Weekly Sub Calls: Expanded | 01.21.26
+ Round-up of everything we published last week
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There are 54 weekly sub calls today. Also, in case you missed it, here’s everything we published in the last 7 days:
Little Fruits Magazine → Deadline: Jan 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 28 days | 300+ followers | United States | 2025 — “We harvest bold, honest writing: juicy, bruised, or beautifully bitter.”
Divinations Magazine | Theme: Issue 6: Craving → Deadline: Feb 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 35 days | A: 39% | 1.5K+ followers | United Kingdom | 2023 — “Divinations Magazine is the literary magazine for horror authors of the future.”
Still Here Magazine | Theme: The Shape of Love → Deadline: Feb 8 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 10 days | A: 67% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2025 — “A quarterly literary magazine for emotional realism and the quiet courage of staying.”
Penumbric Speculative Fiction Magazine → Deadline: Feb 14 | Fee: No | Pay: From $10/piece | Open for Multimedia, Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 9.92% | Under 100 followers | United States — “An online magazine dedicated to riding that ever-changing edge of new and original fiction and art and sound and everything into tomorrow, to being a conduit for the voices that speak along that edge, to helping in some way those voices to move the world forward”
The Lorelei Signal → Deadline: Feb 15 | Fee: No | Pay: $5-$15/piece | Open for Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 60 days | A: 21.16% | Under 100 followers | United States — “The Lorelei Signal is a web based magazine dedicated to featuring 3 dimensional / complex female characters in Fantasy stories.”
Weird Lit Magazine → Deadline: Feb 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 2% | 700+ followers | United States | 2024 — “We are a platform for the weird and boundless. We support freedom of expression, community engagement, and the open exchange of ideas. We publish quarterly on the solstices and equinoxes.”
100-Foot Crow → Deadline: Feb 15 | Fee: No | Pay: $0.08/word | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 60 days | A: 1.45% | 500+ followers | 2024 — “We’re the magazine for busy people who want to be wowed by great science fiction & fantasy stories—in exactly 100 words.”
Underbelly Press → Deadline: Feb 17 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Multimedia, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 21 days | A: 44.44% | Under 100 followers | United Kingdom | 2024 — “Working class online lit mag seeking gritty poetry, flash fiction & art.”
The Rebis | Theme: The Rebis: The Moon - Call for Poetry → Deadline: Feb 17 | Fee: No | Pay: $100-$200 flat | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 15% | 5K+ followers | United States | 2021 — “The Rebis is a tarot literary journal. We publish an annual print anthology of art, essays, fiction, and poetry from contributors around the world. Each issue explores a single tarot card. We are grounded in anticapitalist principles and our sales profits are redistributed to social justice orgs.”
phantom journal → Deadline: Feb 24 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United Kingdom | 2026 — “a zine dedicated to the unusual and the forgotten. hoping to foster a community of artists and creators.”
Exist Otherwise | Theme: Personal Essay → Deadline: Feb 28 | Fee: No | Pay: $15/piece or $15 or $15-$20 flat | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 60 days | A: 5% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2021 — “Free quarterly online journal of creative writing and photography. Our muse and inspiration is the gender-non-conforming writer, photographer, actor, and activist, Claude Cahun. We seek work that is personal and willing to challenge.”
Pure in Heart Stories → Deadline: Feb 28 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Poetry, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 40 days | 1.5K+ followers | United States | 2021 — “A literary and art magazine for families, with a Christian worldview. Here you can find short stories, poetry, photography and art by adults, teens, and children—for readers 6 years old and beyond. Our issues appear both online and in print.”
Foofaraw → Deadline: Feb 28 | Fee: No | Pay: $0.01/word or $0.01-$5 flat | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 21 days | A: 10% | 200+ followers | United States | 2022 — “a zine of surreal storytelling and worldly observations”
SDL Anthologies (Formerly known as The SDL Review) → Deadline: Mar 1 | Fee: $5 | Pay: $20 flat | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 25% | 500+ followers | United States | 2025 — “We now publish two annual anthologies in place of our quarterly journal, one poetry and one prose. Our anthologies are beautifully formatted and high quality jacketed hardback editions available from all major book sellers.”
TMP Magazine → Deadline: Mar 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Multimedia, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 2K+ followers | United States | 2021 — “Our Literary Magazine! Here you creatives can expand your creativity: freeform poetry, short stories, flash fiction, nonfiction, art, and photography.”
The Road Not Taken: A Journal of Formal Poetry → Deadline: Mar 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ✖️ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers — “The Road Not Taken: A Journal of Formal Poetry is a literary magazine dedicated to publishing high-quality formal, metric poetry.”
Contemporary Literature → Deadline: Mar 15 | Fee: $28 | Pay: Yes | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 7K+ followers | United States | 1960 — “Our mission embodies the Wisconsin Idea by publishing work of distinction that serves the people of Wisconsin and the world.”
No Teen Stands Alone → Deadline: Mar 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 14 days | Under 100 followers | United States | 2024 — “A teen-run mental health awareness magazine dedicated to breaking the stigma around mental health. We believe stories heal and voices matter, offering a platform for teens to share their experiences and promote understanding, healing, and support through creative expression.”
