Don’t Miss These 74 Open Lit Mags (A Lot of Them Closing Soon!)
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Welcome to another submittin’ Monday, friends!
We’ve got a long list of mags closing soon today, so if you’ve been fluffin’ about like me, mayyyybe now’s that butt-in-seat moment?
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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!
fifth wheel press → Deadline: Aug 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Hybrid, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 45 days | A: 46.90% | 8K+ followers | United States | 2019 — "An independent community-focused publisher of art and writing by queer, trans, and gender variant creatives."
Cast of Wonders → Deadline: Aug 31 | Fee: No | Pay: $0.08/word | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 56 days | A: 7.60% | 2K+ followers | United States | 2011 — "Cast of Wonders is the leading voice in young adult speculative short fiction, founded in 2011."
new words → Deadline: Sep 1 | Fee: No | Pay: $15 flat | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 28 days | 2K+ followers | United States | 2022 — "a poetry & hybrid journal of trans* & gender-expansive voices published 3 times per year, along with one youth issue each year. the journal is published by new words {press}."
Stone Canoe → Deadline: Jul 29 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Multimedia, Fiction | ☑︎ 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."
Soul Poetry, Prose & Arts Magazine → Deadline: Jul 30 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 5 days | A: 10% | Under 100 followers | United States — "“Your legacy is every life you have touched.” — Maya Angelou Soul Poetry, Prose & Arts Magazine provides a space for writers and artists to leave their mark. What do you want to say to the world? What do you want the world to see? Every piece we leave behind will live long after we are gone."
Sugar House Review → Deadline: Jul 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Nonfiction, Hybrid | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 180 days | A: 10.05% | 3K+ followers | United States | 2009 — "Our mission is to promote an eclectic range of poets through publishing and live events to build nationally connected literary communities and foster the literary arts in Utah."
Kitchen Table Quarterly → Deadline: Jul 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 90 days | A: 3.77% | 1.5K+ followers | United States | 2021 — "We are a journal preoccupied with history— cultural, political, geographical, personal— and how each interacts with the other to mold our experience. Adolescent blunders, dental records, the archaic origins of long-held or long-lost traditions— we want to know all of it."
The Paris Review → Deadline: Jul 31 | Fee: No | Pay: Yes | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 180 days | 1M+ followers | United States | 1953 — "Quarterly literary magazine founded in 1953"
Decolonial Passage → Deadline: Jul 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | A: 65% | 1K+ followers | United States | 2020 — "Decolonial Passage welcomes writing from writers of all backgrounds engaged in the decolonial project, regardless of the writer’s race, origin, gender, disability, or geographical location."
Arc Poetry → Deadline: Jul 31 | Fee: CA$2 | Pay: CA$50/page | Open for Poetry, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 180 days | A: 4.08% | 9K+ followers | Canada | 2010 — "For over 40 years, Arc has been publishing the best in contemporary poetry. Arc invites submissions from poets at all stages of their writing careers."
Haven Speculative → Deadline: Jul 31 | Fee: No | Pay: $20/piece | Open for Poetry, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 70 days | 2K+ followers | United States | 2021 — "Haven Spec is a speculative fiction magazine featuring stories for a 21st century audience. We love stories with a sense of adventure, stories that teach us, that touch us, that leave us wanting more. "
Dipity Lit Mag → Deadline: Jul 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 120 days | A: 34% | 4K+ followers | United States | 2022 — "Dipity was founded in 2022, is based out of Nevada, and focuses on poets from around the world of all ages. We strive to uphold diversity. Our freaking motto is to capture kind moments! Send your best and declined poetry, prose, and fiction stories! "
Beaver Magazine → Deadline: Jul 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Hybrid, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 14 days | A: 6% | 10K+ followers | United States | 2021 — "A literary journal accepting poetry, fiction, nonfiction and art! We love works of any kind. You won’t find a strict, gatekeeping submission guideline in these waters. Writing and reading is for peace, not stress. "
Shenandoah → Deadline: Jul 31 | Fee: No | Pay: $40 - $400/piece | Open for Nonfiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 180 days | A: 1.99% | 15K+ followers | United States | 1950 — "The editors believe that reading through the perspective of another person, persona, or character is one of the ways we practice empathy, expand our understanding of the world, and experience new levels of awareness. "
cream city review → Deadline: Jul 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 240 days | A: 8.16% | 6K+ followers | United States | 1975 — "Cream City Review is Milwaukee’s leading literary journal devoted to publishing memorable and energetic pieces that push the boundaries of writing."
