Category: Year Round Calls

My interview on self-acceptance with Courtney Cook via On Loan From the Cosmos

It was a great pleasure to be interviewed by Courtney Cook, creator and editor of On Loan From the Cosmos. The best part is that Courtney creates original illustrations of the interviewee for each interview! I sent her a few photos to work from and I love how […]

My poem “Dragonfly Daughter” published by Literary Mama + they are open for submissions!

Many thanks to Literary Mama for publishing my poem "Dragonfly Daughter" published in their May/June 2020 issue. If you aren’t familiar with Literary Mama, set aside an hour or two with a glass of your favorite adult beverage and check out the variety of talented writers they publish. You can […]

NO FEE submission call & interview – the whorticulturalist, DEADLINE: Year round

The whorticulturalist is a new feminist online magazine “concerned with sex, love, power, money, and desire, this is a publication curated by women, and written mainly by women.” Of course, I needed to know more about how this magazine was created and what they’re looking for in submissions, […]

PAYING/NO FEE submission call + editor interview – beestung, DEADLINE: Always open

beestung is a project of Sundress Publications and a new quarterly online micro-magazine for non-binary and two-spirit writers and readers, with an emphasis on intracommunity sensibilities. Their next issue launches on May 20 and you can read issues one and two currently on their web site to get […]

NO FEE submission call + editor interview – Disquiet Arts, DEADLINE: Always open

Disquiet Arts is a new erotic and gothic leaning “literary, photography and art magazine for those with darker desires” currently seeking poetry, flash fiction, art, and photography for their first issue. I wanted to know more about this new lit mag, so I asked founder and editor Natalie […]

NO FEE/THEMED submission call + editor interview – OyeDrum, DEADLINE: May 10, 2020/Rolling

OyeDrum is “an online magazine dedicated to women and their existence through words, art and sound.” You can read more about the name OyeDrum here. They feature a quarterly themed issue from a selection of curated work, and a weekly section that includes ongoing content including news, editorial […]

Updated! 24 LGBTQ+ Literary Magazines/Journals

  The listings below are literary magazines/journals that specifically focus on the artists and writers in the LGBTQ+ community. There are many other literary magazines that support LGBTQ+ contributors. For a more general list of all-inclusive/feminist lit mags, check out my list here: Feminist Lit Mags and Journals. […]

NO FEE submission call + editor interview – Lily Poetry Review, DEADLINE: Year-round

Lily Poetry Review is a biannual literary journal available in print. They publish flash fiction, poetry, book reviews, and art. They are currently open for no fee submissions of poetry, flash fiction and art for their print journal. They also publish chapbooks and full length poetry books. To get […]

NO FEE Submission call + editor interview – Taco Bell Quarterly, DEADLINE: Always open

Taco Bell Quarterly is “the literary magazine for the Taco Bell Arts and Letters. We're a reaction against everything. The gatekeepers. The taste-makers. The hipsters. Health food. Artists Who Wear Cute Scarves. Bitch-ass Wendy's. We seek to demystify what it means to literary, artistic, important, and elite.” Please […]

NO FEE Submission call for high school students + editor interview – The WEIGHT Journal, DEADLINE: Rolling/always open

The WEIGHT Journal is a “literary blog for high school students who may similarly find themselves in need of a creative outlet. Everyone has something heavy to get off their chest.” They publish “all sorts of creative writing: poetry, slam poetry, flash fiction, short fiction, creative non-fiction, hybrid, […]

Trish Hopkinson