BigCityLit is an online literary magazine founded over twenty years ago publishing fiction, creative non-fiction (personal essay, book reviews), and poetry. They are currently open for submissions and would love to see more prose submissions. You can check out their current issue to see what types of work […]
Tipping the Scales is a new lesbian literary and arts journal by lesbians/for lesbians. They offer print, e-book, and PDF versions of their issues published quarterly. They are currently open for poetry, fiction, nonfiction, flash fiction, photography, and art. Feminist leaning lit mags and journals are some of […]
UPDATED: January 3, 2022 Why limit yourself to being published in lit mags in the U.S., Canada, or the U.K? There are many countries with English-language lit mags you can also submit your work to. For example, my poem “My Monkey Grammarian” was published in Hong Kong and […]
Lucky Jefferson is an online literary journal founded in 2018 currently open for two submission calls. The first call for submission Lucky Jefferson is excited to share is for their digital zine Awake for Black authors. Issue 3 “Our Power” explores BLACK RESILIENCY. Selected works in this issue will embrace and […]
Mom Egg Review is currently open for submissions for both their print issue and online feature MER VOX; and early birds can submit for free during this first week or until they hit their Submittable limit. They are looking for work for an issue themed “Mother Figures”—works that grapple with […]
Cider Press Review is quarterly online poetry journal originally founded in 1999. They are open year-round for submissions of book reviews and their current poetry call has a deadline of May 31, 2021. They also publish the manuscript winners of the annual Cider Press Review Book Award and […]
Woolgathering Review is a new international online literary magazine currently accepting prose, poetry, and art. Their first issue is now live to peruse and get a feel for what they like to publish. For more information, see my interview with Editor Tara Tulshyan with a link to submission […]
UPDATED: April 24, 2021 The listings below are literary magazines/journals that are known for taking poetry on current event topics. These literary magazines/journals are listed alphabetically; some are currently accepting submissions, some are temporarily closed. I’ve also included whether or not it is a paying market in the […]
BROWN STUDY is a new column curated by Jeni De La O and is published on The Poetry Question, the voice of small press poetry, whose goal “is to bring to light issues of all types of writing, promote local and national poetry events, review books with a […]
Quartet is a new online literary journal featuring poetry by women 50 years and older. Each quarterly issue also includes an author interview and book review or essay. Their first issue went live earlier this year and is available to read online so you can get a feel […]
