28 Recently Opened Submission Calls, Upcoming Deadlines, and More
Where to Submit This Week (6.30.25) | Plus handpicked favorite calls for paid subscribers!
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Another Monday, but also…WTH?! Half the year’s gone? How did that happen? Have I made any headway on my resolutions? Well, let’s just say I hope you’ve fared better than me.
Today, as you might notice, we’ve cleaned up WTS even further. In particular, the opening (or front matter, you could say). Since we’ll be shifting Success Stories to our Subscriber Chat, that section is no longer here.
We’ll be putting out regular threads over there, so dive in whenever you like!
ICYMI: Last week, we published On Championing Risk-Taking Writers with Liz Harms, Editor of Ninth Letter; 10 BIPOC Agents Currently Open for Queries; Send Us Your Writing and We’ll Tell You Where to Submit; and 88 Writing Jobs, Lit Mag Opps, Pitch Calls, Fellowships, Internships, 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!
Palette Poetry → Deadline: Jul 13 | Fee: No | Pay: $50/piece | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 84 days | A: 1.49% | 20K+ followers | United States | 2018 — "Digital magazine for poetry. new poem every monday. Palette Poetry is an online literary journal that endeavors to uplift and platform emerging and established poets."
Tractor Beam → Deadline: Jul 21 | Fee: No | Pay: $1,000/piece | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 500+ followers | United States | 2025 — "Tractor Beam seeks original written and graphic works set on a future Earth transformed by new approaches to soil. "
The Bridge → Deadline: Aug 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 60 days | Under 100 followers | United States | 2025 — " Please send us work that cares about the form it takes; work that fits oddly; work that might be unprofitable; work that might not find a home elsewhere."
Hole In The Head Review → Deadline: Jul 1 | Fee: $3 | Pay: $10 | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 45 days | 1K+ followers | United States | 2019 — "Hole In The Head Review is committed to offering compelling contemporary poetry from both emerging and established artists and writers. We look for poems that reframe the ordinary, make the personal universal, and transcend the singular "I"."
Sky Island Journal → Deadline: Jul 1 | Fee: $4.99 | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 9 days | A: 3% | 5K+ followers | United States | 2017 — "We're an independent, international, free-access literary journal. We provide over 150,000 readers in 150 countries with a powerful, focused, advertising-free literary experience that transports them: one that challenges them intellectually and moves them emotionally."
Etched Onyx Magazine & Story Discovery Podcast → Deadline: Jul 1 | Fee: $7.5 | Pay: $25/piece or $25–$50 | Open for Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 300+ followers | United States | 2014 — "a nano-publishing house based in Nashville, Tennessee, and created by two aspiring writers for the purpose of helping others gain experience in the business of publication through a collaborative and shared-learning approach."
Half and One → Deadline: Jul 1 | Fee: $9 | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 1K+ followers | India | 2016 — "A platform for journalism and narrative non-fiction, comics and cartoons, prose and poetry, art and creativity, podcasts and videos."
Monterey Poetry Review → Deadline: Jul 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | 1.5K+ followers | United States | 2009 — "Monterey Poetry Review is a literary magazine that publishes poetry, photography, and digital artwork."
Suspended Magazine → Deadline: Jul 1 | Fee: $3 | Pay: $15–$20/piece | Open for Fiction, Poetry | ✖️ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 100+ followers | United States | 2023 — "Suspend your disbelief."
The Manhattan Review → Deadline: Jul 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 1980 — "The Manhattan Review has won praise for its balance of American and international poetry, its distinguished interview series, and its many firsts. "
The Seventh Wave → Deadline: Jul 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 60 days | 1K+ followers | United States | 2015 — "Art in the space of social issues."
Unleash Lit → Deadline: Jul 1 | Fee: Yes | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 10 days | A: 10% | 600+ followers | United States | 2023 — "Unleash Lit is on the lookout for work that is authentic and unforgettable. We publish work across genres. Prose should be under 2,000 words. Poets may submit up to 5 poems. One writer each year is nominated for the editors' prize and receives $150."
The Indianapolis Review → Deadline: Jul 1 | Fee: $3 | Pay: $5/page | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 130 days | A: 15.31% | 1K+ followers | United States | 2017 — "We are an online only quarterly journal of poetry, art, and visual poetry."
