Watershed Review
Watershed Review has a fall (August 1st through September 30th) and spring (January 15th through March 15th) submission period. We welcome submissions of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and art.
No previously published works are accepted.
Simultaneous submissions are permitted, but please alert Watershed Review to a piece's potential publication elsewhere.
Watershed Review acquires one-time rights. All rights subsequently revert to author.
Flume Press
Flume Press Chapbook Contest Guidelines
Submission period: September 1st — October 15th
We invite you to submit chapbook manuscripts in poetry, creative nonfiction, fiction, and hybrid forms. Chapbooks, in their relative brevity, function more like concept albums or curated collections in which the manuscript shows intentionality, whether through themes, forms, and/or narrative. We’re interested in manuscripts that invite surprise, invention, and genre bending. Collaborations are welcome. Inclusion of art or images will be considered, yet the writing should be the primary focus.
Please see more detailed guidelines below under the submission link.
Flume Press Chapbook Contest Guidelines
Submission period: August 25th — October 10th
We're pleased to announce this year's chapbook contest will be judged by Rae Gouirand, author of a book-length poem, The Velvet Book (Cornerstone Press, 2024), a 2025 Lambda Literary Award finalist; two collections of poetry, Glass is Glass Water is Water (Spork Press, 2018) and Open Winter (Bellday Books, 2011); the chapbooks Rough Sequence (Seven Kitchens Press, 2023), Little Hour (Swan Scythe Press, 2022), Jinx (Seven Kitchens Press, 2019) and Must Apple (Educe Press, 2018); and a short work of nonfiction, The History of Art (The Atlas Review, 2019). Her work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Bennington Review, Conjunctions, Foglifter, The Iowa Review, jubilat, theLambda Literary Poetry Spotlight,Michigan Quarterly Review, two volumes of the Best New Poets series, Queer Nature: A Poetry Anthology, and many other journals and anthologies nationwide. She leads several longrunning independent workshops in northern California and online, including her cross-genre workshop Scribe Lab, and serves as a Continuing Lecturer in the Department of English at UC Davis. More about our judge at raegouirand.com
We invite you to submit chapbook manuscripts in poetry, creative nonfiction, fiction, and hybrid forms. Chapbooks, in their relative brevity, function more like concept albums or curated collections in which the manuscript shows intentionality, whether through themes, forms, and/or narrative. We’re interested in manuscripts that invite surprise, invention, and genre bending. Collaborations are welcome. Inclusion of art or images will be considered, yet the writing should be the primary focus.
Guidelines:
Poetry: Submit between 18-25 pages
Prose: Up to 25 pages of prose (flash, long-form, novella, or a blend of genres), Please include a list of acknowledgements
- Your name and contact information should not appear anywhere in the manuscript
- Include a brief Cover Letter in the Submittable form
- A $15 entry fee must be paid at the time of submission. This money goes directly toward printing costs. We source environmentally responsible materials wherever possible.
- Manuscripts should be submitted in PDF or Microsoft Word (.doc and .docx) formats only. We recommend PDF formatting if you want to ensure that your page breaks, indentations, and other manuscript formats are as you intend.
All manuscripts will be read by the Flume Press editors. At least ten finalists will be sent to the contest judge, Rae Gouirand. The winner will receive $300, plus ten copies of the chapbook. Our books are handmade, so the print run will be limited.
We only accept submissions through Submittable. Work sent by any other means will not be read. Simultaneous submissions are fine, but please let us know immediately if your manuscript has been accepted elsewhere.
Results will be announced in January 2026.
One essay of up to 2500 double-spaced words (.doc, .docx, or .rtf format) may be submitted by an individual author per publishing period. Do not include any identifying information within the document.
We will consider personal essays, lyric essays, literary journalism, memoir, or hybrid prose.
Do not send previously published work (either online or print).
Include a short biographical statement highlighting literary, academic, and artistic achievement, interest or affiliation.
If you have been published recently by Watershed Review, please wait 6 months before submitting again.
One essay of up to 2500 double-spaced words (.doc, .docx, or .rtf format) may be submitted by an individual author per publishing period. Do not include any identifying information within the document.
We will consider personal essays, lyric essays, literary journalism, memoir, or hybrid prose.
Do not send previously published work (either online or print).
Include a short biographical statement highlighting literary, academic, and artistic achievement, interest or affiliation.
If you have been published recently by Watershed Review, please wait 6 months before submitting again.
One story of up to 2500 words double-spaced (.doc, .docx, or .rtf format) may be submitted by an individual author per publishing period. Do not include any identifying information within the document.
Only send previously unpublished work (either online or print).
Include a short biographical statement highlighting literary, academic, and artistic achievement, interest or affiliation.
If you have been published recently by Watershed Review, please wait 6 months before submitting again.
One story of up to 2500 words double-spaced (.doc, .docx, or .rtf format) may be submitted by an individual author per publishing period. Do not include any identifying information within the document.
Only send previously unpublished work (either online or print).
Include a short biographical statement highlighting literary, academic, and artistic achievement, interest or affiliation.
If you have been published recently by Watershed Review, please wait 6 months before submitting again.
Up to 4 poems, single-spaced, may be submitted by an individual author per publishing period. Please submit all poems in one file (.doc, .docx, .rtf) without any identifying information within the document.
Please list the poem titles in the "Title" section of this form (ex: The Fire Season, Former Ratio...")
Do not send previously published (either online or print) work.
Include a short biographical statement highlighting literary, academic, and artistic achievement, interest or affiliation.
If you have been published recently by Watershed Review, please wait 6 months before submitting again.
Up to 4 poems, single-spaced, may be submitted by an individual author per publishing period. Please submit all poems in one file (.doc, .docx, .rtf) without any identifying information within the document.
Please list the poem titles in the "Title" section of this form (ex: The Fire Season, Former Ratio...")
Do not send previously published (either online or print) work.
Include a short biographical statement highlighting literary, academic, and artistic achievement, interest or affiliation.
If you have been published recently by Watershed Review, please wait 6 months before submitting again.
Submit up to 8 images, digital versions of at least 300 dots per inch (dpi).
In the "Title" section of this form, please list the names of each piece (Ex: "The Reckoning, Untitled 1..."
Include a short biographical statement highlighting literary, academic, and artistic achievement, interest or affiliation.