We look for a story to tell us something universal about the human condition. Just because our theme is "recovery" doesn't mean that all of what we publish is about successful recovery. Often it's not the recovery story that says the most about...
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Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Racket Journal is a weekly online literary journal. We want to promote the work of up-and-coming, emerging, established and the never-before-seen writers from around the country. We like a little grit in our submissions, something that’ll...
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Ragazine is an on-line magazine of art, information and entertainment. It is an eclectic collaboration of artists, writers, poets, photographers, travelers and interested others. Most work is solicited, but we welcome unsolicited contributions...
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Raising Mothers is an online literary magazine created by and for femme identifying and NBPOC writers who parent. We exist at the intersection of art, scholarship, and community. We aim to elevate our voices, share our stories, talk about...
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Raven publishes and promotes work that reflects cultural diversity in the Pacific Northwest and other regions. We seek uncommon poetry, fiction, essays, reviews, b/w art and interviews.
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We obey no genre and take anything from limericks to fantasy to genres yet invented. Our key desires are originality, accessibility and quality. We like work with a point, something to say or some sort of inner majic that gives greater meaning to...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Cross-genre, Erotica, Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, LGBTQ, Graphic/Illustrated, Humor, Formal, Love, Micro-poetry, Nature/Environmental, Political, Prose Poetry, Regional, Serialized Fiction, Religious/Spiritual, War, Narrative Nonfiction, Literary Fiction, Commercial Fiction, Pop Culture -
Red Wheelbarrow (since 2000), formerly Bottomfish, believes that everything that crosses the transom merits deep attention. We believe that beauty and meaning will inhabit wildly varied and unexpected tones and styles. Our...
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Published twice a year, Redivider welcomes fiction, nonfiction, graphic art, and poetry submissions from new, emerging, and established artists and writers. We strive to showcase the very best previously unpublished art and literature we can find...
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For over a decade, Relief has helped shape the landscapes of faith and imagination for readers around the world. We feature fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, graphic narrative, and reviews by some of today’s finest literary...
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RipRap offers a humble invitation to talented and aspiring writers of all genres (short fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and art). RipRap 41 will highlight multitude and diversity in all forms, celebrating the uniqueness of culture...
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A journal combining the best of creative nonfiction, including narrative reportage, essays & memoir, with critical essays that examine the emerging genre & that explore the impact of nonfiction narrative on the lives of its writers,...
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Rivet publishes writing that breaks from the mainstream to surprise, challenge, and delight. Each issue brings together poetry, fiction, and nonfiction that test the boundaries of form and content--a surrealist sestina followed by a lyric essay...
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The editors of Rock & Sling want to be surprised, more than anything. Surprised at the solidity of your work, the beauty of it, the tension in it, the argument of it, the freshness of it, the experiment of it. We live in a mysterious,...
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You’re a writer. We like writers. Writers like being read, and we like to read. Ergo (ergo!), if you send us writing, we’re going to see eye-to-eye pretty easily. Send us your coolest, deepest, most fun, most emotionally power-packed prose,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Fiction, Humor, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry
