84 Recently Opened Submission Calls, Upcoming Deadlines, Contests, Theme Calls, and More
Where to Submit This Week (6.9.25)
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Shannan is on vacation! Let’s see if I remember how to do this.
Hi! How’s the…uh…submitting going? Getting some acceptances, I hope. Cool. Cool, cool, cool.
I’ve been listening to all of these podcasts about how tech bros are all trying to cheat death by inventing immortality through some AI or bioengineering nonsense. That they are all getting older and realizing they’re going to die and there is nothing they can do about it, so they’re trying to find something they can do about it, and, well. It got me thinking: Does anyone else feel like they’re writing for the same reason?
Like, okay, there is no way I’m going to invent some fake lung or something. So I better try to write the best fucking poem I can, you know?
Anyone else? Why are you writing?
Anyway, happy Monday.
Like riding a bike.
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Last week, we published →
Brian Fairbanks: I had a piece published by Prism
Chelsea Allen: I have a flash piece titled 'Reprise' published in the fourth issue of House of Arcanum
Jane Bloomfield: My poem "The Robert Tree" was published in Tarot Poetry Journal (TW #grief)
Benjamin Green: My chapbook HIS ONLY MERIT went on pre-publication sales with a September release date from Finishing Line Press.
Navneet: My essay "The Radical Art of Being Present" has been accepted in Certain Age.
Glenis: My first poetry chapbook has been published by boats against the current. It is called 'Pond life' and consists of nature poetry.
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This week, we’ve got →
4 Recently Opened Submission Calls
33 Last Chance to Submit
18 Theme Calls to Inspire You!
11 New Magazines Added to Our Database
5 Lit Mags That Are Always Open for Submissions
13 Contests Closing This Week
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Journal of Astrological Big Data Ecology → Deadline: Jun 29 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Hybrid | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 14 days | 10K+ followers | United States | 2020 — "The Journal of Astrological Big Data Ecology is a satirical research paper looking for authors to blend humor, science, math, and satire in the form of a research paper. "
The Lemonwood Quarterly → Deadline: Jul 14 | Fee: $4 | Pay: $200 | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 60 days | A: 10% | Under 100 followers | United States — "We offer readers exquisite stories and plays that illuminate underexplored regions of the human condition. In particular, we seek fresh and authentic portrayals of individuals that, as a group, hold up half the sky, and yet in popular have often been marginalized into one-dimensional stereotypes."
Fissured Tongue Series → Deadline: Aug 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2018 — "Online magazine imprint of Inverted Syntax Press. We seek to publish unorthodox approaches to form and aesthetics."
Paterson Literary Review → Deadline: Oct 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Multimedia, Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 1979 — "an anthology of poets and fiction writers both famous and new"
Barrelhouse → Deadline: Jun 9 | Fee: No | Pay: $50 flat | Open for Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 180 days | A: 1% | 20K+ followers | United States | 2004 — "Barrelhouse bridges the gap between serious art and pop culture. It's an annual print journal featuring fiction, poetry, interviews, and essays. Barrelhouse Books publishes 2 books (1 poetry, 1 NF) per year. "
Burningword Literary Journal → Deadline: Jun 10 | Fee: $3 | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | A: 10% | 1.5K+ followers | United States | 2000 — "A quarterly international short-form publication of poetry, short fiction, short nonfiction, and photography."
100 Word Story → Deadline: Jun 10 | Fee: $2 | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction | ✖️ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 42 days | A: 5.12% | 3K+ followers | United States — "We specialize in the art of the 100 word story. For life doesn’t lend itself so easily to our elucidations. None of us will ever know the whole story."
Lullaby Machine → Deadline: Jun 10 | Fee: No | Pay: $30 | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 21 days | 200+ followers | United States | 2025 — "Lullaby Machine is a digital rest-stop dedicated to the lullaby. "
t'ART Magazine → Deadline: Jun 12 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 50 days | A: 15% | 3K+ followers | United Kingdom | 2020 — "A queer-led arts and literary magazine, online platform and events collective."
