Deadline: April 5th
Publication: The Writers Collective First Annual MFA Anthology
Page limit: 5 pages (double spaced, standard margins and fonts)
Details:
The SDSU Writers Collective is in the process of putting together a chapbook that will showcase the great writing that is being produced by the students of the MFA program. A five page limit, but think of it as your own 5 pages with which to do whatever you please--multiple works, some poetry some fiction, excerpts, etc. Since this book will hopefully be around for future students and faculty to read, we encourage you to submit what you consider to be your best work. (And, of course, you keep the rights!)

A great resource:
New Pages Calls for Submission page

ROLLING DEADLINES (or at least none specified)

Call for submissions: Shaking Like a Mountain
www.shakinglikeamountain.com.
Call for submissions. shaking like a mountain new look! new year!
shaking like a mountain is currently reading for its Spring 2008 issue.
We cannot emphasize this enough. Read us first at
www.shakinglikeamountain.com.
Then read our submission guidelines carefully.
If you have poetry, fiction or creative nonfiction that you think fits
our criteria, then submit and submit and submit.

Trillium Literary Journal, an on-line publication is currently seeking submissions of poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, book reviews, art, and photographs. Trillium's goal is to publish top quality, seriousliterary works. Trillium does not accept simultaneous submissions. We strive to give personal responses to all submissions, rather than sending cursory "canned" rejections.
The current issue of Trillium is online at www.trilliumliteraryjournal.org.
Please send submissions to submissions(at)trilliumliteraryjournal.org
(replace (at) with @)

http://fourthriver.chatham.edu/
"The Fourth River welcomes submissions of creative writing thatexplore the relationship between humans and their environments, bothnatural and built, urban, rural or wild. We are looking for writingsthat are richly situated at the confluence of place, space andidentity, or that reflect upon or make use of landscape and place innew ways. Nature and environmental writing that is edgy andprovocative, that goes beyond traditional nature writing, andcontributes to a new type of place-based writing has the best chanceof finding a home in our journal."

Name of Pub: Bound Off
Literary audio magazine
Specs: 250 to 2500 ww for its upcoming podcasts .
More info: Bound Off pays $20 per contracted story.
Website: http://boundoff.com/submit.html

Deadline: No deadline mentioned, for fall
Genre: Poetry
Name of Pub: C&R Press
Breathe: 101 Contemporary Odes
More info: Our intention is to bring together contemporary American poems that meditate, celebrate, and take stock of our world. We envision this anthology as a roadmap of (1) where we've been (our sense of history), (2) who we are (identity and character), and (3) where we're headed (a re-envisioning of community, self, and the idea of America).
Website: http://www.crpress.org
Simultaneous subs?

Deadline: No deadline mentioned, for May issue
Genre: Fiction, poetry
Name of Pub: Cha: An Asian Literary Journal
first Hong Kong-based online journal dedicated to publishing English literature from and about Asia. It publishes quality poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, reviews photography & art.
Website: http://www.asiancha.com
Simultaneous subs? y

Deadline: No deadline
Genre: Fiction
Name of Pub: Hyphen Magazine


Deadline: 4/30/08
Genre: Fiction, poetry
Name of Pub: Segue
online literary journal of Miami University-Middletown. Segue's dual mission is to serve as a high quality literary publication and an educational venue for writing instructors and students of writing. In addition to publishing an eclectic blend of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction from around the globe, each issue features a well-established author who publishes a small body of new/forthcoming work along with an essay that explores the writing process behind their submission.
Email
Contest?
Specs: Limit prose submissions to one work (up to 5000 words), poetry to 1-3 works, and cover art to two works.
More info:
Website: http://www.mid.muohio.edu/segue
Simultaneous subs? y

Deadline: 4/30/08
Genre: Poetry
Name of Pub: River Poets
A literary journal featuring original poetry, prose, art, photography and events.
Contest?
Specs: Submit Poetry: Up to 5 of your best short poems, haiku, senyru,tanka, cherita, etc., or short poems less than 10 lines.
More info: For inclusion in a Chapbook published by Lilly Press - Summer of 2008.
Website: http://www.riverpoetsjournal.com
Simultaneous subs?

**MAY

Deadline: 5/1/08
Genre: Ficiton and nonfiction scholarships
Name of Pub: Antioch Writers' Workshop
Contest?
Specs:
More info: This scholarship is for a week-long conference of intensive study and an honorary seat at the banquet opening night. Room, board, andtransportation are not provided. The workshop, however will help the scholarshiprecipient to find a village host for minimal cost ($150/week). This contest is a national one; anyone from anywhere may apply.
Website: http://www.antiochwritersworkshop.com/scholarships.php
Simultaneous subs?

Deadline: 5/1/08
Genre: Fiction, poetry, plays
Name of Pub: Knock
Contest? 4th annual Ecolit & Green Art contest
Specs:
More info:
Website: http://www.knockjournal.org/index.html
Simultaneous subs?

Deadline 5/15/08
http://www.arsenalpulp.com/home.php
Arsenal Pulp Press (BC) seeks short stories for an upcomingcollection: Queer Utopias: A Science Fiction Anthology (publicationSpring 2009). Looking for stories from science fiction writers whowant to explore the implications of sexuality or for stories rooted ina queer/feminist background that are imagining a desirable (or perhapsundesirable, to some or all) future. Actively interested insubmissions from non-North American writers, but preference given toCanadian writers. Story length: 10000 words max. Submissioninstructions: Title the file with author's last name and story titlein the file name: Surname-Title.doc; include name, mailing/emailaddress, and bio within the .doc file with your piece (submissionswill be separated from emails to be read); and submit as an attachmentin .doc format, to queerutopias@gmail.com. Payment: honorarium and onecopy of the book. Deadline: May 15, 2008.

Deadline: 5/15/08
Genre: fiction, criticism, experimental prose, and web-based audio-visual work
Name of Pub: DIGITAL ARTIFACT MAGAZINE
ISSUE 2: TRANSNATIONALISM
Email only
Contest?
Specs:
More info: text pieces up to 2,000 words in length
Website: digitalartifactmagazine.com
Simultaneous subs?

Deadline: 5/31/08
Genre: Poetry
Name of Pub: ALYX, A Journal of Art and Literature by Women
Contest? Lois Cranston Memorial Poetry Prize
Specs: $15 per entry (3 poems, 6 pages total)
More info: Publication plus $300
Website: www.calyxpress.org
Simultaneous subs?


**JULY

Deadline July 1, 2008
Descant (ON) invites poetry and prose submissions for an upcoming
themed issue. Submit poetry, short stories, novel excerpts, plays,
essays, and interviews. Theme: Dance. Payment: $100. Deadline: July 1,
2008. More details... http://www.descant.ca/submit.html


**OCTOBER

Deadline: 10/1/08
Genre: Fiction
Name of Pub: Christopher Isherwood Foundation
Contest? Grants for Fiction Writers
Specs:
More info: Grants will be awarded to writers who have published at least one book of fiction, either a novel or a collection of stories. Each grant is for $4,000. The grants are intended to enable writers to set aside time for writing. All applicants must be American citizens. The novel or story collection must have been published at the time of application.
Website: http://isherwoodfoundation.org/
Simultaneous subs? y