The Life calls people to full and unqualified commitment to Jesus, equips them to share their faith, and trains them to inspire others to do the same. We are a community of people centered on Christ, who are learning, day-by-day, through the power of the Spirit, to obey Him anytime, anywhere, at any cost, to do anything.

You are a humble servant who loves imagining and creating content that moves people closer to Jesus. You have a positive att...

The PSA's Annual Awards are among the most prestigious honors available to poets. They offer emerging and established poets recognition at all stages of their careers. The awards recognize everything from a single poem to our highest honor, the Frost Medal, which celebrates lifetime achievement in poetry.

December Contest

Theme: Santa Claus is Real

Form: Optional

Line Limit: 40

Entry fee: $5 per poem

Prizes: 1st Place: $25, 2nd Place: $15, 3rd Place: $10

Deadline: December 21, 2019

Topic: Focus on the Family magazine is accepting personal stories about how to stay close as a married couple or how to spend time together as a married couple. Must include an anecdote and a specific way this has helped you grow closer to your husband or wife.  Word count: 100 to 300 words

Submission deadline for issue 2: December 15, 2019

Topics / Themes: We accept any topic/theme providing that it is positive and uplifting in nature, with the exception of erotica and politics. We are a family-friendly magazine, so NO dirty words. We reserve the right to ask you to edit your submission if need be.

Previously published works are accepted, as long as you own full rights to them.

Length: Up to 1,500 words. 

What...

This magazine is dedicated to everything Western. The type of story (up to 5,000 words) most likely to be published here is the traditional post-Civil War Western, but they will consider any story that is connected with the early settling of America that takes place during the 1700s and early 1800s, from swashbuckling pirates to mountain men and the early pioneers. All stories must be set in the 17th, 18th, or 19th c...

Poems entered must be original (written by entrant) and MAY have been previously published.

Topic: Focus on the Family magazine is accepting short articles about families who minister together in the United States. (This is not about missionaries living in foreign countries, but short-term overseas mission trips are OK to highlight.) You can write about your family or a family you know. Each story MUST include (1) how the family ministry activities helped the fa...

Deadline: December 15, 2019

Entry fee: $3 per contest entry for nonmembers. Prizes range from $5 to $45. Twelve categories to enter.

Tangled Tree Publishing is inviting submissions for our first anthology: A Dark Spring. We are seeking gripping novellas from new and established authors keen to grow their exposure and reader base. Set for publication spring 2020.

Genre: thriller / suspense / mystery – contemporary. (Adult)

Themes: Tangled. The only limit is your imagination, but it must contain “tangled” and the “seaso...

Popular Culture is the accumulation of cultural products such as music, art, literature, fashion, dance, film, cyber-culture, television and radio that are consumed by the majority of a society’s population. One of the main characteristics of pop culture is its accessibility to the masses and that it exists or predominates in a society at a certain point in time.

We want this to be a FUN issue! You can write about a...

Today’s woman is independent, self-confident and feisty but at the same time, nurturing, loving and caring. Today’s woman can be everything she wants to be.

Literary journal based in Austin, Texas, publishes poetry along with photographs, book reviews, and essays. The current issue theme is Change.

Submission deadline for Spring/Summer 2020 issue is December 15, 2019.

Please submit a maximum of four outwardly directed poems that exhibit social, political, geographical, historical or spiritual awareness. We are open to traditional and experimental forms. Payment is one cop...

The Bible Advocate is one of the oldest religious magazines in America, founded in 1863. Now has been online since late 1996. Both are published by the Bible Advocate Press, the publishing agency of the General Conference of the Church of God (Seventh Day). The BA seeks to encourage the church to live by every word of God and to fully equip believers in Christ in every good work through Holy Scripture

Lively, original approaches to the subject are the primary concerns of the editors in choosing material. FACES: World Culture & Geography is written for ages 9-14. FACES Writers are encouraged to study recent past copies for content and style. (Sample copies are available for viewing at the Cricket Media Store, where you can also purchase a current issue.) Issues are also available at many local libraries. All material ...

#PitMad is a pitch party on Twitter where writers tweet a 280-character pitch for their completed, polished, unpublished manuscripts. Agents and editors make requests by liking/favoriting the tweeted pitch.

Every unagented writer is welcome to pitch. All genres/categories are welcomed.

