Weekly Sub Calls: Expanded | 02.11.26
+ Round-up of everything we published last week
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There are 82 weekly sub calls today. Also, in case you missed it from this past week:
Poetry Wales → Deadline: Feb 28 | Fee: No | Pay: £20/piece | Open for Poetry, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 7.48% | 15K+ followers | United Kingdom | 1965 — “National poetry magazine of Wales. Publishing contemporary poetry, features and reviews since 1965.”
Camas Magazine | Theme: Precarity → Deadline: Feb 28 | Fee: Some | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Multimedia, Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 42 days | A: 6.25% | 2K+ followers | United States | 1992 — “Camas cultivates a community of writers and artists dedicated to land health and cultural resilience in the American West. We pursue fresh ideas and perspectives while remaining rooted in the West’s landscapes and traditions of art and literature.”
Exchanges | Theme: RESONANCE → Deadline: Feb 28 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Poetry, Fiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 1989 — “An online journal of literary translation published biannually. Edited by current students of the University of Iowa Translation Workshop.”
Nightlight: A Black Horror Podcast → Deadline: Feb 28 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 42 days | Under 100 followers | United States — “Horror podcast featuring creepy tales from Black writers all over the world”
Welter → Deadline: Mar 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | 1.5K+ followers | United States | 1965 — “Welter publishes high-quality fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and visual art from writers and artists around the world.”
Short Fiction: The Visual Literary Journal | Theme: Short Fiction - “Introducing” → Deadline: Mar 1 | Fee: No | Pay: $0.02 flat | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 60 days | Under 100 followers | United Kingdom | 2006 — “Short Fiction is a high-quality online journal (previously also in print, since 2006), publishing some of the finest short stories from around the world.”
Sabr Tooth Tiger Magazine | Theme: Issue no. 2: Mystics & Saints → Deadline: Mar 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 60 days | A: 8% | 1K+ followers | United States | 2025 — “an international lit mag with claws, teeth, & heart”
Mascara Literary Review → Deadline: Mar 2 | Fee: No | Pay: AU$0 or AU$200/piece | Open for Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 4K+ followers | Australia | 2007 — “A transnational journal of Australian & world literature in Eora nation. Our focus is decolonising, Asian Australian, Indigenous, migrant & subaltern writing.”
Tiffinbox Review | Theme: Dreamscapes → Deadline: Mar 5 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 60 days | 200+ followers | India | 1989 — “Tiffinbox Review — your slightly strange, thoda ajeeb, very desi literary magazine. At Tiffinbox Review, we want to keep things fun, exciting, and just a little off-kilter. We hope to be a home for great literature that isn’t afraid to get a bit weir”
The Cawnpore | Theme: Issue 5: ONSRA → Deadline: Mar 7 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ✖️ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 14 days | A: 56% | Under 100 followers | India | 2024 — “Delve into the profound influence and impact of various cultures worldwide through the art of literature.”
Southampton Review → Deadline: Mar 15 | Fee: $3 | Pay: $100-$200 flat | Open for Multimedia, Fiction, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 1095 days | A: 1% | 4K+ followers | United States | 2007 — “The Southampton Review has been publishing compelling writing and art since 2007.”
The Amazine | Theme: From grief to resilience, from joy to resistance → Deadline: Mar 30 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 48% | 1.5K+ followers | 2022 — “A space for joy, curiosity and the bitter-sweetness of life with a mission to keep wonder alive and kicking.”
B O D Y → Deadline: Mar 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 16 days | A: 8.70% | Under 100 followers | Czechia | 2012 — “An international online literary journal. We publish the highest quality poetry and prose from emerging and established writers. B O D Y publishes three issues per year on a rolling basis: Winter; Spring; and Fall.”
Menagerie Magazine → Deadline: May 31 | Fee: Yes | Pay: $50 flat | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 60 days | A: 4.44% | 100+ followers | United States | 2021 — “Menagerie publishes fiction, essay, poetry, and hybrid works. What we like: sentences so sharp they draw blood; the strange and inexplicable; the wild and weird and uncanny. Our menagerie contains curios of all sizes and shapes.”
Every Body Magazine | Theme: Every Body Project: Issue Four (Holistic Care) → Deadline: Jun 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 20 days | A: 80% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2024 — “NEW! Literary Magazine is connected to a non-profit, through our magazine we intended for people to share their experiences and connect with a community!”
