Weekly Sub Calls: Expanded | 10.29.25
+ Round-up of everything we published last week
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There are 198 weekly sub calls today. Also, in case you missed it, here’s everything we published in the last 7 days:
Poetry Online (poetry.onl) → Deadline: Oct 29 | Fee: No | Pay: $60/piece | Open for Multimedia | ☑︎ 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.”
Peatsmoke Journal → Deadline: Oct 29 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 60 days | A: 3.61% | 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.”
The Pinch → Deadline: Oct 29 | Fee: $4.95 | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 180 days | A: 10.28% | 15K+ followers | United States | 1980 — “The Pinch was founded in 1980 as the Memphis State Review by William Page. The Pinch is a bi-annual literary journal produced entirely by the students of the University of Memphis MFA Program and English Department.”
StreetLit → Deadline: Oct 29 | Fee: No | Pay: Yes | Publishes Nonfiction, Fiction, Multimedia, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 31 days | Under 100 followers | United States | 2022 — “Literature From The Street, For The People”
Big Whoopie Deal → Deadline: Oct 29 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction | ✖️ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 44 days | A: <1% | Under 100 followers | 2020 — “BWD is an aesthetically soothing zone for literature. We are an eclectic mix.”
The Blood Pudding → Deadline: Oct 29 | Fee: $6 | Pay: No | Publishes Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 86 days | A: <1% | Under 100 followers | Greece | 2020 — “Raw literature on the human condition. Poetry that crackles and pops. Fiction to ruin a lifetime. Nonfiction too beaut.”
Beyond Words Literary Magazine | Theme: 24-Hour Turnaround! → Deadline: Oct 29 | Fee: $25 | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 1 days | A: 36.99% | 9K+ followers | Germany | 2020 — “We are an international magazine of literature (Poetry, Flash, Short Stories and art. We publish monthly and review submissions on a daily basis. We promise to send out decisions within 24 hours (we know what it feels waiting months for a decision).”
Blood Tree Literature → Deadline: Oct 30 | Fee: $3 | Pay: $50-$100/piece or $15 flat or $30 | Open for Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 90 days | A: 10% | 1.5K+ followers | Canada | 2017 — “Blood Tree Literature is an online literary magazine dedicated to showcasing evocative, lyrical, and resonant writing that take linguistic risks to push the boundaries of conventional language and genre.”
Luna Luna Magazine | Theme: Special Call: POSSESSION Poems — Halloween mini edition → Deadline: Oct 30 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 8% | 9K+ followers | United States | 2013 — “Luna Luna is a literary journal devoted to lush poetics, fever dreams, & the dark ecstatic.”
Santa Clara Review → Deadline: Oct 30 | Fee: Some | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 42 days | A: 14.04% | Under 100 followers | United States | 1869 — “The Santa Clara Review is a student-edited literary magazine which publishes poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and visual art. The Review is entirely student run by undergraduate students who are actively enrolled.”
Winnow Literary → Deadline: Oct 30 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 200 days | Under 100 followers | United States | 2024 — “Winnow Literary is an interdisciplinary journal of poetry and occupation.”
HAUNTER Review | Theme: October Issue - “uncanny” → Deadline: Oct 30 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 15% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2023 — “grunge. grotesque. gory. we’re here for it all.”
Soul Poetry, Prose & Arts Magazine → Deadline: Oct 30 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 5 days | A: 10% | Under 100 followers | United States — ““Your legacy is every life you have touched.” — Maya Angelou Soul Poetry, Prose & Arts Magazine provides a space for writers and artists to leave their mark. What do you want to say to the world? What do you want the world to see? Every piece we leave behind will live long after we are gone.”
25:05 Magazine → Deadline: Oct 30 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | Under 100 followers | United States | 2025 — “25:05 seeks the greatest forms of literary resistance.”
The Vanity Papers Oxford Literary Review → Deadline: Oct 30 | Fee: $3.5 | Pay: No | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 30% | Under 100 followers | United Kingdom | 2021 — “The Vanity Papers Oxford Literary Review | home to influential voices of the future century | founded by postgraduates at The University of Oxford | est. 2021”
bleu ink | Theme: PROSE, POETRY AND ART → Deadline: Oct 30 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 100+ followers | India | 2025 — “We’re a multi-media magazine dedicated to expanding the creative scene in India by publishing experimental art under every niche.”
Indiana Review → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: $3 | Pay: $5/page | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | A: <1% | 40K+ followers | United States | 1976 — “Founded in 1976, Indiana Review is a non-profit literary magazine dedicated to showcasing the talents of emerging and established writers. Our mission is to offer the highest quality writing within a wide aesthetic.”
Rattle | Theme: Ekphrastic Challenge → Deadline: Oct 31 | 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,”
Waxwing Literary Journal → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 120 days | A: 3.53% | 10K+ followers | United States | 2013 — “We strive to promote the tremendous cultural diversity of contemporary American literature, alongside international voices both in English and in translation.”
Troublemaker Firestarter | Theme: Volume 10; fairweather → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Multimedia, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 60 days | A: 15% | 2K+ followers | United States | 2021 — “we’re a biannual poetry chapbook specializing in LGBT+ and feminist poetry. 💀🔥”
Thin Air Magazine → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | A: 16.95% | 1K+ followers | United States | 1994 — “A non-profit, graduate-student-run, literary magazine published by Northern Arizona University’s (NAU) English Department. The print issue is published annually in the spring, while content appears year-round at Thin Air Online.”
Wigleaf → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 167 days | A: 3.62% | 15K+ followers | United States | 2008 — “We feature stories under 1000 words.”
Red Ogre Review | Theme: Poetry, Music & Visual Art → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: Some | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 180 days | A: 5% | 3K+ followers | United Kingdom | 2021 — “An online magazine started by graduates of Lancaster University’s 2021 creative writing Master’s class (United Kingdom). We’re primarily interested in poetry. We also accept visual art and music submissions.”
