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Writing Contest Submissions

Submissions for contests require a submission fee, and each contest will have a paid winner and runner-up. All general guidelines for submissions apply to contest submissions as well. To read the work from winners in previous contests, visit our Writing Contest Winners page.

Current Contest: To Be Announced June 2025

 

Since 1982, Inscape journal has curated pieces that are both peculiar and gorgeous without compromising craftsmanship and excellence. Averse to gratuitous violence, language and sex, we look for pieces that treat sensitive subjects with maturity and respect. Our favorite submissions explore refreshing takes on both the fantastic and the everyday. As a staff firmly rooted in following Jesus Christ and His teachings, we hope for submissions from people of all religious perspectives, countries, cultures, ethnicities, sexual orientations, genders, backgrounds, and experiences. We welcome you to Inscape, home of the bizarre, believing, and beautiful.

Inscape publishes well–crafted fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry and visual art that embodies one or more of our five defining identities: smart, believing, peculiar, refreshing, and excellent.

Inscape observes US Fair Use copyright doctrine which states that 

  1. authors must own the copyright of their submitted work and have full power to enter into a publication agreement with Inscape and to convey any rights they may grant to Inscape.
  2. the author’s submitted work constitutes their own original work or gives credit for ideas or material not their own, and does not in any way violate copyright.
  3. the author’s submitted work may not defame, invade the privacy of, violate the civil rights of, or infringe upon the rights of any individuals or third parties.
  4. the author has permission to submit a particular work to Inscape on behalf of all other authors in the event the submitted work has more than one author.