Inglenook Lit → Deadline: Jun 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 60 days | 200+ followers | United States | 2025 — “Inglenook Lit is an online literary magazine for magic enthusiasts, mystics, and enchantment seekers. We publish speculative fiction and nonfiction prose.”
The Alexander Review | Theme: Winter 2026 → Deadline: Feb 12 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 10 days | Under 100 followers | United States | 2025 — “Showcasing poetry, prose, and hybrid forms. (Other forms of art are taken into consideration as well.) We welcome work that demonstrates skill, originality, and a strong literary voice.”
The Maine Review → Deadline: Feb 13 | Fee: $3 | Pay: $25-$50/piece | Open for Multimedia, Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 180 days | A: 3.27% | 2K+ followers | United States | 2014 — “A biannual online literary journal that publishes culturally significant and innovative writing by writers living in Maine, across the country, and around the world.”
FLARE Magazine → Deadline: Feb 13 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, 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”
The Carrier Bag | Theme: Second Issue- A Look to the Future- Fiction → Deadline: Feb 13 | Fee: No | Pay: $10 flat | Open for Fiction, Poetry | ✖️ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 42 days | A: 6% | 100+ followers | United States | 2025 — “Before there was the tool to fight with, there was the tool to bring things home. The Carrier Bag Magazine is a collective interested in the unique experiences of the mundane, the odd, and the forgotten.”
Twisted Tongue Magazine → Deadline: Feb 13 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Multimedia, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | 100+ followers | United States | 2025 — “A bold new literary magazine”
Slash Magazine (Horror) | Theme: Slash Magazine Spring 2026 Horror Submissions → Deadline: Feb 13 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 14 days | Under 100 followers | Canada | 2025 — “Slash Magazine is an independent periodical literary magazine, both online and print. Slash Magazine celebrates the horror genre through essays, short fiction, poetry, art and photography.”
Whirligig Magazine | Theme: Nature → Deadline: Feb 13 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | 800+ followers | 2023 — “Whirligig publishes high quality, creative, and uplifting content for 7-11 year-olds.”
Acropolis Journal → Deadline: Feb 14 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 16.33% | 3K+ followers | United Kingdom | 2021 — “We love poems surging with imagery, your surreal, your gothic, caverns, labyrinths, the depths of the abyss, your grit, your confessional, your shrapnel of memories spun to dark velvet.”
Deep South Magazine → Deadline: Feb 14 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 15K+ followers | United States — “An online magazine covering life in the Deep South.”
Trash Cat Lit | Theme: 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”
boundby | Theme: Spotlight Category — The “Sonnot” → Deadline: Feb 14 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 21 days | A: 5% | 400+ followers | United Kingdom | 2022 — “UK-based (and internationally-minded) online poetry magazine, publishing poems and essays by new and established writers.”
Let me tell you a story → Deadline: Feb 14 | Fee: No | Pay: CA$10 flat | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 7 days | Under 100 followers | Canada | 2024 — “This is a flash fiction journal that favours stories inspired by the spontaneous occurrences of every day life, including what triggers lost memories and imaginations. We publish a wide range of humour, dark, literary and speculative.”
Black Rock & Sage → Deadline: Feb 14 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 500+ followers | United States | 2002 — “Black Rock & Sage is published annually through the Department of English and Philosophy with assistance from departments across campus.”
Feels Blind Literary Magazine → Deadline: Feb 14 | Fee: $3 | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2014 — “A biannual magazine publishing plays, fiction, and creative nonfiction from established and emerging writers.”
Third Coast Magazine → Deadline: Feb 15 | Fee: Some | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 180 days | A: 3.17% | 15K+ followers | United States | 1995 — “Founded in 1995 by graduate students of the Western Michigan University English department, Third Coast is one of the nation’s premier literary magazines—and one of only a handful of nationally distributed literary magazines to regularly include four genres.”
Polyphony Lit. | Theme: Palestine Series for 2026 → Deadline: Feb 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Poetry, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 180 days | A: 50.00% | 2K+ followers | United States | 2004 — “The global online literary platform for high school students. We invite high school students worldwide to submit creative writing, join our editorial staff, write blog posts, take workshops, and grow into leadership roles.”
Prairie Schooner → Deadline: Feb 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction | ✖️ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 150 days | A: 4.96% | 40K+ followers | United States | 1926 — “Prairie Schooner, a national literary quarterly published with the support of the English Department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the University of Nebraska Press, is home to the best fiction, poetry, essays, and reviews being published today by beginning, mid-career, and established writers.”
