Deadline: August 1, 2020
Each issue of About Place Journal, the arts publication of the Black Earth Institute, focuses on a specific theme. We will close to submissions for our Fall 2020 issue Works of Resistance, Resilience on August 1. Our mission: to have art address the causes of spirit, earth, and society; to protect the earth; and to build a more just and interconnected world. We publish prose, poetry, visual art, photography, video, and music which fit the current theme. More about this issue’s theme and our submission guidelines: aboutplacejournal.org/submissions/.
Call :: Pensive Seeks Work for Black Lives Matter Feature Section
Deadline: November 15; submissions reviewed and accepted on rolling basis
New online publication based at Center for Spirituality, Dialogue, and Service (CSDS) at Northeastern University in Boston. Seeking work that deepens the inward life; expresses range of religious/spiritual/humanist experiences and perspectives; envisions a more just, peaceful, and sustainable world; advances dialogue across difference; and challenges structural oppression in all its forms. Seeking work for feature section on Black Lives Matter. Send unpublished poetry, prose, visual art, and translations. Especially interested in work from international and historically unrepresented communities. No fee; currently non-paying. Submit 3-5 pieces via Submittable or via email to [email protected]. Questions? Contact Alexander Levering Kern, co-editor or visit pensivejournal.com.
Call :: Red Planet Magazine Submission Call
Deadline: Rolling
Red Planet Magazine is an independent literary magazine emphasizing a theme of speculative fiction, and is open for submissions year-round on a rolling basis. Contributors receive a digital copy of the issue in which their work has been featured. Please visit www.redplanetmagazine.com for additional information.
Call :: The Awakenings Review Seeks Submissions from Writers with Personal Connections to Mental Illness
Established in 2000, The Awakenings Review is an annual lit mag committed to published in the fall. It features poetry, short stories, nonfiction, photography, and art by writers, poets, and artists who have a relationship with mental illness: either self, family member, or friend. The striking hardcopy publication is one of the nation’s leading journals of this genre. Creative endeavors and mental illness have long had a close association. The Awakenings Review publishes works derived from artists’, writers’, and poets’ experiences with mental illness, though mental illness need not be the subject of your work. Visit www.AwakeningsProject.org for submission guidelines. There is no fee to submit.
Call :: PoArtMo 2020 Anthology Open to Submissions
Deadline: August 23, 2020
We invite you to submit your best art work created in 2020 for potential inclusion in a digital anthology that will be published later this year. Topics/Themes: Anything that is positive, uplifting, and inspirational in nature, with the exception of erotica and politics. Clean art only. No dirty words or swear words allowed! We are looking for poetry, flash fiction, essays, short stories, art, drawings, paintings, and photography. abpoetryjournal.com/poartmo-anthology/
Cleaver Magazine – Summer 2020
This issue of Cleaver Magazine features art by Madeline Rile Smith, a visual narrative by Emily Steinberg, and an essay on the art of Jan Powell by Melanie Carden. Also in this issue: short stories by Reilly Joret, Elaine Crauder, Melissa Brook, and Marion Peters Denard; flash by Susan Tacent, Brenna Womer, Michelle Ephraim, Leonard Kress, and others; and poetry by Roy Bentley, Stella Hayes, and more.
Sponsor Spotlight :: Auroras & Blossoms Focuses on Positivity, Art, & Inspiration
Auroras & Blossoms is an electronic literary magazine launched in 2019 by co-founders Cendrine Marrouat and David Ellis. It is dedicated to promoting positive, uplifting, and inspirational poetry, poetry-graphy, short stories, 6-word stories, paintings, drawings, and photography. They feature poetry from adults as well as young writers ages 13-16. As they are a family-friend platform, no swear words, dirty words, politics, or erotica is allowed.
