative Non-Fiction, Artwork – open (submit by post)

Guernica – Poetry, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Photo Essays – open (submit by post)

HCE Review – Poetry, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Photo Essays – open (submit by post

Hosking Houses Trust Residencies – Women writers over 40 (all genres – must have contract to publish / broadcast / perform) – open (submit online)

Idler – Poetry, Fiction, Essays – open (submit online)

Ink Sweat & Tears – Poetry – open (submit online)

Inside the Bell Jar – Poetry, Fiction, theme: mental illness – open (submit online)

Irish Literary Review – Poetry – open (submit online)

Lighthouse Literary Journal – Poetry & Short Fiction – open (submit online)

LitMag – Poetry, Fiction, Creative Non-Fiction, Essays – open (submit online)

Memorius – Poetry, Fiction – open (submit online)

Noepe Center Residency Program – Poetry, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Memoir, Plays – open (submit online)

One – Poetry, a single poem – open (submit online)

Poetry Ireland Review – Poetry – open (submit by post)

Peepal Tree Press – Poetry, Fiction, Non-Fiction manuscripts from Black & Carribean writers – open (submit online)

Rattle – Poetry – open (submit by post and online)

Shakespeare & Co Tumbleweeds Residency – all writers – open (submit online)

Spry Literary Journal – Poetry, Fiction, Flash, Creative Non-fiction, Artwork – open (submit online)

Squawk Back – Poetry, Fiction, Non-fiction, Reviews, Plays – open (submit online)

Stepaway Magazine – Poetry, Flash Fiction, theme: walking in the city – open (submit online)

The American Journal of Poetry – Poetry – open (submit online)

The Brooklyn Quarterly – Poetry, Fiction, Non-fiction, Translation, Humour – open (submit online)

The Collapsar – Poetry, Fiction, Non-Fiction – open (submit online)

The Curlew – Poetry, Fiction, Non-Fiction, theme: the natural world – open (submit online)

The Ellis Review – Poetry, published weekly – open (submit online)

The Galway Review – Poetry, Fiction, Non-fiction, Reviews, Plays – open (submit online)

The Great American Literary Magazine – Poetry, Fiction, Non-fiction, Reviews, Plays – open (submit online)

The Lascaux Review – Poetry, Fiction, Essays – open (submit online)

The MacGuffin – Poetry, Fiction, Creative Non-Fiction, Artwork – open (submit online)

The Missouri Review – Poetry, Fiction, Non-Fiction – open (submit online)

The Next Review – Poetry, Fiction, Reviews – open (submit online)

The Nottingham Review – Poetry & Fiction – open (submit online)

The Ofi Press Magazine – Poetry & Short Fiction – open (submit online)

The Quill Magazine – Poetry, Prose, All Genres (new writers only) – open (submit online)

The Southeast Review – Poetry, Fiction, Creative Non-Fiction, Reviews, Artwork – open (submit online)

The Sun Magazine – Poetry, Fiction, Essays, Interviews – open (submit online)

Three Drops From a Cauldron – Poetry, Flash, theme: Myth, Folklore, Fables, Fairytales – open (submit online)

Vending Machine Press – Poetry, Flash, Memoir, Non-Fiction, Essay – open (submit online)

Best of luck!

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If you have a competition or journal with a deadline in July 2017, and it is not included above, feel free to add the details with a link in the comments section below!

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(Illustration by Nicole Ray via Etsy)

Poetry Competitions, Submissions & Opportunities – June 2017

A teensy wee bit late this month due to the Bank Holiday weekend and the author swanning about at the Listowel Writers’ Week literary festival in gorgeous Co. Kerry, but it’s here – lots of poetry competitions, submissions and opportunities with deadlines in June 2017.

Good luck!

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June 2017

New Binary Press: Unreal Cities – Poetry, Fiction, Essays, Art, theme: Metropolis, cities, urban spaces – closes 1 Jun  (submit online)

Slice Magazine – Poetry, Fiction, Non-Fiction, theme: Borders – closes 1 Jun  (submit online)

Harvard Review – Poetry, Fiction, Essays, Reviews – closes 1 Jun (submit online)

Helen Magazine – Poetry, Flash, Creative Non-fiction and more – closes 1 Jun (submit online)

Low Light Magazine – Poetry, Prose, Journalism, Photography – closes 1 Jun (submit online)

The 2017 Sexton Prize for Poetry – Poetry: new collection by American poet at any stage (48-100 pages) – closes 1 Jun (submit online)

The Warwick Prize for Women In Translation – Poetry, Fiction, Creative Non-Fiction, Children & YA by Women (trans. by male or female) – closes 1 Jun

WCR Writing Fellowship – All writers – closes 1 Jun (submit online)

Bare Fiction – Poetry, Fiction, Flash, Drama – closes 5 Jun (submit online)

The Fortnight Prize – Poetry (prize awarded every 14 days) – closes 7 June (submit online)

