I recently came across concÄ«s, a fairly new lit mag that not only pays contributors, but also supports Room to Read, an organization dedicated to educating children in need in Asia and Africa. You can opt to donate your payment and concÄ«s will double it. They also provide a Donation Tracker so […]
South Florida Poetry Journal (affectionately referred to as SoFloPoJo) is an online poetry lit mag featuring poems, art, and interviews with poets every month. Each month they interview three poets with five questions and publish the interviews on their web site. I am pleased to say this month’s interviews […]
Before I turned to poetry, I wrote hypertext. In the mid-'90s, writing for the Web felt new and thrilling. There was no Facebook, no Twitter, no Google. Just me, my IBM, and the squeal of a modem hooking up with the world. I plugged into a gig writing […]
Click here to download the spreadsheet: Poetry Magazine/Journal Ratings for Emerging Poets with Paying Markets I kept finding great sources and articles describing which literary magazines are paying markets and which are publishing new/emerging poets, so to make heads or tails of it, I cross referenced several lists including those […]
The next series from Silver Birch Press… submit fast! Deadline is next Thursday!
My review of Pretty Owl Poetry’s Summer issue just went up on The Review Review! Just last year I sent a request to join the ranks of the literary reviewers on their site and this is the third lit mag they’ve asked me to read and write about. The first two were print issues, meaning, […]
My review of Pretty Owl Poetry’s Summer issue just went up on The Review Review! Just last year I sent a request to join the ranks of the literary reviewers on their site and this is the third lit mag they’ve asked me to read and write about. The first two were print issues, meaning, […]
This list focuses on poetry submissions, but most lit mags accept prose and art as well. The listings are in order of closest deadlines and have no submission fees. Deadlines are all in September. For a list of more places open year round and open now, check out […]
Long Exposure Magazine was founded in 2014 to feature creative writing, photography and other visual art, and explore the ways in which they can interact; how writing responds to other art forms and vice versa, and what new possibilities arise. They publish a wide range of poetry, flash fiction, photography, art […]
I used to be terrified of hope. Well, I was actually terrified of disappointment. But I saw hope as a seductive and deceptive force that enticed me to climb higher, making the inevitable fall hurt that much more. I started writing novels when I was twelve years old, […]
