‘22 SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER SEQUESTRUM themes are 1) “Fantasy,” 2) “Cross Genre,” and 3) “Time!” Fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Themes close October 15! Payment + publication. Submit via our online submission system. Deadline: October 15. E-mail: sequr.info@gmail.com. Full guidelines: www.sequestrum.org.
ABANDONED MINE is a new poetry journal (quarterly online, selected annual print), now accepting submissions for our ***inaugural year***. We are seeking poems people will be inspired to re-read and share with family and friends. Please visit www.abandonedmine.org for examples and complete submission guidelines.
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.
THE AWAKENINGS REVIEW, an award-winning lit magazine for writers and poets with mental illnesses, is now accepting submissions to its annual hard-copy publication. Send your work with a cover letter to ar@awakeningsproject.org. But first browse our submission guidelines, found at www.awakeningsproject.org.
BAYOU MAGAZINE accepts fiction, nonfiction, and poetry submissions September 1–May 1, with contests running October 1–January 1. Experienced and debut writers are welcome. See our website for details: www.bayoumagazine.org.
BELLEVUE LITERARY REVIEW’S themed issue on “Taking Care” seeks poetry, short stories, and creative nonfiction that celebrate the many ways in which we care for one another, for ourselves, and for the world. Submissions open September 1–December 31. Entry fee: $5. Website: www.blreview.org.
THE BLUEBIRD WORD is a new online literary journal for poetry, flash nonfiction, and flash fiction. We are interested in showcasing work from emerging authors as well as contributions from writers across all cultural backgrounds and experience levels. For complete submission guidelines visit www.thebluebirdword.com/submit.
BLUELINE: A LITERARY MAGAZINE Dedicated to the Spirit of the Adirondacks seeks poems, stories, and nonfiction about the Adirondacks and regions similar in geography and spirit, focusing on nature’s shaping influence. Submission period July 1 through November 30. Decisions mid-February. Payment in copies. Please identify simultaneous submissions; notify immediately if your submission is placed elsewhere. Electronic submissions encouraged as Word files to blueline@potsdam.edu. Please identify the genre in the subject line. Website: www.bluelineadkmagazine.org.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS for an issue on “Refugees,” Fiction International will be accepting fiction, nonfiction, and indeterminate prose between October 1, 2022 and February 15, 2023. Submit texts and visuals via Submittable. Queries: hjaffe@sdsu.edu.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS. Creosote: A Journal of Poetry and Prose. Please submit hard copies of 3–5 poems or prose up to 5,000 words. Submission deadline: March 1, 2023. Simultaneous submissions OK with notice. Mail to: Creosote, Ken Raines, editor, Eastern Arizona College, 615 N. Stadium Ave., Thatcher, AZ 85552.
CALLING DANVILLE WRITERS…New literary journal seeking well-written submissions from Danville writers—any Danville—there are 26 worldwide; for news about upcoming awards, guidelines for submission, check out: www.pulse-and-echo.com. Our inaugural (Spring 2022) issue is available to download. Submissions (poetry, prose) open August 15–September 30.
CLOCKHOUSE, published in partnership with Goddard College, seeks submissions from emerging and established writers for its 2022 volume. Past volumes include works by Samiya Bashir, Lucas de Lima, Cynthia Manick, Paisley Rekdal, and Ira Sukrungruang, among terrific new voices. Reading September 1 through December 15. Submission guidelines and mission statement: www.clockhouse.net.
COLLATERAL PUBLISHES LITERARY AND VISUAL ART concerned with the impact of violent conflict and military service beyond the combat zone. We read year round, charge no fees, and publish each May and November. Submit through our website: www.collateraljournal.com.
DEEP WILD: WRITING FROM THE BACKCOUNTRY, home for creative work inspired by journeys to places where there are no roads, wants wild words, all genres. September 1–December 1. Also seeking entries for our Graduate Poetry Contest, November 1, 2022–February 1, 2023. No fees! Read guidelines/order a back issue at www.deepwildjournal.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.
FOR DASH ISSUE 16, we seek previously unpublished art, poems, stories, nonfiction, and hybrid pieces: poems, 3–5, up to 30 lines each; fiction, nonfiction, and hybrid, up to 2,000 words. Our theme is “Futurisms,” conceived broadly. Whether named movements like Eco-, Afro-, or Indigenous futurisms, emergent forms like altermundos, silkpunk, or hopepunk, or approaches unnamed, we want writing that moves us. Submissions open October 20, 2022 and close March 1, 2023, with all submission decisions made by late April and publication in May 2023. Website: www.dash.submittable.com.
FOUNDED IN 2000, The Bryant Literary Review is an international journal of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction housed at Bryant University in Smithfield, RI. Authors can submit work to: www.bryantliteraryreview.submittable.com/submit. For past issues, see www.digitalcommons.bryant.edu. Reading period for Vol. 24 (2023) is September 1 to December 1.
FOURTH GENRE: Explorations in Nonfiction is now accepting submissions for the open reading period. Go to www.fourthgenre.org between August 30 and November 30 for more information including detailed submission guidelines.
