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December 2021 & Early 2022 Themed Calls for Submissions

by Writing Workshops Staff

2 years ago


December 2021 & Early 2022 Themed Calls for Submissions

by Writing Workshops Staff

2 years ago


If you love writing toward a theme or you have a finished manuscript you can fit into one of the themed calls below, well then, we suggest you get to submitting! All of the themed submission calls below have deadlines between December 2021 and well into 2022. Take a look and find a home for your work!

You can also sign up for Blake Kimzey's Publishing in Literary Journals to Launch Your Career Zoom Seminar on January 13th, 2022.

And, if you're looking for a class in fiction, poetry, nonfiction, or screenwriting, we've got you covered.

Arc Manor Books: The Reinvented Detective Anthology
Deadline: 15 January 2021
Details here.

Augur: Joyful Imaginations
Deadline: 19 December 2021
Details here.

Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine: Black Orchid Novella Award
Deadline: 31 May 2022
Details here.

Brink: Certainty
Deadline: 15 December 2021
Details here.

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah and New Year’s
Deadline: 30 May 2022
Details here.

Folkloric: Lovecraftian Inspired Tales of Folklore & Horror
Deadline: 1 January 2022
Details here.

Soft Skull Press: Black Punk Now
Deadline: 1 January 2022
Details here.

Omega Sci-Fi Awards: The Roswell Award
Deadline: 21 December 2021
Details here

Poetry Society of America: The Four Quartets Prize
Deadline: 31 December 2021
Details here

Room Magazine: Audacity
Deadline: 15 January 2022
Details here

St. Martin’s Minotaur/ Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Competition
Deadline: 17 December 2021
Details here

The Best New True Crime Stories: Crimes of the Famous & Infamous
Deadline: 1 January 2022 (or until filled – pitch first)
Details here.

The Leon Levy Centre for Biography: Biography Fellowships
Deadline: 4 January 2021
Details here

Worlds Enough: Fantastic Detectives
Deadline: 30 December 2021
Details here.

Quantum Shorts Short Story Contest
Deadline: 16 December 2021
Details here.

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