Weekly Sub Calls: Expanded | 11.26.25
+ Round-up of everything we published last week
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There are 130 sub calls today. Also, in case you missed it, here’s everything we published in the last 7 days:
ad infinitum lit | Theme: issue 7: meridian → Deadline: Feb 21, 2026 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 60 days | A: 30% | 1.5K+ followers | United States — “for youth who dream of lost lovers, dead planets, and burnt constellations.”
OTHERSIDE | Fee: No | Pay: $100 flat | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 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.”
Pearl Press | Theme: self-portrait → Deadline: Nov 26 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Publishes 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 | Publishes Multimedia, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 60 days | 800+ followers | United States | 2023 — “The Birds are hungry for words!”
Atticus Review → Deadline: Nov 27 | Fee: $5 | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 21 days | A: 7.88% | 7K+ followers | United States | 2011 — “A daily online journal that publishes fiction, flash, poems, CNF, video, music, book reviews, cartoons, & animation.”
HOOT → Deadline: Nov 27 | Fee: Yes | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 180 days | A: 16.33% | 3K+ followers | United States | 2011 — “HOOT is a postcard. A very nice-looking one. With writing on it! It is also a little more complicated than that. It is a brief, displayable, shareable literary magazine.”
The Maine Review → Deadline: Nov 27 | Fee: Yes | Pay: $25-$50 flat or $25-$50 flat | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction, Multimedia, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 186 days | A: 3.49% | 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.”
-ette review → Deadline: Nov 27 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | 2K+ followers | United States | 2023 — “Let’s get small. -ette loves fiction, micros, and prose poetry under 1,000 words.”
transitive rag → Deadline: Nov 27 | Fee: No | Pay: AU$20 flat or AU$20 | Open for Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 42 days | 200+ followers | Australia | 2025 — “the best and trashiest trans creativity”
Folklore Review | Theme: Winter Solstice → Deadline: Nov 28 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 42 days | A: 9% | 2K+ followers | United States | 2023 — “Speculative-ish literary magazine that specializes in pieces based on folklore.”
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.”
Tint Journal | Theme: Poetry by non-native English writers (ESL) → Deadline: Nov 29 | Fee: Yes | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 90 days | A: 6% | 4K+ followers | Austria | 2018 — “The first online literary journal with an explicit focus on writers who produce creative texts in English as their second or non-native language.”
Strange Pilgrims → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: No | Pay: $50-$200/piece | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 120 days | A: 6.67% | Under 100 followers | Canada | 2025 — “Real, surreal, & brutally beautiful ✦ Independent, ad-free, & reader-supported”
THE SPECTACLE → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: No | Pay: $50 flat | Open for Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | A: <1% | 3K+ followers | United States | 2015 — “We aim for content that reminds us that our lenses matter—they focus, distort, clarify, conceal.”
New Delta Review | Theme: Hybrid 16.1 → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: Yes | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 68 days | A: 5.44% | 10K+ followers | United States | 1984 — “An online literary and arts journal produced by graduate students in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Louisiana State University”
Susurrus → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Poetry, Fiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 19.34% | 3K+ followers | United States | 2021 — “An online literary arts magazine for artists from the American South”
West Trade Review | Theme: Essays on the Creative Life → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: Some | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Poetry, Fiction | ☑︎ 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!)”
Hippocampus Magazine → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: $3 | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 180 days | A: 4% | 15K+ followers | United States | 2011 — “An exclusively online publication set out to entertain, educate and engage writers and readers of creative nonfiction. Each issue features memoir excerpts, personal essays, reviews, interviews and craft articles.”
Rattle | Theme: Ekphrastic Challenge → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: No | Pay: $50-$200 flat | Open for Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 180 days | A: 1% | 60K+ followers | United States | 1995 — “Our mission is to promote the practice of poetry,”
Baltimore Review → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 120 days | A: 1.19% | 15K+ followers | United States | 1996 — “The mission of The Baltimore Review is to showcase Baltimore as a literary hub of diverse writing and promote the work of emerging and established writers.”
