Excellent primer to submitting up on Submittable’s blog by Nausheen Eusuf with tips on how to research and evaluate lit mags and journals for reputation and fit. Submittable’s blog is chock full of great posts including submission related posts, winner announcements, writing prompts, and more! Not only that, […]
Excellent primer to submitting up on Submittable’s blog by Nausheen Eusuf with tips on how to research and evaluate lit mags and journals for reputation and fit. Submittable’s blog is chock full of great posts including submission related posts, winner announcements, writing prompts, and more! Not only that, […]
UPDATED 11/10/2019 The article “What Is Considered Previously Published Writing?” on Writer’s Relief does a great job explaining all the nuances of determining if your work should be considered previously published. For example, is the original publisher still online? Is the issue out of print? Do blogs and social […]
Homology Lit is a new Pacific Northwest-based quarterly online literary magazine for people of color, queer folks, and people with disabilities, founded by Savannah Slone in July 2018. They are currently open for submissions of visual art, poetry, flash fiction, and creative nonfiction for their first issue coming out in January […]
Riddled with Arrows is a fairly new online literary journal, publishing quarterly. They are “dedicated to writing about writing. We seek (short) metafiction and metapoems, and writing that celebrates the process and product of writing as art.” Their current submission call is themed: "Objects & Artifacts" and they are […]
The Penn Review was founded in 1966, making it the oldest continuously published literary magazine at the University of Pennsylvania. “Devoted to the literary and visual arts, we publish original poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and visual artwork, and feature an innovative blend of emerging and established voices in our […]
After the Art is a new online literary magazine and seeking personal review essays that explore the way reading can enrich the experience of looking at art. They are not looking for other forms of ekphrastic writing, but rather essays based on a work of art and a piece of […]
So to Speak is a feminist literary journal and their blog is currently accepting submissions for their Immigration Series, including: The Feminist Artistic Process (Prose and Poetry writing, Visual Art, Photography); Micro (fiction or nonfiction); Book Review; Personal Essay; Experimental - Bending of Form, blending of genres. I […]
Storyscape is an online literary journal publishing stories, essays, poems, hybrids, visual art, and audio work. They also occasionally publish a print anthology and chapbooks. They have a unique approach to categorizing the work they publish, which you can read more about in the interview below. They are currently […]
The literary magazines/journals listed below all offer some form of payment, do not charge submission/reading fees, take online submissions, and have submission deadlines in October 2018. This list focuses on poetry submissions, but most lit mags accept prose and art as well. The listings are in order of […]
