Winning Writers

06/17/2026

Flash sale June 17-18 at Next Generation Short Story Awards
Enter unpublished work for $25 and choose a second category for free. 30+ categories. Win $500 and publication in a digital Anthology of Winners. Limit: 5,000 words.
https://shortstoryawards.com/categories.php

06/17/2026

Deadline: Jul 15: Forget Cool. Submit poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction about pop culture to win publication. More details on website. No fee | https://forget.cool/submissions/

06/17/2026

Palette Poetry provides a roundup of ten submission opportunities with deadlines in June or July, including LIT Magazine, Mississippi Review, Interim, and more.
https://www.palettepoetry.com/2026/06/12/deadlines-june-july-2026/

06/17/2026

Our June newsletter features "A Birthday" by Christina Rossetti, from Julian Peters' newly published Nature Poems to See By.
https://createsend.com/t/d-26DDC652F9810D0A2540EF23F30FEDED
with Julian Peters Comics

06/16/2026

6/16/26 “a felony
a
gender”

06/16/2026

06/16/2026

PS pitches are open from June 1 to November 15 at 5:00 pm EST! PS presents contemporary dialogues between today’s writers and Ploughshares‘ archive–love letters that revisit, remix, and reimagine our literary past, present, and future.

With our ongoing mission to champion emerging and established writers alike, we invite you to consider how your practice converses, converges, and complicates work in our past issues. See the full guidelines: https://pshares.org/about-ps/

06/16/2026

Deadline: Jul 1: Utah Original Writing Competition. Submit unpublished book-length novels, creative nonfiction and history, poetry or short story collections, and juvenile literature, plus smaller awards for individual poems, stories, and essay by Utah residents aged 18+ to win $1,500. More details on website. No fee | https://utahhumanities.org/programs/center-for-the-book/utah-original-writing-competition

06/16/2026

30 New Literary Magazines to Send Your Work To, curated by Authors Publish
"These are a mix of literary and genre magazines, and they publish fiction, nonfiction, poetry, hybrid works, and translations. They launched their first issue, at most, a year or so ago. Some of them have yet to publish their first issue. Many, but not all, of them are open for submissions now, and some of them pay writers."
https://authorspublish.com/30-new-literary-magazines-to-send-your-work-to/

These are a mix of literary and genre magazines, and they publish fiction, nonfiction, poetry, hybrid works, and translations. They launched their first issue, at most, a year or so ago. Some of them have yet to publish their first issue. Many, but not all, of them are open for submissions now, and....