NO FEE/THEMED submission call + editor interview – They Call Us, DEADLINE: Jan. 10, 2022

They Call Us is a new online, feminist literary magazine publishing a themed issue every three months. Past themes include They Call Us Flawed, They Call Us Theirs, They Call Us Damsels, and They Call Us Dykes. The current open call for poetry, prose, and artwork is for […]

NO FEE submission call + editor interview – Rogue Agent, DEADLINE: Always Open

Rogue Agent is a monthly online poetry and visual art journal under the umbrella of Sundress Publications. They just published their 73rd issue and are open to submissions of poetry and artwork year-round, but request you submit no more than twice a year. Make sure to check out […]

2022 Literary Magazine Rankings by Clifford Garstang + submission strategy tips

If you’re not already familiar with Clifford Garstang‘s annual literary magazine rankings or you’ve forgotten to check them out for a while, here’s a reminder to how handy they are! Every year Garstang ranks lit mags based on Pushcart Prize anthology. He creates rankings for the three main […]

Fast Response & No Fee Lit Mags/Journals

Below is a list of over 100 no fee, literary magazines/journals that have a fast turnaround time (most average a month or less). I’ve also researched and added some others to the list, based on suggestions from experienced writers. The list is long, so I wasn’t able to […]

NO FEE Submission call + editor interview – Arteidolia / swifts & slows, DEADLINE: Always Open

Arteidolia is an art and literary platform founded in 2013 that features essays, reviews, critical writing, visual art, experimental work, engagements, interviews & conversations. The platform includes their literary journal swifts & slows: a quarterly of crisscrossings which features poetic collaborations; and Arteidolia Press publishing literary collections of poetry, […]

Finding Your Voice – guest blog post Daniel Brown

In this excerpt from my new book Subjects in Poetry (LSU Press), I discuss how finding your subject can help you find your voice. I thought the discussion might interest Trish’s readers, and thank her for posting it. As late as his mid-twenties—i.e., not late at all as […]

PAYING/THEMED/NO FEE Submission calls + editor interview – NonBinary Review, NEXT DEADLINE: Feb. 1, 2022

NonBinary Review is the literary journal of Zoetic Press. They publish four themed issues every year and are seeking short stories, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, visual art year-round with specific reading periods for each theme. The current theme is Shared Worlds (deadline 2/1/2022) followed by Person First in […]

Compression: How to Wrangle the Big Story – guest blog post by Dion O’Reilly

Content Warning: physical abuse, reference to eating fish “…do not paint too much after nature. Art is an abstraction; derive this abstraction from nature while dreaming before it, and think more of the creation which will result than of nature.” —Paul Gauguin Existence is infinite and ineffable, but […]

My poem “Promiscuity” published by They Call Us “Sluts & Prudes” zine + list of Feminist Lit Mags

Many thanks to They Call Us for publishing my poem “Promiscuity” in their most recent issue Sluts and Prudes along side artwork by Asko Skladany and a poem by Hiromi Yashida. I love the aesthetic and artwork in this feminist zine!  Make sure to check out the entire […]

NO FEE contest ($300 – $1,000 in prizes!) – Sejong Writing Competition, DEADLINE: March 31, 2022

The Sejong Cultural Society is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization founded in Chicago, IL in 2004. They are currently open for no fee entries for their Sejong Writing Competition for essays and sijo poetry. The sijo is a traditional three-line Korean poetic form organized technically and thematically by line […]

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