Passages North → Deadline: Feb 15 | Fee: Some | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 83 days | A: 2.99% | 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.”
PRISM international → Deadline: Feb 15 | Fee: No | Pay: $40/page or CA$50-CA$300 flat | Open for Multimedia, Nonfiction, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 180 days | A: 6.91% | 10K+ followers | Canada | 1959 — “PRISM international publishes exciting, original, literary material from established and emerging writers in Canada and around the world.”
The Forge → Deadline: Feb 15 | Fee: $3 | Pay: $100 | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 15 days | A: 1% | 10K+ followers | Canada | 2016 — “The Forge Literary Magazine was founded by volunteers from the Fiction Forge, an international online writers’ forum.”
Colorado Review → Deadline: Feb 15 | Fee: Some | Pay: $0-$300 flat or $0 | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction, Multimedia, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 81 days | A: 1.73% | 30K+ followers | United States | 1956 — “Committed to the publication of contemporary creative writing. We are equally interested in work by both new and established writers. CR welcomes work that centers story and voice and/or that plays with form in meaningful ways.”
JMWW Journal → Deadline: Feb 15 | Fee: Some | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 44 days | A: 16.16% | 1.5K+ followers | United States — “A weekly journal of writing publishing the best in fiction, poetry, flash, essays, and interviews (or a close approximation).”
The Banyan Review → Deadline: Feb 15 | Fee: $3 | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Poetry, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 2K+ followers | United States | 2020 — “The Banyan Review is an online, international journal promoting poetry, art, and the natural world.”
Sequestrum | Theme: Nature - Fiction & Nonfiction → Deadline: Feb 15 | Fee: Yes | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Nonfiction, Multimedia, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 180 days | A: <1% | 10K+ followers | United States | 2014 — “Sequestrum accepts manuscripts year-round, offers pay-what-you-can subscriptions, publishes on a rolling basis (about every two weeks), pairs all publications with stunning visual components, and is home to award-winning writers and new voices alike.”
Orange Blossom Review → Deadline: Feb 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | A: 2.82% | 3K+ followers | United States — “An international, peer-reviewed literary journal seeking quality fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and artwork. We invite both experienced and emerging writers to submit material.”
Aberration Labyrinth → Deadline: Feb 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Poetry, Fiction | ✖️ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 60 days | A: 35% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2012 — “We do not want poems about sailboats. They’re sort of tired and boring. We are looking for underground writers who are looking for a place to muck up the internet with their bold and interesting writing. We treasure poetry that strays from the path.”
Sunspot Lit → Deadline: Feb 15 | Fee: Yes | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 60 days | A: 4.82% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2019 — “Since launching in January of 2019, Sunspot Literary Journal has amplified diverse multinational voices. New works have been published in their original language side-by-side with English translations.”
Heimat Review → Deadline: Feb 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Multimedia, Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 40 days | 2K+ followers | 2022 — “An online journal that seeks to be a home for your prose and poetry. It is a journal of treehouses and chipped coffee mugs; creaky floors and dusty corners. A place to tape your work to the kitchen fridge.”
Denver Quarterly → Deadline: Feb 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction, Multimedia, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | A: 5% | 10K+ followers | United States | 1966 — “Experimenting since 1966. Here, there, at the foreground of avant-letters. Cover Art: Stella Nall, DQ 56.1.”
¡Pa’lante! → Deadline: Feb 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 150 days | Under 100 followers | United States | 2020 — “the literary journal of the Cerritos College English department”
Alaska Women Speak | Theme: “Sunrise occurs everywhere, in lizard time, human time, or a fern uncurling time.” -Joy Harjo → Deadline: Feb 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 300+ followers | United States | 2019 — “Alaska women have stories to tell. Alaska Women Speak is the journal devoted to their expression of ideas, literature and art.”
Freshwater Literary Journal → Deadline: Feb 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States — “Freshwater Literary Journal is a professional literary journal coordinated by students at Asnuntuck Community College since 2000, seeking submissions from the public.”
Griffith Review | Theme: Into the Archive → Deadline: Feb 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction | ☑︎ 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.”
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.”
The Write Launch → Deadline: Feb 15 | Fee: $5 | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 45 days | A: 51.39% | 1.5K+ followers | United States | 2017 — “Monthly, online literary magazine. Stories, poetry, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction.”
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.”
