Weekly Sub Calls: Expanded | 11.19.25
+ Round-up of everything we published last week
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There are 40 sub calls today. Also, in case you missed it, here’s everything we published in the last 7 days:
ONLY POEMS | Theme: Best New Poems → Deadline: Dec 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 56 days | A: <1% | 50K+ 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.”“
The Bowery Review: NY’s Best and Only Humor Magazine | Theme: Funny Short Stories → Deadline: Nov 28 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 2 days | 300+ followers — “The Bowery Review is looking for funny short stories, poems, cartoons, gags, and jokes! Please send us what you’ve got to theboweryreview@gmail.com.”
Poetry Pea Journal and Podcast → Deadline: Nov 30 | 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.”
Oroboro Literary Journal - Death Rattle Literary → Deadline: Dec 15 | Fee: $3 | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 42 days | A: 6% | 2K+ followers | United States | 2017 — “A literary journal published bi-annually by Death Rattle, aimed at publishing and promoting poets, authors, and artists. We publish new work from both established and emerging writers.”
Macrame → Deadline: Dec 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | 2024 — “Like the macrame weaver, the writer conjures a vision of a new creation. Carefully selecting the words, the writer painstakingly knots, pulls, twists, and aligns them into the strings of sentences until line by line, a unique literary work is born.”
Postbox Magazine → Deadline: Dec 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 2K+ followers | United Kingdom | 2019 — “Postbox Magazine is a biannual collection of new short stories.”
Prosetrics The Literary Magazine | Theme: Aurora → Deadline: Dec 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Multimedia, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 14 days | A: 6% | 1.5K+ followers | Netherlands | 2022 — “An independent literary magazine that publishes poets, writers, artists, both traditional and digital, and photographers.”
Wild Hyacinth | Theme: Harmony & Sunder → Deadline: Dec 31 | Fee: No | Pay: CA$25/piece | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 20 days | A: 25% | 100+ followers | Canada | 2025 — “Wild Hyacinth aims to provide a literary pocket for difficult, uncomfortable emotions that are hard to talk about and support. Rather than the shame and isolation that can often accompany these feelings and seasons, we hope to create a community in celebration of these emotions.”
Neon and Smoke → Deadline: Jan 19, 2026 | Fee: No | Pay: $20 flat | Open for Fiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ 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.”
The Sandy River Review → Deadline: Jan 31, 2026 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction, Multimedia, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2002 — “The Sandy River Review is a literary journal consisting of two parts: an annual print issue and The River, a regularly updating stream of online content. Run by student editors in regular conversation with the print editors.”
After the Art → Deadline: Feb 15, 2026 | 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.”
StreetLit | Theme: Fiction / Nonfiction / Poetry / Manuscripts / Art → Deadline: Nov 19 | Fee: $24 | Pay: Yes | Publishes Nonfiction, Fiction, Multimedia, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 33 days | Under 100 followers | United States | 2022 — “Literature From The Street, For The People”
hedgerow: a journal of small poems → Deadline: Nov 19 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Publishes Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | Sweden | 2019 — “hedgerow is a quarterly short-poetry journal dedicated to publishing an eclectic mix of new & established voices across the spectrum of the short poem.”
WayWords Journal | Theme: Wonder (fiction) → Deadline: Nov 20 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 60 days | A: 30% | 300+ followers | United States | 2020 — “October theme: “wonder” Editors’ advice: curiosity, everyday magic, and exciting newness can fill the soul with wonder.”
Poetry Online (poetry.onl) → Deadline: Nov 20 | Fee: Some | Pay: $60/piece | 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.”
The Maine Review → Deadline: Nov 20 | Fee: $3 | Pay: $25-$50 flat or $25-$50/piece | Open for Multimedia, Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 186 days | A: 3.52% | 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.”
Azahares Literary Magazine → Deadline: Nov 20 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 30K+ followers | United States | 2025 — “UAFS’s premier Spanish-language literary magazine. The primary purpose of this magazine is to provide students and community members with a literary space for writing and artwork that presents the themes of the Latin@ experience.”