They also publish digital anthologies. Their first is the NaPoWriMo Anthology which contains poetry written throughout National Poetry Writing Month in April 2020 and features work by Donna Allard, Chandni Asnani, Maria L. Berg, Jamie Brian, Jimena Cerda, Jaewon Chang, Ravichandra Chittampalli, Sandra Christensen, Mimi DiFrancesca, Fiona D’Silva, Kate Duff, Judy Dykstra-Brown, Amanda M. Eifert, Stacie Eirich, David Ellis, Michael Erickson, Deveree Extein, Jack M. Freedman, Alicia Grimshaw, Jenny Hayut, Patrick Jennings, Liam Kennedy, Ting Lam, Rose Loving, Cendrine Marrouat, Michele Mekel, Ally Nellmapius, William Reynolds, Madhumita Sarangi, Anna Schoenbach, Julie A. Sellers, Jonathan Shipley, Dorian J. Sinnott, Krupali Trivedi, Angela van Son, Michele Vecchitto, Penny Wilkes, and Gemma Wiseman. Their next anthology will be PoArtMo which stands for Positive Art Month and Positive Art Moves.
Stop by their listing at NewPages to learn more.
Call :: Chestnut Review Seeks Work from Stubborn Writers
CHESTNUT REVIEW (“for stubborn artists”) accepts submissions year round of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, art, and photography. They offer free submissions for poetry (3 poems), flash fiction (<1000 words), and art/photography (20 images); $5 submissions for fiction/nonfiction (<5k words), or 4-6 poems. Published writers and artists receive $100 and a copy of the annual anthology of four issues (released each summer). Notification in <30 days or submission fee refunded. All issues are available for free online which illustrates what they have liked, but they are always ready to be surprised by the new! chestnutreview.com
Sponsor Spotlight :: Months To Years
Founded in 2017 by Renata and Tim Louwers, Months To Years is an online literary magazine exploring mortality and terminal illness. Both editors experienced the loss of their first spouses due to bladder cancer and early onset Alzheimer’s, inspiring them to co-found this journal. They wanted to create a literary space where those experiencing grief can reflect on their experiences through literature and art. The name of the journal is a phrase often used with terminally ill patients as the doctor’s best estimate of expected life span.
Months To Years publishes nonfiction, poetry, photography, and art that explores grief, death, and dying on a quarterly basis. They are now back after a brief hiatus and accepting submissions on a continuous basis whether you are a terminally ill person, a doctor, someone who suffered a loss, a caregiver, or someone simply contemplating mortality.
Stop by their listing at NewPages to learn more about this journal.
Driftwood Press – Issue 7.2
Featured in our latest issue is the 2020 In-House Contest winning story “Trash Man” by Jessica Holbert alongside another story, “The Taxidermist,” by Seth Tucker. The poetry in this issue explores the emotional and physical connections to different geographies and technologies, from abandoned lighthouses and frost-covered pastures to half-truth news coverage and Harry Potter. Wrapping up the issue are visual arts and comics by Coz Frimpong, Geoffrey Detrani, Yi-hui Huang, Aimee Cozza, and Jason Hart. Read more at the Driftwood Press website.
Sponsor Spotlight: Club Plum Literary Journal
Club Plum Literary Journal is a new quarterly online literary magazine founded in 2019. They have released three issues to date with a focus on flash fiction, prose poetry, and art from both emerging and established writers. Their aim is to act as a “temporary entrance into a literary world of empathy, art, and sound. A place to take and to give.”
They keep their site clean and free of ads and distracting elements so the reader’s experience is focused on the absorbing tales and imagery unravelling in voices either understated or lyrical, but always powerful. “This is a safe place. Our hearts have been pummeled; our minds have been toyed with. We see clearly now. This is a place for thinkers and doers. A place to turn our pain into wondrous works of art.”
Check out their basic submission information and full publisher’s description at their listing on NewPages.
Call :: Girls Right the World Issue 5
Deadline: December 31, 2020
Girls Right the World is a literary journal inviting young, female-identified writers and artists, ages 14–21, to submit work for consideration for the fifth annual issue. We believe girls’ voices transform the world for the better. We accept poetry, prose, and visual art of any style or theme. We ask to be the first to publish your work in North America; after publication, the rights return to you. Send your best work, in English or English translation, to [email protected] by December 31, 2020. Please include a note mentioning your age, where you’re from, and a bit about your submission.