Third Coast Magazine → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: Some | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 180 days | A: 3.74% | 15K+ followers | United States | 1995 — “Founded in 1995 by graduate students of the Western Michigan University English department, Third Coast is one of the nation’s premier literary magazines—and one of only a handful of nationally distributed literary magazines to regularly include four genres.”
Tahoma Literary Review → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: Yes | Pay: $0 or Yes/page | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | A: 1.52% | 10K+ followers | United States | 2014 — “Tahoma Literary Review is based in the Pacific Northwest, but we are international in scope.”
Okay Donkey → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: $2.5 | Pay: Yes | Open for Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | A: 1% | 20K+ 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.”
Conjunctions | Theme: 85 → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: $4 | Pay: $0-$150 flat | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 120 days | A: 1% | 15K+ followers | United States | 1981 — “Bard College’s literary journal Conjunctions publishes innovative fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction by emerging voices and contemporary masters.”
Fence → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: $5 | Pay: $50 flat | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 317 days | A: 3.58% | 20K+ followers | United States | 1998 — “Fence is committed to publishing from the outside and the inside of established communities of writing, seeking always to interrogate, collaborate with, and bedevil all the systems that bring new writing to light.”
Sunspot Lit → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: Some | Pay: $0.01-$0.1/word | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 60 days | A: 5.56% | 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.”
Decolonial Passage → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | A: 65% | 700+ followers | United States | 2020 — “Decolonial Passage welcomes writing from writers of all backgrounds engaged in the decolonial project, regardless of the writer’s race, origin, gender, disability, or geographical location.”
Hinterland → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: £3 | Pay: £25-£100 flat | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 120 days | 3K+ followers | United Kingdom | 2019 — “A new quarterly, print and digital magazine, based out of the University of East Anglia, dedicated to creative nonfiction.”
Frontier Poetry → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: Some | Pay: $50 | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 120 days | A: 1.92% | 20K+ followers | United States | 2010 — “We are looking for poetry that pushes language forward, for poets and poems that strive to place themselves at the edge of what language can do.”
Haven Speculative → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: No | Pay: $20/piece | 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.”
Grist: A Journal of The Literary Arts → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: Yes | Pay: $10 flat | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 120 days | A: 2.63% | 9K+ followers | United States | 2007 — “The editors at Grist seek work of high literary quality from both emerging and established writers. We welcome all styles and aesthetic approaches. Grist is committed to diversity, inclusivity, cultural interchange, and respect for all individuals.”
Banshee → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: No | Pay: €50-€250/piece | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 80 days | A: 1.40% | 15K+ followers | Ireland | 2015 — “A small independent Irish publisher established in 2014. We publish a print literary journal, Banshee, as well as a select list of books. We love exciting, accessible, contemporary writing in all forms.”
Fjords Review → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: Some | Pay: $1500 or $100 flat or $50/piece | Open for Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 90 days | A: 4.00% | 3K+ followers | United States | 2010 — “Potential Sketchy Business: This magazine has been flagged for poor submission practices. See link in Important Stuff.”
Raleigh Review → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: Yes | Pay: $200-$400 flat | Open for Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | A: 1% | 500+ followers | United States | 2010 — “A nonprofit magazine of poetry, short fiction, and art, offering accessible works of experience that are emotionally and intellectually complex.”
The Offing | Theme: Back of the Envelope → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 180 days | A: 4.52% | 20K+ followers | United States | 2015 — “An online literary magazine publishing creative writing in all genres and art in all media.”
Libretto Magazine → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Multimedia, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 2K+ followers | Nigeria | 2019 — “Libretto Magazine seeks unique works with strong sense of imagery, desire, and emotion; words that resonate, that are produced in styles which push boundaries, complete with an elegant and fascinating use of language or imagery.”
Tangled Locks Journal → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: $4 | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 60 days | A: 3% | Under 100 followers | United States — “Literary Journal publishing poetry, fiction, and essays.”
For Page and Screen → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Multimedia, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 180 days | A: 40% | 1K+ followers | United States | 2021 — “A bi-annual online publication that features short stories, scripts, and films from storytellers around the world. We are looking for your most ambitious work. Surprise us, shock us, move us, and, above all, tell us a good story.”
Quibble Journal | Theme: PASTEL - Volume VI - Quibble Lit → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 87 days | A: 21.05% | 3K+ followers | United States | 2022 — “An online monthly publication showcasing ingenious poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.”
Atlantic Northeast | Theme: Northeastern United States and Canada → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Nonfiction, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | A: 3% | 200+ followers | United States | 2022 — “A literary journal dedicated to exploring and celebrating the best writers, writing, artists, and art of the Northeastern United States and Canada.”
Blue Mesa Review → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: $3 | Pay: $25/piece | Open for Poetry, Nonfiction, Multimedia, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 45 days | A: 2.47% | 1K+ followers | United States | 1989 — “Blue Mesa Review has a rotating editorial board, so each issue is fresh and unique. They are seeking strong voices and lively, compelling narratives with a fine eye for craft. Their spring contest offers payment of $500, $100, and $25 for first, second, and third places in each genre.”
The Hopkins Review | Theme: Special Call: From the Archive → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: Some | Pay: $100 flat | Open for Nonfiction, Poetry, Fiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 250 days | A: 3% | 1K+ followers | United States | 2007 — “The quarterly literary journal of the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, our mission is to publish today’s vital voices and visions in literature, culture, criticism, public-facing scholarship, and the arts.”
MetaStellar → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: No | Pay: $0.08/word | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 7 days | A: 35.14% | 1.5K+ followers | 2020 — “MetaStellar is an online publication focusing on horror, fantasy and science fiction, launched in September 2020, founded by a dozen speculative fiction writers, editors and artists from around the world.”
