Open Calls for Writers (Rolling Submissions)
Submit your pitches to literary magazines, locate grants, fellowships, residencies and find a home for your manuscripts! Tons of paid opportunities below, friend.
Hey y’all!
The list below will be left in the archives so you can access it anytime.
*** International Entries Welcomed ***
Adi Magazine
Seeking: Essays & Reportage
Send us a short summary (3 paragraphs maximum) that describes the story you want to tell, how you will tell it, why it’s important, and why you’re the person to write it.
To Submit: Please include 1-2 links of your previous work and send it to admin@adimagazine.com with “NONFICTION PITCH” in the subject line.
Compensation: Adi pays $600 for essays and $750 for reportage.
Info + Submissions: HERE
Adi Magazine
Seeking: Interviews
We welcome interview pitches for authors with forthcoming/recent books or artists with upcoming/recent shows.
Send us a short summary (3 paragraphs maximum) in the body of your email that names the writer or artist you want to interview, why this person should be interviewed at Adi, and why you’re the person to conduct the interview.
To Submit: Please include 1-2 links of your previous work and send it to admin@adimagazine.com with “INTERVIEW PITCH” in the subject line.
Compensation: 250 USD
Info + Submissions: HERE
Adi Magazine
Seeking: Translations
If you are a translator with work from writers who you think might fit with Adi, please get in touch.
We only accept pieces that have not been published in English.
If a piece of poetry or fiction has already been translated, you may submit it through our open calls on Submittable, but, if not, feel free to email us with a blurb about the piece at admin@adimagazine.com with “TRANSLATION PITCH” in the subject line.
Compensation: Determined by the type of submission
Info + Submissions: HERE
C& Magazine
This year, the C& team seeks pitches and texts that embrace contradictions, intersectionality and antidisciplinary approaches. We are interested in approaches that pull from a range of timelines and perspectives for example Black Feminist thought, independent practices, aesthetics, and beyond.
Themes:
ART IN CRISIS
• Shift in political climate, the polycrisis, and its effects on art world
• Alternative spaces and practical tools to move forward
MOVING IMAGE / C& CINEMA + FILM CLUB
• Critical reviews on cinema and moving image practices
• Film events, festivals, film clubs and exhibitions
GATHERING PLACES / POSTCARDS:
• Biennales, studio visits, exhibitions, collectives
• Art week / city guides: resources for art travellers
• Mapping out institutions and independent spaces across Africa + the Diaspora
CONVERSATIONS WITH ELDERS:
• Citational practices: sampling, call-and-response, written records vs oral traditions
• An archive of intergenerational knowledge and perspectives
• Examples: (re)defining indigeneity, conversations with scholars, grandparents, community leaders etc
NEW MEDIA / CREATIVE TECH:
• New Media: digital media, immersive installations, virtual reality, computer generated, etc
• Art and tech: ancestral technologies and bringing histories forward
• Example: The internet and cyberspace as a site of dis/connections
MATERIAL CULTURE:
• Beyond restitution: deep dives on artisanal practices / cultural heritage
Compensation: $$ (Paid, amount unstated)
** All texts will be published in English and French and will be handled by C&. Writers' agreements and invoices will be processed accordingly.**
Submissions Due: Accepting on a rolling basis
Please send a short pitch (200-300 words) and a brief bio to tsigmund@contemporaryand.com
Grassroots Thinking
Seeking: Book reviews that center Black Liberation and Black Radical Politics
Length 1-3 Pages
Maximum Word Count: 1000
Format: Word Document
Please ensure your email submission includes “Book Review" in the subject line
Submissions that have been previously published are welcome
Send Submissions To: georgeboykin187@gmail.com
Compensation: 75 + online publishing
manywor(l)ds
We welcome submissions by those who identify with and as any of the following descriptors: trans, two-spirit, disabled, neurodivergent, Mad, queer, crip, nonbinary, genderqueer, intersex.
This is a space for the words, works, and worlds of and by those whose bodyminds defy social expectations and invite new ways of thinking and knowing.
We welcome submissions from creators of all ages.
We particularly encourage unpublished/emerging/young creators to submit.
If you know an incarcerated/institutionalized creator who would like to submit, email us for information as to where to mail the submission, or clearly indicate in your message that you are submitting on their behalf.
Compensation: All contributors of unpublished works will receive $10 USD upon publication
Info + Submissions: HERE
Carefree Magazine is accepting submissions for 2025 and they want to hear your stories!