Luna Station Quarterly → Deadline: Feb 15 | Fee: No | Pay: $10/piece | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Multimedia | ✖️ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | A: 10% | 5K+ followers | United States | 2010 — “Stellar Short Fiction by Women-Identified Writers Since 2010”
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.”
Writers Space Africa (WSA) | Theme: Magic → Deadline: Feb 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 60 days | Under 100 followers | 2017 — “a dynamic and inclusive international literary publication, dedicated to amplifying the voices of African writers and sharing their diverse perspectives with a global audience.”
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.”
The Meraki Review → Deadline: Feb 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry | ✖️ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 10 days | Under 100 followers | United States | 2024 — “A student-run literary magazine showcasing writing from anyone, regardless of age, gender, race, or previous experience.”
100-Foot Crow → Deadline: Feb 15 | Fee: No | Pay: $0.08/word | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 60 days | A: 1.30% | 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.”
Etymos Review → Deadline: Feb 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 14 days | 400+ followers | 2024 — “A student-based art and literary magazine dedicated to sharing the voices of today’s youth.”
Journal of Experimental Practice | Theme: Journal of Experimental Practice: Antagonism (Fiction) → Deadline: Feb 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 21 days | 100+ followers | United States | 2025 — “A peer-edited journal produced through XE: Experimental Humanities & Social Engagement at NYU.”
Callaloo → Deadline: Feb 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 180 days | 9K+ followers | United States | 1976 — “Premier African diaspora literary journal examining African-American and African cultural expression worldwide.”
After the Art → Deadline: Feb 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2018 — “A quarterly literary magazine publishing personal review essays that explore how reading enriches the experience of art.”
Flame Tree Publishing | Theme: Vampires → Deadline: Feb 15 | Fee: No | Pay: $0.08/word | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 120 days | 700+ followers | United Kingdom | 1992 — “Independent publisher and creator of fine books, journals, notebooks and art calendars, with a focus on myths, gothic fantasy and great works. Regular open submission calls for our themed short-story anthologies.”
London Fog Literary | Theme: Atmospheric Fiction for Spring Issue → Deadline: Feb 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | Under 100 followers | United Kingdom | 2025 — “We are a new magazine looking for stories that feel like the London fog: beautiful, comforting, eerie and dangerous. And like London fog, the drink: something sweet you’d enjoy with a with a steamy cup in your hands by the fireside.”
In a Flash | Theme: February 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.”
Block Print | Theme: Fiction Prose Submissions for Winter 2025-26 Edition “Empathy Epidemic” → Deadline: Feb 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 2K+ followers | United States | 2025 — “Block Print is WBI’s literary zine spotlighting powerful writing and art from Connecticut youth, plus curated contributions from emerging creators in other communities.”
Bluebird’s Scribe Review → Deadline: Feb 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ✖️ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2024 — “Are you a wordsmith with passion for storytelling? Do you have a voice that yearns to be heard? Look no further!”
A Public Space → Deadline: Feb 16 | Fee: No | Pay: Yes | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 150 days | 45K+ followers | United States | 2006 — “An independent nonprofit publisher of an eponymous award-winning literary, arts, and culture magazine, and A Public Space Books.”
Bluestem Magazine → Deadline: Feb 16 | Fee: Some | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Multimedia, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 180 days | A: 1% | 2K+ followers | United States | 1966 — “Bluestem is a national literary magazine, published continuously since 1966.”
Vernacular Journal → Deadline: Feb 16 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction, Multimedia, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 60 days | 100+ followers | Greece | 2023 — “Vernacular is anything that reveals a sense of place. The informal city. The local and the vulgar.”
Gramercy Review → Deadline: Feb 16 | Fee: $5 | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 84 days | Under 100 followers | United States | 2024 — “An independent online magazine of exceptional and thought-provoking poetry and prose in both fiction and nonfiction, including works in translation.”
PHIL LIT Journal → Deadline: Feb 16 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | A: 15% | 1K+ followers | United States | 2025 — “Nonprofit publisher [Poetry, Fiction, NF/essay, Hybrid, & Art] quarterly issues (online & print) + annual PHIL LIT PARAGON (poetry anthology); exalts work that lingers between art & inquiry with a strong handle on craft. (Fearless & Human First)”
An Inkslinger’s Observance → Deadline: Feb 16 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers — “An Inkslinger’s Observance is Indiana University’s undergraduate-run literary magazine.”
Please See Me → Deadline: Feb 17 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 112 days | A: 30.77% | 1K+ followers | United States | 2018 — “An online literary journal that features health-related stories in the form of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and digital media, including photography, podcasts, and short films.”
