Submissions will close on Dec. 15, 2025 at 11:59PM Central Time OR when the genre reaches its assigned cap.
Ends on This opportunity will close after 100 submissions have been received.
- Please submit up to FIVE back-and-white drawings or photographs (or works in color that the photographer authorizes Red Coyote to print as black-and-white).
- No identifying information should appear in or on the images.
- Images should not be AI generated.
- The art and/or artist should be connected to South Dakota or states contiguous with South Dakota (Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska, North Dakota, Minnesota, and Iowa). That connection should be shared in your cover letter.
- Please submit up to TWO nonfiction pieces/creative essays of no more than 5,000 words.
- All submissions should be typed and double-spaced.
- No identifying information should appear in the manuscript.
- Manuscripts should not be AI generated.
- The manuscript and/or writer should be connected to South Dakota or states contiguous with South Dakota (Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska, North Dakota, Minnesota, and Iowa). That connection should be shared in your cover letter.
- Please submit up to one pieces in this category.
- Critical Essays should be no more than 5,000 words. Book Reviews should be no more than 800 words.
- All submissions should be typed and double-spaced.
- No identifying information should appear in the manuscript.
- Manuscripts should not be AI generated.
- The literature analyzed or reviewed should be connected to South Dakota or states contiguous with South Dakota (Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska, North Dakota, Minnesota, and Iowa). That connection should be shared in your cover letter.
Ends on This opportunity will close after 220 submissions have been received.
- Please submit up to TWO short stories of no more than 5,000 words a piece.
- All submissions should be typed and double-spaced.
- No identifying information should appear in the manuscript.
- Manuscripts should not be AI generated.
- The manuscript and/or writer should be connected to South Dakota or states contiguous with South Dakota (Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska, North Dakota, Minnesota, and Iowa). That connection should be shared in your cover letter.
Ends on This opportunity will close after 225 submissions have been received.
- Please submit up to THREE poems, one poem per page. All text submissions should be typed. Each poem should be on a separate page.
- No identifying information should appear in the manuscript.
- Manuscripts should not be AI generated.
- The poems and/or poet should be connected to South Dakota or states contiguous with South Dakota (Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska, North Dakota, Minnesota, and Iowa). That connection should be shared in your cover letter.