Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine’s primary interest is quality. It welcomes submissions in any and all forms, genres, styles, and approaches in written word and image and encourages innovation as well as tradition.
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Reading Period: Feb 1 to Jun 15, Aug 1 to Dec 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Humor, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Love, Magical Realism, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, Prose Poetry, Regional, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Speculative Poetry, Translation, Visual Poetry, War, Young Adult -
The Stonecoast Review is a literary arts journal edited by alumni and students from University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing. It welcomes creative nonfiction, fiction (literary, general, and pop/genre),...
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Story Unlikely is an award-winning monthly publication that features fiction and nonfiction that focuses on the quality of both the writing and storytelling, not on genre or author pedigree (or lack thereof).
Reading Period: Feb 1 to Oct 31Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Sun is an independent, ad-free magazine that for more than fifty years has used words and photographs to evoke the splendor and heartache of being human. Each monthly issue celebrates life, but not in a way that ignores its...
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Tabula Rasa Review is filled with poetry and prose that show just how much can be done with a blank piece of paper. Its authors have formed dimension, and feeling in black and white text. They’ve created relationships, climaxes, and...
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Twisted Tongue primarily focuses on poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and art with the welcome of hybrids. The work that it looks for focuses on deeply expressing being human. It hopes to push the boundaries on what representation...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 1 to Sep 1, Jan 1 to Feb 14Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Humor, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Love, Lyric Essay, Magical Realism, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, Prose Poetry, Regional, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Speculative Poetry -
The moon is dynamic, always moving forward, night after night, revitalizing life as it shifts through its phases, a vital piece of this evermoving universe. Work submitted here should represent this. It should move the editors. It should move...
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Yellow Arrow Journal is a biannual publication of creative nonfiction, poetry, and cover art by writers/artists who identify as women.
Reading Period: Feb 1 to Feb 28, Aug 1 to Aug 31Genre: Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Zhagaram Literary Magazine, founded in Bengaluru, is a publication aimed at publishing culturally rooted literature and art. Zhagaram seeks mythologies, unwritten histories, and generational curses whispered in between the lines...
Read moreReading Period: Jul 11 to Aug 31Genre: Poetry
