Short Fiction, Poetry, and Book Reviews wanted, plus a flash fiction contest for high school students

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Flash Fiction Contest for High School Students hosted by Humber College

Stories must be 250 words or less.

Prizes 1st place: $750; 2nd place: $500; 3rd place: $350; 4th place: $250; 5th place: $150.

All five contest winners will be published in Arrival, an online, student-led literary and arts magazine that will officially launch in early 2023.

Deadline March 31. Guidelines here.

 

Muriel's Journey Poetry Prize: Open to Canadians or people living in Canada. Genre: Poetry. Prize: $100 top prize. Also a special prize of $100 for a resident of Vancouver’s Downtown East Side. Plus a $35 prize for a poem chosen at random from the entries. All winners and honourary mentions will be published in Fire in the Heart, the Muriel Journey Chapbook for 2023.

Criteria: Speak your mind and let the world know what you think, look at your subject in an unexpected way, take a risk in your composition, be frank and unreserved, change the world (or a tiny corner of it)! If the poem has good potential for being performed, all the better.

Open only to Canadians.

Deadline: March 31, 2023. Guidelines here.

 

The Dark Magazine is a monthly that publishes dark fantasy and horror fiction 2,000–6,000 words. “Don’t be afraid to experiment or to deviate from the ordinary; be different – try us with fiction that may fall out of ‘regular’ categories. However, it’s also important to understand that despite the name The Dark is not a market for graphic, violent horror.”

Pays 6 cents a word for original fiction up to 6,000 words or 1 cent a word for reprints.

Full submission guidelines here.

 

The Deadlands is a monthly speculative fiction magazine. “We publish short stories, poems, and essays about the other realms, of the ends we face here, and the beginnings we find elsewhere. It is an adventure into the unknown, to meet those who live there still, even though they may be dead. Death is a journey we all will take, but we’d like to peek at the map before we go.

“We are generally open to fiction and nonfiction submissions, except for a year-end holiday closure. Poetry submissions are open the first two weeks of every month.”

Submission guidelines here.  

 

Carousel seeks short fiction, poetry, and book reviews. It’s open to Canadians only. 

Pays $20 per poem; $40–$80 per short story; and $20–$40 for an Experimental Review. 

Deadline: Carousel opens to submissions on the first of each month. And accepts the first 200 submissions. After that, you may still submit, but then there’s a $2 reading fee. Guidelines here.

 

Quick Brown Fox welcomes your short stories, poems, and essays about reading, writing, favourite books, and libraries. Read a few essays on the blog to get a taste of what other writers have done (see here and scroll down).

Quick Brown Fox also welcomes reviews of any kind and of anything, anywhere or anybody. If you want to review your favourite coffee shops or libraries, babysitters or lovers (no real names please), go for it. See examples of book reviews here (and scroll down); other reviews here (and scroll down).(

Submit to: brianhenry@sympatico.ca

Include a short bio at the end of your piece and attach a photo of yourself.

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