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Dragnet Magazine (Canada) seeks poems (3 max.)and stories (1000 words max) for their seventh issue. Deadline: October 31, 2012. Payment: small honorarium.

New online journal The Manilla Envelope (US) is seeking thought-provoking personal essays, short fiction and visual art for their Fall issue. No poetry. Deadline: October 31, 2012.

The Four Quarters Magazine (India) invites poetry, fiction, and non-fiction at submissions for their next issue. Also accepts experimental writing. Theme: Writing memory. Deadline: October 31, 2012.

Verse (University of Richmond, VA) seeks poems, fiction, nonfiction, criticism, and micro-fiction for the print magazine and the website. Reading fee for print edition: US$10; no reading fee for submissions to the site. Print submissions are chapbook-length (20-40 pages). Payment: US$10/page, $200 minimum. Deadline: October 31, 2012.

The 3rd international New Media Writing Prize (UK) is open for entry. Seeks new-media interactive stories for the web, tablets, and other devices. Wants stories that 'exploit multi-media and interactivity.' Prizes: iPads, work experience. Open to international writers. Deadline: October 5, 2012.

Tightrope Books (Canada) seeks fiction and poetry. Theme: The Manson Girls. In August 1969, seven people were shot stabbed and bludgeoned to death in L.A. What were these women thinking, doing, feeling, intending to do? What are they doing now? Submit to [email protected]. Deadline: October 1, 2012.

The Acrobat (Canada) is currently seeking original fiction and poetry for its premiere issue, slated for December. Submit Fiction (3500 words max.) and Poetry (4 poems max.) to [email protected]. Acceptance notices sent late November. Small writers fee for accepted work. Theme: Beginnings and endings. Deadline: October 15, 2012.

The Lawrence House Centre for the Arts (Sarnia, ON) invites entries for its Short Story Competition. First prize: $300. Two second prizes: one student, one non-student. Fee: $10. Open to Canadian citizens only. Length of entry: 500 words max. Deadline: October 15, 2012.

Northern Cardinal Review (Canada) is seeking submissions for its premiere issue (launch: November). Wanted: Creative and vivid submission of poetry and non-fiction essays. Open to writers living in Canada, Alaska, or the northern border states of the U.S.

Print publication Stone Voices (US) is looking for articles, essays, fiction, and poetry about the connection between art and spirituality as it relates to the making of art, history of art, spiritual awakening, mindfulness, and more. Questions can be sent to [email protected]. Deadline: October 15, 2012.

The Ilanot Review, an Israeli journal for creative writing in English, is open to international poetry, fiction and non-fiction submissions. Welcomes original work and works in translation. Theme: Foreign Bodies. Deadline: October 30, 2012

Friends of the Dr. Eugene Clark Library (Texas) invite entries for the Scare The Dickens Out of Us ghost story writing contest. First prize: US$1000. Length: 5000 words max. Open to all. Contest is privately funded. Entry fee: US$20. All entry fees support the library. Deadline: October 1, 2012.

Vallum Magazine (Canada) seeks poetry for issue 10:1. Theme: Magic - What is magic? Does it exist in today's technological world? Deadline: October 15, 2012.

Descant invites entries for the annual Winston Collins/Descant Prize for Best Canadian Poem. Prize: $1000. Length: 100 lines. Entry fee: $30 entry fee (includes subscription). Deadline: October 12, 2012.

The Los Angeles River Review is seeking 'forward-thinking and refined poetry' for their premiere issue (print). No light verse, slam poetry, rhyming poetry or sonnets. Payment: contributors copies. Deadline: October 15, 2012.

The Ontario Poetry Society is accepting entries for The Ultra Short Poem Competition. Maximum 8 lines with a maximum of 8 words per line. First prize: $100. Selected poems published in a chapbook. Deadline: October 30, 2012.