Pine Row Press → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: Yes | Pay: $500 flat | Open for Poetry, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 150 days | Under 100 followers | United States | 2020 — “An online publication featuring poetry with detailed poet interviews. It is also a literary press of printed books and e-books by select poets and authors.”
Wishbone Words → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 45 days | A: 81.58% | 9K+ followers | United Kingdom | 2021 — “An inclusive online magazine publishing disabled, chronically ill, and neurodiverse creatives.”
Split Lip Magazine → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: Some | Pay: $75 flat | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 120 days | A: <1% | 40K+ followers | United States | 2012 — “Totally bonkers-in-love with voice-driven writing, pop culture, and the kind of honesty that gets you right in the kid”
Fourth Genre → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: $4 | Pay: $50 flat | Open for Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | A: 8.57% | 5K+ followers | United States | 1999 — “We’re devoted to publishing notable, innovative work in nonfiction. We curate works across the full spectrum of the genre.”
New Orleans Review → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: Some | Pay: $50-$500 flat | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 180 days | A: <1% | 8K+ followers | United States | 1968 — “A journal of contemporary literature and culture, New Orleans Review is a publication of the Department of English at Loyola University New Orleans, and is partially funded by the Kendall Michelle Daigle Memorial Endowment for English.”
Okay Donkey → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: $2.5 | Pay: Yes | Open for Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | A: 1% | 15K+ followers | United States | 2018 — “At OKD Magazine, we like to read the odd, the off-kilter, and the just plain weird. We like things that are funny, things that are sad, and things that are funny and sad at the same time.”
Oyster River Pages → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: Some | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 44 days | A: 16.73% | 1K+ followers | United States | 2017 — “ORP is interested in publishing voices that speak to what it means to be alive in this world.”
The Ekphrastic Review → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: CA$5 | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 90 days | A: 37.50% | 4K+ followers | Canada | 2015 — “An online journal devoted entirely to writing inspired by visual art.”
Contemporary Verse 2 → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: CA$3 | Pay: Yes | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 180 days | A: 21.33% | 8K+ followers | Canada | 1975 — “The mandate and primary aim of Contemporary Verse 2 is to educate, engage, and expand public appreciation of the poetic art form by sharing and promoting high-calibre, original verse and critical writing by local, national, and international poets.”
Poet Lore → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: No | Pay: $50/piece or $50 flat | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 180 days | A: 3.65% | 7K+ followers | United States | 1889 — “America’s oldest poetry magazine, publishing in print since 1889. Poet Lore is a biannual print journal of poetry, featuring the finest in contemporary writing. We love featuring poems that broaden the spectrum of what poetry is – and can be – on the page.”
L’Esprit Literary Review → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: Some | Pay: Yes | Open for Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 3% | 2K+ followers | United States | 2022 — “We publish consciousness-forward fiction and thought. Send us short stories, creative non-fiction, critical essays, autotheory, and novel extracts in the revolutionary spirit of High Modernism. We want the most fearless, risk-adept writing we can find.”
Last Leaves Magazine | Theme: Issue 11: Balance → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 60 days | A: 30% | 2K+ followers | United States | 2020 — “We believe that poetry is rooted in community. We know that sharing your work can be difficult, so we aim to provide a space where you can be proud of your words and revel in the words of others.”
Peatsmoke Journal → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: Some | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Multimedia, Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 60 days | A: 3.34% | 2K+ followers | United States | 2019 — “This is a journal committed to diverse voices, an accessible journal, a journal for everyone. We’re interested in the work you’re producing--not where you’ve been published before.”
Haven Speculative → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: No | Pay: $20/piece or $0.08/word | Open for Poetry, Fiction | ☑︎ 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.”
Sunspot Lit → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: Some | Pay: $0.01-$0.1/word | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 60 days | A: 5.19% | 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.”
bracken → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: $3 | Pay: $30 flat or $30 flat | Open for Multimedia, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 1K+ followers | United States | 2015 — “A magazine of woodsy and shadowy poetry, fiction, and art.”