Call :: Storm Cellar Seeks Amazing & Adventurous New Writing & Art
Deadline: Rolling
Storm Cellar, a journal of safety and danger, seeks amazing, adventurous new writing, art, and photography. Indigenous, Black, POC, gender nonconforming, women, LGBTQIA+, disabled, neurodivergent, fat, poor, and border-straddling authors encouraged. Midwest connections a plus. Specific, strong, and strange voices welcome: surprise us! Full guidelines at stormcellar.org/submit and submission manager at stormcellar.submittable.com.
Call :: Spread Art & Philanthropy with COVID LIT
COVID LIT is a monthly online lit mag that mobilizes writers to combat the world’s ills by not only providing a platform for urgent poetry and prose, but by directing money to regional, national, and international nonprofits. Instead of paying a submission fee, writers must donate at least $3 to a nonprofit of their choice. In our first two months, our writers have donated over $4000 to various causes related to COVID-19, racial injustice, homelessness, mental health, and others. Visit www.covidlit.org and send us your best work today!
The Georgia Review – Summer 2020
The Georgia Review‘s latest issue features new writing from Garrett Hongo, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Laura van den Berg, A. E. Stallings, and many other exciting voices! Original translations of poetic works by Hisham Bustani and Shuzo Takiguchi. Illustrated features on the theme “Shelter in Place,” by Lindsey Bailey, Kaytea Petro, and Bishakh Som. Cover art and portfolio by Doron Langberg. This issue is not to be missed—read selected online features today!
Call :: Club Plum Literary Journal Seeks Strong Voices
Deadline: Rolling
Submissions open for flash fiction of no more than 800 words and prose poems. Send powerful yet subtle pieces. Send strong voices. Send dreamy words that don’t gush. Skate on the edge of realities. Club Plum also seeks art: Please send one image only of pen-and-ink line art, watercolor, bold colors, experimental work, collage, impressionistic or abstract pieces. Tell the editor about your piece. The editor will pass on photography. See clubplumliteraryjournal.com for details. Volume 1 Issue 3 features work from William L. Alton, Ron Burch, Barry Jay Kaplan, James McAdams, Scott Ragland, Emelia Steenekemp, Jake Stimmel, Mary Buchinger, Jason Kahler, Natalie Eleanor Patterson, Katie Anderson, Ann-Marie Brown, Clara Choi, Tim Stuemke, and Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad.
Call :: Palooka Open to Lit Mag & Chapbook Submissions Year-round
Palooka is an international literary magazine. For a decade we’ve featured up-and-coming, established, and brand-new writers, artists, and photographers from all around the world. We’re open to diverse forms and styles and are always seeking unique chapbooks, fiction, poetry, nonfiction, artwork, photography, graphic narratives, and comic strips. Issue 11 featured work by Paul Luikart, Duke Stewart, Nils Blondon, Khalilah Okeke, Tim Chapman, Mark Halpern, Clark Merrefield, Leanne Hoppe, Donald Illich, and Malia Nahinu. Give us your best shot! Submissions open year-round. palookamag.com
Call :: Second Revolution Literary Magazine Issue 2
Deadline: Rolling
We are currently seeking submissions for the second issue of Second Revolution. All forms of written and visual work are accepted, and poetry especially is encouraged; most submissions will be given personalized feedback. We seek to publish vivid work that is emotionally potent and history, socially, or culturally significant. Investigative blog articles are also encouraged. More details about the publication may be found www.secondrevolutionmag.com, and submissions may be emailed to [email protected].
The Shore – Summer 2020
The summer issue of The Shore features dazzling poetry by: Catherine Pierce, Kim Harvey, Beth Gylys, Joshua Garcia, Sara Moore Wagner, Kristi Maxwell, Dillon Thomas Jones, Matthew Bruce, Lorrie Ness, C.C.Russell, Travis Truax, Stanley Princewill McDaniels, Njoku Nonso, Erin Rodoni, Phillip Sterling, William Doreski, and more.
Call :: Blueline 2020 Reading Period Open
Deadline: November 30, 2020
BLUELINE: A Literary Magazine Dedicated to the Spirit of the Adirondacks seeks poems, stories, and essays about the Adirondacks and regions similar in geography and spirit, focusing on nature’s shaping influence. Submissions window open until November 30. Decisions mid-February. Payment in copies. Simultaneous submissions accepted if identified as such. Please notify if your submission is placed elsewhere. Electronic submissions encouraged, as Word files, to [email protected]. Please identify the genre in the subject line. Further information at bluelineadkmagazine.org.