“Our mission is to give Black Women space to see themselves reflected in the world, and to show that we aren't a monolith. We are looking for personal essays with strong narratives on life, love, adventure, and everything in-between! Our stories typically run 1000-1700 words long“
Check out our Substack for stories we typically publish.
Please share with your Black womxn writer friends ✨
Compensation: $$$ (amount unstated) + Publishing with Carefree Magazine
Submit to: hello@carefreemag.com
Check out the detailed call for submissions: HERE
air Burgenland Open Residency
Exploring the nexus between art and peacebuilding. Letting the unspeakable explain meaning that is lost in trauma. Adding nuance and empathy to shift paradigms in conflict.
Residencies are available to a wide range of artists and writers, including but not limited to visual artists, video/filmmakers, composers, performing artists, poets, musicians, designers, photographers, fiction- and non fiction writers.
You can apply for a residency at any time. The programme's intention is to find the right frames to meet individual artists needs. (Max 4 weeks)
Compensation:
- Accommodation
- Studio spaces
- Mentoring
- Connections to local communities
- Connections to international institutions and partners
- Venues for sharing and presenting work
- Per diems
- Local transport
** International travel costs can't be funded or reimbursed.
Info + Submissions: HERE
Atmosphere Press
Seeking: Manuscripts
No reading Fee
You can expect a response within two weeks
Compensation:
If Atmosphere Press selects your book for publication, you will receive exceptional and personal editorial insight, top-of-the-industry book design both inside and out, and thoughtful and targeted book promotion to help you reach your readers.
Guidelines + Submissions: HERE
Nina Riggs Poetry Award
Given annually for a single poem that examines relationships, family, or domestic life and was published in a book or magazine in the last three years.
We welcome nominations year-round by postal mail.
Self-nominations are not accepted
Compensation: 1000
Guidelines + Submissions: HERE
Economic Hardship Reporting Project (For Journalists)
A nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that produces compelling journalism on economic inequality in America. We give grants to independent journalists reporting on issues related to poverty, economic class, workers’ rights, and income disparity in the U.S., and co-publish their work in partnership with major media outlets.
Standard Grants: Select this option if you are a journalist seeking grant funding for a news story, narrative feature, investigative report, documentary, nonfiction comic or illustrated work, photo essay, podcast or radio feature.
Compensation: 500 - 4000 USD
Book Grants: Select this option if you are a journalist seeking grant funding for a book project.
Compensation: 1,000 - 5,000 USD
Personal Essay / Op-Eds: Select this option if you are a journalist seeking grant funding for a completed or close-to-completed personal essay or op-ed.
Compensation: 750–1,500 USD
Travel Grants: Select this option if you are a journalist seeking grant funding for project-related travel
Compensation: Up to 2,000 USD
Partner Collaborations: Select this option if you represent a publication or organization that is interested in collaborating with EHRP on a larger co-publishing project such as developing a podcast, producing a larger series, co-hosting events or something else.
Info + Submissions: HERE
Futurefarmers Artist in Residence Program
Futurefarmers Artist in Residence (AIR) program provides opportunities for young artists, designers, writers and architects to unite in the collaborative environment of Futurefarmers studio.
Residencies range from six weeks to six months.
** It’s important to note that this is a live-out residency based in San Francisco, so it may be more accessible for someone already living in the area. Artists are invited to work on paid projects to provide income, but work visa’s are required. They will work with prospective residents to facilitate financial aid.*
Compensation: Usually $500 per month
Information + Submissions: HERE
Prism International
Welcomes review copies of high-quality literary fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, graphic novels, theatre, and chapbooks. We also accept pitches for interviews with local or international authors.
Reviews and interviews are published weekly their website.
Compensation: 60 per piece
Submissions: Please contact our reviews editor Cid V Brunet at prism.reviews@ubc.ca. We ask you to disclose any conflict of interest prior to submitting a review.
Frontier Poetry
Accepting poetry submissions all year round.
Free Fast Response for BIPOC– Our quick turnaround option offered for free to Black, Indigenous, and other writers of color.
Compensation: 50 per piece
Submissions: https://www.frontierpoetry.com/submit/
The Margins
The Margins is open year-round to pitches and submissions of critical essays on Asian American literature, film, visual art, and culture.
We specifically seek essays that—through close engagement with art—might challenge the Asian American community to think or act in a new way. We are open to criticism of any artform, of works from any time period, so long as the writer speaks in some way to how we live now. Critics are encouraged to foreground their own voice and style in the pursuit of this goal, but should ultimately keep focus on their chosen objects of study.
