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Welcome to NOT Monday, friends. It’s Wednesday. We’re doing Where to Submit on Wednesdays now, hi! Hopefully you’re not amongst those falling sick to the fall flu, or whatever it is. But whether you’re sick in bed with tissue and lozenges or up and at ‘em … with … whatever one would be up and at ‘em with … it’s time to get subbin’.
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AGNI → Deadline: Dec 15 | Fee: $3 | Pay: $30-$300/page | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 120 days | A: 1.02% | 20K+ followers | United States | 1972 — "A literary magazine named after the Vedic fire-god. Transformative. The writer in witness, the imagination in combustion."
Poetry Pea Journal and Podcast → Deadline: Sep 30 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ✖️ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | 3K+ followers | Switzerland | 2018 — "A platform dedicated to haiku, senryu, and other Japanese short-form poetry, offering podcasts, journals, and workshops."
Crab Creek Review → Deadline: Oct 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 60 days | A: 7.14% | 7K+ followers | United States | 1983 — "We are Seattle's 34-year old nonprofit print literary journal publishing the best writing from the Northwest and beyond."
Southampton Review → Deadline: Oct 15 | Fee: $3 | Pay: $100-$200 or $75/piece | Open for Multimedia, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 1095 days | A: 1% | 4K+ followers | United States | 2007 — "The Southampton Review has been publishing compelling writing and art since 2007."
RockPaperPoem → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | 200+ followers | United States | 2021 — "RockPaperPoem is an independent, nonprofit online poetry journal that publishes today's finest contemporary poetry."
Oxford Poetry → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: £3.5 | Pay: £100 flat or £25-£50 | Open for Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | A: 2% | 30K+ followers | United Kingdom | 1910 — "Founded in 1910, Oxford Poetry is the oldest dedicated poetry magazine in the UK, and one of the oldest in the world."
Mikrokosmos and Mojo Literary Journal → Deadline: Nov 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Multimedia, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 1958 — "We are an MFA-run literary magazine at Wichita State University in Kansas. Send us works both beautiful and strange."
The Penn Review → Deadline: Nov 7 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 7 days | A: 2.33% | 5K+ followers | United States | 1951 — "Publishes original poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and visual artwork, and feature a blend of emerging and established voices. Ranked as one of the 25 Fastest Fiction & Poetry Markets in Duotrope's database."
Pangyrus → Deadline: Nov 15 | Fee: Some | Pay: $30/piece | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Multimedia, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 60 days | A: 12% | 1.5K+ followers | United States | 2014 — "A literary magazine that is dedicated to art, ideas, and making culture thrive. Our name is a portmanteau of pan (all) and gyrus (the folds on the cerebral cortex of the brain). Pangyrus is about connection."
Revolute → Deadline: Nov 15 | Fee: No | Pay: $25 flat | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | A: 12.14% | 300+ followers | United States | 2019 — "A digital literary magazine founded in 2019 by the Randolph College MFA program. Revolute is committed to publishing the most engaging writing possible and is further committed to publishing emerging writers from underrepresented groups."
Luna Station Quarterly → Deadline: Nov 15 | Fee: No | Pay: $10/piece | Open for Fiction | ✖️ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | A: 10% | 3K+ followers | United States | 2010 — "Stellar Short Fiction by Women-Identified Writers Since 2010"
The Crawfish → Deadline: Nov 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 4 days | A: 50.00% | Under 100 followers | United States — "An online interdisciplinary magazine with a special interest in southern queer writers and artists"
streetcake: experimental writing magazine → Deadline: Nov 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | Under 100 followers | United Kingdom | 2008 — "An online magazine publishing diverse and experimental writing since 2008."
Idaho Review → Deadline: Nov 16 | Fee: $4 | Pay: $150-$300 | Publishes Nonfiction, Poetry, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 180 days | 2K+ followers | United States | 1998 — "Our mission is to publish strong, evocative work that belongs to the collective, vast community of writers."
Bellingham Review → Deadline: Dec 2 | Fee: $3 | Pay: No | Publishes Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 180 days | A: 8.63% | 5K+ followers | United States | 1977 — "Bellingham Review publishes fiction, poetry, CNF, & hybrid work across a myriad of styles and aesthetics. We want your best, your strangest, and the work dearest to your heart. We can't wait to read!"
Long River Review → Deadline: Dec 14 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Multimedia, Fiction, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 107 days | A: 5.64% | 900+ followers | United States | 1997 — "Founded in 1997, the Long River Review is an annual literary journal of art and literature staffed by undergraduates at the University of Connecticut."
Glassworks → Deadline: Dec 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 180 days | A: 19.66% | 2K+ followers | United States | 2010 — "Glassworks is a publication of the Master of Arts in Writing program at Rowan University."
Exposition Review → Deadline: Dec 15 | Fee: $3.5 | Pay: $50 flat | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 87 days | A: 3% | 5K+ followers | United States | 2016 — "An independent, multi-genre literary journal that publishes narratives by new, emerging, and established writers in the genres of fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry, scripts for stage & screen, film, experimental narratives."
Bayou Magazine → Deadline: Dec 15 | Fee: $3 | Pay: $100-$150/piece | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 150 days | A: 6.26% | 2K+ followers | United States | 2002 — "Founded in 2002, Bayou Magazine is an annual literary magazine. We accept poetry, fiction, and fine art images. We also publish the winner of the annual Tennessee Williams One-Act Play Contest. Our mission is to present exceptional, original writing by both established and emerging writers."
