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Magazine Stand :: The Malahat Review - 233 The Malahat Review Issue 233 features Indigenous-centered works exploring land, language, memory, resistance, kinship, and cultural survival.

The Malahat Review Issue 233 is themed "Inhale/Exhale: Contemporary Indigenous Storytelling" with Guest Editor Richard Van Camp and features art, fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and reviews.

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Where to Submit Roundup: March 7, 2026 Keep rainy day blues away by diving in the NewPages Where to Submit Roundup for March 6, 2026.

We have rain and gloom along with warmer weather in the Midwest. If you're besieged with rainy days, too, we have 130+ submission opportunities, plus a prompt to jumpstart your creativity.

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Flash Takes Flight at the Santa Clara Review — Flash Fiction and Creative Nonfiction Contest Submit to Flash Takes Flight, the Santa Clara Review’s annual flash fiction and creative nonfiction contest. Prizes include $200 for first place, $100 for first runner-up, and $50 for second runner-up, plus publication opportunities.

Santa Clara Review’s flash fiction + CNF contest offers $200/$100/$50 in prizes with publication in their Fall 2026 issue. All entries considered for publication. $10 fee. Deadline May 1, 2025.

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The Missouri Review's 6th Annual Perkoff Prize Invites Entries Enter The Missouri Review’s 6th Annual Perkoff Prize by March 15. Winners in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction receive $1,000 and publication in the Winter 2026 issue.

The Missouri Review’s Perkoff Prize awards $1,000 + publication to fiction, poetry, and nonfiction engaging in health, wellness, & medicine in evocative ways. Deadline Mar 15, 2026. All entries considered for publication. There is a fee.

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About Place Journal Call for Submissions: The Ground Beneath Us About Place Journal is calling for submissions on the theme The Ground Beneath Us for the Spring 2026 edition. No reading fees.

About Place Journal seeks prose, poetry, art, photo, video, & music on the theme The Ground Beneath Us (Place, Power & Resistance). Deadline Mar 10, 2026. No reading fee!

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2026 Prime Number Magazine Awards The 2026 Prime Number Magazine Awards are open to entries of short stories and poetry through March 31, 2026.

Prime Number Magazine Awards offer $1,000 and publication for a poem + short story (runners‑up $250). $15 fee. Deadline Mar 31, 2026. Send your best work!

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Palooka Seeks Chapbooks, Prose, Poetry, Artwork, Photography Palooka is a global literary magazine seeking bold voices and brave stories. Submit chapbooks, prose, poetry, artwork, photography, and comics year-round. Anonymous reading.

Palooka seeks daring prose, poetry, art, photos, comics, & chapbook manuscripts from underdog voices. Anonymous reading. They are open year‑round. They do charge a reading fee.

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National Baseball Poetry Festival Call for Submissions Submit one baseball or softball-themed poem to the National Baseball Poetry Festival by March 27, 2026. Free entry.

The National Baseball Poetry Festival invites poems about baseball and softball (any aspect of the game from players to memories to ballpark food) for its annual contest. Free to submit. Limit one poem per person. Deadline: Mar 27, 2026. Celebrate the game in verse!

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Magazine Stand :: Broadsided - March 2026 Special Folio In this Broadsided special folio, artists and writers reflect on AI’s ethical and ecological impact through collaborative works.

Broadsided March 2026 Special Folio offers free downloadable broadsides on the theme "Signs of Life: Artists and Writers Respond to AI." Read more at NewPages!

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New Short Story Contest - Cash Prizes and Publication! Enter the PING Anthology Short Story Contest. Theme: A futuristic app that gauges "love or fear" emotions. Win up to $500; 25 winners published. Deadline: March 31, 2026.

🚀 What if an app could tell you who's thinking about you—and how? Write it! PING Anthology's sci-fi contest awards $500/$250/$150. Top 25 get published. 1,000–3,000 words. Due March 31, 2026.

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Cloudbank 20 Poetry/Flash Fiction Contest—New Deadline Enter the Cloudbank 20 contest by March 31, 2026. $500 prize for the winning poem or flash fiction piece. Entry fee includes a two-issue subscription to the journal.

