We'll be opening for submissions of all forms of art and writing from 15th December 2025 - 28th February 2026. We'll be open for submissions via Duosoma and Curatorspace. Our submission guidelines and previous issue are on our website. 🐌🌌🌞 metachrosislitmag.com #litmag #literarymagazine #opencall

Just a day and some change left to enter! www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

Today we’re spotlighting A Holy Place of the Druids or Grave of a Chieftain. Edith Somerville employs a limited colour palette for this undated work of Drombeg Stone Circle. Also known as ‘The Druid’s Altar’, Drombeg is oriented towards the setting sun on the Winter Solstice. #CrawfordArtGallery

Feed you eyes by browsing the paintings in the @solomonfineart.bsky.social Winter Group Show. So many talented irish artists included here but of course, for me, the work of @tomcliment.bsky.social always has a special place in my heart. www.solomonfineart.ie/viewing-room...

Another bumper packed issue of the annual Waterford News & Star Festive Star filled with a wide mix o local stories from many of our finest and not so fine like myself. Great value at €5 for 140 pages

We'll be reading again this weekend for our Poems for Protest anthology Get submitting! roughdiamondpoetry.com/submissions/

Cork County Council Library & Arts Services funding opportunities for the Arts sector. Proposals are invited for arts projects, activities & events taking place in Cork County in 2026. Deadline 9 Jan. Info sessions in local libraries and online in Nov/Dec www.corkcoco.ie/en/news/appl...

Read the latest issue of RCC MUSE & consider sending your own fiction, nonfiction, & poetry during their general reading period, open now through January 31. No fee. Their Spangler Award is also open to poems about a child or childhood. $5 fee. $200 prize & publication. #writingcontest #writers

A global #litmag of daring prose, art, photography, & comics + small press focusing on chapbooks, Palooka is open to submissions year-round. They do charge a small reading fee. Catch up on their latest releases & submit today. #callforsubmissions #writers

Happy Friday! It's time to swing by the NewPages Blog for our weekly roundup of submission opportunities featuring 135 general calls & contests, several with November 15 deadlines. Don't miss out! #writers #writingcommunity

The 20th National Indie Excellence Awards are open for entries. If your book was published within the last 2 years, you could win national recognition, medals, stickers, and more. Open to self-published, indie press, and university press titles. #IndieAuthors #BookAwards #CallForEntries

Accents Publishing is now accepting manuscripts of every genre imaginable during their open reading period (Nov 1–Dec 31). Poetry, fiction, memoir, YA, children’s books, lyrical essays, chapbooks, and more — all welcome. Submit by purchasing a recent Accents title. #writers #callforsubmissions

L’Esprit Literary Review seeks entries for the Leopold Bloom Prize. Open to short stories or novel excerpts challenging literary convention & showcasing risk-adept narration. $800 in prizes, $10 fee. Deadline: December 7. Judge: Michael Nath. #writers #litmag #writingcontest @lespritlit.bsky.social

What if Anxiety walked into your life like an old acquaintance? How would it speak, dress, behave? Explore this perspective in any form—poetry, prose, art. #WritingCommunity #Prompt

Got a true story to tell or art to share? Hindsight Journal Vol. VI is open for submissions! Creative nonfiction, photography, painting, and more welcome. Deadline: Jan. 15, 2026. No fee! #writers #litmag #callforsubmissions

Saturday is now the day after tomorrow #TheMikey

Wait… what? Did the right thing? Really? Well done @albomp.bsky.social & co. That’s hugely important! 🙏👏🙏👏🙏👏 #auspol

Join us at the Dublin Small Press Fair on November 28th for a discussion on Independent Publishing with: 🌠 Will Dady from @renardpress.com 🌠Eimear Ryan from @bansheepress.bsky.social 🌠Brendan MacEvilly from Holy Show 🌠and chaired by our very own Nidhi Zak / Aria Eipe

