Every month we publish a Submissions Spotlight, highlighting a publication we think our writers and readers should check out. We’re always looking for the next publication! The list below is a work in progress.
Bending Genres: CNF, fiction, poetry, microreviews
Beautiful Things: “River Teeth’s weekly online magazine featuring micro-essays of 250 words or fewer.”
Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction publishes “writers working in the brief essay form” (750 words or less). The Brevity blog publishes pieces on the craft of writing nonfiction, including “issues in editing and publishing, writing conference experiences, interviews with writers or editors, writing prompts, close readings of essays or essayists, or specific issues.”
Does It Have Pockets? “An online literary magazine with an emphasis on the uncategorizable” publishing CNF, fiction, poetry, artwork.
Fahmidan “hopes to bring out diverse voices and their cacophonous words.” Nonfiction, flash, fiction, poetry.
Five on the Fifth publishes “five short pieces online on the fifth of each month.” CNF, flash fiction, fiction, poetry, horror, book reviews, experimental work. Max 5,000 words.
The Forge Literary Magazine “publishes short prose selected by a rotating cast of editors.” CNF and fiction, flash, micro, and up to 5,000 words (under 3,000 preferred)
Fractured Lit “publishes flash fiction with emotional resonance.” Microfiction (400 words max.) and flash fiction (401-1000 words)
Genrepunk Magazine is “dedicated to weird little experiments” seeking “work that is in some way strange, experimental, multimedia, and/or multi-modal.” All genres (15 pages max.)
Hippocampus Magazine: “Memorable creative nonfiction.” Flash CNF, personal essays, and memoir excerpts.
HuffPost Personal: American news site HuffPost includes “HuffPost Personal,” featuring pieces that are “original, authentic, compelling and told from the first person.” Pitching info. here.
Hunger Mountain Review: “… created by the faculty and students in the Writing Program at Vermont College of Fine Arts … [Hunger Mountain Review values] . . . vulnerability, adventure, and accessibility … discovering new voices, as well as publishing the freshest work from established artists.” CNF including flash, fiction including flash, poetry.
Identity Theory: “original writing, interviews, and other forms of creative expression.” CNF including micro, fiction including micro, poetry including micro, hybrid/mixed genre.
In A Flash: “A literary magazine edited and hosted by the flash writing group, Flashies.” CNF (500 words max.)
The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts: Publishes “weekly bursts of compression & decompression and make as many varied word-plays on matter as we can.” Micro CNF, microfiction, prose poetry.
Kelp Journal: “Especially interested in stories pertaining to oceanic and conservationist themes.” In addition to the journal, Kelp publishes The Wave bi-weekly blog. CNF, fiction, poetry.
The Milk House: “Where rural readers meet rural writers.” CNF, fiction, poetry, music, drama, photography.
Molecule: A tiny lit mag publishing pieces 50 words or less. CNF, fiction, poetry, plays, reviews, interviews, and visual artworks of tiny things.
Oh Reader: “By and for readers.” CNF, humor, poetry
Pangyrus: “Dedicated to art, ideas, and making culture thrive.” Nonfiction essays (600-1500 words), nonfiction longform (7,500 words), fiction, poetry
Roi Fainéant Press: “A consistent blend of brilliant words, silly antics, and a sense of community support.” CNF/essay/memoir, flash and microfictions, novels/longform, poetry, humor, screenplays, interviews.
Spillwords: “A place where classic, modern, and contemporary writers and writings thrive.” Essays, articles, commentaries, poetry, prose, short stories, flash fiction and more.
Taco Bell Quarterly: “First and foremost, TBQ is about great writing. It’s about provoking and existing among the white noise of capitalism. We embrace the spectrum of trash to brilliance.” Publishes all the things.
Tangled Locks: “An online literary journal committed to sharing complex, well-rounded stories, poetry, and essays that illuminate the experience and lives of women.”
A Thin Slice of Anxiety: "An independent publication which strives to nurture and promote the best up-and-coming writers of our generation.” CNF, fiction, flash fiction, responses to current events, essays and social commentary, criticism, reviews, interviews.
Tiny Molecules: A auarterly online lit mag of small fictions and essays, 1,000 words or less.
X-R-A-Y: Publishing “uncomfortable, entertaining, and unforgettable prose that shines brighter than the skeleton in your body.” Micros (300 words max), CNF (300-7,500), flash fiction (300-2,000), short stories (2,000-7,500)
Y2K Quarterly: “An independent literary magazine devoted to the glory days/nightmares that were the late 90's and early 2000's.” CNF, fiction, poetry, essays - all 1999 words or less, all set in, reflects upon, or reminds you of the early 2000s (1997-2007).
Your Life Is A Trip: Publishes first-person travel stories.