December 5, 2019 (8AM – 8PM EDT)

Welcome to the VIA Metropolitan Transit 10th Annual Poetry on the Move Contest portal. VIA is calling for poetry submissions through Monday, December 2, 2019.

Winning poems will be illustrated by local artists and published in the BiblioTech digital library and displayed on VIA buses during National Poetry Month in April 2019. All winning poets will be notified by VIA and invited to an event to recognize the winning ...

MUSE is a discovery magazine for children and teens ages 9-14. It takes intellectual curiosity seriously, while never taking itself too seriously. The editors seek fresh and entertaining articles from the fields of science, technology, engineering, art, and math. Timeliness and trustworthiness is essential, but humor, irreverence, and atypical angles are also hallmarks of MUSE.

Each edition of MUSE focuses on a centr...

Parabola is a quarterly journal devoted to the exploration of the quest for meaning as it is expressed in the world’s myths, symbols, and religious traditions, with particular emphasis on the relationship between this store of wisdom and our modern life.

Each issue of Parabola is organized around a theme. The theme for the Spring 2020 issue is Quest. The submission deadline is December 1, 2019.

Parabola welcomes original e...

Narrative is strongly committed to supporting our authors' work. Our current rates for work are as follows:

The War Cry, now in its 137th year, represents the Salvation Army’s mission through news, profiles, commentaries and stories. It looks to bring people to Christ, help believers grow in faith and character, and promotes redemptive cultural practices from the perspective of Salvation Army programs, ministries and doctrines. Readership consists of those in and involved with The Salvation Army ...

Winning poet receives $100. Second place receives $50. Third place receives $25. 

Writers of comedic essays, articles, short stories, poetry, shopping lists and other forms are invited to submit.

Works up to 750 words in length should be typed, double-spaced, accompanied by a money order or check for $5 to cover administrative costs, payable to "The Mona Schreiber Prize." No limit to entries but each must have a separate fee. Put contact information directly above the title and tex...

The Madison Review annually hosts the Phyllis Smart-Young Prize in Poetry and the Chris O'Malley Prize in Fiction. The finest unpublished short story (30 page max), and the finest group of three unpublished poems will be awarded $1,000 with publication in the issue of The Madison Review. 

The Madison Review accepts contest submissions from October 1st through December 1st. Writers may submit one entry per ...

The Life calls people to full and unqualified commitment to Jesus, equips them to share their faith, and trains them to inspire others to do the same. We are a community of people centered on Christ, who are learning, day-by-day, through the power of the Spirit, to obey Him anytime, anywhere, at any cost, to do anything.

You are a humble servant who loves imagining and creating content that moves people closer to Jesus. You have a positive att...

The PSA's Annual Awards are among the most prestigious honors available to poets. They offer emerging and established poets recognition at all stages of their careers. The awards recognize everything from a single poem to our highest honor, the Frost Medal, which celebrates lifetime achievement in poetry.

December Contest

Theme: Santa Claus is Real

Form: Optional

Line Limit: 40

Entry fee: $5 per poem

Prizes: 1st Place: $25, 2nd Place: $15, 3rd Place: $10

Deadline: December 21, 2019

Topic: Focus on the Family magazine is accepting personal stories about how to stay close as a married couple or how to spend time together as a married couple. Must include an anecdote and a specific way this has helped you grow closer to your husband or wife.  Word count: 100 to 300 words

Submission deadline for issue 2: December 15, 2019

Topics / Themes: We accept any topic/theme providing that it is positive and uplifting in nature, with the exception of erotica and politics. We are a family-friendly magazine, so NO dirty words. We reserve the right to ask you to edit your submission if need be.

Previously published works are accepted, as long as you own full rights to them.

Length: Up to 1,500 words. 

What...

This magazine is dedicated to everything Western. The type of story (up to 5,000 words) most likely to be published here is the traditional post-Civil War Western, but they will consider any story that is connected with the early settling of America that takes place during the 1700s and early 1800s, from swashbuckling pirates to mountain men and the early pioneers. All stories must be set in the 17th, 18th, or 19th c...

Poems entered must be original (written by entrant) and MAY have been previously published.

Topic: Focus on the Family magazine is accepting short articles about families who minister together in the United States. (This is not about missionaries living in foreign countries, but short-term overseas mission trips are OK to highlight.) You can write about your family or a family you know. Each story MUST include (1) how the family ministry activities helped the fa...

Deadline: December 15, 2019

Entry fee: $3 per contest entry for nonmembers. Prizes range from $5 to $45. Twelve categories to enter.

