Weekly Sub Calls: Expanded | 12.10.25
+ Round-up of everything we published last week
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There are 96 weekly sub calls today. Also, in case you missed it, here’s everything we published in the last 7 days:
The Cherry Bite Magazine | Theme: The Cherry Bite Magazine Wants Your Art! → Deadline: Dec 23 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 5 days | Under 100 followers | United States | 2025 — “The magazine where you never know what you’re going to get.”
The Solitude Diaries | Theme: Issue VI: FLESH / Poetry → Deadline: Jan 3, 2026 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 28 days | A: 32% | 800+ followers | United States | 2024 — “a literary magazine for the morbid and strange”
Notch Magazine | Theme: IF/ELSE → Deadline: Jan 7, 2026 | Fee: No | Pay: $0-$150/piece | Open for Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 38 days | A: 3.85% | 2K+ followers | United States | 2024 — “A literary and arts magazine based in New York and Paris.”
Reading into Culture → Deadline: Jan 31, 2026 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Poetry, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 10 days | Under 100 followers | United Kingdom | 2025 — “Literary magazine for and by left-wing young people. Poetry, fiction, and essays on art, culture, and society.”
The Diutay Review → Deadline: Mar 7, 2026 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | Brazil | 2025 — “A literary magazine dedicated to short poetry — any poetry up to seven lines.”
Triptych | Theme: Triptych → Deadline: Mar 10, 2026 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 42 days | Under 100 followers | United States | 2025 — “A journal of speculative fiction shaped by the fleeting summers and long winter dark of New England.”
MAYDAY → Deadline: Dec 10 | Fee: Some | Pay: $20 flat | Open for Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 60 days | A: 5.93% | 8K+ followers | United States | 2009 — “MAYDAY presents new poetry, fiction, nonfiction, translations, cultural commentary, and visual art to an international community of readers. We publish artists that explore culture and history; politics regional and global; the past, present, and future.”
Burningword Literary Journal → Deadline: Dec 10 | Fee: $3 | Pay: No | Publishes Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | A: 10% | 1.5K+ followers | United States | 2000 — “A quarterly international short-form publication of poetry, short fiction, short nonfiction, and photography.”
Up the Staircase Quarterly → Deadline: Dec 10 | Fee: $3 | Pay: No | Publishes Multimedia, Poetry, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 2.65% | 3K+ followers | United States | 2008 — “An online journal of poetry, art, interviews, and reviews.”
HerStry → Deadline: Dec 10 | Fee: $3 | Pay: $20 flat | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 103 days | A: 18.75% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2015 — “Unless she did something very incredible (or very, very bad) most women don’t get named in history. HerStry wants to rewrite the narrative and put women’s stories front and center.”
StreetLit | Theme: Fiction / Nonfiction / Poetry / Manuscripts / Art → Deadline: Dec 10 | Fee: $24 | Pay: Yes | Publishes Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 33 days | Under 100 followers | United States | 2022 — “Literature From The Street, For The People”
Magma Poetry | Theme: Architecture → Deadline: Dec 10 | Fee: Yes | Pay: No | Publishes Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 113 days | A: 4.47% | 30K+ followers | United Kingdom | 1994 — “Magma is unique in that each issue has a different theme and different editors. The editorship circulates among the group that runs the magazine, with frequent guest editors.”
Big Whoopie Deal → Deadline: Dec 10 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction | ✖️ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 47 days | A: <1% | Under 100 followers | 2020 — “BWD is an aesthetically soothing zone for literature. We are an eclectic mix.”
The Blood Pudding → Deadline: Dec 10 | Fee: $6 | Pay: No | Publishes Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 87 days | A: <1% | 6K+ followers | Greece | 2020 — “Raw literature on the human condition. Poetry that crackles and pops. Fiction to ruin a lifetime. Nonfiction too beaut.”
the forethought collective → Deadline: Dec 10 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Publishes Multimedia, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2025 — “a design, literature, and art collective | based in ca ☀️”
Shadow Pond Journal | Theme: Open Kigo → Deadline: Dec 10 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Publishes Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2023 — “A biannual journal dedicated to high-quality haiku and senryu poetry.”
Spooky Gaze → Deadline: Dec 10 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Publishes Fiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 14 days | 300+ followers | United Kingdom | 2022 — “An annual magazine that wakes up with the dead. Send us your spectres of language.”
