SUBMISSIONS
Deadline: September 30th every year
One Winner Will Receive $250, Online Publication, & Social Media Promotion
Guidelines
Contest entry fees are $15 per submission. Up to 3 images are allowed per submission. Multiple submissions are allowed so long as each submission is accompanied by an additional $15 fee. Simultaneous submissions are allowed so long as we are notified immediately if any submitted work is accepted elsewhere. Fees are nonrefundable.
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All works submitted must be of your own original creation. Works by multiple artists not accepted.
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Fine art (paintings, drawings, mixed media, sculptures, etc.), photography, and street art (murals, graffiti) are accepted. For the contest, we do not accepted digital or AI-generated works.
Works may be previously published so long as they did not win first place in an award or contest. Please disclose the name of previous publisher(s) and date(s) of previous publication(s) so we can give prior publication credit where due. Prior publishers must have taken first publication rights only and a period of at least one year must have elapsed since the work was last published.
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No racist, LGBTQ-phobic, sizeist, ageist, ableist, xenophobic, or other forms of discriminatory hatred. Any piece containing one or more of these forms of hatred will be denied without refund of submission fees.
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Contest is open to international submissions.
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Anyone with a close relationship to anyone serving in a paid or unpaid position with Kali's Moksha are kindly asked to refrain from submitting to the contest. All works are judged blindly by the editor.
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Work must be in .jpg or .jpeg format only.
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Writers who are incarcerated may submit by emailing their work as a .jpg or .jpeg file(s) to kalismoksha@gmail.com but all other writers must submit online through Submittable. We do not accept submissions by mail. Anything sent to us by mail will not be returned.
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We take first, or subsequent, publishing rights only. You, the artist, retain all copyrights to your work.
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Contest winners will be selected and announced by December 1st.
Annual Art Prize
Annual Poetry Prize
Deadline: September 30th every year
One Winner Will Receive $250, Online Publication, & Social Media Promotion
Guidelines
Submit 1-3 poems for a combined total of no more than 5 pages with an entry fee of $15. Multiple submissions are allowed so long as each submission is accompanied by an additional $15 fee. Simultaneous submissions are allowed so long as we are notified if any submitted work wins first place in another competition. Fees are nonrefundable.
All genres welcome. Works by multiple writers are not accepted. All works must be your own original creation.
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Required Format: 12-point, Times New Roman font, 1-inch margins, letter-sized pages (8.5 by 11 inches). Document must be a word document: .doc or .docx only. Each poem must be on a separate page and must be accompanied by a title at the top of the page.
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All subjects welcome. However, any content that upholds racism, LGBTQ-phobia, sizeism, ageism, ableism, xenophobia, misogyny, or other forms of hate-speech are not welcome and will result in a swift denial without refund of submission fees.
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Please do not include any identifying information in the manuscript. Anyone with a close relationship to anyone serving on the editorial board of Kali's Moksha are kindly asked to refrain from submitting to the contest. All works are judged blindly by the editor.
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Contest is open to international submissions, simultaneous submissions, and multiple submissions.
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Writers who are incarcerated may submit by emailing their work to kalismoksha@gmail.com and copy+pasting the poems into the body of the email (do not upload attachments). All writers not currently incarcerated must submit online through Submittable. We do not accept submissions by mail. Anything sent to us by mail will not be returned.
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Submission fees are nonrefundable.
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If you made a mistake in your submission, please notify us before withdrawing or resubmittting.
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Works may be previously published so long as they did not win first place in an award or contest. Please disclose name of previous publisher(s) and date(s) of previous publication(s) so we can give prior publication credit where due. Simultaneous submissions are accepted so long as we are notified immediately if the work is accepted elsewhere. Prior publishers must have taken first publication rights only and a period of at least one year must have elapsed since the work was last published.
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We take first, or subsequent, publishing rights only. You, the author, retain all copyrights to your work.
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Contest winners will be selected and announced by December 1st.​
Annual Short Prose Prize
Deadline: September 30th every year
One Winner Will Receive $250, Online Publication, & Social Media Promotion
Guidelines
Submit 1-3 stories, flash memoirs, hybrid writings, or essays for a combined total of no more than 5 pages along with a contest entry fee of $15. Multiple submissions are allowed so long as each submission is accompanied by an additional $15 fee. Simultaneous submissions are allowed so long as we are notified immediately if any submitted work wins first place in another competition. Fees are nonrefundable.
All fiction and non-fiction genres welcome. Works by multiple writers are not accepted. All works must be your own original creation.
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Required Format: 12-point, Times New Roman font, 1-inch margins, letter-sized pages (8.5 by 11 inches). Document must be a word document: .doc or .docx only. Individual pieces should start on a separate page.
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All subjects welcome. However, any content that upholds racism, LGBTQ-phobia, sizeism, ageism, ableism, xenophobia, misogyny, or other forms of hate-speech are not welcome and will result in a swift denial without refund of submission fees.