Tangled Tree Publishing is inviting submissions for our first anthology: A Dark Spring. We are seeking gripping novellas from new and established authors keen to grow their exposure and reader base. Set for publication spring 2020.

Genre: thriller / suspense / mystery – contemporary. (Adult)

Themes: Tangled. The only limit is your imagination, but it must contain “tangled” and the “seaso...

Popular Culture is the accumulation of cultural products such as music, art, literature, fashion, dance, film, cyber-culture, television and radio that are consumed by the majority of a society’s population. One of the main characteristics of pop culture is its accessibility to the masses and that it exists or predominates in a society at a certain point in time.

We want this to be a FUN issue! You can write about a...

Today’s woman is independent, self-confident and feisty but at the same time, nurturing, loving and caring. Today’s woman can be everything she wants to be.

Literary journal based in Austin, Texas, publishes poetry along with photographs, book reviews, and essays. The current issue theme is Change.

Submission deadline for Spring/Summer 2020 issue is December 15, 2019.

Please submit a maximum of four outwardly directed poems that exhibit social, political, geographical, historical or spiritual awareness. We are open to traditional and experimental forms. Payment is one cop...

The Bible Advocate is one of the oldest religious magazines in America, founded in 1863. Now has been online since late 1996. Both are published by the Bible Advocate Press, the publishing agency of the General Conference of the Church of God (Seventh Day). The BA seeks to encourage the church to live by every word of God and to fully equip believers in Christ in every good work through Holy Scripture

Lively, original approaches to the subject are the primary concerns of the editors in choosing material. FACES: World Culture & Geography is written for ages 9-14. FACES Writers are encouraged to study recent past copies for content and style. (Sample copies are available for viewing at the Cricket Media Store, where you can also purchase a current issue.) Issues are also available at many local libraries. All material ...

#PitMad is a pitch party on Twitter where writers tweet a 280-character pitch for their completed, polished, unpublished manuscripts. Agents and editors make requests by liking/favoriting the tweeted pitch.

Every unagented writer is welcome to pitch. All genres/categories are welcomed.

December 5, 2019 (8AM – 8PM EDT)

Welcome to the VIA Metropolitan Transit 10th Annual Poetry on the Move Contest portal. VIA is calling for poetry submissions through Monday, December 2, 2019.

Winning poems will be illustrated by local artists and published in the BiblioTech digital library and displayed on VIA buses during National Poetry Month in April 2019. All winning poets will be notified by VIA and invited to an event to recognize the winning ...

MUSE is a discovery magazine for children and teens ages 9-14. It takes intellectual curiosity seriously, while never taking itself too seriously. The editors seek fresh and entertaining articles from the fields of science, technology, engineering, art, and math. Timeliness and trustworthiness is essential, but humor, irreverence, and atypical angles are also hallmarks of MUSE.

Each edition of MUSE focuses on a centr...

Parabola is a quarterly journal devoted to the exploration of the quest for meaning as it is expressed in the world’s myths, symbols, and religious traditions, with particular emphasis on the relationship between this store of wisdom and our modern life.

Each issue of Parabola is organized around a theme. The theme for the Spring 2020 issue is Quest. The submission deadline is December 1, 2019.

Parabola welcomes original e...

Narrative is strongly committed to supporting our authors' work. Our current rates for work are as follows:

The War Cry, now in its 137th year, represents the Salvation Army’s mission through news, profiles, commentaries and stories. It looks to bring people to Christ, help believers grow in faith and character, and promotes redemptive cultural practices from the perspective of Salvation Army programs, ministries and doctrines. Readership consists of those in and involved with The Salvation Army ...

Winning poet receives $100. Second place receives $50. Third place receives $25. 

Writers of comedic essays, articles, short stories, poetry, shopping lists and other forms are invited to submit.

Works up to 750 words in length should be typed, double-spaced, accompanied by a money order or check for $5 to cover administrative costs, payable to "The Mona Schreiber Prize." No limit to entries but each must have a separate fee. Put contact information directly above the title and tex...

The Madison Review annually hosts the Phyllis Smart-Young Prize in Poetry and the Chris O'Malley Prize in Fiction. The finest unpublished short story (30 page max), and the finest group of three unpublished poems will be awarded $1,000 with publication in the issue of The Madison Review. 

The Madison Review accepts contest submissions from October 1st through December 1st. Writers may submit one entry per ...