Deep Overstock Magazine | Theme: Knots → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 800+ followers | United States | 2018 — “The name Deep Overstock refers to books that are tucked away from where customers are able to get to. It is our goal to publish these “overstocked” ideas.”
Inlandia: A Literary Journey → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 45 days | Under 100 followers | United States | 2010 — “An online journal of poetry, prose, and art for all, by all. We publish two issues per year with the Fall issue open to all submitters.”
New Writing Scotland → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: No | Pay: £25-£50/page | Open for Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 164 days | A: 12.35% | 500+ followers | United Kingdom | 1982 — “New Writing Scotland is an annual volume publishing poetry and prose from both emerging and established writers. Every piece appears here in print for the first time, and has been drawn from a wide cross-section of Scottish culture and society.”
New Writing → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Poetry, Fiction | ✖️ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 50K+ followers | United Kingdom — “The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing. New Writing is a peer-reviewed journal publishing high-quality, original research.”
Fiction → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: No | Pay: Yes | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 360 days | A: 3.01% | 800+ followers | United States | 1972 — “Founded in 1972 by Donald Barthelme & Mark Mirsky, Fiction is a leading literary magazine publishing the best in fiction.”
Jimson Weed → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction | ✖️ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 10K+ followers | United States | 1969 — “Jimson Weed is a biannual literary and art journal of the Department of Language and Literature at the University of Virginia’s College at Wise.”
LEON Literary Review → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: Yes | Pay: No | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 60 days | A: 5.54% | 2K+ followers | United States | 2020 — “a bimonthly online publication that honors the memory of Leon N. Shapiro”
Jelly Bucket → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: Yes | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 134 days | A: 5.48% | 600+ followers | United States | 2009 — “Bluegrass Writers Studio’s annual graduate-student-produced literary journal”
Mud Season Review → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: Some | Pay: Yes | Open for Multimedia, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 60 days | A: 6.92% | 2K+ followers | United States — “Celebrating artistic creation, community, and all the wide-ranging voices that tramp and track in the mud of human experience.”
Riddle Fence → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: No | Pay: CA$30-CA$50/page or CA$0 flat | Open for Fiction, Multimedia, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 180 days | A: <1% | 1K+ followers | Canada — “Based in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Riddle Fence is a non-profit magazine of contemporary literature and artwork. We publish high-quality short fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and art from Newfoundland and Labrador, across Canada, and around the world.”
Sangam Literary Magazine → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 270 days | 30K+ followers | United States — “Sangam publishes digitally two or three times each academic year through the Department of Languages and Literature at Southern University and A&M College’s flagship campus in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.”
Stickman Review → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 120 days | Under 100 followers | United States | 2001 — “I founded Stickman Review in 2001 while living in Flagstaff, Arizona.”
The Closed Eye Open → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: $4.5 | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 50 days | A: 54.84% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2020 — “We are an art & lit website that explores wide-ranging creative expressions.”
The Shallow Tales Review → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Nonfiction, Multimedia, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 40 days | Under 100 followers | Nigeria | 2019 — “We are looking for brave pieces. We seek to house marginalised voices, too.”
The Tiger Moth Review → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 56 days | 200+ followers | Singapore | 2018 — “We also publish non-English works, as well as their translated.”
Cosmic Double → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 10.00% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2022 — “A magazine speculative fiction, soft sci-fi, dystopian lit, and weird/uncanny/dark fiction.”
Under the Radar Magazine → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: No | 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.”
Sugared Water → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: Some | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Nonfiction, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 140 days | 1K+ followers | United States — “If we could candy words, we’d eat them to bellyaches every afternoon. We carry journals and collect chapbooks like Smaug ripping through a gold-sequin disco.”
The Frogmore Papers → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 54 days | A: 5.88% | Under 100 followers | United Kingdom | 1983 — “Independent literary publisher. Founded in 1983 by André Evans and Jeremy Page at the Frogmore tea-rooms in Folkestone.”
A Long House | Theme: Homelessness → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: Yes | Pay: Yes | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 900+ followers | Nigeria | 2020 — “We are interested in writing that elevates language, experiments and thoughts that enlarge the boundaries of forms and genres.”
DMQ Review → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 37 days | A: 2.17% | 2K+ followers | United States | 1998 — “disquieting muses quarterly | poetry & art since 1998”
Harbor Review → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: $8 | Pay: $10/line or $10 flat | Open for Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 48 days | A: 1.08% | 1K+ followers | United States | 2018 — “Harbor Review is a small online space for poetry and art. We are committed to giving diverse voices a home. New or experienced, we want to hear from you.”
London Grip → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2007 — “It was also intended to act as an exhibition space for cross-media arts and to include an in-house poetry magazine.”
Love Me, Love My Belly → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: Some | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 600+ followers | United States — “Love Me, Love My Belly (LMLMB) is a print zine dedicated to the acceptance of self and imperfection as beauty. It’s about the space between us, our differences, our scars, our wobbly bits, and our power as it relates to the bodies we live in.”
Portrait of New England → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ✖️ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2018 — “This is not a literary magazine for only professional writers, but developing ones too. Above all else, we are trying to recapture the essence that is so uniquely New England.”
SICK Magazine → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: No | Pay: $90 flat or $0.12/word | Open for Poetry, Nonfiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 42 days | A: 4% | 600+ followers | United States | 2019 — “a thoughtful magazine by sick & disabled people”
Stone Poetry Quarterly → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: $3 | Pay: $50 | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 7 days | Under 100 followers | United States | 2021 — “An online poetry journal that publishes poems ranging from the visceral to the cerebral across a full scope of human experience and awareness”
The Pan Haiku Review | Theme: Pan Haiku Review issue 6 2025 Autumn/Winter Edition (PHR6) This is a haiku only special edition → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ✖️ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United Kingdom | 2023 — “The Pan Haiku Review focuses on Japanese short-form poetry, including haiku, senryu, tanka, haiga and haibun/tanka prose. Typically each issue has a theme. In the past these have included issues devoted to monoku; tanka; and the kigo.”