Call :: Change Seven
Deadline: June 30, 2020
Change Seven is an online literary journal. We seek to publish the best available fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, visual art, book reviews, and more from both established and emerging talents. We most enjoy writing that comes from experience, is well-crafted, lyrical, distinctive, and accessible. Language is important. We like work that takes risks, that is morally unflinching, not for the sake of spectacle but for some daunting and tender rendering of truth. That is not to say we don’t also admire subtlety and quieter pieces of work. We love those, too. Humor as well. Just make it matter. changesevenmag.com
Call :: About Place Journal Seeks Submissions through August 1
Deadline: August 1, 2020
Each issue of About Place Journal, the arts publication of the Black Earth Institute, focuses on a specific theme. From 6/1 to 8/1 they’ll be accepting submissions for their Fall 2020 issue Works of Resistance, Resilience. Their mission: to have art address the causes of spirit, earth, and society; to protect the earth; and to build a more just and interconnected world. They publish prose, poetry, visual art, photography, video, and music which fit the current theme. More about this issue’s theme and their submission guidelines: aboutplacejournal.org/submissions/.
Still Point Arts Quarterly – Summer 2020
This issue’s theme is “Making a Mark,” and the current art exhibition explores this theme. Featured artists include David Sapp, Mary Macey Butler, Cary Loving, and others. Featured writers include Karla Van Vliet, Wally Swist, Paula Penna, Dave Gregory, Bethany Bruno, Gergory Stephens, Mary Lane Potter, Roudri Bandyopadhyay, Sarah Brown Weitzman, Mark Tulin, Joe Kowalski, and more. Find more info at the Still Point Arts Quarterly website.
Call :: The Awakenings Review Open to Submissions Year-round
The Awakenings Review, established in 2000, is an annual lit mag committed to publishing poetry, short story, nonfiction, photography, and art by writers, poets and artists who have a relationship with mental illness: either self, family member, or friend. Their striking hardcopy publication is one of the nation’s leading journals of this genre. Creative endeavors and mental illness have long had a close association. The Awakenings Review publishes works derived from artists’, writers’, and poets’ experiences with mental illness, though mental illness need not be the subject of your work. Visit www.AwakeningsProject.org for submission guidelines.
Call :: Chestnut Review Seeks Work from Stubborn Artists Year-Round
CHESTNUT REVIEW (“for stubborn artists”) invites submissions year round of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, art, and photography. We offer free submissions for poetry (3 poems), flash fiction (<1000 words), and art/photography (20 images); $5 submissions for fiction/nonfiction (<5k words), or 4-6 poems. Published artists receive $100 and a copy of the annual anthology of four issues (released each summer). Notification in <30 days or submission fee refunded. We appreciate stories in every genre we publish. All issues free online which illustrates what we have liked, but we are always ready to be surprised by the new! chestnutreview.com
Call :: Harvard College Children’s Stories’ New Anthology: COVID Edition
Deadline: June 15, 2020
Harvard College Children Stories is currently accepting submissions to compile an anthology to support kids during the Covid-19 pandemic. Please visit our website if you would like to support this project and learn more about submitting: harvardchildrensstories.com/anthology. Thank you so much!
Call :: Volney Road Issue 3.1
Deadline: August 1, 2020
Volney Road Review is paying $10 per accepted piece. Send us your best prose, poetry, art, photography, and comics for issue 3.1. We will publish digitally on September 1st, 2020. volneyroadreview.com/submit/
Call :: Red Rover Magazine Seeks Work for Issue 1
Red Rover Magazine is now accepting submissions for our premiere issue, currently projected for a January 2021 release date. Our mission is to inspire the improvement of mental health through the process of writing and creation. Please send us up to 6 poems, 2-5 pages of fiction, or up to 6 pieces of original artwork/photography to [email protected]. Submissions for the premiere issue will be accepted until October 31, 2020.