Lit mags are usually known for their slow response times, but these amazing flash fiction pubs are trying to change that! Submit to them here: www.chillsubs.com/lists/fast-f... #writing #writingcommunity #litmags

Dive into the September issue of The Blue Mountain Review, a journal of culture, featuring Garret Dillahunt, Octavio Quintanilla, & Benheart. Then consider sending your own poetry, fiction, & essays. $5 fee. Open year-round. #writers #litmag #callforsubmissions

Enter the 2026 National Indie Excellence® Awards by Mar 31. Open to English-language books from indie presses, self-published authors & university presses published in the last two calendar years. Multiple categories. Cash prizes & sponsorship prizes awarded. #bookawards #writers

2 weeks remain to enter unpublished full-length manuscripts of poetry, flash fiction, or a combo of both to the Vern Rutsala Book Prize from Cloudbank Books. Winner receives $1k, publication, & copies. Enter by Nov 30. $25 fee. #writers #writingcontest

Mark your calendars! swamp pink's annual prizes in fiction, poetry, & nonfiction will open on January 1! $2,000 & publication awarded per genre. $20 fee. All entries considered for publication. #writingcontest #writers #litmag

✨Additional Tours Added!✨ Crawford Art Gallery has added more dates and time slots to our Crawford Uncovered Tours, including an evening tour in support of Cork City Council's Night Time Economy. Click the link below to book yours before they are gone! #CrawfordArtGallery #CrawfordUncovered

We've received some amazing work so far. Visual, sound, text hybrids - complex, layered and expansive 🔥 The call is extended to 30 November so still time to submit your innovative hybrids on PROCESS / MARGINALIA / OTHERWOR(L)D(S). See Ice Floe site for details ✨️ @icefloepress.bsky.social

Poetry By The Barrow: November Open Mic, presented in association with Poetry Ireland! With featured poets Jessamine O'Connor, Charlie Gracie and Martin Goldie, as we kiss goodbye to 2025. 📆Sun. 30th November 🕧12:30pm 📍Doyles cozy backroom, Graiguenamanagh, Kilkenny 🎫Free

Went down a New Yorker research rabbit hole and now we’re all gonna get FAMOUS, friends! Read the full list here: bit.ly/m/ChillSubs FULL DISCLOSURE THOUGH - that is one of our paid pieces. #writing #writingcommunity #litmags

We are looking for poems that perform Olympic feats with language that leave the reader in wonder while still referring back to the basic things that make us human. Send us work that uniquely explores Nov. theme of community/connection. Dec. theme: "letting go." buff.ly/0QQqF2i #writingcommunity

The editors of West Trade Review are looking for essays that explore creative life expansively conceived. We are seeking personal essays exploring creative practice, support for the literary or creative life, hopes/desires/goals for the arts. Details below: buff.ly/y9bXI6B #writingcommunity

Time is almost up! Omnidawn's Fabulist Fiction Contest closes to entries on November 16! $30 fee. Winner receives $1,000, book publication, & 20 copies. Judge is Arria Deepwater. #writers #WritingContest @omnidawn.bksy.social

The NewPages November 2025 eLitPak is now available! Discover writing contests, book awards & prizes, general submission opportunities, & new winter book releases! #writingcommunity #literarycommunity #writers

The Press 53 Award for Short Fiction is given annually to an outstanding, unpublished short story collection. $30 fee. Winner receives $1k cash advance, book publication, & copies. Deadline: December 31. Judge: Kevin Morgan Watson #writers #writingcontest

The 12th annual William Saroyan International Prize for Writing is open to submissions through January 30. Work must have been published between 1/1/25 & 12/31/25. Works of fiction & nonfiction only by authors with less than 3 books published. Two prizes of $5,000 awarded. $50 fee. #bookaward

Check out our new batch of lit mag and small press listings (with submission opportunities too!) @novellum.bsky.social @sorrynotsorry.bsky.social @dishsoapquart.bsky.social @thecitronreview.bsky.social & more wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/saturday-s...

