Yavanika is a new digital chapbook press that “hopes to integrate multifarious genres of literature and artwork including Japanese short-forms of poetry, avant-garde, conceptual, and postmodern works of culture and art.” Chapbooks from the press are published digitally and are available as free downloadable PDFs with beautiful formatting and always gorgeous […]
The Woven Tale Press is an online magazine founded by Editor-in-Chief Sandra Tyler. WTP is a free monthly magazine, is always open for submissions, and looking for a wide range of art and writing, including videos, press features, creative writing, and visual arts. They also run an annual contest that does require […]
Rockvale Review is a fairly new online poetry journal, currently open for submissions. They seek to publish new, emerging, and established poets in all forms and subject matters. “Send us the poems you hold close beside you, the ones you carry with you into sleep and wake up […]
Sad Girl Review is a new online contemporary art and literary magazine. Their first issue came out last month. Their next issue is themed “The Handwritten Issue.” They are looking for “diary entries, poems, shitty drawings, reminders, to do lists, lyrics, notes, scribbles, drafts, and more.” I was curious […]
Let it Fly: Hair Poems is the working title of an anthology in the works, focused on the theme of hair. Kate Sontag, published poet and co-editor of After Confession: Poetry As Autobiography (Graywolf) is seeking poetry on the subject of hair. Note that some anthologies are created first and […]
Parentheses Journal is an online literary magazine recently founded by Sneha Subramanian Kanta and Harshal Desai. Their vision for the new journal is described as a “collaborative venture in the quest for sharing art, operating on the quintessence of art for art's sake.” I wondered how and why this […]
Matador Review is a fabulously designed online literature and art quarterly based in Chicago, Illinois. They publish poetry, fiction, flash fiction, creative non-fiction, and visual art and are currently open for submissions of all unpublished literature written in the English language (and translations that are accompanied by the original text) as well as many […]
Lavender Review is an international, biannual (June & December) e-zine dedicated to poetry and art by, about, and for lesbians, including whatever LGBTQ might appeal to a lesbian readership. It is a publication of Headmistress Press, which publishes books of poetry by lesbian poets. They have an excellent […]
Califragile is a new online poetry journal seeking both unpublished and previously published poems (when rights allow). The About page reads, “In these times when the Earth and humanity seem so breakable, as if they might break each other, we search for answers in the air. What's our […]
UPDATED 11/16/2019 Below is a list of 80 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 […]
