Wooo! New year, same old you. Let’s kick things off with an opening list, shall we? Over 50 mags opened up for submissions again while the rest of us have been eating and drinking our way into 2024.
Some highlights:
Threepenny Review, Grain, Beloit, and Bennington Review are taking submissions again for anyone looking for one of those top-shelf publication credits.
Black Warrior Review is open again. Love them.
Rat’s Ass Review still has one of our favorite names for a poetry magazine. They’re back.
Cosmic Horror Monthly is open for only one week (closes on the 7th). Lovecraftian Horror? Get it.
And abducted cow magazine…hah!
Sadly, Corvid Queen moved their reading period this year to February so hold on to your fairy tales.
Loads more below. If you spot any errors, sound off in the comments. We’re kicking off our 2024 audit soon. Otherwise, I’ve included:
Deadline (in the parenthesis)
Description
Genres
Fees
Payments
founding date
Direct guidelines link (click the name)
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50+ Recently Opened Submission Calls (15 That Pay)
Woodward Review
*says they’re open in their guidelines but no calls on submittable so idk what that’s about.
(Mar 1, 2024) A new journal hosted by Wayne State University, trying to collapse the distance between creative, critical, and "academic" writing. • Accepts - Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash CNF, Poetry, Hybrid, Review, Art, Photography, Audio, Video • Fee: none • Pay: $50 • Founded in 2022
Allium, A Journal of Poetry & Prose
(Jan 10, 2024) Allium, A Journal of Poetry & Prose is a multi-genre print and online journal published by Columbia College’s English & Creative Writing Department. Allium is committed to publishing work that represents a wide aesthetic range, from the traditional to the experimental. • Accepts - Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translation • Fee: $3 • Pay: none • Founded in 2020
Grain
(Jun 15, 2024) 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. • Accepts - Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Play, Comics, Wtf is genre, send anything • Fee: none • Pay: CA$50 per page • Founded in 1973
The Threepenny Review
(Apr 30, 2024) A well-regarded journal of the arts and society which has been published since 1980. Every issue contains excellent essays, stories, poems, and memoirs, plus beautiful black-and-white photographs. • Accepts - Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash CNF, Poetry, Review • Fee: none • Pay: $200-$400 • Founded in 1980
Free The Verse
(Feb 28, 2024) Free the Verse is a modern poetry magazine. We publish an issue every quarter and we're always open for submissions! We now also host poetry competitions with a $100 prize for the winner... • Accepts - Poetry • Theme - Bodies • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 2022
Bennington Review
(Apr 8, 2024) We aim to stake out a distinctive space for innovative, intelligent, and moving fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, film writing, and cross-genre work. • Accepts - Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Review, Translation, Hybrid • Fee: none • Pay: Yes • Founded in 1966
34 Orchard
(Jan 15, 2024) At 34 Orchard, we like dark, intense pieces that speak to a deeper truth. We’re not genre-specific; we just like scary, disturbing, unsettling, and sad. • Accepts - Fiction, Poetry • Fee: none • Pay: $50 • Founded in 2019
Aberration Labyrinth
(Feb 15, 2024) We do not want poems about sailboats. They're sort of tired and boring. We are looking for underground writers who are looking for a place to muck up the internet with their bold and interesting writing. We treasure poetry that strays from the path. • Accepts - Fiction, Poetry, Art • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 2012
For Page and Screen
(Apr 30, 2024) A bi-annual online publication that features short stories, scripts, and films from storytellers around the world. We are looking for your most ambitious work. Surprise us, shock us, move us, and, above all, tell us a good story. • Accepts - Fiction, Nonfiction, Play, Audio, Video • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 2021
Ponder Review
(Mar 15, 2024) We're published by the low-res MFA in Creative Writing at Mississippi U. for Women and include fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, drama, art, and new media. • Accepts - Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Hybrid, Art, Photography, Play, Audio, Video • Fee: $2 • Pay: none • Founded in 2016
Able Muse
(Apr 15, 2024) 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). • Accepts - Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art, Interview, Review, Photography, Translation • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 1999
great weather for MEDIA
(Jan 15, 2024) great weather for MEDIA focuses on the unpredictable, the fearless, the bright, the dark, and the innovative. We publish solo poetry collections, plus a yearly anthology of poetry and prose selected from open submission. • Accepts - Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash CNF, Poetry, Hybrid • Fee: none • Pay: $10 • Founded in 2012
Washington Square Review
