53 Lit Mags Closing for Submissions Soon
40+ are completely free to submit and quite a few have nice payouts
Last of the submission calls coming to a close in April! Here are some highlights:
Have more paying outlets than usually this week and not too many charging fees in the grand scheme.
MIDLVLMAG (Mid-Level Management Literary Magazine) is closing soon. Love this concept for a lit mag. Love creative themes in general.
Misery Tourism is back! Yay! What a rarity to see a lit mag come back to life. Hell yeah.
And there are some more big names closing like Brevity. And oh hey! The Paris Review is actually still open for poetry as of writing this. Sweet.
Alrighty, and loads, loads more, lots of great ones so go explore. Since deadlines can be shifty and this list is a long one, please sound off in the comments if you spot any that have closed early.
Ah! Sorry, forgot this when I first sent it out. If you’re a spreadsheet person, I saved my spreadsheet for you for this list. You can download that here.
OK, now literary magazines closing for submissions soon…
(Apr 23, 2024) themes for issue 7:
how to care / for each other / should nothing matter.
use them as you wish. • Accepts - Micro Fiction, Poetry, Hybrid, Art, Photography, Wtf is genre, send anything • Theme - how to care / for each other / should nothing matter • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 2022
(Apr 25, 2024) Journal of Arts & Literature is a bi-annual online literary journal run by the English graduate students of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. • Accepts - Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry • Theme - Sweat • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 2007
(Apr 25, 2024) A magazine devoted to the in-between. • Accepts - Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translation • Fee: none • Pay: $15 • Founded in 2019
(Apr 26, 2024) An international flash-fiction journal created by you and edited by a team of volunteer editors on behalf of National Flash Fiction Day. • Accepts - Fiction, Poetry, Hybrid • Fee: none • Pay: none
(Apr 26, 2024) This journal is born out of love for art; poetry, fiction & non-fiction, short stories, paintings, sculptures, everything, and anything creative. • Accepts - Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Art, Photography • Theme - Yin & Yang • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 2022
(Apr 26, 2024) Vernacular is anything that reveals a sense of place. The informal city. The local and the vulgar. • Accepts - Hybrid • Theme - Place and the Informal City • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 2023
(Apr 26, 2024) An indie magazine by writers, for writers. We publish fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and art from all genres! • Accepts - Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Art, Photography, Wtf is genre, send anything • Theme - OPTIONAL THEME: DEER/DEAR • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 2023
(Apr 30, 2024) Poetry for the ear, the eye, and the ego. • Accepts - Poetry, Review • Fee: $3 • Pay: $25 per piece • Founded in 2002
(Apr 30, 2024) Has published well-known and emerging writers working in the extremely brief essay form, along with craft essays. • Accepts - Nonfiction, Flash CNF • Fee: $3 • Pay: $45 • Founded in 1997
MIDLVLMAG (Mid-Level Management Literary Magazine)
(Apr 30, 2024) Lit Mag deconstructing our relationships with the personal/professional. • Accepts - Fiction, Flash Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction • Theme - Secret Menu • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 2022
(Apr 30, 2024) We encourage broad interpretations of what the idea or image of an empty house might evoke. This includes but is not limited to writing about home, landscape, place, memory, and of course, the atmosphere of previously inhabited spaces. • Accepts - Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash CNF, Poetry, Photography, Hybrid • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 2018
(Apr 30, 2024) What we’re looking for: weird, outsider works of fiction or poetry, non-fiction articles and multimedia experiments, games of all kinds, and other strange, terrible shit. • Accepts - Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Art, Game, Wtf is genre, send anything • Fee: none • Pay: none
The Paris Review (Poetry)
(Apr 30, 2024) Quarterly literary magazine founded in 1953 • Accepts - Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translation • Fee: none • Pay: Yes • Founded in 1953
(Apr 30, 2024) The magazine celebrates the weird, surreal and the other. We publish twice a year (summer and winter). • Accepts - Fiction • Theme - Return • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 2016
(Apr 30, 2024) Quarterly online stories (free to read) + annual print anthologies
Publishing only marginalised/under-represented creators, 18+.
