Category: Call for Submissions

NO FEE Submission Calls – 2/3 Paying lit mags, DEADLINE: BLACK FRIDAY Nov. 27, 2015

Black Warrior Review, Indiana Review, and Hayden’s Ferry Review announced yesterday that they will be open for submissions with no fees from 12 AM to 11:59pm Eastern time, Friday, November 27, 2015. You can submit fiction, nonfiction, or poetry for all three magazines to consider using the Black […]

NO FEE Submission Call – whimperbang, DEADLINE: Dec. 6, 2015

Whimperbang “invites the submission of serious, directed artistic expressions that reflect or comment upon today's world. All literary and visual genres will be considered.” This online literary magazine was founded in 2003 and publishes three issues per year. Past issues can be read on their site. For more info on how to […]

FREE Contest/Submission Call – Scissors and Spackle, DEADLINE: Nov. 30, 2015, 12am EST

scissors and spackle is “strictly a free verse and short prose publication,” and “welcome the bizarre, in fact, we encourage it. Send us your lists; resumes; transcribed conversations. The surest path to acceptance is the element of surprise.” They are currently open for submission for their next issue as well […]

NO FEE Submission Call – Anthropoid (folk theme), DEADLINE: Nov. 30, 2015

Anthropoid focuses on “the fundamental business of being humanesque. Issues of identity, culture, belonging or lack, vulnerability, collectivism, the body, ritual-anthropological subjects from a generalist's view, or, cultural moments from a messy, personal perspective. . . . We embrace a broad subject matter, in the name of 'what it […]

NO FEE Submission Call – Ilonat Review CONSTRAINT issue, DEADLINE: Nov. 30, 2015

The Ilonat Review is an Israeli journal of creative writing in English currently looking “for poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and anything in between that binds itself to a pattern or a limit. Whether it's a Larry Smith-style Six Word Memoir, a 100-word story, a 250 word essay, a haiku, sestina, […]

NO FEE Poetry Submission Call – Rogue Agent, DEADLINE: Nov. 24, 2015

“Rogue Agent strives to publish a range of poetic styles and forms. The most important things we consider are craft and how well the work fits the theme of our journal. . . . To get a feel for our journal’s theme, we invite you to explore previous issues, and […]

Poems That Will Stop You, Beg for Re-Reading, Pull You in Close

My review of Berkeley Poetry Review’s Spring issue just went up on The Review Review! Earlier this year I sent a request to join the ranks of the literary reviewers on their site and this is the second lit mag they’ve sent me to read and write about. Meaning, not only did […]

NO FEE Call for Submissions - The Rain, Party, & Disaster Society DEADLINE: Nov. 30, 2015

This creative and unique lit mag on the literary fringe has published three of my poems and also invited me to be a feature artist. Last August they published my language poem "Barbershop Protest" and have also published two of my found poems, "You'll Feel Unstoppable" in January and "Use Simultaneously.” If you […]

NO FEE Call for Submissions - The Rain, Party, & Disaster Society DEADLINE: Nov. 30, 2015

This creative and unique lit mag on the literary fringe has published three of my poems and also invited me to be a feature artist. Last August they published my language poem "Barbershop Protest" and have also published two of my found poems, "You'll Feel Unstoppable" in January and "Use Simultaneously.” If you […]

10 NEW $$ PAYING $$ LIT MAGS Currently open for submissions

The literary magazines/journals listed below are recently established or considered to be "fledgling" on Duotrope. All offer some form of payment and are currently open to submissions. Fledging journals are a great way to cut your teeth if you've never been published, often have faster response times, and […]

Trish Hopkinson