Category: Call for Submissions

NO FEE submission call + editor interview – Sad Girl Review, DEADLINE: Open year-round

Sad Girl Review is a new online contemporary art and literary magazine. They will be publishing quarterly and their inaugural issue is forthcoming on July 1. I was curious how and why this art and literary magazine began, so I asked Editor Amber Morrison a few questions to find […]

PAYING/NO FEE submission call + editor interview – Riddled with Arrows, DEADLINE: June 17, 2018

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.” I was curious how and why this literary journal began, so […]

NO FEE Submission call + interview – Matador Review, DEADLINE: May 31, 2018

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poetry, fiction, flash fiction, creative non-fiction, and visual art and are currently open for submissions of all unpublished literature written in the English language (and translations that are accompanied by the original text) as well as many […]

3 FREE Poetry/Prose Contests + editor interview – Literary Taxidermy, DEADLINE: June 4, 2018

Literary Taxidermy’s Short Story Competition is open to any writing form and genre, including: satire, tragedy, science fiction, fantasy, suspense, detective, romance, hyper realism, magical realism, plain old realism, speculative fiction, flash fiction, meta-fiction, meta-meta-fiction, screenplay, poetry, etc. “This year’s competition is actually three contests in one. The first […]

NO FEE Submission call + editor interview – Women Speak, DEADLINE: Last day of the month (May – Oct, 2018)

Women Speak is a new project of artist Nancy Smith, in which she is “inviting women writers to create poetry or prose based on select paintings I've created to further explore the feminine experience.” I wondered how and why this project came to be, so I asked Smith and […]

NO FEE Submission call + editor interview – Pretty Owl Poetry, DEADLINE: Always open

Pretty Owl Poetry “is a journal that publishes new, emerging, and established writers in poetry, fiction, and the visual arts.” The issues are published in PDF format and are free to read online. Not only did Pretty Owl publish my poem "And Finished knowing - then -" in […]

NO FEE Submission call + editor interview – Cider Press Review, DEADLINE: May 31, 2018

Cider Press Review is quarterly online poetry journal originally founded in 1999. They also publish the manuscript winners of the annual Cider Press Review Book Award and the Editors’ Prize for first or second book. I wondered how and why this poetry journal came to be, so I asked Managing Editor Ruth Foley a few […]

NO FEE Submission call + editor interview – petrichor, DEADLINE: Until Full

Petrichor is an online literary magazine with the tagline “an archive of text & image.” They are currently open for submissions of poetry, including visual/hybrid work through the summer or until the issue is full. I wondered how and why this lit mag came to be, so I […]

PAYING/NO FEE Submission call and interview–Subprimal Poetry Art, DEADLINE: June 30, 2018

Subprimal Poetry Art was founded in 2013 to provide a community for quality thought provoking poetry and other art. They “believe in poetry and other art that takes the reader / viewer / listener out of the ordinary and into an place altered from that which they normally experience. […]

PAYING/NO FEE Submission call (West Michigan artists/writers) + editor interview – The 3288 Review, DEADLINE: June 30, 2018

The 3288 Review is a print, biannual literary journal focused on discovering and showcasing artistic talent from writers and artists, poets and photographers who are from, or have some connection to, West Michigan. The journal is a project of Caffeinated Press. They have an informative F.A.Q. page and detailed submissions page that […]

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