Last of the submission calls ending in March!
Some highlights:
Penn Review has super fast response times (also super competitive).
The Common has a special themed call ending but are still open for regular submissions until June.
Terrain.org is closing their window. They also have a fee free very high paying call for climate change writing. Looks cool.
Broken Antler is about to close. Excellent horror mag with cool design.
Arboreal is on issue 6! I remember when they launched. They are doing so well. Love to see it.
The Garlic Press is still one of my favorite names for a lit mag. They’re closing their call soon as well.
Plenty, plenty more. Lots of no-fee, a few well paying ones. All different genres. A couple links didn’t work for me (The Portland Review was one). I never know if that’s my computer or not because I live in random places. So, let me know.
(Mar 28, 2024) The goal of orangepeel is to give readers something they’ll remember. We all have those sentences we remember when we’re falling asleep, those brushstrokes we can still see in our heads years after viewing them. That’s what the pages of orangepeel are here for. • Accepts - Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Art, Photography, Comics • Theme - the future • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 2021
(Mar 29, 2024) A web magazine of edgy extrapolations, fringe fascinations, occult obsessions, risky ruminations, and aberrant associations. • Accepts - Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Art, Comics, Interview • Theme - STRANGE SKIES/WEIRD WORLDS • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 2021
(Mar 30, 2024) Founded in 1956, Portland Review publishes prose, poetry, art, and translations reflecting a wide spectrum of aesthetic styles and voices. Produced by the graduate students in Portland State University’s English Department, Portland Review is proud to publish both established and emerging writers. • Accepts - Fiction, Nonfiction, Review, Poetry, Art • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 1956
(Mar 30, 2024) Whatever you believe is worth writing about is what we want to read. • Accepts - Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 2022
Waves of Words Literary Magazine
(Mar 30, 2024) Waves of Words Literary Magazine is a Christian literary magazine that bridges the gap between writing and Christianity. • Accepts - Nonfiction, Poetry, Review, Interview, Art • Theme - Corruption and Redemption • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 2023
(Mar 30, 2024) Submissions are free and open for our first issue: Emotional Tension! Accepting previously unpublished poetry, fiction, and essays. • Accepts - Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry • Theme - Emotional Tension • Fee: optional • Pay: none • Founded in 2024
(Mar 31, 2024) 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. • Accepts - Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Art • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 1951
(Mar 31, 2024) Founded in 1976, Indiana Review is a non-profit literary magazine dedicated to showcasing the talents of emerging and established writers. Our mission is to offer the highest quality writing within a wide aesthetic. • Accepts - Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash CNF, Poetry, Translation, Art • Fee: $3 • Pay: $5 per page • Founded in 1976
(Mar 31, 2024) Tahoma Literary Review is based in the Pacific Northwest, but we are international in scope. TLR offers both professional payment and exposure to our contributors by using a substantial portion of our total income to support our authors. • Accepts - Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash CNF, Poetry • Fee: $4-$5 • Pay: $55-$135 per piece
Heart of Flesh Literary Journal
(Mar 31, 2024) 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, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Art, Photography • Theme - Christian theme • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 2019
(Mar 31, 2024) We feature stories under 1000 words. • Accepts - Fiction, Flash Fiction • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 2008
(Mar 31, 2024) 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, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash CNF, Poetry, Hybrid • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 2020
(Mar 31, 2024) Post Road accepts unsolicited poetry, fiction, nonfiction, short plays and monologues, and visual art submissions. • Accepts - Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Art • Fee: $3 • Pay: Yes • Founded in 2000
The Common (Special Folio: China after 2008)
(Mar 31, 2024) A literary organization whose mission is to deepen our individual and collective sense of place. Based at Amherst College, we aim to serve as a vibrant common space for the global exchange of ideas and experiences through three main areas of activity: publishing, public programming, and mentorship and education. • Accepts - Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash CNF, Poetry, Translation, Photography • Theme - China after 2008 • Fee: $3 • Pay: $40-$200 per piece • Founded in 2010
(Mar 31, 2024) A journal of art, photography, & poetry. We're online only so we can do things you just can't do with print - video, music, and pop-up issues. We're viewed around the world more than 1,500 times a month. We feature established artists and writers as well as newcomers. • Accepts - Poetry, Art, Photography, Video • Fee: $3 • Pay: none • Founded in 2019