Sontag Mag → Deadline: Jul 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 15% | 1K+ followers | United States | 2023 — "Sontag Mag is a literary magazine publishing poetry, poetry-in-translation, and interviews triannually."
Abraxas Review → Deadline: Jul 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 12 days | A: 12.50% | 700+ followers | United States | 2022 — "Formed to celebrate the mysterious and strange. it was forged to encourage climbing the attic stairs and bringing a flashlight along, flooding the place with light. we want to read your treasure chest of weird stories you’ve never told anyone"
Chouette → Deadline: Jul 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 21 days | A: 11% | 300+ followers | Canada | 2023 — "chouette is a montreal-based online literary magazine. we accept fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and visual art. we are drawn to pieces that concern themselves with the little things—the day-to-day minutiae that make our nests. "
The Quasar Review → Deadline: Jul 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 7 days | A: 30% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2025 — "Literary magazine publishing poetry, flash fiction, and short stories. Offers writers an avenue to have their thoughts heard."
Liebestraum Review → Deadline: Jul 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 21 days | Under 100 followers | United States | 2025 — "Liebestraum Review is an online international magazine featuring poetry, prose, art, and music compositions submissions from emerging and established writers, artists, and composers."
La Piccioletta Barca → Deadline: Jul 2 | Fee: Yes | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 30 days | 6K+ followers | United Kingdom | 2018 — "on beauty, taste, culture, politics and the lived experience thereof"
Lake Effect: An International Literary Journal → Deadline: Jul 2 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 120 days | Under 100 followers | United States | 2001 — "a publication of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College"
The Pinch → Deadline: Jul 3 | Fee: $4.95 | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 180 days | A: 10.11% | 15K+ followers | United States | 1980 — "The Pinch was founded in 1980 as the Memphis State Review by William Page. The Pinch is a bi-annual literary journal produced entirely by the students of the University of Memphis MFA Program and English Department."
Open Ceilings Magazine → Deadline: Jul 4 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Multimedia, Fiction, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 1K+ followers | United States | 2019 — "We accept all forms of prose, poetry, artwork and photography. Open Ceilings is completely managed and operated by students in an undergraduate degree program at UC Davis. "
Under the Radar Magazine → Deadline: Jul 7 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 120 days | 20K+ followers | United Kingdom | 2008 — "Under the Radar is a place for readers and writers alike to make new discoveries... It is a lively mix of the best up-and-coming and established poets and writers, as well as reviews and articles."
Packingtown Review | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Multimedia, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | 100+ followers | United States | 2007 — "an independent online publication appearing annually, founded at the University of Illinois at Chicago by Ph.D. students in the English department"
Futurist Letters | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | Under 100 followers — "Publishes essays on film, literature, emergent technologies, public policy, and the strange spaces where they intersect. "
Room | Fee: No | Pay: $50–$200 | Open for Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 180 days | A: 2% | 30K+ followers | Canada | 1975 — "Room is Canada’s oldest feminist literary journal, and has published fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, art, interviews, and book reviews for forty years."
The Gay & Lesbian Review | Fee: No | Pay: $0–$250 flat | Open for Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 1K+ followers | United States | 1994 — "A bimonthly magazine of history, culture, and politics targeting an educated readership of LGBT individuals that publishes essays in a wide range of disciplines as well as reviews of books, movies, and plays, poetry and more"
Milk Candy Review | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 7 days | A: 2.40% | 5K+ followers | United States | 2018 — "We're here for your beautifully weird flash fiction."
Note: I’ve left the first one un-paywalled so you can get a sense of what these are like!
Milk Candy Review | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 7 days | A: 2.40% | 5K+ followers | United States | 2018 — "We're here for your beautifully weird flash fiction."
Reasoning: Milk Candy Review was voted as one of Chill Subs Community Favorites in 2023, and they still haven’t stopped being awesome! The mag is home to flash that glimmers with strangeness and musicality—never just quirky, but precise in its oddness. I also love mags that are devoted to just one genre; that focus leaves so much room for extra care.
Pro Tip: Read a few issues and pay attention to tone. The best submissions feel like fairy tales in aftershock: beautiful, slightly bruised, and told in language that sings. The editors explicitly ask for “musical writing,” and they love “unexpected moments,” so steer clear of heavy exposition or gimmicks. Send only one story at a time, under 750 words, and don’t overthink your bio.