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Literary Magazines – General Submissions
Literary Magazines – Contest Submissions
Presses – General Submissions
Presses – Contest Submissions
Applications
If you are a lit mag (not currently listed) open for submissions or applications in July, it’s not too late to let us know by contacting us at thelumierereview[at]gmail[dot]com. If you’ll be opening in August (and are not listed), let us know by filling out THIS FORM.
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Literary Magazines – General Submissions
The Lumiere Review is always open for submissions!
Poetry, Prose, Art // No theme (ISSUE 06) // Free to submit // Open to all
Decameron Writing Series currently open – 07/01
Poetry, prose, comics // Free to submit // Open to all, selected contributors respond to theme on weekly basis, pays $10 CAD
Kalonopia Collective Anthology currently open – 07/01
Poetry, prose, scripts, hybrid // Theme: Disability Pride Month // Free to submit // Open to all but disabled voices encouraged, accepting donations to pay contributors
Olney Magazine currently open – 07/01
Poetry, photography // Free to submit // Open to all, print issue
The Rainbow Choir: An Anthology of LGBTQ+ Youth Voices currently open – 07/01
Poetry, Prose, Art // Free to submit // LGBTQ+ youth 18 and below
50/50 Lit 04/02 – 07/01
Poetry, prose, art // Free to submit // Open to all
Pareidolia Literary 05/09 – 07/04
Poetry, short fiction, memoir or essay, criticism or review, visual art, audio/visual media // Theme: Wonderkammer // Free to submit // Open to all
Alien Magazine 04/01 – 07/05
Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction // No theme // Free to submit // Open to all
Pareidolia Literary currently open – 07/06
Poetry, short fiction, nonfiction, review, art // Theme: Wonderkammer // Free to submit // Open to all
FERAL: A Journal of Poetry and Art 06/07 – 07/07
Poetry, art // Theme: Space // Free to submit // Open to all
Fudoki Magazine 07/01 – 07/07
Fiction // Theme: speculative stories // Free to submit // Open to all
Near Window currently open – 07/09
Poetry, prose, art, photography // Theme: Unlatched // Free to submit // Open to all
Night Crawler Zine currently open – 07/09
Art, photography // Theme: haunted // Free to submit // Open to all
Zindabad Zine currently open – 07/10
Poetry, essays, fiction, art // Theme: aunty issues // Free to submit // Open to anyone who identifies with ‘diaspora’
Penumbra Online currently open – 07/13
Poetry, fiction, hybrid, art // Theme: Self-Love / Free to submit // Open to all
GLITCHWORDS currently open – 07/15
Poetry, prose // Free to submit // Open to all
Proseterity Magazine currently open – 07/15
Poetry, prose, interviews, reviews, photography // Theme: Mediocrity // Free to submit // Open to all
Sumou Magazine currently open – 07/15
Personal essays, reviews, audio snippets, photo essays, films, collages, photography // Theme Rebirth (Shedding skins) // Free to submit // Open to all
Catapult Magazine currently open – 07/16
Fiction // Free to submit // Open to all, pays $200 or more per story
Backslash Lit currently open – 07/20
Digital/ electronic mediums including source code poetry, hypertext poetry, interactive fiction, ASCII art, generative art // Theme: new Promise(); // Free to submit // Open to all
Five South Lit currently open – 07/23
Poetry, flash fiction, short fiction // No theme // Various fees // Open to all
Agapanthus Collective 05/25 – 07/25
Poetry, flash fiction, art // Free to submit // Open to all
The Hanok Review 06/21 – 07/30
Poetry, interviews // Free to submit // Korean contributors encouraged, but open to all
Acropolis Journal currently open – 07/31
Poetry, visual art // Free to submit // Open to all
Augment Review 06/01 – 07/31
Poetry, prose, experimental work, art // Theme: Wanderlust // Free to submit // Open to ages 13-25
Augur Magazine 07/01 – 07/31
Poetry, fiction, graphic fiction // Free to submit, paying market
Black Cat Magazine 07/01 – 07/31
Poetry, fiction, art // Speculative pieces, theme: Apocalypse // Free to submit // Open to all
Celestite Poetry 07/01 – 07/31
Poetry // Free to submit // Open to all
Dishsoap Quarterly currently open – 07/31
Poetry, prose, art // Free to submit // Open to all