Call :: iō Literary Journal Volume 3
Deadline: June 30, 2020
iō Literary Journal was founded in 2018 with the aim of showcasing an array of artistic expression and creative writing pieces from individuals whose voices are underrepresented, and those who may not have traditional writing or artistic backgrounds. iō Literary Journal is back for Volume 3 and will be accepting submissions to its third print volume up until June 30, 2020. Submit at: ioliteraryjournal.submittable.com.
Call :: Molecule – a tiny lit mag Fall 2020 Issue
Deadline: July 15, 2020
Call for submissions for the Fall 2020 issue of Molecule – a tiny lit mag. Poetry, prose, nonfiction, plays, reviews, and interviews in 50 words or less (including titles and interview questions). Visual art work of tiny things like tea bags and toothpicks, or tiny paintings also wanted: no skyscrapers please! Strict word count. Don’t try and trick us we have small minds. Send submissions preferably in the body of the email or jpeg attachment for photos to [email protected], along with a 3rd person bio no more than 24 words (including name). moleculetinylitmag.art.blog
Call :: COVID LIT Seeks Work for Monthly Issues
COVID LIT is a monthly online lit mag that gives the middle finger to COVID-19 by publishing, promoting, and spreading art, poetry, and prose using the disease’s name. What sets us apart from other magazines? Simple: instead of paying us a submission fee, writers must donate at least $3 to a nonprofit of their choice. Since we launched in late April 2020, our writers have donated over $3000 directly to regional, national, and international nonprofits, so send your best work and use your creative superpowers for good! Visit www.covidlit.org today!
The Gettysburg Review – 33.4
The Autumn issue of The Gettysburg Review is out. The issue features paintings by Jared Small, fiction by Jennifer Anne Moses, Jared Hanson, Darrell Kinsey, and Sean Bernard; essays by Andrew Cohen, K. Robert Schaeffer, and Christopher Wall; poetry by Jill McDonough, Max Seifert, K. A. Hays, Albert Goldbarth, Mary B. Moore, R. T. Smith, Jill Bialosky, Katharine Whitcomb, Corey Marks, Kimberly Johnson, Margaret Ray, Danusha Laméris, Linda Pastan, Christopher Bakken, Christopher Howell, and Margaret Gibson.
Call :: Palooka Seeks Chapbooks, Prose, Poetry, Art & Photography
Palooka is an international literary magazine. For a decade we’ve featured up-and-coming, established, and brand-new writers, artists, and photographers from all around the world. We’re open to diverse forms and styles and are always seeking unique chapbooks, fiction, poetry, nonfiction, artwork, photography, graphic narratives, and comic strips. Free digital copies of back issues now available for a short time. Give us your best shot! Submissions open year-round. palookamag.com
Call :: Club Plum Wants Powerful yet Subtle Pieces
Deadline: Rolling
Submissions open for flash fiction of no more than 800 words and prose poems. Send powerful yet subtle pieces. Send strong voices. Send dreamy words that don’t gush. Skate on the edge of realities. Club Plum also seeks art: Please send one image only of pen-and-ink line art, watercolor, bold colors, experimental work, collage, impressionistic or abstract pieces. Tell the editor about your piece. The editor will pass on photography. See clubplumliteraryjournal.com for details.
Call :: Red Planet Magazine Wants Speculative Work
Deadline: Rolling
Red Planet Magazine is an independent literary magazine emphasizing a theme of speculative fiction, and is open for submissions year-round on a rolling basis. Contributors receive a digital copy of the issue in which their work has been featured. Please visit www.redplanetmagazine.com for additional information.
Call :: borrowed solace seeks mystical work
Deadline: July 31, 2020
borrowed solace is looking for “Mystical” works for the fall themed 2020 literary journal. We accept nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and art. Submissions close July 31, 2020; and you can review our guidelines, what the editors are looking for, and submit here at www.borrowedsolace.com. We want to read what mystifies you!
