Submission Opportunities: August 2025
Looking to get published? Here's our monthly roundup of submission opportunities from around the web.
Get Inspired and Find Your People: Attend a Writers Conference
Are you looking to expand your writing life? Your writing community? Your exposure to literary agents, editors, and publishers? Writers conferences can provide all of these potentially life-changing benefits and more.
At writers conferences members of the literary world come together to learn, educate, network, and celebrate the magic of writing.…
$1,000 Page One Prize Contest – Closing July 16
Once a month we provide our newsletter readers a list of publications and contests that are open for submissions. This month, we have a special contest we recommend for the novelists out there… even if you haven’t started writing yet.
The Gutsy Great Novelist Page One Prize is accepting entries until July 16, 5:00 PM (ET).…
Submission Opportunities: July 2025
Here are some fresh submission opportunities for your writing for the month of July.
Summertime Sadness Contest Results!
Announcing the winners of the Summertime Sadness flash fiction contest on Story Street! Congratulations to the winners and thanks to all the wonderful submissions!
Reframing Rejection: Giving Your Tired Hang-ups Vibrant New Life
When my husband was in his final semester of graduate school, his roommate, Steve, was unsuccessfully searching for a job. At a time when rejections were more formal and arrived on embossed letterhead, Steve decided to decorate his apartment with a collage of dismissals, near misses, and best wishes.…
There’s a New Podcast in Town…
Margaret Speck Ogawa turns the tables and interviews Michael Stubblefield about his new writing podcast, The Epilogue...
The Epilogue Interview: Elisabeth Sharp McKetta
Elisabeth Sharp McKetta joins The Epilogue… to talk about how myth and memoir can intersect and how to combine the mythology that surrounds us with the personal to make your story special.
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The Epilogue Interview: David Slayton
David Slayton talks about writing the books that he always wanted to read growing up, and how the challenges that he faced helped to form not only himself but his work. Give it a listen on The Epilogue…
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3 Steps to Hook the Heart of Your Reader: Advice From Brandon Sanderson
When was the first time a book broke your heart? Is its memory still vivid enough to pinpoint where you were, what time it was, the moment that the crest of emotion forced you to put the book down for several deep breaths? …