War | Poets & Writers

Aline

I have written poetry all my life and start my writing day in that genre. I am also working on two historical novels, one set in WWII and the other set in the U.S. at the time of the Vietnam war. The WWII novel is close to being finished. The Vietnam novel is in the first draft stage. What I'm looking for: discussion about writing work in those particular eras, any discussion about writing, and critique opportunities, if we can find a reasonable way to accomplish that.

Pronouns:

She/Her

Location:

Danville, CA

United States

California

Genres:

Fiction, Flash Fiction, Historical, Literary Fiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction, War

My publishing/workshop experience:

Attend(ed) an MFA program, Published in literary journal, Have workshop experience

How I choose to identify myself:

European American, Scotch-Irish American

Languages I write or speak in:

English

To learn more about me, visit:

Aline Soules

I’m looking for a group that:

Meets Online.

has a maximum group size of 5.

meets for

Critique, Submissions, Discussion.

meets

Monthly.

Jack Tarrou

Hello! My name's Jack, I'm a 22 year old writer living in Washington, near Seattle. I've written on and off through college, taking several creative writing classes to hone my skills. The most intensive piece I've written was a feature length film script, but I've also written a television script and series bible, as well as short stories and poems.

I often find maintain a habit of writing difficult, thought since I graduate in a few weeks, I'm hoping that I'll have the time and motivation to write more, and I hope that through finding a group of likeminded artists will help me stay motivated in my writing, as well as provide me an outlet for constructive criticism of my work.

Location:

Seattle, WA

United States

Washington

Genres:

Cross-genre, Fiction, Humor, Literary Fiction, Poetry, Pop Culture, Serialized Fiction, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, War

My publishing/workshop experience:

Have workshop experience

How I choose to identify myself:

American, White

Languages I write or speak in:

English

I’m looking for a group that:

Meets Online.

meets for

Critique, Workshop, Writing exercises, Encouragement, Accountability partners, Reading.

Sky Island Journal

Basic Information

Website:

https://www.skyislandjournal.com/

New Mexico

United States

Submission Guidelines:

https://www.skyislandjournal.com/submissions/

Contact Information

Jason

Splichal

Co-Founder and Co-Editor

Details

Genres Published:

Poetry

Fiction

Creative Nonfiction

Formats:

Web

Reading Period:

Jan 1 to Dec 31

Reporting Time:

Less than 3 months

Charges Reading Fee:

Yes

Accepts Electronic Submissions:

Yes

Accepts Simultaneous Submissions:

Yes

Accepts Unsolicited Submissions:

Yes

Payment:

No payment

Year Founded:

2017

Percentage of Unsolicited Submissions Published:

1% to 5%

Representative Authors:

B.J. Hollars, Meg Pokrass, Noriko Nakada, Richard Martin, Rob Carney, Jeannie Roberts, Mary Rogers-Grantham, Linda H.Y. Hegland, Shane Griffin, Oz Hardwick, Tara Kun, Craig Barker, Britany Jean Golden, Laura Passin, Nicholas Claro, Bria Fey Servoss, Lauren Villa

Issues per Year:

4

Subscription Price:

Free

Issue Price:

Free

Number of Debut Authors per Issue:

15-30

Sky Island Journal is an independent, international, free-access literary journal; we are dedicated to discovering and publishing the finest original poetry, flash fiction, and creative nonfiction. We publish accomplished, well-established authors—side by side—with fresh, emerging voices. We provide our readers with a powerful, focused, advertising-free literary experience that transports them: one that challenges them intellectually and moves them emotionally.

We want to be the first publication to give your writing a clean, powerful, international platform with a diverse readership. What are we looking for? We don’t want to limit our readers; therefore, we don’t want to limit you. We know quality work when we experience it. We don’t mean to be coy, but you need to know that we’re not interested in making your art conform to some preconceived aesthetic. We’re neither presumptuous enough, nor pretentious enough, to proclaim what "won’t fit" before we even try it on. Send us your best. We have over 80,000 readers in 145 countries, and they are hungry for the best new writing.