Call :: About Place Journal Works of Resistance, Resilience
Deadline: August 1, 2020
Each issue of About Place Journal, the arts publication of the Black Earth Institute, focuses on a specific theme. From 6/1 to 8/1 we’ll be accepting submissions for our Fall 2020 issue Works of Resistance, Resilience. Our mission: to have art address the causes of spirit, earth, and society; to protect the earth; and to build a more just and interconnected world. We publish prose, poetry, visual art, photography, video, and music which fit the current theme. More about this issue’s theme and our submission guidelines: aboutplacejournal.org/submissions/.
Call :: ode to Queer
Deadline: September 1, 2020
ode to Queer is an unabashedly queer literary and artistic journal looking for art from LGBTQIA+ artists that is experimental, fringe, and vulnerable. Our journal exists to create a queer cannon that centers and celebrates marginalized and rural voices without hiding behind diluted language or imagery to appease cis-hetero-centered viewership. We don’t wish to bottleneck the creativity of our artists, which is why we welcome all forms of visual and written art that are conscious of our guidelines. Visit odetoqueer.com/submissions for more details and to see what we’re about!
Call :: Awakenings Review Seeks Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Photography, and Art
Established in 2000, The Awakenings Review is an annual lit mag committed to publishing poetry, short story, nonfiction, photography, and art by writers, poets and artists who have a relationship with mental illness: either self, family member, or friend. Our striking hardcopy publication is one of the nation’s leading journals of this genre. Creative endeavors and mental illness have long had a close association. The Awakenings Review publishes works derived from artists’, writers’, and poets’ experiences with mental illness, though mental illness need not be the subject of your work. Visit www.AwakeningsProject.org for submission guidelines.
Call :: Chestnut Review (for stubborn artists) Invites Submissions
Chestnut Review (“for stubborn artists”) invites submissions year round of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, art, and photography. We offer free submissions for poetry (3 poems), flash fiction (<1000 words each & up to 4 pieces), and art/photography (20 images); $5 submissions for fiction/nonfiction (<5k words), or 4-6 poems. Published artists receive $100 and a copy of the annual anthology of four issues (released each summer). Notification in <30 days or submission fee refunded. We appreciate stories in every genre we publish. All issues free online which illustrates what we have liked, but we are always ready to be surprised by the new! chestnutreview.com
Contest :: KAKALAK 2020 Poetry & Art Contest Closes May 18
Don’t forget that the deadline to submit poetry and art that evokes the spirit of the Carolinas from the Outer Banks and Low Country to the Piedmont and Appalachia is May 18. Anyone can enter. Entry fee: $12 for 1-3 poems or 1-3 images. All entries considered for publication. All contributors will receive one copy for each item selected for publication. Prize money ranges from $300 to $20. Details can be found on the Kakalak contest page of the www.MainStreetRag.com website.
Call :: little somethings press issue three
little somethings press is open for submissions for issue three. We want work that breathes in the space of a page, even as the world falters. Send your flash memoir and fiction of up to 300 words, your poetry of up to 12 lines, and your visual art to [email protected] by June 15th. Up to three pieces per submission are welcome. Contributors will receive compensation through a contributor copy. All rights revert back to the author/contributor upon publication. littlesomethingspress.com
Superstition Review – Issue 25
The latest issue of Superstition Review is featured at this week’s Magazine Stand. The issue offers art by Richard McVetis, fiction by Janelle Bassett, nonfiction by Marina Hatsopoulos, poetry by Grant Clauser, and interview with Roy G. Guzmán.
Hole in the Head Review – May 2020
The second issue of Hole in the Head Review includes poetry by Richard Blanco, David Weiss, Marilyn A. Johnson, Kenneth Rosen, and more, and visual art from Eva Goetz, Jere DeWaters, Jacob Bond Hessler, and others. Plus, tattoo art by Bhagavan Das Shyam Lescault and much, much more.
Driftwood Press Extends Application Deadline for Online Seminars
Good news! If you missed the April 30 deadline for Driftwood Press’s 2020 Online Seminar Series, you’re in luck! They have extended the deadline to apply to May 30. These seminars will run for five weeks starting on June 1 and ending on July 3.
The Erasure Poetry Seminar instructor is Jerrod Schwarz who teaches creative writing at the University of Tampa. This seminar features an in-depth look at the history, practices, and importance of erasure poetry. Every week students receive a video lesson, tailor-made writing prompts, and detailed feedback. The course will culminate in a Showcase Booklet of students’ work which will be made available for free download on Driftwood’s website.