Island Magazine → Deadline: Dec 11 | Fee: Yes | Pay: AU$600-AU$1500/word or AU$600-AU$1500 flat | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 60 days | A: 10.71% | 5K+ followers | Australia | 1979 — “a premium Australian literary magazine of fiction, poetry, nonfiction and arts features”
The Maine Review → Deadline: Dec 11 | Fee: $3 | Pay: $25-$50 flat or $25-$50/piece | Open for Multimedia, Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 183 days | A: 3.46% | 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.”
Dreamworldgirl Zine | Theme: Issue 04: Obsession → Deadline: Dec 11 | Fee: No | Pay: $5-$10/piece | Open for Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 62 days | A: <1% | 40K+ followers | United States | 2024 — “Dreamworldgirl Zine is a Boston and LA based multimedia zine for all things girlhood.”
The Cadence Review | Theme: Descent Before Rising: Hibernation → Deadline: Dec 11 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 7 days | A: 49% | 500+ followers | Canada | 2025 — “We write unapologetically, in the afterglow of our rhythm, tuning language until it hums back.”
La Piccioletta Barca → Deadline: Dec 12 | Fee: Yes | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 9.52% | 6K+ followers | United Kingdom | 2018 — “on beauty, taste, culture, politics and the lived experience thereof”
Stonecrop Magazine → Deadline: Dec 12 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 108 days | A: 10.00% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2013 — “We publish original works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and art.”
Jelly Squid | Theme: Issue 4: MENDING → Deadline: Dec 12 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 90 days | A: 9.26% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2024 — “Jelly Squid is a triannual literary magazine that showcases emerging writers and artists.”
Passages North → Deadline: Dec 13 | Fee: Some | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Nonfiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 82 days | A: 2.87% | 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.”
Peatsmoke Journal → Deadline: Dec 13 | Fee: Yes | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 60 days | A: 3.17% | 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.”
StoryQuarterly → Deadline: Dec 13 | Fee: $5 | Pay: No | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 180 days | A: 1.48% | 1K+ followers | United States | 1975 — “StoryQuarterly, the literary magazine of Rutgers-University Camden.”
Purely Liminal Magazine | Theme: Issue 7 Manebu: General call → Deadline: Dec 13 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 45 days | A: 8% | Under 100 followers | Canada | 2024 — “Purely Liminal Magazine is a Toronto-based for-youth by-youth print (and online) magazine”
West Trade Review | Theme: Essays on the Creative Life → Deadline: Dec 14 | Fee: Yes | 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!)”
carte blanche → Deadline: Dec 14 | Fee: No | Pay: CA$75 flat | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | A: 3.95% | 10K+ followers | Canada | 2004 — “A Quebec-based online literary magazine published by the Quebec Writer’s Federation that presents eclectic narratives in all forms and supports Canadian and international writers and artists”
L’Esprit Literary Review → Deadline: Dec 14 | Fee: Yes | 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.”
Sunspot Lit | Theme: Very Long-form Fiction, CNF, Poem, Graphic Novel 2025 → Deadline: Dec 14 | Fee: Yes | Pay: $0.01-$0.1/word | Open for Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 60 days | A: 5.06% | 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.”
Academy of the Heart and Mind → Deadline: Dec 14 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Poetry, Fiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 26 days | A: 65.83% | 800+ followers | United States | 2017 — “The Academy of the Heart and Mind is dedicated to helping emerging writers get published and gain experience honing their craft.”
Buckmxn Journal | Theme: Shed (writing) → Deadline: Dec 14 | Fee: Yes | Pay: Yes | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 30 days | Under 100 followers | United States | 2018 — “Buckmxn Journal is an art and literature anthology, published twice a year, featuring the Pacific Northwest’s finest talent.”
SoFloPoJo - South Florida Poetry Journal → Deadline: Dec 14 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 120 days | A: 15.24% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2016 — “We publish Poetry, Flash, Art, Videos, Reviews, Essays, and Interviews.”
The Quarter(ly) | Theme: Stark → Deadline: Dec 14 | Fee: No | Pay: $0.06-$0.1/word | Open for Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 60 days | A: 15.80% | 10K+ followers | United States | 2016 — “A Literary Journal with Some Art, Comics, and Analysis Thrown in for Good Measure. We want to offer a space for shorter works to mingle with art and other bits of nonsense, so we bring you The Quarter(ly): It just makes cents.”
