News
July 2024
- Open Calls are open in fiction and creative nonfiction. Click here.
- The Joy Bale Boone Poetry contest opens. Click here.
- We are still reading the poetry from winter 2024.
June 2024
- Currently all contests and open calls are closed. Open calls will begin in July.
- The Spring issue was mailed in May 2023 and is available on Amazon. Click here to buy on Amazon
- In February we hosted a free open call for poetry. We had a cap of 60 or by April 15, but we reached our cap by the end of Febuary. Thank you! We'll be reading these through the summer, and notifications will be made around August. Selections will be published in the fall issue. Click here.
Here's a summary of what we read in 2023 and what we did:
- We published both of our regular anthologies.
- We read 354 works of fiction and 175 works of creative nonfiction in 2023.
- There were 689 submissions in general poetry, but the poets can submit up to 3 poems and most do, so 689*3 so that's over 2000 poems.
- For the 2024 Joy Bale Boone, we current have 124 submissions which we are reading.
Shout Outs & Special Thanks
- To the following websites for promoting our competitions free of charge:
