Submission Sunday 6.28.26
LitMag, Potomac Review, ANMLY, Autumn House Press, The Markaz Review, Writer’s Digest, Monkeybicycle, and Loghaven Artist Residency
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This edition of Submission Sunday has calls and contests from LitMag, Potomac Review, ANMLY, Autumn House Press, The Markaz Review, Writer’s Digest, Monkeybicycle, and Loghaven Artist Residency. More details below.
LitMag Annual Contests: Emily Dickinson Award for Poetry (Deadline November 16), Anton Chekhov Award for Flash Fiction (Deadline December 1), and Virginia Woolf Award for Fiction (Deadline January 1)
LitMag is a print journal of fiction, poetry and nonfiction, a home for award-winning, emerging and unknown writers. We seek work that moves and amazes us. We are drawn to big minds and large hearts.
LitMag stories and poems have appeared in Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize, and The Pushcart Prize.
Potomac Review Call for Submissions (Deadline October 15)
From the shadow of our nation’s Capitol, Potomac Review looks out across its lush Potomac River basin, collecting and absorbing the world’s literary diversity. Embracing D.C.’s values of international inclusion, PR seeks work from emerging as well as established writers around the globe to facilitate the literary conversation.
We’ll read stories and essays of any size, though typically we find it difficult to make room for works that run much longer than 7,500 words. We enjoy nonfiction narratives and creative essays; we’re sorry to say we do not accept academic essays. If it’s something in between? Feel free to try us. Include up to five poems for each submission.
ANMLY Call for Submissions (Deadline August 1)
ANMLY is an international journal of literature and the arts. We provide a platform for works of art that challenge conventions of form and format, of voice and genre. ANMLY is committed to encouraging experimentation in the arts.
Anomalous Press was founded in 2010 in Boston, MA by Erica Mena, Shannon Walsh, Rachael Trousdale, David Johnston, Sarah Gilmore, and Matt Landry. The original incarnation of was Anomalous, a web journal, completely hand-coded, that published 17 issues between 2010 and 2015. In 2011 Anomalous Press began publishing print chapbooks in hand-made letterpress-printed cover editions of 100. Since then, Anomalous Press has published 23 books (as of 2018) of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and literature in translation.
Autumn House Press 2026 Poetry Prize (Deadline June 30)
Autumn House Press is a nonprofit, literary publisher based in Pittsburgh, PA. We publish full-length collections of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.
For the 2026 prize, the Autumn House staff, as well as select outsider readers, serve as the preliminary readers, and the final judge is Felicia Zamora. The winner receives publication of their full-length manuscript and $2,500. The book must be previously unpublished as a whole. However, individual pieces may have been published in journals, magazines, or anthologies.
PEN America: How Books Find Their Way: Paths and Possibilities in Publishing Today (June 29, 2026 – Free)
How does a book make its way from manuscript to reader in today’s publishing landscape? From traditional publishing to independent presses, hybrid models, and other emerging pathways, this conversation considers how the industry is changing and what those shifts mean for working writers. Join us as we discuss the practical, creative, and professional decisions involved in bringing a book into the world.
📚 Every other week, I’ll be making space for up to three online writing classes or programs (and the occasional retreat or conference). Learn more about getting your own classified ad. 📚
The Markaz Review Call for Submissions (“Anthropocene” – Deadline August 1)
Established in 2020, The Markaz Review (TMR) is a non-profit literary publication and platform that amplifies voices from the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia (SWANA). The Anthropocene is the name given to an epoch where human activity has irreversibly altered the conditions of life on earth: sea swallowing coastlines, forests burning beside high-rises, poisoned rivers, disappearing species while billionaires dream of colonies on Mars.
We invite fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translation, criticism, art, photography, film, and hybrid forms that interrogate these entanglements of racial capitalism, imperial violence, and ecological devastation. Tell us of worlds ending and already ended, and of what survives and what haunts us into the future. How do histories of extraction sediment within language itself? What does it mean for narrative structure to decenter the Anthropos? What happens when a sentence refuses colonial conquest, when a line break invokes occupation, exploited labor, or food sovereignty? How can form move beyond mere gesture and toward the serious work of worldmaking? We also welcome all modes of exploration: from speculative, surrealist, mythic, and genre-bending approaches, to petro-horror, climate fiction, eco-gothic, speculative and science fiction, borderlands, ruins, hauntologies and strange ecologies, impossible futures, and stories told from beyond the human.
Writer’s Digest Short Story Competition (Deadline November 16)
We’re looking for short fiction stories! Think you can write a winning story in 1,500 words or less? Enter the 26th Annual Writer’s Digest Short Short Story Competition for your chance to win $3,000 in cash, get published in Writer’s Digest magazine, and a paid trip to our ever-popular Writer’s Digest Conference!
Monkeybicycle Call for Submissions
Monkeybicycle is an online literary journal which is updated almost daily. We were also a print journal for a time, publishing nine issues in total over several years. Many of these feature amazing writing from people like Ben Loory, Roxane Gay, Laura van den Berg, Sarah Silverman, Patton Oswalt and tons more.
Founded in 2002 in Seattle, WA, Monkeybicycle has continued to publish the absolute highest quality in a wide range of literary categories. Twice, works we’ve published were selected for inclusion in the Best American Nonrequired Reading anthologies and have a selection in the 2018 Best Small Fictions anthology.
Loghaven Artist Residency (Knoxville, Tennessee – Deadline July 15)
Loghaven Artist Residency’s mission is to serve artists by providing them with a transformative residency experience and continued post-residency support. The residency is located on ninety acres of woodland in Knoxville, Tennessee. Artists live in five historic log cabins that have been both rehabilitated and modernized to create an ideal setting for reflection and work, and they have access to new, purpose-built studio space. The residency is completely funded. All Loghaven Fellows are awarded stipends to support the creation of new work during the residency.
Here’s a reminder of the deadlines coming up from previous posts. Hot tips:
If you go into the archives and revisit posts from this time of year during previous years, you’ll find additional calls that are open annually.
If you submit to any of the Submission Sunday calls and publish or win, let me know and I’ll broadcast your success in a future post.
CRAFT 2026 First Chapters Contest (Deadline June 28)
Atticus Review Call for Submissions (“Song” – Deadline June 28)
Feign The Reign Prize (Deadline June 30)
Granta Call for Submissions (Deadline June 30)
Thimble Literary Magazine Call for Submissions (Deadline June 30)
Pleiades: Literature in Context Call for Submissions (Deadline June 30)
Bloodletter Call for Chapbook Submissions (“Migrant Voices in Horror” – Deadline June 30)
FSG (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Writer’s Fellowship (Deadline July 6)
Wendy’s Subway 2026 Book Prize (Deadline July 24)
Prairie Schooner Summer Creative Nonfiction Contest (Deadline August 1)
Granum Foundation Prizes (Deadline August 1 or when submission cap is met)
Image Call for Submissions (“Trash, Broadly Considered” – Deadline August 2)
The Publishing Laboratory at the University of New Orleans Call for Manuscripts (Deadline August 31)
Reed Magazine Call for Submissions (General + Contests – Deadline October 1)
Ploughshares Call for Submissions (Deadline November 15)
*This newsletter does not guarantee the unimpeachable behavior of all venues shared here but the odds are good.