FRONT RANGE REVIEW is now accepting online submissions of literary short fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction for its 23rd annual issue. Our reading period is August 15–December 1. To see guidelines and submit, visit www.frontrange.edu/frontrangereview.
GIRLS RIGHT THE WORLD is a journal inviting female-identified writers and artists, ages 14–21, to submit work to girlsrighttheworld@gmail.com by December 31. Include a note mentioning your age and where you’re from. We ask to be first to publish your work in North America; after publication, rights return to you.
GLASSWORKS MAGAZINE seeks poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and art/photography for upcoming print issues. Contributor copies provided. Reading period open until December 15. Also seeking flash fiction, prose poetry, and micro essays for publication in Flash Glass, our online feature. Read guidelines and submit at: www.rowanglassworks.org.
GLIMPSE SEEKS POEMS for Issue #56. For guidelines, SASE to George J. Searles, editor, Box 51, Clinton, NY 13323 or see www.glimpsepoetrymagazine.com.
THE BMP LITERARY QUARTERLY wants your best unpublished poetry, short stories, and art. Website: www.thehalcyone.submittable.com. Publication awards for winning entries. HerWords literary magazine for women and JanusWords for LGBT+.
HAWAII PACIFIC REVIEW seeks fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Based at Hawaii Pacific University, HPR charges no fees and reads submissions from late summer to early spring. Our work has been featured in the Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize anthologies. Details can be found at www.hawaiipacificreview.org.
LITBOP: ART AND LITERATURE in the Groove is open for submissions. Published as a Kindle e-book and a POD paperback. No payment. No submission fee. Submit at www.duotrope.com/duosuma/submit/litbop-art-and-literature-in-the-groove-ylbUJ. Our first issue featured fiction by Christine Sneed and Libby Fisher-Hellman and art by Kat Ace. Learn more at www.litbop.com.
THE MEADOW SEEKS submissions in poetry, short stories, creative nonfiction, and cover art for our Summer 2023 issue. Submit up to 5 poems and keep prose under 5,000 words at www.themeadow.submittable.com/submit. The Meadow is both a print and online journal. Payment is 2 copies. Our deadline is January 15, 2023.
THE MEDICAL LITERARY MESSENGER seeks thought-provoking poetry, prose, 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 www.med-lit.vcu.edu for more information or contact us at medlit@vcuhealth.org.
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES SHORT EDITION, an innovative publishing platform affiliated with the international publisher Short Edition, seeks short work (8,000-character max, about 1,000 words) exploring the theme of “Water.” Submissions accepted through December 16. Selected work will appear online and in MSU Short Edition machines and will be considered for publication internationally. “Water,” for our purposes, will be broadly interpreted and might include meditations on physical, social, racial, environmental, or other themes. We seek work that avoids platitudes and sentimentality, demonstrates a deep understanding of craft, and engages with fresh thinking. Visit: www.lib.msu.edu/shortedition/submissions.
MONTHS TO YEARS seeks submissions of creative nonfiction (up to 2,500 words), poetry, photography, and art related to death and dying as well as the broader themes of loss and grief. Submission guidelines: www.monthstoyears.org/submission-guidelines. We welcome submissions from writers in underrepresented communities.
MUSE ART/LITERARY JOURNAL is open for submissions September 15 to December 15 for Spring 2023. Send 1 prose piece (1,500 words max) or up to 3 poems; include contact & bio: RCC MUSE, Riverside City College, 4800 Magnolia Ave., Riverside, CA 92506. We also accept submissions at muse@rcc.edu. Please e-mail attachment (prefer .doc) with “LastName–Genre–Title” in the subject line. Do not put submissions in the body of the e-mail. Full guidelines at www.rcc.edu/muse.
NOMINEE: RANKED SIXTH among Top 25 Literary Magazines & Publications in 2022 (Feedspot). The RavensPerch Literary Magazine seeks submissions of well-groomed poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and visual art. For submission guidelines, visit us at www.theravensperch.com.
PEDESTAL MAGAZINE will accept submissions of poetry during its mid-September cycle. No restrictions on theme, style, length, or genre. Please visit the website for details and to view current/archived work: www.thepedestalmagazine.com.
PENSIVE: A GLOBAL JOURNAL OF SPIRITUALITY & THE ARTS, innovative online publication from Northeastern University, welcomes unpublished poetry, prose, visual art, translations. Visit www.pensivejournal.com; submit via Submittable February 1–May 15 or August 1–November 15. No fee. Historically underrepresented and international voices encouraged. Recent contributors include Baca, Bruchac, M. Collins, Chess, Cording, Espada, Glancy, Hoffman, Lea, Marchant, D.S. Martin, MEH, Metres, Piercy, Samaras, Sholl, more. Spring issue is opened-themed, with special section on spiritual responses to current events & voices from "inside” and “outside" (e.g. incarcerated, homeless, refugee communities, and their allies).
