Here are some upcoming Short Story Submission Opportunities
Writers Weekly: 24-Hour Short Story Contest
$5 Submission Fee per story. You will receive your prompt via email on Saturday, September 9th at noon (central time) and must write, revise and submit your completed story by noon (central time) on Sunday, September 10th. You must register before the contest begins. First Place: $300 Cash, Second Place: $250 Cash, 3rd Place: $200 Cash.
Dzanc Books
$25 Submission Fee per story collection. $5,000 prize given for collection of short stories or essays. Deadline: September 15th.
TulipTree Publishing
$20 Submission Fee per story. Prize of $1,000 for short story or and essay “that tells a story”, up to 10,000 words. Deadline: September 16th.
Ghost Story
$20 Submission Fee per story. Supernatural Fiction Award. 1,500 words to 10,000 words with a supernatural or magic realism theme. $1,000 prize for the winner. Deadline: September 30th.
Literal Latte
$10 Submission Fee per essay. Prize of $1,000 for a personal essay up to 10,000 words. Deadline: September 30th.
Mighty River
$20 Submission Fee per story. $1,000 prize for best story and publication in Big Muddy, a literary journal published by Southeast Missouri State University Press, up to 30 pages. Deadline: October 1st.
Southern Indiana Review
$20 Submission Fee, $5 for each additional story. Mary C. Mohr Award for work of fiction up to 35 pages of prose. Deadline: October 2nd.
Zoetrope: All-Story
$20 Submission Fee per story. 21st Annual Zoetrope: All-Story Short Fiction Competition. $1,000 Prize for best short story up to 5,000 words. Deadline: October 2nd.
Cutthroat
$20 Submission Fee per story. The 2017 Joy Harjo Poetry Award, Barry Lopez Nonfiction Award & Rick DeMarinis Short Story Award (up to 5,000 words). First Prize in each genre: $1300, Second Prize in each genre: $250 Deadline: October 20th
Sixfold
$5 Submission Fee per story. $1,000 prize for best story, up to 20 pages of prose. Deadline: October 24th.
Glimmer Train Press
$18 Submission Fee per story. Short story of 1,000 to 12,000 words by a writer whose fiction has not appeared in a print publication with a circulation of more than 5,000. Deadline: October 31st.
Indiana Review
$20 Submission Fee per story. 2017 Fiction Prize of $1,000 for short story of up to 8,000 words. Deadline: October 31st.
Mid-American Review
$10 Submission Fee per story. The 2017 – 2018 Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award. Short story up to 6,000 words. First Prize of $1,000. Deadline: November 15th.
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