OyeDrum is “an online magazine and intersectional feminist collective. We are a community dedicated to women’s creative and intellectual work.” You can read more about the name OyeDrum here. They feature a quarterly themed issue from a selection of curated work, and a weekly section open to all […]
POETiCA REViEW is a new online poetry journal with fast response times of one week to one month, that “hope[s] to give voice to the myriad of disparate voices within the artistic community, locally, and internationally, regardless of notoriety or who is currently favoured by this or that […]
Buddhist Poetry Review is “a quarterly online journal dedicated to publishing fresh and insightful Buddhist poetry. [Their] vision encompasses the full spectrum of Buddhism, and we welcome submissions from authors who write from any perspective.” I was curious how and why this poetry review began, so I asked […]
Wicked Gay Ways is an online art and literary journal seeking to create connections across the many dimensions of queer sexual desire as embodied in art and the creative process. They publish work from both new, emerging and established artists and are currently open for submissions of flash […]
Paper Dragon is the new online literary magazine for Drexel University and is currently open for their first themed issue coming out this fall. The theme is Recovery and Resilience. They are accepting submissions of fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, and art until September 1, 2020. See my interview […]
streetcake is an online magazine founded in 2008 and is currently open for submissions of poems, visual poetry and short fiction for their October issue. They will close once full, so submit quickly! They publish little “slices” of writing prompts on their Submissions page, so check those out […]
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 in August 2020. This list focuses on poetry submissions, but most lit mags accept prose and art as well. The listings are in […]
Psaltery and Lyre was founded in 2012 and is currently open for submissions of essays, stories, hybrid works, and poetry. Per their About page, they are seeking “works that push the borders of belief and doubt, sacred and secular. We want poetry that burns, that effectively translates the […]
Dear Loneliness is an EX/POST Magazine production with the goal to write the longest letter in the world to fight loneliness. They are planning to break the Guinness world record letter length of 290 meters--three football fields’ or almost 1,000 sheets of A4 paper--together. They are currently open through […]
The Revolution (Relaunch) is a monthly online and print literary publication and a revisionary, radical, and creative resurgence of the weekly women's rights newspaper founded by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony (1868-1872), which was the official publication of the National Woman Suffrage Association. Per their About […]