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Please do not include any identifying information in the manuscript. Anyone with a close relationship to anyone serving on the editorial board of Kali's Moksha are kindly asked to refrain from submitting to the contest. All works are judged blindly by the editor.
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Contest is open to international submissions, simultaneous submissions, and multiple submissions.
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Writers who are incarcerated may submit by emailing their work to kalismoksha@gmail.com and copy+pasting the stories into the body of the email (do not upload attachments). All writers not currently incarcerated must submit online through Submittable. We do not accept submissions by mail. Anything sent to us by mail will not be returned.
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Submission fees are nonrefundable.
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If you made a mistake in your submission, please notify us before withdrawing or resubmittting.
​
Works may be previously published so long as they did not win first place in an award or contest. Please disclose name of previous publisher(s) and date(s) of previous publication(s) so we can give prior publication credit where due. Simultaneous submissions are accepted so long as we are notified if the work is accepted for a first place prize elsewhere. Prior publishers must have taken first publication rights only and a period of at least one year must have elapsed since the work was last published.
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We take first, or subsequent, publishing rights only. You, the author, retain all copyrights to your work.
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Contest winners will be selected and announced by December 1st.
Deadline: January 31st every year
One Winner Will Receive $250, Online Publication, & Social Media Promotion
Guidelines
Contest entry fees are $15 per submission. Up to 3 images are allowed per submission. Multiple submissions are allowed so long as each submission is accompanied by an additional $15 fee. Simultaneous submissions are allowed so long as we are notified immediately if any submitted work is accepted elsewhere. Fees are nonrefundable.
​
All works submitted must be of your own original creation. Works by multiple artists not accepted.
​
Fine art (paintings, drawings, mixed media, sculptures, etc.), photography, and street art (murals, graffiti) are accepted. For the contest, we do not accepted digital or AI-generated works.
Works may be previously published so long as they did not win first place in an award or contest. Please disclose the name of previous publisher(s) and date(s) of previous publication(s) so we can give prior publication credit where due. Prior publishers must have taken first publication rights only and a period of at least one year must have elapsed since the work was last published.
​
No racist, LGBTQ-phobic, sizeist, ageist, ableist, xenophobic, or other forms of discriminatory hatred. Any piece containing one or more of these forms of hatred will be denied without refund of submission fees.
​
Contest is open to international submissions.
​
Anyone with a close relationship to anyone serving in a paid or unpaid position with Kali's Moksha are kindly asked to refrain from submitting to the contest. All works are judged blindly by the editor.
​
Work must be in .jpg or .jpeg format only.
​
Writers who are incarcerated may submit by emailing their work as a .jpg or .jpeg file(s) to kalismoksha@gmail.com but all other writers must submit online through Submittable. We do not accept submissions by mail. Anything sent to us by mail will not be returned.
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We take first, or subsequent, publishing rights only. You, the artist, retain all copyrights to your work.
​
Contest winners will be selected and announced by April 30th.
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Tigre Mashaal-Lively was a sculptor and muralist in Santa Fe who strived to combine art and Black, trans activism, especially after the murder of George Floyd. We encourage everyone to learn more about them here.
Tigre Mashaal-Lively Art Prize
Deadline: January 31st every year
One Winner Will Receive $250, Online Publication, & Social Media Promotion
Guidelines
Submit 1-3 poems for a combined total of no more than 5 pages with an entry fee of $15. Multiple submissions are allowed so long as each submission is accompanied by an additional $15 fee. Simultaneous submissions are allowed so long as we are notified if any submitted work wins first place in another competition. Fees are nonrefundable.
All genres welcome. Works by multiple writers are not accepted. All works must be your own original creation.
​
Required Format: 12-point, Times New Roman font, 1-inch margins, letter-sized pages (8.5 by 11 inches). Document must be a word document: .doc or .docx only. Each poem must be on a separate page and must be accompanied by a title at the top of the page.
​
All subjects welcome. However, any content that upholds racism, LGBTQ-phobia, sizeism, ageism, ableism, xenophobia, misogyny, or other forms of hate-speech are not welcome and will result in a swift denial without refund of submission fees.
​
Please do not include any identifying information in the manuscript. Anyone with a close relationship to anyone serving on the editorial board of Kali's Moksha are kindly asked to refrain from submitting to the contest. All works are judged blindly by the editor.
​
Contest is open to international submissions, simultaneous submissions, and multiple submissions.
​
Writers who are incarcerated may submit by emailing their work to kalismoksha@gmail.com and copy+pasting the poems into the body of the email (do not upload attachments). All writers not currently incarcerated must submit online through Submittable. We do not accept submissions by mail. Anything sent to us by mail will not be returned.
​
Submission fees are nonrefundable.
​
If you made a mistake in your submission, please notify us before withdrawing or resubmittting.
​
Works may be previously published so long as they did not win first place in an award or contest. Please disclose name of previous publisher(s) and date(s) of previous publication(s) so we can give prior publication credit where due. Simultaneous submissions are accepted so long as we are notified immediately if the work is accepted elsewhere. Prior publishers must have taken first publication rights only and a period of at least one year must have elapsed since the work was last published.
