Weekly Sub Calls: Expanded
+ Round-up of everything we published last week | 04.01.26
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There are 141 weekly sub calls today. Also, in case you missed it, here’s everything we published in the last 7 days:
Solarpunk Magazine → Deadline: Apr 14 | Fee: No | Pay: $0.1/word or $50 flat or $50-$100/piece or $50-$200 | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Multimedia, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 60 days | A: 4.23% | 400+ followers | United States | 2021 — “Online magazine imagining new, sustainable futures through speculative fiction, poetry, nonfiction, & art. Demand Utopia!”
Trash Cat Lit | Theme: Prompted Flash Pop-Up Spring → Deadline: Apr 14 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 10% | 2K+ followers | United Kingdom | 2024 — “The Unexpected Place for Treasured Words”
ONLY POEMS | Theme: Tarot & Divination → Deadline: April 7 | Fee: Some | Pay: $22 flat or $33/piece or $100 flat | Open for Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 56 days | A: <1% | 80K+ followers | Canada | 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.”“
Last Girls’ Club: The Witches’ Cosmo | Theme: Summer Issue 2026 - Live and Die by Your Words → Deadline: Apr 15 | Fee: No | Pay: $15-$37.5 flat or $10/piece | Open for Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 35 days | Under 100 followers | United States | 2020 — “Last Girls’ Club: The Witches’ Cosmo is an indie feminist horror magazine, newsletter, and podcast where weird is the norm.”
Poetry Pea Journal and Podcast → Deadline: Apr 15 | 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.”
The Writing Fae → Deadline: Apr 18 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Multimedia, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 42 days | A: 65% | 1.5K+ followers | United States — “A place where creativity and imagination intertwine to bring you a captivating collection of literary works.”
Slant’d → Deadline: Apr 19 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 14 days | 1K+ followers | United States | 2017 — “Nonprofit indie press reimagining publishing to be accessible, equitable, and joyful for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) everywhere. We’re proud to be the home of early bylines for incredibly talented creatives and publish stories that spark curiosity, introspection, and joy.”
Dog Throat Journal → Deadline: Apr 21 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 21 days | A: 4% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2023 — “We look for odd time thought provoking flash, micro, and prose poetry from the edges of artistic expression. Be eccentric, unconventional, experimental, innovative and contradictory. Be weird and filled with non-fluorescent light.”
Lunae Literature & Review | Theme: Mother → Deadline: Apr 22 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | Under 100 followers | United States | 2025 — “A Literary Magazine For Dreams and Demons Alike.”
Waxwing Literary Journal → Deadline: Apr 30 | Fee: Some | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 120 days | A: 2.84% | 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.”
Decolonial Passage | Theme: Ecology → Deadline: Apr 30 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | A: 65% | 700+ 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.”
Haven Speculative → Deadline: Apr 30 | Fee: No | Pay: $20/piece or $0.08/word | Open for Poetry, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 180 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.”
Pinch → Deadline: Apr 30 | Fee: $4.95 | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 180 days | A: 7% | 15K+ followers | United States | 1980 — “Founded in 1980 and run by the Creative Writing MFA program at the University of Memphis, Pinch publishes art, fiction, nonfiction and poetry biannually. Our sister publication, Pinch Journal Online, publishes weekly during the academic year.”
Amsterdam Quarterly | Theme: Summer → Deadline: Apr 30 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Poetry, Fiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 38 days | A: 17.65% | Under 100 followers | Netherlands | 2011 — “online literary magazine that publishes, promotes, and comments on art and writing in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and the world”
Mud Season Review → Deadline: Apr 30 | Fee: Some | Pay: $0-$50 flat or $0/word | Open for Nonfiction, Multimedia, Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 60 days | A: 6.19% | 3K+ followers | United States — “Celebrating artistic creation, community, and all the wide-ranging voices that tramp and track in the mud of human experience.”
The London Magazine → Deadline: Apr 30 | Fee: Some | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Fiction, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 120 days | 10K+ followers | United Kingdom | 1954 — “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.”
The Frogmore Papers → Deadline: Apr 30 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 42 days | A: 4.35% | Under 100 followers | United Kingdom | 1983 — “Independent literary publisher. Founded in 1983 by André Evans and Jeremy Page at the Frogmore tea-rooms in Folkestone.”
MockingHeart Review → Deadline: Apr 30 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2015 — “MockingHeart Review publishes high-quality poetry and artwork.”
