ARROYO LITERARY REVIEW is an award-winning national magazine with a West Coast orientation. We are seeking fiction, flash fiction, poetry, essays, and translation for our 10th issue. Open reading period from December 1, 2016, to May 31, 2017. No e-mail submissions. Please see our website for submission guidelines: www.arroyoliteraryreview.com.
BASEBALL BARD. Online literary magazine with annual printed book seeks poems up to 32 lines on subject of baseball. All properly submitted poems are published. Poets new to Baseball Bard are invited to submit on a free trial basis. For guidelines, see “Poem Submit” at baseballbard.com. E-mail: baseballbard@yahoo.com.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS at decasp.com (gesundheit)—let your literary hair down. As a matter of fact cut it off. We’re looking for absurd humor. Flash, limericks, one-liners, character sketches, cartoons, almost anything you see on the site is open for submission! Please ignore the gorilla. decasp.com.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: The Westchester Review, an annual print journal, seeks short fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, excerpts of plays, and graphic novels, for its 10th issue. Submissions accepted year-round. Writers should have a connection to the Westchester County, NY, area. See website for guidelines: www.westchesterreview.com.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Out of Many Magazine, founded by writers at Vanderbilt University, is seeking fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art. We are especially eager to read pieces with multicultural elements. Submission is free, and response times are low. We publish regularly online and quarterly in print. For details, visit outofmanymag.com.
CHANGES IN LIFE monthly online newsletter is seeking personal essays from women of all ages. New writers are encouraged to submit their work. For details and submission guidelines, see www.changesinlife.com.
CONNECTICUT RIVER REVIEW poetry journal seeks submissions January 1 to April 15. Up to 5 original unpublished poems in a single document, 1 poem per page, via connecticutriverreview.submittable.com or send to Connecticut River Review, P.O. Box 516, Cheshire, CT 06410 with cover letter and SASE. For complete guidelines visit www.ctpoetry.net.
CREATIVE NONFICTION MAGAZINE is seeking new work for an upcoming issue dedicated to “Starting Over.” We welcome personal stories as well as profiles, and we’re open to a very wide range of experiences and circumstances. 4,000 words or fewer. Deadline: June 19. Guidelines at www.creativenonfiction.org/submissions.
DUENDE, THE ONLINE literary journal run by the BFAW program at Goddard College, will be reading for its next feature. We are interested in seeing work from individuals in the mental health field or from those who struggle/have struggled with mental health issues. Check our website for more details. duendeliterary.org.
EARTH’S DAUGHTERS ACCEPTING submissions May 1 to June 30 for Issue No. 92 “Lines”; the 4 directions, waiting, aging, queues, drawing, light or dark. Submit up to 3 poems, and/or 500 words of prose and $5 readers fee to Earth’s Daughters, P.O. Box 41, Central Park Station, Buffalo, NY 14215. Guidelines at www.earthsdaughters.org.
FOR A NEW MONTHLY magazine entitled True Story, Creative Nonfiction seeks unpublished works of narrative nonfiction between 3,500 and 10,000 words long, on any subject and in any style. No deadline. Complete guidelines at www.creativenonfiction.org/submissions.
FUNNYINFIVEHUNDRED.COM dares you to fit as many laughs into 500 words as possible. We are seeking humorous monologues in under 500 words (like a stand-up routine), and funny stories in under 500 words (are you a closet Mark Twain?) Submissions are accepted year-round. To submit your work, visit funnyinfivehundred.com/submit.
HAWAII PACIFIC REVIEW SEEKS submissions of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Based at Hawaii Pacific University, HPR often features work from Hawaii and the Pacific region but is interested in great writing from any place and on any subject. Details and links to our online submissions manager at hawaiipacificreview.org.
ITALIAN AMERICANA, a national journal since 1974, welcomes poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction on any topic from writers of IA heritage (either side of family). April 1 deadline for Summer 2017 issue. Recent authors include Anne Marie Macari, Gerry LaFemina, and Peter Covino. For details, see authors’ guidelines at http://italianamericana.ysu.edu.
MISTAKE HOUSE: Show us your world and voice. We welcome the familiar revealed in new ways, the curious, inventive, tenacious. Poetry and fiction submissions open to students currently enrolled in graduate or undergraduate programs. Submission window: October 15, 2016 to March 5, 2017. Submission fee $3. See guidelines at www.mistakehouse.org.
MOUNT HOPE, a literary magazine publishing fiction, photography, nonfiction, graphic storytelling, and poetry welcomes submissions of original work for upcoming issues. We seek short stories or nonfiction up to 5,000 words, up to 4 poems per author, and graphic novel and photo portfolios of 5–12 images. We publish emerging authors side by side with such established writers as Margot Livesey, Steve Almond, Hester Kaplan, Howard Norman, Steven Church, and Moira Egan. See us online: www.mounthopemagazine.com.