Est. 2021 and going strong • Accepts - Fiction, Flash Fiction, Art • Theme - Othered • Fee: none • Pay: see Genres section for details • Founded in 2021
(Apr 30, 2024) Named for the Pine Hills neighborhood in Albany, NY, Pine Hills Review publishes artful, honest, and compelling work of new and established writers, from fiction, nonfiction, and poetry to visual art, interviews, and experimental, cross-genre work. • Accepts - Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Hybrid, Art • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 2014
(Apr 30, 2024) An international literary journal published twice a year out of Toronto. In our pages, you’ll find opinion, passion, revelation, and the occasional bad joke. • Accepts - Nonfiction, Review, Interview, Translation • Fee: none • Pay: CA$55-CA$660 • Founded in 1977
(Apr 30, 2024) Published bi-annually by the Georgia State University Department of English, each issue features art, poetry, fiction, flash, and essays by the most compelling artists and writers working today. • Accepts - Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash CNF, Poetry, Translation • Fee: $3-$5 • Pay: see Genres section for details • Founded in 1996
(Apr 30, 2024) Briefly Write is a little literary space for bold, succinct writing. • Accepts - Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Photography • Fee: none • Pay: £4 • Founded in 2020
(Apr 30, 2024) Haven Spec is a speculative fiction magazine featuring stories for a 21st century audience. We love stories with a sense of adventure, stories that teach us, that touch us, that leave us wanting more. • Accepts - Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translation, Art • Fee: none • Pay: see Genres section for details • Founded in 2021
(Apr 30, 2024) An independent, ad-free online magazine founded in 1997 that focuses on place by publishing a mix of award-winning contributions, including poetry, nonfiction, fiction, editorials, interviews, reviews, recommended reads, artwork, and community/regional case studies. • Accepts - Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Hybrid, Play, Video • Fee: none • Pay: Yes • Founded in 1997
(Apr 30, 2024) A pop culture journal about the things we like to watch. • Accepts - Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Hybrid, Review, Interview, Art, Game • Theme - TEN • Fee: none • Pay: CA$20-CA$30 • Founded in 2020
(Apr 30, 2024) A bi-annual online publication that features short stories, scripts, and films from storytellers around the world. We are looking for your most ambitious work. Surprise us, shock us, move us, and, above all, tell us a good story. • Accepts - Fiction, Nonfiction, Play, Audio, Video • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 2021
(Apr 30, 2024) Florida-based boutique press publishing new fiction, poetry & non-fiction that will leave an unfading impression. • Accepts - Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Review, Interview • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 2014
(Apr 30, 2024) In these uncertain times, the Massachusetts Review promotes social justice and equality, along with great art. • Accepts - Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Hybrid, Review, Translation • Fee: $3 • Pay: $100 • Founded in 1959
(Apr 30, 2024) An international quarterly magazine of politics, culture, literature and the arts published at Skidmore College • Accepts - Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 1965
(Apr 30, 2024) online literary magazine that publishes, promotes, and comments on art and writing in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and the world • Accepts - Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Art, Photography • Theme - Vibration • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 2011
(Apr 30, 2024) We push beyond our boundaries, geographically and literarily, while staying true to our roots as a writing group and community, priding ourselves on our personal touch and often working with our contributors to improve work we really, really like into work we love. • Accepts - Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash CNF, Poetry, Hybrid, Art, Comics • Fee: none • Pay: $10 • Founded in 2013
(Apr 30, 2024) Barstow & Grand is an annual print journal, published in the fall, that highlights writers connected to western Wisconsin's Chippewa Valley and the Upper Midwest, USA. • Accepts - Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry • Fee: $3 • Pay: none • Founded in 2017
(Apr 30, 2024) Intersectional feminist journal of fiction, mental health and lifestyle writing • Accepts - Fiction, Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Translation • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 2022
FIYAH: Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction
(Apr 30, 2024) a quarterly speculative fiction magazine that features stories by and about Black people of the African Diaspora • Accepts - Fiction, Poetry, Art • Fee: none • Pay: see Genres section for details • Founded in 2016
(Apr 30, 2024) Glint Literary Journal celebrates innovation in style and voice. We also appreciate aesthetic endeavors that straddle boundaries between genres. • Accepts - Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Hybrid, Review, Art, Audio, Video • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 2009
(Apr 30, 2024) Established in 2008 by Gil Williamson, Mythaxis has always been focused on the fiction, with as little distraction as possible - no ads, no clutter, just words on the page to transport you somewhere else. • Accepts - Fiction • Fee: none • Pay: Yes • Founded in 2008
