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37 Themed Submission Calls and Contests for July 2026

▾ Filter listings Fiction Poetry Contest Essay ✕ Showing all These are calls and contests for themed submissions of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Some call themes are: prepare to advance; out of office; Halloween special; aliens; aftermath; ghost stories; exquisite engines (steampunk); terminally online; Solarpunk; cozy fantasy; invitation; and beyond the memoirs of Sherlock Holmes…
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A Quick Start Guide to Children’s and Young Adult Publishing

Writing for children and young adults is very different than writing for adults. Audience expectations are different. Picture books, for example, have completely different sub-genres than adult books. Whereas adult books have genres like science fiction and fantasy, picture books have sub-genres like fairy tale, alphabet, and bedtime books. There is a whole body of…
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44 Themed Submission Calls and Contests for April 2026

▾ Filter listings Fiction Poetry Contest Essay ✕ Showing all These are themed calls and contests for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Some of the call themes are: rest is resistance; fledgling; paying tribute; war and geopolitical violence; power; paranormal noir; folk horror; savagery; November & December holidays; climbing high – speculative stories of female ambition;…
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45 Themed Submission Calls and Contests for March 2026

▾ Filter listings Fiction Poetry Contest Essay ✕ Showing all These are themed calls and contests for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from 45 outlets; a couple of the outlets are open for more than one call. Some of the call themes are: strange Dear John; reverse evaluation; maps; bad science; the aftermath; pandora; vegetal; birthday;…
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51 Themed Submission Calls and Contests for January 2026

These are themed calls and contests for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from 51 outlets that are open for submissions now; a couple of the outlets are open for more than one call. Some of the themed calls are: Cupid’s misfire; metamorphosis; solarpunk horror; endings; miracles, messages from heaven & angels; immortality; climate crisis (and climate…
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41 Themed Submission Calls and Contests for September 2025

These are calls and contests for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Some of the call themes are: folk horror; holiday; the unmaking; thresholds; arms & armor; alchemy; who gets to be American?; communication; long-term relationships; cats; the language of flowers; eerie Christmas; and soilpunk. Phi Kappa Phi Forum: Travel by PlaneThey’re reading poetry submissions for their…
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32 Themed Submission Calls and Contests for April 2025

These are themed calls and contests for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Some of the call themes are: solarpunk; seaside gothic; witchcraft; tributes to late bloomers; epiphany; where legends walk (superhero stories); creature feature; women of the weird west; feast or famine?; (sub)liminal; and eldritch. THEMED CALLS Solarpunk MagazineThis is a magazine of solarpunk fiction; they…
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37 Themed Submission Calls and Contests for March 2025

These are themed calls/contests from 37 outlets for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. A couple of the outlets are open for more than one call. Some call themes are: Shirley Jackson (tribute issue); dreams; cryptids; plants; beach reads; disability pride & magic; climate crisis; spirit of the wolf; pushing back; reversal; world horror; and making the…
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39 Themed Submission Calls for February 2025

These are themed calls and contests for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Some of the call themes are: Cottage Crimes; Here Be Monsters; folk horror; Tales of Cryptid Chaos; Vampire Hunters – An Incomplete Record of Personal Accounts; We Are Not Going Back!; Illumination; Fresh Starts; Modern Mummies; Eco – ; and Joy. THEMED CALLS The…
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41 Themed Submission Calls and Contests for January 2025

These are themed calls and contests for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Some of the themed calls are: paranoia; short (b)reads; seaside gothic; fairy tales; sleeping beauty; food; underappreciated or overlooked writers; Queer tales of untold adventure; witch craft; speculative mysteries; carnival of horror; and lost at sea. Fraidy Cat Quarterly: ParanoiaFraidy Cat Quarterly is a…
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37 Themed Submission Calls and Contests for December 2024

These are themed submission calls and contests from 37 outlets for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Some call themes are: solar punk; (non)binaries; anarchy and harmony; shatter the sun – Queer tales of untold adventure; tales from the cleaners; silent nightmares –  haunting stories to be told on the longest night of the year; the workplace;…
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31 Themed Submission Calls and Contests for November 2024

These are themed calls and contests from 31 publishers for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry; a couple of the publishers are open for more than one call. Some of the call themes are: solarpunk conflicts; fever dreams; Aphrodite; censorship; stop surveillance copaganda; cat stories; future states of stars; on the farm; high seas horror; fortune and…
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32 Themed Submission Calls and Contests for October 2024

These are themed submission calls and contests for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry; a couple of these outlets are open for more than one call. Some call themes are: No place like home; were wolf short stories; food poems; winter horrorland; superstition; coming of age; time travel; rituals; underground; de/composition; steampunk sleuths; dread Mondays; bodies in…
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32 Themed Submission Calls and Contests for September 2024

These are themed submission calls and contests for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Some call themes are: tales of winter shadows; schism; environmental justice; Morgana le Fay; long-term relationships; visitation; Leviathan (industrial horror); each and other; hidden villains – criminals; and werewolves. THEMED SUBMISSIONS Speculation Publications: Evergreen – Tale of Winter ShadowsThis is a fiction and…
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