With the spring semester coming to a close in a few weeks, MFA students not enrolled in summer sessions will have some much needed time to focus on polishing drafts of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry and submitting their work. Many regional, national, and international literary journals have late spring and early summer contests and calls for submission. I have tried to narrow the list to a few that are geared specifically to new writers and/or previously unpublished work and provided the direct links below. Good luck!
Boulevard, Emerging Poets Contest, June 1, www.boulevardmagazine.org
Glimmer Train Press, Short Story Award for New Writers, May 31, www.glimmertrain.org
New Millennium Writings, New Millennium Awards, June 17, www.newmillenniumwritings.com
New Ohio Review, Prize in Fiction and Poetry, May 15, www.ohio.edu/nor/submis.htm
Our Stories, Emerging Writers Story Contest, June 30, www.ourstories.us/contests
Writer’s Digest, Annual Writing Competition, May 14, www.writersdigest.com
This is helpful. Many thanks!