2018 NOMINEE: One of the Top 10 literary blogs on the web. The RavensPerch Literary Magazine seeks submissions of well-groomed poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and visual art. For submission guidelines, visit us at theravensperch.com.
AJI MAGAZINE is calling for poetry, short fiction, literary nonfiction, reviews, photography, and graphic art from emerging and established writers and artists. Submissions open on May 1 and November 1 and close once the upcoming issue is filled. Back issues are available at www.ajimagazine.com; e-mail queries can be sent to ajimagazine@gmail.com.
CÆSURA WILL ACCEPT POETRY AND ART submissions from March 1 to June 15 for the 2020 issue, no submission fees. Call details will be available March 1. Two unique versions of Cæsura need content, print and online. For guidelines, and to order print books or view online, please visit www.pcsj.org/caesura.
CHANGES IN LIFE monthly online newsletter is seeking personal essays from women of all ages. New writers are encouraged to submit their work. For further details and submission guidelines, please visit the website at: www.changesinlife.com.
CONNECTICUT RIVER REVIEW, a national poetry journal, is accepting submissions from February 1 to April 15. Electronic submissions only. Send up to 5 original unpublished poems in a single document, 1 poem per page, at https://connecticutriverreview.submittable.com/submit/148272/connecticut-river-review-journal-2020. You can check our website for complete guidelines: www.ctpoetry.net. (Click on publications tab.)
CREAM CITY REVIEW is Milwaukee’s leading literary journal devoted to publishing memorable and energetic pieces that push the boundaries of writing. We want to read your best fiction, poetry, and nonfiction this year! Submit your work from January 1 to April 1. For full guidelines, please visit www.creamcityreview.org.
CREATIVE NONFICTION MAGAZINE is seeking new work for upcoming issues. We’re looking for a wide range of narrative nonfiction on any subject and in any style. Surprise us. Work must be previously unpublished and true. Complete guidelines at www.creativenonfiction.org/submissions.
CREATIVE WRITING BY NON-NATIVE ENGLISH OR ESL WRITERS: Tint Journal is a literary magazine publishing fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by English as a second language writers as well as profiles, interviews, reviews, and art. See www.tintjournal.com for our next open call and follow us @tintjournal.
DASH LITERARY JOURNAL is looking for previously unpublished short, emphatic poems (less than 30 lines), stories, hybrids, essays (up to 2,000 words), and artwork. The reading period opens in mid-October and closes March 1 with all decisions made by April 2020. Submissions accepted through Submittable: dash.submittable.com/submit.
EAST BY NORTHEAST LITERARY MAGAZINE is accepting submissions for its first issue. New and emerging writers and visual artists may submit work in the following genres: Flash and short fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and visual art. Website: https://exneliterary.com.
EVENING STREET REVIEW seeks previously unpublished work. Submit 3–6 poems or 1–2 prose pieces. Payment is 1 contributor’s copy. E-mail submissions are preferred as a single .docx or .rtf file. Mail to: editor@eveningstreetpress.com or Evening Street Press, 2881 Wright St., Sacramento, CA 95821. Website: www.eveningstreetpress.com.
FERN, A NEW PRINT MAGAZINE from Winterhawk Press (previously Calypso), welcomes up to 6 poems (no inspirational) or up to 2 stories or essays (any subject or style) until September 30. Double-space prose, up to 15 pages each. Include SASE. Paper submissions only. Address: 9533 Caraway Dr., Boise, ID 83704.
THE HALCYONE LITERARY QUARTERLY wants your best unpublished poetry, short stories, and art. Payment for featured writers. Publication awards for winning contest entries. New residency awards for artists and writers. Website: https://thehalcyone.submittable.com.
HAWAII PACIFIC REVIEW seeks fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Based at Hawaii Pacific University, HPR charges no fees and reads submissions August through April. Our work has been featured in the Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize anthology. Details and links to our submission manager can be found at hawaiipacificreview.org.
THE KERF SEEKS POETRY for its annual issue. The editors are especially interested in themes related to humanity and/or environmental consciousness, but are open to diverse subjects. Submit January 15 to March 31 annually. Include brief bio and SASE. Address: The Kerf, College of the Redwoods, 883 W. Washington Blvd., Crescent City, CA 95531.
LEAPING CLEAR’S FALL 2020 ISSUE will feature works by accomplished artists, musicians, videographers, and writers with a dedicated meditation practice in addition to their dedicated artistic practice. Any and all traditions of meditation are acceptable: Buddhist, Sufi, yoga, Christian, Jewish, TM, mindfulness, and integrated mind-body practices such as yoga and qi gong. The works themselves need not speak directly to the subject of meditation, but we will only accept work from those who describe their practice and its influence on their lives and/or their art. Submit May 1 through 31 at www.leapingclear.org.