Bluff & Vine: a literary review → Deadline: Jul 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 500+ followers | United States | 2017 — "Bluff & Vine is a literary review featuring work created in and around Keuka Lake in the Finger Lakes region of New York State."
Masque & Spectacle → Deadline: Jul 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 10% | 800+ followers | United States | 2014 — "Masque & Spectacle is a bi-annual arts and literary journal. "
FIYAH: Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction → Deadline: Jul 31 | Fee: No | Pay: $0.08/word or $50/piece | Open for Fiction, Poetry | ✖️ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 45 days | 15K+ followers | United States | 2016 — "a quarterly speculative fiction magazine that features stories by and about Black people of the African Diaspora"
Mysterion → Deadline: Jul 31 | Fee: No | Pay: Yes | Open for Multimedia, Fiction | ✖️ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 120 days | A: 4.87% | 100+ followers | United States | 2016 — "Mysterion is an ezine of Christian-themed speculative fiction. We seek quality speculative fiction with Christian characters, themes, or cosmology. "
Please See Me → Deadline: Jul 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 1.5K+ followers | United States | 2018 — "An online literary journal that features health-related stories in the form of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and digital media, including photography, podcasts, and short films."
Rock Salt Journal → Deadline: Jul 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Multimedia, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | Under 100 followers | United States | 2021 — "A New England Literary Magazine"
The Coil → Deadline: Jul 31 | Fee: Yes | Pay: No | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 600+ followers | United States — "We love science, history, homebound roots, rural landscapes, sense of place..."
TYPO Journal → Deadline: Jul 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Hybrid, Nonfiction, Multimedia | ✖️ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 14 days | 500+ followers | United States | 2022 — "Journal of Lettrism, Surrealist Semantics, & Constrained Design."
The London Magazine → Deadline: Jul 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 56 days | A: 2.46% | 10K+ followers | United Kingdom — "England’s oldest literary periodical, with a history stretching back to 1732. Today the Magazine’s essence remains unchanged: it is a home for the best writing and an indispensable feature on the British literary landscape."
Space and Time Magazine → Deadline: Jul 31 | Fee: No | Pay: $0.01/word | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 60 days | 4K+ followers | United States | 1966 — "Space and Time Magazine has been putting the best speculative fiction and poetry in ink for over five decades—a must-read for fans of speculative word."
Thriller Magazine → Deadline: Jul 31 | Fee: Yes | Pay: $15 flat or $0 | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 35 days | 1K+ followers | United States | 2018 — "We are a literary magazine that aims to bring together new and established voices in the thriller/suspense/mystery genre."
Yolk Literary → Deadline: Jul 31 | Fee: CA$3 | Pay: CA$100–CA$200 flat | Open for Multimedia, Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 44 days | Under 100 followers | Canada — "Montreal-Based Literary Journal publishing fine work by established and emerging artists "
ÌtànIlé → Deadline: Jul 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 500+ followers | United States — "A literary brand that provides a platform for African writers to publish stories they want to tell about the African experience."
Frogpond Journal → Deadline: Jul 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 4K+ followers | United States | 1978 — "We publish the best in contemporary English-language haiku and senryu, linked forms including sequences, renku, rengay, and haibun, essays and articles on these forms, and book reviews. "
First Frost → Deadline: Jul 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | Under 100 followers | United States | 2021 — "We only publish haiku and senyru. If accepted, we strive to present your work in a way that will make you proud"
Seashores Haiku → Deadline: Jul 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 600+ followers | Ireland | 2018 — "an international journal to share the spirit of haiku"
Sheila-Na-Gig online → Deadline: Jul 31 | Fee: $3 | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 329 days | A: 37.84% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2016 — "My goal for Sheila-Na-Gig online is to continue to support the work of both established and emerging writers in a crisp, uncluttered space."
Beloit Poetry Journal → Deadline: Jul 31 | Fee: Yes | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 240 days | A: 2.29% | 9K+ followers | United States | 1950 — "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."
