Where to Submit Alaska Stories

Alaska Publications

Alaska Daily News April 1 Poetry Day was held in 2024, check for it in 2025. Submissions are emailed to letters@adn.com.

Alaska 42nd Annual Statewide Creative Writing Contest categories include fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. More information and enter on their site. Deadline is Feb. 13, 2025.

Alaska Daily News Annual Statewide Creative Writing Contest, submissions closed in February 2024, look for submissions to open again fall 2024.

Alaska Quarterly Review accepts fiction, poetry, drama and non-fiction.

Alaska Magazine considers unsolicited stories. You can read all the details here along with a list of their monthly themes for 2024.

Alaskan Tales wants stories on these themes: Remember When, Bear Encounters, Fish Tales, Living in Alaska, North to Alaska, That time we almost died, Why Hello Mr. Moose, and unlisted topics. Your story would be recorded and appear on their podcast.

Alaska Women Speak is a quarterly journal devoted to their expression of ideas, literature and art. Their Mission: Alaska women have stories to tell. First 2025 theme is Flowers Speak a Secret Language (Deadline 2/25) Check their site for themes and submission deadlines.

Alaska Writers Guild writing contests are open to the public. Submissions are open for 2025. These are the themes and deadlines: Nonfiction/ Memoir, February 16, 2025; Fiction (all genres),   May 11, 2025; Children's Literature, (Picture Book, Chapter Book, Middle Grade, Young Adult),  August 17, 2025; Poetry (all forms),   November 9, 2025.

Anchorage Park Foundation plans to publish two newspaper-style publications a year, one at the start of June and the other in October. Next submission deadline is September 9. Email submissions to gretchen@anchorageparkfoundation.org.

Cirque Literary Journal for the North Pacific invites emerging and established writers living in Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Hawaii, Yukon Territory, Alberta, British Columbia and Chukotka—to submit short stories, poems, creative nonfiction, translations, plays, book reviews, interviews, photographs, and artwork.Deadlines are March 21, and September 21.

Permafrost Magazine, Fairbanks. “We’re looking for flash essays, prose poems, hermit-crab stories, lyric essays, lists, anecdotes about your creepy uncle.” 

Special Alaska Topics

The Alaska Railroad which celebrates its 100-year anniversary in 2023. You can learn more and submit your story here.

Do you have a Covid 19 story for the University of Alaska, Museum of the North. You can submit it here.

Recover Alaska is seeking stories of recovery from alcohol misuse. Submission form is here.

Alaska Business considers freelance stories. More information here.

 

Alaska Photographs

Alaska.org photo contest deadline is September 30, 2024.

Alaska Magazine photo contest for 2024 is over as of August 31 but check back for 2025 contest.

Alaska Travel Photo Contest deadline is October 11, 2024.

Milepost photo contest deadline is November 1, 2024.