83 Weekly Sub Calls: Expanded | 02.04.26
+ Round-up of everything we published last week
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There are 83 weekly sub calls today. Also, in case you missed it, here’s everything we published in the last 7 days:
ONLY POEMS | Theme: LOVE → Deadline: Feb 7 | Fee: No | Pay: $40/piece | Open for Poetry, Nonfiction | ☑︎ 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.”
FLARE Magazine → Deadline: Feb 13 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 1 days | A: 47.22% | 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”
Trash Cat Lit | Theme: Spring General Subs → Deadline: Feb 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”
Verity La (hiatus) → Deadline: Feb 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ✖️ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 60 days | Under 100 followers | Australia | 2010 — “An Australian online creative arts journal publishing fiction, nonfiction, poetry, photo-media,reviews and other hybrid forms.”
The Cicada’s Cry → Deadline: Feb 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2015 — “A Micro Zine of Haiku Poetry. Specializes in haiku, senryu, and related short-form poetry.”
Carmen et Error → Deadline: Feb 15 | Fee: No | Pay: £5 | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 14 days | A: 1.22% | Under 100 followers | United Kingdom | 2019 — “The cause of Roman poet Ovid’s exile was “carmen et error”, a poem and a mistake. We want your poems and your mistakes. Fiction that falls between genres. Weird, wild poems. Anything speculative, daring, or just plain odd.”
In a Flash | Theme: MEMORIES → Deadline: Feb 15 | Fee: No | Pay: $25/piece or $25 flat | Open for Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | 1K+ followers | United States | 2024 — “A monthly literary magazine for creative nonfiction in 500 words or less, each issue has a specific theme.”
Tap into Poetry | Theme: Sense of physical touch → Deadline: Feb 19 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 21 days | A: 62.96% | 2K+ followers | United Kingdom | 2022 — “We are a poetry magazine aimed at helping unknown poets publish their work.”
Dog Throat Journal → Deadline: Feb 21 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 21 days | A: 3.23% | 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.”
Every Day Fiction → Deadline: Feb 26 | Fee: Some | Pay: CA$3 flat | Open for Fiction | ✖️ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | A: 25.81% | 2K+ followers | Canada | 2007 — “bite-sized stories for a busy world”
Haven Speculative → Deadline: Feb 28 | Fee: No | Pay: $0.08/word or $20/piece | Open for Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 70 days | 2K+ followers | United States | 2021 — “Haven Spec is a speculative fiction magazine featuring stories for a 21st century audience. We love stories with a sense of adventure, stories that teach us, that touch us, that leave us wanting more.”
Socrates on the Beach Literary Journal → Deadline: Feb 28 | Fee: No | Pay: Yes | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | 6K+ followers | United States — ““Nothing beautiful is separable from life, and life is that which dies.” “By dint of construction…I truly believe that I have constructed myself…To construct oneself, to know oneself–are these two distinct acts or not?””
Prune Juice Journal → Deadline: Feb 28 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ✖️ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 31 days | 700+ followers | 2009 — “Prune Juice Journal is proudly recognized as the longest-running international lit magazine for senryu & related forms.”
Eaten: The Food History Magazine → Deadline: Feb 28 | Fee: No | Pay: Yes | Open for Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2017 — “An independent print magazine focused on food history.”
Glass: A Journal of Poetry → Deadline: Feb 28 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 60 days | A: 12.20% | 3K+ followers | United States | 2008 — “We are interested in poetry that enacts the artistic and creative precision of glass. We are not bound by any specific aesthetic; our only mission is to publish high quality poetry.”
The Samhain Moon Literary Magazine | Theme: Issue 2 ‘Trauma’ → Deadline: Feb 28 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 7 days | 500+ followers | United States | 2025 — “We publish the raw, real, horrible, and ugly things kept locked away in your soul. We are a magazine from your nightmares. We are a collective of writers, poets, and artists who enjoy the macabre, the dark, the twisted, and the unsettling.”
The Icarus Writing Collective | Theme: Short Fiction for 05: Blossom → Deadline: Mar 1 | Fee: No | Pay: $5 flat | Open for Fiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 22% | 1K+ followers | United States | 2022 — “We adapt, retell, and transcend stories from mythology and classic literature, encouraging writers to come together and bring the then to our now.”
The Brooklyn Review → Deadline: Mar 1 | Fee: $3 | Pay: No | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 60 days | 1K+ followers | United States | 1983 — “The Brooklyn Review was founded almost thirty years ago and is run by the students and faculty of the Brooklyn College MFA Program. We publish our print issue in the spring and digital content throughout the year.”