(Jan 25, 2024) Washington Square Review, an award-winning journal of new fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, translations, and interviews, is published biannually by the students and faculty of the NYU Graduate Creative Writing Program. • Accepts - Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Translation • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 1996
Salmagundi
(Apr 30, 2024) An international quarterly magazine of politics, culture, literature and the arts published at Skidmore College • Accepts - Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 1965
Amsterdam Quarterly
(Jan 31, 2024) online literary magazine that publishes, promotes, and comments on art and writing in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and the world • Accepts - Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Art, Photography • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 2011
Cosmic Horror Monthly
(Jan 7, 2024) A monthly tome of tales, Lovecraftian, cosmic, and weird. Bold new horror delivered to your inbox or your mailbox. • Accepts - Fiction, Art, Nonfiction • Fee: none • Pay: Yes • Founded in 2020
Bethlehem Writers Roundtable
(Mar 31, 2024) The Magazine of Bethlehem Writers Group • Accepts - Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry • Fee: none • Pay: see Genres section for details
BWR Online: Boyfriend Village
(Mar 1, 2024) Boyfriend Village is Black Warrior Review’s online edition, released once and sometimes twice a year. • Accepts - Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Hybrid, Art, Comics • Fee: none • Pay: Yes • Founded in 2018
Cantos: A Literary and Arts Journal
(Feb 15, 2024) Cantos, a journal published annually by Missouri Baptist University, welcomes submissions by poets, writers, and visual artists. • Accepts - Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Art, Play • Fee: none • Pay: none
Change Seven Magazine
(Jan 31, 2024) Change Seven is an online literary journal. We seek to publish the best available fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, visual art, book reviews, and more from both established and emerging talents. • Accepts - Poetry, Hybrid, Fiction, Nonfiction, Photography, Art, Video, Audio • Fee: $3 • Pay: none
Flights: the literary magazine of Sinclair Community College
(May 15, 2024) an annual literary magazine published in the fall of each year by Sinclair Community College • Accepts - Fiction, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry • Fee: $2 • Pay: none
Flint Hills Review
(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
NewMyths.com
(Feb 28, 2024) A quarterly ezine by a community of writers, poets and artist. • Accepts - Fiction, Poetry, Review, Art • Fee: none • Pay: $50 per piece • Founded in 2007
Potomac Review
(Apr 2, 2024) Potomac Review, based in Rockville, Maryland, is a peer-reviewed literary magazine with a global audience. • Accepts - Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 1993
Schuylkill Valley Journal (SVJ)
(Feb 14, 2024) Schuylkill Valley Journal (pronounced SKOO-kill) // print : online : dispatches // been here for 30+ years • Accepts - Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 1990
storySouth
(Jan 15, 2024) 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. • Accepts - Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction, Review • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 2001
Talk Vomit
(Feb 16, 2024) Talk Vomit is a woman-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, Wtf is genre, send anything • Theme - Revelations • Fee: none • Pay: $5-$30 • Founded in 2019
The Amistad
(Feb 5, 2024) The Amistad is Howard University’s premier student-run literary arts journal. Our mission is to elevate the creative voices of the Black diaspora through poetry, fiction, interviews, and visual art. • Accepts - Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Art • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 1995
The Columbia Review (*uncertain. usually for spring semester but no website update)
(Apr 1, 2024) The Columbia Review is published twice a year and is available free on the Columbia campus and on the magazine’s website. We accept and publish submissions from writers and artists within and beyond Columbia University. • Accepts - Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Review, Translation • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 1815
The Erozine
(Feb 29, 2024) a biannual literary magazine for erotic speculative poetry and prose. the future of erotic literature. redefining lust. • Accepts - Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 2020
Whistling Shade Literary Journal
(Jun 1, 2024) Whistling Shade is a Saint Paul literary newspaper. We take a populist approach to literature, and our readers are the general public rather than the academics and literati targeted by most lit journals. • Accepts - Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Review, Comics • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 2001
The Pointed Circle
(Mar 1, 2024) The Pointed Circle is a nationally recognized student-run literary magazine based out of the Cascade Campus at Portland Community College.
