10/29/19

The Publishing Life: Over 50 Literary Journals or Contests With Deadlines on October 31 or November 1 of 2019

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The Publishing Life: Over 50 Literary Journal or Contests With Deadlines on October 31 or November 1 of 2019
End of October Deadlines 2019!

So we've had all fall to knock out dozens of pieces with the Fall Writing Exercise Series or from the Tasty Triolet Exercise or one of the various "Complete-a-Piece" guided exercises or existing poems, and we've taken the time to polish and research various journals, but there just never is enough time for everything. Well, it's now or never for submitting to a lot of journals who are closing their submission windows for the year or even until next fall! There are also dozens of contests with deadlines upcoming as well.

The following literary journals, magazine, reviews, contest etc have submission deadlines for poetry, prose (short fiction or short non fiction essays) either on October 31st or November 1st. There are a lot of them, so I'm trying to keep it as sleek as possible, if there's text instead of a link that means the information took some digging or for some reason doesn't have an accessible link. There is also a journal that charges $5 for a regular submission which seems very excessive to me, but maybe they have their reasons, so I included them as well with the cost bolded. Some journals charge a little though, which isn't out of the ordinary. I also indicate if a journal has a theme and which genres they have a deadline approaching for.


P= Poetry | F= Fiction | FF= Flash Fiction | NF= Non fiction

580 Split 
The journal's submission opportunity link
Cost/Genres/Theme: Free | P-F-NF | "Message Undeliverable" theme
What they say about themselves

Ambit Magazine (UK)
The journal's submission opportunity link
Cost/Genres/Theme: £2.50 ($3.22) | P | N/A
What they say about themselves

Apeiron Review 
The journal's submission opportunity link
Cost/Genres/Theme: Free | P-F-NF | N/A
What they say about themselves: "Apeiron Review is a Pennsylvania based literary magazine currently only published online. We publish poetry, prose and photography from all over the world. We want something real, something beautiful, something ugly, and something that sings to the far reaches of our being. Make us laugh or make us cry, but we want something visceral."


Bangalore Review 
The journal's submission opportunity link
Cost/Genres/Theme: Free | P-F-NF | Environment/Nature theme
What they say about themselves

Barely South 
The journal's submission opportunity link
Cost/Genres/Theme: Free | P-F-FF-NF-FNF | N/A
What they say about themselves

Bat City Review
The journal's submission opportunity link
Cost/Genres/Theme: Free | P-F-NF | N/A
What they say about themselves

Brick (CAN)
The journal's submission opportunity link
Cost/Genres/Theme: Free | NF | N/A
What they say about themselves

Capilano Review
The journal's submission opportunity link
Cost/Genres/Theme: Free | P-F | N/A
What they say about themselves

Chautauqua
The journal's submission opportunity link
Cost/Genres/Theme: Free | P-F-FF-NF | N/A
What they say about themselves

Cream City Review
The journal's submission opportunity link
Cost/Genres/Theme: Free | P-F-NF | N/A
What they say about themselves

Crosswind Poetry Journal 
The journal's submission opportunity link
Cost/Genres/Theme: $5 submission fee | P | N/A
What they say about themselves

Cutthroat
The journal's submission opportunity link
Cost/Genres/Theme: Free | P-F | N/A
What they say about themselves: A muscular swimmer in the literary stream, CUTTHROAT is published twice a year, online as well as in print. Founded in 2005 by Pamela Uschuk and William Pitt Root, Cuthroat has been in business now for 14 years.  We publish excellent writing with an edge by prominent as well as emerging writers.  We offer two literary prizes annually: The Joy Harjo Poetry Prize and The Rick DeMarinis Short Fiction Prize (both w/ a $1300 first prize & $250 second prize). The 2018 submission period is: July 15th-October 1st.  Our online submission manager, accepts online submissions and payments! We publish one print edition and one online issue per year.  These are separate magazines.

deLuge Literary Review
The journal's submission opportunity link
Cost/Genres/Theme: Free | P-F-NF | N/A
What they say about themselves