Crab Apple Literary → Deadline: Mar 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | A: 10% | 1.5K+ followers | Canada | 2022 — “A Montreal based magazine for the strange, deformed, and forgotten.”
300 Days of Sun → Deadline: Mar 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 42 days | Under 100 followers | United States — “300 Days of Sun was founded under the leadership of Dr. Gregory Robinson (now Faculty Advisor Emeritus) as a student-run literary journal sponsored by the Nevada State University Humanities Department. Over the past few years, this journal has featured poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, and visu”
VOLTA → Deadline: Mar 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | 2K+ followers | United States | 2025 — “A biannual literary magazine of both emerging and established writers.”
Haunted Words Press | Theme: Ruined Worlds → Deadline: Mar 2 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 14 days | A: 28.63% | 4K+ followers | United Kingdom | 2022 — “A literary zine publishing stories, poetry and visual art of all genres, all with some element of the gothic, the peculiar, or the spooky. Our audience is middle grade (8-12) and young adult (12-18).”
Tern Journal → Deadline: Mar 8 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers — “A journal of translation and conversation with a focus on international authors.”
Silkworm | Theme: BRIDGE → Deadline: Mar 9 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | Thailand | 1987 — “Silkworm is the annual publication of the Florence (MA) Poets Society.”
The Fringe 999 Poetry Forum → Deadline: Mar 11 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 50% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2024 — “It offers a space for sharing and discussing poetry, providing resources and support for both emerging and established”
Susurrus → Deadline: Mar 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 17.41% | 3K+ followers | United States | 2021 — “An online literary arts magazine for artists from the American South”
Bramble Literary Magazine → Deadline: Mar 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 120 days | A: 30% | 200+ followers | United States | 2017 — “Bramble Literary Magazine seeks to celebrate the challenging and transgressive spirit of poetry.”
(s)crawl magazine → Deadline: Mar 15 | Fee: No | Pay: CA$20/piece | Open for Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 28 days | A: 1% | 1.5K+ followers | Canada | 2025 — “horror-focused literary magazine that amplifies and uplifts underrepresented voices within the genre, showcasing short stories and poetry written by LGBTQIA+, neurodiverse, BIPOC, disabled, women, and gender-diverse writers.”
Metphrastics | Theme: Pandora → Deadline: Mar 15 | Fee: No | Pay: $10/piece | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 21 days | A: 5% | 700+ followers | United States — “online ekphrastic poetry about the Metropolitan Museum of Art”
The Hoolet’s Nook → Deadline: Mar 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | 100+ followers | Canada | 2024 — “An online journal for short poetry and microfiction—where subtle storytelling leaves a lasting impression.”
MudRoom → Deadline: Mar 25 | Fee: No | Pay: $15 | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 1.13% | 8K+ followers | United States | 2019 — “A magazine devoted to the in-between.”
Luminaura Magazine | Theme: Luminaura Magazine - Call for Poetry → Deadline: Mar 27 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Multimedia | ✖️ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | Under 100 followers | United States | 2025 — “Let Your Aura Glow.”
Thimble → Deadline: Mar 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 75 days | A: 12.04% | 4K+ followers | United States | 2018 — “THE THIMBLE LITERARY MAGAZINE IS BASED ON THE BELIEF THAT POETRY IS LIKE ARMOR. LIKE A THIMBLE, IT MAY BE SMALL AND SEEM INSIGNIFICANT, BUT IT WILL PROTECT US WHEN WE ARE MOST VULNERABLE.”
Heart of Flesh Literary Journal | Theme: Christian theme → Deadline: Mar 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Multimedia, Poetry, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 60 days | 4K+ followers | United States | 2019 — “We are a semiannual, Christian-themed literary and art journal that seeks excellence, grit, uniqueness, and biblical truth.”
Flash Point SF → Deadline: Mar 31 | Fee: No | Pay: $0.02/word | Open for Fiction | ✖️ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 60 days | A: 4.74% | 1K+ followers | United States | 2020 — “An online literary publication for science fiction & fantasy short stories under 1000 words.”
Neon and Smoke | Theme: In The Body {Tip Jar} → Deadline: Mar 31 | Fee: Yes | Pay: Yes | Open for Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 7 days | A: 8% | 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.”
parABnormal Magazine [Hiraeth Books] → Deadline: Mar 31 | Fee: No | Pay: $20-$400 flat or $10/piece | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2019 — “A quarterly publication dedicated to paranormal fiction, featuring stories, articles, poetry, and art that explore ghosts, spectres, haunts, and other supernatural phenomena.”