London Grip → Deadline: Apr 30 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2007 — “It was also intended to act as an exhibition space for cross-media arts and to include an in-house poetry magazine.”
The Apostrophe → Deadline: Apr 30 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 15% | 800+ followers | Hong Kong | 2023 — “Each quarter, in The Apostrophe we publish five original pieces by writers from all over the world: short stories, poetry, non-fiction, hybrid, as well as artwork and photography.”
Juste Literary → Deadline: Apr 30 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 28 days | A: 31% | 900+ followers | Nigeria | 2023 — “An arbitrary online literary magazine dedicated to random poetry, arts and creative writings. Established in April, 2023.”
Painted Pebble Lit Mag → Deadline: Apr 30 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | A: 10.53% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2024 — “Quarterly journal founded with the aim of publishing quality short form writing of any genre.”
A Curious Moon | Theme: Summer Solstice: The Heliotrope → Deadline: Apr 30 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 15.00% | 400+ followers | United States | 2025 — “A Curious Moon is a small online press for fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry.”
The Faoileánach Journal | Theme: Issue Five: Augural → Deadline: Apr 30 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Poetry, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 28 days | A: 24% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2025 — “A free online journal based on a cooperative experience for new and emerging writers. The Faoileánach Journal is a quarterly online literary journal that accepts poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction, and nonfiction.”
Fish Girl Collective → Deadline: Apr 30 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 60 days | A: 10% | 400+ followers | United States | 2025 — “Secret cult of fish girls. Come submit your weird girl lit to join us. Formerly: Sardine Can Collective”
Poems for Persons of Interest → Deadline: Apr 30 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 5% | 1K+ followers | Canada | 2024 — “Online quarterly poetry magazine interested in poems of any style on any subject. Both formal verse and free verse welcome.”
Zine Machine → Deadline: Apr 30 | Fee: No | Pay: $20 flat | Open for Multimedia, Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 3% | 1K+ followers | 2025 — “An online lit mag and literal vending machine for zines!”
Charlotte Lit Press → Deadline: Apr 30 | Fee: $10 | Open for Poetry (Chapbook) | ☑︎ Sim Subs | R: 30 days | A: 12% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2022 — “Charlotte Lit Press, established in 2022, is the imprint of Charlotte Center for Literary Arts (”Charlotte Lit”). We publish poetry chapbooks and full collections, and the literary journal Litmosphere.”
The Penmen Review → Deadline: May 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.”
Still Here Magazine | Theme: Issue Four: Moments that Hold Us → Deadline: May 5 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 10 days | A: 67% | 100+ followers | United States | 2025 — “A quarterly literary magazine for emotional realism and the quiet courage of staying.”
The Interpreter’s House → Deadline: May 14 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | A: 4.50% | 900+ followers | United Kingdom | 1996 — “The Interpreter’s House publishes new poetry. Reviews and interviews will be published on a rolling basis, and we are always on the lookout for proposals.”
Wild Roof Journal → Deadline: May 17 | Fee: $4.5 | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Multimedia, Poetry, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 34 days | A: 27.16% | 7K+ followers | United States | 2020 — “Wild Roof Journal is an online art & literary publication that will feature work from a wide range of creative people—artists, writers, poets, and anyone else who is passionate about the creative process and self-expression.”
WayWords Journal | Theme: Time (fiction) → Deadline: May 20 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 60 days | A: 25% | 300+ followers | United States | 2020 — “April theme: “time” Editors’ advice: Time influences setting and character; it could be a force of nature, an impending deadline, a science experiment, or something else entirely.”
Poet Lore → Deadline: May 31 | Fee: No | Pay: $50/piece | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 180 days | A: 4.04% | 7K+ followers | United States | 1889 — “America’s oldest poetry magazine, publishing in print since 1889. Poet Lore is a biannual print journal of poetry, featuring the finest in contemporary writing. We love featuring poems that broaden the spectrum of what poetry is – and can be – on the page.”
Split Lip Magazine → Deadline: May 31 | Fee: Some | Pay: $75 flat | Open for Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 120 days | A: 1% | 40K+ followers | United States | 2012 — “Totally bonkers-in-love with voice-driven writing, pop culture, and the kind of honesty that gets you right in the kid”
Blank Spaces | Theme: Food of Love → Deadline: May 31 | Fee: Yes | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Multimedia, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | 2K+ followers | Canada | 2016 — “We are an affordable, quarterly magazine, offering you the very best in Canadian talent with a specific focus on literary arts.”
