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Bottom Dog Press

An independent, non-profit publisher of working-class culture and values, as well as writings of the Midwest, Appalachia, American Zen and ...

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The BumblePuppy press

The BumblePuppy Press is an Ottawa-based publisher of fiction, poetry and, soon, memoir. Beginning with Carl Dow’s short st...

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Shadowpaw Press

Canadian publisher of fiction for adults and young adults, including science fiction and fantasy. Founded by award-winning author Edward Wil...

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On The Calendar

Upcoming Award Deadlines

Constance Rooke Creative Nonfiction Prize
The Constance Rooke Creative Nonfiction Prize is awarded to the best work submitted to the magazine’s annual contest for a genre that embraces, but ...
Deadline: 2026-08-01

PEN Translation Prize
The $3,000 PEN Translation Prize invites submissions of book-length translations from any language into English published during the current calendar ...
Deadline: 2026-08-01

Aspen Words Literary Prize
The Aspen Words Literary Prize is a $35,000 annual award for an influential work of fiction that illuminates a vital contemporary issue and demonstrat...
Deadline: 2026-08-03

National Outdoor Book Awards
The National Outdoor Book Awards (NOBA) is a non-profit educational program sponsored by the NOBA Foundation, the Association of Outdoor Recreation an...
Deadline: 2026-08-15

Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards
The Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards contest is designed to honor the year’s best children’s books, authors and illustrators. The program is open...
Deadline: 2026-08-20

Upcoming Festivals & Events

Read by the Sea
Read by the Sea is a summer literary festival featuring readings by outstanding Canadian authors. The three-day festival includes WordPlay, a fun...
Starts: 2026-07-11

Columbus Book Festival
The Columbus Book Festival features a lineup of 200+ national and Columbus-based authors, panel discussions, author talks, book signings and more...
Starts: 2026-07-11

Mildura Writers Festival
Held in July, the Mildura Writers Festival presents three days of words, food and wine featuring Australian and international writers. Througho...
Starts: 2026-07-16

Winona Christian Writers Conference
This inaugural 3-day gathering in beautiful Winona Lake, Indiana, features workshops in four genres (Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, and Writing for...
Starts: 2026-07-16

Lakefield Literary Festival
In commemoration of Margaret Laurence, Catharine Parr Traill, Susanna Moodie and our community’s ongoing literary heritage, the Lakefield Liter...
Starts: 2026-07-17

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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