The Apostrophe → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 60 days | A: 15% | Under 100 followers | Hong Kong | 2023 — “A quarterly publication of the Hong Kong Writers Circle”
Epistemic Literary | Theme: Issue 7: Integrity → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 60 days | A: 10% | 3K+ followers | United States | 2023 — “Epistemic Literary is a fully-digital anthology series celebrating knowledge, connection, and growth through poetry and short fiction.”
Bear Review → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: $3 | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 60 days | A: 17.78% | 4K+ followers | United States | 2014 — “An online poetry journal. We publish outstanding work from established and emerging writers. We read submissions all year.”
Men Matters Online Journal → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | 100+ followers | Malaysia — “a peer-reviewed international online literary journal”
Rundelania → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Multimedia, Poetry, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2017 — “The journal is dedicated to the publication of original poetry and prose.”
manywor(l)ds → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: No | Pay: $10 flat | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 9% | 1K+ followers | 2023 — “manywor(l)ds is a genderless & genreless place for work informed by marginalized embodiment and enmindment.”
Inner Worlds → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: No | Pay: £0.02/word or £20/piece | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 6% | Under 100 followers | United Kingdom | 2023 — “Inner Worlds is a quarterly digital zine of speculative stories about how we experience our selves and our world.”
Prune Juice Journal → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ✖️ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 31 days | 700+ followers | 2009 — “Prune Juice Journal is proudly recognized as the longest-running international lit magazine for senryu & related forms.”
Y2K Quarterly | Theme: Y2K Quarterly Issue 8 - Fiction → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 14 days | A: 26.92% | 4K+ followers | United States | 2023 — “Literary chaos in 1999 words or less.”
Tension Literary | Theme: Issue IV: Chaos → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 2.94% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2024 — “Send us your best poetry, fiction, and nonfiction for Issue IV: Chaos! If the world can be on fire, then so can we. This issue is not themed. Send us work with messy characters and urgent messages.”
Oxford Poetry → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: Yes | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | A: 2% | 40K+ followers | United Kingdom | 1910 — “Founded in 1910, Oxford Poetry is the oldest dedicated poetry magazine in the UK, and one of the oldest in the world.”
Trace Fossils Review → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: Yes | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 112 days | A: 3% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2023 — “The art in wake of the artist.”
Painted Pebble Lit Mag → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | Under 100 followers | United States | 2024 — “Quarterly journal founded with the aim of publishing quality short form writing of any genre.”
Frazzled Lit → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 35 days | A: 10% | Under 100 followers | Ireland | 2024 — “Frazzled Lit is a new and exciting literary journal, headed by Jennifer McMahon and Laura Cooney.”
this isn’t home | Theme: ‘through the looking glass → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Nonfiction, Poetry, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 14 days | A: 25% | Under 100 followers | India | 2024 — “ever felt like you don’t belong? like you want to go home? welcome to the club. we are a digi litmag for and by students”
Eaten: The Food History Magazine → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: No | Pay: Yes | Open for Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2017 — “An independent print magazine focused on food history.”
Blue Crystal Literary Magazine | Theme: Halloween Poetry, Short Story & Photography Challenge Issue 21 → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 7 days | A: 77% | Under 100 followers | United Kingdom | 2022 — “Blue Crystal Literary Magazine is the dream and vision of young, fresh minds who started this magazine to spread the light of creativity, imagination, and innovation among modern literary enthusiasts. Blue Crystal is the place where we value quality not quantity!”
Wordrunner eChapbooks → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: No | Pay: $25 flat | Open for Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 56 days | A: 10% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2010 — “A hybrid online chapbook and literary journal, publishing an annual anthology of fiction, CNF and poetry, one-author prose collections (fiction or CNF chapbooks) twice a year, and periodic micro-prose features. Our prose collections are also published as kindles. All authors are paid.”
Inscape → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States — “Inscape, a literary magazine featuring quality works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and visual art, is compiled and edited at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas. It likes to take risks.”
149 Review → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Nonfiction, Multimedia, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 21 days | A: 3% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2025 — “We are an online journal focused on publishing fresh, original, thought provoking poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction.”
The Yesterday Review | Theme: Our Dead Behind Us - Flash Fiction → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Multimedia, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 14 days | 100+ followers | Pakistan | 2025 — “We look for the bizarre thoughts you wrote in a document somewhere and forgot about. We like earnestness, outrage, but above all else, voices that are raw and undeniably human.”
Black Lawrence Press → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: Some | Pay: $25-$425 flat | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 224 days | A: 1.54% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2004 — “Independent publisher of contemporary literature offering contests, open reading periods, and chapbook series.”
eMerge Magazine → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 4K+ followers | United States | 2017 — “eMerge Magazine is an online literary publication dedicated to showcasing avant-garde poetry and short fiction that challenges conventional boundaries.”
A Curious Moon | Theme: Winter Solstice: A New Moon → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 21% | 300+ followers | United States | 2025 — “A Curious Moon is a small online press for fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry.”
The Quasar Review → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 15% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2025 — “Literary magazine publishing poetry, flash fiction, and short stories. Offers writers an avenue to have their thoughts heard.”
The Faoileánach Journal | Theme: Issue Three: Estuaries → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Poetry, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 28 days | A: 24% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2025 — “A free online journal based on a cooperative experience for new and emerging writers. The Faoileánach Journal is a quarterly online literary journal that accepts poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction, and nonfiction.”
stolen diaries | Theme: issue two: skepticism! → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2025 — “reclaim your dreams.”
Ioche Magazine → Deadline: Oct 31 | 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˖ ࣪⊹”
Timeless Reflections | Theme: Theme: A Valued Inheritance → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Poetry, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 14 days | A: 30% | 300+ followers | United States | 2023 — “Welcome to Timeless Reflections Magazine, a magazine that delves into a myriad of insights about the world and the varied realities of life through creativity! Each volume hosts unique works made by artists, authors, and poets!”
