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RoomMagazine welcomes submissions from people of “all
marginalized genders,” including cis and trans women, trans men, nonbinary and
Two-Spirit people, but no men allowed. And like everybody else, they specifically
encourage writers with “overlapping under-represented identities” to submit.
Room has five contests on their calendar: Poetry (June 15 – Aug 15); Short Forms (Sept 1 – Nov 1); Cover Art (Nov 15 – Jan 15); Fiction (Jan 15 – March 15); and currently running...
Creative Nonfiction Contest Judge Luna Ferguson |
Creative
Nonfiction Contest: Submit creative nonfiction (memoir, travel
writing, nonfiction humour, essay, literary journalism, personal journalism,
biography, profile, etc.) of up to 3,500 words.
Prizes: $1,000, $250, and $100 for honorable
mentions. First and second prize pieces may be published in Room; Honourable
Mentions will be published on Room’s Website. Entry fee: $35 from within Canada;
$45 from the US or $55 from outside North America. All entries receive a
one-year subscription to Room.
Deadline: June 1, 2022. Details here.
Room also accepts
regular submissions of short stories, poems, creative nonfiction, and art. Pays
$50 per page to a maximum of $200.
Guidelines here.
Variety Pack
is an independent and voluntarily run online
literary magazine. Their Editors are based all over: Lahore, Pakistan;
Southwestern Oregon; Oakland, California; Atlanta, Georgia; and Western NY. They
publish full issues tri-quarterly, mini-packs, & special issues at
different times throughout the year.
“We firmly believe that diversity
is the bedrock of the Arts, and hope to establish that with our wide variety of
contributors and the artistic expressions found within our publications.”
Variety Pack is temporarily
open for submissions of short fiction, nonfiction, poetry, reviews and
interviews, and visual arts, comics and mixed media.
For fiction: either flash fiction under 1,000 words
or short stories up to 9,000 words. “We want something
short that kicks through the door and pushes against the literary grain. We
crave gripping, haunting work that is hard to turn away from once we dig in. We
accept both genre and literary work.”
For nonfiction: cultural criticism, immersive journalism, memoirs,
creative nonfiction, and essays. Maximum 1,500 words (though you can submit up
to three nonfiction pieces at a time).
For poetry, they’re open to any and all forms.
For reviews and interviews, they wan in-depth reviews, review
essays, and interviews. Welcomes reviews of music, books, films, TV, art, and
theatre.
Deadline: June 15, 2022. Full Guidelines
here.
Toasted Cheese is a literary quarterly and a writing community. They’re well worth
checking out. Toasted publishes poetry, flash, fiction, creative
nonfiction, and reviews. TC was founded in 2001 by a group of American and
Canadian women writers. Like everyone else, they are committed to publishing a
diversity of voices and, unlike many Canadian journals, welcome submissions from
around the world.
Toasted encourages unpublished writers to submit. “We are impressed by quality writing, not by a list of
credentials.” Currently, there is no remuneration other than recognition.
No “excessively graphic” sex or violence.
Submission guidelines here.
Toasted Cheese also runs four annual free
contests:
Dead of
Winter Horror Fiction Writing Contest. Submissions
accepted Oct 1 – Dec 21. More here.
The Mollie
Savage Memorial Writing Contest is a 48-hour
short story writing contest. It runs twice a year on the weekends closest to
March 21 and September 21. This coming September, the contest will be Science
Fiction and Fantasy and opens Sept 23 at 5 p.m. More here.
And A Midsummer Tale contest – open
now and every spring, April 1 – June 21.
A Midsummer Tale is a summer-themed
narrative writing contest open to non-genre1 fiction
and creative nonfiction.
The theme of the 2022 A Midsummer Tale
writing contest is: The End. This year your
challenge is to write about a personal ending that ties into a concurrent cataclysmic
event and together feel like the end of the world for your protagonist.
Your story must be set during the hot
summer months and the theme must play an integral role in the story.
Identify your story as fiction or
creative nonfiction. For CNF entries, please indicate whether names have been
changed.
Length: 1,000 words minimum; 5,000 words
maximum.
Winning stories are published in the
September issue of Toasted Cheese.
§ If 50 or fewer eligible entries are received, first place receives
a $35 Amazon gift card & second a $10 Amazon gift card.
§ If 51 or more eligible entries are received, first place receives a
$50 Amazon gift card, second a $15 Amazon gift card & third a $10 Amazon
gift card.
Questions? Ask on the contest
announcement post or on Twitter @toasted_cheese.
Deadline June 21, 2022. Contest guidelines
and rules here.
The Ontario Poetry Society has nine contests listed.
See them all here.
The next contest is their Ultra Short Poem Competition: Poems must
be no more than 8 lines and no more than 8 words on a line. Prizes: $100; $75;
$50; $25, plus 36 Judge’s Choice Awards. All prize-winning poems to be
published in a chapbook; all winners get a free copy. Entry fee $10 for up to 5
poems, the $2 for each additional poem.
Deadline: June 30, 2022. Details here.
See Brian Henry’s
upcoming weekly
writing classes, one-day workshops, and weekend retreats here.
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