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We take first, or subsequent, publishing rights only. You, the author, retain all copyrights to your work.
​
Contest winners will be selected and announced by April 30th.
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Zoyer Zyndel was a trans activist who served in volunteer roles on almost every single LGBTQ organization in Fresno, CA and enjoyed writing their own poetry. We encourage everyone to learn more about his passionate, driven life here.
Zoyer Zyndel Poetry Prize
Jan Morris Short Prose Prize
Deadline: January 31st every year
One Winner Will Receive $250, Online Publication, & Social Media Promotion
Guidelines
Submit 1-3 stories, flash memoirs, hybrid writings, or essays for a combined total of no more than 5 pages along with a contest entry fee of $15. Multiple submissions are allowed so long as each submission is accompanied by an additional $15 fee. Simultaneous submissions are allowed so long as we are notified immediately if any submitted work wins first place in another competition. Fees are nonrefundable.
All fiction and non-fiction genres welcome. Works by multiple writers are not accepted. All works must be your own original creation.
​
Required Format: 12-point, Times New Roman font, 1-inch margins, letter-sized pages (8.5 by 11 inches). Document must be a word document: .doc or .docx only. Individual pieces should start on a separate page.
​
All subjects welcome. However, any content that upholds racism, LGBTQ-phobia, sizeism, ageism, ableism, xenophobia, misogyny, or other forms of hate-speech are not welcome and will result in a swift denial without refund of submission fees.
​
Please do not include any identifying information in the manuscript. Anyone with a close relationship to anyone serving on the editorial board of Kali's Moksha are kindly asked to refrain from submitting to the contest. All works are judged blindly by the editor.
​
Contest is open to international submissions, simultaneous submissions, and multiple submissions.
​
Writers who are incarcerated may submit by emailing their work to kalismoksha@gmail.com and copy+pasting the stories into the body of the email (do not upload attachments). All writers not currently incarcerated must submit online through Submittable. We do not accept submissions by mail. Anything sent to us by mail will not be returned.
​
Submission fees are nonrefundable.
​
If you made a mistake in your submission, please notify us before withdrawing or resubmittting.
​
Works may be previously published so long as they did not win first place in an award or contest. Please disclose name of previous publisher(s) and date(s) of previous publication(s) so we can give prior publication credit where due. Simultaneous submissions are accepted so long as we are notified if the work is accepted for a first place prize elsewhere. Prior publishers must have taken first publication rights only and a period of at least one year must have elapsed since the work was last published.
​
We take first, or subsequent, publishing rights only. You, the author, retain all copyrights to your work.
​
Contest winners will be selected and announced by April 30.
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Jan Morris wrote more than 30 books on history, travel, and place, and shared her identity and experience as a transgender, lesbian woman in 1974. We encourage everyone to learn more about her here.
General Submissions
General submissions fees require a $5 entry fee per 3 artwork images, 1-3 poems (5 pages in total), or 1-3 stories/essays (5 pages in total). Multiple submissions are allowed so long as each submission is accompanied by an additional $5 fee. Simultaneous submissions are allowed so long as we are notified if any submitted work is accepted elsewhere so that we can give prior publication credit in the event that your submission is selected for publication. Fees are nonrefundable.
​
All writing genres welcome. All artwork mediums accepted, including AI-generated and digitally created works.
​
Required Format: 12-point, Times New Roman font, 1-inch margins, letter-sized pages (8.5 by 11 inches). Document must be a word document: .doc or .docx only.
​
All subjects welcome. However, any content that upholds racism, LGBTQ-phobia, sizeism, ageism, ableism, xenophobia, misogyny, or other forms of hate-speech are not welcome and will result in a swift denial without refund of submission fees.
​
Please do not include any identifying information in the manuscript. Anyone with a close relationship to anyone serving on the editorial board of Kali's Moksha are kindly asked to refrain from submitting to the contest. All works are judged blindly without regard for previous publication history.
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General submissions are open to international submissions, simultaneous submissions, and multiple submissions. Each additional submissions must be accompanied by an additional payment of $5.00.
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Writers who are incarcerated may submit by emailing their work to kalismoksha@gmail.com and copy+pasting the stories into the body of the email (do not upload attachments). All writers not currently incarcerated must submit online through Submittable. We do not accept submissions by mail. Anything sent to us by mail will not be returned.
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If you made a mistake in your submission, please notify us before withdrawing or resubmittting.
​
Works may be previously published and/or may have earned an award in a previous contest, so long as they have not yet been published by Kali's Moksha. Please disclose name of previous publisher(s) and date(s) of previous publication(s) so we can give prior publication credit where due. Simultaneous submissions are accepted so long as we are notified if the work is accepted elsewhere, so we can give prior publication credits where due.
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Works accepted for publication will be compensated $15 up front per accepted piece.
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We take first, or subsequent, publishing rights only. You, the author, retain all copyrights to your work.
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Please wait 3 months after submission before inquiring about the status of your submission.