Deadlines: December 2025 & January 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 the next two months.
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Those Pigeons, Missiles, and Submission
“a cruel writer / a wrathful god watching you run / through a veiled aperture in heaven.”
Catalogues of a Space Telescope around Boy Crushes, in 5 stages of Grief
By Charlie Wei
“There’s something elliptic about the way love dies in this compound: in west / wing, a college girl stacks another freshly killed into her ex’s jewelry box.”
How Can Brown People Write About Birds At a Time Like This
“this / world cuts away my patience at knife point for one / reason—to resurrect my hurricane.”
Florida is a Place on Earth: No Repetition Will Save You
By Siew Hii
“my favorite auntie’s hair is now the color of Orlando’s sky at 15 PM + / what would we do without women’s memories?”
Answer
By Lea Marshall
“Highlighter yellow, dignity / of curled claw, still open eye. Hard lesson of weightlessness // on my palm.”
Small “e” earth
By Kat Couch
“a great blue pearl, and / not the fine flour / of the mesa / under your feet”
Soft Rot Logbook
By Razraseny
“Day 38: Language Malfunction / I tried to say light. / What came out / was the taste of calcium.”
Fire Season: Super Perennial
“in one dream, a rain shower in every room, matchbook tucked / into the hem of a yellow dress / fountain tumbling with smoke instead of water,”