• Accepts - Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction, Art • Fee: none • Pay: none
Alternative Milk Magazine
(Feb 28, 2024) Independent biannual literary and art magazine. • Accepts - Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Art, Photography, Wtf is genre, send anything • Fee: none • Pay: $5-$0 • Founded in 2022
Rat's Ass Review
(Feb 1, 2024) an online poetry journal whose editorial fancies are no more arbitrary than any other; they are simply more overtly so. I publish what I like. • Accepts - Poetry, Art • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 2009
San Pedro River Review
(Jan 31, 2024) A biannual perfect-bound journal of poetry and art. • Accepts - Poetry, Photography • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 2008
The National Poetry Review
(May 1, 2024) An annual online journal of poetry (previously a print journal published from 2003 to 2015 by The National Poetry Review Press). • Accepts - Poetry • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 2003
Tiny Wren Lit
(Jan 15, 2024) A poetry magazine that primarily focuses on tiny poems + tiny issues (3-4 times per year). • Accepts - Poetry • Theme - Blue • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 2021
Beloit Poetry Journal
(Jan 31, 2024) Our longstanding mission is to seek out and share work of fresh and lasting power, poems that speak startling, complicated, necessary truths and that do so in surprising and beautiful ways. • Accepts - Poetry, Translation • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 1950
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(Jan 31, 2024) A journal of longer poems. • Accepts - Poetry • Fee: none • Pay: CA$50 • Founded in 2021
Beneath the Mask Literary Magazine
(Jan 26, 2024) Beneath the Mask is a creative magazine that reveals one's unfiltered self. We aim to highlight artists, ranging from ages 11-23, by creating a landing platform for their unrestricted creativity and diverse voices. • Accepts - Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash CNF, Poetry, Art, Humor, Wtf is genre, send anything • Theme - Monotone • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 2023
Juste Literary
(Mar 15, 2024) An arbitrary online literary magazine dedicated to random poetry, arts and creative writings. Established in April, 2023. • Accepts - Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash CNF, Poetry, Art, Photography, Humor, Play, Wtf is genre, send anything • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 2023
The Raven's Muse Literary Magazine
(Mar 1, 2024) A literary and art magazine dedicated to helping young artists get their work into the world. • Accepts - Flash Fiction, Flash CNF, Poetry, Art, Photography • Theme - All That Glitters • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 2023
Where The Meadows Reside
(Jan 31, 2024) Where The Meadows Reside is an art collective weaving various mediums for the pursuit of exploration and uncertainty. • Accepts - Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Art, Photography, Wtf is genre, send anything • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 2023
Encephalon Journal
(Feb 3, 2024) A youth-led journal striving to make neuroscience and mental health education accessible for all. • Accepts - Wtf is genre, send anything • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 2023
The Looking Glass Review
(Mar 31, 2024) A literary + art magazine created by young creators, for young creators. Submit photography, art, prose, poetry, and more to our loosely prompt-based issues! Blog post submissions are open anytime, to any age! • Accepts - Fiction, Poetry, Art, Photography, Wtf is genre, send anything • Theme - The Looking Glass • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 2023
Pittsburgh Locked Magazine
(Mar 15, 2024) Pittsburgh Locked is an 18+ literary magazine for those who have some relation with Pittsburgh and want to get to real. • Accepts - Wtf is genre, send anything • Theme - Bridges We Cross • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 2023
Y2K Quarterly
(Feb 1, 2024) Literary chaos in 1999 words or less. • Accepts - Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry • Theme - First issue! • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 2023
The Dome
(Jan 15, 2024) Looking for 100 word stories or 150 for a weekly publication. • Accepts - Flash Fiction, Micro Fiction • Theme - None. Literally couldn't care less. • Fee: none • Pay: $5 per piece (Unconfirmed) • Founded in 2023
Stasis anthology - Bell Press
(Jan 10, 2024) An anthology of retro-futuristic short fiction with a modern lens • Accepts - Fiction • Theme - Stasis • Fee: none • Pay: CA$15 per piece • Founded in 2020
The Garlic Press
(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
The Letters Home Collection
(Feb 29, 2024) An online literary magazine set to publish art, poetry, photography, prose, essays, and creative nonfiction pieces. • Accepts - Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Art, Photography, Play • Theme - RAGE • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 2023
abducted cow magazine
(Jan 31, 2024) abducted cow magazine is a magazine highlighting the weird and quirky! • Accepts - Wtf is genre, send anything • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 2023
Tones of Citrus
(Feb 28, 2024) Tones of Citrus is a US-based literary magazine, founded in 2023. It has themed issues and responds quickly. • Accepts - Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Art, Comics • Fee: none • Pay: none • Founded in 2023
Threepenny Review does NOT entertain simultaneous submissions.
Was just on the Change Seven website. They now charge a $3 fee to submit.