Qarrtsiluni is accepting submissions of collaborative work for its first issue of 2009, “Mutating the Signature,” with guest editors Dana Guthrie Martin and Nathan Moore. The deadline is Jan. 15, and the issue will run from January through March. For submission details, see: qarrtsiluni.com/2008/12/01/call-for-submissions-mutating-the-signature.

THE OHIANA BOOK FESTIVAL seeks authors to participate in the 2009 festival, to be held May 9 in Columbus. Authors must have an Ohio connection and have published a book between January 2008 and March 2009. For entry information go to www.OhioanaBookFestival.org.

Freshwater, Asnuntuck Community College’s poetry journal, is accepting submissions for our landmark tenth anniversary issue to be published in May 2009. www.acc.commnet.edu/documents/2009FreshwaterPoetryJournalSubmissions.pdf Deadline: December 15, 2008 To celebrate ten years of Freshwater, we are offering a $200 Editors’ Prize for Outstanding Poem. Submit no more than 5 poems, with name, address, and e-mail address on each poem,...

The NEW PLAINS REVIEW seeks writing on the theme of “Service” for its spring 2009 issue. We invite you to interpret “service” broadly: military and community service, school service requirements, jury duty, all forms of volunteering, religious services, food service, customer service, serving a subpoena or tennis ball, etc. We’re interested in poetry, fiction, essays and creative nonfiction that is thoughtful and compelling, and we’ll reprint...

SUBMISSIONS ARE CURRENTLY OPEN! 3-5 poems sent as an attachment or in the body of the e-mail. 1 short story/column with between 200-1500 words maximum. send us your drawings/paintings/photographs. let us know if you would like your music or books reviewed. please send us previously unpublished work and be sure it is your own. attach a brief biography of yourself for us. send your submissions to thetorontoquarterly@hotmail.com Please note that...

Submit to Postal Poetry! We are accepting submissions of poetry postcards as well as extending our second contest until Dec. 15. For details, see our about page (postalpoetry.org/about) and our contest page (contest.postalpoetry.org/2008/10/october-postal-poetry-contest). Submissions have been light, but we don’t want to give up on this concept. We need you to make the project a success. So submit, and spread the word! In case you think...