Copytext Magazine → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 56 days | 500+ followers | United States | 2025 — “Copytext is an independent, bi-annual literary magazine dedicated to celebrating the artistic process by publishing creative works in the context of revision.”
Maya’s Micros [The Closed Eye Open] → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: $4.5 | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2020 — “A supplement to The Closed Eye Open, featuring micro-poems and micro-fictions curated by Maya Highland.”
My Galvanized Friend (MGF) | Theme: Centering Joy → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: No | Pay: $10-$25 flat or $10/page | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2023 — “A biannual literary magazine highlighting LGBTQIA+ voices through fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and art.”
Two Cardinals Literary → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | Under 100 followers | United States | 2025 — “Two Cardinals Literary is an online poetry magazine that honors writers with featured interviews, participates in the Gift Economy through Gifts-in-Print, and breaks barriers for historically underrepresented groups including queer and BIPOC voices.”
The PoArtMo Magazine | Theme: What does family mean to you? → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ✖️ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 60 days | Under 100 followers | Canada | 2025 — “Welcome to The PoArtMo Magazine, a new publication that focuses on impactful and inspiring writing.”
SpecPoVerse → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: No | Pay: $5/piece | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2024 — “An international journal dedicated to speculative poetry from diverse cultures and experiences.”
Swing: New Writing that Moves You [The Porch] → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia | ✖️ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2022 — “A biannual print magazine showcasing fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and comics, reflecting the dynamic spirit of Nashville.”
Mother Tongue Journal → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | A: 15% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2024 — “A multimedia digital magazine for diasporic writers, poets, and artists to share their voices—powered by Mother Tongue Media”
Sugared Water [Porkbelly Press] → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: Some | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Multimedia, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2013 — “A literary magazine blending folklore, fable, and magic, featuring poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction.”
Mindfork → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: No | Pay: £10 flat | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 60 days | Under 100 followers | United Kingdom | 2025 — “Sensory memoir, fiction and poetry for our dreams, desires, fears and triumphs. Exploring the dark side of human nature.”
Hum Magazine | Theme: Poetry Submissions - Themed Issue, “Home” → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2025 — “An online magazine that features poetry and visual art, and seeks to amplify the creative voices that resonate beneath the surface of mainstream culture. We respond to submissions in 90 days.”
The Bleeding Margin → Deadline: Oct 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2025 — “The Bleeding Margin is a quarterly literary journal dedicated to publishing bold and thought-provoking literary horror, mystery and thriller fiction, poetry, art and creative nonfiction.”
Foglifter → Deadline: Nov 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | A: 6.02% | 8K+ followers | United States | 2016 — “Foglifter’s literary journal is a biannual compendium of the most dynamic, urgent LGBTQ+ writing today. It’s a space where queer and trans writers celebrate, mourn, rage, and embrace.”
The Normal School → Deadline: Nov 1 | Fee: $2 | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 175 days | A: 5.13% | 10K+ followers | United States — “An online journal featuring nonfiction, fiction, poetry, criticism, journalism, author interviews, and multi-media texts. The bi-annual print magazine finished in spring 2019, ending its 11-year run.”
Snowflake Magazine → Deadline: Nov 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 14 days | A: 40% | 2K+ followers | United Kingdom | 2021 — “An LGBTQ+ networking initiative centered around a published creative showcase. Join our community of queer writers, artists and creators!”
Kitchen Table Quarterly → Deadline: Nov 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 90 days | A: 4.69% | 2K+ followers | United States | 2021 — “We are a journal preoccupied with history— cultural, political, geographical, personal— and how each interacts with the other to mold our experience. Adolescent blunders, dental records, the archaic origins of long-held or long-lost traditions— we want to know all of it.”
Spellbinder Mag → Deadline: Nov 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 8.26% | 10K+ followers | United Kingdom | 2020 — “Spellbinder is a quarterly literary and art magazine celebrating poetry, fiction, drama, creative non-fiction and visual art. It champions diversity, inclusivity and original, thought-provoking work.”
The Adroit Journal → Deadline: Nov 1 | Fee: Some | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | A: 1% | 35K+ followers | United States | 2010 — “We’re looking for work that’s bizarre, authentic, subtle, outrageous, indefinable, raw, paradoxical. We’ve got our eyes on the horizon. Send us writing that lives just between the land and the sky.”
New England Review → Deadline: Nov 1 | Fee: $3 | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | A: 1.11% | 25K+ followers | United States | 1978 — “New England Review gives readers a vital snapshot of the literary moment, four times a year, in its richness, complexity, and diversity.”
Reed Magazine → Deadline: Nov 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 141 days | A: 1.59% | 5K+ followers | United States | 1867 — “Reed Magazine is California’s oldest literary journal. Tracing its heritage to 1867, the journal started as a mere pamphlet published by students of the California State Normal School,”
Humana Obscura → Deadline: Nov 1 | Fee: Some | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Multimedia, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 181 days | A: 16.87% | 7K+ followers | United States | 2020 — “An independent nature-focused literary magazine.”
Iowa Review → Deadline: Nov 1 | Fee: $4 | Pay: $100-$2000/word or $40/page | Open for Nonfiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 180 days | A: 3.33% | 40K+ followers | United States | 1970 — “Create a worldwide conversation among those who read and write contemporary literature.”
Michigan Quarterly Review → Deadline: Nov 1 | Fee: $3 | Pay: Yes | Publishes | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 180 days | A: 1.12% | 5K+ followers | United States | 1962 — “Founded in 1962, MQR has been publishing urgent and powerful literary voices for over sixty years as the flagship journal of the University of Michigan.”
