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Happy (or at very least not crappy) Monday, friends!
I’m writing today’s newsletter from NYC. We were here for the Poetry Festival over the weekend, but also got a chance to explore the city. No matter how many times I come here, I can’t help but get super excited about everything, and then just totally flabbergasted at the sheer artistic chaotic intensity of it all. Oh, and also the smell I guess, haha.
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ICYMI: Last week, we published Quick! Send Us the First Two Pages of Your Story So We Can Critique It Live; On the Joy of Collaboration and the Submission Process as Journey with Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya; Need an Agent? I’ll Match You With One; Submit or Be Cursed: 10 Horror & Fantasy Lit Mags Open for Submissions; and 64 Writing Jobs, Internships, Lit Mag Opps, Fellowships, Pitch Calls, and More.
DISCLAIMER: We take great pains to ensure our data is accurate. However, depending on when you see this, some mags might have closed—especially if they have submission caps!
Bread and Butter Magazine → Deadline: Aug 10 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Multimedia, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 40 days | A: 6% | 5K+ followers | Thailand | 2024 — "A youth-led literary magazine dedicated to empowering new voices!"
Mulberry Literary → Deadline: Jul 14 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 60 days | A: 10% | 4K+ followers | United States | 2019 — "Mulberry Literary is an indie lit and art magazine dedicated to showcasing boundless creative work in its every form."
New World Writing → Deadline: Jul 14 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Multimedia, Poetry, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 4.55% | 1K+ followers | United States | 1995 — "Formerly Mississippi Review Online, Blip, etc. since 1995, accepts/publishes fast. Fiction, poetry, photos, art, music, whatever."
Solarpunk Magazine → Deadline: Jul 14 | Fee: No | Pay: $40–$75/piece or $25 flat or $0.08/word or $50–$200 | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 60 days | A: 3.87% | 15K+ followers | United States | 2021 — "Online magazine imagining new, sustainable futures through speculative fiction, poetry, nonfiction, & art. Demand Utopia!"
Gramercy Review → Deadline: Jul 14 | Fee: $5 | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2024 — "An independent online magazine of exceptional and thought-provoking poetry and prose in both fiction and nonfiction, including works in translation."
The Lemonwood Quarterly → Deadline: Jul 14 | Fee: $4 | Pay: $200 | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 60 days | A: 10% | Under 100 followers | United States — "We offer readers exquisite stories and plays that illuminate underexplored regions of the human condition. In particular, we seek fresh and authentic portrayals of individuals that, as a group, hold up half the sky, and yet in popular have often been marginalized into one-dimensional stereotypes."
MER - Mom Egg Review → Deadline: Jul 15 | Fee: $3 | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 180 days | A: 5% | 10K+ followers | United States | 2002 — "MER publishes literary work on mothers, mothering, and motherhood, in an annual print and quarterly online issues of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and art."
Fairy Tale Review → Deadline: Jul 15 | Fee: No | Pay: $50 flat | Open for Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | A: 3.08% | 10K+ followers | United States | 2005 — "Founded in 2005 by Kate Bernheimer, Fairy Tale Review is an annual literary journal dedicated to publishing new fairy tales and to helping raise public awareness of fairy tales as a diverse, innovative art form."
If There's Anyone Left → Deadline: Jul 15 | Fee: No | Pay: $0.08/word | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 43 days | A: 6.00% | 600+ followers | United States | 2020 — "Publishing sci-fi/spec-fic from people of color, the LGBTQ+ community, members of marginalized genders, and disabled people."
Mania Magazine → Deadline: Jul 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 41 days | A: 30.00% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2022 — "We are a small literary magazine that embraces the mania. Give us your favorite 3 am works. Sleep deprived and living off of caffeine or otherwise."
Psaltery & Lyre → Deadline: Jul 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 180 days | A: 3.20% | 3K+ followers | United States | 2016 — "Online literary journal publishing poetry, flash, creative nonfiction, fiction, and hybrid works that push the borders of sacred and secular."
South Carolina Review (SCR) → Deadline: Jul 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 144 days | A: 3.45% | 100K+ followers | United States | 1968 — "We attempt to reflect the diverse experience of our readers and contributors by publishing affecting, thought-provoking work from both new and established writers from a wide background."