The Metaworker Literary Magazine → Deadline: May 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 90 days | A: 13.89% | 2K+ followers | United States | 2015 — “At The Metaworker, we publish work that offers a wide range of new perspectives, upends stereotypes and tropes, plays with form or style, or that otherwise surprises, challenges, or enchants. New prose, poetry, art & more published every Monday at noon PST.”
Lana Turner: A Journal of Poetry & Opinion → Deadline: May 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2012 — “A Journal of Poetry & Opinion Lana Turner: A Journal of Poetry & Opinion is a literary journal co-edited by Cal Bedient and David Lau.”
The Broken Teacup → Deadline: May 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Poetry, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 21 days | A: 20% | 100+ followers | United States | 2024 — “For people who have tea to spill, time to kill, porcelain to shatter.”
ARTWIFE → Deadline: May 31 | Fee: Some | Pay: $20 flat or $20/piece | Open for Multimedia, Fiction, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 34 days | 1K+ followers | United States | 2022 — “ARTWIFE exists to serve as an oasis of beauty, art, and human expression.”
orange juice → Deadline: May 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 50.00% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2024 — “online, quarterly poetry magazine for all shapes, sizes, & colors of poetry.”
Once Upon A Crocodile → Deadline: May 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | 100+ followers | United Kingdom | 2018 — “An online literary magazine dedicated to humorous fantasy, sci-fi, and absurd stories.”
Scribeworth: → Deadline: May 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 100+ followers | United States | 2024 — “A quarterly literary magazine showcasing poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, and visual art from emerging and established creators.”
GossamerWight Literary Magazine | Theme: Uncanny Regimes → Deadline: May 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 3 days | 500+ followers | United Kingdom | 2025 — “A quarterly anthology featuring dark and unconventional stories and poetry with an uncanny twist.”
The Shore Poetry → Deadline: Jun 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 7 days | A: 1% | 10K+ followers | United States | 2019 — “An online poetry publication seeking cutting, strange, and daring work from new and established poets alike.”
Pepper Coast Lit → Deadline: Jun 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | 1K+ followers | Liberia | 2022 — “We are a magazine from the coast of Liberia.”
Sierra Nevada Review → Deadline: Jun 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | A: 1.85% | 500+ followers | United States | 1990 — “Since 1990, the Sierra Nevada Review has been publishing daring new poetry, short fiction, and literary nonfiction from the shores of Lake Tahoe.”
Gyroscope Review → Deadline: Jun 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | A: 9.52% | 700+ followers | United States | 2014 — “Fine poetry to turn your world around. Contemporary poetry published quarterly.”
TABLEWARE → Deadline: Jun 1 | Fee: No | Pay: $50 flat | Open for Multimedia, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | Under 100 followers | United States | 2025 — “TABLEWARE is a stunning new arts and literature magazine publishing annually. Offering a $50 flat rate for acceptances, TABLEWARE prides itself on putting the best foot forward in providing for those they give press.”
Guestbook | Theme: Issue One: Silt (Art) → Deadline: Jun 1 | Fee: $3 | Pay: $10/piece | Open for Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2026 — “A print zine of speculative prose that lives in melancholy. No happy endings. No overt cruelty. Just the gray ramblings of wayward souls scrawled between the lines of a college-ruled notebook.”
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.”
Amsterdam Review → Deadline: Jun 30 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Nonfiction, Poetry, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | A: 3.23% | 400+ followers | 2021 — “Amsterdam Review is an online literary magazine of poetry (including translations), flash fiction, interviews, review, essays, and visual arts which publishes works by international contributors twice a year, and is always open for submissions.”
14 magazine → Deadline: Jun 30 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 14 days | A: 7.50% | 5K+ followers | United Kingdom | 2005 — “14 is an annual poetry magazine devoted to poems of 14 lines only.”
Toasted Cheese Literary Journal → Deadline: Jun 30 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction | ✖️ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 55 days | Under 100 followers | United States | 2001 — “Toasted Cheese publishes poetry, flash*, fiction, creative nonfiction, and reviews.”
The Garlic Press → Deadline: Jun 30 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Poetry, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 4% | 2K+ followers | United States | 2024 — “an online literary magazine for extra pungent poetry and prose”
Sūdō Journal | Theme: Volume 7: Borderline → Deadline: Jun 30 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 120 days | Under 100 followers | Australia | 2018 — “A journal from the fringes of civilised society.”
The Drunken, Lovely Bird → Deadline: Jun 30 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | Canada — “The Drunken, Lovely Bird is a journal composed of work from undergraduate students across Canada. We accept submissions of all genres, and sub genres. TDLB is currently open for submissions.”
remediate lit mag | Theme: Summer Call (Guest Edited) → Deadline: Jul 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | A: 29% | 1K+ followers | United States | 2024 — “A literary home for computer-assisted creative writing & critical writing about it in the [electronic] literary world. The WIRED of lit mags.”
Ink In Thirds → Deadline: Jul 31 | Fee: No | Pay: $5 flat | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 7 days | A: 6% | 2K+ followers | United States | 2016 — “A magazine of poised prose, precarious poetry, and photography to pilot our own realms again.”
Teach. Write. → Deadline: Sep 1 | Fee: No | Pay: $10-$15 | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2017 — “A Writing Teachers’ Literary Journal.”
Pacific Northwest Gothic → Deadline: Sep 1 | Fee: No | Pay: $25/piece | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers — “Pacific Northwest Gothic publishes fiction, poetry, and art rooted in the dark beauty of the region. We seek work that lingers—haunted landscapes, ecological unease, and the uncanny woven into everyday life.”
Concision Poetry Journal | Fee: No | Pay: No | Publishes Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2021 — “a triannual online literary magazine started in 2021 by Haley Lasché, an experimental poet looking to promote work that excites her.”
Foglifter Journal & Press → Deadline: Apr 1 | Fee: No | Pay: $0-$100 flat | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | A: 5.88% | 10K+ followers | United States | 2016 — “Foglifter’s literary journal is a biannual compendium of the most dynamic, urgent LGBTQ+ writing today. It’s a space where queer and trans writers celebrate, mourn, rage, and embrace.”
Moss Puppy Magazine | Theme: Paw Paths → Deadline: Apr 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 14 days | A: 39.31% | 4K+ followers | United States | 2021 — “We are curly haired swamp creatures howling into the moonlight, doggy paddling and barking at toads and flies. We want your weird, muddy, and messy - the turtles without shells, boiled frogs, & mushroom-capped fairies.”
Passages North → Deadline: Apr 1 | Fee: Some | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Multimedia, Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 84 days | A: 2.93% | 30K+ followers | United States | 1979 — “Annual literary journal sponsored by Northern Michigan University, has published short fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and hybrid writing since 1979.”
Radar Poetry → Deadline: Apr 1 | Fee: Some | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 60 days | A: 2.80% | 4K+ followers | United States | 2013 — “Radar Poetry currently publishes three issues each year: the Winter Issue, the Summer Issue, and the Conistion Prize Issue.”
Sundog Lit → Deadline: Apr 1 | Fee: Some | Pay: $50 flat | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 105 days | A: 3.00% | 10K+ followers | United States | 2012 — “Sundog Lit is committed to publishing pieces that engage with tension, introspection, empathy, considered positionality, thoughtful form play, emotional courage, and musicality.”
Kitchen Table Quarterly → Deadline: Apr 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 180 days | 2K+ 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.”
descant magazine | Theme: Special Call: Works in Resistance - Poetry → Deadline: Apr 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 180 days | 2K+ followers | United States | 1970 — “descant is published by Texas Christian University. A forum for fiction and poetry, descant seeks high-quality work in either innovative or traditional forms.”
Ninth Letter → Deadline: Apr 1 | Fee: No | Pay: $75/piece | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 120 days | A: 1.16% | 30K+ followers | United States | 2004 — “The journal’s mission is to present original literary writing of exceptional quality, illuminated by cutting-edge graphic design.”
Portland Review → Deadline: Apr 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 180 days | A: 4.60% | 9K+ followers | United States | 1956 — “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.”
River Teeth → Deadline: Apr 1 | Fee: $3 | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 53 days | 5K+ followers | United States | 1999 — “Where good writing counts and facts matter.”
Five Points → Deadline: Apr 1 | Fee: Yes | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 120 days | 400+ followers | United States | 1996 — “Published bi-annually by the Georgia State University Department of English, each issue features art, poetry, fiction, flash, and essays by the most compelling artists and writers working today.”
