73 Literary Magazines Closing this Week (19 That Pay)
Genres, fee, payments, descriptions and themes!
**DEADLINES HAVE PASSED ON THESE. NEW CLOSING LISTS COME OUT ON MONDAYS**
Last closing list of September! Keep in mind that some magazines will close early if they get loads of submissions, or extend if they’re looking for more. If you spot anything like this, sound off in the comments. I’ll update the list. The deadline in listed right below the magazine name.
Upcoming this week for paid subscribers, we will have magazines who pay $100+ for fiction, our round-up with discounts, events, and lit mags on my radar. Then Friday we’ll have our special weekly list and guest essay.
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Scarlet Dragonfly Journal
- (09/25/2023)
An international, monthly journal for poets to share Cherita, Gembun, Haibun, Haiga, Haiku, Hay(na)ku, Monoku, Rengay, SciFaiku, Senryu, Shahai, Tanbun, Tanka, Tan Renga, Tanshi, and other Japanese short-forms including chained, linked, and collaborative poems.
• Accepts - poetry
• Fee: no fee
• Pay: no pay
t'ART Magazine
- (09/25/2023)
A queer-led arts and literary magazine, online platform and events collective.
• Accepts - hybrid
• Theme: Online Submissions
• Fee: no fee
• Pay: no pay
• Responds within 30 days.
WayWords Journal
- (09/26/2023)
Editor's tip: nightmares are just as unique as the person who fears them: they're all about perspective.
• Accepts - fiction, nonfiction, poetry
• Theme: Nightmares
• Fee: no fee
• Pay: no pay
• Responds within 45 days.
Story Unlikely
- (09/29/2023)
Whatever happened to the art of storytelling? It's become a lost relic, along with our identities. But here, we're revitalizing this once great craft. Don't worry, you're in good hands. After all, if laughter is medicine, then Story Unlikely is therapy for broken souls.
• Accepts - fiction, nonfiction
• Fee: no fee
• Pay: $0.08 per word
• Responds within 90 days.
Granta
- (09/30/2023)
Granta magazine and Granta Books share a remit to discover and publish the best in new literary fiction, memoir, reportage and poetry from around the world.
• Accepts - fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translations
• Fee: £3.5
• Pay: Yes
Kenyon Review
- (09/30/2023)
The Kenyon Review has been in the heart of literature since 1939 when poet and critic John Crowe Ransom started the journal on the campus of Kenyon College.
• Accepts - fiction, fiction, nonfiction, nonfiction, poetry, translations, play
• Fee: no fee
• Pay: Yes
• Responds within 180 days.
midnight & indigo: celebrating Black women writers
- (09/30/2023)
short stories & essays by Black women writers
• Accepts - fiction, nonfiction
• Fee: no fee
• Pay: Yes
• Responds within 120 days.
Fanatical: Sci-Fi and Fantasy Stories Inspired by Tabletop Games
- (09/30/2023)
The fiction magazine for those stories that stay with us once we leave the table.
• Accepts - fiction
• Fee: no fee
• Pay: Yes
WestWord Journal
- (09/30/2023)
A journal of short stories, flash and micro fictions from Retreat West.
• Accepts - fiction, fiction
• Fee: no fee
• Pay: Yes
• Responds within 35 days.
Efiko Magazine
- (09/30/2023)
EFIKO is an online literary magazine with a focus on Africa as both place and perspective. It is the definitive publication for bookish folks interested in Africa.
• Accepts - fiction, nonfiction, poetry
• Fee: no fee
• Pay: Yes
• Responds within 45 days.
Last Stanza Poetry Journal
- (09/30/2023)
Last Stanza Poetry Journal is published worldwide in ebook, hardcover, and softcover, available from these sites and others: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Walmart, Book Depository, Blackwell, Powell's.
• Accepts - poetry
• Theme: I Never Knew
• Fee: no fee
• Pay: Yes
Riot Ghoul RVA
- (09/30/2023)
zine focused nominally on current events in richmond, virginia, america, and the world. (but mostly richmond.) also about poetry and rage and pandering to the woke mob. leftist. seeking articles, poetry, art, flash, rants, rambles, whatever.
• Accepts - fiction, fiction, nonfiction, nonfiction, poetry, hybrid, review, interview, art, photography, humor, play, comics, anything
• Fee: no fee
• Pay: Yes
• Responds within 35 days.
Anodyne Magazine
- (09/30/2023)
An arts and lit magazine highlighting the intersectional health experiences of the global FLINTA* community.
• Accepts - fiction, fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, photography, audio, video
• Fee: no fee
• Pay: Yes
• Responds within 60 days.