PINYON INVITES HIGH-QUALITY SUBMISSIONS of poetry and short fiction from emerging and established writers. Reading period is August 1 to December 1. Send short bio, including e-mail address and SASE to PINYON, Department of Languages, Literature, and Mass Communication, Colorado Mesa University, 1100 North Ave., Grand Junction, CO 81501-3122 or check our website at www.thepinyon.wordpress.com to submit electronically.
THE PLENTITUDES is a quarterly international literary journal showcasing captivating short stories, personal essays, and poetry from diverse voices. We are accepting submissions for our Fall 2022 issue, which will include 10–15 original pieces of prose and poetry. Reading fee: $5. Honorarium: $50. Deadline: July 31. Submit at: www.theplentitudes.com/submit.
PUERTO DEL SOL IS SEEKING work engaging with the theme of “Touch.” An embrace, a fist, a long-distance call. Something kept or lost. Midas walking a world of money. A rhesus macaque clinging to his inanimate mother. Submit prose and poetry grappling with the need, the scarcity, the fear of this essential thing at www.puertodelsol.org. Deadline: November 15.
RATTLE SEEKS POETRY SUBMISSIONS from Irish poets for the Spring 2023 issue: Poems may be on any subject, but must be written by poets who identify as Irish and lived in Ireland for a significant portion of their lives. Deadline: October 15. Submit up to 4 unpublished poems using our online submission manager. Website: www.rattle.com.
RIVERSEDGE SEEKS SUBMISSIONS of poetry, prose (fiction, nonfiction, plays), and graphic lit in English, Spanish, and anything in between. Poetry and prose submissions eligible for annual contests. Previous contributors include Sandra Cisneros, Naomi Shihab Nye, Denise Duhamel, and Esteban Rodriguez, among others. Submissions accepted October 1, 2022 to March 1, 2023. For guidelines visit www.riversedgejournal.com.
SANTA FE LITERARY REVIEW invites no-fee submissions of CNF, fiction, poetry, and visual art. This year’s suggested theme is “Myth: Invention, Legend, and Lore.” Word limit per prose submission is 2,000 words per submission period; poets may submit up to 5 poems per submission period. Submit via Submittable by November 1. Learn more at www.sfcc.edu/santa-fe-literary-review.
SLAB IS SEEKING your oddest and best fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and text-based art for our upcoming issue #18. Algorithm-free reading done by real humans and a pet sloth named Rocky. Submission info/back issues at www.slablitmag.org.
SUBMISSIONS TO SANGAM LITERARY MAGAZINE for Fall 2022 (Vol. 3, Issue 2) are open. Home to Louisiana’s former Poet Laureate and Southern University’s Languages and Literature Department, Sangam welcomes your best work. See: www.subr.edu/page/submissions. We are looking forward to you being part of Sangam’s emerging position in today’s literary tradition.
TAHOMA LITERARY REVIEW pays writers! $55 for poetry & flash prose, $135 for longer pieces. Work from TLR has appeared in major anthologies, and everything we accept comes from the open submission queue. We’re reading poetry, fiction, and nonfiction August 1 through October 15. Guidelines: www.tahomaliteraryreview.com.
TINT JOURNAL, the literary magazine for non-native English creative writing, publishes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by writers who compose their work in English as their second or foreign language. See our homepage for our open calls and our guidelines, and submit via www.tintjournal.com/submit (no fee). #showyourtint.
TWO HAWKS QUARTERLY is a digital journal affiliated with Antioch University Los Angeles’ BA program in creative writing and is setting the bar for contemporary literature with bold and illuminating poetry, fiction, CNF, art, and quality experimental work. Submissions accepted October 1, 2021 through June 30, 2023. For guidelines, see www.twohawksquarterly.com.
UNDER THE SUN, a journal of creative nonfiction, will be reading submissions for its 27th annual edition from September 1, 2022–January 2, 2023. Please address all correspondence to Martha Highers, editor, at underthesun1996@gmail.com (preferred) or via ground mail at Under the Sun, P.O. Box 332, Cookeville, TN 38506.
WATERWHEEL REVIEW is reading for Season 3, September 2022–May 2023. We publish 3 pieces of writing per month without labeling by genre and link each piece to the art world (photo, painting, sculpture, film, dance, music). We celebrate our authors on social media, through our newsletter, and by nominating for prizes. Visit us here: www.waterwheelreview.com.
THE WOVEN TALE PRESS MAGAZINE, both online and print, features the finest literary and art from around the world. Submit (free!) poetry, flash fiction, memoir, short stories, novel excerpts. Go to our “submit” page at www.thewoventalepress.net.
THE WRITER’S WORKSHOP REVIEW publishes the best in creative nonfiction, fiction, and interviews and pays for published stories. Send us narrative nonfiction, personal essays, short stories, short shorts, as well as travel, food and wine, and writing with a strong narrative element. Submissions: Kathleen Glassburn at kathleenglassburn@gmail.com. For more, contact nick@thewritersworkshop.net. Websites: www.thewritersworkshop.net or www.thewritersworkshopreview.net.