Category: Call for Submissions

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 […]

NO FEE submission call + editor interview – Wicked Gay Ways, DEADLINE: June 15, 2020

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 […]

NO FEE submission call + editor interview – Disquiet Arts, DEADLINE: Always open

Disquiet Arts is a new erotic and gothic leaning “literary, photography and art magazine for those with darker desires” currently seeking poetry, flash fiction, art, and photography for their first issue. I wanted to know more about this new lit mag, so I asked founder and editor Natalie […]

PAYING/NO FEE submission call + editor interview – Existere, DEADLINE: July 1, 2020

Existere is a Journal of Arts and Literature founded in 1978, established and administered by students at York University in Toronto, Canada. The publish biannual issues in fall/winter and spring/summer of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and artwork. They are currently open for their next issue and pay their contributors […]

Trish Hopkinson