Washington Square Review → Deadline: Nov 1 | Fee: No | Pay: Yes | Open for Nonfiction, Poetry, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 120 days | A: 2.88% | 10K+ followers | United States | 1996 — “Washington Square Review, an award-winning journal of new fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, translations, and interviews, is published biannually by the students and faculty of the NYU Graduate Creative Writing Program.”
Seneca Review → Deadline: Nov 1 | Fee: Yes | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 270 days | A: 2.87% | 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.”
Denver Quarterly → Deadline: Nov 1 | Fee: Some | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Multimedia, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | A: 4.68% | 10K+ followers | United States | 1966 — “Experimenting since 1966. Here, there, at the foreground of avant-letters. Cover Art: Stella Nall, DQ 56.1.”
The Southeast Review → Deadline: Nov 1 | Fee: Some | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 180 days | A: 4.07% | 25K+ followers | United States | 1979 — “Since 1979. 🍊Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Book Reviews, Interviews, & Art Biannual + Online. ✨”
Barely South Review → Deadline: Nov 1 | Fee: Some | Pay: $500 flat | Open for Multimedia, Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 54 days | A: 3.65% | 4K+ followers | United States | 1983 — “Barely South Review began as The Dominion Review, an annual student literary journal housed at Old Dominion University in 1983. In 2008, the journal relaunched under the name Barely South Review as an online biannual publication staffed by students of the MFA program.”
Call Me | Theme: Our Roots (Nonficiton) → Deadline: Nov 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 400+ followers | United States | 2018 — “Call Me [Brackets] is a thematic biannual online literary journal publishing the strange, the surprising, the experimental, and everything in-between.”
Cutthroat, a Journal of the Arts | Theme: COPING WITH VAST DOMESTIC AND GLOBAL CHANGE → Deadline: Nov 1 | 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”
Image Journal | Theme: Health and Medicine—deadline extended to Nov 1 → Deadline: Nov 1 | Fee: Some | Pay: $25/page or $25-$100 flat or $25/piece | Open for Nonfiction, Multimedia, Poetry, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 150 days | A: 3.48% | 15K+ followers | United States | 1989 — “Arts non-profit & literary journal serving the intersection of art + religion.”
Broadsided Press → Deadline: Nov 1 | Fee: Yes | Pay: No | Open for 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.”
La Piccioletta Barca → Deadline: Nov 1 | Fee: Yes | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 12.50% | 4K+ followers | United Kingdom | 2018 — “on beauty, taste, culture, politics and the lived experience thereof”
Halfway Down the Stairs | Theme: Intuition → Deadline: Nov 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | A: 5.93% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2005 — “Quarterly poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction”
NUNUM → Deadline: Nov 1 | Fee: Some | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 10.24% | 400+ followers | Canada | 2018 — “A journal dedicated to blending flash fiction and art.”
Full Bleed | Theme: Inheritance / Prose → Deadline: Nov 1 | Fee: No | Pay: $25-$50 flat or $25-$50/piece | Open for Poetry, Multimedia | ✖️ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 70 days | A: 9.09% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2017 — “A journal exploring the intersection of the visual and literary arts. Published annually by the Maryland Institute College of Art.”
International Poetry Review → Deadline: Nov 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 60K+ followers | United States | 1975 — “dedicated to the idea that the world becomes a better place when we listen to the voices of writers working in a variety of languages”
Santa Fe Literary Review → Deadline: Nov 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 160 days | A: 10.00% | 3K+ followers | United States | 2006 — “An in-print literary journal, SFLR features work by local, national, and international writers and artists.”
Wordgathering → Deadline: Nov 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Nonfiction, Poetry, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | 2K+ followers | United States | 2007 — “A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature (ISSN: 2690-7089) is a digital, Open Access, quarterly journal of disability poetry, literature, and the arts, with two interconnected purposes.”
Turbine | Kapohau → Deadline: Nov 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Multimedia, Nonfiction, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 180 days | Under 100 followers | New Zealand | 2001 — “Turbine | Kapohau is an online literary journal published annually by the International Institute of Modern Letters.”
The Madison Review → Deadline: Nov 1 | Fee: Some | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 223 days | 1K+ followers | United States | 1970 — “The Madison Review is a literary arts journal published through the University of Wisconsin–Madison Creative Writing Department.”
The Penmen Review → Deadline: Nov 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2012 — “The Penmen Review is Southern New Hampshire University’s online journal for creative writers, featuring resource articles, spotlight interviews and writing in all genres, selected by our editorial board from submitted work.”
The Louisville Review | Theme: Poetry by Young Writers in grades K-12 → Deadline: Nov 1 | Fee: No | 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 Under Review → Deadline: Nov 1 | Fee: $3 | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 800+ followers | United States | 2019 — “THE UNDER REVIEW IS AN ONLINE LITERARY JOURNAL COMMITTED TO PUBLISHING LITERARY FICTION, POETRY, AND CREATIVE NON-FICTION WITH A SPORT SLANT, NOD, BACKDROP, OR UNDERCURRENT.”
Touchstone Literary Magazine | Theme: “Cycles” → Deadline: Nov 1 | Fee: $3 | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 120 days | 2K+ followers | United States | 1975 — “Touchstone Literary Magazine aims to select the “gold” in literary work by new voices. We are dedicated to supporting emerging writers & artists beyond accepting their work.”
Crab Apple Literary → Deadline: Nov 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | A: 10% | 1.5K+ followers | Canada | 2022 — “A Montreal based magazine for the strange, deformed, and forgotten.”
THEMA | Theme: Today’s Onerous Task → Deadline: Nov 1 | Fee: No | Pay: $10-$25 or $10 flat | Open for Nonfiction, Poetry, Fiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 136 days | A: 4.17% | Under 100 followers | United States | 1988 — “THEMA, the theme-related journal. We provide readers with a unique and entertaining collection of stories, poems, art and photography.”