The Dewdrop | Theme: dewdrops: Weekly Haiku and Print Anthology - Summer Submissions → Deadline: Dec 14 | 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.”
Trash Cat Lit | Theme: Call for Cat Stories - Winter Pop-Up → Deadline: Dec 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”
Gramercy Review → Deadline: Dec 14 | 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.”
Golgonooza Magazine → Deadline: Dec 14 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Poetry, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2025 — “Golgonooza Magazine is a new venture from our artistic collective dedicated to the exploration and innovation of The Weird as an artistic philosophy.”
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% | 80K+ followers | Canada | 2023 — “Fall in love with poetry. Send us your weird, wild & wonderful poems & book reviews. As Leonard Cohen said, “Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”“
Fish Barrel Review → Deadline: Dec 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 45 days | A: 5.83% | 2K+ followers | 2021 — “We are looking for dedicated, enthusiastic writers. We want work that challenges and inspires. We want work with empathy. We want work with urgency, work the world needs to see.”
Split Lip Magazine → Deadline: Dec 15 | 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”
AGNI | Theme: Genre-bender → Deadline: Dec 15 | Fee: Some | Pay: $30-$300/page or $0 flat | Open for Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 120 days | A: 1.52% | 20K+ followers | United States | 1972 — “A literary magazine named after the Vedic fire-god. Transformative. The writer in witness, the imagination in combustion.”
Exposition Review → Deadline: Dec 15 | Fee: $3.5 | Pay: $50 flat or $1-$10/line | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction, Multimedia, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 88 days | A: 3% | 7K+ followers | United States | 2016 — “An independent, multi-genre literary journal that publishes narratives by new, emerging, and established writers in the genres of fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry, scripts for stage & screen, film, experimental narratives.”
Bayou Magazine → Deadline: Dec 15 | Fee: Some | Pay: $100-$150 flat or $0-$50 flat | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 149 days | A: 6.53% | 2K+ followers | United States | 2002 — “Founded in 2002, Bayou Magazine is an annual literary magazine. We accept poetry, fiction, and fine art images. We also publish the winner of the annual Tennessee Williams One-Act Play Contest. Our mission is to present exceptional, original writing by both established and emerging writers.”
Wild Willow Magazine | Theme: Flash Nonfiction → Deadline: Dec 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction, Multimedia, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 14 days | A: 46.67% | 3K+ followers | United States | 2020 — “Formerly The Minison Project, Wild Willow Magazine is a literary magazine founded by Melissa Ashley Hernandez that intertwines nature and the human experience, showcasing the wonderful, weird, and wild aspects of the human condition.”
Crab Creek Review → Deadline: Dec 15 | Fee: Yes | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 60 days | A: 6.66% | 7K+ followers | United States | 1983 — “We are Seattle’s 34-year old nonprofit print literary journal publishing the best writing from the Northwest and beyond.”
Another Chicago Magazine → Deadline: Dec 15 | Fee: Some | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction, Multimedia, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 97 days | A: 16.67% | 2K+ followers | United States | 1977 — “Independent Chicago Literature since 1977. We love work that is personal and political and shows that you can write beautifully and incisively about important subjects.”
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.”
LitMag → Deadline: Dec 15 | Fee: Yes | Pay: $100-$300/piece or $0.05-$0.2/word | 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”
Southwest Review → Deadline: Dec 15 | Fee: $3 | Pay: Yes | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 151 days | A: 1.79% | 5K+ followers | United States | 1915 — “Founded in 1915 and housed on the campus of Southern Methodist University, Southwest Review is the third-longest-running literary quarterly in the United States.”
45th Parallel → Deadline: Dec 15 | Fee: Yes | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 161 days | A: 10.00% | 2K+ followers | United States — “45th Parallel is a literary magazine affiliated with Oregon State’s School of Literature, Writing, and Film that celebrates in-betweenness.”
The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts → Deadline: Dec 15 | Fee: Some | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 5 days | A: 1.59% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2010 — “We believe that something very small can add up to something very big, as in the compressed moment of the big bang. We want to think through compression.”
