Survive Thrive provides opportunities for sharing art, poetry, essays, and the practice of Medical Humanities and Narrative as Medicine. The editors encourage those in the medical profession to practice Narrative Medicine by submitting...
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Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Creative Nonfiction -
The Swamp Ape is a legend that reflects Florida—its mythology, its weirdness—as well as the human desire to create a narrative around that which they can’t explain. Submissions to the Swamp should defy form to the extent that the piece’s...
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Founded and edited by a diverse, award-winning team of female poets, SWWIM Every Day publishes poems every weekday by cis/trans women, nonbinary, intersex, and other gender-expansive writers of all ages, races, ethnicities, cultures,...
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Symphonies of Imagination is a print magazine that explores the philosophy of the Anthropocene and is published quarterly. Each issue revolves around a certain topic and invites people from all backgrounds and from all countries to...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Speculative Fiction, Speculative Poetry -
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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Tampa Review is a literary magazine published dedicated to the blending of contemporary literature and visual arts. Each issue features contemporary writing and art from Florida and the world.
Reading Period: Sep 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Since 2017, Teach. Write. has sought to showcase the creative writing of teachers to bring them back to the fundamentals of the writing process and closer to their students. Although the editorial focus is teaching and writing by...
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Digital literary quarterly for new, emerging and established writers and artists. The editors seek good writing above anything else: inspired, unbound, and diverse. Original work only.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Thimble Literary Magazine is a quarterly online and print journal based on the belief that poetry is like armor.
Reading Period: Feb 1 to Mar 31, May 1 to Jun 30, Aug 1 to Sep 30, Nov 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, Poetry -
Based at 7,000 feet, Thin Air Magazine has no choice but to invite work that takes us to dizzying heights with its innovation and insight. The editors aspire to foster diversity, authenticity, surprise, and excitement while making the...
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Three Panels Press is a vibrant literary magazine that carves a unique niche at the intersection of art history and ekphrastic poetry. The publication is a celebration of creativity, offering a platform where the visual and the verbal...
Read moreReading Period: Jul 13 to Aug 23Genre: PoetrySubgenres: BIPOC Voices, LGBTQ Voices, Poetry, Prose Poetry -
The Tiger Moth Review publishes poetry, prose, art and photography that engage with the themes of nature, culture, the environment and ecology. Send them work that is eco-conscious and critical, work that celebrates the beauty/bounty of...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 1 to Apr 30, Aug 1 to Oct 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Fiction, Nature/Environmental, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Translation -
TOS is published by Wind & Water Press, and its purpose is to provide a market for literary Christian poetry, with “Christian” defined in the widest sense. Free verse and all forms are welcome. TOS encourages poets to take...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Formal Poetry, Poetry, Prose Poetry -
Tofu Ink Arts Press, a not-for-profit celebratory venture, aims at publishing poems and other arts of un-humdrum’d inclusive rhizomatic errant possibilities.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Formal Poetry, LGBTQ Voices, Poetry -
The Twin Bill is a quarterly literary baseball publication founded in 2020 at the start of the pandemic. The editors celebrate the rich history of the game while also recognizing its vibrant present through essays, fiction, poetry,...
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Established in 2023, Twin Bird Review is a biannual online literary publication for imaginative fiction, poetry, essays, art, and comics. The editors love the metaphorical, the speculative, the fantastical, the whimsical, and the strange...
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Mainly work by Zambian writers, except for January, when work by African writers living in Africa is also considered.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Jan 31, May 1 to May 31, Jul 1 to Jul 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Valiant Scribe is a platform that focuses on faith and social issues. It covers a wide range of topics, including violence against women, forced labor, human trafficking, criminal justice, mental health, climate change, poverty, and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 15 to Dec 15Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Variety Pack tries to live up their namesake! A bedrock of diverse voices, expressing a variety of arts & letters. Open to both genre and literary. Sure there’s an aesthetic, but it’s a broad atlas rather than a narrow stream!
Reading Period: May 1 to Jun 15, Sep 1 to Oct 15Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Historical, Humor, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Lyric Essay, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Regional, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Translation, Visual Poetry, War, Young Adult -
A Velvet Giant is a literary journal for work that exists outside the boundaries of genre.
Reading Period: Mar 15 to May 15Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Black Sun Lit is the publisher of Vestiges, an irregularly printed journal of poetry, prose, essay, translation, art, and ontological inquiry.
Reading Period: Feb 1 to Apr 30, Oct 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, TranslationSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Literary Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Translation -
Voices de la Luna inspires and promotes literature and arts and serves as a platform for all authors and artists to share their work with others. It further uses literature and arts for both educational and healing purposes in the...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Feminist, Fiction, Formal Poetry, LGBTQ Voices, Lyric Essay, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Visual Poetry -
W-Poesis is an independent, international, free-access, online literary journal. The editors prefer expressive poems that give us a feeling and affect the soul.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Poetry -
Waxwing is a literary journal promoting the tremendous cultural diversity of contemporary American literature, alongside international voices in translation. The editors believe that American voices are, at their cores, both...
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Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
