Clade Song is a space dedicated to the literary examination of the animal world and all of its behavioral niches from the bacterial mat to the predation of the auk, all of which impact and interrelate with the humanosphere. At Clade...
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Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Experimental, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Nature/Environmental, Prose Poetry, Translation -
The Common is a print and digital literary journal published biannually, in the fall and spring. Inspired by the role of the town common, a public gathering place for the display and exchange of ideas, The Common seeks to deepen...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 1 to Jun 1, Sep 1 to Dec 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Consequence addresses the human consequences and realities of war and geopolitical violence through literature and art, offering intellectual and emotional access to the experiences of combatants, victims, and witnesses. They provide the...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 15 to Apr 15, Jul 15 to Oct 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Graphic/Illustrated, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Lyric Essay, Translation, War -
Digitus Independent Publishers specializes in Spanish, Portuguese, and English literature publications. They house the literary magazine Contrapuntos: A Live Anthology. Their guest editors put together annually the issue adding some of...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Jul 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Experimental, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Translation -
Copper Nickel aspires toward diversity and eclecticism, printing work that appeals to the editors regardless of aesthetic affiliation—and they are particularly (though by no means exclusively) interested in work that considers...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 15 to Dec 15, Jan 15 to Mar 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Translation -
Cordite Poetry Review is a quarterly Australian journal of poetry and its criticism. International authors are most welcome. Each issue is themed (broadly), so please be sure to look at the submissions page. Cordite Scholarly is a fully...
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Dark Matter: Women Witnessing publishes writing and visual art created in response to an age of massive species loss and ecological collapse.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Since 1958, december has been committed to distributing the work of emerging writers and artists and celebrating more seasoned voices through a semiannual nonprofit literary magazine featuring fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and...
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Diagram is an electronic journal of text and art. As its name indicates, the editors are interested in representations. In naming. In indicating. In schematics. In the labeling and taxonomy of things. In poems that masquerade as stories...
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Black Sun Lit is the publisher of digital vestiges, an online series of fragments and ephemera: poetry, fiction, hybrid works, translation, interviews with writers and artists, and short works of drama.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, TranslationSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Translation -
Diode Poetry Journal is looking for poetry that excites and energizes, that uses language that crackles and sparks. It is looking for poetry from all points on the arc, from formal to experimental.
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The Dodge seeks your best work in eco-writing, writing about animals, and translation. They’re excited by a wide range of forms and approaches. Among other things, they’re interested in broadening the scope of stories, poems, and essays...
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Dream Noir is a magazine for all the appreciation art has to offer. This platform was founded in 2018 to promote artistic expression, enhancing the creativity of artists of all types, especially, marginalized voices.
Reading Period: Aug 1 to Oct 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
The Ekphrastic Review is an online journal devoted entirely to writing inspired by visual art. Their objective is to promote ekphrastic writing, promote art appreciation, and experience how the two strengthen each other and bring...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 1 to Mar 31, Jun 1 to Jun 30, Sep 1 to Sep 30, Dec 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Eoagh is dedicated to the idea of reading as a process, the productive chaos of investigative poetic work. It seeks to foreground the writing of experimental women, trans, feminist, BIPOC, antiracist, LGBT, and queer authors. It seeks...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 17 to Mar 17Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Cross-genre, Erotica, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Healing/Health, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Religious/Spiritual, Serialized Fiction, Translation -
Poetic discourse idioms. Eratio has a new look and a new policy: Eratio no longer publishes issues. Rather, as works are accepted, so they will appear. New work appears two or three times a week or as accepted.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Fiction, Flash Fiction, LGBTQ Voices, Micro-poetry, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Translation -
Eunoia Review is a Singapore-based online literary journal committed to sharing the fruits of “beautiful thinking.” Each day, it publishes two new pieces of writing for your reading pleasure. The editor believes that Eunoia Review...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Lyric Essay, Magical Realism, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Speculative Poetry, Translation, Visual Poetry -
For 52 years, EVENT has published the very best in contemporary new poetry and prose. It is one of Western Canada’s longest-running literary magazines and welcomes submissions written in English from around the world. Each issue of ...
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Founded in 2005 by Kate Bernheimer, Fairy Tale Review is an annual literary journal dedicated to publishing new fairy tales and to helping raise public awareness of fairy tales as a diverse, innovative art form.
Reading Period: Mar 8 to Jul 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Experimental, Literary Fiction, Nature/Environmental, Translation -
Fecund highlights exceptional works of new abundance. The magazine is a medium through which writers and visual artists are exquisitely showcased and paid for their work. Fecund publishes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, theory,...
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The Fiddlehead is open to writing in English or translations into English from all over the world and in a variety of styles, including experimental genres.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Mar 31, Sep 15 to Nov 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Translation -
At Five South, we amplify diverse voices and narratives that challenge convention and explore the intricacies of the human experience. We seek emotionally resonant, thought-provoking, and innovative submissions, whether they push the boundaries...
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Send 2-227 poems, 2-953 paintings, or a 12-inch sandwich to: fowlpoxpress@planetmail.net. Address to Virgil Kay, Editor, Rooster, and Chicken Coop Habitué.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Full Bleed exists to cultivate that fertile ground where the visual and literary arts intersect. The editors are happy to consider criticism, belle-lettres, visual art, illustration, fiction, poetry, and...
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The Furious Gazelle is striving to provide the best collection of original writing and art from across the World Wide Web.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