Baffling Magazine → Deadline: Dec 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 120 days | A: 9.93% | 1K+ followers | United States | 2020 — “Baffling Magazine is a quarterly online magazine of flash fiction. We love fantasy, science fiction & horror stories with a queer bent.”
Broadsided Press | Theme: Broadsided Responds → Deadline: Dec 15 | Fee: $3 | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 63 days | A: 21.05% | 2K+ followers | United States | 2005 — “Free, original monthly broadsides for you to print & share. Seeking strong writing. Enabling you to get art & literature into your community. Founded 2005.”
Cola Literary Review → Deadline: Dec 15 | Fee: $3 | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 163 days | A: 2.37% | Under 100 followers | United States | 1993 — “Annual journal edited by graduate students in the MFA Program at the University of South Carolina.”
Copper Nickel → Deadline: Dec 15 | Fee: $3 | Pay: $500/piece or $200-$500 flat | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 56 days | A: <1% | 5K+ followers | United States | 2002 — “The national literary journal housed at the University of Colorado Denver, publishing poetry, fiction, essays, and translation folios.”
Carolina Muse Literary & Arts Magazine → Deadline: Dec 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 28 days | 2K+ followers | United States | 2020 — “Carolina Muse is a tri-annual multimedia literary & arts magazine featuring young adult creators who have ever called North Carolina or South Carolina their home. poetry | art | dance | stories & scripts | music”
Epiphany Magazine | Theme: FICTION → Deadline: Dec 15 | Fee: Some | Pay: $100-$300 flat or $75-$175/piece or $75 flat | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 150 days | A: 5% | 4K+ followers | United States | 2001 — “Epiphany Magazine is a semiannual print and online literary journal and an independent nonprofit 501(c)(3) that supports practicing writers at every stage of their careers.”
Faultline Journal of Arts and Letters → Deadline: Dec 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Poetry, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 175 days | A: 3.45% | Under 100 followers | United States | 1992 — “Faultline features the work of emerging and established writers from the U.S. and abroad. The journal publishes new poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, translations, and art in an annual spring issue.”
Nude Bruce Review → Deadline: Dec 15 | Fee: Yes | Pay: $25/line | Open for Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2012 — “Our mission is to publish compelling, high-quality work from writers from all over the world to spotlight their voices. To this end, we welcome submissions from writers of all identities and backgrounds, and we do not charge reading fees.”
LETTERS Journal → Deadline: Dec 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for 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”
Long River Review → Deadline: Dec 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Multimedia, Nonfiction, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 104 days | A: 5.26% | 200+ followers | United States | 1997 — “Founded in 1997, the Long River Review is an annual literary journal of art and literature staffed by undergraduates at the University of Connecticut.”
Red Coyote → Deadline: Dec 15 | Fee: Yes | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States — “A journal of original short stories, essays, poems and artwork.”
Right Hand Pointing | Theme: prose poems → Deadline: Dec 15 | Fee: Some | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Poetry, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 22 days | A: 8.37% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2004 — “Short poetry, short fiction. An AMBIDEXTROUS BLOODHOUND publication”
Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine → Deadline: Dec 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 60 days | Under 100 followers | United States | 2013 — “At Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine, our primary interest is quality. We welcome submissions in any and all forms, genres, styles, and approaches in written word and image. We encourage innovation as well as tradition.”
Southern Indiana Review → Deadline: Dec 15 | Fee: $4 | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 73 days | 1K+ followers | United States | 1994 — “Southern Indiana Review presents a cross-section of emerging and established artists and writers whose work is both regional and national in scope and degree of recognition. SIR is published in October and May by the University of Southern Indiana.”
South Carolina Review (SCR) | Theme: 1, Fall ‘26 → Deadline: Dec 15 | Fee: Yes | Pay: $0.01-$0.07/word | Open for Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 133 days | A: 3.85% | 100K+ followers | United States | 1968 — “We attempt to reflect the diverse experience of our readers and contributors by publishing affecting, thought-provoking work from both new and established writers from a wide background.”
The Timberline Review → Deadline: Dec 15 | Fee: Yes | Pay: Yes | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 7 days | A: 4.35% | 6K+ followers | United States — “the Timberline Review is an all-volunteer literary journal published by Willamette Writers. Our focus is on showcasing emerging talent.”
