Category: Call for Submissions

NO FEE submission call + editor interview – Thimble, DEADLINE: July 22, 2018

Thimble is a new online literary magazine, featuring art, poetry, and short prose. They publish issues quarterly. I was curious how and why this art and literary magazine began, so I asked Editor-in-Chief Nadia Wolnisty a few questions to find out. See my interview with Wolnisty and a link […]

FREE Poetry Chapbook Contest, $250 Prize – Broken River Prize (Platypus Press), DEADLINE: Aug. 31, 2018

Every once in a while a new press with new ideas and amazing projects appears on the literary scene. Platypus Press is one of those. I've been nothing but impressed with their creativity and professionalism. They are a boutique publisher based in England and seek to unearth innovative contemporary poetry and […]

Summer Journals 2018 (open for submissions) via Diane Lockward

A big thank you to Diane Lockward for posting such a great list on her poetry blog! (It’s one less list for me to create.) The list provides links to each journal and reading periods. “I’ve also indicated the number of issues per year, the submission period dates, […]

PAYING/NO FEE Submission call + editor interview – Outlook Springs, DEADLINE: Aug. 15, 2018

Outlook Springs is a fairly new bi-annual, print and online literary journal “transmitted from the town of Outlook Springs, New Hampshire, which may or may not exist in one or more alternate dimensions.” They don’t charge submission fees and they pay their contributors, $25 fiction/non-fiction and $10 per poem + a contributor […]

NO FEE submission call + staff interview – The Weird Reader, DEADLINE: July 13, 2018

The Weird Reader is an online art and literary magazine founded in 2016 that publishes a new volume annually. Their tagline reads “A literary magazine full of the strange, disturbing, fantastic, and otherworldly.” I was curious how and why this art and literary magazine began, so I asked […]

NO FEE/REPRINTS Submission call & workshop for women/non-binary POC – For the Sonorous, DEADLINE: July 8 / July 31, 2018

For the Sonorous is a new “literary journal dedicated to empowering and publishing women and non-binary people of color.” They publish three online issues of poetry, prose, and art each year. Additionally, they are supporting women and non-binary poets and writers by providing a summer writing workshop. Their first […]

NO FEE/REPRINTS Submission call & workshop for women/non-binary POC – For the Sonorous, DEADLINE: July 8 / July 31, 2018

For the Sonorous is a new “literary journal dedicated to empowering and publishing women and non-binary people of color.” They publish three online issues of poetry, prose, and art each year. Additionally, they are supporting women and non-binary poets and writers by providing a summer writing workshop. Their first […]

NO FEE Contest & Submission calls (poetry, prose, chapbooks!) + editor interview – Sonic Boom, DEADLINES: June 25; July 1; Sept 30, 2018

Sonic Boom is a literary & arts journal seeking both solicited and unsolicited experimental poetry, flash fiction, and visual art submissions tri-annually; featuring an annual free contest; plus, a new chapbook press: Yavanika! They “hope to integrate multifarious genres of literature and artwork including Japanese short-forms of poetry, avant-garde, […]

NO FEE Submission call w/ musical prompt + editor/musician interview – Golden Walkman Magazine, DEADLINE: June 30, 2018

This is a really cool prompt and submission opportunity from the folks at Golden Walkman Magazine for a project they are calling “Dialogue Submissions.” Every few months, they will publish a Dialogue Starter Issue with poetry and prose inspired by an original, contributor-provided piece of instrumental music. “Writers will have (1) […]

NO FEE submission call + editor interview – peculiar, DEADLINE: June 24, 2018

Peculiar is fairly new LGBTQ+ print and online art and literary journal. They just recently opened to national submissions. I was curious how and why this art and literary journal began, so I asked Co-Editors Jack Garcia and Aaron Gates a few questions to find out. See my […]

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