Heartlines Spec
- (09/30/2023)
Heartlines Spec is an online speculative magazine focused on long-term friendships and relationships. It's the comfort of the known, the fierce hug of someone that knows you best.
• Accepts - fiction, poetry
• Fee: no fee
• Pay: see Genres section for details
• Responds within 51 days.
Myriad Digital Zines
- (09/30/2023)
MYRIAD is a zine series designed to give experience to emerging editors. Each subscriber-exclusive digital zine features five flash fiction pieces selected to fit a theme chosen by a guest-editor.
• Accepts - fiction
• Theme: Duel
• Fee: no fee
• Pay: CA$10 per piece
• Responds within 35 days.
Saranac Review
- (09/30/2023)
Born at SUNY Plattsburgh in 2004 from a vision to open space for the celebration of many voices. We hope to be a good home for your beautiful, exciting, and surprising writing and art.
• Accepts - fiction, nonfiction, poetry, play
• Fee: no fee
• Pay: $50 per piece
Talk Vomit
- (09/30/2023)
Talk Vomit is a women-owned and run online literary art zine based out of Massachusetts that harbors a willful longing for when the internet was still fun. We publish essays, short stories, visual art and genre-bending ruminations.
• Accepts - fiction, nonfiction, poetry, hybrid, review, interview, art, anything
• Theme: spooky
• Fee: no fee
• Pay: $5-$30
• Responds within 30 days.
The Cincinnati Review
- (09/30/2023)
Since its inception in 2003, The Cincinnati Review has published many promising new and emerging writers as well as Pulitzer Prize winners and Guggenheim and MacArthur fellows.
• Accepts - fiction, fiction, nonfiction, nonfiction, poetry, hybrid, translations, play
• Fee: no fee
• Pay: $25-$30 per page
• Responds within 180 days.
Abandon Journal
- (09/30/2023)
We publish anything that has been written "with abandon" (whatever that means to you). No submission fees, ever (though we do accept tips!), and we are a paying market.
• Accepts - fiction, fiction, nonfiction, nonfiction, poetry, hybrid, review, interview, art, photography, humor, comics, audio, video, game, anything
• Theme: Abandon Earth
• Fee: no fee
• Pay: $15 per piece
• Responds within 90 days.
Whitefish Review
- (09/30/2023)
A nationally-acclaimed, non-profit literary and art journal exploring the landscapes of the human condition and our connection to the natural world.
• Accepts - fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, photography, audio
• Fee: 5
• Pay: $10 per page
Clinch
- (09/30/2023)
Clinch is, first and foremost, a literary magazine about the martial arts. But submissions don't have to mention the martial arts (though we prefer those that do). Instead, submissions must share in the virtues of martial arts, like patience, meditation, and surprise.
• Accepts - fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translations
• Fee: no fee
• Pay: 15
• Responds within 14 days.
Saint Katherine Review
- (09/30/2023)
Our guiding principle at Saint Katherine Review is Inquiry seeking Wisdom.
St. Katherine Review is a publication of the University of Saint Katherine.
Saint Katherine Review publishes new work every week online. Back issues for our print journal are available as well.
• Accepts - fiction, nonfiction, poetry, review
• Fee: 2
• Pay: no pay
• Responds within 42 days.
Watershed Review
- (09/30/2023)
Our mission is to publish literature and visual art illustrating diversity in thought and experience, capturing the crucial narratives and images of our current cultural moment, as well as awareness of the shifting edges of genre.
• Accepts - fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art
• Fee: 3
• Pay: no pay
• Responds within 90 days.
Shark Reef
- (09/30/2023)
SHARK REEF endeavors to give voice to serious writers who are committed to producing original writing of high quality. We are particularly passionate about publishing work revealing the rich experiences of ordinary people, whether as fiction, non-fiction, drama, poetry.
• Accepts - fiction, fiction, nonfiction, poetry, play
• Fee: 3
• Pay: no pay
• Responds within 90 days.
Sho Poetry Journal
- (09/30/2023)
Shō Poetry Journal is a biannual small-press print journal coming out of a 20-year hibernation. We publish a diverse range of voices and the best poetry that crosses our path.
• Accepts - poetry
• Fee: 3
• Pay: no pay
• Responds within 30 days.
Slant
- (09/30/2023)
Its editorial tastes are broad, but in all cases it looks for craft in making and freshness of sensibility. Unlike many journals, SLANT looks favorably upon traditional verse forms and narrative poetry.
• Accepts - poetry
• Fee: no fee
• Pay: no pay
• Responds within 120 days.