Hayden’s Ferry Review | Theme: Aftercare → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: Some | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Multimedia, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 142 days | A: 3.18% | 25K+ followers | United States | 1986 — “A semi-annual, international literary journal edited by the MFA students at Arizona State University”
The Fiddlehead | Theme: The Revolution Submissions (Review Pitches) → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 180 days | A: 4.61% | 6K+ followers | Canada | 1945 — “The Fiddlehead is Atlantic Canada’s International Literary Journal. Celebrating 75 years of literary foraging in 2020!”
River Heron Review → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: $3 | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 20 days | A: 2% | 2K+ followers | United States | 2016 — “a free access online poetry journal publishing great”
Vestal Review → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: Some | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 2% | 5K+ followers | United States | 2000 — “Vestal Review is the longest-running flash fiction magazine in the world. Our stories have been reprinted in numerous anthologies and selected for Wigleaf Top 50 many times. We’re eclectic in style and open to all genres.”
Booth → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: $3 | Pay: $50 flat | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 70 days | A: 1% | 6K+ followers | United States | 2009 — “Lovely as a goose on a roof. Lit mag with print issues twice annually and a new issue online the first Friday of the month.”
Fjords Review → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: Some | Pay: $1500 or $100/piece or $50 flat | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 90 days | A: 3.85% | 3K+ followers | United States | 2010 — “Potential Sketchy Business: This magazine has been flagged for poor submission practices. See link in Important Stuff.”
Seneca Review → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: Yes | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 270 days | A: 5.21% | 900+ followers | United States | 1970 — “Seneca Review, founded in 1970 by James Crenner and Ira Sadoff, is published twice yearly, spring and fall, by Hobart and William Smith Colleges Press. The magazine’s emphasis is poetry, and the editors have a special interest in translations of contemporary poetry.”
3Elements Literary Review → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: Yes | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Multimedia, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 11 days | A: 12.05% | 4K+ followers | United States — “Unique quarterly literary journal publishing fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, & photography. Each issue begins with the posting of three elements and ends with a journal filled with the imaginative ways in which each writer and artist transformed those elements.”
BoomSpeak → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2016 — “FOR baby boomers and BY baby boomers, appeals to the interests and changing priorities of baby boomers, including travel, culture, fiction and personal essays. All the content embraces our motto: “Your whole life’s in front of you.””
Menagerie Magazine → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: $3 | Pay: $50 flat | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 60 days | A: 4.82% | 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.”
¡Pa’lante! → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Poetry, Fiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2020 — “the literary journal of the Cerritos College English department”
Black Fox Literary Magazine → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: No | Pay: $20-$30 flat or $20/piece | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 180 days | A: 2.35% | 2K+ followers | United States | 2010 — “Black Fox publishes both established and new writers. We are a literary magazine with an eclectic taste. We welcome all fiction, but we especially like fiction from under-represented genres and styles.”
Brink Literary Journal → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: Yes | Pay: $375-$750 flat | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 47 days | A: 7.34% | 4K+ followers | United States | 2021 — “Brink is an in-print literary journal publishing hybrid, cross-genre work of creatives residing outside traditional artistic communities and disciplines.”
Crannóg → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: Yes | Pay: €120-€200 flat | Open for Poetry, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 72 days | A: 4.17% | 700+ followers | Ireland | 2002 — “Our mission is to publish the work of Irish writers alongside the best available worldwide and to show how well such writing sits with the best available internationally.”
Cutthroat, a Journal of the Arts | Theme: COPING WITH VAST DOMESTIC AND GLOBAL CHANGE → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: $3 | Pay: $15-$150 | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2006 — “We strive to publish work that promotes equality, truth, and justice, work that addresses such important issues as racism, LGBTQ Rights, sexism, xenophobia, and environmental justice, work that enhances the human condition and the condition of all beings on our planet”
EcoTheo Review → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: Yes | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Multimedia, Poetry, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | A: 21.74% | 3K+ followers | United States | 2013 — “We publish original poetry, fiction, essays, and visual art, along with book reviews and interviews that explore our connections and conundrums in nature and faith at the intersection of ecology, spirituality, and culture.”