Into the Void – Poetry, Fiction, Non-fiction, Artwork – closes 13 Jun (submit online)

The Gambler – Poetry, Fiction (one piece only) – closes 14 Jun (submit online)

Alternating Current – Poetry – closes 15 Jun (submit online)

Segora Poetry Competition – Poetry – closes 15 Jun (submit online)

Writing Residency Louisville – Poetry (writers who identify as under-represented groups)  – closes 15 Jun (submit online)

Sixteen – Poetry & Fiction, theme: Orange – closes 16 Jun (submit online)

Writing Places Residencies – All writers – closes 16 Jun (submit online)

Welsh Poetry Competition – Poetry – closes 18 Jun (submit online)

Canterbury Festival Poet of the Year – Poetry – closes 19 Jun (submit online)

Mslexia Women’s Poetry Competition – Poetry – closes 19 Jun (submit online)

Mslexia Women’s Poetry Pamphlet Competition – Poetry manuscript (20-24 pages) – closes 19 Jun (submit online)

McLellan Poetry Prize – Poetry – closes 21 Jun (submit online)

Milestones Poetry Competition – Poetry – closes 21 Jun (submit online)

The Fortnight Prize – Poetry (prize awarded every 14 days) – closes 21 Jun (submit online)

The A3 Review May Contest – Poetry, Fiction, Art, theme: Dates & Dating  – closes 24 May (submit online)

The Puritan – Poetry – closes 25 Jun (submit online)

Creative Future Literary Awards – Poetry, Flash, theme: Important Nothings – closes 26 Jun (submit online)

Mere Literary Festival Poetry Competition – Poetry – closes 26 Jun (submit online)

Waterford Poetry Prize – Poetry – closes 26 Jun (submit online)

Alyss – Poetry, Fiction, Creative Non-fiction, Art (female identifying writers/artists) – closes 30 June (submit online)

Battered Moons Poetry Competition – Poetry (UK only) – closes 30 June (submit online)

BBC Radio Scotland Poet In Residence – Poet, based in Scotland – closes 30 June (submit online)

Bellevue Literary Review – Poetry, Fiction, Creative Non-fiction, theme: Health & Healing – closes 30 June (submit online)

Boyne Berries ‘Francis Ledwidge’ Issue – Poetry (18-24 pages) – closes 30 June (submit online)

Earlyworks Press Poetry Competition – Poetry – closes 30 June (submit online)

Fool for Poetry Competition – Poetry manuscript (16-23 pages) – closes 30 June (submit online)

Incidental Poetry Series Chapbooks – Poetry (20 pages) – closes 30 June (submit online)

iYeats International Poetry Competition – Poetry – closes 30 June (submit online)

Manchester Cathedral Poetry Competition – Poetry – closes 30 June (submit online)

Nourish – Poetry & Haiku – closes 30 June (submit online)

Paper Swans Press Poetry Pamphlet Prize – Poetry (18-24 pages) – closes 30 June (submit online)

Poetry Space Competition – Poetry – closes 30 June (submit online)

Prole Pamphlet Competition – Poetry (35 pages) – closes 30 June (submit online)

Rabbit Catastrophe Press Real Good Poem Prize – Poetry – closes 30 June (submit online)

Rush Poetry Competition – Poetry – closes 30 June (submit online)

The Interpreter’s House – Poetry – closes 30 June (submit online)

The Poet’s Republic – Poetry, theme: Public spirited & Political poems – closes 30 June (submit online)

The Threepenny Review – Poetry, Fiction, Articles – closes 30 June (submit online)

The Well Review – Poetry – closes 30 June (submit online)

Two Sylvias Press – Poetry, full-length manuscript – closes 30 June (submit online)

University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize – Poetry – closes 30 June (submit online)

Visual Verse – Poetry, Short Fiction, based on visual prompt, 50-500 words in 1 hour – closes 30 Jun (submit online)

Wells Festival of Literature Poetry Competition – Poetry – closes 30 June (submit online)

Knightmare Press 2017 Poetry Competition – Poetry, theme: Change – closes 1 Jul (submit online)

Live Canon Poetry Competition – Poetry – closes 1 Jul (submit online)

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JOURNALS / OPPORTUNITIES WITH OPEN SUBMISSION PERIODS IN JUNE:

The Stinging Fly – Poetry, Fiction, Non-fiction, theme: Housing & Homelessness – open 7 June – 12 July (submit online)

The Wasafiri New Writing Prize 2017 – Poetry, Fiction, Life Writing – closes 14 July (submit online)

Against the Grain Poetry Press – Poetry – closes 31 July (submit online)

Butcher’s Dog – Poetry – closes 31 July (submit online)

Bray Literary Festival Writing Competitions – Poetry & Flash – open 16 June – 1 Sept (submit online)

The Bedford International Writing Competition – Poetry – closes 30 Sept (submit online)

Ploughshares – Poetry – closes 15 January 2018 (submit online)

