Putting pen to paper can be a beast and when you finally do you may find that it is a wonderful stretch of your creative muscles and imagination. Or you may find that it was pure agony. Either way when you put down your pen, you’ll have a first draft! That’s the easy part. Now you get to give it some spit & shine and try to get it published. But how?
Time to start submitting, baby!
Once you have achieved the goal of writing regularly it’s time to reach for that next stepping stone, dust off the pile, and send your baby out to be read by someone who isn’t you. That’s hard enough, so I’ve done some of the leg work for you. Each of these opportunities is a chance for you to polish up a story and send it into the abyss that is publication.
Just remember, when you look into the abyss, it looks back.
Upcoming submission opportunities for flash fiction and short stories for the summer months:
May 18th Deadline:
Entry Fee: $24
Submit your short story of up to 8,000 words.
May 31st Deadline:
Entry Fee: $25
Submit a short story collection of 90 to 200 pages.
Entry Fee: $14 for short fiction, $11 for flash fiction
Submit your short story of up to 5,000 words or flash fiction of up to 250 words.
Entry Fee: $20
Submit a short story of 800 to 5,000 words.
June 1st Deadline:
Entry fee: $20
Submit a story of 2,000 to 6,500 words. Visit the website for complete guidelines.
Writer’s Digest: Annual Writing Competition
Entry Fee: $30
Submit your short story of up to 4,000 words.
June 4th Deadline:
Entry Fee: $15
Submit your story of up to 30 pages.
June 15th Deadlines:
Entry Fee: $25
Submit your collection of short stories, flash fiction or a novella.
Entry Fee: $15
Submit your short story of up to 8,000 words.
June 30th Deadlines:
Entry Fee: $30
Submit a short story collection or novella or any length.
Entry Fee: $18
For writers whose fiction has not appeared in a print publication with a circulation over 5,000. Submit a story of 1,000 to 12,000 words.
Entry Fee: $20
Submit your short story of up to 2,500 words or your flash fiction of up to 500 words.
The Moth: International Short Story Prize
Entry Fee: $15
Submit a short story of up to 5,000 words.
University of North Texas Press
Entry Fee: $25
Submit your short story collection of 100 – 200 pages.
University of Pittsburgh Press
Entry Fee: No entry fee.
Submit your short story collection of 150 to 300 pages.
July 1st Deadline:
Entry Fee: $20
Submit a work of fiction or creative nonfiction, up to 5,000 words, about health, healing, illness, the body and the mind.
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