Month: May 2020

Need a word association generator? These are free & better than your average thesaurus . . .

My favorite of the three is Visuwordsâ„¢ online graphical dictionary -- “Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate.” These two also do the trick and are simpler with less visual flare: […]

PAYING/NO FEE submission call & interview – Tinderbox Poetry Journal, DEADLINE: May 20, 2020

Tinderbox Poetry Journal was original founded six years ago and publishes online quarterly issues of poetry, book reviews, and interviews with poets. They recently launched a new special feature to accompany their quarterly issues entitled Gamma Knife. This themed feature is focused on “work living within the space […]

In the spirit of community – guest blog post by Diane Frank, Chief Editor of Blue Light Press

Blue Light Press, along with being a publisher, is a community. We are dedicated to the publication of poetry and flash fiction that is imagistic, inventive, emotionally honest, and pushes the language to a deeper level of insight. We are a group of poets, artists and musicians based […]

12 NO FEE/PAYING Lit mags & contests - Deadlines: May 10 – June 15

The literary magazines/journals and contests listed below all offer some form of payment, do not charge submission/reading fees, take online submissions, and have submission deadlines between May 10 and June 15, 2020. This list focuses on poetry submissions, but most lit mags accept prose and art as well. […]

12 NO FEE/PAYING Lit mags & contests - Deadlines: May 10 – June 15

The literary magazines/journals and contests listed below all offer some form of payment, do not charge submission/reading fees, take online submissions, and have submission deadlines between May 10 and June 15, 2020. This list focuses on poetry submissions, but most lit mags accept prose and art as well. […]

NO FEE submission call & interview – Juniper, DEADLINE: May 31, 2020

Juniper is a new online poetry journal, published three times a year, in February, June and October. I love the simple, yet pleasing design of this web-based journal. It’s easy to navigate and easy to read. To get a feel for what types of poetry they publish, you […]

NO FEE submission call & interview – Tiny Spoon, DEADLINE: June 30, 2020

Tiny Spoon is a new online and print literary magazine focused on experimental work publishing four times a year. They’re currently open for submissions of cross-genre writing–experimental poetry, prose, and art–for their sixth issue with the theme of Solitude. “While in the midst of self-isolation, it is easy […]

NO FEE submission call + editor interview – Sin Fronteras Journal, DEADLINE: June 30, 2020

Sin Fronteras Journal “is a non‑profit literary arts organization in Las Cruces, NM, devoted to encouraging a community of established and emerging writers, developing audiences for these writers, and giving voice to those whose voices may not be heard.” They are currently open for fiction, poetry, nonfiction, aesthetic […]

PAYING/NO FEE submission call + editor interview – beestung, DEADLINE: Always open

beestung is a project of Sundress Publications and a new quarterly online micro-magazine for non-binary and two-spirit writers and readers, with an emphasis on intracommunity sensibilities. Their next issue launches on May 20 and you can read issues one and two currently on their web site to get […]

How to Give Your Writing the Best Chance of Being Published – guest blog post by Christopher Fielden

You've written a literary masterpiece. The characters are awesome (one of them is called Breathless Muffler), the setting is exotic (thousands of miles away from Milton Keynes) and the conclusion mind blowing (the main protagonist turns out to be his own daughter). You randomly submit your short story […]

Trish Hopkinson