Raleigh Review → Deadline: Apr 1 | Fee: Some | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 180 days | A: 1% | 500+ followers | United States | 2010 — “A nonprofit magazine of poetry, short fiction, and art, offering accessible works of experience that are emotionally and intellectually complex.”
Blood Orange Review → Deadline: Apr 1 | Fee: $3 | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Multimedia, Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 180 days | A: 7.41% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2006 — “Blood Orange Review’s editors want writing that changes us and challenges us to redefine our sense of perspective. We look for compelling voices and work that demonstrates attention to the page.”
Michigan Quarterly Review | Theme: A Special Issue on the New Age of Fascism → Deadline: Apr 1 | Fee: $3 | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 365 days | 5K+ followers | United States | 1962 — “Founded in 1962, MQR has been publishing urgent and powerful literary voices for over sixty years as the flagship journal of the University of Michigan.”
Seneca Review → Deadline: Apr 1 | Fee: Some | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Multimedia, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 360 days | 900+ followers | United States | 1970 — “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.”
Barely South Review → Deadline: Apr 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Nonfiction, Poetry, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 65 days | A: 3.62% | 4K+ followers | United States | 1983 — “Barely South Review began as The Dominion Review, an annual student literary journal housed at Old Dominion University in 1983. In 2008, the journal relaunched under the name Barely South Review as an online biannual publication staffed by students of the MFA program.”
Call Me → Deadline: Apr 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 25 days | A: 60.00% | 400+ followers | United States | 2018 — “Call Me [Brackets] is a thematic biannual online literary journal publishing the strange, the surprising, the experimental, and everything in-between.”
HerStry → Deadline: Apr 1 | Fee: $3 | Pay: $10-$20/piece | Open for Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 104 days | A: 17.31% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2015 — “Unless she did something very incredible (or very, very bad) most women don’t get named in history. HerStry wants to rewrite the narrative and put women’s stories front and center.”
La Piccioletta Barca → Deadline: Apr 1 | Fee: Yes | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Poetry, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 16.67% | 6K+ followers | United Kingdom | 2018 — “on beauty, taste, culture, politics and the lived experience thereof”
LETTERS Journal → Deadline: Apr 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 180 days | Under 100 followers | United States | 2013 — “a semi-annual journal of literature and visual art attending to the force and friction of religion, spirituality, and belief within contemporary experience”
Wordpeace | Theme: Fiction Submissions Hope and Possibility → Deadline: Apr 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2015 — “WORDPEACE is a multi-genre digital literary project dedicated to world peace and social justice.”
PLU Magazine | Theme: THE MOON → Deadline: Apr 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Multimedia, Poetry, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 800+ followers | France | 2012 — “An artistic community in Paris, City of Light PLU is operated entirely by volunteers, any donations to support our project and its ongoing costs are greatly appreciated.”
Potomac Review → Deadline: Apr 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 180 days | A: 7.53% | 5K+ followers | United States | 1993 — “Potomac Review, based in Rockville, Maryland, is a peer-reviewed literary magazine with a global audience.”
West Branch → Deadline: Apr 1 | Fee: No | Pay: $0.1/word or $100 flat | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 120 days | A: <1% | Under 100 followers | United States | 1977 — “A thrice-yearly magazine of poetry, fiction, essays, and reviews.”
The Marbled Sigh | Theme: Pop Culture Poems → Deadline: Apr 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | A: 28.00% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2023 — “A poetry journal by emerging writers for emerging writers.”
Prairie Margins → Deadline: Apr 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Multimedia, Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 121 days | A: 14.29% | Under 100 followers | United States | 1963 — “Prairie Margins is the national undergraduate literary magazine at Bowling Green State University.”
The Belfast Review → Deadline: Apr 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 60 days | 600+ followers | Ireland — “The Belfast Review is a new online biannual magazine and blog showcasing the best in Art, Culture, Writing, Music, & More from Northern Ireland and beyond. We want a dialogue between the arts and aim to feature short stories, plays, song lyrics, screenplays, poetry, and a range of nonfiction.”
Farewell Transmission → Deadline: Apr 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 500+ followers | 2023 — “We want your weird and brutally honest pieces. Your sufferings. We want the last piece of writing that you would want to be remembered by. Fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, prose, artwork–no matter what genre, send us your farewell transmission.”
