Submission Opportunities: July 2025

Books & Pieces Magazine|Deadline: Unstated, recently opened to submissions

Monthly online magazine where new authors’ stories can appear beside bestselling authors’ interviews

Fee: No | Pay: No

Type: Fiction/Nonfiction/Poetry/Visual Arts

Notes: New writer friendly

Two Thirds North|Deadline: June 1 – September 30

Annual print anthology of transnational literature by Stockholm University.

Fee: No | Pay: No

Type: Poetry (up to 5 poems) / Essay or Short Story (up to 6,000 words)

Notes: Submissions accepted by email.

The Shallot: Journal of Mental Health, Art, and Literature|Deadline: July 19, 2025

A twice-yearly publication for writers with lived mental and emotional health experiences.

Fee: No | Pay: No

Type: Nonfiction/Fiction/Poetry/Drama/Experimental/Creative Recipes/Visual Art

Notes: Written works must be under 1000 words. The current theme is reflection and growth.

Psaltery & Lyre|Deadline: July 15, 2025

They are looking for work that touches the sacred and secular, belief and doubt.

Fee: No | Pay: No

Type: Poetry/Creative Non-Fiction/Fiction/Hybrid

Notes: They have changed their submission process, and works are to be submitted via a Google Form.

The London Magazine|Deadline: Window for submissions opens in July; it’s recommended to submit early in the month

Short fiction should address mature and sophisticated themes. Moreover, it should have an elegance of style, structure, and characterization.

They don’t publish science fiction, fantasy writing, or erotica.

Short stories should be up to 4,000 words in length.

Please only submit one story per submission.

Fee: Free | Pay: No

Type: Fiction/Non-Fiction/ Poetry

Notes: All submissions sent to The London Magazine must never have been published, self-published, published on any website, blog, or online forum, broadcast, or winning or placed (as in 2nd, 3rd, runner up, etc) in any competition.

Driftwood Press|Deadline: July 15, 2025

The Adrift Short Story Competition

Fiction only. 1,000-6,000 word limit. The work must not have been previously published.

Simultaneous submissions are accepted.

Fee: 30$ | Pay: The winner will receive $500 and five copies of the anthology in which the story appears.

Type: Fiction

Notes: Throughout the process, readers will be notified if their story is passed on or reaches the finalist pool. This often results in a quicker response than other contests, where writers often have to wait until everything has been decided.

Fractured Lit|Deadline: July 14, 2025

Fractured Lit publishes flash fiction with emotional resonance, with characters who come to life through their actions and responses to the world around them. We’re searching for a flash that investigates the mysteries of being human, with the sorrow and the joy of connecting to a diverse population.

Fee: 20$ allows up to two stories of 1,000 words or fewer each per entry | Pay: The winner will receive $500 and five copies of the anthology in which the story appears.

Type: flash and microfiction only—1,000 word count maximum per story.

Notes: The shortlist will be announced within ten to twelve weeks of the contest’s close. All writers will be notified when the results are final.

The Drift Magazine|Deadline: Open

What they’re looking for: sharp, surprising interventions; socially engaged cultural criticism; class-sensitive analysis; pieces that point out what’s being avoided or talked around in politics, media, arts, or even academia; upbeat cynicism; un-self-serious screeds; generous takedowns; entries from the margins; fiction; poetry; 150-word reviews of books/ films/ TV shows/ art/ ephemera.

Fee: No | Pay: $2,000 for essays
$500 – $1,000 for short stories
$150 for poems

Type: Essay/Short Story/Poetry

Flash Fiction Online: Regret|Deadline: July 31, 2025

Do you have some flash fiction? Flash Fiction Online (FFO) has a special call out for the theme: “Regret” until July 31. Typically they focus on speculative fiction but this special call is open to all genres.

500-1000 words

Fee: No | Pay: $100 per story

Type: Flash Fiction

Common Bonds Anthology|Deadline: August 15, 2025

Looking for fiction and poetry in the sci-fi or fantasy genres, focusing on “aromantic” story lines. Friendships, family, platonic relationships.

Short stories of up to 7500 words; poems of up to 100 lines.

Fee: No | Pay: .08/word, $60 for poems

Type: Short Story/Poetry

Nonbinary Review: Solarpunk|Deadline: July 31, 2025

Speculative fiction magazine. Issue 41 theme is Solarpunk

Short stories of up to 3000 words; poems of up to 3 pages.

Fee: No | Pay: .01/word, $10 for poems