⚡ Submit a poem or flash fiction (≤1,000 words) to Cloudbank 20! $500 prize, all entries considered for publication. $15 entry fee includes a 2-issue subscription. Deadline: March 31, 2026. 🔥

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Flash in Bloom - Queer Flash Fiction Submit to Flash in Bloom, a flash fiction and creative nonfiction contest for BIPOC, queer, and trans writers. Winner receives $200, publication in the Fall 2026 Santa Clara Review, and an interview with SCR and the Office for Multicultural Learning.

Flash in Bloom is open! Seeking flash fiction & creative nonfiction by BIPOC, queer & trans writers. Theme: multicultural & queer fantasies, futurisms & liberations. $200 prize + publication in Fall 2026 Santa Clara Review. Deadline: May 1.

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Gold Man Review Open for Submissions Gold Man Review seeks poetry, fiction, and nonfiction for Issue 16. Open to writers in Oregon, Alaska, Hawaii, California, and Washington. Submit boundary‑pushing work by June 16, 2026.

Gold Man Review wants boundary-pushing poetry, fiction, & nonfiction for Issue 16! Open to writers in OR, AK, HI, CA & WA only. Deadline: June 16, 2026. The weirder, the better. 🤙

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Reimagining the Classics: What Modern Retellings Can Teach Us Discover how modern retellings like Clueless and 10 Things I Hate About You reimagine classic literature—and learn how to create your own fresh adaptation.

Turns out the 90s were secretly just Classic Literature in cargo pants.

Clueless = Emma. 10 Things = Shakespeare.

New post explores what these films teach us about timeless storytelling + creative prompts to try your own reimagining.

What classic do you think is desperate to be retold right now?

2026 ABLE MUSE CONTESTS :: SUBMIT NOW Enter the 2026 Able Muse Contests. Win the $1000 Poetry Book Award or the $500 Write Prize for fiction and poetry. Judged by Annie Finch, Catherine Tufariello, and Tobias Carroll. Submit by March 31.

Don't forget Able Muse contests are OPEN!

Write Prize (poetry & fiction): $500 + pub | Judges: Tufariello & Carroll | $15 | Due Mar 15

Book Award (poetry): $1,000 + book pub | Judge: Annie Finch | $25 | Due Mar 31

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Sand Hills Literary Magazine Call for Submissions! (50th Anniversary Issue) Submit prose, poetry, and art to Sand Hills Literary Magazine’s 50th anniversary issue. Open to US writers only.

Sand Hills Literary Magazine is turning 50! Submit prose, poetry, or art for their anniversary issue + annual contests. Contest winners get $500 + publication ($12 fee). Deadline: March 8, 2026. Open to US writers.

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Submit to Ploughshares' Emerging Writers' Contest! Submit your best fiction, nonfiction, or poetry to Ploughshares’ Emerging Writers’ Contest by March 31, 2026. Winners receive $2,000, publication in Ploughshares, and more.

Win $2,000 + publication in Ploughshares + a convo with Aevitas Creative Management! Submit fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by March 31, 2026 at 12PM EST. $30 fee. Go get discovered.

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Books Received - January 26, 2012 :: The NewPages Guide to Indie & University Presses Discover Books Received - January 26, 2012 at the NewPages.com Guide to Independent and University Presses.

The March 2026 issue of Lake online journal of contemporary poetry is now online, open-access for readers to enjoy new poems, reviews, and sample poems from recently published collections.

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The Headlight Review’s Annual Poetry Chapbook Prize Enter the 2026 Poetry Chapbook Prize at The Headlight Review. Winner receives $500, publication, and 25 copies. Finalists judged by Alafia Nichole Sessions. Deadline: March 31.

Poets, time to submit your chapbooks! The Headlight Review's 2026 Poetry Chapbook Prize awards $500 + publication + 25 copies. First-round finalists judged by Alafia Nichole Sessions & featured in the journal. Deadline: March 31, 2026.

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6th Annual Gutsy Great Novelist Chapter One Prize The 6th Annual Gutsy Great Novelist Chapter One Prize will be awarded for an outstanding first chapter of an unpublished novel.

