Deadlines: June & July 2025
Every middle of the month: new deadlines, new contests, and new opportunities for your work to find its audience. Here is a roundup of ten submission opportunities with deadlines in June or July, including The Louisville Review, Split Lip Magazine, Poetry London, and more.
DEADLINE: 6/16
We’re interested in moving beyond the myth of the artist as sole creator. Art like an acrobatic formation, where the foundation is as important as the decoration, the binding as much as the drafts disregarded along the way. Let’s share work in progress, discuss what we’re making, what we want to make, and respond to what we hear and learn from each other.
Submit a maximum of 5 poems in a single file. Please ensure that each poem starts on a new page, and that there is no identifying information in your files. Poems should not exceed 100 lines each.
We also accept work authored by multiple writers. There is no need to submit a piece more than once however, in the cover letter of the submission please include all relevant bios of those responsible for creating it.
Submissions and are reviewed on a rolling monthly basis. Due to the amount of pieces we publish, we do not accept corrections to pieces after they have been submitted, so please double-check your submission before you send it to us!
Reading Fee: $5
DEADLINE: 6/21
Thank you for submitting your original poetry to Barrelhouse! We look forward to reading it, particularly if you are a previously unpublished author. Please review the instructions below, so that you have a general sense of what we’re looking for, and how we’d like to receive it.
- No previously published work.
- You can submit up to five poems. Please submit your poems as a single document, which can be a maximum of ten pages.
- We pay $50 to each contributor to our print issues, as well as two contributor copies.
- We accept simultaneous submissions—but please notify us as soon as possible by putting a comment on your submission if you place the work elsewhere.
- It will probably take us ~six months to get back to you. Please be patient with us!
- Please only send us Word or PDF files.
We look forward to reading your work!
-The Barrelhouse Poetry Team
***Poetry submissions for this period will be capped at 800. If we hit that limit before 6/21, the submission window will automatically close***
Reading Fee: none
DEADLINE: 6/26
The general submission window for Cornerstone for our upcoming issue, The Louisville Review Number 97, is open from June 1 – 26, 2025.
Cornerstone: The Louisville Review accepts submissions of previously unpublished poetry from students in grades K-12. We seek writing that embodies fresh ways to recreate scenes and feelings.
Please upload your submission as of up to five poems with title(s) in one document that includes a short third person bio (3-6 sentences). Please submit only .doc or .docx files.
IMPORTANT: Your bio must include your current grade (K-12). The Louisville Review‘s Cornerstone section is EXCLUSIVELY for young writers in grades K-12, and poems submitted without a bio that verifies that the submitter meets this qualification will not be considered.
Please note: The Louisville Review routinely publishes the work of both highly published and emerging writers, and the bio has no bearing on the selection of the work. Bios are requested for the Contributor’s Notes, should your work be selected for publication, and all submissions are considered based on the quality of the writing. Bios will be edited for length and house style, and all contributors will have the opportunity to review the bio before publication.
Simultaneous submissions are accepted, however any work accepted elsewhere must be withdrawn immediately.
If your work is selected for publication, we provide one complimentary print copy of The Louisville Review to our U.S. based contributors, with a discount on additional copies sent to the contributor’s address. International contributors will receive an electronic copy of the issue.
We accept only unpublished work. Response time for this issue is 6-8 weeks.
Reading fee: none
DEADLINE: 6/30
The Words Faire: GENERAL SUBMISSIONS (JUNE 2025)
The Word’s Faire accepts all forms of creative submissions for online publication to ‘THE EXHIBITION’, an international collection of creativity and oddities for your viewing pleasure. From cultural work to freeform mind dumps to existentialist poetry to achingly human literary fiction- we want it all. Anything you got. We want to put humanity on our ‘stage’.
The Word’s Faire accepts simultaneous submissions, but please withdraw your submission as soon as it is accepted elsewhere or notify us as soon as possible.
Poetry & Prose: 12 Pages Max, 3-5 Poems per submission
Please submit poetry & prose in Times New Roman, 12-point font, double-spaced.
Poetry and Experimental Work can take any formatting liberties, but we do reserve the right to adjust formatting as needed if accepted for publication.
We are thrilled to read your work and hope that it will find a home with our publication.
Reading Fee: $2
DEADLINE: 6/30
The Poetry London Prize is a major, internationally renowned award for a single outstanding poem. Previous winners include Liz Berry, Niall Campbell, Romalyn Ante, Richard Scott and Nick Makoha.
First Prize is £5,000, Second Prize is £2,000 and Third Prize is £1,000.
The judge of the 2025 Prize is Victoria Kennefick.