FLARE Magazine → Deadline: Jun 13 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Hybrid, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 1 day | 1.5K+ followers | United States | 2025 — "chill magazine that wants to bring awareness to different chronic illnesses and disabilities written by creatives who are disabled, deal with mental health, and/or chronically ill"
Trash Cat Lit → Deadline: Jun 14 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 10% | 1.5K+ followers | United Kingdom | 2024 — "The Unexpected Place for Treasured Words"
Sweet Mammalian → Deadline: Jun 14 | Fee: No | Pay: $20 flat | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 120 days | 1.5K+ followers | New Zealand | 2014 — "An annual Aotearoa-based journal for lively new poetry."
Waxwing Literary Journal → Deadline: Jun 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 120 days | A: 5.13% | 10K+ followers | United States | 2013 — "We strive to promote the tremendous cultural diversity of contemporary American literature, alongside international voices both in English and in translation."
Whale Road Review → Deadline: Jun 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 45 days | A: 5.69% | 15K+ followers | United States | 2015 — "Whale Road Review publishes poetry, flash fiction, and micro essays that don’t demand too much time up front, but somehow leave readers changed. We hope readers of all sorts will enjoy these short pieces in stolen moments—waiting in line, using the restroom, riding a train, steeping tea."
JMWW Journal → Deadline: Jun 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 35 days | A: 18.00% | 6K+ followers | United States — "A weekly journal of writing publishing the best in fiction, poetry, flash, essays, and interviews (or a close approximation)."
Poetry → Deadline: Jun 15 | Fee: No | Pay: Yes | Open for Poetry, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 240 days | A: 4.20% | 500K+ followers | United States | 1912 — "An independent literary organization committed to a vigorous presence for poetry in our culture"
Fourteen Hills → Deadline: Jun 15 | Fee: $3 | Pay: $20/piece | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 240 days | A: 4.29% | 7K+ followers | United States | 1994 — "Since its inception in 1994, Fourteen Hills has contributed to a vibrant literary tradition on the West Coast centered in the San Francisco Bay Area. As an international literary magazine, Fourteen Hills has developed a reading audience that goes beyond the San Francisco Bay Area to the international community."
Grain → Deadline: Jun 15 | Fee: CA$5 | Pay: $50/page | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Multimedia, Hybrid | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 180 days | A: 10.94% | 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."
Speculative Nonfiction → Deadline: Jun 15 | Fee: $3 | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 300+ followers | United States | 2018 — "A journal of nonfiction concerned with the figurative over the literal, ambiguity over knowing, meditation over reportage."
iō Literary Journal → Deadline: Jun 15 | Fee: Yes $5 | Pay: $20/piece | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 42 days | 1.5K+ followers | United States | 2018 — "iō Literary Journal is a Latina-led publication based in Tampa, Florida that strives to showcase the spectrum of experience of all people, especially marginalized and underrepresented voices across writing and art. "
50-Word Stories → Deadline: Jun 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction | ✖️ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 59.26% | 1K+ followers | Canada | 2009 — "Brand new bite-sized fiction every weekday!"
The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts → Deadline: Jun 15 | Fee: No | Pay: $29/piece | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 5 days | A: 2% | Under 100 followers — "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."
Chicago Review → Deadline: Jun 15 | Fee: Some | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Poetry, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 180 days | 10K+ followers | United States | 1946 — "Chicago Review publishes a range of contemporary poetry, fiction, and criticism. Each year typically includes two single issues and a double issue with a special feature section."