(Mar 31, 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, Wtf is genre, send anything • Fee: none • Pay: Yes • Founded in 1997
(Mar 31, 2024) The award-winning literary magazine of The Ohio State University • Accepts - Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Review, Interview, Art • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 1973
(Mar 31, 2024) The Fiddlehead is Atlantic Canada's International Literary Journal. Celebrating 75 years of literary foraging in 2020! • Accepts - Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash CNF, Poetry, Translation, Art • Fee: none • Pay: CA$60 per page • Founded in 1945
(Mar 31, 2024) Lovely as a goose on a roof. Lit mag with print issues twice annually and a new issue online the first Friday of the month. • Accepts - Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Comics, Audio • Fee: $3 • Pay: $50 • Founded in 2009
(Mar 31, 2024) Blue Mesa Review has a rotating editorial board, so each issue is fresh and unique. They are seeking strong voices and lively, compelling narratives with a fine eye for craft. • Accepts - Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Art • Fee: $2 • Pay: $25 • Founded in 1989
(Mar 31, 2024) A nonprofit magazine of poetry, short fiction, and art, offering accessible works of experience that are emotionally and intellectually complex. • Accepts - Fiction, Flash Fiction, Poetry, Review • Fee: $3 • Pay: see Genres section for details • Founded in 2010
(Mar 31, 2024) Seneca Review, founded in 1970 by James Crenner and Ira Sadoff, is published twice yearly, spring and fall, by Hobart and William Smith Colleges Press. The magazine's emphasis is poetry, and the editors have a special interest in translations of contemporary poetry. • Accepts - Nonfiction, Poetry, Review • Fee: $3 • Pay: none • Founded in 1970
(Mar 31, 2024) Always on the lookout for alien stories with a futuristic setting integral to the story rather than just a backdrop, featuring stories based on real science, you’re sure to find something that will get you thinking in every issue. • Accepts - Fiction • Theme - Mars Colonization • Fee: none • Pay: $20 • Founded in 2017
(Mar 31, 2024) Australia's longest running science fiction and fantasy magazine. • Accepts - Fiction, Nonfiction, Interview, Art, Humor • Fee: none • Pay: Yes • Founded in 1990
(Mar 31, 2024) An international online literary journal. We publish the highest quality poetry and prose from emerging and established writers. B O D Y publishes three issues per year on a rolling basis: Winter; Spring; and Fall. • Accepts - Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translation • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 2012
(Mar 31, 2024) The Magazine of Bethlehem Writers Group • Accepts - Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry • Fee: none • Pay: see Genres section for details
(Mar 31, 2024) National Literary Journal housed at Emporia State University. • Accepts - Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash CNF, Poetry, Art, Photography, Play • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 1996
(Mar 31, 2024) MetaStellar is an online publication focusing on horror, fantasy and science fiction, launched in September 2020, founded by a dozen speculative fiction writers, editors and artists from around the world. • Accepts - Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash CNF, Review • Fee: none • Pay: $0.08 per word • Founded in 2020
(Mar 31, 2024) Previously known as The GSU Review, we’ve been publishing new fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art since 1975. • Accepts - Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash CNF, Poetry, Review • Fee: $3 • Pay: none • Founded in 1975
(Mar 31, 2024) Southword: New International Writing is a print literary journal published twice a year by the Munster Literature Centre. • Accepts - Fiction, Poetry • Fee: none • Pay: €40-€250 per piece
(Mar 31, 2024) An international journal based in Israel, publishing a variety of poetry, fiction, nonfiction and genres in between. We especially love translations and hybrid work. Our bi-annual themed editions are edited by alumni and faculty at Bar-Ilan University. • Accepts - Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash CNF, Poetry, Translation, Art, Photography, Comics • Fee: $3 • Pay: none • Founded in 2009
(Mar 31, 2024) Northridge Review is a literary & arts journal of the present, produced by students in the creative writing program at California State University, Northridge. • Accepts - Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash CNF, Poetry, Hybrid, Art, Photography, Play • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 1962
(Mar 31, 2024) Arboreal Literary Magazine features poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and visual art by diverse creators from around the globe. • Accepts - Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Hybrid, Art, Photography, Humor, Comics • Theme - Eternity • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 2022
(Mar 31, 2024) metachrosis is an interdisciplinary magazine, celebrating the exploration of the arts, sciences, and humanities. We love the experimental, avant-garde, and political.
