Deadlines: June & July 2026
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 LIT Magazine, Mississippi Review, Interim, and more.
DEADLINE: 6/15
The Dan Veach Prize for Younger Poets solicits unpublished poems from college-age students, aged 18-23, on any subject or style. The winning poet will be published in the Fall/ Winter issue of Atlanta Review, with a $100 prize.
- Students may submit up to two poems (40 lines or fewer for each poem).
- A letter of recommendation (up to 500 words) from a teacher or other person well-acquainted with the student’s writing must accompany the poem(s).
- A brief statement by the poet (up to 500 words) that offers a little information about the poet; his, her, or their interest in poetry; or about how he, she, or they came to write the work being submitted.
Reading Fee: free
DEADLINE: 6/16
LIT Magazine: Poetry
LIT Magazine is the brainchild of the Masters in Fine Arts of Creative Writing at the New School, where diversity, cultural critique, and the right of every artist to share their story, provide the foundation of our editorial vision.
- Poetry submissions should be no more than 3 poems or 7 pages.
- All submissions must include a cover letter with a short bio (written in 3rd person) and social media handles
- All submissions should be uploaded in a single document, beginning with your cover letter.
Reading Fee: free
DEADLINE: 6/22
Barrelhouse is a biannual print journal featuring fiction, poetry, interviews, and essays about music, art, and the detritus of popular culture. It is produced by writers for readers who are looking for quality writing with an edge and a sense of humor, and bridges the gap between serious art and pop culture.
- You can submit up to five poems.
- Please submit your poems as a single document, which can be a maximum of ten pages.
- The pay is $50 to each contributor for print issues, as well as two contributor copies.
Reading fee: free
DEADLINE: 6/30
Prime Number Magazine: Poetry for Issue 293 (through Press 53)
Since July 17, 2010, Prime Number Magazine has been featuring distinctive poetry and short fiction from writers around the world. Our name, Prime Number Magazine, is inspired by our publisher, Press 53—53 being a prime number (a number that is not divisible without remainder by any other numbers except one and the number itself). In celebration of this uniqueness, our first issue was Issue 2, the first prime number, and we continued onward with Issue 3, Issue 5, Issue 7 and so on.
- Submit only ONE unpublished poem of up to three pages, written in English in a standard font (Times, Garamond, etc.) in whatever style you wish to see the poem presented to readers.
- Submissions will close once we receive 199 submissions.
Reading Fee: free
DEADLINE: 7/1
Mississippi Review is housed in the University of Southern Mississippi’s Center for Writers. We currently publish two issues a year and host an annual contest awarding prizes in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry. Since 1972, we have been publishing award-winning Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry.
For this issue, we’re looking for poems that focus on the following: teaching, writing, the teaching of writing, classroom spaces, learning spaces, or creative spaces. We’re happy to read poems that approach these topics or related ones.
- Submit up to 5 poems in 1 document (document should be 10 pages total or less).
Reading Fee: $4
DEADLINE: 7/1
A Public Space is an independent nonprofit publisher of an eponymous award-winning literary, arts, and culture magazine, and A Public Space Books. Under the direction of founding editor Brigid Hughes since 2006, it has been our mission to seek out overlooked and unclassifiable work, and to publish writing from beyond established confines.
- Please submit up to five (5) poems in one document.
Reading fee: free
DEADLINE: 7/2
Interim: A Journal of Poetry & Poetics: Natura Naturans
Interim is an international literary journal that publishes poetry, translations, criticism, reviews, and hybrid texts by emerging and established writers. Interim seeks writing that engages the perilous conditions of life in the 21st century as they pertain to issues of social justice and the earth, writing that demonstrates an ethos that considers the human condition in inclusive love and sympathy while offering the same in consideration of the planet.
From the pastoral elegy, to the ecopoetics of the Anthropocene, writers from all times and places have been concerned with their relationship to the earth—and vice versa. This call seeks work which engages the natural world as dynamic; which incorporates the earth’s relationship to us, or to itself; which looks through Spinoza’s lens of Natura Naturans, or “nature naturing.” In other words, we are hoping to see poems, prose and art that attempt to establish a dialogue with nature rather than merely talking to the natural world.
- For poetry, please send three to six pages, all in the same document.
Reading Fee: $3
DEADLINE: 7/16
For over 40 years, Arc has been publishing the best in contemporary poetry, and accepts unsolicited submissions from poets at all stages of their writing careers.
For the Fall 2026 issue of Arc Poetry Magazine, we’re looking for poetic responses to resistance movements around the world and explorations of protest through poetry. Send us poems that look at injustices and ongoing violence, or poems that advocate for rest in the face of exhaustion from marginalization. Send us poems that oppose the status quo, withstand attacks and temptations, and refuse to be categorized.
- submit 6–10 pages of poetry or one long poem.
Reading Fee: free
DEADLINE: 7/29
Red Door Magazine is an Arts & Culture quarterly publication founded in New York in 2009 and now based in Copenhagen, Denmark, with correspondents in Australia, Mexico, Colombia, the U.S. and various parts of Europe. Our theme for Issue #44 is “Timelines.” Our themes are always open to far-fetched interpretations and are not limited to a narrow definition. Don’t hold back, surprise us by submitting your finest work!
- Poetry entries can include up to 3 poems (up to 50 lines each) and up to 6 pages.
- Please use 12-point, single-spaced, Times New Roman font.
- Upload doc or docx documents only.
- Include a cover letter with a short third-person bio (maximum 75 words).
Reading fee: $3
DEADLINE: 7/31
Trace Fossils Review: Poetry for Issue 4
We are, above all else, a study in preservation. As kids, we were taught that writing had to be contained—it took many years and frustrations to come to terms with the messiness of pure, desperate creation. Trace Fossils Review was started with the mission to collect this mess, to publish work that identifies the creator as intimately as their own handprint—the art in wake of the artist.
To start, the type of material we crave here is difficult. Difficult to comprehend, difficult to put on paper, and difficult to submit. This review was created first and foremost as a refuge for the work that feels hard as stone, that leaves us possessed. Because this is the genre we cherish most, our promise to you is that we will treat your thoughts as we treat an old house: tenderly, with open ears and the knowledge that it will never be truly ours. Thank you for honoring us with your pieces. For trusting us to foster something resonant inside these walls.
- Submit up to 3 pieces per period, no longer than 132 lines in length (a total three pages in our print issues).
- Submit all poetry in Times New Roman, 12pt font, single spaced. We accept .docx and .word files.
Reading fee: free