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For emerging writers w/o a book in their genre: $200 plus publication.

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Opportunities from the U of C creative writing program:
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Allbritton Journalism Institute– 2026-2028 Reporting Fellowship
AJI is a nonprofit educational organization based in Washington, DC, that partners with NOTUS (News Of The United States) to train upcoming political journalists. This highly-competitive two-year fellowship selects 10 early-career journalists each year. Beginning in September 2026, this year’s cohort will participate in classroom training, learn on-the-job at NOTUS alongside veteran reporters, and receive an annual salary of $60,000. Applications for the 2026-2028 cohort are due February 18, 2026 at 11:59 EST. For the application guidelines, visit this portal.

Memoryhouse
Memoryhouse, run by UChicago students, curates a semiannual collection of works that present a personal narrative from across all genres of creative nonfiction and visual art. They give some preference to contributors with a significant connection to the Chicago area. They are looking for writing that uses innovative forms and techniques and writing that teaches the reader something new. The submission deadline is rolling. To submit and view more guidelines, visit this link; you can visit their Instagram at .

Enchanted Living
Described by the New York Times as “as though Martha Steward and Edmund Spenser’s “The Faerie Queene” had a magazine baby,” Enchanted Living is a quarterly print magazine that celebrates "all things enchanted.” Submissions for their Spring 2026 issue, “Return to Middle-Earth,” closes December 1. This issue is seeking short fiction, creative nonfiction, and multimedia work, sent to [email protected], and poetry, sent to [email protected]. Look ahead, additionally, to their Summer 2026 submission period, which will close on March 1, and has the theme “Gossamer.”

The Arkansas International
The Arkansas International facilitates international conversation between writers, both in terms of location and in terms of human experience. They publish fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated works, and comics that contribute to their core theme of “place and how it influences the human imagination for what is possible.” Their Fall 2026 issue, Labor, is accepting submissions until December 1 in all categories (under 8,000 words in prose categories, and five pages or under for poetry). Submissions should explore what it means to labor, whether physically, mentally, or emotionally. They currently have a $4 submission fee. Make sure to check out both their general submission and auxiliary themed submission guidelines here.

Blue Marble Review
Blue Marble Review is a quarterly, online literary journal centered around the work of “young writers” (age 13-22). They accept previously unpublished poetry, fiction, nonfiction, essays, opinion pieces, travel writing, photography, and art. The deadline for their current round is December 1. Contributors published online in Blue Marble Review receive $30 per published piece and $75 for cover art. Submissions for their next publication are currently open; read more about their submission guidelines here.

Citron Review
Citron Review, “a journal of brief literature,” publishes quarterly magazines of flash and micro writing, and are open for submissions through December 6. They are currently accepting previously unpublished flash and micro fiction, as well as flash nonfiction, via this Submittable page. To learn more about their submission practices and guidelines, visit this page.

Copper Nickel
Copper Nickel is the national literary journal housed at the University of Colorado Denver. They publish a broad range of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and writing in translation, with a particular—but not exclusive—interest in work that considers sociohistorical context. Work published in Copper Nickel has been reprinted in the Best American Poetry, Best American Short Stories, Best Small Fictions, Best Literary Translations, and Pushcart Prize anthologies. The deadline for their current submission window is December 15. View the submission guidelines here.

Southeast Review
The Southeast Review is a literary magazine managed by the English department at the University of Florida. It is committed to publishing new writers alongside established ones, and with an editorial staff of nearly 60 individuals from across the world, they embrace an eclectic variety of work. Their general submissions are currently rolling for fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and YA fiction.

Southeast Review is also running four contests, including in short stories, nonfiction, and poetry; the winner in each of these categories will receive $750, and will be published in their Fall 2026 print issue. The deadline for all contests is December 19, at 11:00pm CST. Contestants can expect to hear back in February 2026. More information about the judges for each contest can be found here.

Submission criteria and their portal for both contests and general submissions can be found here. General categories have a submission fee of $3, and the contests have a submission fee of $16.

Superlative Literary Journal
Superlative is an online and print literary journal geared towards the innovative works of emerging short story writers and poets in any genre, voice, or style. They have rolling submissions open for both categories, paying $50 to contributors, and an early bird submission window open for their 2026 annual competition ($500 prize). The early bird window for Superlative’s 2026 competition, which has the theme “Growth,” closes on December 31. The link to their submission portal can be found here. Superlative requires submission fees: $5 for general submissions and $15 for the 2026 competition.

The Oakland Review
The Oakland Review, Carnegie Mellon’s premier, undergraduate-run literary arts journal, publishes work from writers and artists of all backgrounds. They accept fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, playwriting, screenwriting, and artwork, and have been recognized by the Association of Writers and Writing Programs. In honor of their recent half-century publication, their 52nd issue has the theme “Gibbous,” representing the concepts still in the works, under construction, or nearly-there, marked by tension and possibility. “How do you—and your work—handle the half-light?” The Oakland Review is accepting submissions until December 31. To read more about their application guidelines, visit this link.

Pebble
Pebble, a new independent press interested in “lyrical, attentive, and devotional” writing, is soliciting submissions for an anthology about Lake Michigan in wintertime. Work should specify geography along the lake rather than referring to it in general terms, and preference is given to works that are accompanied by black-and-white illustrations. They have specifically reached out for submissions from UChicago students and community members. To submit, send work to [email protected] by March 15, 2026. For the full submission guidelines, view this page.

Send your work to American Poetry Journal next month:

Submit to The American Poetry Journal Submit no matter race, color, religion, national origin/citizenship status, ancestry, s*x, gender identity or expression,s*xual orientation,age, or disability.

Asian American Writers' Workshop fellowship application due Dec. 1. $5000 plus lots more.

The Margins Fellowship The Margins Fellowship shapes an environment in which emerging writers can generate new, original work, build connections, and engage in dialogue with a community of writer peers. Coming into the f…

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A little more than a fortnight to send to Ploughshares:

Journal - Ploughshares The Regular Reading Period is open! We welcome unsolicited submissions of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction during our Regular Reading Period, open from June 1 to November 15 at 12:00pm EST. Ploughshares is published four times a year: blended poetry and prose issues in the winter and spring, a prose....

Hayden's Ferry Review is open for submissions all of November:

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The Fine Arts Workshop in Provincetown is offering a $500 scholarship on online classes. Deadline: Oct. 15

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