The Apostrophe → Deadline: Jul 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, Hybrid, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 60 days | A: 15% | Under 100 followers | Hong Kong | 2023 — "A quarterly publication of the Hong Kong Writers Circle"
ONLY POEMS → Deadline: Jul 31 | Fee: Some | Pay: $77 flat | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 90 days | A: 0.2% | 70K+ followers | United States | 2023 — "Fall in love with poetry. Send us your weird, wild & wonderful poems & book reviews. As Leonard Cohen said, “Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.""
Inner Worlds → Deadline: Jul 31 | Fee: No | Pay: £20/piece or £0.02/word | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 6% | 2K+ followers | United Kingdom | 2023 — "Inner Worlds is a quarterly digital zine of speculative stories about how we experience our selves and our world."
Y2K Quarterly → Deadline: Jul 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 14 days | A: 31.58% | 2K+ followers | United States | 2023 — "Literary chaos in 1999 words or less."
Ink In Thirds → Deadline: Jul 31 | Fee: No | Pay: $5 flat | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Hybrid, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 7 days | A: 15% | 2K+ followers | United States | 2016 — "A magazine of poised prose, precarious poetry, and photography to pilot our own realms again."
Midsummer Dream House → Deadline: Jul 31 | Fee: Some | Pay: $5 flat | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 540 days | A: 4.55% | 1K+ followers | United States | 2023 — "We publish a wide variety of artistic and thought-provoking work, including the experimental and avant-garde."
The Marrow International Poetry → Deadline: Jul 31 | Fee: No | Pay: AU$40/piece | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 56 days | A: 2.33% | Under 100 followers | Australia | 2024 — "An online literary journal featuring the finest new international poetry from emerging and established poets."
Painted Pebble Lit Mag → Deadline: Jul 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Hybrid, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | 100+ followers | United States | 2024 — "Quarterly journal founded with the aim of publishing quality short form writing of any genre."
Tiger Leaping Review → Deadline: Jul 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 123 days | A: 6% | 400+ followers | United States | 2023 — "An online literary magazine that carefully curates pieces to showcase poets worldwide, providing free feedback simply on request."
Baubles From Bones → Deadline: Jul 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | 2024 — "Pittsburgh-based zine dedicated to uplifting the voices of aspiring fantasy and sci-fi authors. The heroes of our stories cross swords with the undead and scavenge for supplies on charred planets; they are dreamers who get lost in the stars as well as the haunted wood. "
The Fool's World Magazine → Deadline: Jul 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | Under 100 followers | United States | 2024 — "Where the globe is our home, and the experience is our own! Tarot Card Zero, aka The Fool, is a positive one who seeks new challenges and adventures."
Dog Throat Journal → Deadline: Jul 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 40 days | A: 5% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2023 — "A publication of flash fiction and prose poetry. We look for odd time thought provoking works from the edges of artistic expression."
Ubwali → Deadline: Jul 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 2K+ followers | United States | 2023 — "Zambian storytelling, like our cooking, is very straightforward: each dish has a list of trusted ingredients, and the method of preparation is tried and tested. "
Heartwood → Deadline: Jul 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Hybrid | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2025 — "A biannual publication celebrating curiosity and imagination!"
The Quasar Review → Deadline: Jul 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 7 days | A: 15% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2025 — "Literary magazine publishing poetry, flash fiction, and short stories. Offers writers an avenue to have their thoughts heard."
Palette Literary Magazine → Deadline: Jul 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Hybrid, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2025 — "an independent literary magazine. home to creatives anywhere and everywhere. founded 2025. currently accepting submissions for issue one until july 31st, 2025."
Rawhead → Deadline: Jul 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 42 days | 500+ followers | United States | 2025 — "Rawhead is a journal of art & lit that publishes work of consequence. We use a monster’s name to honor art’s power to resist, reveal, and endure. Rawhead is seeking visual art, poetry, fiction, nonfiction, hybrid writing, and experimental pieces. "
Gramercy Review → Deadline: Jul 31 | Fee: $5 | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, 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. "
Humana Obscura → Deadline: Aug 1 | Fee: $10 | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 181 days | A: 15.58% | 4K+ followers | United States | 2020 — "An independent nature-focused literary magazine."
BreakBread Literacy Project → Deadline: Aug 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Hybrid, Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 180 days | 900+ followers | United States | 2020 — "After many years of leading the Young Writers Workshop at the Kenyon Review, teaching high school, and publishing his own writing, W. David Hall founded BreakBread Literacy Project: a series of linked programs dedicated to cultivating creatives under the age of 25."