Paper Brigade | Theme: Feb. 13, 2026 → Deadline: Feb 17 | Fee: $3 | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 186 days | 25K+ followers | United States | 2017 — “The print journal of Jewish Book Council, PAPER BRIGADE celebrates the diversity of Jewish literature today.”
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: 7.69% | 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.”
Poet In Verse Journal | Theme: Poet In Verse Journal → Deadline: Feb 17 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 60 days | 1.5K+ followers | United Kingdom | 2025 — “A new annual celebration of poetry in English language, welcoming all forms and voices anywhere in the world: ‘The Verse Is All!’”
delicate emissions → Deadline: Feb 18 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 14 days | A: 9% | 1K+ followers | United States | 2021 — “Quarterly zine for brief poems, published in physical form and online.”
Clamor Journal → Deadline: Feb 18 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 1K+ followers | United States | 2006 — “Clamor is the University of Washington Bothell’s annual Literary and Arts Journal, representing the best creative practices in literary, visual and media formats from across our campus and the surrounding community.”
The Dewdrop → Deadline: Feb 18 | 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.”
Opal Age Tribune | Theme: Humanity → Deadline: Feb 18 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction, Multimedia, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 14 days | A: 78.57% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2023 — “The queer publication of our dreams. Be a part of our digital illuminated manuscript, a luminous record of our times.”
A Thin Slice of Anxiety | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 90 days | A: 95.35% | 5K+ followers | United States | 2021 — “An independent publication which strives to nurture and promote the best up-and-coming writers of our generation. Writers who are brave enough to guide us into places of amalgamation where the unplumbed depths of the known are made and unmade.”
J Journal | Theme: Justice | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 68 days | A: 17.14% | 600+ followers | United States | 2016 — “J Journal seeks new writing – fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry – that takes on justice.”
Corner Bar Magazine | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 135 days | A: 85.00% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2015 — “We’re the handsome stepchildren of The Blotter Magazine, Inc. — a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation”
Two Hawks Quarterly | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 120 days | A: 8.32% | 300+ followers | United States | 2007 — “A digital literary journal featuring daring and lyrical writing across multiple genres, edited by the writers of the AULA UGS program.”
Blue Press | Fee: No | Pay: £15 flat or £15-£60 | Open for Poetry, Multimedia, Fiction, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 14 days | Under 100 followers | United Kingdom | 2023 — “Yearly print literary magazine featuring work from debut authors.”
R U Joking? | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Multimedia, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 10 days | 500+ followers | United States | 2020 — “A comedy publication devoted to comedic storytelling. The website features fun, factual, and fictitious stories, some jokes, and short humor. The goal of R U Joking? is to spread JOY and LAUGHTER through story.”
Nixes Mate Review | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 80 days | A: 15.79% | 400+ followers | United States | 2016 — “a navigational hazard in Boston Harbor”
Scrawl Place | Fee: No | Pay: $35/piece | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 6.22% | 3K+ followers | United States | 2021 — “Scrawl Place is part visitor’s guide, part literary journal. The audience for this online publication is the guest, the visitor, the traveler, the day-tripper, the out-of-towner, and the in-towners eager to wander. I’m looking for submissions about “places in the places” where you live or where you’ve visited.”
St. Anthony Messenger | Fee: No | Pay: $0.2/word | Open for Multimedia, Nonfiction, Fiction | ✖️ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 56 days | 10K+ followers | United States | 1893 — “St. Anthony Messenger is a national magazine founded in 1893. This Franciscan publication boasts a strong tradition of informing and inspiring Catholic readers.”
LitMag | Fee: Yes | Pay: Yes | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 180 days | 5K+ followers | United States | 2016 — “Literary Magazine. NYC. Best American Short Stories, O. Henry Prize, Pushcart Prize, etc. Available at Barnes & Noble”
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Most writers I know are poor, or are trying to manage work and writing. There are SO many "writers' support organizations/literary groups" online, which promise various kinds of information for writers --- but only if the writer pays for a subscription to the organization. Writers can't gauge the quality of any organization's purported help without shelling out their money. This has become a racket - one that's impossible to navigate without spending a lot of money and time. If your organization is truly worthwhile, why don't you offer a free "getting to know you" subscription for approximately a month, then require a paid subscription. If you're as great as you claim to be, you shouldn't have any problem enrolling paid members.