EX/POST Magazine 06/15 – 07/31
Poetry, prose, art // Free to submit // Open to all
Horse Egg Literary currently open – 07/31
Poetry, art // Theme: Summer Lovin’ // Free to submit // Open to all
Liminal Transit Review 04/01 – 07/31
Poetry, prose, cross-genre // Free to submit // Open to all
Susurrus the Magazine currently open – 07/31
Poetry, flash, fiction, creative nonfiction, photography // Free to submit // Open to creatives across the American South
Thanks Hun Zine currently open – 07/31
Poetry, prose // Free to submit // Open to all
With Confetti currently open – 07/31
Poetry, fiction, nonfiction, art, photography // Free to submit // Open to queer/LGBTQ+ creatives
Mud Room Magazine currently open – 08/01
Poetry, prose // Free to submit // Open to all, pays $15 per piece
Muzzle Magazine 06/15 – 08/01
Poetry, book reviews // Free to submit // Open to all
Ripe Literary Magazine currently open – 08/01
Poetry, prose, art // Free to submit // Open to all
Ample Remains currently open – 08/15
Poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction // Free to submit // Open to all
Dead Skunk Magazine currently open – 08/15
Poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, flash fiction, hybrid // Free to submit // Open to all
The Boiler 06/15 – 08/15
Poetry, prose // Free to submit // Open to all
Warning Lines Magazine 07/01 – 08/15
Poetry, creative nonfiction, art // Free to submit // Open to queer and/or neurodivergent folks
Crowname 05/20 – 08/20
Poetry, realistic fiction, script, comics, podcasts/audio essays, nonfiction, art, short film, animation // Free to submit
CP Quarterly 06/20 – 08/28
Poetry, fiction, essays, art // Theme: fan-based work // Free to submit // Open to all
COUNTERCLOCK 06/01 – 08/30
Poetry, prose, art, cross-genre // Free to submit // Open to all
Capsule Stories currently open – 08/31
Poetry, short stories, essays // Theme: Sugar and Spice // Free to submit // Open to all
Prospectus: A Literary Offering 06/01 – 08/31
Poetry, fiction, art // Free to submit // Open to writers who have not published a full-length collection, pays $25
Moonflake Press currently open – 09/01
Poetry, prose // Theme: Escapism (for their print issue) // Free to submit // Open to all
Friendly City currently open – 09/30
Poetry // Theme: food // Free to submit // Open to all, pays a “small honorarium”
Headcanon Magazine 04/04 – 09/30
Fan-fiction, fan-art, letters, poems & critical essays // Theme: Coffee shop // Free to submit // Open to all
House of Lobsters Literary currently open – 11/30
Poetry, fiction, nonfiction, art // Theme: “Please Welcome to the Stage…” // Free to submit // Open to LGBTQIAP+ writers
Angel Rust currently open
Poetry, fiction, nonfiction // Free to submit // Open to all
Berkeley Fiction Review currently open
Short fiction, sudden fiction, art + visuals + comics // Free to submit // Open to all, pays for accepted pieces
Bright Flash Literary Magazine currently open
Short fiction // Free to submit // Open to all
Ciphertext currently open in July
Poetry, fiction, nonfiction, hybrid, comics, reviews // Free to submit // Open to all
Cobra Milk Magazine currently open
Poetry, prose, art, audio // Free to submit // Open to all
Corporeal Literary Magazine currently open in July
Poetry, prose, art // Theme: embodiment // Free to submit // Open to all
Craft Literary currently open
Various types of prose // Free to submit // Open to all, pays $100
Culture Africa currently open in July
Cultural, Literary, Artistic, Film and Historical articles // Theme: on African culture // Free to submit // Open to Africans living in the continent or diaspora
Five Minute Lit currently open
100-word piece about five minutes in your life // Free to submit // Open to all
Floresta Magazine currently open
Journalistic writing, personal essays, photojournalism, critical essays/reviews, op-eds, non-fiction storytelling, and features/interviews // Topics that focus on the intersection between art, design and the environment // Free to submit // Open to all
Gnashing Teeth Publishing currently open in July
Poetry, prose, art // Free to submit // Open to creatives in the US
Hyphen Punk Magazine currently open
Punk aesthetic speculative fiction // Free to submit // Open to all, pays $25 per piece