Creative Nonfiction

Basic Information

607 College Ave

Website:

http://www.creativenonfiction.org

Pittsburgh

Pennsylvania

United States

15232

Submission Guidelines:

https://www.creativenonfiction.org/submissions

Contact Information

Hattie

Fletcher

Managing Editor

Details

Genres Published:

Creative Nonfiction

Formats:

E-publication

Print

Reading Period:

Jan 1 to Dec 31

Reporting Time:

3 to 6 months

Charges Reading Fee:

Yes

Accepts Electronic Submissions:

Yes

Accepts Simultaneous Submissions:

Yes

Accepts Unsolicited Submissions:

Yes

Payment:

Cash

Percentage of Unsolicited Submissions Published:

1% to 5%

Representative Authors:

<p>Cheryl Strayed, Phillip Lopate, John Edgar Wideman, Lauren Slater, Stefan Fatsis, Robin Hemley, Judith Barrington</p>

Issues per Year:

4

Circulation:

5,000 to 10,000

Subscription Price:

$50/8 issues; $32/4 issues

Issue Price:

$10

Number of Debut Authors per Issue:

on average 2-3

Creative Nonfiction draws heavily from unsolicited submissions. Our editors believe that providing a platform for emerging writers and helping them find readers is an essential role of literary magazines, and it’s been our privilege to work with many fine writers early in their careers. A typical issue of CNF contains at least one essay by a previously unpublished writer. We’re open to all types of creative nonfiction, from immersion reportage to personal essay to memoir.

Please do send work that blends style with substance, and reaches beyond the personal to tell us something new about the world. We're drawn to stories that balance a strong narrative (i.e. something happens) with a teaching or reflective element (i.e. the something that happens matters for some reason). Please do include your complete contact information and keep us informed of the status of simultaneous submissions. Please don't send poetry.

Subgenres:

Journalism/Investigative Reporting

AmandaRoyal

I've spent a career in journalism and corporate communications. I've written my first novel (environmental fiction) and will begin my second soon. Looking to connect with other writers.

Pronouns:

She/Her

Location:

Berkeley, CA

United States

California

Genres:

BIPOC Voices, Commercial Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Feminist, Fiction, Healing/Health, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, Love, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, War

How I choose to identify myself:

American

Languages I write or speak in:

English

I’m looking for a group that:

Meets Online.

meets for

Critique, Writing exercises, Discussion, Reading.

My groups: Great Lakes Writers

Variety Pack

Basic Information

208 North Street

Website:

http://varietypack.net

Buffalo

New York

United States

14201

Submission Guidelines:

https://varietypack.net/submissions-2/

Contact Information

J.B.

Stone

Founding Editor & Reviews Editor

Details

Genres Published:

Poetry

Fiction

Creative Nonfiction

Formats:

Web

E-publication

Audio

Reading Period:

Apr 15 to May 15

Reporting Time:

Less than 3 months

Charges Reading Fee:

No

Accepts Electronic Submissions:

Yes

Accepts Simultaneous Submissions:

Yes

Accepts Unsolicited Submissions:

Yes

Payment:

No payment

Year Founded:

2019

Representative Authors:

Tara Campbell, Justin Karcher, Mike Chin, Alan Chazaro, Anna Cooperstone, Matthew Bookin, Jazz De Nero, Deon Robinson, Travis Tate, Trina Young, Anna Coopserstone, Mileva Anastasiadou, Khalisa Rae

Issues per Year:

3-4

Circulation:

Less than 1,000

Number of Debut Authors per Issue:

18-22

We at Variety Pack try to live up to our namesake! A bedrock of diverse voices, expressing a variety of arts & letters. We are open to both genre and literary. We have an aesthetic, but it's a broad atlas rather than a narrow stream!

Please read our guidelines carefully! Read previous issues, but also feel free to send us something that we haven't published yet. Note* Reading periods will be subject to change. As of next month, we will be reading for our fifth issue!

Lowestoft Chronicle

Basic Information

www.lowestoftchronicle.com

Website:

http://www.lowestoftchronicle.com

Cambridge

Massachusetts

United States

02140 - 1401

Submission Guidelines:

http://lowestoftchronicle.com/submissions/

Contact Information

Nicholas

Litchfield

Editor

Details

Genres Published:

Poetry

Fiction

Creative Nonfiction

Formats:

Web

Print

Reading Period:

Jan 1 to Dec 31

Reporting Time:

Less than 3 months

Charges Reading Fee:

No

Accepts Electronic Submissions:

Yes

Accepts Simultaneous Submissions:

Yes

Accepts Unsolicited Submissions:

Yes

Payment:

No payment

Year Founded:

2009

Percentage of Unsolicited Submissions Published:

Greater than 50

Representative Authors:

Vanessa Blakeslee, Linda Boroff, Suzanne Brøgger, Scott Dominic Carpenter, Tim Conley, Mickey J. Corrigan, Christopher Cosmos, Jennine Capó Crucet, Rob Dinsmoor, Mary Donaldson-Evans, William Doreski, Joan Frank, James Gallant, Ivy Goodman, Marc Harshman, David Havird, Charles Holdefer, Dietrich Kalteis, Michael C. Keith, Barth Landor, Robert Mangeot, Matt Mason, Matthew P. Mayo, Robert Garner McBrearty, Valerie Nieman, Dorene O'Brien, Jay Parini, Nicholas Rombes, James Sale, Knud Sønderby, Allister Timms, and Robert Wexelblatt.