INTERWEAVED Magazine | Theme: Volume II Issue I: Spring: DISSONANCE OF POWER → Deadline: Apr 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Multimedia, Nonfiction | ✖️ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 21 days | A: 65% | Under 100 followers | Trinidad & Tobago | 2025 — “An Independent, online, quarterly & themed Not-for-Profit Magazine that invites writers and artists on all walks of creativity and intellectualism, to submit their most indelible, incandescent & igniting Literature and Art.”
The Dodge Magazine → Deadline: Apr 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 180 days | 5K+ followers | United States | 1979 — “Eco-writing, works in translation, and writing about animals.”
OTHERSIDE → Deadline: Apr 1 | Fee: No | Pay: $0.08/word or $50/piece or $100 flat | Open for Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 6 days | 2K+ followers | United States | 2025 — “OTHERSIDE is a queer-led literary magazine that publishes speculative fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ creators. We believe that queer voices matter, now more than ever.”
BLUEGILLS → Deadline: Apr 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2025 — “BLUEGILLS is a youth-run creative initiative aimed at developing a space for writers, poets and young scholars to share ideas and broaden their horizons.”
Loose Thread Literary Magazine → Deadline: Apr 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | 100+ followers | United States | 2026 — “Loose Thread is a new Nashville-based literary magazine seeking to publish everyday works that unravel and knit us together.”
Woven Webs → Deadline: Apr 1 | Fee: No | Pay: $100 flat | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers — “An Australian online (un)literary magazine publishing works which typically struggle to find a place in literature, particularly speculative fiction (science fiction, fantasy, etc), mixed genre and experimental works.”
Palmetto Row → Deadline: Apr 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers — “A genre-rotating literary journal out of Columbia College (SC)”
FARSANG → Deadline: Apr 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction | ✖️ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers — “The Magazine of New Travel Writing”
Red Rook Press → Deadline: Apr 1 | Fee: No | Open for Poetry (Collection), Fiction (Novella, Short Work), Nonfiction (Collection) | ☑︎ Sim Subs | R: 120 days | 1K+ followers | United States | 2022 — “Red Rook Press is a student-run literary press out of the University of Alabama. We publish undergrad and grad student fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction from any institution.”
cream city review → Deadline: Apr 2 | Fee: $2.5 | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Multimedia, Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 240 days | 10K+ followers | United States | 1975 — “since 1975, Milwaukee-based cream city review has been publishing energetic, raw and beautiful prose, poetry, art and essays.”
Sinister Wisdom | Theme: Ecolesbian Futures → Deadline: Apr 2 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Multimedia, Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 131 days | A: 41.67% | 10K+ followers | United States | 1976 — “a multicultural lesbian literary and art journal”
Dirt Freckles → Deadline: Apr 2 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | Under 100 followers — “An online literary magazine yearning for nature and nostalgia.”
M’lord → Deadline: Apr 2 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | 200+ followers — “We accept poetry, flash, micro, and creative nonfiction that delves into magical realism, the absurd, and the speculative. Give us your strange.”
Strange Pilgrims | Theme: Micro of the Month ✦ THE FOOL → Deadline: Apr 3 | Fee: No | Pay: $30/piece | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 120 days | A: 1.33% | 35K+ followers | Canada | 2025 — “Real, surreal, & brutally beautiful ✦ Independent, ad-free, & reader-supported”
Quibble Lit | Theme: JUNGLE → Deadline: Apr 3 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Multimedia, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 48 days | 4K+ followers | United States | 2022 — “Indie contemporary literature magazine (quarterly, print and online) pairing creative writing and visual art, on a mission to Make Writing Mean More.”
Five on the Fifth → Deadline: Apr 3 | Fee: Some | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Multimedia, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 9.34% | 700+ followers | United States | 2015 — “Five on the Fifth is an online literary magazine founded in September 2015. We publish 5 fiction/nonfiction pieces on the 5th of every month.”
The Loyalhanna Review → Deadline: Apr 3 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Nonfiction, Poetry, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 10 days | Under 100 followers | United States | 1991 — “The Loyalhanna Review is a literary journal that has brought innovative, high-quality poetry, essays, short stories, and both black-and-white and color photos and other art to western Pennsylvania readers since 1991.”
Sunday Mornings at the River | Theme: For Those Who Despair → Deadline: Apr 3 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ✖️ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 60 days | A: 56.25% | 600+ followers | Netherlands | 2012 — “An indie poetry press founded by Rebecca Rijsdijk in 2012. It is run by poets for poets. Our aim is to create a healthy literary community in which we ourselves feel like we would be able to thrive.”