The Editors & Writers Seminar is targeted towards three types of writers: writers submitting to magazines and wanting to fight through the slushpile, writers who wish to be editors of short fiction or run a magazine, and writers who wish to become better editors of their own and others’ work. The instructor will be Driftwood Press Fiction Editor James McNulty. Students receive weekly video lessons, a writing or revision assignment, a reading assignment, and detailed feedback on writing assignments.
Don’t forget that the biannual journal is open to submissions year-round and the publishing arm is currently open to submissions of novellas, graphic novels, and comic collections. They do charge a reading fee. Expedited response options available for journal submissions.
Sponsor Spotlight :: Del Sol Review
Originally started in 1997 under the name of “Editor’s Picks,” Del Sol Review has transformed from highlighting select work from print journals to being its very own literary magazine. Contributors include Maxine Chernoff, Paul West, Linh Dinh, Holly Iglesias, Deborah Olin Unferth, Michael Martone, and Daniel Bosch.
Del Sol Review accepts unsolicited works of speculative fiction, poetry, prose poetry, creative nonfiction, short stories, and flash fiction year-round. They love works containing unique and interesting subject matter.
Their latest issue, No. 24, is the Richard Basehart Issue. This contains fiction by Joe Kowalski, Zeke Jarvis, Glen Pourciau, Debbie Ann Ice, Evan Steuber, Jenny Drummey, Andrew Stancek, Richard Leise, Risa Mickenberg, Joseph Couchet, Robert Miltner, Ron Riekki, and Mark Walling; and poetry by Michael Salcman, Nancy Botkin, Wendy Barker, Hilary Sideris, Rich Ives, and Nish Amarnath.
I love the little snippets they put with their issues: “Carnivores. Astonomy. Zsa Zsa Gabor Geeks.” or “Innocent, flight, teeth, yecch, and more!”
Call :: The Revolution (Relaunch) Wants Your Creative Activism
The focus of The Revolution (Relaunch) is feminism in the broadest sense. This means they are interested in “creative activism” that voices the marginalized and/or criticizes corrupt authority for their online journal. They publish a range of styles—memoir, poetry, cultural criticism, interviews, and profiles featuring activists and grassroots organizations. Submit one piece of prose under 750 words, three poems, or 5 images to [email protected].
Call :: Spread Art and Philanthropy by Submitting to COVID LIT
Deadline: Rolling
COVID LIT is a new online lit mag that gives the middle finger to COVID-19 by publishing, promoting, and spreading art, poetry, and prose using the disease’s name. What sets us apart from other magazines? Simple: instead of paying us a submission fee, all submissions must be accompanied with a minimum $3 donation to a nonprofit of the artist’s choosing. Our goal is to publish weekly online content and, eventually, a print anthology, so send your best work and use your creative superpowers for good! Visit www.covidlit.org today and help those who desperately need it.
Call :: Underground Writers Association of Portland Maine Seeks All that is Essential
Deadline: Rolling
The Underground Writers Association of Portland Maine seeks poetry, micro fiction, and visual art submissions for Essential, the press’ fourth annual anthology. Submitted works should be inspired by one or more of the themes: isolation, disruption, abandon, and what is essential. It is up to the author to define and make the argument for what is essential in times like these. All are welcome to submit; emerging writers are encouraged. No fee to submit. Simultaneous submissions and previously published work OK. An optional charity-based reading fee is available for an expedited response. Full submissions guidelines at www.undergroundwritersassociation.com/submit.
Call :: Palooka Open to Submissions Year-round
Don’t forget that literary magazine and chapbook publisher Palooka is open to submissions year-round. Even better? They are currently offering free digital copies of past issues to help lift the spirits of creatives and book lovers. So go ahead and grab a copy today. Palooka is open to all voices, forms, and styles. Submit unpublished chapbooks, fiction, poetry, nonfiction, art, photography, graphic narratives, and comic strips. There is a $3 fee for fiction, poetry, and nonfiction journal submissions and an $8 fee for chapbook manuscripts.