NUNUM → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: Some | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 10.12% | 400+ followers | Canada | 2018 — “A journal dedicated to blending flash fiction and art.”
Lunaris Review → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Poetry, Fiction, 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.”
Half and One → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: Yes | Pay: No | Open for 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.”
I-70 Review → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States — “Writing and Art from the Middle and Beyond”
Red Rock Review → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: Some | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 180 days | A: 11.73% | 40K+ followers | United States | 1996 — “Red Rock Review is a biannual print publication that features poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction by emerging and established writers. Founded in 1996, Red Rock Review is housed and supported by The College of Southern Nevada.”
Redivider Journal → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 71 days | A: 1% | 10K+ followers | United States | 1986 — “Redivider is operated by the MFA and MA students of the Writing, Literature & Publishing Department at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. We currently publish online twice per year.”
San Antonio Review → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: Yes | Pay: $25 flat or Yes | Open for Multimedia, Nonfiction, Poetry, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2017 — “San Antonio Review publishes original essays, poetry, art, reviews, theory and other work on its website.”
The Broken City → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Multimedia, Nonfiction, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | 100+ followers | Canada | 2007 — “The Broken City, ISSN 1916-3304, is published semi-annually out of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.”
The Good Life Review → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: Some | Pay: $50 flat or $25 flat or $60-$75/piece | Open for Multimedia, Fiction, 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”
Trestle Ties → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Multimedia, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States — “Trestle Ties’ mission is to create a bridge to publication and access to readers for emerging writers. We seek to create a safe and respectful place for emerging voices and to foster new writers. We also want to cultivate diversity, in both voice and form.”
The Louisville Review | Theme: Poetry by Young Writers in grades K-12 → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: Some | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 120 days | Under 100 followers | United States | 1976 — “A biannual, independent, not-for-profit literary journal.”
The Ocean State Review → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: $3 | Pay: $5000 | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | Under 100 followers | United States | 2011 — “Founded in 2011, publishers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and artwork, a project of the University of Rhode Island.”
The London Magazine → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: Some | Pay: $100-$300 flat | Open for Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 56 days | A: 2.88% | 10K+ followers | United Kingdom | 1954 — “England’s oldest literary periodical, with a history stretching back to 1732. Today the Magazine’s essence remains unchanged: it is a home for the best writing and an indispensable feature on the British literary landscape.”
The Metaworker Literary Magazine → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 90 days | A: 17.86% | 2K+ followers | United States | 2015 — “At The Metaworker, we publish work that offers a wide range of new perspectives, upends stereotypes and tropes, plays with form or style, or that otherwise surprises, challenges, or enchants. New prose, poetry, art & more published every Monday at noon PST.”
Under the Radar Magazine → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: Yes | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 120 days | 20K+ followers | United Kingdom | 2008 — “Under the Radar is a place for readers and writers alike to make new discoveries... It is a lively mix of the best up-and-coming and established poets and writers, as well as reviews and articles.”
Yolk Literary → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: CA$3 | Pay: CA$100-CA$200 flat | Open for Multimedia, Poetry, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 41 days | A: 4.88% | 6K+ followers | Canada — “Montreal-Based Literary Journal publishing fine work by established and emerging artists”
EXCERPT Magazine → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: $3 | Pay: No | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 5% | 500+ followers | United States | 2022 — “EXCERPT is a lit art magazine featuring fiction, film, music, and theater/comedy excerpts. While the online mag features all kinds of artists, the heart of EXCERPT is a print magazine of novel excerpts only (works-in-progress or small press pubs) from emerging writers”
Frogpond Journal → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 25 days | A: 5.26% | 4K+ followers | United States | 1978 — “We publish the best in contemporary English-language haiku and senryu, linked forms including sequences, renku, rengay, and haibun, essays and articles on these forms, and book reviews.”