The Dodge Magazine → Deadline: Nov 20 | Fee: Some | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 59 days | A: 10.77% | 5K+ followers | United States | 1979 — “Eco-writing, works in translation, and writing about animals.”
sardine can collective → Deadline: Nov 20 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Poetry, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 14 days | 300+ followers | United States | 2025 — “poetry and prose collective assorted fish girls lesbian owned”
Necessary Fiction | Theme: Points of Light → Deadline: Nov 21 | Fee: Yes | Pay: No | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 120 days | A: 4% | 9K+ followers | United States | 2008 — “Necessary Fiction publishes a new book review each Monday, a featured short story each Wednesday, contributions to our Research Notes series on Fridays (when we have one), and occasional interviews, essays, and other surprises.”
orangepeel | Theme: winter’s night → Deadline: Nov 21 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 16% | 4K+ 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.”
astroflakes | Theme: astroflakes → Deadline: Nov 21 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 2K+ followers | United Kingdom | 2020 — “✦lil zodiac delights to treat yourself with ✦ A yearly mini-issue featuring zodiac-themed prose and poetry.”
Dog Throat Journal → Deadline: Nov 21 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for 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.”
The Orichalcum Tower Review → Deadline: Nov 21 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2025 — “A digital space for myth, memory, and imagination. We publish three times a year, welcoming voices from students, incarcerated writers, and anyone with a story to tell.”
Mantis → Deadline: Nov 21 | Fee: Some | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2000 — “Mantis is a literary journal dedicated to publishing new poetry, criticism, and poetry in translation.”
Libre → Deadline: Nov 22 | Fee: $2 | Pay: $15 flat or $15 flat | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 60 days | A: 30% | 4K+ followers | United States | 2024 — “A southern literature & arts magazine dedicated to mental health, surrealist art, & the mind.”
West Trade Review | Theme: Essays on the Creative Life → Deadline: Nov 23 | Fee: Some | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction, 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!)”
RABBLE REVIEW → Deadline: Nov 23 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | 1K+ followers | United States | 2021 — “Unapologetically leftist in politics, we recognize the complete abolition of capitalism, coerced labor, and the State as absolute pre-conditions for human and artistic liberation.”
StoryQuarterly → Deadline: Nov 23 | Fee: $5 | Pay: No | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 180 days | A: 1.52% | 1K+ followers | United States | 1975 — “StoryQuarterly, the literary magazine of Rutgers-University Camden.”
The Dewdrop → Deadline: Nov 23 | Fee: $5 | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 32 days | A: 15.00% | 900+ followers | United States | 2018 — “The Dewdrop welcomes submissions from all writers.”
Baby Teeth Journal → Deadline: Nov 24 | Fee: AU$3 | Pay: AU$25/piece | Open for Multimedia, Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 12.24% | 4K+ followers | Australia | 2018 — “An online indie publisher and small press. We’re a queer, inclusive, and anti-racist organisation with a focus on local queer and emerging creators.”
NUNUM → Deadline: Nov 24 | Fee: Some | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 10.10% | 400+ followers | Canada | 2018 — “A journal dedicated to blending flash fiction and art.”
Lucky Lizard Journal → Deadline: Nov 24 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2023 — “A biannual poetry journal embracing all forms and styles, dedicated to showcasing evocative and precise poetry.”
Horizon Review → Deadline: Nov 24 | Fee: No | Pay: $25/piece | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 60 days | 100+ followers | United States | 2025 — “Introducing Horizon Review, a new literature and fine arts magazine dedicated to serving the Southwest. Started under our parent company, FUSION, Horizon Review publishes literature, arts, and open media from artists in the Southwest.”
MudRoom → Deadline: Nov 25 | Fee: No | Pay: $15 flat or $15 | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 1.31% | 8K+ followers | United States | 2019 — “A magazine devoted to the in-between.”
Lumina Journal → Deadline: Nov 25 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 16.00% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2000 — “A multi-genre literary journal and visual art publication, run by Sarah Lawrence College’s MFA in Writing students.”