The Lyric Magazine → Deadline: Nov 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ✖️ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 1M+ followers | United States | 1921 — “The oldest magazine in North America in continuous publication devoted to traditional poetry.”
Cordite Poetry Review | Theme: PRECARIOUS → Deadline: Nov 1 | Fee: Some | Pay: Yes | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 130 days | A: 23.40% | Under 100 followers | Australia | 1996 — “an Australian and international journal of poetry, criticism and research”
the evermore review → Deadline: Nov 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | A: 35% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2022 — “the evermore review publishes short fiction and select poetry containing the essence of Taylor Swift’s album evermore.”
Waves of Words Literary Magazine | Theme: Issue 7: Rebirth and Restoration → Deadline: Nov 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | 700+ followers | United States | 2023 — “Waves of Words is a literary magazine for Christian teens that are looking for a place to connect religion and writing.”
Frozen Sea → Deadline: Nov 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 5% | 1K+ followers | United States | 2023 — “Publishing exceptional work from early-career poets in a mobile-friendly format.”
Bloodletter Magazine | Theme: Issue Six: Play → Deadline: Nov 1 | Fee: No | Pay: $250 flat | Open for Multimedia, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 10.00% | 2K+ followers | United States | 2023 — “Bloodletter is a feminist horror magazine showcasing personal and analytical perspectives on the horrific by women, trans, and non-binary writers.”
The Turning Leaf Journal → Deadline: Nov 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 27 days | A: 11% | 600+ followers | United States | 2024 — “A journal for artists, essayists, and poets on the edge of change”
remediate lit mag | Theme: [MachineWitness] → Deadline: Nov 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 14 days | A: 45% | 1K+ followers | United States | 2024 — “A literary home for computer-assisted creative writing & critical writing about it in the [electronic] literary world. The WIRED of lit mags.”
Al Dente | Theme: Children’s Lit → Deadline: Nov 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction | ✖️ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States — “Each bite has a story. Food journal produced and published by undergraduate students at The University of Alabama.”
Azahares Literary Magazine → Deadline: Nov 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States — “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.”
Lodestar Lit → Deadline: Nov 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | Under 100 followers | United States | 2023 — “Home to literary authors, poets, and playwrights. Psychedelia melancholia welcome.”
Splinter Journal → Deadline: Nov 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | Australia | 2024 — “Splinter Journal is a biannual literary publication based in Adelaide, Australia, dedicated to exploring the spaces between perception and reality. It features a diverse range of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry from both emerging and established”
Frost Zone Stories → Deadline: Nov 1 | Fee: No | Pay: CA$15 flat | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 42 days | 1K+ followers | Canada — “Frost Zone Stories publishes dark literary, and quiet horror short stories in bi-annual digest-sized print books and eBooks.”
The Reprise | Theme: evermore: yearning in literary and creative expression → Deadline: Nov 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 14 days | A: 85% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2025 — “We’re psyched for our winter issue! The theme is “evermore” and we’re looking for everything from poems to essays to short stories.”
Elysium Review | Theme: Poetry of Pleasure, Delight, Wonder, and Joy → Deadline: Nov 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2023 — “Elysium Review is a U.S.-based online literary magazine founded in 2023, focusing on poetry that explores themes of pleasure, delight, wonder, love, and joy.”
Splinter Journal [Writers SA] | Theme: First Nations → Deadline: Nov 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ✖️ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | Australia | 2024 — “A biannual literary journal exploring the gaps between perception and reality, published from Adelaide, Australia.”
Full Bleed: Art + Literature | Theme: Full Bleed 9: Inheritance → Deadline: Nov 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Poetry, Fiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 800+ followers | United States | 2017 — “Full Bleed exists to cultivate that fertile ground where the visual and literary arts intersect. Published annually in print and online, our journal strives to inspire, critique, and inform the pursuits of contemporary artists and writers.”
Front Porch Magazine | Theme: Fall ‘25 Issue: Southern Gothic → Deadline: Nov 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | 100+ followers | United States | 2025 — “A student-run literary and art magazine dedicated to elevating marginalized voices of the American South”
THE AVE CREATIVE | Theme: THE AVE issue two- fall ‘25 → Deadline: Nov 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ✖️ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | Under 100 followers | United States | 2024 — “A space for creatives to explore, grow, and reflect. Print and digital magazine.”
Bunker Squirrel Magazine | Theme: “Overheard in an Operating Room” → Deadline: Nov 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 20 days | Under 100 followers | United States | 2025 — “Bunker Squirrel Magazine’s purpose is to support authors primarily through publication through ever-expanding mediums. What began on social media moved to the web, then to Patreon, and is working towards new and wonderful things.”
Tendon Magazine | Theme: Issue 08 - Poetry → Deadline: Nov 1 | Fee: $3 | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 28 days | A: 8% | 1.5K+ followers | United States | 2018 — “Tendon is accepting poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and visual art engaging with the politics and poetics of care. Submissions are due by November 1, 2025, or when we reach our submission caps in each genre.”
West Trade Review | Theme: Essays on the Creative Life → Deadline: Nov 2 | Fee: Some | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 45 days | A: 2% | 9K+ followers | United States | 2009 — “We accept fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, and novel excerpts (especially looking for more of those). We have no fees during our regular reading period, April-December. Our aesthetic drive is in pursuit of work that is Fearless, Crafted, Impassioned (that’s our motto!)”
The Dewdrop | Theme: dewdrops: Weekly Haiku and Print Anthology - Summer Submissions → Deadline: Nov 2 | Fee: $5 | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 32 days | A: 15.00% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2018 — “The Dewdrop welcomes submissions from all writers.”
The Upper New Review → Deadline: Nov 2 | Fee: $5 | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 180 days | Under 100 followers | United States | 2023 — “The Upper New Review is an environmental literary arts magazine in the Upper New River Basin in North America.”
