Under the Gum Tree is a digital literary arts magazine, published quarterly and accepting continuous submissions. The editors are looking to publish creative nonfiction: true stories about human interactions — with each other, with food, with music, with film, that are told in original and beautiful ways. In particular, we are seeking stories related to music, film and food.  Get a free copy of our premiere issue when you sign up for our...

Yes the rumours are true! The Flaneur is heading into the exciting realm of ebook publishing. We are looking for short stories under the theme Urban Shorts. This can be interpreted in any way that you wish. The deadline is the end of May 31, 2012. We are looking for stories of all lengths up to around 6000 words, although this is negotiable if a longer story fits the call. The best stories will be published in an ebook and possibly a paper book...

National Writing Contest in Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, and Poetry $15 Entry Fee *** $1,000 First Place Prize *** Postmark Deadline: October 1, 2012  Our annual contest awards $1000 plus publication for the first place winners in fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. Finalists in each genre will be recognized as such, published, and paid in copies. Cost of entry: $15, checks or money orders payable to Alligator Juniper. Every entrant...

Each month Switchback provides a prompt and we want you to send us your best work inspired by that prompt. The winning entry as decided by our editors will be featured on Switchback. Contest submissions can be poetry, fiction, nonfiction, or even art but must be 500 words or under. Please send us only one submission per prompt and only previously unpublished works. We accept simultaneous submissions but please notify us immediately of...

The Baltimore Review is now accepting submissions for its summer contest, and the theme is Heat:  It’s energy. It’s intensity. It’s passion. It consumes you. It dissolves, melts, bakes.  It’s a fever, or just a blush. It’s a night in a cheap motel, a barefoot walk on hot sand, a complicated meal in a rowhouse kitchen. It’s nuclear fusion or the Senate floor. It’s jalapeno and habanero peppers. It’s the cops. It’s the contest theme for our...

We love new writing and new writers and so we would like to give you every opportunity to get your work out to the public!   Therefore, we are now running a monthly writing competition.  Each month, you will be given a theme. You will need to then write a 500 word short story related to that theme.   Try not to be too tenuous though!   All entries will be judged by a panel of three avid readers.   They will choose a first, second and third...