Stone Canoe → Deadline: Jul 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 180 days | Under 100 followers | United States | 2007 — "A journal of arts and ideas from Upstate New York, was founded at Syracuse University's University College, and is now published by The YMCA's Downtown Writers Center, at the Arts Branch of the YMCA of Greater Syracuse. The annual publication appears each February."
storySouth → Deadline: Jul 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 180 days | A: 7.14% | 2K+ followers | United States | 2001 — "storySouth’s most important mission is to showcase the best fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry that writers from the new south have to offer. Special emphasis is given to finding and promoting the works of promising new writers."
Trembling With Fear → Deadline: Jul 15 | Fee: No | Pay: $5/piece | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 21 days | A: 77.82% | 20K+ followers | United Kingdom | 2011 — "The Horror Tree is a resource for genre and speculative fiction authors which was created in 2011. The main goal when starting the site was to include all of the latest horror anthologies and publishers that are taking paying submissions."
Muzzle Magazine → Deadline: Jul 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 111 days | A: 1.84% | 6K+ followers | United States | 2010 — "Muzzle Magazine has published writing of revolution and revelation, and in 2020, on the precipice of a new decade, we will continue seeking submissions that move us not just in feeling, but also in intention."
The Margin Review → Deadline: Jul 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 14 days | Under 100 followers | United States | 2025 — "The Margin Review is a brand new magazine focused on publishing writers of all shapes and sizes. we pride ourselves on being a place for writers to share what they are proud of, no matter what it is: a completely free space for all."
Hayden's Ferry Review → Deadline: Jul 16 | Fee: $3 | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Multimedia, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 134 days | A: 2.60% | 25K+ followers | United States | 1986 — "A semi-annual, international literary journal edited by the MFA students at Arizona State University"
Able Muse → Deadline: Jul 16 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction, Multimedia, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 1.5K+ followers | United States | 1999 — "Able Muse publishes metrical poetry and poetry translation, along with art, fiction, and nonfiction (essays, book reviews, and interviews that focus on metrical and formal poetry)."
Boston Review → Deadline: Jul 16 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 110 days | A: 1.64% | 50K+ followers | United States | 1975 — "A political and literary forum—a public space for discussion of ideas and culture. Independent and nonprofit, animated by hope and committed to equality, we believe in the power of collective reasoning and imagination to create a more just world."
Red Rock Review → Deadline: Jul 16 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 180 days | A: 14.83% | 35K+ followers | United States | 1996 — "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."
The Write Launch → Deadline: Jul 16 | Fee: $5 | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 45 days | A: 46.56% | 1K+ followers | United States | 2017 — "Monthly, online literary magazine. Stories, poetry, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction."
Friends Journal → Deadline: Jul 16 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 15K+ followers | United States | 1955 — "Friends Journal is published by Friends Publishing Corporation. Our mission is to communicate Quaker experience in order to connect and deepen spiritual lives."
Tiger Bark Press → Deadline: Jul 16 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 1K+ followers | United States | 2013 — "Independent publisher of full-length poetry collections with focus on formal innovation."
Seaside Gothic → Deadline: Jul 19 | Fee: No | Pay: $0.01/word or $20 flat | Open for Nonfiction, Poetry, Fiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days. | A: 14.18% | 2K+ followers | United Kingdom | 2021 — "A quarterly print magazine from the edge of the sea where the frontier of civilisation meets the wild of the water."
SAND Journal → Deadline: Jul 20 | Fee: €3 | Pay: $20–$30/piece | Open for Nonfiction, Multimedia, Poetry, Fiction, Hybrid | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 180 days | A: 5.45% | 10K+ followers | Germany | 2009 — "Founded in 2009, SAND is an international literary and art journal created by a passionate team of volunteers in Berlin, Germany."
Diabolical Plots → Deadline: Jul 21 | Fee: No | Pay: $0.1/word | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 3.85% | 7K+ followers | United States | 2008 — "SF/F/H zine of Nebula nommed/winning & Hugo-nommed fiction, Ignyte-winning Submission Grinder, Long List Anthology."
Tractor Beam → Deadline: Jul 21 | Fee: No | Pay: $1,000/piece | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 1K+ followers | United States | 2025 — "Tractor Beam seeks original written and graphic works set on a future Earth transformed by new approaches to soil."
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