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 the next two months.
Columns
Florilegium #2: Witness and the Natural World
By Sara Dudo
“Florilegium” is an explorative column by nature enthusiast, poet, adjunct instructor, and Palette’s associate editor Sara Dudo. With one foot in the literary world and the other in the horticultural, Sara will examine writing and poetry through the lens of collection, both of literary gathering and literal gathering of flowers, plants, maps, insects, and more.
Deadlines: April & May 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.
I Eat Poets’ Words for Dinner
“But when I seek a kindred spirit excited to chew the fatty gristle of the English language, I often have to scramble out of the trenches and run to the nearest poet.”
Florilegium #1
By Sara Dudo
“Florilegium” is an explorative column by nature enthusiast, poet, adjunct instructor, and Palette’s associate editor Sara Dudo. With one foot in the literary world and the other in the horticultural, Sara will examine writing and poetry through the lens of collection, both of literary gathering and literal gathering of flowers, plants, maps, insects, and more.
Deadlines: February & March 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.
On Poems That Won’t Let Go of Us Just Yet
“I would spend hours editing poems, and then miss submission deadlines—on purpose. Life had become a bumper car ride over the preceding years, and at that point in time, each rejection landed like yet another blow I did not need.”
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.
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 the next two months.