Compensation: Up to 500
More Information: HERE
Submissions: Send pitches of up to 500 words or drafts from 1,500-3,000 words to Spencer Quong, criticism editor, at criticism@aaww.org
Burnaway Magazine
We are committed to publishing thoughtful, rigorous writing on contemporary art in the South, the Caribbean and the Southern Diaspora.
Alabama, Arkansas, Washington, D.C, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky,Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas,Virginia, West Virginia and the Caribbean.
We accept proposals for short and long-form reviews, interviews, studio visits, profiles, essays, and theme-specific essays.
WHAT WE LOOK FOR:
We accept proposals for short and long-form reviews, interviews, studio visits, profiles, essays, and theme-specific essays. Daily includes short-form reviews or studio visits are no more than 800 words.
Magazine contributions are deep-dive, long-form essays and theme-specific projects that are typically no more than 1,800 words. Themes for the Magazine are released annually.
Stories, projects, and other media related to each theme will be published to produce a cohesive inquiry into aspects of Southern culture and life.
More info on how to pitch and to whom HERE
(scroll down to Pitches)
Compensation: .30 cents per word
The John Updike Review Emerging Writers Prize
The review is looking for an essay by a young writer or critic that deepens our understanding of the work of John Updike. The writing may be scholarly or bellestristic in nature. Academics, critics, graduate students, assistant professors, novelists, poets, and short story writers are encouraged to submit 10-30 page essays.
To Submit: Send essay submissions of 10-30 pages via attachment to: Prof. James Schiff, Editor, The John Updike Review, james.schiff@uc.edu
More Information on the Journal: The John Updike Review
More Information on Submissions:HERE
Compensation: A $1000 prize plus publication in The John Updike Review, awarded annually to writers 40 years of age or younger.
Raising Mothers
Raising Mothers is a literary magazine celebrating parenthood within the Global majority. We’re looking for writers who want to explore the many avenues we come to as caregivers as well as how we were parented. We also welcome voices of people who want to share child-centered perspectives (note: this is from the POV of the adult writer).
We publish experimental and traditional fiction, micro and flash, creative nonfiction, interviews, book reviews, photo essays, and comic/graphic narratives. We only publish work written by members of the global majority.
Compensation: up to $50 USD for select essays
We are also interested in columnists to pitch their ideas and anything bookish or book-adjacent.
Info + Submissions: HERE
Literary Liberation
Our mission is to support writers in decolonizing their craft, their relationships with community, and their ways of being. We seek work that pushes beyond conventional boundaries, honors ancestral wisdom, and contributes to our collective liberation. We are particularly drawn to submissions that explore how writing can be a tool for social change, community healing, and the dismantling of oppressive systems.
We accept work from anyone, but give priority to writers of the Global majority, especially those at the intersection of any marginalized/erased identity markers within that community, including but not limited to disability, gender expansive, LGBTQIA+, immigrant, refugee, Indigenous, working class, neurodivergent, and religious minority identities.
Themes (check the link below for the full list):
Essays on writing as resistance and the role of literature in social movements
Analyses of how ancestral storytelling traditions inform modern liberation writing
Documentation of grassroots literary initiatives and community-based writing programs
Critical essays on linguistic justice and language reclamation in writing
Explorations of radical publishing models and alternative distribution networks around the world’
Compensation: $$ Paid (Unstated)
Info + Submissions: HERE
SmokeLong
SmokeLong publishes flash narratives--fiction, nonfiction, and hybrid (somewhere between fiction and nonfiction)--up to 1000 words. This word limit is firm. We do not consider poetry.
We love:
* language that surprises and excites,
* narratives that strive toward something other than a final punch line or twist,
* pieces that add up to something, often (but not necessarily always) meaning or emotional resonance,
* honest work that feels as if it has far more purpose than a writer wanting to write a clever story.
Compensation: $100 per narrative or $150 per story with audio upon publication in the quarterly issue. Payment will be issued via PayPal
Info + Submissions: HERE
Salo Press: Call for Submissions for ‘The Flirtations’
Salo Press is an independent publisher of poetry and prose. The Flirtations is their chapbook imprint with twenty four titles currently in print. They are currently seeking manuscripts for publication under this imprint.
Compensation: 50% of profits + author copy.
How to submit:
They are seeking works up to 32 pages, including but not limited to: Poetry, Poetry Sequences, Single Short Stories, Linked Short Stories, Fictions, Non-Fiction, Essays, Experiments.
