Contests

University of Wisconsin Press $ Deadline September 15, 2020

QueryLetter.com Writing Contest $ Deadline September 15, 2020

Travelers Tales $ Deadline September 21, 2020

The University of Arkansas Press $ DeadlineSeptember 30, 2020

Philip Levin Prize for Poetry $ Deadline September 30, 2020

Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest $ Deadline September 30, 2020

Supernatural Fiction Award $ Deadline September 30, 2020

Iowa Short Fiction Award $ Deadline September 30, 2020

Boulevard Nonfiction Contest for Emerging Writers $ Deadline September 30, 2020

Dzanc Books Short Story Competition $ Deadline September 30, 2020

Dzanc Books Diverse Voices Fiction Award $ Deadline September 30, 2020
Open to writers from marginalized or underrepresented communities

The Lascaux Review Prize in Nonfiction $ Deadline September 30, 2020

Red Hen Press Fiction Award $ Deadline September 30, 2020

Hackney Literary Novel Contest $ Deadline September 30, 2020

Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition $ Deadline October 1, 2020 

Fractured Lit $ Deadline October 5, 2020

Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards $ Deadline December 31, 2020

Publishing Opportunities 

Write On, Door County Ongoing

The Carolina Quarterly  $ Ongoing

Non.Plus Literary Magazine Ongoing
Open to Black writers only

Fractured Lit Ongoing

Literary Yard Ongoing

Chestnut Review $ Deadline September 30, 2020 and December 31, 2020

The Nashville Review $ Deadline September 30, 2020

Gordon Square Review $ Deadline October 1, 2020

The First Line $ Deadline October 21, 2020

HerStry $ Deadline October 22, 2020
Open to women writers only

AIE International Deadline November 1, 2020

Middle House Review $ Deadline December 4, 2020

The Cincinnati Review $ Deadline January 1, 2021

Stonecrop Review $ Deadline February 28, 2021

Ninth Letter $ Deadline February 28, 2021

Ekphrastic Review  Deadline March 1, 2021

Grain Magazine $ Deadline May 15, 2021

Page & Spine $ Deadline June 1, 2021