Showcase $100 Quarterly Prize - October 2026 (Deadline 10.9.26)
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About Showcase
We’re pleased to announce a literary publication focused on object and idea called Showcase. Showcase Quarterly drops the last Thursday of October, Jan, April, July. Our subscriber list is +/- 30,000 readers. Quarterly pays $100.
Guidelines for Showcase Quarterly
Each quarter, Showcase will select a poet or prose piece to feature. The quarterly is looking for slightly longer work, 5-10 pages of poetry or prose. The submission piece can be as long as the limit or comprised of multiple pieces that collectively observe the limit (5 minimum 10 max).
Please read our announcement on our substack page for full details.
We welcome open and friendly dialogue and commentary in the comment section. (Anything hateful, hypercritical, mean spirited, unrelated, and unconstructive will be deleted by monitors). Selected writers will receive an honorarium of $100, a direct link to the newsletter, and their names will be featured as a part of Showcase’s quarterly ad campaign upon publication. We will link from Showcase to a desired page for each writer. We’ll promote each issue on social media and other literary ad networks to help writers gain exposure. We will send out the main issue. Then a reminder. And a 3rd reminder featuring the writer and bio. That's three points of contact with readers.
We welcome new work, as well as published work. We recognize that print magazines and market forces have coalesced on a standard practice of only taking unpublished work and we want to give writers the opportunity for new eyes and ears for all of their work, new and old, published and unpublished. Previously published work must be older than 12 months (12months since their original pub date) and we will also note who first published the piece.
All submissions are read blind. Additionally, we follow CLMP best practices. Statements and interview responses are read, if included, in the even we need more material to differentiate between multiple pieces. If you decide to include your about-the-work and interview before acceptance, please say what you want to say.
There will be a strict and tight turnaround once pieces are selected. Please be prepared to respond to our emails quickly to meet publication deadlines. If deadlines cannot be met or we don't hear back from selected work, we will move quickly to another writer/piece.
Please send us your edgy, risk-taking, diverse and dynamic work!
Our updated ethos from our new series editor asks for work around cults & high control groups, obtaining independence, breaking free, individuation, leaving high-control relationships and circumstances (a big picture understanding of the ethos -- please read on substack for more details), inclusive of historically marginalized and or submerged voices. See each category for more submission details. Transcendence, positivity, coming to wisdom and the like are all held in high regard.
By submitting to Showcase, you are granting us the right to publish your work online, and keep your work online if it is selected. By submitting, you are opting in to our newsletters and to being contacted by our other literary endeavors. Showcase is an endeavor of C&R Press.
Once we select work, we notify the author via Submittable and the author has 2 days to accept or decline payment and the publication offer. We pay the honorarium upon publication via PayPal only.
If your work is selected, it will be required that you answer the "Idea" portion of this form (though it is optional to fill out now). We will also require a short Interview be filled out. The Idea and Interview will appear along with the work. Finally, the Quarterly Issue features a 30-minute in depth audio interview with our editor Bethany Leger.
A NOTE ON RE-SUBMISSIONS
Please take care to dot your i's and cross your t's. Please allow a few months to pass before resubmitting the same creative work. We regret that we are unable to offer feedback on work that is not accepted. We are publishing flash prose to start and may open up to longer work in the future.