Crab Orchard Review → Deadline: Apr 3 | Fee: $4 | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 60 days | Under 100 followers | United States | 1995 — “Crab Orchard Review is highly regarded in the literary community, ranking among the top 35 literary journals in the U.S. according to BookFox.”
Front Porch Magazine | Theme: Spring ‘26 Issue: Terra Firma → Deadline: Apr 3 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | A: 75% | 100+ followers | United States | 2025 — “A student-run literary and art magazine dedicated to elevating marginalized voices of the American South”
Daikaijuzine → Deadline: Apr 4 | Fee: No | Pay: Yes | Open for Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 98 days | A: 9.48% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2006 — “We like stories that are strange, that have wacky, huge ideas, and are diverse in content and authorship.”
Griffith Review | Theme: Into the Archive – Poetry Call-out → Deadline: Apr 4 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 56 days | A: 1.94% | Under 100 followers | Australia | 2003 — “A literary and current affairs journal that offers fresh takes on big ideas.”
FLARE Magazine | Theme: Medication Theme - Mini Issue - Poetry → Deadline: Apr 4 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 1 days | A: 30% | 3K+ 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”
Stone’s Throw [Rock and a Hard Place Press] | Theme: SCHOOLS OUT (FOREVER) → Deadline: Apr 4 | Fee: No | Pay: $25/piece | Open for Fiction | ✖️ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2022 — “Stone’s Throw is the monthly online companion to Rock and a Hard Place Magazine, delivering shorter, sharper content on a regular basis in an electronic medium, before collecting all 12 stories for an annual print anthology.”
West Trade Review | Theme: Essays on the Creative Life → Deadline: Apr 5 | Fee: $3 | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | A: 2% | 10K+ followers | United States | 2009 — “We accept fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, and novel excerpts (especially looking for more of those). We have no fees during our regular reading period, April-December. Our aesthetic drive is in pursuit of work that is Fearless, Crafted, Impassioned (that’s our motto!)”
Defenestration: A Literary Magazine Dedicated to Humor → Deadline: Apr 5 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction | ✖️ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 28 days | A: 25.00% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2003 — “We don’t worry about the particulars of genre, style, or form as long as the work is funny.”
Sink Hollow → Deadline: Apr 5 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 120 days | A: 12.50% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2016 — “Sink Hollow discovers and celebrates exceptional undergraduate literature and art.”
Icebreakers Lit | Theme: It’s Giving Rebirth (collaborative work only) → Deadline: Apr 5 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 42.11% | 1K+ followers | 2022 — “Collaboration is the heart of Icebreakers Lit. We want to bring writers together. We want connection! All of our calls for submissions – whether chaotic pop-up windows or longer, pre-announced projects – will involve two or more writers creating something together.”
SAD Magazine | Theme: Poetry - THEME ‘CAMP’ → Deadline: Apr 5 | Fee: No | Pay: CA$0-CA$125/piece | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | 10K+ followers | Canada | 2009 — “SAD Mag is an independent Vancouver publication featuring stories, art, and design. Founded in 2009, we publish local contemporary and emerging artists and writers with a focus on inclusivity of voices and news.”
Cygnus Magazine → Deadline: Apr 5 | Fee: Rs324 | Pay: Rs50-Rs200 flat | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers — “Literary Magazine Submit your poetry and essays!”
orangepeel | Theme: Bloom → Deadline: Apr 6 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 16% | 6K+ followers | United States | 2021 — “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.”
Echo Review → Deadline: Apr 6 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 36 days | A: 10.53% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2023 — “Echo Review wants history. We don’t mind what it is, or how personal it is--we simply want work that will force us to look back at the past. We want your raw, beautiful, hideous, real, wonderous depictions of it.”
The Four Faced Liar → Deadline: Apr 6 | Fee: No | Pay: €100-€200/piece | Open for Multimedia, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | A: 3.13% | 700+ followers | Ireland | 2022 — “The Four Faced Liar is a Cork-inspired and based, Irish-flavoured, internationally-facing journal publishing an eclectic mix of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, work in translation and visual art.”
phenomena | Theme: Phenomena → Deadline: Apr 6 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | 2025 — “phenomena is named for observable events that provoke investigation and wonder–like an eclipse or a blood moon. We publish work that emerges from the discoveries of and departures from spirituality and belief.”
effy literary → Deadline: Apr 7 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 28 days | 500+ followers | United States | 2023 — “Effy is a literary magazine that publishes fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and visual art. We don’t take ourselves seriously but we will take your art seriously.”
