Submission Opportunities November 2025

Flash Frontier |Deadline: 30 Nov

A flash fiction publication out of New Zealand looking for variety and originality.

Fee: No | Pay: No

Type: Flash fiction up to 250 words

Note: The current theme is Dance | Ngā Kanikani

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Michigan Quarterly Review – Jesmyn Ward Prize in Fiction | Deadline: 30 Nov

Annual award in honor of Jesmyn Ward and her significant contributions to literature.

Fee: $25 | Pay: $2000

Type: Fiction (1,500-7000 words)

Note: Submissions include a one-year digital subscription to MQR

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After Dinner Conversation| Deadline: Rolling

A philosophy and ethics short story magazine designed to spark conversation

Fee: $3-65 if fast response or feedback are desired | Pay: $75

Type: Fiction (1,000-7000 words)

Note: Published 12x per year. Reprints are allowed. High acceptance rate (8%)

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The Baltimore Review| Deadline: 30 Nov

Literary magazine seeking short stories and poems, essays and nonfiction

Fee: Voluntary | Pay: $50

Type: Flash Fiction (up to 1,000 words) and Fiction (1,000-5000 words) Essays and Narrative Nonfiction (up to 5,000 words)

Note: May close to submissions early if they reach their quota

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The Headlight Review: Mighty Micros| Deadline: 30 Nov

Seeks stories/prose poems of 400 words or fewer for upcoming “Mighty Micros” edition.

Fee: $5 | Pay: Contributors receive a limited edition chapbook version of the “Mighty Micros” issue.

Type: Micro stories/prose poems of 400 words or fewer.

Note: Submit up to three pieces in a single document. Editors aim to review in two weeks or less. Pieces will be published on a rolling basis with the issue closed in December. 

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Nimrod International Journal| Deadline: 30 Nov

Founded in 1956 at The University of Tulsa, Nimrod publishes exciting new writing from around the world.

Fee: Optional Donation | Pay: $20 per poem/page of prose, with a maximum payment of $300. All contributors will also receive two copies of the issue in which their work appears.

Type: Prose: Work must be previously unpublished. 5,000 words maximum. Poetry: Work must be previously unpublished. 3-7 pages. One poem per page.

Note: Nimrod publishes two issues annually.

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Fracture| Deadline: 16 Nov

Fractured and Fused Prize. For this contest, they’re looking for stories that utilize the tension and conflict of something being fractured, or that revel in the catharsis of someone finding what makes them complete after a shattering.

Fee: $20 reading fee allows up to two stories of 1,000 words or fewer each per entry—if submitting two stories, please put them both in a SINGLE document

Pay: $3,000 and publication, while the second- and third-place winners will receive publication and $300 and $200, respectively.

Type: Flash fiction

Note: Guest Judge Sherrie Flick will choose three prize winners from a shortlist.

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Tint| Deadline: 30 Nov

Tint Journal is dedicated to publishing creative work by writers for whom English is a second or non-native language.

Fee: $3 Tip Jar Pay: No

Type: short stories, personal essays, flash, and poetry

Note: For longer personal essays (nonfiction) submissions, please submit one text between 1,000 and 4,000 words.

For flash nonfiction submissions, please submit one text that does not exceed 800 words.

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Brevity| Deadline: Rolling

Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction has published well-known and emerging writers working in the brief essay form. Though still committed to the mission of publishing new and emerging writers,

Fee: $3 Pay: $45

Type: Extremely brief (750 words or fewer) essay form

Note: Submissions should be formatted as single-spaced, no indentation, and one extra space between paragraphs.

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Aspec Paranormal Anthology| Deadline: Nov 30

Stories that centre asexual and aromantic characters (or identities that fall under those umbrellas) in a paranormal context.

Fee: None Pay: $20 AUD

Type: Fiction 2,000 to 7,500 words

Note: Will receive physical and digital copy of the anthology

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Strange Pilgrims| Deadline: Nov 30

Surreal, speculative, and fabulist stories. They publish one piece a week, alternating between flash and long-form writing.

Fee: $3 Pay: $45

Type: Flash up to 1000 or Short stories up to 5000 words

Note: Examples they quote of their taste include Gabriel García Márquez, Susanna Clarke, Kelly Link, Ursula K. Le Guin, Leo Tolstoy, Mariana Enriquez, David Foster Wallace, Lidia Yuknavitch, Chuck Palahniuk, Clarice Lispector, Ted Chiang, Karen Russell, Fernando Pessoa, and many, many others.