Paper Dragon is the new online literary magazine for Drexel University and is currently open for their first themed issue coming out this fall. The theme is Recovery and Resilience. They are accepting submissions of fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, and art until September 1, 2020. See my interview […]
SAND is a nonprofit literary journal based in Berlin and published twice a year by a team from the city's international community. Featuring work by writers, translators, and artists from around the world, SAND seeks out fresh and underrepresented perspectives. I was curious how and why this art […]
streetcake is an online magazine founded in 2008 and is currently open for submissions of poems, visual poetry and short fiction for their October issue. They will close once full, so submit quickly! They publish little “slices” of writing prompts on their Submissions page, so check those out […]
Poets and writers are creative. On paper, we concoct characters and emotions. We invent forms and structure. We imagine people and places. We use the latest technology to research our work and appeal to readers. We write, edit and revise so no verse or phrase or word is […]
The literary magazines/journals and contests listed below all offer some form of payment, do not charge submission/reading fees, take online submissions, and have submission deadlines in August 2020. This list focuses on poetry submissions, but most lit mags accept prose and art as well. The listings are in […]
1. That movement in the brush, the chance reflection in a pane of glass, that blue comb you found on a gravel path, the person your peripheral vision almost caught--these are the spermatozoa of poems. All they lack are the reactions of the egg in the womb of […]
Psaltery and Lyre was founded in 2012 and is currently open for submissions of essays, stories, hybrid works, and poetry. Per their About page, they are seeking “works that push the borders of belief and doubt, sacred and secular. We want poetry that burns, that effectively translates the […]
Dear Loneliness is an EX/POST Magazine production with the goal to write the longest letter in the world to fight loneliness. They are planning to break the Guinness world record letter length of 290 meters--three football fields’ or almost 1,000 sheets of A4 paper--together. They are currently open through […]
The Revolution (Relaunch) is a monthly online and print literary publication and a revisionary, radical, and creative resurgence of the weekly women's rights newspaper founded by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony (1868-1872), which was the official publication of the National Woman Suffrage Association. Per their About […]
I don't know what it was about The Bell Jar that made me want to write about it but from the second I put the book down I knew there had to be more to Sylvia Plath and her character, Esther Greenwood's, story. When I learned that Plath […]