Read Palestine Week is coming up on 29 November-December 5. A great way to support Palestinian writers is to read their work. Also, it's good to read it because of its quality. Why not take part and perhaps discover a talented writer you haven't read before.

Many publications rely on 'us' to promote opportunities. "Submissions are open for the first issue of Meniscus for 2026, at meniscusliteraryjournal.submittable.com/submit; and keep an eye out for the 2026 prizes, if you’re interested in submitting work." Do share amongst writer/poets.

The Saturday after this one is now this Saturday, because that’s how time goes. This means that as of midnight NYC tonight, Tuesday Nov 11, there will be 96 hours to enter the 250-word, $1,000-top-prize SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest 2025. Please let this be right. www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

The first snow carries a quiet kind of magic. Maybe it melted by morning, maybe it dusted the trees just long enough to make you pause. Write, draw, or imagine: What does that fleeting moment mean to you? #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WritingPrompt

Speak Your Truth in association with Poetry Ireland presents The Poetry Lounge, with readings from Molly Twomey, Caroline Bracken and Bernadette Gallagher. 🕰️ Sat 29th November 🗓️ 2-4pm ⛪ Waterford Gallery of Art, O’Connell Street, Waterford 🎟️Free 🔗More info on our site

Speak Your Truth in association with Poetry Ireland presents a generative Poetry Workshop. Facilitated by Molly Twomey, Southword Debut Collection winner. 🕰️ Sat 29th November 🗓️ 10.30am-12.30pm ⛪ Waterford Gallery of Art 🎟️Admission: €25 🔗 Book via our website.

The Wishing Jewel Prize for Poetic Innovation, from Green Linden Press, awards $1000 & book publication to an unpublished collection that questions boundaries, form, or mode while engaging the rich possibilities of lyrical expression. $25 fee. Deadline: Nov 30. #PoetryContest #CallForManuscripts

January 16 is the deadline to submit poetry, flash fiction, hybrid prose, art & experimental structures to Poets in the Pines for the second anthology in the Made from Midnight series: Delirium. No fee. Editor feedback option available. #callforsubmissions

CALL OUT FOR SUBMISSIONS! Magma 95 - 'Architecture' Closing date: 10th Dec 2025 Editors Leo Boix & Stav Poleg look forward to reading your work—your rooms, your ruins, your bridges of language... Image: Charles Schridde magmapoetry.com/call-for-sub...

Submissions are open. Send us your best short fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Before submitting, please review our guidelines at the link below: buff.ly/l1HwehS #writingcommunity

This week's Moth Studios challenge is to paint / draw a root vegetable. The work must be completed within two hours and submitted from 9-11pm on Tuesday evening to The Moth Studios (by private message on FB). The challenge is open to everyone. Please share and good luck! 🎨 Lizz Lovell

Colder weather and lit flurries go together. Enjoy 130+ submission opportunities, book reviews, new #litmag issues, book reviews, & more! #literarycommunity #writers #readers

Now there’s one actual week left, if you count the deadline day as a day and today as a day. $1,000 1st; $500 2nd; $300 3rd; $100 finalists. Winners and finalists published in the December issue of SmokeLong Quarterly. 250 words max. www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

Last week burned bright. This week: #Desire — ache, hunger, want, undoing. What pulls you toward the flame? New theme begins Friday. Don’t post early. Use Alt Text. Tag #PoemsAbout to be found. For Saturday prompts: shorturl.at/0Xm7A

OPEN FOR SUBS! Poems for protest roughdiamondpoetry.com/submissions/ THE ROUUGH DIAMOND POETRY PRIZE roughdiamondpoetry.com/the-rough-di...

The Moth Poetry Prize's past judges include Claudia Rankine, Marie Howe, Billy Collins, Nick Laird, Warsan Shire, Hannah Sullivan, Fiona Benson, Louise Glück and more. We're delighted to add Ishion Hutchinson to the list this year! Open now. Enter here: bit.ly/mothpoetry25