Consequence → Deadline: Apr 15 | Fee: No | Pay: $20-$150/piece | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 120 days | A: 6% | 4K+ followers | United States | 2008 — “Consequence is the print and digital publication of Consequence Forum, and addresses the human experiences, realities, and consequences of war and geopolitical violence through literature and art.”
beestung | Theme: The Pleasure Issue → Deadline: Jun 20 | Fee: No | Pay: $20 flat | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 21 days | A: 13.72% | 4K+ followers | United States | 2019 — “beestung is a quarterly online micro-magazine for non-binary, genderqueer, and two-spirit writers and readers, with an emphasis on intracommunity sensibilities and exploration and expansiveness. beestung resists the canon and all forms of bigotry.”
underscore _ magazine | Theme: the city | Fee: No | Pay: No | Publishes Multimedia, Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 21 days | A: 19.72% | 2K+ followers | United States | 2023 — “dedicated to chronicling all things that underscore the city.”
New Nottingham Journal | Fee: No | Pay: No | Publishes Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 3K+ followers | United States | 2025 — “The rebel city’s brand new magazine, featuring top quality fiction, non-fiction and poetry from around the world.”
The OddStar Magazine | Fee: No | Pay: No | Publishes Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 400+ followers | 2025 — “Chase your destiny, Fly onto the falling stars 🌟”
Beyond Words Literary Magazine | Theme: A Beyond Words Anthology (24-Hour Decision) - Poetry, Flash, Short Stories → Deadline: Jan 21 | Fee: $25 | Pay: No | Publishes Nonfiction, Multimedia, Poetry, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 1 days | A: 36.71% | 9K+ followers | Germany | 2020 — “We are an international magazine of literature (Poetry, Flash, Short Stories and art. We publish monthly and review submissions on a daily basis. We promise to send out decisions within 24 hours (we know what it feels waiting months for a decision).”
Griffel → Deadline: Jan 21 | Fee: $5 | Pay: No | Publishes Fiction, Multimedia, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | 500+ followers | Norway | 2019 — “GRIFFEL is a quarterly literary journal that aims to publish the finest literature and artwork.”
The Good Life Review → Deadline: Jan 21 | Fee: $3 | Pay: $60-$75/piece | Publishes Fiction, Multimedia, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 210 days | A: 4% | 800+ followers | United States | 2020 — “An online literary journal committed to exploring the overlooked. We strive to provide a beautiful and equitable platform for writers and artists to showcase and share their poetry, prose, and artwork”
Black Horse Review → Deadline: Jan 21 | Fee: $6.95 | Pay: No | Publishes Nonfiction, Poetry, Fiction | ✖️ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 81 days | A: 7.14% | Under 100 followers | United States — “We are committed to bringing into view a generation of honest and fearless writers who share a common love for beauty, language, and deep, meaningful contemplation. We strive to enrich contemporary literature by giving greater attention and acclaim to minority narratives through our magazine.”
Dog Throat Journal → Deadline: Jan 21 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Publishes Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 21 days | 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.”
Neon and Smoke → Deadline: Jan 21 | Fee: Yes | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 7 days | A: 10% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2025 — “We publish bold, boundary-blurring fiction, poetry, and art—beautifully strange, darkly funny, or achingly human. Genre with a literary edge: speculative, horror, suspense, surreal, or hybrids welcome. $20 payment for fiction. Sim subs okay.”
Subtropics → Deadline: Jan 22 | Fee: $3 | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | A: <1% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2006 — “Publishing compelling fiction, poetry, and essays for ten years. Issue 26 available now.”
La Piccioletta Barca → Deadline: Jan 22 | Fee: Yes | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 12.12% | 6K+ followers | United Kingdom | 2018 — “on beauty, taste, culture, politics and the lived experience thereof”
StreetLit | Theme: Fiction / Nonfiction / Poetry / Manuscripts / Art → Deadline: Jan 22 | Fee: Some | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 39 days | Under 100 followers | United States | 2022 — “Literature From The Street, For The People”
Big Whoopie Deal → Deadline: Jan 22 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Multimedia | ✖️ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 49 days | A: <1% | Under 100 followers | 2020 — “BWD is an aesthetically soothing zone for literature. We are an eclectic mix.”
The Blood Pudding → Deadline: Jan 22 | Fee: Yes | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 12 days | 6K+ followers | Greece | 2020 — “Raw literature on the human condition. Poetry that crackles and pops. Fiction to ruin a lifetime. Nonfiction too beaut.”
OTHERSIDE → Deadline: Jan 22 | Fee: No | Pay: $0.08/word or $50/piece | Open for Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 5 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.”
Poetry Online (poetry.onl) → Deadline: Jan 23 | Fee: Some | Pay: $60/piece or $60 flat | Open for Multimedia, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 1% | 2K+ followers | United States | 2020 — “A publisher and weekly journal committed to sharing accessible work and compensating our contributors fairly.”
subTerrain Magazine → Deadline: Jan 23 | Fee: $3 | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ✖️ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 1.5K+ followers | Canada | 1988 — “A Vancouver-based literary magazine publishing fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction.”
