2nd Hand
Considers sparkling prose submissions of less than 2500 words (good short drama also considered) to both its printed broadside and for its web site. If you are submitting to the web site, send your submission in a word document saved in Rich Text Format (
2River
Since 1996, 2River has been a site of poetry, art, and theory, quarterly publishing The 2River View, and occasionally publishing individual authors in the 2River Chapbook Series. All publications first appear online and afterwards in print. Interested co
3AM
is an excellent international literary magazine which features all the best new interviews, fiction, flash fiction, poetry, music and gig reviews, literature reviews, articles, politics, arts and a great selection of catergorised links, along with Buzzwor
Absinthe Literary Review
Call for submissions for ALRâ??s annual Eros and Thanatos issue. Please send your best transgressive workâ??fiction, essay, and poetryâ??dealing with the moist fecund issues of Eros and Thanatos. All submitted works must contain substantial elements of sex, dea
Aesthetica Magazine
Aesthetica Magazine is a literature, arts, music, and film publication that promotes creativity, equality, and diversity. Aesthetica has been short listed for community project awards, and believes in arts for al
Banipal
Banipal is throwing open doors and windows on contemporary life from the Arab world, Banipal is the only magazine to present contemporary Arab literature in English translation. New poetry, short stories, novel extracts, interviews, profiles, appreciation
Barfing Frog Press
Where the absurd meets the unthinkable.
BURNING WORD
This electronic publication is continually seeking quality writers and publishes new fiction, poetry, non-fiction, reviews and novel excerpts on its website.
Bust Down the Door and Eat All the Chickens
This is a popular vacation spot for stories who have never felt like they fit it, stories that want to take time off from their 9 to 5 work week of searching for the meaning in the universe, stories that take a moment out of their nightly television progr
Dark Animus
Dark Animus is interested in original, dark, gritty pulp fiction (science fiction, horror, fantasy, weird â?? other) that captures the imagination of the reader. I'm after stories up to 8,000 words (2000-4000 words is ideal) and bear in mind that shorter stories have a greater chance of acceptance. Query if you have longer stories. If something can hold my attention, and I think itâ??s brilliant, I will not refuse it.
DESCANT
Now in its third decade, Descant is a quarterly journal publishing new and established contemporary writers and visual artists from Canada and around the world. Begun in 1970 as a mimeograph, Descant has evolved into an exquisitely produced journal of int
Eclectica
Founded in 1996 as a quality web-only literary magazine not bound by formula of genre and harnessing technology to further the reading experience rather than for its own sake. Visit the web site for submission guidelines.
Get Underground
Get Underground is a sub-mainstream arts and culture community dedicated to the free expression of the creative global underground. They are a robust professional-level community in design, consistency and content featuring new articles, columnists, art,
GUERNICA MAGAZINE
A political blog cum literary review, an international art museum with no suggested donation, a travel journal, a Thomas Paine pamphlet, a group of non-partisan dissidents without a forum, an unauthorized biography of the times, a gang of well meaning ne'
HACKWRITERS
A free internet magazine devoted to interesting writing, on any subject. It is completely independent and recieves no money for advertising or opinion. It has no bias. They do not pay any fees for work published, but aim to offer a forum of quality work b
Harpur Palate
Established in 2000 as a semiannual literary magazine, Harpur Palate publishes works of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry that demonstrate attention to craft, structure, language, and the story well told. Harpur Palate is produced by graduate students in English at Binghamton University and named after the University's Harpur College of Arts and Sciences and for its distinctive taste in literary fare. To sample some of our prose and poetry, click on the cover art below.
Harvard Review
Harvard Review publishes short fiction, poetry, essays, drama, and book reviews. Previous contributors include Seamus Heaney, John Updike, John Ashbery, Helen Vendler, Jess Row, Robert Coover, David Mamet, and Jorie Graham. Harvard Review also publishes the work of emerging and previously unpublished writers.
Heliotrope
Iâ??m not going to limit what type of work we are looking for, Iâ??m more interested in your voice than chosen format. If you send fan-fictionâ?¦I will kill you! I have received some questions about what Iâ??m looking for, so let me just try to be clear. I like a little bit of everything, and Iâ??m not going to narrow down what we accept because of that. If I donâ??t love it, itâ??s not getting bought - thatâ??s it. I have interests in every corner and alley that encompasses Fantasy/Science Fiction/Horror. Iâ??m looking to be amazed, haunted and/or moved! Iâ??m looking for individuality both in style and concepts.
Identity Theory
dentity Theory, aka "IDT" or "ID Theory" or "identitytheory.com," is regularly updated website that focuses on literature and culture.
KISS MACHINE
Kiss Machine sprang from Toronto's tiny Petrified Press in 1996, and has since proved a spirited foray into independent art, literary culture, and political views. In an effort to highlight the surrealism inherent in day-to-day life, each issue features t
Magma
Magma is a magazine of poetry and writing about poetry, published three times a year in Spring, Autumn and Winter, in full on paper and in selection on our Web site. We look for poems which give a direct sense of what it is to live today - honest about feelings, alert about world, sometimes funny, always well crafted. When we decided on the title Magma, it was to suggest the molten core within the world, hidden as deep feelings are and showing itself in unpredictable movements, tremors, lava flows, eruptions.
Mslexia
Mslexia will get you noticed. In the four and a half years since the magazine was launched, Mslexia has become the magazine for women writers to submit to. Publishers, literary agents and BBC radio producers scan Mslexia every quarter on the lookout for fresh talent. Many women have launched their writing careers in the pages of the magazine. We do not accept email submissions, except from overseas writers. We promise a response within three months of any closing date.
MUSTACHIOED
New Orleans based quarterly online journal for poetry, fiction, and art.
NFG
NFG is a glossy, beautifully designed Canadian literary magazine, which features art, new writing, poetry, comic strips and regular writing competitions. Current issue includes 12 hard-hitting pieces of cross genre fiction, including the excellent â??Euthanasia Day at the Childrenâ??s Shelter,â?? by Linda J Dunn and Kaolin Fireâ??s hilarious, â??The Last to Have Sexâ??; 12 soul-stirring poetic interludes; 2 pages of international art; and Marc Hirschfieldâ??s comic strip, â??Withdrawl.â?? The magazine prides itself on its submission process. All submissions are viewed and acknowledged personally via e.mail from receipt of the work to its conclusion, with editorsâ?? comments available if your work moves up for review. Well worth the $17 for 3 issue subscription and highly recommended. Click image to subscribe or order current issue on NPG website.
PRISM INTERNATIONAL
A quarterly magazine based in Vancouver, whose mandate is to publish the best in contemporary writing and translation from Canada and around the world. Started in 1959, it is the oldest literary magazine in Western Canada. Its archives are a Who's Who of modern and contemporary literature. It welcomes writing from both established and unknown writers, from Canada and from around the world. Send original, unpublished material in English. Do not consider multiple submissions or work that has already appeared on the Internet, unless it has only been posted to writersâ?? forums for discussion. Limit the number of items in a submission to one prose piece, five poems, or one short play. Translations are sought in all genres and must be undertaken with the permission of the original author.
Red Dirt Review
Welcome to the Red Dirt Review Online. This is an exciting time for us as we seek to elevate and promote the literary landscape.
Small Spiral Notebook
A venture into something literary, Small Spiral Notebook has grown tremendously with a readership of over 5,000 unique visitors per month, on average over 200-300 people visit the site per day. The accept submissions of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, art, interviews etc. Submit single stories (18 pages max) and up to 3 poems at a time, and study the submission guidelines carefully, or the editors will not read your work.
Spinning Jenny
Spinning Jenny is an open forum for poetry, fiction, and drama. They consider experimental writing and work by unpublished authors. However, writers are strongly encouraged to review a recent issue of the magazine before submitting their work. Please send up to six poems or ten pages of fiction or drama for consideration. They prefer to receive no more than three submissions per writer per year, and generally cannot reply to more. They do not consider simultaneous submissions or material that has been previously published in any format.
StorySouth
storySouth's most important mission is to showcase the best fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry that writers from the new south have to offer. Special emphasis is given to finding and promoting the works of promising new writers.
Ten Thousand Monkeys
Creativity is the most important criteria for submission approval. M10K seek content that will keep them reading or watching or listening. They invite you to offend, delight, terrify, challenge, inform them, not bore them. If you feel you are up to the task, please send the fruits of your labours to the appropriate M10K editor with an email address you'd like to get feedback sent to (if different from the return email address), and a few sentence bio of your inner monkey, following the submission guidelines on the site.