The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts → Deadline: Dec 15 | Fee: Some | Pay: $0-$50/piece | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 5 days | A: 1.42% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2010 — "We believe that something very small can add up to something very big, as in the compressed moment of the big bang. We want to think through compression."
Southern Indiana Review → Deadline: Dec 15 | Fee: $3.5 | Pay: $125-$250/piece | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 66 days | 2K+ followers | United States | 1994 — "Southern Indiana Review presents a cross-section of emerging and established artists and writers whose work is both regional and national in scope and degree of recognition. SIR is published in October and May by the University of Southern Indiana."
Pacifica Literary Review → Deadline: Dec 31 | Fee: $3 | Pay: $25/piece | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 120 days | A: 4.05% | 4K+ followers | United States | 2012 — "We want unique voices and risky writing; send your predictable stuff to those hoary old journals who’ve been printing the same thing since 1970."
Mania Magazine → Deadline: Jan 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Multimedia, Nonfiction, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 35 days | A: 22.73% | 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."
MUSE Literary Magazine → Deadline: Jan 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 180 days | 1K+ followers | United States | 1986 — "A yearly literary magazine based at Riverside City College."
CutBank → Deadline: Feb 1 | Fee: $5 | Pay: $50-$150/piece | Open for Nonfiction, Poetry, Fiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 194 days | A: 1.79% | 10K+ followers | United States | 1973 — "Montana's foremost literary magazine, founded in 1973 by the Creative Writing program at the University of Montana and helmed initially by favorite literary son William Kittredge."
The Apple Valley Review → Deadline: Mar 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 20 days | 3K+ followers | United States | 2005 — "An international literary journal featuring poetry, short fiction, and essays, published semiannually since 2005."
Grain → Deadline: Jun 15 | Fee: CA$5 | Pay: CA$50/page | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 180 days | A: 8.85% | 10K+ followers | Canada | 1973 — "Grain, the journal of eclectic writing, is a literary quarterly that publishes engaging, eclectic, and challenging writing and art by Canadian and international writers and artists."
POETICS Journal / Podcast [Bainbridge Island Press] → Deadline: Jun 15 | Fee: $6 | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2023 — "A biannual audio publication by Bainbridge Island Press, exploring poetry through 10-minute episodes."
Reedy Branch Review (RBR) | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2016 — "Every spring, RBR publishes work from Pitt Community College students, faculty, staff, alumni, and anyone who supports the mission of the North Carolina community college system. RBR accepts short stories, poetry, flash fiction,creative nonfiction and visual art."
Rat Bag Lit | Fee: No | Pay: $0.01/word or $5 flat | Open for Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 60 days | 100+ followers | United States | 2025 — "Fiction that crosses genres and blurs the lines between literary and speculative genres. Work that keeps us up at night, stories that make us laugh, and the strangest dreams that pop out of your odd little noggin."
Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine → Deadline: Sep 17 | Fee: $7.5 | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Nonfiction, Multimedia, Fiction | ✖️ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 5K+ followers | Colombia | 2010 — "a literary journal dedicated to promoting the theory and practice of narrative medicine, an interdisciplinary field that enhances healthcare through the effective communication, empathy and understanding between clinicians, caregivers and patients"
hedgerow: a journal of small poems → Deadline: Sep 17 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | Sweden | 2019 — "hedgerow is a quarterly short-poetry journal dedicated to publishing an eclectic mix of new & established voices across the spectrum of the short poem."
Art-emis Literary & Arts Magazine → Deadline: Sep 17 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 14 days | 100+ followers | United States | 2025 — "We are looking for work that is bold, raw, and off-beat. In short, show us who you are without apology!"
Six → Deadline: Sep 17 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | Under 100 followers | United Kingdom | 2025 — "A biannual microjournal publishing just six poems about womanhood each equinox."
Literary Cocktail Magazine → Deadline: Sep 19 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction | ✖️ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 5K+ followers | India | 2022 — "An eMagazine devoted to Creative Writing, Critical Thinking, Art and Photography"
Aura Literary Arts Review → Deadline: Sep 19 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Multimedia, Poetry, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 200+ followers | United States | 1974 — "An award-winning creative literary magazine that is published through the Student Media division of the University of Alabama at Birmingham."
Middleground Magazine → Deadline: Sep 21 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 2K+ followers | United Kingdom | 2019 — "An art and literary magazine for mixed-race people's identities, stories and voices"
Rust and Moth → Deadline: Sep 21 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 42 days | A: 11.02% | 15K+ followers | United States | 2008 — "Lit journal, cellar door knocker"
Exile → Deadline: Sep 21 | Fee: $10 | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | Canada | 1972 — "Canadian literary quarterly publishing innovative work from diverse cultural perspectives."
The Odyssey Youth Literary Magazine → Deadline: Sep 22 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia | ✖️ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 9 days | 1K+ followers — "Free, inclusive, easy to submit to, adventurous, and most of all, welcoming! We empower teen writers and provide them with a chance at free and easy publication."
Sunspot Lit → Deadline: Sep 24 | Fee: Yes | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 60 days | A: 5.63% | 3K+ followers | United States | 2019 — "Since launching in January of 2019, Sunspot Literary Journal has amplified diverse multinational voices. New works have been published in their original language side-by-side with English translations."
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