A regularly updated post with all the submission/application/prizes and other opportunities that I’ve found in my travels around social media and have been sent to me.

When an opportunity has passed I will remove it from the list to not clog it up with old news.

I know that it isn’t that big right now but we have to start somewhere!

This post is going to be free for a while but will eventually only be available to paid subscribers.

Time limited opportunities.

• New Writing Scotland 42, Submissions are invited for New Writing Scotland 42, publishing in summer 2024. Prose pieces should be double-spaced and carry an approximate word-count. A maximum length of 3,500 words is suggested. Please send no more than four poems, or one prose work. Successful contributors will be paid at a rate of £25 per published page. Closes 31st October 2023

Always open for submissions.

• The Birdseed [are open for short and flash fiction for a digital magazine]
• Fictive Dreams [are open for short story submissions between 500 and 2,500 words]
• Fox & Windmill [We are a publisher for British South Asian writers and welcome submissions from writers of this background. You must have a completed manuscript when you submit your work.]
• Little Island, [open for submissions of quality fiction, with a leaning toward Irish authors]
• Lunate [accepts submissions of poetry and short stories without a genre limitation]
• Paragraph Planet [Your submission can be a short story, an extract from a novel or the capturing of a moment. The main rule is that it needs to be EXACTLY 75 words long including the title.]
• Product magazine [We publish short stories, nonfiction, poetry + photography. Everyone welcome, especially new/early career writers + artists.]
• Soor Ploom Press [open for previously unpublished short poetry and stories]
• wildness [accepts submissions of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction and considers work in most styles, forms, or genres.]

If you are a publisher or have other writing opportunities that you would like me to add to this list please email me contact@bigbeardedbookseller.com