October Hill Magazine → Deadline: Jun 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Nonfiction, Poetry, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 600+ followers | United States | 2017 — "a nonprofit quarterly literary magazine that features short stories, poetry, and visual art"
Right Hand Pointing → Deadline: Jun 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 15 days | A: 16.77% | 200+ followers | United States | 2004 — "Short poetry, short fiction. An AMBIDEXTROUS BLOODHOUND publication"
Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine → Deadline: Jun 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 60 days | Under 100 followers | United States | 2013 — "At Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine, our primary interest is quality. We welcome submissions in any and all forms, genres, styles, and approaches in written word and image. We encourage innovation as well as tradition."
The Tusculum Review → Deadline: Jun 15 | Fee: Yes | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Multimedia, Poetry, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2005 — "A community of professional and undergraduate writers. Student editors develop crucial skills in the art of literary publication. "
Propagule → Deadline: Jun 15 | Fee: No | Pay: $7.5–$30 flat | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 120 days | A: 2.43% | 900+ followers | United States | 2022 — "Propagule is a literary magazine, founded in 2022. Propagule champions experimentation, transgression, and aesthetic novelty. Propagule is engrossed by narrative, style, and form. Propagule rejects the literary/genre divide. Propagule is Speculative Surrealism. "
Philly Poetry Chapbook Review → Deadline: Jun 15 | Fee: No | Pay: $10 flat | Open for Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 5 days | A: 10% | 600+ followers | United States | 2023 — "Philly Poetry Chapbook Review (PCR) is an online literary journal dedicated to chapbooks, specifically poetry. We publish poetry chapbook reviews, original poetry, and author features. We also feature monthly poem excerpts."
The Hemlock Journal → Deadline: July 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Hybrid, Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 30% | 400+ followers | India | 2023 — "A literary journal based in India, publishing writers from around the globe. "
Nomadology → Deadline: Jun 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Hybrid | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 30 days | 300+ followers | Singapore | 2024 — "NOMADOLOGY is a quarterly review of literature, art, and philosophy, oriented at amplifying our youth and marginalized."
Bluebird's Scribe Review → Deadline: Jun 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ✖️ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2024 — "Are you a wordsmith with passion for storytelling? Do you have a voice that yearns to be heard? Look no further! "
Knee Brace Press → Deadline: Jun 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 700+ followers | United States | 2022 — "A place for stories about chronic illness, disability, mental health, and neurodivergence. "
LIT Magazine → Deadline: Jun 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia | ✖️ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 3K+ followers | United States | 1999 — "LIT Magazine is the brainchild of the Masters in Fine Arts of Creative Writing at the New School, where diversity, cultural critique, and the right of every artist to share their story, provide the foundation of our editorial vision. "
Life in Limbo Magazine → Deadline: Jun 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 60 days | A: 31% | 400+ followers | United States | 2025 — "Life in Limbo is a magazine dedicated to chronicling the experience of mental illness and trauma, more interested in truth and raw emotion than traditional literary verbiage."
Thomasonian → Deadline: Jun 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 30 days | 200+ followers | United States | 2025 — "Thomasonian is a literary magazine showcasing knowledge about the natural world from the minds who pay it the most attention."
Epiphany → Deadline: Jun 16 | Fee: Yes | Pay: $0–$25 flat | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 120 days | A: 25% | 10K+ followers | United States | 2001 — "Epiphany is a semiannual print and online literary journal and an independent nonprofit 501(c)(3) that supports practicing writers at every stage of their careers."
ONLY POEMS | Theme: Poem of the Month: Villanelle → Deadline: Jun 9 | Fee: Some | Pay: $77 flat or $22–$33/piece | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 90 days | A: 0% | 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.""
Skeleton Flowers Press | Theme: Midsummer Vol. 2: Ardor → Deadline: Jun 9 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Hybrid, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2024 — "A queer run literary press cultivating clarity of thought and transparency of self."
Paddler Press | Theme: Volume 14 - Canada → Deadline: Jun 10 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Nonfiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 40 days | A: 54.69% | 2K+ followers | Canada | 2021 — "A poetry and art journal based in Peterborough/Nogojiwanong, Ontario. We publish four times a year: July, October, January, and April."
