Red Fish Studio Writing Workshop

Cool. You can read Prairie Schooner's first issue (1927) for free.

Vol. 1, No. 1, JANUARY, 1927 of Prairie Schooner | JSTOR Prairie Schooner is a national literary quarterly published continuously since 1926. With the support of the English department at the University of…

Thanks to Ellen Bass for these. Links didn't come through so you have to Google for more info.

ORION'S CALL FOR DIGITAL SUBMISSIONS
Orion is currently open for digital story pitches. These pitches are not tied to a particular theme; rather, they are an open call for story ideas that feel consistent with Orion’s digital identity and will appear exclusively online. The editors are looking for pitches in the following categories: short essays on general topics, food-related pieces, enumerations, conversations, graphic stories, and art portfolios.
Deadline: September 15, 2026

PRAIRIE SCHOONER'S GENERAL SUBMISSIONS
The 2026 fall submission period will include a call for general submissions–poetry, fiction, and essays–as well as a special issue on "Cafes & Cocktails".
Deadline: September 15, 2026

THE EARTH STILL WHISPERS HER NAME
This anthology by Green Linden Press will feature poetry by living Indigenous U.S. poets, focuses on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, but the editors will also consider poems that touch on themes of grief, survivance, memory, and rematriation.
Deadline: October 31, 2026

PLOUGHSHARES
Ploughshares welcomes unsolicited submissions of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and long form poetry and prose.
Deadline: November 15, 2026

Let me know what you find helpful on this list:

Writer’s Digest Best Publishing News and Resource Websites 2026 Here are the best publishing news and resource websites as identified in the 28th Annual 101 Best Websites from the May/June 2026 issue of Writer's Digest.

https://barrelhouse.submittable.com/submit
BARRELHOUSE wants 1,000-word pop culture essays.

Barrelhouse Submission Manager Thanks for submitting your work to Barrelhouse!  Before you proceed, a note about open and closed categories. If you don't see the category that fits your work, we're not open for that thing. We keep submission periods pretty short because we're hoping that helps make our response times shorter, as...

Flash prose and poetry:

Showcase Submission Manager Welcome to SHOWCASE: Object & Idea. We are interested in Objets D'Art and their analysis, their Ideas. A poem and a prose piece are selected for each monthly issue, and the authors answer questions about the meaning behind their work. We will also run a quarterly issue focused on a single writer w...

https://www.instagram.com/p/DV8xQ4mlJC4/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email (thanks to Erika Dreifus' substack)

CHICAGO—Scrawl Place is having a special call for submissions about places in Chicago. Guidelines are the same as general submissions, but this call pays a little extra. Submit your poems, stories, essays, et cetera by July 31.

Ploughshares opened up submissions yesterday!

Manuscript Submission Ploughshares welcomes unsolicited submissions of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction during our regular reading period, open from June 1 to November 15 at 5:00pm EST. To submit to the journal, including the Fall Longform Issue, please review our guidelines.

Oyster River Pages
Oyster River Pages publishes voices that speak to what it means to be alive in this world. They look for language and stories and images that move us out of ourselves and into other spaces. Though they do not publish exclusively political work, they embrace the intersection of the personal and political, and actively seek to publish those who bring balance and diversity to historical power strata. They accept fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and artwork, and have special categories for "emerging voices." Check out their "what we love" page to learn more about their aesthetic. deadline is May 15.

Submit — Oyster River Pages ORP accepts submissions in the genres below for publication in its annual issue (published in the fall) from January 27 through May 15, 2026.

Open for stories, poems, essays, interviews, and hybrid work until May 15th.

Submission information:

Submissions should be no more than 7,000 words for prose (fiction, nonfiction), hybrids, up to 6 poems for poetry, or up to 3 pages of visual art. We are interested in submissions from people who are most marginalized by oppressive systems, to include trans, q***r, poverty-born, incarcerated, system-impacted, disabled, neurodivergent, BIPOC, colonized, people living on the frontlines of state violence and climate crisis, and others.

Published writers will receive $100 upon publication.

Please send work as a Word or PDF attachment to [email protected] and indicate the special issue and genre in the subject line (i.e. “DOCUMENTATION: Fiction”).

If online submission is not possible, please mail work to:

The Massachusetts Review
400 Venture Way
Hadley, MA 01035

DEADLINE TO SUBMIT WORK IS May 15th.

WE DO NOT ACCEPT SUBMISSIONS OF PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED WORK.

The Rumpus is open for submissions.

The Rumpus Submission Manager The Rumpus publishes original fiction, poetry, literary humor writing, comics, essays, book reviews, and interviews with authors and artists of all kinds. Founded in 2009 and independent from the start, The Rumpus is a home for excellent, incisive writing that stands the test of time. We welcome wor...