Writer News: Top 10+ No Fee Calls for May, 2024
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RIDDLEBIRD
Riddlebird is happy to publish work that celebrates the joy of reading and writing across different reading preferences.
Full Guidelines: https://www.riddlebird.com/submission-guidelines
CAVE CANEM PRIZE
The Cave Canem Prize is awarded annually to the best debut collection of poems submitted by a Black poet.
Full Guidelines: https://cavecanempoets.org/prizes/cave-canem-prize/
LITMAG
LitMag is looking for work that moves and amazes. They are drawn to big minds, large hearts and sharp pens.
Full Guidelines: https://litmag.com/submit/
SHALLOW TALES REVIEW
The Shallow Tales Review accepts fiction, creative non-fiction, book reviews, poems, one-act plays, cultural and social essays, art photographs, and translations that touch on the sensibilities of the African.
Full Guidelines: https://theshallowtalesreview.com.ng/submissions/
RIVER HERON REVIEW
River Heron Review seeks clear, concise, and crafted work from a variety of diverse voices and perspectives. They love poems that use language imaginatively without sacrificing meaning and movement and are receptive to all styles of poetry. They want to be awed, surprised, or moved by the poems you submit.
Full Guidelines: https://www.riverheronreview.com/submit
WEST TRADE REVIEW
West Trade Review invites submissions of poetry, fiction, essays, and hybrid work for an upcoming issue with a special section on the theme of Ecstasy. Ecstasy will explore the contours of our altered states and our wishes — sometimes lucid, often not — for such alterity.
Full Guidelines: https://westtradereview.com/theme2024.html
PEPPER COAST LIT
Pepper Coast Lit accepts submissions from Africans, people of color, those in the diaspora, descendants, and affiliates of the aforementioned. They have no restrictions on themes, genres, styles, or forms, provided the work is well-written.
Full Guidelines: https://www.peppercoastlit.co/submit.html
CRANNOG
Crannóg welcomes general submissions of fiction & poetry.
Full Guidelines: https://crannogmagazine.com/submit/
QUARAMO WRITING PRIZE
For Quaramo Writing Prize 2024, they are inviting unpublished Nigerian and African writers to submit a fiction prose manuscript. An “African writer” is taken to mean someone who is a national of an African country, with a parent who is African by birth or nationality.
Full Guidelines: https://quramo.com/festival?clttxzu017ob207lbtkyrd43h
FAHMIDAN
Fahmidan wants your thought-provoking existentialism, your phobias, your darkest moments. Entrance them with your whimsical fantasy. Move them to tears with your truth in a world of suffering.
Full Guidelines: https://www.fahmidan.net/journal-submissions
DRFTWOOD PRESS
Driftwood Press is an independent magazine publisher & press. We publish chapbooks, full-length poetry collections, comics, novellas, and a robust literary magazine yearly
Full Guidelines: https://driftwoodpress.submittable.com/submit
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