The Muleskinner Journal | Theme: Sabotage → Deadline: Dec 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 12% | 500+ followers | United States | 2021 — “The journey is long, and the road is hard, but that’s why we love it. Whoever you are, whatever you want to send, whatever you are waiting to receive, we drive straight, and we drive true. We publish stories and poems that keep things moving. We deliver the goods.”
The Write Launch → Deadline: Dec 15 | Fee: $5 | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Multimedia, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 45 days | A: 46.96% | 1.5K+ followers | United States | 2017 — “Monthly, online literary magazine. Stories, poetry, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction.”
Propagule | Theme: Propagule Issue 8: Fiction → Deadline: Dec 15 | Fee: Some | Pay: $0.005-$30/word | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 120 days | A: 2.11% | 900+ followers | United States | 2022 — “Propagule is a literary magazine, founded in 2022. Propagule champions experimentation, transgression, and aesthetic novelty. Propagule is engrossed by narrative, style, and form. Propagule rejects the literary/genre divide. Propagule is Speculative Surrealism.”
One Sentence Poems | Theme: prose poems → Deadline: Dec 15 | Fee: Some | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 800K+ followers | United States — “We publish poems made up of a single sentence.”
Southern Cultures → Deadline: Dec 15 | Fee: No | Pay: Yes | Open for Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 1993 — “An academic journal about the history and cultures of the U.S. South, published by UNC Press.”
The Seventh Wave | Theme: Little Changes → Deadline: Dec 15 | Fee: Yes | Pay: $75-$100 flat | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 60 days | A: 36.00% | 1K+ followers | United States | 2015 — “Art in the space of social issues.”
Unbroken | Theme: prose poems → Deadline: Dec 15 | Fee: Some | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Poetry, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 7 days | A: 7.84% | 4K+ followers | United States | 2015 — “A quarterly online journal that seeks to showcase prose poems and poetic prose, both from established and emerging voices.”
Unlost: Found Poetry & Art | Theme: Found Writing/Texts → Deadline: Dec 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 45 days | Under 100 followers | United States — “Found poems come from existing texts, such as newspaper articles, street signs, letters, books, poems.”
Philly Poetry Chapbook Review → Deadline: Dec 15 | Fee: No | Pay: $10 flat | Open for Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 14 days | A: 3% | 1K+ followers | United States | 2023 — “Philly Poetry Chapbook Review (PCR) is an online literary journal dedicated to chapbooks, specifically poetry. We publish poetry chapbook reviews, original poetry, and author features. We also feature monthly poem excerpts.”
ellipsis... → Deadline: Dec 15 | Fee: Yes | Pay: $3/page or $10/piece | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Multimedia, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 1965 — “Nationally and internationally recognized journal published by the students of Westminster College, featuring poetry and creative writing by Westminster students and guest contributors.”
Asterales: A Journal of Art and Letters → Deadline: Dec 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 8 days | A: 5.26% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2025 — “A quarterly online journal that will publish 5 poems, two pieces of prose, and art in each issue. Looking for work that blooms - many-petaled and reaching for the sun,”
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.”
Blood+Honey | Theme: Rules of Verse: Poetry Inspired by the Velvet Underground → Deadline: Dec 15 | Fee: Yes | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 4 days | A: 47.62% | 4K+ followers | United States | 2025 — “Blood+Honey is a literary magazine dedicated to experimental and avant-garde poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction that challenges conventional norms and provokes thought.”
Encyclopedia Prismatica | Theme: Encyclopedia Prismatica Call for Submissions: Identity in the 21st Century → Deadline: Dec 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 25 days | A: 9% | 100+ followers | United States | 2025 — “A philosophical and literary journal, ENPRI revives the spirit of existential engagement, combined with artistic experimentation. The editorial vision draws inspiration from modern existential thought and the humanist tradition of Les Temps Modernes.”
The Orange Rose Literary Magazine → Deadline: Dec 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 14 days | 1K+ followers | United States | 2025 — “Vivid and colorful prose and poetry. Writing as varied as a sprawling flower garden.”
Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine (SBLAAM) → Deadline: Dec 15 | Fee: $3 | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2013 — “An online magazine dedicated to quality literature and art, welcoming diverse submissions and encouraging both innovation and tradition.”
