Work is slow. School is finished. The kiddos are away at camp. Across most of the country, it’s already too effing hot to go outside without immediately feeling that you will most definitely perish from heat exhaustion within 60 seconds. You’re mostly just bullshitting around until you take your vacation anyway. Need something to do? Stop drinking lemonade and fanning yourself with back issues of Maxim. Get your voice out there. (Okay, yes, fine. You can send out work while finishing your glass of Country Time and skimming that fab Lady Gaga interview. Make Mother Monster proud.) Submission deadlines for the month of June:
- Creative Nonfiction call for submissions for genre-bending nonfiction. June 13 deadline.
- The Eyes of Babylon Writing Contest (in Drama, Fiction/Nonfiction, and Poetry). June 14 deadline.
- Bitter Oleander Press Frances Locke Memorial Poetry Award (for a single poem). June 15 deadline.
- Damselfly Press call for submissions of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction (women writers only). June 15 deadline.
- Horse Less Press call for manuscripts (poetry or mixed-genre). June 15 deadline.
- RopeWalk Press Thomas A. Wilhelmus Chapbook Award for Fiction. June 15 deadline.
- All Nations Press Nonfiction Chapbook Competition. June 15 deadline.
- Southern Poetry Review Guy Owen Award (for a single poem). June 15 deadline.
- Blue Light Press Poetry Chapbook Competition. June 15 deadline.
- University of Akron Press Akron Poetry Prize (for a manuscript). June 15 deadline.
- Philadelphia Stories Marguerite McGlinn Prize for Fiction (for a short story). June 15 deadline.
- St. Louis Writers’ Guild Deane Wagner Poetry Contest (for a single poem). June 15 deadline.
- New Millennium Writings Contest (in poetry, fiction, flash fiction, and nonfiction). June 17 deadline.
- The Whistling Fire call for poetry submissions. June 25 deadline.
- Autumn House Press Fiction and Poetry Contests (for a manuscript). June 30 deadline.
- Four Way Books fiction and poetry manuscript open reading period. June 30 deadline.
- Borrow Street Press Book Contest (for a poetry manuscript). June 30 deadline.
- Literal Latté Short Short Contest (for flash fiction). June 30 deadline.
- Bauhan Publishing May Sarton First Book Contest (for a poetry manuscript). June 30 deadline.
- Bridport Arts Centre Bridport Prize (in poetry, short fiction, and flash fiction). June 30 deadline.
- Finishing Line Press Open Chapbook Competition (for a poetry manuscript). June 30 deadline.
- Glimmer Train Fiction Open (for a single story). June 30 deadline.
- Hidden River Arts Awards in Fiction and Drama (for a single story/novel excerpt or a full-length play). June 30 deadline.
- Hunger Mountain Howard Frank Mosher Short Fiction Prize. June 30 deadline.
- Dream Horse Press Poetry Chapbook Prize. June 30 deadline.
- Snail Mail Review call for poetry and fiction submissions. June 30 deadline.
- The National Poetry Review Annie Finch Prize for Poetry (for a single poem). June 30 deadline.
- The International Aeon Award Short Fiction Contest (for stories in a speculative fiction genre). June 30 deadline.
- Omnidawn Publishing Poetry Prize (for a first or second book). June 30 deadline.
- Parlor Press New Measure Poetry Prize (for a poetry manuscript). June 30 deadline.
- Flash 500 Flash Fiction Competition. June 30 deadline.
- Pearl Poetry Prize (for a poetry manuscript). June 30 deadline.
- Red Hen Press Short Story Award. June 30 deadline.
- University of North Texas Press Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction (for a fiction manuscript). June 30 deadline.