Thread | Theme: Numerical → Deadline: Jun 13 | Fee: No | Pay: $85/piece | Open for Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 90 days | A: 3% | 7K+ followers | United States | 2023 — "Size matters. An alternative literary magazine in the poem and micro prose space. "
Lucky Jefferson | Theme: Estallido → Deadline: Jun 15 | Fee: No | Pay: $15–$25/piece | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Hybrid | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 45 days | A: 8.97% | 7K+ followers | United States | 2018 — "An award-winning literary journal that generates interactive conversations around poetry through art and accessible programs. Lucky Jefferson is proud to feature writers who have never been published, routinely excluded perspectives, and those who sought to pursue writing later in life."
Wild Willow Magazine | Theme: Flash Nonfiction → Deadline: Jun 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Poetry, Fiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 14 days | A: 57.89% | 3K+ followers | United States | 2020 — "Formerly The Minison Project, Wild Willow Magazine is a literary magazine founded by Melissa Ashley Hernandez that intertwines nature and the human experience, showcasing the wonderful, weird, and wild aspects of the human condition."
Northern Appalachia Review | Theme: northern Appalachia → Deadline: Jun 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 45 days | 200+ followers | United States | 2020 — "A publication that seeks to represent writers from, living in, or writing about Northern Appalachia"
The Quarter(ly) | Theme: What to Do With the Ashes → Deadline: Jun 15 | Fee: No | Pay: $5/piece | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, Hybrid, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 60 days | A: 13.44% | 10K+ followers | United States | 2016 — "A Literary Journal with Some Art, Comics, and Analysis Thrown in for Good Measure. We want to offer a space for shorter works to mingle with art and other bits of nonsense, so we bring you The Quarter(ly): It just makes cents."
Eye to the Telescope | Theme: (non)binaries → Deadline: Jun 15 | Fee: No | Pay: $4–$25 | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 34 days | Under 100 followers | United States | 2011 — "A quarterly online journal, began publishing science-fiction, fantasy, horror, and other speculative poetry in 2011, under the auspices of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association."
Yellow Arrow Vignette | Theme: BLAZE → Deadline: Jun 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | 3K+ followers | United States | 2016 — "Yellow Arrow Vignette expands Yellow Arrow Publishing's mission of creating a space where writers who identify as women have a place where their voices are heard and ripple out in waves of empathy and resilience. Vignette is an online publication."
ionosphere | Theme: Science, technology, humanity → Deadline: Jun 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 30% | 200+ followers | United Kingdom | 2023 — "The literary journal ionosphere focuses on the relationship between science, technology, and the human experience. Poetry and essays."
the serendipity archives | Theme: a pride collaboration → Deadline: Jun 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Hybrid | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 20 days | A: 30% | 1K+ followers | India | 2025 — "the serendipity archives is a literary magazine dedicated to capturing the beauty of the unexpected. our mission is to create a space where teen writers and artists can discover work that resonates, little pieces of themselves."
The Temptations Salon | Theme: Temptation → Deadline: Jun 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | 200+ followers | United States | 2024 — "Embrace the temptation for artistic creation. "
Variety Pack | Theme: Issue XII: Voices of the Modern Diaspora → Deadline: Jun 15 | Fee: No | Pay: $10–$20 or $10 flat | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 9% | 2K+ followers | United States | 2019 — "When we say 'Variety Pack,' when we say we have an aesthetic, we ask people to think past the 100-calorie snack packs of nabisco products, past frito-lays pack in your local family dollar, but more like a map, with more than a few small towns, but a melting pot of place and space. "
Lilomul | Theme: Archive: May - Rebirths, No Birth → Deadline: Jun 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 14 days | Under 100 followers | South Africa | 2025 — "Lilomul is a literary and art journal for the estranged, transforming, and wandering. We publish poetry, prose, and art that slips between forms, exploring rebirth, rupture, and the self's endless reinvention."