Send your manuscript as a .doc or .pdf to editorsalopress@gmail.com, quoting ‘The Flirtations‘ in the subject header.
Include a brief cover letter.
Cinncinnati Review
Accepting Poetry, Fiction, Fiction Translations, Literary Non-Fiction, Poetry Translations, Drama.
Compensation: $25/ page for prose and $30/page for poetry in the print journal and $25 for miCRo posts or special features.
Info + Submissions: HERE
New Orleans Review
Submit fiction pieces up to 5,000 words. Flash fiction welcome, but only one piece at a time. No previously published work (online or in print). Simultaneous submissions are okay.
Compensation: 175, regardless of length.
Submit nonfiction pieces up to 5,000 words. Flash nonfiction welcome, but only one piece at a time. No previously published work (online or in print). Simultaneous submissions are okay.
Compensation: 175, regardless of length.
Submit up to five pages of poems. No previously published work (online or in print). Simultaneous submissions are okay.
Compensation: 50 per poem, regardless of length.
Submissions have a fee of 3.00
Free Submissions for Refugees and Palestinians. <3
Info + Submissions: HERE
Craft Literary
Seeking:
Longform creative nonfiction. *They should be essays or standalone excerpts between 1,000 and 6,000 words.
Compensation: 200
Flash creative nonfiction. *1000 words or less.
Compensation: 100
Fiction. *Short stories and standalone fiction excerpts between 1000-6000 words
Compensation: 200
Flash Fiction. *1000 words of less
Compensation: 100
Fast Response: Free for BIPOC and Other Underrepresented Writers (Up to 6K Words)
Both short fiction and longform creative nonfiction (short stories, standalone excerpts, and creative nonfiction essays) between 1,001 and 6,000 words, and for flash and micros (both fiction and creative nonfiction) up to 1,000 words.
Compensation: $200 for accepted short stories or longform creative nonfiction, and $100 for accepted flash or micro pieces.
Info + Submissions: HERE
Interested in writing critically for CRAFT?
We review essays on writing craft, critical literary analyses, and interviews. Craft and critical essays range from 1,500 to 2,500 words concerning the craft of fiction or creative nonfiction. We recommend familiarizing yourself with our archive. Most essays we publish offer a careful examination of craft elements in fiction or creative nonfiction.
Compensation: $50 for craft and critical essays, $50 for most standard interviews, and $100 for hybrid interviews (a critical essay paired with a Q&A).
Info and Submissions: HERE
Grubb Street Scholarships
General scholarships are awarded for writerly promise and financial need. Scholarships are awarded for the specific class requested, and are not transferable to another class, term, or user.
You can apply for scholarships directly from the website page of the class you're interested in taking.
Please visit our Find a Class page, and click on the class you're interested in taking. From there, you can click on Apply for Scholarship within that class page, and fill our out our short application. You can expect to hear back within two weeks of submitting your application.
Classes Offered: HERE
CUE Art Foundation
ART CRITIC MENTORSHIP PROGRAM
For emerging Writers that have a demonstrated art and/or critical writing practice and an interest in contemporary art
Compensation: 600 USD + being paired with art critic mentors to produce original long-form critical essays about the work of artists exhibiting at CUE's gallery space.
Info + Submissions: HERE
Entry Fees for Poets
This group pays entry fees for poets attempting to submit their manuscripts to publishers that charge to submit. Submission fees for poetry chapbooks and full-length poetry manuscripts only. A maximum of three submissions per poet.
Info + Requests: HERE
The Awesome Foundation
The Awesome Foundation is a global community advancing the interest of awesome in the universe, $1000 at a time.
Get funding for your project: HERE
ReIssue
ReIssue is an interdisciplinary art writing platform focused on shaping and sustaining a contemporary west coast discourse rooted in critical engagement with experimental art practices. Our mission is to nurture interdisciplinary engagement through written work that critically responds to and advances the understanding, appreciation, and dissemination of art in its many forms.
Accepting pitches for any of these sections:
Reviews 600-1000 words
Creative, varies up to 3000 words
Interviews, 800-2000 words
Essays,1000-3000 words
Moving Image, 800-1500 words
Compensation:
Reviews up to 1000 words $350
Fiction/Prose and Essays: 75 cents per word, up to $500 Interviews: Interviewer paid $300 + Interviewee $100 Honorarium
Poetry: $100 per poem, up to 3 poems, or $50 per page, up to $300 for poems longer than 1 page
Plays/Scripts/Screenplay: $50 per page, up to $400
Submission Guide: HERE
New England Review (NER Digital)
Accepting submissions in fiction, poetry, nonfiction, dramatic writing, and translation in all genres.