• Accepts - Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Hybrid, Review, Art, Photography • Theme - no theme • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 2023
(Mar 31, 2024) dedicated to chronicling all things that underscore the city. • Accepts - Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry • Theme - the city • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 2023
(Mar 31, 2024) 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: none • Founded in 2002
(Mar 31, 2024) Literary magazine publishing work that is dark, speculative, experimental, unsettling, and absurd. LGBTQ+/women-ran. Paying market for weird words and art! • Accepts - Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Hybrid, Art, Wtf is genre, send anything • Fee: none • Pay: $20 • Founded in 2023
(Mar 31, 2024) Akéwì Magazine is a literary magazine dedicated to championing the voice of BIPOC writers and artists everywhere. • Accepts - Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Art, Photography, Play • Theme - Sankofa (learning from the past) • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 2023
Odessa Collective Presents: The Prison Anthology
(Mar 31, 2024) We are putting together an anthology for writers who have previously been incarcerated or are currently incarcerated. • Accepts - Nonfiction, Poetry, Art, Wtf is genre, send anything • Theme - Criminal Justice System • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 2021
(Mar 31, 2024) Prairie Margins is the national undergraduate literary magazine at Bowling Green State University. • Accepts - Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Art • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 1963
(Mar 31, 2024) Unleash Lit champions authentic storytellers and poets.
• Accepts - Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Wtf is genre, send anything • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 2023
(Mar 31, 2024) A San Francisco based arts and literary magazine. The Ana is a collection and celebration of humanity. • Accepts - Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Hybrid, Translation, Art, Photography, Wtf is genre, send anything • Theme - Quarterly Publishing. No themes, just send your best! • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 2020
(Mar 31, 2024) an quarterly online literary magazine for extra pungent poetry and prose • Accepts - Fiction, Flash Fiction, Micro Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash CNF, Poetry, Hybrid, Wtf is genre, send anything • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 2024
(Mar 31, 2024) Antler Velvet is an indie online arts magazine welcoming poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and art. • Accepts - Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Hybrid, Art, Photography, Video • Theme - Seraphim • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 2023
(Mar 31, 2024) “Etymology” is the study of words and how their meaning has changed over time. Our online journal expands that definition to publish pieces that reflect on how words have created change in us, evolved us, and affected change on our world. • Accepts - Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Art, Photography • Theme - Zest • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 2024
Zehlreg Augustus Grindstone’s Spectacular Western Oddity Emporium
(Mar 31, 2024) We're ONLY accepting short stories, flash fiction, & poetry for publication in an anthology where the Wild West meets Fantasy • Accepts - Fiction, Flash Fiction, Poetry • Theme - Wild West / Fantasy Mashup • Fee: none • Pay: Yes • Founded in 2023
Driftwood Press Annual Anthology
(Mar 31, 2024) At Driftwood Press, we are actively searching for artists who care about doing it right, or better. • Accepts - Fiction, Poetry, Art • Fee: $15.99 • Pay: see Genres section for details • Founded in 2013
I wish this existed for the Spanish-speaking world :,-)
Ojalá existieran listas así para el mundo hispanohablante
Great list with a range of competitiveness. I’ll be doing some happy hunting for new homes for my work.