Each issue of 3cents will rotate around a theme and will feature one poem, one short story or flash fiction piece, and one piece of creative nonfiction together as a mini collection built around that theme. While the authors each receive...
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Reading Period: Jan 1 to Feb 1, Apr 1 to May 1, Jul 1 to Aug 1, Oct 1 to Dec 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
3Elements Literary Review is a quarterly, online literary journal founded in Chicago in 2013, now based in Des Moines, Iowa. It publishes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, and photography.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Flash Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, Prose Poetry -
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
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45th Parallel is an online Oregon-based literary magazine produced by graduate students at Oregon State University.
Reading Period: Aug 15 to Dec 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The whole is a part and the part is a whole. The 100-word format forces the writer to question each word, to reckon with Flaubert’s mot juste in a way that even most flash fiction doesn’t. At the same time the brevity of the form allows the...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Experimental, Narrative Nonfiction, Prose Poetry -
Cofounded by Andrew Felsher and Yehui Zhao, 128 LIT is a reorienting place that confronts normative Eurocentric narratives and aesthetics. They’re committed to publishing bold and fearless poetry, translation, fiction, essays, hybrid...
Read moreReading Period: Oct 15 to Dec 15Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
The #TWP Quarterly Lit Zine is designed, written, and managed by teens to amplify the dynamic voices of their generation. From cover to cover, The #TWP Quarterly features curated prose, poetry, interviews, audio broadcasts, art...
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Flash fiction, poetry, mixed genre works, art/text and artwork. Tastes lean toward surreal, experimental, ambivalent, darkly lyrical, and wildly imaginative.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry -
aaduna seeks to identify new and emerging writers and visual artists who have a particular focus on redefining the landscape of their artform. Artists of color and those others who are traditionally underrepresented in the field are...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Prose Poetry -
Abandon Journal exists to showcase writing and artwork that has been created with abandon. The editors are open to hybrid work, genre, visual art, and more. Each issue showcases work that “abandons form,” and every other issue will be a...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 1 to Sep 30Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Able Muse predominantly publishes metrical poetry complemented by art and photography, fiction and nonfiction including essays, book reviews and interviews with a focus on metrical and formal poetry. They also welcome exceptional free...
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About Place Journal is the literary publication of the Black Earth Institute. BEI is dedicated to art serving the causes of spirit, earth, and society. Issues are guest-edited by fellows of the Institute. Themes (titles of issues) are...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Mar 10, Jun 1 to Aug 10Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Acentos Review publishes poetry, fiction, memoir, interviews, translations, and artwork by emerging and established Latinx writers, artists, and creatives four times a year. It welcomes submissions in English, Spanish, Spanglish,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Lyric Essay, Magical Realism, Micro-poetry, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Speculative Poetry, Translation, Visual Poetry -
The Acorn Review literary journal is a publication of Grossmont College in El Cajon, California. The journal publishes the fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, drama, and artwork of residents of San Diego County. In particular, the...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 17 to Jul 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Creative Nonfiction, Flash Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, Poetry, Short Fiction -
Action, Spectacle is a biannual magazine based in Louisville, Kentucky, and Brooklyn. The magazine exists at the intersection of the socio-political, the cultural, and the arts—a public space for discussion and engagement. It puts a...
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AC|DC is a one-man operation based in Brooklyn, New York. It aims to feature a diverse collection of queer voices: virgins, veterans, and everyone in between.
AC|DC currently publishes new short fiction, creative...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Flash Fiction, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Poetry, Short Fiction -
Adanna publishes work about women’s issues or topics. Submissions for artwork, poetry, essay, and short fiction are accepted by both women and men. Their news feed is a new focus that looks for timely book reviews, interviews, and...
Read moreReading Period: Apr 1 to May 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Feminist -
Add to Cart Magazine seeks experimental, avant-garde, and challenging writing and art that pushes well beyond comfortable boundaries, whether they be of form, style, or thought. It is open to “neglected voices and forms.”
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
addanomadd is a collective interested in the exercise of post-human, nomadic writing. The name intends to infer what by nature reflects a circularity: the transhuman pace through this time and space as fugitives in search of...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 27 to May 21, Jul 25 to Sep 15, Sep 1 to Dec 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Translation -
The Adroit Journal is looking for work that’s bizarre, authentic, subtle, outrageous, indefinable, raw, paradoxical. The editors have their eyes on the horizon. Send them work that lives between the land and the sky.
Reading Period: Mar 15 to May 1, Sep 15 to Nov 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
After Dinner Conversation publishes short stories (1,500 to 7,000 words), of any genre, that ask interesting ethical and/or philosphical questions in a narrative format.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
After Happy Hour’s tastes are broad and lean toward the weird. They consider fiction in any and all genres and blurs/blends thereof, and prefer poetry with strong emotion and/or a sense of narrative over straight plays with language. For...
Read moreReading Period: Nov 1 to Jan 31, Mar 1 to Apr 30, Jul 1 to Aug 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
After the Art seeks personal review essays that explore the ways reading can enrich the experience of looking at art. Each essay must be about a piece of art as well as a written text.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Graphic/Illustrated, Nonfiction -
The Afterpast Review is a feminist youth-led magazine providing a platform for underrepresented voices around the world. Through this outlet, the editors want to provide a space where an individual is able to freely represent themselves...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
AGNI sees literature and the arts as integral to the broad, engaged conversation that underwrites a vital society. Their poets, storytellers, essayists, translators, and artists lift a mirror to nature and the social world. They seek...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Dec 15, Jan 15 to May 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