Justice for All currently open
Poetry, articles, photography, art // Theme: equality, human rights, justice // Free to submit // Open to all
Kalopsia Literary Magazine currently open in July
Poetry, prose, art // Free to submit // Open to all
Love Letters Magazine currently open
Poems, prose, songs, op-eds, art // Theme: Belonging // Free to submit // Open to writers aged 14-19
Lucky Jefferson currently open
Poems, essays, flash fiction, art // Theme: Awake” // Free to submit // Black authors only, pays $15 per accepted piece)
Mayday Magazine currently open
Nonfiction, translation, culture, art, poetry, fiction // Free to submit // Open to all
Mixtapes Magazine currently open
Poetry, prose, essays, art // Theme: Fervour // Free to submit // Open to all
Petrichor Magazine currently open
Poetry, visual poetry, video poetics, poetic essays // Free to submit // Open to all
Pine Cone Review currently open
Poetry, short fiction, short creative nonfiction, translation, and art // No theme // Free to submit // Open to all
Poetica Magazine currently open
Poetry // Poems that celebrate Jewish culture // Free to submit // Open to all
Queerlings Magazine currently open
Poetry, prose // Free to submit // Open to LGBTQIA+ writers only
Q/A Poetry currently open
Poetry // No theme // Free to submit // Open to women and other marginalized genders and sexes
Sepia Journal currently open in July
Poetry, prose, art // Free to submit // Open to all
Slouching Beast Journal currently open
Poetry, prose-poetry, flash fiction, hybrid // No theme // Free to submit // Open to all
Survivor Lit currently open
Poetry, essays; pitch for reviews or features // Work that explores sexual assault // Free to submit // Must be survivor of sexual assault, any gender, over 18
TAB Journal currently open
Poetry, essays, art // Free to submit // Open to all
The Bitchin’ Kitsch – “All My Relations” currently open
Poetry, prose, art // Themes of familial loss and ancestry // Free to submit // Open to all
The Centifictionist currently open
Microfiction (<100 words) // No theme // Free to submit // Open to all
The Madrigal currently open
Poetry // Free to submit // Open to all
The Moderate Review currently open
Short stories, poems, nonfiction, paintings, sculptures, 280 character stories (we’ll tweet if selected), music, spoken word // Free to submit // Open to all
The Visceral Collective currently open in July
Poetry, prose, interviews // Free to submit // Open to all, BIPOC preferred
Twin Pies Literary currently open
Poetry, prose // No theme // Free to submit // Open to all
Version 9 Magazine currently open
Poetry // Free to submit // Open to all
West Trestle Review currently open
Poetry, fiction, art // No theme // Fee: $3, free for BIPOC // Open to all
Writeresque currently open
Poetry, prose // Free to submit // Open to all
Woolgathering Magazine currently open
Prose, poetry, art // Free to submit // Open to all
Wretched Creations currently open
Poetry, fiction // Theme: haunting, dark creepy // Free to submit // Open to all
Zero Readers currently open
Poetry // Free to submit // Open to all
Auroras and Blossoms various deadline
Poetry, essays, stories, flash fiction, art // Free to submit // Open to ages 17+
HerStry various deadlines
Personal essays, stories // Various themes // Various fees // Open to women-identifying writers
Blue Marble Review Rolling submissions
Poetry, prose, book reviews, travel stories, personal essays, art // No theme // Free to submit // Open to ages 13-22, pays $25 per piece, $75 for cover art
Catatonic Daughters Rolling submissions
Poetry, prose, script, art // Free to submit // Open to “catatonic daughters” including queer, trans, disabled, BIPOC writers // Free to submit
CERASUS Magazine Rolling submissions
Poetry, Prose, Art // No theme // Free to submit // Open to all
DIALOGIST Rolling submissions
Poetry // No theme // Free to submit // Open to all
Dirty Queer Journal Rolling submissions
Poetry, Prose, Art // All content must be about queer sex, sexuality, sensuality, and/or gender: every-one-involved (literally or figuratively) // Free to submit // Queer/trans only, must be of legal age and consenting // No hate speech of any sort will be tolerated.