Alchemy Literary Magazine → Deadline: Apr 7 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers — “A magazine of international writing and art, is published annually as a class project by the students of Writing 246/WR249, Advanced Creative Writing: Editing and Publishing, at the Portland Community College Sylvania Campus.”
Little Fruits Magazine | Theme: pink moon → Deadline: Apr 7 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 28 days | A: 2.78% | 400+ followers | United States | 2025 — “We harvest bold, honest writing: juicy, bruised, or beautifully bitter.”
Kawandi Magazine | Theme: Swan Songs → Deadline: Apr 7 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 60% | 1K+ followers | United States | 2025 — “Literary magazine for writers and visual artists of the African diaspora.”
The Woolf | Theme: Green → Deadline: Apr 8 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Nonfiction, Poetry, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 1K+ followers | Switzerland | 2021 — “Howl-worthy words & art from Switzerland and beyond.”
Wild Greens Magazine | Theme: Fledgling → Deadline: Apr 8 | Fee: No | Pay: Yes | Open for Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 15 days | A: 45.83% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2020 — “A monthly magazine with themes, based in Philly.”
Apotheca Journal | Theme: Reflections → Deadline: Apr 8 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 21 days | A: 44% | 1.5K+ followers | United States | 2024 — “Apotheca Journal is a bimonthly magazine dedicated to amplifying young voices across the world. We accept poetry, short stories, novel excerpts, photography, artwork, and more from youth ages 14-22. We accept submissions on a rolling basis.”
Tasbih Literary Magazine | Theme: Flash Fiction - “Dunya is a plaything” → Deadline: Apr 8 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 21 days | 400+ followers | Qatar | 2026 — “A Muslim literary magazine for poetry, prose, & flash fiction, based on substack.”
takahē | Fee: No | Pay: Yes | Open for Multimedia, Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 83 days | A: 7.14% | 1K+ followers | New Zealand | 1989 — “Bringing literature and art from Aotearoa New Zealand to the world.”
Brittle Paper | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 30K+ followers | United States | 2010 — “Your go-to site for African writing and literary culture. We bring you all the latest news on publications, authors, events, prizes, and lifestyle.”
Arkansas Review | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 360 days | Under 100 followers | United States | 1998 — “A Journal of Delta Studies focuses on the seven states of the Mississippi River Delta, from St. Louis to the Gulf of Mexico. We publish creative material—fiction, poetry, essays, and visual art—that evokes or responds to the Delta cultural and natural experience.”
Cinematic Codes Review | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Nonfiction, Poetry, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2016 — “a new, printed, generalist review for all things related to the cinema, television, and other visual and moving arts.”
Club Plum Literary Journal | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Multimedia, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 11 days | A: 6.84% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2020 — “Club Plum is a house party. We play all the good music. The DJ dances and laughs and knows that today is yesterday, and today is tomorrow, and pain is forever, so we’ve got to crack out the joy and ride the beat.”
Cirque Journal | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | Under 100 followers | United States | 2008 — “Cirque, published in Anchorage, Alaska, is a regional journal created to share the best writing in the region with the rest of the world. Cirque was founded in 2009. This regional literary journal invites emerging and established writers living in the North Pacific Rim.”
Breakwater Review | Fee: Some | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 199 days | A: 5.88% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2009 — “Run by students of the University of Massachusetts Boston MFA program, e publish digitally two times a year.”
Return to Mago E-Magazine | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2012 — “One of the branches of The Mago Work. We accept poetry, creative prose, scholarly essays, artwork, video and audio media that addresses and supports embodied Goddess feminism, activism, and female-centered spirituality...”
The Awakenings Review | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Multimedia, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 60 days | A: 19% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2000 — “Established in cooperation with the University of Chicago Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation in 2000, The Awakenings Review is one of the nation’s leading literary reviews entirely committed to publishing the works of artists, writers, and poets with mental illness.”
Earth & Altar | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Multimedia, Fiction, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 9K+ followers | United States | 2020 — “a blog/magazine for and by catholic and reformed Christians of all denominations who see an expansively conceived credal orthodoxy as fully compatible with LGBTQ inclusion, gender equality, and racial justice”
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