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Happy September everyone! Today's the day many literary journals open their inboxes for submissions. Going to try and share a list today - please chime in!
To get started: @wildhuntmag are looking for submissions of flash and short stories up to 3,000 words.
To get started: @wildhuntmag are looking for submissions of flash and short stories up to 3,000 words.
One that's been open a while: @adroitjournal. Closing 1st Oct. Prose – up to 3 pieces at a time, 9,000 words maximum (across pieces)/ Poetry – up to 6 poems at a time, no length limits/ Art – up to 6 pieces at a time, both black/white & color accepted.
The gorgeous print journal @extrateethmag are opening for subs today. Pieces should be between 800 and 4000 words.
Highly competitive @seeyouelsewhere are open to hybrid works 'that cross, blur, and/or mutilate genre'. The only publish six writers per quarter.
I really rate @Gulf_Coast , open now to pieces under 7,000 words & up to 5 poems. Reading fee of $2.50 but they do pay for accepted work.
A personal one: @NecessaryFic , where I used to edit, are open for pieces up to 3,000 words.
Another fee charging one ($3CA) for @PrismLitMag but acceptance in a beautiful print magazine is a lure. 'Send original, unpublished literary essays, personal essays, hybrid-genre works, and literary journalism' under 4,000 words. Poems also accepted.
Have a longer work looking for a home? @404Ink (who publish me!) are open for agented and unagented subs in various genres. Check out their site to see what they're interested in.
. @JoylandMagazine are open most of the year, and charge for subs - but frequently have fee-free days.
Free subs this whole month at @splitlipthemag and I really rate their editorial process - thoughtful and involved.
One opening soon (15th Sept) is @DenverQuarterly, respected home of the avant-garde. From the opening date, submit 'poetry, prose, performance, critical engagements, reviews, conversations, translations or other critical-creative experiments'
A narrow window: @EllipsisZine closes subs for Zine #8 on the 10th of September.
For stories between 500 and 2,500 words, @FictiveDream is open. Be sure to read their submission page carefully.
. @commapress are running a *free* competition on the theme of 'Home', so if you have something that fits the bill, submit!
Closing for subs in October, @HonestUlsterman is looking for prose <5,000 words or up to 3 poems, and aural/video poetry. They have a fab design for their site - have a read around to get a feel for them (as you should with all of these if you're not doing so, obv)
. @lunatefiction , who I've been a judge for in the past, are open right now. Prose up to 2,000 words, poetry under 30 lines. Sub fee of £3 but they do pay £10 for published pieces, and are discriminating.
Loads of different categories open for women writers @Mslexia. Deadline the 5th of October.
If you have a tip for a literary magazine you rate that's open now, let me know.
For fellow surrealist writers - @Neon_Lit_Mag are open. They 'prefer darker pieces, especially those with an element of the surreal or speculative, but are open to anything and like to be surprised.' Rates of pay on acceptance are transparent & on their site.
Another fabulous print journal, @Gutter_Magazine , is open until the 18th. They are looking for poems totalling no more than 120 lines, or prose up to 3000 words.
Working class writers - @CreepingExpans is looking for short stories, flash and poetry on the theme of 'community'. Check their website!
15th of September deadline for @Cunningfolkzine and their cartomancy issue. Include 'Spiritus Mundi' in the submission line to Open the Portal.
. @platypuspress are open to rolling subs, and consider 'work in most styles, forms or genres' - prose subs though are up to 2,500 words.
. @ShirleyLitMag are open year round, hungrily waiting 'Give us a slice of the sublimely strange' they say. Influences include Shirley Jackson, Bruno Schulz, Franz Kafka, Flannery O'Connor, Margaret Atwood, Kelly Link, Amelia Gray, Leonora Carrington, etc.
The forever cool @hobartpulp are open - subs for prose are preferably around the 1000 word mark, and for poems they are 'looking to be moved by the beauty in what is common.'
The venerable home of strange, sparkling flash, @SmokeLong are open for subs. Keep it under 1000. Read their site.
General subs open for @megpokrass lit journal @NewFlashFicRev. The submission page features reading recs, so worth checking it out for that alone.
For the art-inspired writer @visual_verse have just opened to submissions - each edition is made up of pieces that take a set painting or image as the jumping off point for writing.
One for Scottish and Scotland-based writers: https://twitter.com/scotlit/status/1300747774263263233?s=20
. @TheDublinReview is open for subs too, fiction and non-fiction only. It's been around 20 years now and is an 'Irish institution' according to The Guardian.
. @morestorgy would like your fiction, essays, reviews or art, and happily are open all year round as well (for those of you who dislike deadlines)
While Irish writers of queer fiction are welcome to submit to @MunLitCentre Queer Love anthology - deadline's the 20th.
More ideas here (yes, I'm still going!) https://twitter.com/longleafreview/status/1300811903564787712?s=20
. @Splonk1 is open until the 11th, and if you've some spooky flash to send for their Hallowe'en issue, they'd like a look (but non-themed welcome too)
. @MinorLits are open for pieces <4, 000 words until the end of this fine cusp-of-autumn month. They 'embrace difference and welcome, most of all, voices from the margins'.
shout out to @DinaLRelles for sharing this one on her feed. https://twitter.com/AGNIMagazine/status/1300818203912933378?s=20
It's rare and it's hard to find right now, but more necessary than ever: Joy. The theme of this journal's next edition https://twitter.com/EdinCityofLit/status/1301115151224107008?s=20
$2,000 for accepted pieces! https://twitter.com/diversebooks/status/1300841283792056326?s=20
