Subgenres: Short Fiction

Speculative City

Speculative City is a literary magazine featuring works that explore themes, characters, and landscapes exclusive to urban environments and that highlight voices often unheard. Each magazine issue is relevant to the magazine mission and... Read more

Reading Period: 
Jan 1 to Dec 31
Genres Published: 
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction

Another Chicago Magazine

Another Chicago Magazine seeks work that is urgent and beautiful, that was written with lightning and a sense that tomorrow may never come. The magazine loves work that is personal and political—political in the largest sense, as in... Read more

Reading Period: 
Jan 1 to Nov 30
Genres Published: 
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation

Metaworker Literary Magazine

The Metaworker is an online literary magazine where great stories are forged. Their mission is to publish great things to read and the editors are interested in stories, poems, and art that have new, interesting perspectives or... Read more

Reading Period: 
Jan 1 to Dec 31
Genres Published: 
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction

indicia

indicia seeks to showcase a dynamic collage of passionate and profound voices hungry to produce art and write primarily in the English language. indicia enjoys feeling out the lengths to which language can be stretched, whether ... Read more

Reading Period: 
Jan 1 to Dec 31
Temporarily closed to submissions
Genres Published: 
Poetry, Fiction

Alternating Current Press

Alternating Current Press is an indie press dedicated to publishing and promoting incredible literature that challenges readers and has an innate sense of self, timelessness, and atmosphere. We love science, history, homebound roots, rural... Read more

Reading Period: 
Jan 1 to Dec 31
Genres Published: 
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation

Crashtest

Crashtest is an biannual online magazine founded and run by the creative writing students at the Fine Arts Center, a public arts high school in Greenville, South Carolina, so that students in high schools all over the country will have a... Read more

Reading Period: 
Jan 1 to Dec 31
Genres Published: 
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction

Read Furiously

Read Furiously wants to create a new generation of readers—furious readers—who view reading as a necessary part to living in this busy world. They publish original prose, graphic novels, and poetry from a diverse cross section of authors in hopes... Read more

Reading Period: 
Jan 1 to Dec 31
Genres Published: 
Fiction, Creative Nonfiction

Raising Mothers

Calls (Sub window): Read more

  • RADICAL JOY (closes July 31) 
  • Books on Books | Connections | THE FICTION THAT CHANGED ME (closes July 31)

Calls (Always Open): Read more

  • Write Here, Write Now  
  • Writers on...
Reading Period: 
Jan 1 to Dec 31
Genres Published: 
Fiction, Creative Nonfiction

WTAW Press

WTAW Press is an independent, nonprofit literary press devoted to discovering and publishing enduring literary works. WTAW publishes a carefully curated list of titles across a range of genres (literary fiction, narrative nonfiction, essay, and... Read more

Reading Periods: 
Dec 1 to Dec 31
Sep 30 to Dec 31
Genres Published: 
Fiction, Creative Nonfiction

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