Compensation: 20 per page ($50 minimum), plus two copies of the issue in which the work appears and a one-year subscription to the print or e-book edition.
online publication pays $50 and a one-year subscription to the magazine.
Info + Submissions: HERE
ATMOS
If you are interested in pitching specifically for print, you may inquire as to the theme of the current issue. The ideal Atmos story exists at the intersection of climate and culture. That can mean a culture story with a climate twist, a climate story with a culture twist, or something directly in between.
Compensation: 50c per word
Info + Submissions: HERE
Only Poems
Compensation: 55 USD per contribution
Info + Submissions: HERE
Blue Dot Living
Seeking great solutions-focused climate stories to share about what’s happening in a community.
Compensation: $175 USD for reporting about a specific project/initiative in a community- this should be 400-800 words. Features are from 800-1,500 words with compensation of $400-$750 depending on complexity/writer’s experience.
Submit to: Leslie leslie@bluedotliving.com
Freelancers Union
Resources for freelancers
Guide to Taxes
Contracts
Networking and Insurance
Check out their contract creation tool: HERE
Access the resources: HERE
**US Based by Region**
Illinois Arts Council
The Creative Catalyst Grant
Offers support to Illinois artists and non-profit organizations for arts-related projects, programming, events, and/or professional development.
Compensation: Up to $12,000
Guidelines + Submissions: HERE
* * * UK BASED * * *
The White Pube Creatives Grant
This grant has been set up to support creatives of all ages who are early in their careers and would benefit from this no-strings attached financial support to help them in whatever they like - be that money to cover time to make, or money to fund materials, equipment, research, subscriptions, development, travel, or even rent and bills. The grant is open to anybody who makes stuff. Art, writing, performance, sound, music, craft, comedy, games, whatever you want to throw at us.
Give us a brief introduction to yourself, contact information and an example of your work.
Compensation: 500
Submit To: funding@thewhitepube.com
More Info: HERE
The Authors’ Foundation + K Blundell Trust
Grants for works-in-progress
Eligibility:
You have been commissioned by a commercial British or Irish publisher to write or translate a full-length work of fiction, poetry, or non-fiction and need funding (in addition to any publisher’s advance) for important research, travel, or other general expenditure.
OR
You are without a contractual commitment with a publisher but have had at least one book published commercially by a British or Irish publisher, of which you are the sole author or translator, and there is a strong likelihood that your next book will be published in Britain or Ireland.
Compensation:
Grants from the Authors’ Foundation are usually between £2,000-£3,500.
Grants from the K Blundell Trust up to £6,000 (for British authors under the age of 40 whose work, which can be fiction or non-fiction, and aim to increase social awareness.)
Info + Submissions: HERE
Society of Authors’ Access Fund
Giving authors support for travel, subsistence, childcare, or access needs for events, residencies, and retreats
Grants can be used for:
Travel to events including overnight stays and subsistence.
Childcare and carer support while attending an event, residency, or retreat.
Travel, accommodation, and subsistence for a companion if one is required.
Other access needs such as materials translated into an accessible format.
Compensation: £150 or less, but fair consideration will be given to all proposals.
Info + Submissions: HERE
Strachey Trust Grants
To enable authors to access literary manuscripts
Eligibility: Open to all authors who are UK residents or British citizens, who wish to access UK-based archives/collections.
The author must be working on a specific full-length literary project which has a strong likelihood of publication
Compensation: Up to £500
Info + Submissions: HERE
*** US BASED by REGION ***
The Svane Family Foundation (San Francisco)
Culture Forward Grant
To support creative projects that attract families, students, and young professionals to Downtown San Francisco. Grants are open to individual artists, collectives, and arts and culture organizations.
Note: The Svane Family Foundation is only making grants to tax-exempt organizations classified as public charities under IRC 501(c)(3). Individuals and collectives must have a confirmed Fiscal Sponsor that also meets this requirement. Please review our full Grant Guidelines.
Compensation: 10,000 - 100,000
Submissions Due: Accepting on Rolling Basis (Q2 Deadline June 1st, Q3 Deadline Sept 1st, Q4 Deadline Dec 1st)
Info + Submissions: HERE
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