PAYING/NO FEE Submission call + interview – Drunk Monkeys, DEADLINE: Aug. 31, 2019

Drunk Monkeys is an online lit mag with a unique style, dedicated to "use our privileges to protect, defend, and uplift others. To create a safer literary community." They have a clear mission to “be inclusive, to denounce bigotry of all kinds, and to stand up to those […]

Writing Past the Inner Critic – guest blog post by Sage Adderley-Knox

I remember the first time I dipped my toes into the publishing world. It was 15 years ago. Excited and terrified, I spent hours online searching for local writing groups and didn't have much luck finding anything in my rural area. What I found online was an enormous […]

Updated! 21 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. These […]

NO FEE Submission call + interview – Ink&Nebula, DEADLINE: Aug. 1, 2019

Ink&Nebula is a new poetry journal “for established voices (Ink) and holding particular space for emerging ones (Nebula).” They accept submissions from both published (Ink submission) and previously unpublished poets (Nebula submission). By previously unpublished they mean “poets who do not have work that has been published by someone […]

NO FEE Submission call + interview – Ink&Nebula, DEADLINE: Aug. 1, 2019

Ink&Nebula is a new poetry journal “for established voices (Ink) and holding particular space for emerging ones (Nebula).” They accept submissions from both published (Ink submission) and previously unpublished poets (Nebula submission). By previously unpublished they mean “poets who do not have work that has been published by someone […]

NO FEE submission call + editor interview – Sheulogy, DEADLINE: Year-round

Sheulogy is the new online passion project of Founder Tara Sage, think Humans of New York appeal + the art of true storytelling rivaling The Moth Radio Hour + a global community of heart-centered shoe lovers coming together for online and in-person connection that instills and promotes kindness, empathy, […]

"For the Art: An Interview with Trish Hopkinson" via Former People by C. Derick Varn

It was a great pleasure to be interviewed by C. Derick Varn, Managing Editor of Former People: A Journal of Bangs and Whimpers. I was fortunate enough to meet Derick in person at the Utah Poetry Festival in April and very much enjoyed the questions he asked and […]

“For the Art: An Interview with Trish Hopkinson” via Former People by C. Derick Varn

It was a great pleasure to be interviewed by C. Derick Varn, Managing Editor of Former People: A Journal of Bangs and Whimpers. I was fortunate enough to meet Derick in person at the Utah Poetry Festival in April and very much enjoyed the questions he asked and […]

Considering Self-Publishing – guest blog post by Kathy Lundy Derengowski

The time has come to think about publishing. You have at last, a "body of work", which represents many hours of writing, revision, submissions, acceptances, critiques, rejections, more revisions, editing- blood sweat and tears. You've been published on sites esteemed or obscure, your church bulletin, or Paris Review. […]

PAYING/NO FEE submission call + editor interview – The Blue Nib, DEADLINE: Aug. 1, 2019

The Blue Nib is a print and digital platform that publishes and promotes the work of established and emerging poets and writers. It is an independent imprint that publishes exceptional poetry, essays and short literary fiction in a quarterly digital and print magazine. The Blue Nib imprint also […]

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