Gyroscope Review → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | A: 12.86% | 700+ followers | United States | 2014 — “Fine poetry to turn your world around. Contemporary poetry published quarterly.”
The Dewdrop | Theme: dewdrops: Weekly Haiku and Print Anthology - Summer Submissions → Deadline: Nov 30 | 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.”
The Seventh Wave → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: Some | Pay: $75-$100 flat | Open for Multimedia, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 60 days | A: 37.50% | 1K+ followers | United States | 2015 — “Art in the space of social issues.”
Unleash Lit | Theme: CNF, poetry, visual, etc. → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: Yes | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 10 days | A: 10% | 800+ followers | United States | 2023 — “Unleash Lit is on the lookout for work that is authentic and unforgettable. We publish work across genres. Prose should be under 2,000 words. Poets may submit up to 5 poems. One writer each year is nominated for the editors’ prize and receives $150.”
ionosphere | Theme: Science, technology, society → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 30% | Under 100 followers | United Kingdom | 2023 — “The literary journal ionosphere focuses on the relationship between science, technology, society, and the human experience. Poetry and essays.”
Disco Kitchen Mag → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: $3 | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ✖️ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 75% | 400+ followers | United States | 2023 — “We are looking for creative writing pieces of all genres for our second issue!”
In Short: A Journal of Flash Nonfiction → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: Some | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 34 days | A: 5.26% | 600+ followers | United States | 2024 — “In Short: A Journal of Flash Nonfiction is an independent literary magazine for flash nonfiction at every length. We publish creative nonfiction of 1,000 words or fewer, micros of 400 words or fewer, and short-shorts of 100 words or fewer.”
The Hemlock Journal → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 30% | Under 100 followers | India | 2023 — “A literary journal based in India, publishing writers from around the globe.”
Grey Coven Publishing | Theme: General call (Tip jar) → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: Some | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 45 days | A: 30% | 1K+ followers | United States | 2024 — “publishing poetry, flash fiction, and art with a focus on darker themes”
The Broken Teacup → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Poetry, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 21 days | A: 20% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2024 — “For people who have tea to spill, time to kill, porcelain to shatter.”
The Marrow International Poetry → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: No | Pay: AU$40/piece | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 56 days | A: 1.85% | Under 100 followers | Australia | 2024 — “An online literary journal featuring the finest new international poetry from emerging and established poets.”
Trace Fossils Review → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: $5 | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 112 days | A: 3% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2023 — “The art in wake of the artist.”
Chicago Story Press | Theme: Creative Nonfiction and Essays → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: $5 | Pay: $25 flat | Open for Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 60 days | A: 10% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2020 — “Creative Nonfiction that shines a light on a deeper truth.”
Audi Locus | Theme: Unthemed → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 28 days | A: 16% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2024 — “A creative space showcasing poetry, music, art, and ideas that are both delicate and bold.”
Viridine Literary | Theme: Issue 05: Refuge → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 7% | 1K+ followers | United Kingdom | 2024 — “Literary magazine accepting poetry, fiction, scripts, essays, and visual art.”
Open Secrets Magazine | Theme: Personal Essay Call for Submissions → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: No | Pay: $25-$200 flat | Open for Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 31 days | A: 5% | 10K+ followers | United States | 2023 — “Open Secrets is a home for memorable, revealing personal essays about all the subjects we’re taught to keep “secret.”“
Mikrokosmos and Mojo Literary Journal → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: Yes | Pay: Yes | Open for Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 1958 — “We are an MFA-run literary magazine at Wichita State University in Kansas. Send us works both beautiful and strange.”
Brown Bag → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2020 — “So, who are we? A chaotic disaster fueled by the dream of creating a space where art lives in conversation with one another. Our philosophy is that art tends to be inspired by other works of art.”
ARTWIFE → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: Some | Pay: $20 flat | Open for Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 32 days | A: 6.67% | 1K+ followers | United States | 2022 — “ARTWIFE exists to serve as an oasis of beauty, art, and human expression.”