Abyss Literary Magazine | Theme: Issue 04: DEJA VU → Deadline: Nov 2 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | Ireland | 2024 — “Immerse yourself into the depths of Irish creativity and allow our artists’ work to escape the Abyss.”
Purgatory Magazine | Theme: PURGATORY MAGAZINE #10: THERE’S NOTHING IN MY DREAMS → Deadline: Nov 2 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | Germany | 2021 — “Purgatory Magazine is a Berlin-based writing and art collective. Purgatory Magazine is not about fulfilling expectations, no matter how reasonable those expectations might be. It is not a magazine by or for robots. Art is life and life is now!”
Westwind Journal of the Arts → Deadline: Nov 3 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Multimedia, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 200+ followers | United States | 1957 — “For over fifty years, Westwind has been printing poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, art, music, and everything in between. Westwind encourages work to abandon formulaic and traditional demands and expectations.”
Quarterly West → Deadline: Nov 3 | Fee: Some | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction, Multimedia, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 181 days | A: 3.69% | Under 100 followers | United States | 1976 — “An online literary journal run and staffed by PhD creative writing students at the University of Utah. QW was founded by James Thomas in 1976.”
Talon Review → Deadline: Nov 3 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 13.51% | 1K+ followers | United States | 2012 — “Talon Review seeks to publish new works by established and emerging writers. We are interested in stories, essays, and poems that linger in the heart or mind long after the last word of the last sentence.”
Autumn Sky Poetry DAILY → Deadline: Nov 3 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 7 days | A: 10% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2006 — “-a poem each day-”
Gulf Stream Magazine | Theme: Fiction → Deadline: Nov 3 | Fee: Some | Pay: $100-$500/piece | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 180 days | A: 7% | Under 100 followers | United States | 1989 — “Gulf Stream Magazine publishes fiction, poetry, CNF, hybrid works, translations, book reviews & visual art from both emerging and established writers and artists. We love a wide range of genres and styles, especially writing that is innovative in form and progressive in content.”
The Vivere Archives | Theme: The Rain Passes By → Deadline: Nov 3 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | 700+ followers | United States | 2025 — “A digi-magazine that documents fleeting moments and encourages creative expression, open to all.”
Island Online → Deadline: Nov 4 | Fee: Yes | Pay: AU$1600 flat | Open for Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | Australia | 2021 — “a premium Australian literary magazine of fiction, poetry, nonfiction and arts features”
Spillwords Press → Deadline: Nov 4 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 10K+ followers | United States | 2015 — “Spillwords Press is a literary platform dedicated to showcasing fresh, original, and exclusive material from writers who believe that “Words Matter.” Embracing a diverse range of literary genres—including poetry, prose, essays, and more—it offers a”
cream city review → Deadline: Nov 5 | Fee: $2.5 | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Multimedia, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 240 days | A: 6.21% | 10K+ followers | United States | 1975 — “Cream City Review is Milwaukee’s leading literary journal devoted to publishing memorable and energetic pieces that push the boundaries of writing.”
MQR Mixtape | Theme: DANGER, or: Speak Anyway, → Deadline: Nov 5 | Fee: $3 | Pay: Yes | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 365 days | Under 100 followers | United States | 2020 — “a new, online imprint of Michigan Quarterly Review”
Earworms Mag → Deadline: Nov 5 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | Under 100 followers | United States | 2025 — “Earworms magazine publishes pieces inspired by earworms, songs you just can’t get out of your head. Each submission period, our editors put together a playlist. Let the songs inspire your work, or use your own current earworms and just let us know what you chose when you submit your work!”
delicate emissions → Deadline: Nov 16 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 14 days | 1K+ followers | United States | 2021 — “Quarterly zine for short poems, published in physical form and online.”
RABBLE REVIEW → Deadline: Nov 23 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | 800+ 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.”
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.”
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”
Cicada Creative Magazine → Deadline: Dec 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 56 days | A: 20% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2018 — “An interdisciplinary, all-arts publication.”
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: 9.43% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2024 — “Jelly Squid is a triannual literary magazine that showcases emerging writers and artists.”
Metanoia Literary → Deadline: Feb 28, 2026 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ✖️ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | Under 100 followers | United States | 2025 — “Youth-run magazine designed for young people to make an impact through writing.”
The Common Reader: A Journal of the Essay | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction | ✖️ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2014 — “An interdisciplinary journal dedicated to fine writing and high thinking, exploring important issues and ideas of the day.”
M E N A C E | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 7.41% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2025 — “M E N A C E seeks the “literary weird”—work that would be rejected from big literary magazines for being too genre.”
The Goldfish Bowl | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 42 days | Under 100 followers | United Kingdom | 2024 — “A Leeds-based queer writers magazine”
Razzle Dazzle Cafe | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 29% | Under 100 followers | Canada — “Razzle Dazzle Cafe is an audio zine seeking to give voice to good stories and find meaning through fiction.”
Piece of Cake: A Teen-Led Food Magazine | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | Under 100 followers | United States | 2024 — “Piece of Cake: A Teen-Led Food Magazine is a food magazine by and for teenagers. Hope you are hungry!”
Crescent Currents | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 28 days | A: 40% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2025 — “Magazine of poetry, prose, and art.”
The Nation | Fee: No | Pay: Yes | Open for Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 120 days | 4M+ followers | United States — “The Nation empowers readers to fight for justice and equality for all. We drive bold ideas into the conversation and ignite debates far beyond our pages.”
Seven Story Publishing | Theme: Seven Arts Magazine | Fee: $5 | Pay: $0.03/word | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 2 days | A: 90% | 700+ followers | United States | 2024 — “Seven Story Publishing is a publishing company with seven online magazines dedicated to supporting and promoting authors and artists to their desired audiences. We are always open for submissions and we accept almost every genre of work.”
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”
Albatross | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ✖️ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 90 days | Under 100 followers | United States | 1980 — “environmental poetry journal publishing since the 1980s”
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