FEED Literary Magazine Rolling submissions
Poetry, prose // Free to submit // Open to all
Fiery Scribe Review Rolling submissions
Poetry, fiction, essay // Free to submit // Open to all
Flash Frog Rolling submissions
Flash fiction // No theme // Free to submit // Open to all
Flights of the Dragonfly Rolling submissions
Poetry, prose, flash // No Theme // Free to submit // Open to all
Fractured Literary Rolling submissions
Micro, flash fiction // Free to submit // Open to all
Free Flash Fiction Rolling submissions
Flash fiction (500 words) // No theme // Free to submit // Open to all
Frontier Poetry Rolling submissions
Poetry // No theme // Free to submit // Open to all, pays $50 per poem
Gastropoda Rolling submissions
Flash fiction, flash creative nonfiction // Free to submit // Open to all
Hinterland Review Rolling submissions
Flash non-fiction, nonfiction // £3 fee // Open to all
Inertia Teens Rolling submissions
Poetry, Prose, spoken word, art // Theme: Feelings // Free to submit // Open to all with focus on those under 25 years of age
Intersections Lit Mag Rolling submissions
Poetry, Prose // No theme // Free to submit // 13-19 and all college students (vague age cutoff) Thank you for doing this!!
journal of erato Rolling submissions
Poetry, Flash, Poetry, Essays, Art // No theme // Free to submit // Open to all
Kalonopia Collective Rolling submissions
Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Script // Theme: “Vision” // Free to submit // Open to all
K’in Literary Journal Rolling submissions
Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction // No theme // Free to submit // Open to all
Maythorn Magazine Rolling submissions
Poetry, short prose, photography, art, blog posts // Free to submit // Open to all
Naija Readers’ Buffet Rolling submissions
Poetry, Essay/Article // must be Satire-based and Nigerian // free to submit // open to all Nigerians.