MANZANO MOUNTAIN REVIEW SEEKS PROSE for Issue 5. Theme: “Chiaroscuro.” Your prose may flirt with (or submerge itself within) the genres of crime & noir, but we are looking for fresh expressions, not formula. Give us light & shadow. Give us dawn & darkness. Prose subs open February 1 at manzanomountainreview.com/submissions.
THE MEDICAL LITERARY MESSENGER seeks thought-provoking poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and visual art related to medicine, illness, and the body. Online submissions are free and accepted on a rolling basis. Visit us at https://med-lit.vcu.edu for more information. You can also follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter @medlitmessenger.
MISTAKE HOUSE MAGAZINE seeks remarkable fiction and poetry by students currently enrolled in graduate or undergraduate programs worldwide. Share your world and your voice. Visit our booth at AWP 2020! Submission window: October 15, 2019 to March 15, 2020. Submission fee $3. See guidelines at www.mistakehouse.org/submit.
OYSTER RIVER PAGES seeks fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and visual arts that stretch creative and social boundaries, especially from decentered or marginalized voices. We believe in the power of art to connect people to their own and others’ humanity. Submissions accepted January–May. For details, see www.oysterriverpages.com.
PEN + BRUSH IN PRINT, the publishing arm of a 125-year-old nonprofit supporting the work of emerging and mid-career women writers, seeks poetry and short literary fiction by women and nonbinary authors. No submission fee! We also accept novels: See our website for more information: www.penandbrush.org/explore/literary.
RATTLE SEEKS SUBMISSIONS BY SERVICE WORKERS for the Fall 2020 issue: Poems may be any style or subject, but must have been written by those employed in direct service to customers (food service, housecleaning, hospitality, customer service, etc.). Deadline: April 15. Online submissions accepted. For more information, visit our website: www.rattle.com.
RHINO, AN AWARD-WINNING ANNUAL PRINT JOURNAL, is open for submissions of poetry, flash (500 words max), and translations from April 15–July 31 with no reading fee. We invite traditional or experimental work reflecting passion, originality, artistic conviction, and a love affair with language. For 40+ years, RHINO has featured stunning, eclectic work, perfectly bound and visually splendid—”powerful poetry from beginning to end” (New Pages, 2018). All submissions considered for $500 Editors’ Prize. To buy our gorgeous new 2020 issue; to read RHINO Reviews, our online magazine of reviews of the most compelling new American poetry; and for submission guidelines: rhinopoetry.org.
SEEMS CONSIDERS UNPUBLISHED POEMS (3–5), literary fiction, and creative nonfiction (5,000 words max of prose). Submissions in body of e-mail and “P,” “F,” or “CNF” in subject line to seems@lakeland.edu or, with SASE, to Karl Elder, Editor, Lakeland University, W. 3718 South Dr., Plymouth, WI 53073. Sample at http://seemsmagazine.wixsite.com/seems.
SEQUESTRUM IS NOW ACCEPTING fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. No theme. 10,000 word max for prose, 35 lines for poetry. Submit via our online submission system. Full guidelines: www.sequestrum.org/submissions.
STONE CANOE, the award-winning annual journal of art, writing, and ideas, is now reading submissions for its 2021 issue. The journal is open to work by poets, writers, and artists who are either current or former residents of upstate NY. When funds permit, prizes of $500 are also awarded to emerging writers and artists; awards are selected by our editors, from among works accepted for publication, and no entry is required. For complete submission guidelines, visit https://ycny.org/stone-canoe or e-mail stonecanoe@ymcacny.org.
STORM CELLAR, an independent journal of safety and danger with its roots in the Midwest, in print and e-book formats since 2011, seeks amazing new writing and art. BIPOC, women and NB, LGBTQIA+, disabled, neurodivergent, poor, and border-straddling voices encouraged. Surprise us! To submit: stormcellar.submittable.com.
TAHOMA LITERARY REVIEW IS OPEN January 1 through March 15 for submissions in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. We pay $55 for poetry & flash prose, $135 for longer work. Everything we accept comes from the open submission queue. Work from TLR has appeared in major anthologies. Guidelines: tahomaliteraryreview.com.
TRUE STORY, A MONTHLY MINI-MAGAZINE from the editors of Creative Nonfiction, seeks unpublished works of longform narrative nonfiction between 5,000 and 10,000 words long, on any subject and in any style. No deadline. Complete guidelines at www.creativenonfiction.org/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 quality experimental work. Read us. Write for us. Submissions accepted year-round. For guidelines, see www.twohawksquarterly.com.
THE WESTCHESTER REVIEW, an annual print journal, seeks poetry, short fiction, graphic novels, nonfiction, and one-act plays for its upcoming issue by established and emerging authors wherever they reside. We continue to spotlight Westchester authors in a dedicated folio. See website for guidelines: www.westchesterreview.com.