Thimble
- (09/30/2023)
THE THIMBLE LITERARY MAGAZINE IS BASED ON THE BELIEF THAT POETRY IS LIKE ARMOR. LIKE A THIMBLE, IT MAY BE SMALL AND SEEM INSIGNIFICANT, BUT IT WILL PROTECT US WHEN WE ARE MOST VULNERABLE.
• Accepts - fiction, nonfiction, poetry, hybrid, photography
• Fee: no fee
• Pay: no pay
• Responds within 75 days.
Polyphony Lit.
- (09/30/2023)
The global online literary platform for high school students. We invite high school students worldwide to submit creative writing, join our editorial staff, write blog posts, take workshops, and grow into leadership roles.
• Accepts - fiction, nonfiction, poetry
• Fee: no fee
• Pay: no pay
• Responds within 180 days.
The Ekphrastic Review
- (09/30/2023)
An online journal devoted entirely to writing inspired by visual art. Our objective is to promote ekphrastic writing, promote art appreciation, and experience how the two strengthen each other and bring enrichment to every facet of life.
• Accepts - fiction, nonfiction, poetry, review, interview, translations
• Fee: no fee
• Pay: no pay
• Responds within 90 days.
Acropolis Journal
- (09/30/2023)
We love poems surging with imagery, your surreal, your gothic, caverns, labyrinths, the depths of the abyss, your grit, your confessional, your shrapnel of memories spun to dark velvet.
• Accepts - poetry, art, photography
• Fee: no fee
• Pay: no pay
• Responds within 30 days.
Black Moon Magazine
- (09/30/2023)
Black Moon Magazine dedicates itself to the discovered intersections of mixed-medium, art, and diversity. Our editors regard the culpability and duty of narrative, whether narrative casts light on world terrors or spotlights the beauty of being.
• Accepts - fiction, fiction, poetry, review, interview, art
• Fee: no fee
• Pay: no pay
• Responds within 90 days.
The UCity Review
- (09/30/2023)
Each issue highlights a noteworthy writer, whom the editors believe deserves more exposure.
• Accepts - poetry
• Fee: no fee
• Pay: no pay
• Responds within 60 days.
Wigleaf
- (09/30/2023)
We feature stories under 1000 words.
• Accepts - fiction, fiction
• Fee: no fee
• Pay: no pay
Stone of Madness Press
- (09/30/2023)
Stone of Madness Press is a physical [online] and conceptual space for queer, trans, and neurodiverse writers. This project is born of the belief that you belong here, too.
• Accepts - fiction, fiction, nonfiction, nonfiction, poetry, hybrid
• Fee: no fee
• Pay: no pay
• Responds within 30 days.
Heart of Flesh Literary Journal
- (09/30/2023)
A biannual online and print literary journal that seeks quality writing and art with a Christian element. We are not a typical “Christian fiction” journal.
• Accepts - fiction, fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, photography
• Theme: Christian theme
• Fee: no fee
• Pay: no pay
• Responds within 60 days.
MicroLit Almanac
- (09/30/2023)
We hold up fostering community as necessary: a world-building endeavor focused on loving responsibility in a realm that asks much of us. Our creative actions flow, form, and sustain a community built on diversity and inclusion.
• Accepts - fiction, fiction
• Fee: no fee
• Pay: no pay
The Viridian Door
- (09/30/2023)
Founded in 2022, this Lit Mag was created with low-grade chaos in mind. Our mission is to form a space for the beautifully unhinged to showcase their work.
• Accepts - fiction, fiction, nonfiction, nonfiction, poetry, translations, art, photography
• Theme: Verdigris
• Fee: no fee
• Pay: no pay
• Responds within 42 days.
45th Parallel
- (09/30/2023)
45th Parallel is a literary magazine affiliated with Oregon State’s School of Literature, Writing, and Film that celebrates in-betweenness.
• Accepts - fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, comics
• Fee: no fee
• Pay: no pay
• Responds within 161 days.
Aromatica Poetica
- (09/30/2023)
Exploring the arts & sciences of smell & Taste.
• Accepts - fiction, nonfiction, art, photography, interview, review, poetry
• Fee: no fee
• Pay: no pay
Chautauqua Literary Journal
- (09/30/2023)
An annual literary journal capturing a season at Chautauqua Institution between our pages.
• Accepts - poetry, nonfiction, nonfiction, fiction, fiction
• Fee: no fee
• Pay: no pay
datura literary journal
- (09/30/2023)
A print and online journal of deviant and defiant work published randomly
• Accepts - fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art
• Fee: no fee
• Pay: no pay
moonShine review Journal
- (09/30/2023)
moonShine review is more than a journal of creative prose and photography. It is about what speaks to you in the moonlight and the shadows cast in mind and memory. For only in the darkness can we expose all of ourselves.