Necessary Fiction Rolling submissions
Fiction, book reviews, research and translation notes // Free to submit // Open to all
Neologism Poetry Journal Rolling submissions
Poetry // Free to submit // Open to all
NINSHAR Arts Rolling Submissions
Poetry, Prose, Art // No theme // Free to submit // Open to all
Not Deer Magazine Rolling submissions
Poetry, Prose, Art // Theme: Horror & Surrealism // Free to submit // Prioritizing marginalized voices
No Contact Rolling submissions
Poetry, Prose, Art // No theme // Free to submit // Open to all
ongoing Rolling submissions
Musical poetry, prose // Theme: submissions must be inspired by the prompt that came before it // Free to submit // Open to everyone, pays 30CAD
Our Name Is Amplify Rolling submissions
Fiction, poetry, drama, nonfiction, criticism // Free to submit // Open to women, BIPOC, LGBTQ2S+, and international authors
Outlander Zine Rolling submissions
Poetry, prose // Free to submit // Open to all
Perspective Magazine Rolling submissions
Poetry, prose // Theme: Soul // Free to submit // Open to all
Pithead Chapel Rolling submissions
No theme // Free to submit // Open to all
samfiftyfour literary Rolling submissions
Poetry, short stories, essays // no theme // $1.75 submission fee // open to all // will waive submission fee for anyone who asks and will accept works from anywhere in the world. Publishes in print and digital
Seafront Press Rolling submissions
Poetry, fiction, art // No theme // Free to submit // Open to all
ShabdAaweg Review Rolling submissions
Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Reviews // No theme // Free to submit // Open to all
Sky Island Journal Rolling submissions
Poetry, Flash fiction (under 1,000 words), Creative nonfiction // No theme // Free to submit // At least 18 years old
Spillover Magazine Rolling submissions
Poetry, prose // No theme // Free to submit // Open to all
Strukturris Rolling submissions
Poetry, prose // Radical genre-bending work // Free to submit // Open to all
Storm Cellar Rolling submissions
Poetry, Fiction, Flash, Nonfiction, Art, Hybrid // No theme // Free to submit // Open to all (especially people of color with a Midwest connection) // Pays $10
The Centifictionist Rolling submissions
Microfiction, Flash fiction // No theme // $3 fee (with limited free subs) // Open to all // The deadline to be considered for Issue 3 is 03/01.
The Fantastic Other Rolling submissions
Poetry, fiction, art // No theme // Free to submit
The Lincoln Review Rolling submissions
Poetry, Flash Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Essays, Art, Photography and Comics // No Theme // Free to Submit // Open to all
The Raven Review Rolling submissions
Poetry, fiction // Free to submit // Open to all
The Tide Rises Rolling submissions
Poetry // Theme: the tide rises, the tide falls // Free to submit // Open to all
Wintermute Lit Rolling submissions
Speculative fiction, poetry, art // Free to submit // Open to all
X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine Rolling submissions
Prose // No theme // Free to submit // Open to all
ZiN Daily Rolling submissions
Prose, Poetry, Essays, Reviews, Excerpts, Translations, Art and Photography // No Theme // Free to Submit // Open to All // ZiN Daily is an international literary magazine founded in 2017. We view literature and art as testaments of anguish and catalysts for progress.
Literary Magazines – Contest Submissions
POETRY Magazine currently open – 07/01
Collaborative poems // Free to submit // Open to all
Thirty West Broadside Contest currently open – 07/04
Handwritten and Co. & Gypsophila Zine currently open – 07/10
Poetry, prose // Free to submit // Open to all
Bellevue Literary Review currently open – 07/15
Poetry, fiction, nonfiction // Theme: health, healing, illness, mind, body // Fee: $20 // Open to all, up to $1000 prize
Ledbury Poetry Prize currently open – 07/15
Poetry // Free to submit // Open to all
Narrative Magazine Poetry Contest 05/14 – 07/16
Poetry // Fee: $25 // Open to all, up to $1500 prize
Stephen Spender Prize currently open – 07/16
Poetry in translation // Free to submit // Open to writers in the UK
Fractured Literary currently open – 07/18
Flash fiction // Fee: $20 // Open to all // Judged by K-Ming Chang, $3000 Grand Prize
