Rawhead

Open now for fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, other work, and poetry.

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Rawhead is an online journal publishing poetry, fiction, nonfiction, hybrid work, and visual art, with free submissions and a focus on emotionally resonant, unsettling, and socially engaged work.

Response time info: 3–6 months

Read the full guidelines at rawheadjournal.org↗

Submission calls

fictionLiteraryHorrorCloses Oct 1Pays: One outstanding writer from each standard issue receives a $100 award; Point Blank contributors receive $30.

Currently accepting fiction for Rawhead & Bloody Bones: Halloween 2026 and Rawhead: Point Blank. Prose may be up to 3,000 words for one longer piece, or up to two shorter works totaling no more than 4,000 words; flash or experimental submissions under 1,000 words may include up to three pieces. Bloody Bones submissions are open August 15–October 1 and seek ghosts, folklore, grief, hunger, rage, queerness, and transformation.

flashLiteraryHorrorCloses Oct 1Pays: One outstanding writer from each standard issue receives a $100 award; Point Blank contributors receive $30.

Currently accepting flash or experimental fiction for Rawhead & Bloody Bones: Halloween 2026 and Rawhead: Point Blank. Submit up to three pieces under 1,000 words; Bloody Bones submissions are open August 15–October 1 and seek work involving ghosts, folklore, grief, hunger, rage, queerness, and transformation.

nonfictionLiteraryCloses Oct 1Pays: One outstanding writer from each standard issue receives a $100 award; Point Blank contributors receive $30.

Currently accepting creative nonfiction for Rawhead & Bloody Bones: Halloween 2026 and Rawhead: Point Blank. Prose may be up to 3,000 words for one longer piece, or up to two shorter works totaling no more than 4,000 words; flash or experimental submissions under 1,000 words may include up to three pieces. Bloody Bones submissions are open August 15–October 1 and seek shadowed, emotionally intense work.

otherLiteraryHorrorCloses Oct 1Pays: One outstanding writer from each standard issue receives a $100 award; Point Blank contributors receive $30.

Currently accepting hybrid work for Rawhead & Bloody Bones: Halloween 2026 and Rawhead: Point Blank. Hybrid submissions may include one larger work up to 3,000 words, five shorter pieces within the stated limits, 1–3 videos or sound pieces, and up to 10 images; provide a brief description. Bloody Bones submissions are open August 15–October 1 and seek monsters, metaphor, transformation, and emotionally resonant work.

poetryLiteraryHorrorCloses Oct 1Pays: One outstanding writer from each standard issue receives a $100 award; Point Blank contributors receive $30.

Currently accepting poetry for Rawhead & Bloody Bones: Halloween 2026 and Rawhead: Point Blank. Submit 3–7 poems totaling no more than 15 pages; Bloody Bones submissions are open August 15–October 1. The journal seeks work exploring ghosts, folklore, grief, hunger, rage, queerness, and transformation, as well as responses to state violence, systemic harm, care, solidarity, and survival.

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