• Accepts - fiction, nonfiction, photography
• Fee: no fee
• Pay: no pay
• Responds within 180 days.
Fiery Scribe Review
- (09/30/2023)
Fiery Scribe Review is an online literary magazine publishing bold, fierce, and spirited poetry, fiction, nonfiction, hybrids, and other relevant genres.
• Accepts - fiction, fiction, nonfiction, poetry, hybrid, review, interview
• Fee: no fee
• Pay: no pay
• Responds within 28 days.
Flash Frontier: An Adventure in Short Fiction
- (09/30/2023)
New Zealand's flash fiction and competition site. Building a community of writers from all over Aotearoa.
• Accepts - fiction, art, photography
• Theme: RĀKAU / TREE
• Fee: no fee
• Pay: no pay
• Responds within 120 days.
Pure in Heart Stories
- (09/30/2023)
A literary and art magazine for families, with a Christian worldview. Here you can find short stories, poetry, photography and art by adults, teens, and children—for readers 6 years old and beyond. Our issues appear both online and in print.
• Accepts - poetry, fiction, photography, art, hybrid, comics, humor, nonfiction
• Theme: Christian-theme
• Fee: no fee
• Pay: no pay
Rockvale Review
- (09/30/2023)
Rockvale Review was a poetry-only journal. We’ve expanded in 2022 to include short fiction and creative non-fiction. The journal now stands beside a sister entity, Rockvale Writers’ Colony, a 501c3 non-profit writer residency and retreat center located in College Grove.
• Accepts - poetry, fiction, nonfiction
• Fee: no fee
• Pay: no pay
• Responds within 84 days.
Sangam Literary Magazine
- (09/30/2023)
Sangam publishes digitally two or three times each academic year through the Department of Languages and Literature at Southern University and A&M College’s flagship campus in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
• Accepts - poetry, nonfiction, fiction
• Fee: no fee
• Pay: no pay
• Responds within 270 days.
The Penmen Review
- (09/30/2023)
The Penmen Review is Southern New Hampshire University’s online journal for creative writers, featuring resource articles, spotlight interviews and writing in all genres, selected by our editorial board from submitted work.
• Accepts - poetry, nonfiction, fiction
• Fee: no fee
• Pay: no pay
Sein und Werden
- (09/30/2023)
Being & Becoming' - a quarterly online literary magazine of experimental prose, poetry and artwork that seeks to merge and modernise the ideas behind Expressionism, Surrealism and Existentialism.
• Accepts - fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art
• Fee: no fee
• Pay: no pay
The Font: A Literary Journal for Language Teachers
- (09/30/2023)
The Font – A Literary Journal for Language Teachers is an online journal of quality writing on the theme of teaching and learning languages at home and abroad.
• Accepts - fiction, nonfiction, poetry, hybrid, art, humor, comics
• Fee: no fee
• Pay: no pay
• Responds within 90 days.
The Light Ekphrastic
- (09/30/2023)
The Light Ekphrastic is a non-profit quarterly online journal dedicated to the creation of new written and visual artworks through collaboration between artists.
• Accepts - poetry, fiction, video, audio, art
• Fee: no fee
• Pay: no pay
Toasted Cheese Literary Journal
- (09/30/2023)
Literary Journal + Writing Community
• Accepts - fiction, fiction, nonfiction, nonfiction, poetry, review
• Fee: no fee
• Pay: no pay
• Responds within 150 days.
Tigershark Magazine
- (09/30/2023)
Tigershark ezine is open to submissions from anyone (both new and established writers) in any style or genre, and accepts flash fiction, short fiction and non-fiction/reviews up to 5000 words (loose), poetry of any length, and artwork.
• Accepts - fiction, nonfiction, poetry, review, art
• Theme: Alternative Times
• Fee: no fee
• Pay: no pay
• Responds within 124 days.
TMP Magazine
- (09/30/2023)
Our Literary Magazine! Here you creatives can expand your creativity: freeform poetry, short stories, flash fiction, nonfiction, art, and photography.
• Accepts - poetry, fiction, fiction, nonfiction, art, photography
• Fee: no fee
• Pay: no pay
Arboreal Literary Magazine
- (09/30/2023)
Arboreal Literary Magazine is a new publication, launched February 2023, featuring poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and visual art by diverse creators from around the globe.
• Accepts - fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, photography, humor, comics
• Fee: no fee
• Pay: no pay
• Responds within 45 days.