Jelly Squid | Theme: Issue 4: MINI SQUID → Deadline: Jul 18 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 90 days | A: 10% | 1K+ followers | United States | 2024 — "Jelly Squid is a triannual literary magazine that showcases emerging writers and artists. "
13tracks | Theme: 13tracks Issue 2 Writing - Fiction → Deadline: Jul 31 | Fee: No | Pay: $1–$500 flat | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ✖️ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 5 days | Under 100 followers | Netherlands | 2024 — "Writing and art inspired by music. Each issue is based on a specific 13tracks playlist, which inspires the content."
Journal of Experimental Practice | Theme: Journal of Experimental Practice - Poetry → Deadline: Sep 30 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Hybrid, Multimedia | ✖️ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 21 days | Under 100 followers | United States | 2025 — "A peer-edited journal produced through XE: Experimental Humanities & Social Engagement at NYU."
Literary Undoings | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 30 days | Under 100 followers | United States | 2025 — "Have any experimental art or writing? Send it our way!"
ELLIE Magazine | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 3 days | A: 33% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2025 — "an ageless cosmic feminine collective who wants your short-form poetry. run by EL & LIE."
The Table Review | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 60 days | 100+ followers | United States | 2025 — "Online literary magazine founded in 2025. Accepting submissions on a rolling basis. "
The Quasar Review | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Fiction | ☑︎ 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."
Enjoy it Magazine | Theme: Call for Submissions: "LIBERTY" in vernacular → Deadline: Jul 30 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 60 days | A: 60% | Under 100 followers | Uganda | 2025 — "A loud, proud home for everything so-called vernacular — fiction, poetry, essays, reviews, memoirs, letters and more. We don’t just teach the language — we live it. Reviving culture, reshaping language, one word, a step at a time."
Quills & Tales | Fee: No | Pay: $0.01/word | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 14 days | Under 100 followers | 2025
Boundby → Deadline: Aug 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 21 days | 300+ followers | United Kingdom | 2022 — "UK-based (and internationally-minded) online poetry magazine publishing the work of new and established poets. Founded at the University of Warwick in 2022. "
The Many Lives of Atlas A → Closed | Fee: No | Pay: No | Publishes Fiction | ✖️ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 60 days | 6K+ followers | India | 2022 — "This winter, The Hooghly Review is publishing The Many Lives of Atlas A, a collection of your finest short stories where the main character or a supporting character of your story is one Atlas A. Atlas' backstory & subs guidelines are on our website."
Velvet Room → Deadline: Oct 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | 100+ followers | Germany | 2025 — "a publication for people who exist outside traditional structures. for the chronically ill, fatigued, disabled or grieving. "
Chartreuse Lit → Open | Fee: No | Pay: No | Publishes Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | Under 100 followers | United States | 2025 — "We’re excited by poems. Poems that risk a whole lot. Poems that push the boundaries of what language can do. Poems that inspire us. Poems that don’t necessarily look like poems. If this sounds like your work, we’re eager to read it."
Wax Poetry and Art | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ✖️ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 2K+ followers | Canada | 2010 — "An international network of poetry magazines and the home of the Poetry World Cup. Considers a wide range of poetry. All poets, all styles."
Zartaar Lit ® | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Multimedia | ✖️ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 14 days | Under 100 followers | France — "Weaving words into gold. Zartaar Lit online magazine is a vibrant tapestry of poetry and prose dedicated to promoting literature, creativity, and art"
BUST Magazine | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | 100K+ followers | United States | 1993 — "Feminist lifestyle magazine and website."
Interzone | Fee: No | Pay: $0.015/word | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 6 days | A: 0.35% | Under 100 followers | Poland | 1982 — "a magazine publishing fantastika from all over the world"
trash to treasure lit | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Poetry, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 42 days | A: 70% | 1.5K+ followers | Australia | 2022 — "trash to treasure lit was created to foster a community of writers who may not believe in their abilities, but deserve to. for writers to learn from their words and others, and to open the conversation around why we reject our work before it’s given a chance."
