As my readers know, I focus my submission call posts on markets accepting poetry that don’t charge fees, but I am more than happy to support projects who are doing good work and raising funds to help others or give proceeds to reputable charity organizations. Fly on the […]
The literary magazines/journals listed below all offer some form of payment, do not charge submission/reading fees, and have submission deadlines between August 31 and September 30, 2018. This list focuses on poetry submissions, but most lit mags accept prose and art as well. The listings are in order […]
Rockvale Review is a fairly new online poetry journal, currently open for submissions. They seek to publish new, emerging, and established poets in all forms and subject matters. “Send us the poems you hold close beside you, the ones you carry with you into sleep and wake up […]
Sad Girl Review is a new online contemporary art and literary magazine. Their first issue came out last month. Their next issue is themed “The Handwritten Issue.” They are looking for “diary entries, poems, shitty drawings, reminders, to do lists, lyrics, notes, scribbles, drafts, and more.” I was curious […]
Free State Review's "Heavenly Creatures Contest" commemorates the luminous kite photography of celebrated darkroom artist Sally Gall, a photographer who has visited kite festivals around the world from Long Beach, Washington to Cervia, Italy and Fano, Denmark. These festivals are both ethereal performances and merry social gatherings, uniting thousands of […]
A friend of mine recently asked me to break down my submission process from A to Z. As I typed out a very long email, I realized just how much work I put into submitting on a regular basis. Writing is hard, but in many ways submitting is […]
Let it Fly: Hair Poems is the working title of an anthology in the works, focused on the theme of hair. Kate Sontag, published poet and co-editor of After Confession: Poetry As Autobiography (Graywolf) is seeking poetry on the subject of hair. Note that some anthologies are created first and […]
Parentheses Journal is an online literary magazine recently founded by Sneha Subramanian Kanta and Harshal Desai. Their vision for the new journal is described as a “collaborative venture in the quest for sharing art, operating on the quintessence of art for art's sake.” I wondered how and why this […]
Matador Review is a fabulously designed online literature and art quarterly based in Chicago, Illinois. They publish poetry, fiction, flash fiction, creative non-fiction, and visual art and are currently open for submissions of all unpublished literature written in the English language (and translations that are accompanied by the original text) as well as many […]
The Bind was created to increase exposure for new poetry books by women and nonbinary authors. They publish creative reviews of full-length collections and chapbooks of poetry and hybrid-genre work, including translated work. “This is an intersectional feminist venture, and we aim to include books by women and […]