Deadline alert! Got a killer first chapter? Enter the Annual Gutsy Great Novelist Chapter One Prize by tomorrow, March 3. $1,000 first prize for an unpublished novel's opening chapter. Open internationally, all genres, 18+. $20 fee.

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Write at Jack Kerouac's Residency in Orlando for Seven Weeks Write where Jack Kerouac wrote The Dharma Bums. Apply for the Kerouac Project Orlando residency by April 14, 2026. Fiction, poetry, plays, screenplays welcome.

Write where Jack Kerouac wrote THE DHARMA BUMS. The Kerouac Project (Orlando, FL) offers 7 weeks solo in the house + $600 grocery stipend + utilities paid. Fiction, CNF, Poetry, Plays & more. Apply by April 14!

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JackLeg Press is Looking for the Next Great Thing Indie publisher, JackLeg Press is looking for the next great thing! Open to full-length manuscripts of poetry, short fiction, novels, & CNF.

Bold. Vibrant. Authentic. Is that your writing? JackLeg Press is seeking poetry collections, short fiction collections, novels, & creative nonfiction for book publication. Query them today. $5 fee.

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Read ALOCASIA: A Journal of Queer Planty Writing! ALOCASIA publishes queer creative writing about plants, nature, and horticulture. Submit your work or explore their garden of fierce, celebratory voices.

🌿 Queer writers who love plants, this one's for you. ALOCASIA publishes queer creative writing about plants, nature & horticulture. Traditional, weird, erotic, anti-colonial—all welcome. Rolling submissions. Paying market! 🌱

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March has sprung with 175 submission opportunities, plenty of great lit, & some fun literary inspiration. Enjoy this week's edition of the NewPages Newsletter.

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Where to Submit Roundup: February 27, 2026 Discover 150+ ways to submit your work in our weekly roundup of submission opportunities for February 27, 2026.

Swing by the NewPages Blog to dive into 150+ submission opportunities, don't miss those February and early March deadlines! Plus get a little dose of inspiration to inspire you through the weather whiplash.

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Where to Submit Roundup: February 27, 2026 Discover 150+ ways to submit your work in our weekly roundup of submission opportunities for February 27, 2026.

New prompt: three children who look like precious metals: gold, silver, copper. They didn’t earn it. They didn’t choose it.

Write the moment they realized what they were to other people.

And then: did they use it, fight it, or flee?

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Flash Takes Flight at the Santa Clara Review — Flash Fiction and Creative Nonfiction Contest Submit to Flash Takes Flight, the Santa Clara Review’s annual flash fiction and creative nonfiction contest. Prizes include $200 for first place, $100 for first runner-up, and $50 for second runner-up, plus publication opportunities.

Flash Takes Flight is back at Santa Clara Review! Enter flash fiction or nonfiction for cash prizes ($200/$100/$50) + publication in the fall 2026 issue. Deadline: May 1. All submissions considered for publication too.

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2027 Oregon Poetry Calendar Submissions Accepted March 1-May 31 Red Shoe Press is accepting submissions March 1–May 31, 2026 for the 2027 Oregon Poetry Calendar. Poets living in Oregon may submit 1–5 poems inspired by this year’s theme, “Oregon wildlife.” No fee. Responses by July; publication in August 2026.

Oregon poets: Red Shoe Press is accepting submissions for the 2027 Oregon Poetry Calendar from March 1 to May 31! This year's theme is "Oregon wildlife." Submit 1–5 poems; no fee, no art needed. Poets get a copy.

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Palooka Seeks Chapbooks, Prose, Poetry, Artwork, Photography Palooka is a global literary magazine seeking bold voices and brave stories. Submit chapbooks, prose, poetry, artwork, photography, and comics year-round. Anonymous reading.

Bold voices. Brave stories. Palooka is a global literary magazine of daring prose, art, photography, comics & chapbooks—championing underdog voices, reading anonymously, publishing only what they love. Open year-round.

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Oyster River Pages Opens for General Submissions Online literary magazine Oyster River Pages is open to general submissions for their 2026 issues through May 15, 2026.

Oyster River Pages seeks work that moves them out of themselves and into other spaces. Fiction, CNF, poetry & visual art welcome through May 15. Especially eager to publish Black, Brown, LGBTQ+ & disabled creators.

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