The Baltimore Review Fall Submissions

The Baltimore Review seeks short fiction, creative nonfiction, or poetry for publication in their winter and summer issues. Guidelines vary by category.

Prizes:  Web exposure and a copy of the collection in which the author’s work appears.

Reading fee: None.

Deadline is November 30, 2014. For more information, please visit their website.


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Zoetrope: All-Story Short Fiction Contest

Zoetrope All StoryThe eighteenth annual Short Fiction Contest is now open for all genres of literary fiction. Entries must be unpublished and strictly 5,000 words or fewer.

Prizes:  First prize: $1,000, Second prize: $500, Third prize: $250; the top ten entries will be considered for representation by the literary agencies listed on the website.

Entry fee: $20.

Deadline is October 1, 2014.

For more information, please visit their website.


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The Fiction Desk Open Submissions

The Fiction Desk is always looking for new short stories about people and places, rather than about writing itself, for the Fiction Desk anthologies.

Prizes: £15 per thousand words for stories they publish.

Entry fee: £2 – for expedited reading.

Deadline: None. For more information, please visit their website.


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Boston Review’s Aura Estrada Short Story Contest

Boston Review LogoBoston Review seeks previously unpublished stories not exceeding 5,000 words for the Aura Estrada Short Story Contest.

Prizes:  $1,500 and have his or her work published in the July/August 2015 issue of Boston Review. All submitters receive a complementary half-year subscription (3 issues) to Boston Review.

Reading fee: $20.00.

Deadline is October 1, 2014. For more information, please visit their website.


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