2 Elizabeths – Poetry, Fiction, Flash – open (submit online)

400 & Falling – Poetry, Fiction, Non-fiction, Translation, Artwork (emerging writers)  – (submit online)

Acumen – Poetry – open (submit online)

Apple Picking Press – Poetry – open (submit online)

Antiphon – Poetry – open (submit online)

Apartment Poetry – Poetry – open (submit online)

Atrium – Poetry – open (submit online)

Brittle Star – Poetry, Fiction – open (submit online)

By and By Poetry – Poetry – open (submit online)

Carve Magazine – Poetry, Fiction, Creative Non-Fiction – open (submit online)

Cheat River Review – Poetry, Fiction, Flash, Non-Fiction – open (submit online)

Driftwood Press – Poetry, Fiction, Literary Criticism – open (submit online)

Fields Magazine – Poetry, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Artwork – open (submit online)

FIVE:2:ONE – Poetry, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Artwork by underrepresented writers (POC, LGTBQ, non-binary, neurodivergent, trauma survivors etc.) – open (submit online)

GFT Press – Poetry, Fiction, Flash, Non-fiction – open (submit online)

Gravel – Poetry, Fiction, Flash, Creative Non-Fiction, Artwork – open (submit by post)

Guernica – Poetry, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Photo Essays – open (submit by post)

HCE Review – Poetry, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Photo Essays – open (submit by post

Hosking Houses Trust Residencies – Women writers over 40 (all genres – must have contract to publish / broadcast / perform) – open (submit online)

Idler – Poetry, Fiction, Essays – open (submit online)

Ink Sweat & Tears – Poetry – open (submit online)

Irish Literary Review – Poetry – open (submit online)

Lighthouse Literary Journal – Poetry & Short Fiction – open (submit online)

LitMag – Poetry, Fiction, Creative Non-Fiction, Essays – open (submit online)

Memorius – Poetry, Fiction – open (submit online)

Noepe Center Residency Program – Poetry, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Memoir, Plays – open (submit online)

One – Poetry, a single poem – open (submit online)

Poetry Ireland Review – Poetry – open (submit by post)

Peepal Tree Press – Poetry, Fiction, Non-Fiction manuscripts from Black & Carribean writers – open (submit online)

Rattle – Poetry – open (submit by post and online)

Shakespeare & Co Tumbleweeds Residency – all writers – open (submit online)

Spry Literary Journal – Poetry, Fiction, Flash, Creative Non-fiction, Artwork – open (submit online)

Squawk Back – Poetry, Fiction, Non-fiction, Reviews, Plays – open (submit online)

Stepaway Magazine – Poetry, Flash Fiction, theme: walking in the city – open (submit online)

The American Journal of Poetry – Poetry – open (submit online)

The Brooklyn Quarterly – Poetry, Fiction, Non-fiction, Translation, Humour – open (submit online)

The Collapsar – Poetry, Fiction, Non-Fiction – open (submit online)

The Ellis Review – Poetry, published weekly – open (submit online)

The Galway Review – Poetry, Fiction, Non-fiction, Reviews, Plays – open (submit online)

The Great American Literary Magazine – Poetry, Fiction, Non-fiction, Reviews, Plays – open (submit online)

The Lascaux Review – Poetry, Fiction, Essays – open (submit online)

The MacGuffin – Poetry, Fiction, Creative Non-Fiction, Artwork – open (submit online)

The Missouri Review – Poetry, Fiction, Non-Fiction – open (submit online)

The Next Review – Poetry, Fiction, Reviews – open (submit online)

The Nottingham Review – Poetry & Fiction – open (submit online)

The Ofi Press Magazine – Poetry & Short Fiction – open (submit online)

The Quill Magazine – Poetry, Prose, All Genres (new writers only) – open (submit online)

The Southeast Review – Poetry, Fiction, Creative Non-Fiction, Reviews, Artwork – open (submit online)

The Sun Magazine – Poetry, Fiction, Essays, Interviews – open (submit online)

Three Drops From a Cauldron – Poetry, Flash, theme: Myth, Folklore, Fables, Fairytales – open (submit online)

Vending Machine Press – Poetry, Flash, Memoir, Non-Fiction, Essay – open (submit online)

Best of luck!

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If you have a competition or journal with a deadline in June 2017, and it is not included above, feel free to add the details with a link in the comments section below!

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Poetry Competitions & Opportunities – May 2017

Now that you’re done with National Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo), you’ll be gussying up all those shiny new poems and looking to send your wordy fledglings out into the world! Here’s a list of poetry competitions, journal submissions and writing opportunities open or with deadlines in May.

Good luck!

Poetry Competitions & Opportunities – April 2017

April is National Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo), for those of you up for a challenge – the task is to write a brand new poem every single day for a month. And what will you do with all those bright and shiny poems?  Well, here’s a list of poetry competitions, journal submissions and writing opportunities open or with deadlines in April.

You’re welcome. You might even find some inspiration among those calls for submissions with a particular theme in mind. Good luck!