Issues per Year:

4

Circulation:

2,500 to 5,000

Founded in 2009, Lowestoft Chronicle is an online literary magazine, published quarterly, accepting flash fiction, short stories, poetry, interviews, and creative non-fiction. Preference is given to humorous submissions with an emphasis on travel. An anthology of the best work is published annually.

Read our submission guidelines for details. Email submissions only. Does not accept previously published work.

Subgenres:

Anne Lederberg

I'm feeling for routes through a sprawling landscape of documentary fiction and other disciplines such as memoir, history, three-dimensional objects on exhibit, and performance. The broad topics might include diaspora, genocide, mothers and daughters, secrets and lies, and monuments, memories, and memorials.

Pronouns:

She/Her

Location:

Sunnyside, NY

United States

New York

Genres:

Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Graphic/Illustrated, Historical, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Lyric Essay, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, Prose Poetry, War, Young Adult

Languages I write or speak in:

English

I’m looking for a group that:

Meets Online.

has a maximum group size of 5.

meets for

Writing exercises, Encouragement, Accountability partners.

meets

Weekly.

After Dinner Conversation: Philosophy | Ethics Short Story Magazine

Basic Information

2516 S. Jentilly Lane

Website:

https://www.afterdinnerconversation.com/

Tempe

Arizona

United States

85282

Submission Guidelines:

https://www.afterdinnerconversation.com/submission…

Contact Information

Kolby

Granville

Editor

Details

Genres Published:

Fiction

Creative Nonfiction

Formats:

E-publication

Reading Period:

Jan 1 to Dec 31

Reporting Time:

Less than 3 months

Charges Reading Fee:

No

Accepts Electronic Submissions:

Yes

Accepts Simultaneous Submissions:

Yes

Accepts Unsolicited Submissions:

Yes

Payment:

Cash

Year Founded:

2019

Distributors:

Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Apple Books, Google Books, Readly, Magzter, Zinio, Flipster, Hoopla, Philosophy Documentation Center

Percentage of Unsolicited Submissions Published:

6% to 10%

Representative Authors:

David Shultz, Michael Rook, Shikhandin, Ana Carolina Pereira, Dean Gessie, Tyler W. Kurt, André Lopes, Frances Howard-Snyder.

Issues per Year:

12

Circulation:

1,000 to 2,500

Subscription Price:

19.95

Issue Price:

2.95

Number of Debut Authors per Issue:

6

After Dinner Conversation publishes short stories (1,500-8,000 words), of any genre, that ask interesting ethical and/or philosphical questions in a narrative format. Basically, we are looking for The Trolley Problem written as a piece of compelling short story fiction.

It is strongly suggested you read our submission guidelines first. Our guidelines contain information that keep your submission from being being automatically deleted. Even though we accept any genre, there is a very specific niche we are looking for.

Subgenres:

Collateral

Basic Information

Website:

http://www.collateraljournal.com

Tacoma

Washington

United States

Submission Guidelines:

http://collateraljournal.com/submit

Contact Information

Abby

Murray

Editor in Chief

Details

Genres Published:

Poetry

Fiction

Creative Nonfiction

Formats:

Web

E-publication

Reading Period:

Jan 1 to Dec 31

Reporting Time:

3 to 6 months

Charges Reading Fee:

No

Accepts Electronic Submissions:

Yes

Accepts Simultaneous Submissions:

Yes

Accepts Unsolicited Submissions:

Yes

Payment:

No payment

Year Founded:

2016

Percentage of Unsolicited Submissions Published:

1% to 5%

Representative Authors:

Marilyn Nelson, Devon Moore, Jehanne Dubrow, Jennifer Conlon, Robert Gibb

Issues per Year:

2

Subscription Price:

Free

Issue Price:

Free

Number of Debut Authors per Issue:

6-8

Collateral is an online literary journal run by people who are directly and indirectly impacted by violent conflict and military service. We showcase high-quality poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and art that explores those spaces beyond the combat zone, where the “collateral” effects reverberate.

We want poetry, CNF, fiction and visual art that pushes the boundaries of exploring the impact of war from a range of perspectives. Our mission is to publish work that puts a spotlight on all those spaces beyond the combat zone.

Subgenres: