One prize of $1,000 and book publication is given by Howling Bird Press annually in alternating genres; this year the category is creative nonfiction… read more

Madwomen in the Attic is seeking featured writers for The Featured Writer Project’s 2020-2021 writing year, which will begin in January 2020 and end in January 2021…. read more

Astral Waters Review, a new sci-fi/fantasy magazine for LGBTQ+ and POC writers, is seeking submissions for our second issue!… read more

In honor of longtime member Jane Hoppen, Paragraph: Workspace for Writers is offering a six month residency to an emerging writer who represents the LGBTQ+ community… read more

The call for poems “that best describe LGBTQ life” is now open for submissions… read more

For Arch Street Press’s second writing competition of 2019, we’re seeking that first chapter of your memoir… read more

PEN America celebrates writers at every stage of their career and we take great pride in our Grants & Fellowships program… read more

The Broken River Prize is an annual poetry chapbook contest from Platypus Press. Each year a different poet will judge the contest this year’s judge is poet and teacher Airea D. Matthews…. read more

“We publish short poems, and long poems, and have a soft spot for form, but equally, are open to anything.”… read more

Submissions are now open for the eighth edition of ImageOutWrite, the literary journal of ImageOut, Rochester, New York’s LGBT Film Festival. … read more