Sunday Service | Theme: Submission Call - Debut Issue “After.” → Deadline: Mar 31 | Fee: No | Pay: $1 flat | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2026 — “Sunday Service is a small literary space for work that doesn’t clean itself up. Rural, Southern, and queer-attentive. Short fiction. Fragments. Unfinished things.”
Shadow’s Call → Deadline: Mar 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Multimedia, Nonfiction, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 60 days | 400+ followers | United States | 2025 — “Shadow’s Call is our free digital quarterly featuring short stories, essays, poetry, art, press news, reviews, interviews, profiles, and more.”
Foglifter Journal & Press → Deadline: Apr 1 | Fee: Yes | Pay: $100 flat | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Multimedia, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | A: 5.95% | 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.”
Stickman Review → Deadline: Apr 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 120 days | Under 100 followers | United States | 2001 — “I founded Stickman Review in 2001 while living in Flagstaff, Arizona.”
Same Faces Collective → Deadline: Apr 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 21 days | A: 25% | 100+ followers | United States | 2019 — “Interdisciplinary literary magazine for experimental forms, challenging literary fiction, and marginalized voices.”
Dirt Freckles → Deadline: Apr 2 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | Under 100 followers — “An online literary magazine yearning for nature and nostalgia.”
Carolina Muse Literary & Arts Magazine → Deadline: Apr 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 28 days | 2K+ followers | United States | 2020 — “Carolina Muse is a tri-annual multimedia literary & arts magazine featuring young adult creators who have ever called North Carolina or South Carolina their home. poetry | art | dance | stories & scripts | music”
Cosmic Daffodil Journal | Theme: Buds & Blooms: Volume 2 → Deadline: Apr 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 21 days | A: 20% | 2K+ followers | United States | 2022 — “This journal is born out of love for art; poetry, fiction & non-fiction, short stories, paintings, sculptures, everything, and anything creative.”
Ahoy Literary → Deadline: Apr 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 1K+ followers | Canada | 2024 — “Ahoy is a Montréal/Tiohtià:ke-based literary magazine publishing poetry, short fiction, and creative non-fiction.”
Outskirts → Deadline: Apr 19 | Fee: Some | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | A: 12% | 1.5K+ followers | United States | 2025 — “Outskirts (n) — The fringes of a place, existing with and pushing against imposed boundaries.”
The New Quarterly → Deadline: Apr 30 | Fee: No | Pay: CA$75/piece | Open for Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 150 days | A: 19.41% | 15K+ followers | Canada | 1981 — “A quarterly literary magazine that publishes short fiction, poetry, and essays from emerging and esteemed Canadian writers.”
The Tiger Moth Review → Deadline: Apr 30 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 56 days | 200+ followers | Singapore | 2018 — “We also publish non-English works, as well as their translated.”
Pulsebeat Poetry Journal → Deadline: Apr 30 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | Under 100 followers | United States | 2021 — “Pulsebeat Poetry Journal features poems with a strong musical element—a definite rhythm and accompanying melody usually generated by similarity of sounds.”
149 Review → Deadline: Apr 30 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Nonfiction, Multimedia, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 21 days | A: 3% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2025 — “We are an online journal focused on publishing fresh, original, thought provoking poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction.”
Literary Matters → Deadline: May 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction | ✖️ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 300+ followers | United States | 2008 — “Publication of the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers exploring literature and literary criticism.”
Literally → Deadline: May 15 | Fee: $3 | Pay: $25 flat or $10-$25 | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 60 days | 100+ followers | 2025 — “We believe that intelligence is stunning, literature can be accessible, and women’s voices deserve to be heard.”
Lunaris Review → Deadline: May 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 120 days | A: 15% | 2K+ followers | Nigeria | 2016 — “Lunaris Review was birthed out of the idea that an African journal that would embrace creativity from every corner of the earth is needed on the continent and in the country.”
War, Literature & the Arts → Deadline: May 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction, Multimedia, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 1989 — “In 1989 WLA was launched as a simple collection of six essays examining the nexus of culture, conflict, and war. Artists of all types share wars’ jagged and fragmented horrors alongside its provocative and captivating narratives.”
ionosphere | Theme: Science, technology, society → Deadline: May 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 30% | 300+ followers | United Kingdom | 2023 — “The literary journal ionosphere focuses on the relationship between science, technology, society, and the human experience. Poetry and essays.”
Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine (SBLAAM) → Deadline: Jun 15 | Fee: $3 | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2013 — “An online magazine dedicated to quality literature and art, welcoming diverse submissions and encouraging both innovation and tradition.”
Black Moon Magazine → Deadline: Jun 30 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Multimedia, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | A: 26.67% | 600+ followers | United States | 2021 — “Black Moon Magazine dedicates itself to the discovered intersections of mixed-medium, art, and diversity. Our editors regard the culpability and duty of narrative, whether narrative casts light on world terrors or spotlights the beauty of being.”
Marmalade Lit → Deadline: Aug 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 7 days | A: 4% | 100+ followers | United States | 2025 — “An international youth literary magazine showcasing the poetry and prose of writers ages 12-22.”
Zooscape: an e-zine of fantastic furry fiction | Fee: No | Pay: Yes | Publishes Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | 600+ followers | United States | 2018 — “Zooscape is a professionally-paying, SFWA-qualifying e-zine of fantastic furry fiction. Here the animals can talk, magic flows, and the stars are in reach.”
C.N.P Poetry → Deadline: Feb 4 | Fee: Yes | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States — “Our philosophy is simple: We believe more poetry should exist in more places. We publish what we deem to be the best poetry--whether that be award-winning poets or a new writers first published work.”
Appomattox River Review → Deadline: Feb 4 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ✖️ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 800K+ followers | United States | 1981 — “Appomattox River Review is a literary magazine that encourages the feeling of a rushing river and focuses on art grown from life! We appreciate obscurity and strangeness.”
La Piccioletta Barca → Deadline: Feb 5 | Fee: Yes | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 14.71% | 6K+ followers | United Kingdom | 2018 — “on beauty, taste, culture, politics and the lived experience thereof”
StreetLit | Theme: Fiction / Nonfiction / Poetry / Manuscripts / Art → Deadline: Feb 5 | Fee: Some | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 40 days | Under 100 followers | United States | 2022 — “Literature From The Street, For The People”
Big Whoopie Deal → Deadline: Feb 5 | 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: Feb 5 | 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.”
Liminal Spaces | Theme: W O R D S . O N . W A R → Deadline: Feb 5 | Fee: Yes | Pay: $1000 or $0-$1000 flat | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United Kingdom | 2021 — “L I M I N A L . S P A C E S . I S . A . M I N I M A L . S P A C E . F O R . T H E . D I S C U S S I O N . O F . A L L . T H I N G S . E N V I R O N M E N T . T H R O U G H . L I T E R A T U R E . A N D . A R T . O F . T H E . V I S U A L S”
Hollow and Sky → Deadline: Feb 5 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Nonfiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 4 days | A: 6% | 100+ followers | United States | 2025 — “An online literary journal publishing poetry and creative nonfiction shaped by attention, memory, silence, and the natural world. We seek work rooted in presence rather than urgency.”
Poetry Online (poetry.onl) → Deadline: Feb 6 | 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.”
Red Door Magazine | Theme: Systems of Knowledge → Deadline: Feb 6 | Fee: $3 | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | 4K+ followers | United States | 2009 — “An independent door to connect the community and serve as a space for free expression and exchange of ideas & information.”
Penumbra Online → Deadline: Feb 7 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 42 days | A: 20% | 3K+ followers | United States | 1989 — “Literary and Art journal housed in the English department of California State University- Stanislaus. Publishing prose, poetry, & art for more than thirty years.”
little somethings press | Theme: Motherhood Anthology Project → Deadline: Feb 7 | Fee: No | Pay: $40 flat | Open for Poetry, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 180 days | 1K+ followers | United States | 2019 — “little somethings press: a collection of small writings publishes high-quality poetry, flash fiction, flash memoir, and art in handmade books.”
Abyss & Apex → Deadline: Feb 7 | Fee: No | Pay: $0.08/word | Open for Fiction | ✖️ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | A: 9.09% | Under 100 followers — “Hugo-Nominated Magazine of Speculative Fiction. Our mission is to publish the finest in speculative and imaginative fiction and poetry, with special attention to character-driven stories”
The Ear → Deadline: Feb 7 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 156 days | A: 5.00% | Under 100 followers | United States | 1982 — “The Ear is a literary journal based out of a community college in Orange County, CA. We publish previously unpublished poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, and art from both the campus community and national and international writers and artists.”
effy literary → Deadline: Feb 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.”
Poiema Magazine | Theme: Issue 02: Local Praises (Fiction Submissions) → Deadline: Feb 7 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 21 days | 1.5K+ followers | Australia | 2025 — “Tell us, how does salt and light reflect in your eyes?”
