Bacopa Literary Review is an annual international print journal published by the Writers Alliance of Gainesville (WAG),* located in Gainesville, Florida.
Founded in 2010 as a core part of WAG’s overall mission to uplift and enrich the literary culture of Gainesville and the North Central Florida region, Bacopa is now an established internationally recognized journal, receiving over a thousand submissions a year from writers all over the planet.
2025 Bacopa Literary Review
Submissions are open March 3 – May 5, 2025.
This year’s annual Bacopa Literary Review writing contest will feature five categories: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Free Verse Poetry, Formal Poetry, and Visual Poetry.
Our Bacopa Literary Review Editors’ blog shows the quality of writing we seek by highlighting work we respect from previous Bacopa issues as well as other sources.
When submitting, please be sure to note which of our genre categories you are submitting to (Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Free Verse Poetry, Formal Poetry, or Visual Poetry) in your cover letter.
For all the Rules: Click on Guidelines page.
WAG members: In addition to cultivating this international platform, we remain committed to amplifying voices from around our community and our region. In an effort to highlight and celebrate work by Writers Alliance of Gainesville members in particular, this year’s Bacopa Literary Review writing contest will include a “Best of WAG” award in each of our five submissions categories.
We invite all WAG members to submit to the category of your choice. Winning pieces will be noted in the journal’s table of contents, as well as in the body of the journal. These pieces will be featured on our Editors Blog and social media, and the authors will also be invited to read their work at our annual journal debut event.
While there are no separate cash prizes for the WAG member awards, winners will still be considered for the cash prizes in their genre of the overall contest.
Please send us your work via the new fee-free, WAG members-only submissions portal on our Submittable page: https://writersallianceofgainesville.submittable.com/submit
For all the rules, click on the Guidelines page.
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*If you are not a WAG member and wish to join, click here for the WAG membership page. The $40 annual membership fee includes a copy of the most recent Bacopa Literary Review.