Umläut → Deadline: Jan 23 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 100+ followers | United States | 2004 — “Umläut is an arts journal dedicated to San Francisco’s emerging writers, photographers, filmmakers, visual artists, and musicians.”
Half and One → Deadline: Jan 24 | Fee: Yes | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 1.5K+ followers | India | 2016 — “A platform for journalism and narrative non-fiction, comics and cartoons, prose and poetry, art and creativity, podcasts and videos.”
Narratively | Theme: Stories From the Ground Up — How Green Spaces Shape Our Lives → Deadline: Jan 24 | Fee: Yes | Pay: $300/piece | Open for Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 48 days | 100K+ followers | United States | 2012 — “A storytelling platform & production company that celebrates humanity through diverse, authentic, high-quality stories.”
The Interlochen Review → Deadline: Jan 24 | Fee: Yes | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 1K+ followers | United States | 2013 — “The Interlochen Review is thrilled to invite talented high school writers, songwriters and artists (grades 9-12) from around the world to submit their work. We look forward to receiving a diverse range of voices and welcome work that exhibits passion, skill, and an innovative approach to craft.”
Months to Years → Deadline: Jan 25 | Fee: Yes | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 45 days | A: 42.11% | 1.5K+ followers | United States | 2017 — “Months To Years is a quarterly digital literary journal that publishes nonfiction (up to 2,500 words), poetry, art, and photography related to grief and loss.”
Jenny Magazine | Theme: Featured Artist → Deadline: Jan 25 | Fee: Yes | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2010 — “A Production of the YSU Student Literary Arts Association”
Raiya Magazine | Theme: Issue 02: Chasing Aurora → Deadline: Jan 25 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 21 days | A: 43% | 1K+ followers | 2025 — “Raiya is a youth-run magazine exploring imagination and identity. We publish fiction, poetry, critiques, essays and the visual arts.”
Orphic Literary | Theme: Orphic Literary - First issue : Margins. → Deadline: Jan 25 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 500+ followers | India | 2025 — “Orphic literary is a multimedia youth led magazine established on november 2025.”
West Trade Review | Theme: Essays on the Creative Life → Deadline: Jan 26 | Fee: Yes | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 45 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!)”
The Dewdrop | Theme: dewdrops: Weekly Haiku and Print Anthology - Winter Submissions → Deadline: Jan 26 | Fee: $5 | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 32 days | A: 18.18% | 900+ followers | United States | 2018 — “The Dewdrop welcomes submissions from all writers.”
Every Day Fiction → Deadline: Jan 28 | Fee: Some | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Multimedia | ✖️ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | A: 21.43% | 2K+ followers | Canada | 2007 — “bite-sized stories for a busy world”
Unlikely Stories | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Multimedia, Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 56 days | A: 58.82% | 2K+ followers | United States | 1998 — “An electronic magazine of literature, art, and culture that attempts a direct engagement with society and sociopolitical issues. We believe that art and philosophy are synonymous, and that they are the appropriate source of all social activism and political thought.”
Eulogy Press | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 15 days | A: 25.00% | 600+ followers | 2025 — “Reject what’s safe and make something truly meaningful. That’s the only rule.”
COOP: chickens of our poetry | Theme: chickens | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Multimedia, Poetry, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 90 days | A: 95% | 600+ followers | United States | 2021 — “A free literature and art zine dedicated to celebrating chickens.”
The Roanoke Rambler | Fee: No | Pay: $25-$100/piece | Open for Nonfiction, Poetry, Fiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 60 days | 700+ followers | United States | 2021 — “We are a local, investigative and literary newsletter based in Roanoke, Virginia.”
The Humanist | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Multimedia, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | 70K+ followers | United States | 1927 — “The Humanist is a quarterly publication of ideas and action focusing on the philosophy of humanism—a naturalistic and progressive outlook informed by science, inspired by art, and motivated by compassion.”
the Jewish Literary Journal | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2013 — “Jewish Literature, Jewish Writing, and Jewish Expression are at the forefront of everything the JLJ does.”
The Inceptive Literary Magazine | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Multimedia, Poetry, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 5 days | A: 90% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2016 — “Inceptive Literary Magazine is a student made platform for young writers and artists to flourish. Our submissions spans from essays to photography and artworks. We welcome all pieces of work from aspiring students.”
miniMAG | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Multimedia, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 28 days | A: 75% | 1K+ followers | Thailand | 2022 — “intense. short. weekly. literature/poetry/opinion/art/whatever magazine rolling submissions”
SCAB Magazine | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Multimedia, Fiction, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 21 days | A: 25.00% | 1.5K+ followers | United States | 2017 — “A magazine for queer and transgressive creatures.”
The Missouri Review | Fee: $4 | Pay: $25/page | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 120 days | A: <1% | 60K+ followers | United States | 1978 — “One of the most highly regarded literary magazines in the United States. For the past four decades we’ve upheld a reputation for finding and publishing the very best writers first.”
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