West Trade Review | Theme: Essays on the Creative Life → Deadline: Feb 9 | 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 → Deadline: Feb 9 | Fee: $5 | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 32 days | A: 18.18% | 900+ followers | United States | 2018 — “The Dewdrop welcomes submissions from all writers.”
Tangled Locks Journal → Deadline: Feb 10 | Fee: $4 | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 60 days | A: 3% | Under 100 followers | United States — “Literary Journal publishing poetry, fiction, and essays.”
Interim | Theme: An Open Call for Poetry from Singapore → Deadline: Feb 10 | Fee: Some | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Multimedia, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 180 days | 800+ followers | United States | 1944 — “An international journal of contemporary poetics and poetry published at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.”
Silly Goose Press | Theme: MELT (Art and Photography) → Deadline: Feb 10 | Fee: Yes | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Fiction, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 45 days | A: 21.25% | 2K+ followers | United States | 2024 — “HONK! Silly Goose Press is a very flocking serious literary magazine obsessed with craft-forward whimsy. HONK!”
House of Arcanum | Theme: General call → Deadline: Feb 10 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 10% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2021 — “Independent journal exclusively for fiction.”
Poems for Persons of Interest → Deadline: Feb 10 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | 800+ followers | Canada | 2024 — “Online quarterly poetry magazine interested in poems of any style on any subject. Both formal verse and free verse welcome.”
The Write Launch → Deadline: Feb 11 | Fee: $5 | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Multimedia, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 45 days | A: 49.26% | 1.5K+ followers | United States | 2017 — “Monthly, online literary magazine. Stories, poetry, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction.”
EgoPHobia | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ✖️ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | Romania — “[Input a description for the magazine pulled from their ‘About Page’ or Twitter profile.]”
Free Flash Fiction | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 43 days | A: 18.58% | 6K+ followers | United Kingdom | 2020 — “Got a flash fiction story within 500 words, of any interpretation, on any theme, that our readers should read?”
Ballast | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | A: 17.72% | 700+ followers | United States | 2022 — “A journal of poetry and poetics that seeks to add to the world more poems and more poems and more poems. Ballast keeps the ship afloat as it navigates toward the horizon. Ballast keeps the train on its tracks as it hurtles down the mountain in a blaze.”
Bristol Noir | Fee: Yes | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Poetry, Fiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 14 days | 5K+ followers | United Kingdom | 2017 — “Bristol Noir is an independent not for profit indie publisher of curiously dark fiction, poetry and dirty realism. Founded by Bristol-based author, designer and artist John Bowie.”
Modern Literature | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Multimedia, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | Under 100 followers | India | 2018 — “An international magazine focusing on the latest trends in modern literature from across the world.”
Left Brain Media | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 14 days | A: 90% | 800+ followers | United Kingdom | 2022 — “Left Brain Media is a new media organisation focused on publishing articles, opinion thinkpieces and all other forms of writing from on politics, culture and entertainment from a progressive, leftist perspective.”
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.”
Blue Minaret Literary Journal | Theme: about Muslims or an Islamic issue | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Multimedia, Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 14 days | Under 100 followers | United States | 2015 — “A space primarily for and by Muslim writers, poets and artists.”
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Just an FYI, I submitted two pieces of work to LIMINAL SPACES MAG - they have a tip jar that is required, and the top one is 30 dollars for expedited response. Both of my works were fairly lengthy, so I paid for expedited but sent a note that they did not need to rush. I paid for expedited simply to support their work... I do that with lit mags when I can.
Both were rejected in less than a minute. I am not exaggerating, Submittable has a time stamp on the time of submission and the response, both marked at 10:51 PM.
There is no way on earth they could have even read the first sentence of either story, or my cover letter, in less than 60 seconds. No possible way.
I suspect they're phishing writers for cash.
So, yeah, I got taken for sixty bucks, okay, I can handle it. But it definitely hurts all the other magazines that ask for tips, because I am reluctant to tip any of them at any time as a result of this. And I found them through this list, so I wanted to pass it on to you.
I'll note, I also pay for the services you offer here, and I see many lit mags asking for money to rush submissions through, and I don't believe they're giving an honest accounting.
But I'd ask that you remove LIMINAL SPACES MAG from your recommendations. I can afford the sixty dollars, but there was a time as a writer when I could not afford that, and they should not be doing this to writers.
Where's the link to the spreadsheet? I clicked on the image but it didn't take me to the spreadsheet.