Pure Slush
- (09/30/2023)
Established in 2010, Pure Slush currently publishes print anthologies of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry.
• Accepts - fiction
• Fee: no fee
• Pay: no pay
Art, Strike!
- (09/30/2023)
1: build up a bunch of writers'/artists' careers until they're the most/only important writers/artists in the world & then they lead a global general strike 2: you submit & we edit/print & we pay you what you want out of a replenishing fund-pool (also jk about number 1)
• Accepts -
• Fee: no fee
• Pay: no pay
• Responds within 4 days.
River and South Review
- (09/30/2023)
an online literary journal run by the students of the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Wilkes University
We publish new, emerging, and seasoned writers
• Accepts - fiction, nonfiction, poetry
• Fee: no fee
• Pay: no pay
Paterson Literary Review
- (09/30/2023)
an anthology of poets and fiction writers both famous and new
• Accepts - poetry, photography, art, nonfiction, review, fiction
• Fee: no fee
• Pay: no pay
Quarterly Literary Review Singapore (QLRS)
- (09/30/2023)
Our mission is to promote the literary arts in Singapore, to stimulate the feedback mechanisms in the literary scene, and to develop Singaporean writers to international standards. Our standards are therefore high, and our paradigms are the TLSes and LRBs of this world.
• Accepts - fiction, nonfiction, poetry
• Fee: no fee
• Pay: no pay
• Responds within 60 days.
Toyon Literary Magazine
- (09/30/2023)
Cal Poly Humboldt’s student-led multilingual journal of literature and art.
• Accepts - video, audio, art, hybrid, photography, fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translations
• Fee: no fee
• Pay: no pay
• Responds within 480 days.
Rewrite The Stars
- (09/30/2023)
a literary magazine aimed at uplifting youth and marginalized creators, we believe artists have the power to change the world. to rewrite the stars, if you may. give us your work and revolutionize the world. make your own destiny. rewrite the stars. 🌙
• Accepts - fiction, nonfiction, poetry, review, review, art
• Fee: no fee
• Pay: no pay
• Responds within 7 days.
underscore _ magazine
- (09/30/2023)
underscore_magazine is dedicated to chronicling all things that underscore the city.
• Accepts - fiction, nonfiction, poetry
• Theme: the city
• Fee: no fee
• Pay: no pay
• Responds within 14 days.
All Existing Literary Magazine
- (09/30/2023)
A literary magazine dedicated to the strange and beautiful.
Think: secrets in exchange for stories, children born as bears, houses that come to life at night, singing love songs to the earth, praying to Birds instead of Gods.
• Accepts - fiction, fiction, art, photography, poetry
• Theme: A DEFINITION OF HORROR
• Fee: no fee
• Pay: no pay
Presence Haiku Journal
- (09/30/2023)
Britain's leading independent haiku journal
• Accepts - nonfiction, poetry
• Fee: no fee
• Pay: no pay
Shearsman Magazine
- (09/30/2023)
Specialist publisher of poetry | est. 1981 | experimental poetry | prose poetry | poetry in translation | books & mag
• Accepts - poetry
• Fee: no fee
• Pay: no pay
• Responds within 90 days.
Strix
- (09/30/2023)
A MAGAZINE OF POETRY AND SHORT FICTION
• Accepts - poetry, fiction
• Fee: no fee
• Pay: no pay
Blue Bottle Journal
- (09/30/2023)
Blue Bottle is a journal for the emotional rather than the esoteric, for poems that pulse, writhe, and stick to our skin. Blue Bottle focuses on the natural world, animals and land through ecocritical lenses.
• Accepts - poetry
• Fee: no fee
• Pay: no pay
• Responds within 45 days.
Rust and Moth
- (09/30/2023)
Lit journal, cellar door knocker
• Accepts - poetry
• Fee: no fee
• Pay: no pay
• Responds within 42 days.
FIYAH: Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction
- (Sep 30, 2023 - art)
a quarterly speculative fiction magazine that features stories by and about Black people of the African Diaspora
• Accepts - fiction, poetry, art
• Fee: no fee
• Pay: see Genres section for details
• Responds within 45 days.
Waxwing Literary Journal
- (Sep 30, 2023 for fiction, poetry)
We strive to promote the tremendous cultural diversity of contemporary American literature, alongside international voices both in English and in translation.
• Accepts - fiction, fiction, nonfiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, translations, review, interview
• Fee: no fee
• Pay: no pay
• Responds within 120 days.
Hey! Paris Review has been closed for unsolicited submissions for some time now -- maybe they reached their cap? Allegedly, on Oct 1 they will look at poetry.