(Apr 30, 2024) Plenitude Magazine is Canada’s only queer literary magazine. We promote the growth and development of LGBTQ2S+ literature through online publication of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, book reviews, and interviews by both emerging and established LGBTQ2S+ writers. • Accepts - Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Review • Fee: none • Pay: CA$50-CA$100
(Apr 30, 2024) Red Rock Review is a biannual print publication that features poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction by emerging and established writers. Founded in 1996, Red Rock Review is housed and supported by The College of Southern Nevada. • Accepts - Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translation • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 1996
(Apr 30, 2024) A quarterly online publication of new poetry, fiction, essays, and art. The journal is produced by the department of English at Trevecca Nazarene University, in Nashville, Tennessee, and welcomes submissions from both national and international writers and artists. • Accepts - Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Art • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 2012
(Apr 30, 2024) Started by literature lovers in 2022, Palindrome Journal is a seasonal collection of poetry, visual art and other written work. • Accepts - Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Review, Art, Photography • Theme - Revelations at the Dinner Table • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 2022
(Apr 30, 2024) A space for joy, curiosity and the bitter-sweetness of life with a mission to keep wonder alive and kicking. • Accepts - Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash CNF, Poetry, Hybrid, Review, Interview, Art, Photography, Comics, Audio, Video • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 2022
(Apr 30, 2024) Harbor Review is a small online space for poetry and art. We are committed to giving diverse voices a home. New or experienced, we want to hear from you.
• Accepts - Poetry, Hybrid, Review, Interview, Art • Theme - Wondrous & Miraculous • Fee: none • Pay: $10 per piece • Founded in 2018
(Apr 30, 2024) Yellow Arrow Vignette expands Yellow Arrow Publishing's mission of creating a space where writers who identify as women have a place where their voices are heard and ripple out in waves of empathy and resilience. Vignette is an online publication. • Accepts - Nonfiction, Poetry, Art • Theme - AMPLIFY • Fee: none • Pay: Yes • Founded in 2016
(Apr 30, 2024) Epistemic Literary is a fully-digital anthology series celebrating knowledge, connection, and growth through poetry and short fiction. • Accepts - Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Art • Theme - Anticipation • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 2023
(Apr 30, 2024) An arts and lit magazine highlighting the intersectional health experiences of the global FLINTA* community. • Accepts - Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Art, Photography, Audio, Video • Theme - FLINTA* health • Fee: none • Pay: Yes • Founded in 2023
(Apr 30, 2024) A vibrant art journal dedicated to housing work from established and emerging artists. Welcome to VERDANT. • Accepts - Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Review, Interview, Art, Humor, Wtf is genre, send anything • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 2023
(Apr 30, 2024) Where The Meadows Reside is an art collective weaving various mediums for the pursuit of exploration and uncertainty. • Accepts - Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Art, Photography, Wtf is genre, send anything • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 2023
(Apr 30, 2024) Inner Worlds is a quarterly digital zine of speculative stories about how we experience our selves and our world. • Accepts - Fiction • Fee: none • Pay: £0.02 per word • Founded in 2023
(Apr 30, 2024) Fruitslice is a quarterly publication run by a team of Queer editors featuring exclusively Queer writers, artists, creators, etc. • Accepts - Wtf is genre, send anything • Theme - Gay Rights & Gay Wrongs • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 2023
(Apr 30, 2024) Literary chaos in 1999 words or less. • Accepts - Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry • Theme - Second Issue • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 2023
(Apr 30, 2024) We accept original, previously unpublished poetry (your personal website/blog/social media do NOT count). • Accepts - Poetry • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 2023
(Apr 30, 2024) the interwoven journal is a political journal with fresh, diverse takes on old and new politics • Accepts - Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Review, Art • Theme - historical wars • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 2024
(Apr 30, 2024) The Ourania Review is a literary magazine that strives to highlight marginalized and underrepresented voices. • Accepts - Fiction, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Art, Art, Photography, Play • Theme - Oneirataxia • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 2024
(Apr 30, 2024) Artists from Maryland is a collection dedicated to sharing Maryland artist voices through all genres of writing and art. • Accepts - Fiction, Poetry, Art • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 2024
FYI -
Closed/on hiatus - Unfortunatley and Reservoir Road
Closed til mid summer - South 85
Thank you so much for all this hard work! These come in SO handy!! 🥹🥹🙏🏼🙏🏼