River Styx Magazine → Deadline: Aug 1 | Fee: Yes | Pay: $100–$1000 flat or $25/piece | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 150 days | A: 2% | 9K+ followers | United States | 1975 — "River Styx cultivates contemporary literary arts in St. Louis and beyond through its magazine and community programs. Since 1975."
Greensboro Review → Deadline: Aug 1 | Fee: Some | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 173 days | A: 1.82% | 10K+ followers | United States | 1966 — "Publishing the best poetry and fiction from emerging and established voices since 1966"
The Closed Eye Open → Deadline: Aug 1 | Fee: $4.5 | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Hybrid, Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 49 days | A: 53.57% | 900+ followers | United States | 2020 — "We are an art & lit website that explores wide-ranging creative expressions."
The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature → Deadline: Aug 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 200+ followers | United States | 1996 — "No good Southern fiction is complete without a dead mule."
The Penmen Review → Deadline: Aug 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2012 — "The Penmen Review is Southern New Hampshire University’s online journal for creative writers, featuring resource articles, spotlight interviews and writing in all genres, selected by our editorial board from submitted work."
ryga → Deadline: Aug 1 | Fee: No | Pay: CA$50/piece | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 28 days | Under 100 followers | Canada — "ryga showcases the work of outstanding emerging writers."
We'Moon → Deadline: Aug 1 | Fee: No | Pay: Yes | Open for Multimedia, Poetry, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 10K+ followers | United States — "Publishers of We'Moon Astrological datebook, full of magic, inspiration, art & writing by women from all over the world for 40 years."
Impossible Archetype → Deadline: Aug 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 1K+ followers | Ireland | 2017 — "An international online journal of LGBTQ+ poetry"
Rat's Ass Review → Deadline: Aug 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 7 days | Under 100 followers | United States | 2009 — "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."
Carmen et Error → Deadline: Aug 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Publishes Poetry, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 14 days | A: 4% | 1K+ followers | United Kingdom | 2019 — "The cause of Roman poet Ovid’s exile was “carmen et error”, a poem and a mistake. We want your poems and your mistakes. Fiction that falls between genres. Weird, wild poems. Anything speculative, daring, or just plain odd. "
The Auvert Magazine → Deadline: Aug 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Hybrid | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 7 days | A: 20% | 800+ followers | United States | 2023 — "A lit mag that serves as a platform for raising awareness, inspiring action, and fostering dialogue on climate change."
ARTWIFE → Deadline: Aug 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 1K+ followers | 2022 — "ARTWIFE exists to serve as an oasis of beauty, art, and human expression. "
Callaloo → Deadline: Aug 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 1976 — "Premier African diaspora literary journal examining African-American and African cultural expression worldwide."
Off Season → Deadline: Aug 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | 100+ followers | Canada | 2025 — "Off Season is a new independent literary magazine that celebrates the rough patches of a creative life. We open for submissions twice a year and produce four online issues a year. All submitters to Off Season should not have received a literary acceptance in the last three months."
ANMLY → Deadline: Aug 2 | Fee: $3 | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | A: 6.09% | 15K+ followers | United States | 2010 — "An international journal of literature and the arts. We provide a platform for works of art that challenge conventions of form and format, of voice and genre."
Blood & Bourbon → Deadline: Aug 2 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Multimedia, Fiction, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 90 days | 500+ followers | Canada | 2016 — "Blood & Bourbon is here to showcase all things hard, gritty, and raw. That time you got in a bar fight, that time you went to an S&M club, that time you had an opinion that sparked a heated argument over a family dinner. "
L'Esprit Literary Review → Deadline: Aug 3 | Fee: $3 | Pay: $10 flat or $10 | Open for Multimedia, Fiction, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 3% | 1.5K+ followers | United States | 2022 — "We publish consciousness-forward fiction and thought. Send us short stories, creative non-fiction, critical essays, autotheory, and novel extracts in the revolutionary spirit of High Modernism. We want the most fearless, risk-adept writing we can find."
One Teen Story → Deadline: Aug 3 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction | ✖️ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2012 — "Literary magazine publishing one story at a time by and for teenage readers."
EASCAIR Magazine → Deadline: Aug 4 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 28 days | 2K+ followers | Ireland | 2023 — "EASCAIR is a literary and arts magazine based in Belfast which publishes poetry, flash fiction and visual art in both English and Irish."
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