Reformed Journal | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | 400+ followers | United States | 1951 — "Our purpose is to publish Christian writing that delights readers and engages the world in a Reformed way. "
Clarissa Dalloway Prize for Short Prose by L'Esprit Literary Review → Deadline: Jun 9 | Fee: $10 | Prize: $600 flat | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid — Must be under 5,000 words.
Peter Hinchcliffe Short Fiction Award by The New Quarterly → Deadline: Jun 9 | Fee: $40 | Prize: $1,000 flat | Open for Fiction — While there is no word limit to short fiction entries, most fall within the range of 2000 – 5000 words.
Crabbe Poetry Competition → Deadline: Jun 13 | Fee: £4 | Prize: $950 flat | Open for Poetry — Poems will be in English and a maximum of 50 lines.
New American Fiction Prize → Deadline: Jun 15 | Fee: $25 | Prize: $1,500 flat | Open for Fiction — The New American Fiction Prize is awarded each year to a full-length fiction manuscript, such as a story collection, novel, novella(s), or something that blends forms, like a novel in verse. The winner receives $1,500 and a book contract, as well as 25 author's copies and promotional support.
42 Miles Press Poetry Award → Deadline: Jun 15 | Fee: $25 | Prize: $1,000 flat | Open for Poetry — This award was created in an effort to bring urgent and original voices to the poetry reading public. The winning poet will receive $1,000, publication of their book, and 50 author copies. The winner will also be invited to give a reading at Indiana University South Bend.
Akron Poetry Prize → Deadline: Jun 15 | Fee: $25 | Prize: $1,500 flat | Open for Poetry — Each year, the University of Akron Press offers the Akron Poetry Prize, a competition open to all poets writing in English. The winning poet receives $1,500 and publication of their book as part of the Akron Series in Poetry.
Tusculum Review Chapbook Prize by The Tusculum Review → Deadline: Jun 15 | Fee: $20 | Prize: $1,500 flat | Open for Fiction — Each manuscript should consist of a single story in a standard 12-point font. Stories may be between 2,000 words (about 7 manuscript pages) and 7,000 words (22 pages).
Swan Scythe Press Chapbook Contest → Deadline: Jun 15 | Fee: $18 | Prize: $200 flat | Open for Poetry — 20 to 32 pages of poems
Blue Lynx Prize For Poetry → Deadline: Jun 15 | Fee: $28 | Prize: $2,000 flat | Open for Poetry — Entries must be at least 48 pages in length.
Poet Hunt Contest → Deadline: Jun 15 | Fee: $15 | Prize: $500 flat | Open for Poetry — An entry may consist of up to 5 poems. If more than 5 are sent, only the first 5 will be considered. Each poem can be up to 400 lines long. Poems longer than 400 lines will not be considered
Hummingbird Flash Fiction Prize by PULP Literature → Deadline: Jun 15 | Fee: $25 | Prize: $300 flat | Open for Fiction — This contest is for previously unpublished short fiction up to 1000 words in length. No simultaneous submissions.
Mclellan Poetry Prize → Deadline: Jun 15 | Fee: £6 | Prize: $2,000 flat | Open for Poetry — Poems should be of no more than 80 lines (excluding title), in English or Scots and your own original work (no translations).
Omnidawn Poetry Chapbook Contest → Deadline: Jun 16 | Fee: $30 | Prize: $1,000 flat | Open for Poetry — Prize: $1,000, publication, and 20 copies
My essay "Citrus Greening" was published in Pithead Chapel! https://pitheadchapel.com/citrus-greening/
My essay, "Wrapped" was published in Blood + Honey! https://www.bloodhoneylit.com/features/wrapped
And a poem, "Edinburgh", will be published in Candlelit Chronicles this weekend https://candlelitchronicles.com/issuell