Baltimore Gothic → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: Yes | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | 2024 — “We are not a slasher magazine. We are inspired by the gothic tradition. Think “A Rose for Emily,” not “Friday the 13th.” We love stories that center around modern themes and say something new about the human condition. We seek pieces that capture the good, the bad, and the ugly of being human.”
Gramercy Review → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: $5 | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 69 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.”
Oratoria → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: Some | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | Under 100 followers | United Kingdom | 2019 — “Oratoria is a London-based bi-annual literary magazine that publishes fiction, non-fiction, poetry, art, illustration, and photography.”
White Pine Press → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 1973 — “Independent publisher specializing in literature from Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe.”
Black Lawrence Press → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: Some | Pay: $0-$625 flat | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 224 days | A: 1.51% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2004 — “Independent publisher of contemporary literature offering contests, open reading periods, and chapbook series.”
Gun Powder Press → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: $3 | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2013 — “Small press publishing poetry chapbooks and collections with innovative design elements.”
Four Tulips | Theme: Cozy → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: $2 | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2024 — “Four Tulips publishes poetry and prose from both new and established writers. We live in the moment where visual art comes alive through the written word.”
new verse review → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: Some | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers — “New Verse Review is an online journal dedicated to lyric and narrative poetry, featuring a diverse range of poems, translations, and critical essays. The journal showcases works from both emerging and established poets, offering readers a rich and”
The Quasar Review → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 17% | 200+ followers | United States | 2025 — “The Quasar Review is an international literary magazine publishing poetry, visual art, and a myriad of other creative forms. It offers writers and artists an avenue to have their thoughts heard.”
Claudine: A Literary Magazine → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: $2 | Pay: $25 | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 5 days | A: 3% | 1K+ followers | United States | 2025 — “Curious. Clever. Quick. We’re a monthly micro literary magazine: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, New Writer Micros, and Prose Chapbook Reviews, 400 words or fewer.”
Bridge | Theme: The Illuminated Tractatus → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: Yes | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 2K+ followers | United States | 1990 — “Bridge is an independent, intelligent, and regionally grounded print publication offering a cosmopolitan perspective on arts and culture from the American Midwest.”
Aphor Magazine → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 14 days | A: 13% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2025 — “Substantial. Sincere.”
Mots Entre Nous Magazine | Theme: Fleurir → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 3 days | Under 100 followers | Australia | 2024 — “Nos mots, notre voix, notre monde: Un espace d’expression pour les jeunes francophiles d’Australie”
Strange Daze | Theme: Strange Daze: Issue 2 → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Multimedia, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | Australia | 2025 — “art and writing that evokes nostalgia, daydreams, and most of all, hope in these strange days”
orange juice → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 50.00% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2024 — “online, quarterly poetry magazine for all shapes, sizes, & colors of poetry.”
Girl Dinner Digest → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 300+ followers | United States | 2025 — “bite-sized lit, culture, and media mag for those who identify with girlhood.”
parABnormal Magazine [Hiraeth Books] → Deadline: Nov 30 | 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.”
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.”
Rain Taxi Review of Books → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: No | Pay: Yes | Open for Nonfiction | ✖️ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 1996 — “A Minneapolis-based quarterly literary magazine championing innovative writing through reviews, interviews, and events.”
Scribeworth: → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 100+ followers | United States | 2024 — “A quarterly literary magazine showcasing poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, and visual art from emerging and established creators.”
London Fog Literary | Theme: Atmospheric Fiction for Long Winter Nights → Deadline: Nov 30 | 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.”
Flag Magazine | Theme: Creative Writing → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 14 days | 4K+ followers | United States | 2024 — “An independent queer publication dedicated to uplifting queer & trans creatives + highlighting events, businesses, organizations, and resources in Los Angeles and beyond. Releasing every summer and winter in print and digital.”
Tendrils | Theme: Short form literature → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: No | Pay: $20 flat | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 60 days | 300+ followers | United States | 2025 — “An art & literary journal dedicated to fostering healing and sparking conversations around trauma.”