Victoria Kennefick is a writer, poet, editor and teacher. Her debut collection, Eat or We Both Starve (Carcanet Press, 2021), won the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize and the Dalkey Book Festival Emerging Writer of the Year Award. It was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Costa Poetry Book Award, Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry and the Butler Literary Prize. Her second collection, Egg/Shell (Carcanet Press, 2024) was a Poetry Book Society Choice for Spring 2024 and BBC Poetry Extra Book of the Month for March as well as a Book of the Year in The Telegraph, The Sunday Independent and The Poetry Society UK. She is the 2025 Arts Council of Ireland/Trinity College Dublin Writer Fellow.
Entry costs £10 per poem, or £5 per poem for subscribers.
There are a limited number of free entries for students / unwaged. Please select the correct fee option when you enter.
Reading Fee: £10
DEADLINE: 6/30
We’re a literary journal that’s totally bonkers-in-love with voice-driven writing, pop culture, and the kind of honesty that gets you right in the kidneys. We love stories and poetry and art because they’re our insides turned out for everyone to see: the darkness and the confetti in equal measure.
Send us your best poem. Yes, 1 poem per submission. We want new, innovative works by fresh voices.
Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but please contact us if the piece is picked up elsewhere.
Note: This submissions category is only open to Black writers. Please do not submit work to this category if you are not Black.
Reading fee: none
DEADLINE: 7/1
Bainbridge Island Press: POETICS – Journal
Call for Submissions: Corvids
From the trickster ravens of Native American lore to the prophetic crows of European mythology, corvids have long captured the human imagination. We seek poems that explore the multifaceted nature of these remarkable birds—their intelligence, their symbolism, their place in both shadow and light. Whether your verse speaks to the playful jay, the communal rook, or the mysterious magpie, we want to hear the stories these feathered philosophers have whispered to you. Share with us your observations of their complex social behaviors, your metaphorical connections to their gathered murders, or your personal encounters with these keen-eyed observers of human life.
We welcome work that explores both traditional corvid symbolism and fresh perspectives on these fascinating creatures. Send us your finest poetry that takes wing with these birds—celebrated for their problem-solving abilities, tool use, and capacity to recognize human faces—as they bridge the natural and supernatural worlds.
BIP periodically publishes anthologies and our semi-annual POETICS journal. Submissions should be in Word or PDF format.
Authors maintain full copyright of their work and are not compensated.
Reading Fee: $6
DEADLINE: 7/10
We are now seeking submissions of CNF, poetry, art, and fiction for our Retro Summer issue. Take us down memory lane with blazing sunshine, pool parties, arcades, melting ice pops, roller-skates, and young loves found and lost. Send us your best (and not-so-good) summer memories! Any genre is welcome, though we are especially interested in nostalgic, magical summer vibes with a gripping voice.
No Fee! Fiction/CNF/hybrid submissions under 3,000. You may submit up to three poems/microfictions (under 500 words). We are also open for visual art.
Reading Fee: none
DEADLINE: 7/12
Call for Submissions: Southwestern Aubades and Nocturnes
Editors Scott Wiggerman and David Meischen of Dos Gatos Press (www.dosgatospress.org) are accepting submissions for the sixth book in our series, Poetry of the Southwestern United States.
Submit up to three poems between June 1, 2025 and July 12, 2025.
We expect meticulous attention to image and metaphor, to rhythmic phrasing, to compression, to the language of poetry. We respond well to a strong voice. We encourage risks with language and attention to unusual, perfectly defining details. We are open to experimentation, but not at the cost of quality. All poems must demonstrate a connection to persons, places, and/or cultures of the Southwestern United States.
The Aubade
Dating as far back as the twelfth century, the aubade is a poem of morning, often celebrating the joy of lovers who have spent the night together. According to poets.org, “The typical aubade flows from the darkness just before dawn to the brightness directly afterward. It moves from silence to speech, from the ecstasy of intimacy to the burden of solitude.” We want to widen the parameters of the aubade. We welcome poems about solitary moments at morning, about sadness or grief at morning.
These aubades are recommended reading: “truth” by Gwendolyn Brooks, “Aubade to Langston” by Rachel Eliza Griffiths, “Buffalograss” by Jake Skeets, “Aubade” by Phillip Larkin, “Aubade” by Camile Rankine.
The Nocturne
A nocturne is simply a poem set at evening or night. It can be elegiac, prayerful, contemplative. It can be dark in both the literal and the metaphorical sense. Think film noir, think black magic.
These nocturnes are recommended reading: “Clarity” by Vievee Francis, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost, “Night Mirror” by Li-Young Lee, “Sleepless City (Brooklyn Bridge Nocturne)” by Federico Garcia Lorca, “Nocturne” by Lola Ridge.
Reading fee: none
THEME: Autumn, Halloween, horror
DEETS: Submit 1-3 short stories (50-3k words), 1-5 poems, and/or 1-5 images — include all works in a single submission, but submit the different mediums (short stories, poetry, art) separately.
DEADLINE: 31 July 2025
READING PERIOD: Decisions will be made August 2025 except for expedited submissions.
PUBLICATION: 15 October 2025. Contributors will receive a free digital copy of the issue.
Reading fee: none