Ioche Magazine → Deadline: Nov 25 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ✖️ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 7 days | A: 95% | 700+ followers | United States | 2025 — “★ ioche [eye-o-key] is defined as the feeling of anxiety associated with the individual human experience 𓂃˖ ࣪⊹”
Nostalgia Literary | Theme: Yubikiri “Pinky Promises” → Deadline: Nov 25 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 14 days | 1K+ followers | United States | 2025 — “Nostalgia Literary Magazine is a youth-led publication that provides a safe and supportive space for young writers to share their work. We aim to publish pieces that evoke the sentimental and reflective feeling of nostalgia.”
Pearl Press | Theme: self-portrait → Deadline: Nov 26 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 21 days | A: 9% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2020 — “Pearl Press is an online publication that strives to build a proud community of diverse voices.”
The Periwinkle Pelican | Theme: issue three! → Deadline: Nov 26 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 60 days | 800+ followers | United States | 2023 — “The Birds are hungry for words!”
The Militant Grammarian | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 60 days | 100+ followers | United States | 2022 — “The Militant Grammarian is named for “The Militant Grammarians of Massachusetts,” a fictional English usage-obsessed organization depicted in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest. We’re a non-profit volunteer journal devoted to bringing the best experimental fiction to the web.”
frankie magazine | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction, Multimedia | ✖️ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 30K+ followers | Australia — “The frankie ‘personality’ is funny, friendly, smart, cute, rude, naughty, interested, serious and caring. frankie readers expect the unexpected – if you can imagine your idea running in another Australian publication, then you’ll have to re-think your pitch.”
Quadrant | Fee: No | Pay: Yes | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 8 days | A: 21.43% | Under 100 followers | Australia | 1956 — “Quadrant is published ten times a year. Each year we publish more than 200 articles, 200 poems, 70 book reviews, 20 short stories and 75 letters to the editor. It retains its founding bias towards cultural freedom, anti-totalitarianism and classical liberalism.”
Synkroniciti Magazine | Fee: $3 | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2019 — “Synkroniciti is a creative incubator for new art and performance, where generous artists from varied disciplines collaborate to create original work which inspires awareness of the human condition.”
Kaleidoscope Magazine | Fee: No | Pay: $10-$100/piece | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 94 days | A: 17.14% | 100+ followers | United States | 1979 — “Kaleidoscope Magazine creatively focuses on the experiences of disability through literature and the fine arts.”
ergot. | Fee: No | Pay: $25/piece | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | A: 4.49% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2022 — “Furthering the innovative and experimental tradition in horror.”
Live Encounters | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ✖️ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | Indonesia | 2010 — “Free Online Magazine from Village Earth Live Encounters Magazine is primarily an online publication with free access to its issues and content, making it accessible globally. It also nominates works for literary prizes and occasionally publishes previously published work with permission”
Narrative Magazine | Fee: $26 | Pay: From $200/piece | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 84 days | A: 2.10% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2003 — “Non-profit publisher of fiction, poetry, art & ideas. Since 2003, where readers & writers meet. We know ourselves and our world by the stories we tell.”
Lilith Magazine | Fee: No | Pay: Yes | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 28 days | A: 20.00% | 10K+ followers | United States | 1976 — “Independent, Jewish & frankly feminist since 1976, Lilith’s mission is to be the feminist change-agent in and for the Jewish community: amplifying Jewish feminist voices, creating an inclusive and positive Judaism, spurring gender consciousness in the Jewish world...”
Night Picnic Journal | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 125 days | A: 25.00% | 100+ followers | United States | 2018 — “Night Picnic is journal of art and literature. We are looking to feature and promote writers, poets, and artists.”
The range of opportunities here is realy impressive, from paying markets like Poetry Online at $60/piece to themed calls like orangepeel's "winter's night." The mix of deadlines helps writers prioritize based on timeline and specific project needs. The incluison of acceptance rates and response times is incredibly helpful for managing expectations.