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Writing Competitions 

Creative and Academic Contests

The Scholastic Art and Writing Awards
  • Deadlines: varies by region, usually Sep - Dec every year
  • Fees: $7 per work, fee waivers available
  • Teacher needed to sign off on forms 
The New York Times Student Contests
  • Deadlines: varies for different contests throughout the year
  • Examples of contests include poetry, editorials, reviews, etc 
Write the World Competitions
  • Deadlines: monthly

Student Run Publications

*NOTE--The following publications are currently accepting submissions centered around COVID-19 and its impact on our lives and communities: Counterclock Magazine, Blue Marble Review, Siblini Journal, Crashtest Magazine, and Balloons Lit.
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Student-Run(Creative Writing Only )
Austin International Poetry Festival: diverse-city 
  • Open: Oct 1 - Feb 15 
  • Selected writers are invited to the Austin Poetry Festival 
Apprentice Writer 
  • Open: Sep 1 - March 15 
The Bitter Fruit Review
  • Open: now, accepting submissions for summer 2020 issue
Blue Marble Review
  • Open: now 
Body Without Organs 
  • Open: year-round
Butcher Papers
  • Open: year-round
Capulet Magazine
  • For women ages 15-29
  • Open: until Nov 15
Cathartic Literary Magazine
  • Open: rolling basis
  • For youth writing/mental health discussion
Chautauqua Journal
  • Open: Feb 1 - April 1; Sep 1 - Nov 1
Cliche Teen
  • Open: Jan 10 - May 1; July 1 - Dec 1
Crashtest Magazine
  • Open: year-round
The Daphne Review
  • Open: on hiatus 
Ephimiliar Journal
  • Open: on a rolling basis
The Eunoia Review
  • Open: year-round 
fingers comma toes
  • Open: Oct - Dec; May - July 
Foredge Review
  • Open: now
Teen Sequins
  • Open: until July 12
  • Feature in Gigantic Sequins
  • Poetry only 
Hanging Loose Press
  • Open: year-round
  • Submissions must be sent by mail 
Hope of Young Artists (HOYA) Magazine
  • Open: until Dec 20 
The Ideate Review
  • Open: until May 15
Inklette Magazine
  • Open: April 1 - 30
Jellyfish Review
  • Open: now
  • Flash-fic and short non-fic only 
Lunch Ticket: School Lunch
  • Open: March 1 - 31; Sep 1 - 30
Minute Magazine
  • Open: until June 15
  • Theme of examining life under the microscope
Oddball Magazine
  • Open: now
Parallax
  • Open: until April 30
Polyphony Lit  
  • Open: until April 30
  • All selected submissions are automatically entered into the Claudia Ann Seaman Awards 
  • Almost all submissions receive personalized, detailed feedback from several readers and editors 
Red Queen Literary Magazine
  • Open: now
Sandpiper Magazine
  • Open: now
The Suoo
  • Open: July 30 - Sep 10
Sugar Rascals
  • Open: Aug 1 - Sep 1
Teen Ink
  • Open: always
  • Anyone can post work on the website, submit to journal
  • Monthly/weekly contests 
TRACK//FOUR
  • POCs only 
  • Open: free submissions until July 15
  • Fees: $3-10
Truant Lit
  • Open: now
Whitefish Review
  • Open: Nov 1 - Jan 31; June 1 - Aug 31 
Wintermute Lit 
  • Speculative fiction only (sci-fi, fantasy, magical realism, slipstream, horror, etc)
  • Open: on a rolling basis
  • Fiction, poetry, art, reviews, standalone novel excerpts,

Adult Run Publication(Student Friendly)

 *NOTE--*The subsequent publications are adult-oriented (and naturally, more competitive), but students have been published in them.
Not Student-Run
The Adroit Journal
  • Open: will open Aug 1
Birdfeast
  • Open: on the first of every month until submissions fill up
Black Warrior Review 
  • Open: Dec 1 - March 1; June 1 - Sep 1
  • Fees: $3/submission
BOAAT Press
  • Open: online issues every 3 months with 15 poets/issue 
B O D Y
  • Open: now
Bookends Review
  • Open: May 1 - Aug 31; Dec 1 - Jan 31
Columbia Journal
  • Open: online submissions closed until late spring 2020; print submissions closed until fall 2020
Cosmonauts Avenue 
  • Open: now
DIAGRAM
  • Open: now
DIALOGIST
  • Open: now
Ekphrastic Review
  • Open: the months of Jan, March, May, July, Sep, Nov (alternate months)
  • Ekphrastic - writing inspired by art 
f(r)iction
  • Open: year-round
  • Fees: $2.50/submission
Frontier Poetry: New Voices
  • Open: year-round
  • For unpublished and emerging writers 
Half Mystic
  • Open: now
  • Music-themed magazine 
  • 2020 theme: Sforzando (the car-struck dissonance; the backslide into wreckage; the single note of shattering) 
Into the Void
  • Open: Feb 1 - March 7; May 1 - June 7; Aug 1 - Sep 7; Nov 1 - Dec 7
  • Fees: limited number of free submissions, after which tip jar submissions are available 
Lip Mag
  • Open: now
  • Feminist magazine accepting articles, etc
Lost Balloon
  • Open: first week of every month excluding breaks (breaks are in June, July, Aug, and Dec)
The Louisville Review: Cornerstone
  • Open: year-round
  • Submissions from K-12 
Minola Review
  • For women and nonbinary writers
  • Open: on a rolling basis 
Muzzle Magazine
  • Open: Sep 15 - Nov 14; March 1 - May 1
Palette Poetry
  • Open: now
[PANK] Future Fridays: Artists 18 and Under
  • Open: now
Prometheus Dreaming
  • Open: weekly submissions
  • Fees: $4.20/submission
  • Each day of the week has a different theme/restrictions (ex. Friday - Aspiring Creatives)
Rising Phoenix Review
  • Open: on a rolling basis
The Round
  • Open: to the beginning of Oct (Fall Issue) and the beginning of March (Spring Issue)
Salt Hill Journal
  • Open: July 15 - Sep 1; Dec 1 - Jan 15
Sierra Nevada Review
  • Open: Sep 1 - Feb 15 
SWWIM
  • For women and femme-presenting writers 
  • Open: year-round
  • Fees: $2-5/submission, $25 for feedback 
Typishly
  • Open: weekly submissions
  • Fees: $4.97/submission
  • 24-hour brief, personalized response 
  • Each day of the week has a different prompt/restriction (ex. Emerging Writer Mondays)
Waxwing
  • Open: closed currently; cap of 300 submissions/month
  • Published tri-annually in Feb, June and Oct 

Summer Writing Programs 

Adroit Mentorship Program
Highly selective program where young writers are paired up with either prose or poetry mentors.
Iowa Young Writers Studio
A young writers summer workshop. Two-week program at the University of  Iowa.
Kenyon Young Writers Workshop
Summer workshop. Two-week program at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio.
Kelly Writers House Workshop
10 day workshop for rising juniors and seniors at the Kelly Writers House in the University of Pennsylvania. Range of genres including screenwriting, experimental writing, comics writing, etc along traditional ones like poetry and fiction.
Polyphony Lit Summer Scholars Program
Eight-week online program for high schoolers to work as a literary editor, with online content and live lectures.
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