Monthly Archives: February 2022

Open Call for Poetry, Flash, Short Fiction & CNF, Art and Graphic Novels Closing Soon

Sunspot Lit’s open call for short fiction, including flash pieces and up to three pages of poetry, closes February 28. Send in your work through Submittable or Duotrope.

Long-form Open Call Closing Soon

Sunspot Lit’s open call for long-form fiction, CNF, and graphic novels is closing February 15. Send in your work through Submittable or Duotrope.

Reedsy’s Best Writing Contest

Sunspot has made Reedsy’s list of Best Writing Contests three years in a row. You can check out why by considering the 2022 edition of Geminga, offering $250 plus publication for a $5 entry fee. Enter here through our Submittable page, or here through Duotrope.

Poetry Feedback

Sunspot Lit’s poetry editor, Morrow Dowdle, is now offering feedback on poems. Using this form, submit one poem of up to three pages in length. Dowdle is the author of the chapbook Nature v. Nurture (Artagem Graphic Library). Her poetry has been featured in River and South Review, Poetry South, Dandelion Review, NonBinary Review, Pink Panther Magazine, Panoply, APIARY, The Schuylkill Valley Journal of the Arts, Edison Literary Review, River Poets Quarterly, The Griffin, Philadelphia Stories, and Prism, among other publications.

She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net.  She is an active member of the Living Poetry collective in the North Carolina Triangle area.  She also writes graphic novels, including An Unlikely Refugee, which is now part of a permanent exhibit at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences.

Submit as many times as you like using a new submission form for each poem.