The Casserole is an art + lit journal based out of the University of Toronto.  We are now seeking submission for our spring issue, as well as online publication to our website. We are looking for content that expresses the human experience and identity. We publish art, fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, personal essays, rants, tweets, and interview. To see our work: www.thecasserole.ca  For info on submitting: ...

Submission deadline: April 7th, 2014 Twisted Vine is the literary journal for Western New Mexico University’s Masters of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies program. We are open for submissions for our spring issue. Our staff is looking for original and previously unpublished fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, art, interview and video. We have a special affinity for those works that succeed in crossing, overlapping and transcending traditional...

The Georgia Theatre Conference (www.georgiatheatreconference.com), the official theatre organization for the state of Georgia, is now taking submissions for its annual One Act New Play Competition. The competition is open writers inside and outside of Georgia. The Competition is hosted by the Professional Division of GTC. The winning play will receive a $250.00 prize and will also be performed as a staged reading at the Georgia Theatre...

http://www.chickensoup.com — For the “New Year New You” 2015 season we plan to publish a book about the power of forgiveness. Have you ever noticed how forgiving someone frees you to move on with your life? We are looking for stories that will show our readers how forgiving someone or being forgiven by someone changed your life in a positive way. Were you able to reestablish a relationship after forgiving or being forgiven?...

FEMRITE is calling for submissions for the 6th Residency for African Women Writers, which will be co-hosted with the Swedish literary magazine Karavan, in October 2014. The 10-Day Writing Residency aims to give women writers space to reflect on their writing, connect with one another, read each others’ manuscripts and give feedback, interact with established writers and build literary bridges across cultures of the continent. The residency is...

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2014/01/04/star_short_story_contest_seeks_entries.html# — NO ENTRY FEE. A first prize of $5,000 plus tuition for the 30-week creative writing correspondence program at the Humber School for Writers valued at $3,000. Deadline for submissions is 5 p.m. February 28, 2014. Second prize is $2,000 while third is $1,000. Open to Ontario residents 16 and older, submissions can be on any topic, but must be...