Deadlines: October & November 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 October or November, including The Brooklyn Review, Camas, Oxford Poetry, and more.
DEADLINE: 10/15
New Plains Review seeks poems from new and old voices alike, poetry that comes from the individual and is shaped by unique experiences. We want to read work that transcends worlds and blurs boundaries. We are looking to publish your poems and we want to hear your voice. We will consider up to three poems per submission (no more than six pages total). Poetry in languages other than English is permitted.
Reading Fee: $3
DEADLINE: 10/15
the minnesota review: Fall 2025 reading period
Publishing contemporary poetry and fiction as well as reviews, critical commentary, and interviews of leading intellectual figures, the minnesota review curates smart, accessible collections of progressive new work. This eclectic survey provides lively and sophisticated signposts to navigating current critical discourse. Under the leadership of editor Janell Watson, the review will maintain its tradition of exploring the most exciting literary and critical developments for both specialists and a general audience.
All types of poetry are reviewed. You may submit three to five poems per reading period; please group them into one document and upload them as a single Word document or PDF file.
Reading Fee: free
DEADLINE: 10/16
Theme: This is the 2nd volume of Rituals & Remedies which explores how we begin, endure, and end our days. Do you have any rituals or remedies that allow you to reimagine your week? The steam beaming off of a hot pot of water after 5 long minutes, the crunch of mint leaves, dipping your spoon in an upcycled honey jar for the nightly cup of tea. Do you warm your small space with two tall, scentless candles brimming a dull light as you make your morning coffee? Do you slice a persimmon and eat it on your favorite floral plate? Do you say a prayer? Who do you wake up to in the morning and what do you say? Do you burn sage or rosemary?
Submission Guidelines: Submit your work in Word document with a photo of yourself and a short biography. This can be a poem, a short story, prose, mixed media art that can be printed, creative non-fiction, or a photograph. Please do not submit more than 5 pieces.
Reading fee: free
DEADLINE: 10/21
The Pacific Review: Roots, Regret and Revelation
For the 44th issue of The Pacific Review, we invite you to share original work related to “Roots, Regret, and Revelation.”
This is your chance to dig deep into culture, heritage, identity, coming of age, and paths not taken. What has molded you? If it were possible to re-write the past, would you? Do our roots ground and nourish us, or do they hold us back? Can a moment of clarity reveal underground connections, or fork new paths?
The Pacific Review embraces both the traditional and the non-conventional. We particularly encourage work from emerging, marginalized, and historically under-served creators. We seek a range of original material in all mediums/genres. Submit a single document as a PDF with a maximum of four poems.
Reading Fee: free
DEADLINE: 10/25
Camas cultivates a community of writers and artists dedicated to land health and cultural resilience in the American West. We pursue fresh ideas and perspectives while remaining rooted in the West’s landscapes and traditions of art and literature. We celebrate the people who work and live here; we celebrate the land that connects us; and we provide an opportunity for emerging writers and artists to publish their work alongside established voices.
The Winter 2025 theme is Undergrowth. We’re thinking about things unseen, undercurrents, subversion, queerness, and everything weird.
Submissions are read with identifying information concealed from our readers, so please ensure that your name does not appear anywhere on your document. We are unable to accept changes or edits to pieces once they have been submitted.
Reading Fee: $2
DEADLINE: 10/31
Founded in 1910, Oxford Poetry is the oldest dedicated poetry magazine in the UK, and one of the oldest in the world. We welcome submissions of poems by emerging as well as established writers, and all submissions are read by the editors. Our issues are not themed beyond focusing on poetry.
The submission window for issue 101 of Oxford Poetry is open from 15 September – 31 October 2025. We will consider a maximum of 3 poems per submission. Send all poems together in a single document.
Reading fee: free
DEADLINE: 11/1
Michigan Quarterly Review: General Submissions (Fall 2025)
Michigan Quarterly Review, founded in 1962, is an interdisciplinary and international literary journal, combining distinctive voices in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, as well as works in translation. The flagship literary journal of the University of Michigan, our magazine embraces creative urgency and cultural relevance, aiming to challenge conventions and address long-overdue conversations. As we continue to promote an expansive and inclusive vision, we seek work from established and emerging writers with diverse aesthetics and experiences.
Poetry submissions: Please submit up to 6 poems in one document, not to exceed a total of 12 pages. Poems published in MQR by early career writers will be considered as finalists for our Page Davidson Clayton Prize.
Reading Fee: $3
DEADLINE: 11/10
New Limestone Review is the literary journal of the University of Kentucky’s MFA in Creative Writing program and seeks to bring groundbreaking works of literary art to the web and to a national audience.
The theme for this issue is “Bridge.” Themes, symbols, and imagery related to this theme are encouraged.
Up to 5 poems per poetry submission (no more than 10 pages total).
Reading Fee: $3
DEADLINE: 11/30
The Brooklyn Review looks for previously unpublished poetry that engages creatively and actively with questions of form, structure, language, and sound. We especially welcome submissions of experimental and non-narrative works. We aim to feature and promote works by BIPOC writers as part of an ongoing effort to decolonize poetry, poetic praxis, and poetics.
Please submit 3-5 poems, totaling no more than 10 pages, formatted in a single document.
Reading fee: $3
DEADLINE: 11/30
The Baltimore Review: Poetry
The mission of The Baltimore Review is to showcase Baltimore as a literary hub of diverse writing and promote the work of emerging and established writers.
Submit three poems. No fee. Please submit all poems in one document and only one submission per reading period.
Poems (including prose poems, which we love) should generally be single spaced, titled, with clear stanza breaks. Please proofread your work carefully before submitting.
Reading fee: free