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Storm Publishing

A new publisher of commercial fiction, bringing you thrilling crime fiction, romantic reads, psychological thrillers, fantasy, historical fi...

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Wild Hunt Books

An independent publisher in Leeds, West Yorkshire (but founded in South London in 2020). We focus on books by new and emerging writers, alon...

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Moon City Press

Moon City Press is now a literary press housed in the English Department of Missouri State University in Springfield. Since 2014, it has pub...

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Upcoming Award Deadlines

National Indie Excellence Awards
The National Indie Excellence Awards is open to all English language books available for sale, including small presses, mid-size independent publisher...
Deadline: 2026-03-31

Caterpillar Poetry Prize
The Caterpillar Poetry Prize is an annual prize for an unpublished poem written by an adult for children aged 7–11. Open to anyone over 16. The poem...
Deadline: 2026-03-31

Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence in Mystery/Suspense
he Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence in Mystery/Suspense is named for Daphne du Maurier, the author of Rebecca, a suspense novel with romantic an...
Deadline: 2026-03-31

Hudson Prize
Each year Black Lawrence Press will award The Hudson Prize for an unpublished collection of poems or short stories. The prize is open to new, emerging...
Deadline: 2026-03-31

Cloudbank 20 Contest
Send no more than five poems or flash fiction pieces (1000 words or less) in one file. Simultaneous submissions are accepted. Let us know if your subm...
Deadline: 2026-03-31

Upcoming Festivals & Events

Children’s Book Festival of Johnstown
The Children’s Book Festival of Johnstown is a FREE festival for families of children in preschool through grade 6. ...
Starts: 2026-03-28

Books By The Bay
Books By The Bay is a free, family-friendly festival for all ages, featuring best-selling and notable authors, industry speakers, literary exhibi...
Starts: 2026-03-28

San Diego Writers Festival
The San Diego Writers Festival is a free, community based event designed to celebrate the power of writing and storytelling. ...
Starts: 2026-03-28

National Black Writers Conference
The NBWC is dedicated to the exploration of emerging themes, trends and issues in Black American literature. It attracts writers, scholars, edit...
Starts: 2026-03-28

Emerging Writers Festival
Each spring, the English Department at Franklin & Marshall College hosts its annual Emerging Writers Festival, dedicated to championing the work ...
Starts: 2026-03-30

Book Awards for Self-Published Authors

Upcoming Book Fairs & Literary Festivals

Writing Contests for Kids & Young Adults

Recently Added Literary Zines

Dust Poetry Magazine

Dust Poetry Magazine was founded in January 2020 and publishes issues of new poetry online. The work in Dust is unsolicited and international. ...

Apparition Lit

Apparition Lit is an online, quarterly magazine publishing genre short stories & poems....

Diabolical Plots

Online magazine publishing speculative fiction–science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Everything should have a speculative element–that includes ho...

Off Menu Press

We are a zine and community space for individuals who identify with a canonically-excluded gender. To those who identify as womxn, fem-aligning, trans...

Hinterland Magazine

Hinterland is a quarterly print magazine committed to publishing the best in creative non-fiction from around the globe. We are always thrilled to fea...

Five South Journal

Five South is an online, biannual, literary journal where storytelling counts. Whether it’s in prose or poem form, we want to get to the meat of it....

EX/POST Magazine

Founded in 2020, EX/POST is a nonprofit, independent literary and arts journal. We want the raw, unblinking work that will haunt us unapologetically. ...

Digging Press

Digging Press is an independent publisher. We publish Digging Through The Fat and a chapbook series, & produce the podcast, Digging Through w/ Gessy A...

Five Points

The journal of literature and art published by the Department of English at Georgia State University. Published three times a year, each issue feature...

Cave Wall

Cave Wall, published twice a year is a national literary magazine dedicated to publishing the best in contemporary poetry. We welcome poems of any le...

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