Fair Copy → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: Yes | Pay: $0-$795 flat or $25-$625 flat | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2025 — “Literary fiction, nonfiction, and hybrid prose published alongside drafts and craft essays.”
GossamerWight Literary Magazine | Theme: Everyday Eerie → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 3 days | 200+ followers | United Kingdom | 2025 — “A quarterly anthology featuring dark and unconventional stories and poetry that twist the familiar into the uncanny.”
American Literary Review → Deadline: Dec 1 | Fee: Yes | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 120 days | A: 2.26% | 15K+ followers | United States | 1990 — “Since 1990, the American Literary Review has been published through the Department of English at the University of North Texas. From the journal’s inception, we have made a point of publishing poetry, fiction, and nonfiction by writers at all stages of their careers.”
Five Points → Deadline: Dec 1 | Fee: Yes | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 103 days | A: 1.00% | 400+ followers | United States | 1996 — “Published bi-annually by the Georgia State University Department of English, each issue features art, poetry, fiction, flash, and essays by the most compelling artists and writers working today.”
Appalachian Review → Deadline: Dec 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 300 days | A: 4.17% | 1K+ followers | United States | 1973 — “Quarterly literary magazine publishing fiction, CNF, poetry, craft essays, interviews, and book reviews.”
Bryant Literary Review → Deadline: Dec 1 | Fee: $5 | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2000 — “The Bryant Literary Review is an international journal of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction housed in the English and Cultural Studies Department at Bryant University in Smithfield, RI.”
Hunger Mountain → Deadline: Dec 1 | Fee: $3 | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 40 days | A: 6.49% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2002 — “Hunger mountain is created by the faculty and students in the Writing Program at Vermont College of Fine Arts.”
LETTERS Journal → Deadline: Dec 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 120 days | Under 100 followers | United States | 2013 — “a semi-annual journal of literature and visual art attending to the force and friction of religion, spirituality, and belief within contemporary experience”
Futurist Letters | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | Under 100 followers — “Publishes essays on film, literature, emergent technologies, public policy, and the strange spaces where they intersect.”
The New Territory | Fee: No | Pay: Yes | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 138 days | A: 16.67% | 2K+ followers | United States | 2015 — “The New Territory is a biannual print magazine of the Lower Midwest. Slow journalism. Regional literature. Photography and art. For endlessly curious Midwesterners to break free from distraction and dive deep in the Great Plains and Ozarks.”
The American Poetry Review | Theme: Essays, Book Reviews, and Interviews | Fee: $3 | Pay: $1-$60/page | Open for Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 180 days | A: <1% | 35K+ followers | United States | 1972 — “The American Poetry Review is dedicated to reaching a worldwide audience with a diverse array of the best contemporary poetry and literary prose.”
Another New Calligraphy | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 90 days | A: 33.33% | 1K+ followers | United States | 2009 — “Seeks work exploring the human experience, our internal worlds, and life among others; these complex systems are often clearest in our slightest moments.”
The Daily Drunk | Theme: Pop Culture | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 7 days | A: 66.67% | 10K+ followers | United States | 2020 — “Seeks film, TV, music, video games, and all pop culture-related submissions of previously unpublished fiction, nonfiction, poetry, lists, reviews, quizzes, and comics”
Unlikely Stories | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Multimedia, Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 56 days | A: 62.50% | 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.”
The Writing Disorder | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 180 days | 800+ followers | United States | 2010 — “A literary journal devoted to literature, art and culture. We publish quarterly and are based in Los Angeles, CA.”
Horror Sleaze Trash | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Poetry, Fiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2010 — “Horror Sleaze Trash is an independent literary publication that focuses on provocative and unconventional content.”
Josephine Quarterly | Fee: Yes | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 70 days | A: 1% | 900+ followers | United States | 1998 — “Josephine Quarterly (ISSN 2334-5888) is an online literary magazine celebrating the resilience and voices of underrepresented poets. We aim to publish four issues a year, but we are always reading and are interested in work from both established and new voices.”