PRINT-ORIENTED BASTARDS is a quarterly online literary magazine that features award-winning writers and artists. We invite all genres, including literary comics, interviews, reviews, and uncategorizable hybrids. Simultaneous submissions accepted year-round. Response time is typically 3 months. For guidelines and the current issue, visit www.printorientedbastards.com.
RATTLE SEEKS SUBMISSIONS submissions by blue collar poets for the Fall 2017 issue: Poems may be on any subject, but the poets must work in manual labor. Deadline: April 15. Send up to 4 unpublished poems to: Rattle, 12411 Ventura Blvd. Studio City, CA 91604. Online submissions accepted. Website: www.rattle.com.
RHINO, AN AWARD-WINNING, annual print journal, accepts submissions of poetry, flash-fiction (500 words max), and translations, April 1–August 31 with no reading fee, for consideration of publication and the Editors’ Prize. (Submissions accepted September 1–October 31, with small reading fee, for Founders’ Contest cash prize and publication.) We invite traditional or experimental work reflecting passion, originality, artistic conviction, and a love affair with language. Named “one of the best annual collections of poetry you can find”—New Pages, for more than 40 years Rhino has featured stunning, eclectic work, perfectly bound and visually splendid. All content also receives online publication. For guidelines, to purchase, and to read and hear poems, visit rhinopoetry.org.
RIOT MATERIAL, a new online cultural and literary magazine, is currently seeking submissions for reviews, interviews, short fiction, and profiles of interesting personalities and scenes. We are a Los Angeles-based magazine, but we are global in our vision and expect to highlight the best of the written word from around the world. Check out riotmaterial.com and click on submit, or e-mail us at riotmaterial@gmail.com.
TERRAIN.ORG: A Journal of the Built + Natural Environments seeks fiction, nonfiction, poetry, video, and hybrid submissions on place from established and emerging writers and artists. Terrain.org is a free, award-winning international online magazine publishing since 1998. View submission guidelines and submit at www.terrain.org/submit.
THIRD WEDNESDAY literary arts journal accepts unpublished poetry, short fiction (up to 1,500 words), and b/w art or photography. Submit to https://thirdwednesdaymagazine.submittable.com/submit. For details, go to thirdwednesday.org.
THE TIMBERLINE REVIEW, a new literary journal published in the Pacific Northwest, seeks previously unpublished short fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and essays for the Summer/Fall 2017 issue. We’re looking for brave writing that speaks to the times we live in. Submission period through April 30. All the details at timberlinereview.com/submissions.
TWO HAWKS QUARTERLY is an online journal affiliated with Antioch University Los Angeles’s BA program in creative writing and is setting the bar for contemporary literature with bold and illuminating poetry, fiction, CNF, and experimental work. Read us. Write for us. Submissions accepted year-round. For guidelines see www.twohawksquarterly.com.
UPSTREET: AWARD-WINNING annual’s 13th issue seeks quality submissions of fiction and creative nonfiction. Past issues feature interviews with Jim Shepard, Lydia Davis, Wally Lamb, Michael Martone, Robin Hemley, Sue William Silverman, Dani Shapiro, Douglas Glover, Emily Fragos, Robert Olen Butler, Joan Wickersham, and Marilyn Hacker. Distributors: Ingram, Media Solutions, Disticor (Canada). Chains: Barnes & Noble, Hastings, Books-A-Million. Deadline: March 1. For new submission guidelines, including payment, and to submit: www.upstreet-mag.org.
VERSE IS currently considering submissions of 20–40 pages in any genre (including translations and hybrid/cross-genre work) for its next print issue. Contributors receive $250–$400. Deadline: March 31. To submit, go to www.verse.submittable.com.
VIETNAM: THE VIETNOW NATIONAL Magazine is looking for some good writers. If you write about things of interest to Vietnam veterans, we’d like to hear from you. Short prose (2,500 words max) and short poetry: PTSD, POW/MIA, Agent Orange, personal experiences, veterans’ memorials, women in the military—and yes, even war stories. But don’t limit yourself to the topics listed here. We’re open to your ideas. vietnow.com/writers-guidelines.
THE WOVEN TALE PRESS seeks submissions of poetry, prose, memoir, and short fiction for both its e-magazine and print editions. The WTP mission is to grow traffic to noteworthy artists and writers across the Web. We showcase your work and link to your website. For submission guidelines, visit thewoventalepress.net.
YOU SEND IT— we’ll read it! Now actively seeking submissions. So send us your very best stories, poems, CNF. Any subject/any length. Especially looking for fresh, unique voices. We are always reading. Submit to: Trajectory, P.O. Box 655, Frankfort, KY 40602.