Frontier Poetry Open Award currently open – 07/18
Poetry // Fee: $20 // Open to all writers, pays up to $5000
Frontier Open 2021 currently open – 07/18
Poetry // Fee: $20 // Open to all // $5000 prize and publication
Foyle Young Poets currently open – 07/31
Poetry // Free to submit // Open to writers aged 11-17
Arab Lit Story Prize currently open – 08/01
Short stories // Translations from Arabic to English // Free to submit // Open to all
Gigantic Sequins Poetry Contest currently open – 08/01
Poetry // Fee: $5 // Open to all, $150 prize
The Fantastic Other Contest currently open – 08/12
Flash fiction // Free to submit // Open to all, $50 prize
Palette Poetry Prize currently open – 08/15
Poetry // Fee: $20 // Open to all, up to $4000 prize
Presses – General Submissions
Sledgehammer Lit 07/01 – 07/04
Poetry manuscripts // Free to submit // Open to all
Airlie Press 06/01– 07/31
Poetry manuscripts // Free to submit // Open to writers in the Pacific Northwest
Fahmidan Digital Chapbooks 06/21 – 08/15
Poetry, short fiction manuscripts // Free to submit // Open to women and POC
Queen of Swords Magazine 06/15 – 08/17
Novel manuscripts // Free to submit // Open to all
Bellows Press currently open
Fiction manuscript excerpts // No theme // Free to submit // Open to all (priority to marginalized writers)
Master House Publishing currently open
Poetry manuscripts // No theme // Free to submit // Open to all
PANK currently open
Poetry, prose, experimental, hybrid // Fee: $15 // Open to all
Apocalypse Party Rolling submissions
Poetry, prose manuscripts // Free to submit // Open to all
Damaged Goods Press Rolling submissions
Poetry, Prose // No theme // Free to submit // Open to queer and trans // Chapbook and full-length manuscripts accepted
Disorder Press Rolling submissions
Poetry, Prose // No theme // Free to submit // Open to all
Half Mystic Press Rolling submissions
Poetry, novel(la), prose, drama, experimental manuscripts / Fee: $3 // Open to all
Red Hen Press Rolling submissions
Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction full-length manuscripts // No theme // $20 fee // Open to all
Revolutionary Press Rolling submissions
Anything book length // No theme // Free to submit // Open to all
Presses – Contest Submissions
Headmistress Press Charlotte Mew Contest 05/04 – 07/04
Poetry manuscripts // Fee between $12-20 // Open to lesbian identified writers
Blue Lynx Poetry Prize currently open – 07/15
Poetry full length manuscripts // Fee: $28 // Open to all US citizens, $2000 and publication as prize
Lupercalia Press 04/15 – 07/15
Poetry, Prose Manuscripts // Works that explore themes of transgender and queer sex/sexuality/excess/celebration // Free to submit // Open to LGBTQ writers
Harbor Review Chapbook Prize currently open – 07/31
Poetry // Fee: $10 // Open to women and non-binary writers, $200 prize and publication
Diode Editions Full-Length Book Contest 02/15 – 08/15
Poetry manuscripts // $20 fee // Open to writers 18+, prize is $1000 and publication
Iron Horse Literary Review Book Prize 06/15 – 08/15
Fiction, essay manuscripts // Fee: $15 // $1,000 prize and publication
Black Lawrence Press Book Award 07/01 – 08/31
Poetry, short fiction manuscripts // Fee: $25 // $1,000 prize and publication
BOA Editions Poetry Prize 08/01 – 11/30
Poetry manuscripts // Fee: $25 // $1,000 prize and publication
Applications and More
Chaotic Merge Magazine currently open
Poetry Editors, Staff Writers, Layout and Design Team
Coexist Lit currently open
Designers, Editors, Writers
EX/POST Magazine currently open in July
Readers, writers, social media managers, graphic designers, webmaster
Headcanon Magazine currently open
Columnists (volunteer position)
Gaudy Boy currently open
Publicity or Editorial Internships
Kenyon Review: Developmental Editing Fellowship for Emerging Writers 06/01 – 07/25
For writers over 21
Ogma Magazine currently open
Writers, Artists, Fashion Editors, Music Editors, Prose Editors, etc.
Ruminate Magazine currently open
Marketing Intern, pays $15/h
Sumou Magazine currently open
Staff writers, contributing artists
Giving Room Magazine Rolling applications
Staff writers, editors, creators
The Visceral Collective Rolling submissions
Editors, writers, social media managers