Teen Ink has no staff writers; we depend completely on you to send writing, art, and photos. There is no charge to submit or be published. All submissions will be considered for publication in Teen Ink’s print magazine and website. General Guidelines All submissions of writing and artwork will be considered for publication in our monthly print magazine and on TeenInk.com, and are also automatically entered into any relevant contests. Teen Ink...

Fairy Tale Review is thrilled to announce the debut of an annual contest, beginning this year with Prose & Poetry awards. We’re interested in poems, stories, and essays with a fairy-tale feel — mainstream to experimental, genre to literary, realist to fabulist. Both contests will award $1,000, and all submissions will be considered for publication in The Mauve Issue. $10 ENTRY FEE. Deadline July 15, 2014 Visit the website for...

THE NEW GUARD VOLUME IV contest submission period runs from February 10 to July 14, 2014. The entry fee is $15. Guidelines are below. Click the link below to submit via Submittable’s online submission manager. We are looking forward to reading your work! MACHIGONNE FICTION CONTEST: $1,000 for an exceptional fiction in any genre. Submit up to 5,000 words: anything from flash to the long story. Novel excerpts are welcome if the excerpt...

Descriptive Mystery Story Competition 1st Prize: £100.00 2nd Prize: £75.00 3rd Prize: £50.00 Closing date:  16th August 2014 Entry fee: £2.00 or Free to Premier1 Write, Learn and Publish members We want you to write a story inspired by the photo published online.   Consider that something unusual or unexplained happened here.  Importantly, we want you to bring the scenes to life by making it beautifully descriptive. Maximum word count: 1200...

Contest Submission   TBL is pleased to announce our second annual Fall Literary Competition. There are three submission categories: 1) short stories of any genre ranging from 1,000 to 7,500 words, 2) flash fiction with a word limit of either 55, 250, or 500 words, and 3) poetry no longer than three pages. For these contests we are looking for engaging stories, vivid characters, and fresh perspectives and styles. Deadline: July 15th, 2014....

Warning, Poems may be longer than they appear: an anthology of Longish Poems is looking for poems between 3 to 6 pages or 100 to 200 lines on any theme or subject. Please submit 1 longish poem or a series of strongly linked poems (not linked merely by theme) to the editors at longishpoems@gmail.com between now and September 15, 2014. Include a brief 150 words or less bio and attach poems in Word or RTF. We will consider previously published...