Dime Show Review
The journal's submission opportunity link
Cost/Genres/Theme: Free | P-F-FF-NF | N/A
What they say about themselves

ellipsis 
The journal's submission opportunity link
Cost/Genres/Theme: Free | P-F-NF | N/A
What they say about themselves: ellipsis…literature and art is a nationally and internationally recognized journal published by the students of Westminster College, featuring poetry and creative writing by Westminster students and guest contributors. Past ellipsis… contributors include Karen an-Hwei Lee, Jeanne Marie Beaumont, Monica Berlin, Nickole Brown, BJ Buckley, Lisa Fishman, Karen Garthe, Matthew Gavin Frank, Elton Glazer, William Greenway, Andrea Hollander, Elizabeth Murawski, Bianca Stone, and Elaine Terranova.

Emry's Journal 
The journal's submission opportunity link
Cost/Genres/Theme: $2 | P-F-NF | N/A
What they say about themselves

Evansville Review
The journal's submission opportunity link
Cost/Genres/Theme: Free | P-F-NF | N/A
What they say about themselves: The Evansville Review is an annual literary journal published by the students at the University of Evansville. Our award-winning journal includes poetry, fiction, nonfiction, plays, and interviews by a wide range of authors, from emerging writers to Nobel Prize recipients. Past issues have included work by Joyce Carol Oates, Arthur Miller, John Updike, Joseph Brodsky, Elia Kazan, Edward Albee, Willis Barnstone, Shirley Ann Grau, X. J. Kennedy, and Tarfia Faizullah. Poems which first appeared in The Evansville Review were selected to be included in The Best American Poetry 2001 and in The Pushcart Prize XXVI, 2002.

Gulf Stream Literary Magazine
Cost/Genres/Theme: Free | NF | N/A
What they say about themselves

The journal's submission opportunity link
Cost/Genres/Theme: $2-P/$3-F-NF | P-F-NF | N/A
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The journal's submission opportunity link
Cost/Genres/Theme: $3 | P-F-NF | N/A
What they say about themselves: We are a nonprofit literary organization supporting writers at all stages of their careers. Although we welcome experimental or unusual approaches to literature, our goal is to promote finely crafted work with an expressive and meaningful voice. We pay our contributors upon publication because we feel that too much art is taken for granted.





Cost/Genres/Theme: Free | P-F-NF | N/A
What they say about themselves


The journal's submission opportunity link
Cost/Genres/Theme: $3 | P-F-NF | N/A
What they say about themselves: South 85 Journal is an online literary journal run by the Converse College Low-Residency MFA Program. We publish fiction, non-fiction, poetry, reviews, and art by new, emerging, and well-established writers and artists. While we consider all quality work that follow the submission guidelines, we are especially interested in pieces that demonstrate a strong voice and/or a sense of place. So, write like mad, and if it’s good, we want to see it.



The journal's submission opportunity link
Cost/Genres/Theme: Free | FF | N/A
What they say about themselves: We post new stories at least once a week for nine months
of the year. Our summer break runs from late May until late August.
Over the break we put up our annual, The Wigleaf Top 50 (Very) Short
Fictions of the year.


It is also a time of many contest deadlines. 
Here's a quick list of those approaching contest deadlines.

APR/Honickman Prize (First book poetry)

 Autumn House Press Poetry Chapbook contest

 Black Lawrence Press Chapbook contest (poetry/fiction) 

 Brick Road Press Poetry Book Contest 

 Comstock Review Jessie Bryce Niles 2019 Chapbook 
Contest (poetry)

 CRAFT $3k Flash Fiction Contest

 Finishing Line Press Open Poetry Chapbook Contest



 Meridian Short Prose Prize

 Negative Capability Press 100 Word Story Contest 

 Pithead Chapel Larry Brown Short Story Contest

 Raleigh Review Flash Fiction contest

 Red Dragonfly Press Emergence Chapbook Contest/The 
David Martinson - Meadowhawk Prize

 Reed Magazine (Poetry, Fiction, Non Fiction Contests) 



 Tupelo Press Sunken Garden Poetry Chapbook Contest




Happy submitting!