Tricycle → Deadline: Dec 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 90K+ followers | United States | 1991 — “Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, the first magazine intended to present Buddhist perspectives to a Western readership.”
The Skybridge Review → Deadline: Dec 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 28 days | 100+ followers | United States | 2025 — “We seek writing from emerging writers, work that explores the boundaries of the creative voice.”
The Artistry Magazine | Theme: Issue 01: Cabaret → Deadline: Dec 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | A: 99% | 500+ followers | Mexico | 2025 — “The Artistry is an independent literary magazine that publishes the written work of brewing creatives.”
In a Flash | Theme: December theme: MAPS → Deadline: Dec 15 | Fee: No | Pay: $25/piece | 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.”
Dazed Santa Poetry Newsletter → Deadline: Dec 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 360 days | 100+ followers | United States | 2025 — “Dazed Santa publishes an eclectic poetry newsletter that features all styles and forms of poetry.”
Mugwort Magazine → Deadline: Dec 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 28 days | 500+ followers | United Kingdom | 2024 — “Writing from the edges - poetry, fiction, non-fiction, hybrid, and art.”
Grub Street → Deadline: Dec 16 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 74 days | A: 17.37% | 3K+ followers | United States | 1952 — “Grub Street Literary Magazine is Towson University’s award-winning literary journal, run entirely by undergraduate students enrolled in “Editing the Literary Magazine”, an English upper elective class.”
The Masters Review → Deadline: Dec 16 | Fee: Some | Pay: $50-$200 flat | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 75 days | A: <1% | 30K+ followers | United States | 2011 — “An online and in print publication celebrating new and emerging writers. We are on the lookout for the best new talent with hopes of publishing stories from writers who will continue to produce great work.”
The Chai Magazine | Theme: Adhoore (Incomplete) → Deadline: Dec 16 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 600+ followers | India | 2025 — “An independent, youth-run literary magazine from India and beyond! Love for the literary world with no borders.”
Hellbender Magazine → Deadline: Dec 17 | Fee: Yes | Pay: $250 | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 616 days | A: 11.11% | Under 100 followers | United States — “Hellbender Magazine—formerly Cheat River Review—is a home for fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and visual art.”
ær’d → Deadline: Dec 17 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 200+ followers | United States | 2023 — “Uplifting young voices, ær’d seeks to encourage critical thought and writing amongst students as to foster confidence in actively addressing the climate of young lives”
seasonal fruits literary → Deadline: Dec 17 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ✖️ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 1K+ followers | Canada | 2023 — “seasonal fruits literary, est. 2023, is a quarterly literary magazine that publishes poetry inspired by the seasons from emerging & established poets alike. we publish emotive, perceptive works.”
Pratilipi | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | India | 2014 — “Pratilipi is India’s largest online self-publishing platform, offering content in 12 languages and empowering writers and readers nationwide.”
The Carried Away | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 600+ followers | Netherlands | 2024 — “Are you a dreamer with a story to share? Our platform is one for you to unveil the hidden gems you’ve been holding onto. Are you a reader longing to be swept away? We have boundless worlds waiting for you. Do you simply yearn to feel the joy of a like-minded community? Welcome to The Carried Away!”
Blue Press | Fee: No | Pay: £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.”
Live Mag! | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 300+ followers | United States — “Party Everywhere—art, poetry, criticism, Live Mag!”
Sorry! Zine | Theme: Sorry, not sorry! | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 14 days | A: 95% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2024 — “Sorry! Zine is a literary & STEM magazine for young creatives (ages 13–25) who are raw, unapologetic and just love to explore and express—through writing, art and inquiry.”
Cripple Punk Mag | Fee: No | Pay: $10/piece | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | Under 100 followers — “Accessibility in Local & DIY Music”
Grey Sparrow Journal | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 365 days | Under 100 followers | United States | 2009 — “published annually online”
Blydyn Square Review | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2021 — “Published online twice a year, fall and spring—that’s two issues jam-packed with thought-provoking content each year. Anything goes when it comes to content, as long as it makes you think. We’ll publish short fiction, creative nonfiction, persuasive topical essays, poetry, or whatever else you’ve go”
The Expressionist Literary Magazine | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Multimedia, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 90 days | A: 10% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2023 — “Our mission is to help everyone express their dreams”
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