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3:AM
Genres: Fiction, Poetry, Reviews
Format: Online
About: Publishing flash fiction, poetry, interviews, and criticism online.
Submission Window(s): 1st of February and 1st of September
404 INK
Genres: Fiction, Poetry, Reviews
Format: Print
About: 404 Ink founded in 2016 with the view that publishing could be a little louder. Their goal is to support new and emerging writers’ careers and publish work that personally excites us. They believe in publishing fewer titles – books and literary magazines – and making as much noise as possible about each.
Submission Window(s): Submissions are currently closed
The A3 Review & Press
Genres: Fiction, Poetry, Art
Format: Print
About: The A3 Press publishes chapbooks and The A3Review, an international literary and art magazine.
Submission Window(s): Submissions open May 1st, 2020
Ambit
Genres: Fiction, Poetry, Artwork
Format: Print
About: Ambit is a 96-page quarterly literary and art magazine. It is created in London, published in the UK, and read internationally. It’s available through subscription, in selected bookshops, and in libraries worldwide.
Submission Window(s): 1st of February and 1st of September
Allegro Poetry
Genres: Poetry
Format: Online
About: Allegro Poetry Magazine aims to publish the best contemporary poetry. March and September issues are for general poems and June and December for poems on a set theme.
Submission Window(s): 1 March – 30 April, 1 June – 31 July, 1 September – 31 October, 1 December – 31 January.
Bare Fiction
Genres: Fiction, Poetry
Format: Print, Online
About: Publishing new writing in an A4 magazine 3 times a year.
Submission Window(s): Submissions are currently closed
Belle Ombre
Genres: Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry
Format: Online, Print annually
About: Belle Ombre was founded in 2017. They are committed to publishing work by emerging writers in fiction and non-fiction, poetry and the arts, alongside well-known and experienced names.
Submission Window(s): Anytime
Brick
Genres: Non-fiction
Format: Print
About: Brick is an international literary journal published twice a year out of Toronto. With a focus on literary non-fiction—and a willingness to stray when their hearts are taken—the magazine prizes the personal voice and celebrates life, art, and the written word with the most invigorating and challenging essays, interviews, translations, memoirs, belles lettres, and unusual musings they can get their hands-on.
Submission Window(s): September 1 – October 31, March 1 – April 30
Carve Magazine
Genres: Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry
Format: Online, Print
About: Carve was founded in 2000 to publish short stories online and has hosted the annual Raymond Carver Short Story Contest since 2001. Print and digital quarterly issues began in 2012 and feature their signature HONEST FICTION, poetry, nonfiction, interviews, illustrations, and more. The editors, staff, and volunteers who help the magazine thrive are based all over the world.
Submission Window(s): Anytime
The Cabinet of Heed
Genres: Fiction, Poetry
Format: Online, Print
About: The Cabinet of Heed is a multi-drawered piece of furniture that grows hungry at various times of the year. The only way to sate The Cabinet’s hunger is to feed it great writing.
Submission Window(s): Various times during the year
The Compass
Genres: Poetry
Format: Online
About: The Compass is an issue-based online poetry magazine, edited by Lindsey Holland. It is published twice a year and the content for each issue is slow-released over a ten to fourteen-day period, allowing time and space for each poem, review, and feature.
Submission Window(s): Anytime
Ellipsis Zine
Genres: Fiction, Creative Non-fiction
Format: Online, Print
About: Ellipsis Zine is an online literary magazine for beautifully written fiction & creative nonfiction. 1,000 words or fewer, any genre.
Submission Window(s): Anytime
Etre
Genres: Fiction, Poetry
Format: Online
About: Their mission in two parts: 1. To curate and simplify access to powerful content for the viewing pleasure of their audience. 2. Give exposure to budding artists.
Submission Window(s): Anytime
The Fiction Desk
Genres: Short fiction
Format: Print
About: The Fiction Desk is an independent publishing house based in the UK. They exist to encourage and promote new short stories, primarily through our series of new writing anthologies. They feature work from across the English-speaking world, as well as the occasional translated story.
Submission Window(s): Anytime.
The Forge Literary Magazine
Genres: Short fiction
Format: Online
About: The Forge Literary Magazine was founded by volunteers from the Fiction Forge, an international online writers’ forum. They publish one short prose piece every Monday.
Submission Window(s): Anytime.
Foxglove
Genres: Poetry
Format: Online
About: Foxglove Journal is a new and exciting haven for poetry and short fiction. They showcase work that thrills, comforts and stimulates.
Submissions Window(s): Submissions are currently closed.
Frogmore Papers
Genres: Fiction, Poetry, Artwork
Format: Print
About: The Frogmore Press was founded by André Evans and Jeremy Page at the Frogmore Tea Rooms in Folkestone in 1983. The Press has published hundreds of writers in its now bi-annual magazine The Frogmore Papers, and also in individual collections and anthologies. Early work by numerous writers who have gone on to consolidate their reputations elsewhere appeared in the magazine.
Submission Window(s): October 1-31 to 1-31 April
Granta
Genres: Poetry, Short Fiction, Non-fiction
Format: Print, Online
About: From Nobel laureates to debut novelists, international translations to investigative journalism, each themed issue of Granta turns the attention of the world’s best writers on to one aspect of the way we live now.
Submission Window(s): 19 January until 19 February 2020
Hobart
Genres: Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry
Format: Print, Online
About: Hobart was founded in 2001 by Aaron Burch. Initially, Hobart was a web journal, co-edited by Mike McGowan. In 2002, Aaron expanded Hobart to include an annual print issue in addition to the website.
Submission Window(s): Quarterly
Lighthouse
Genres: Poetry, Short fiction
Format: Print
About: Lighthouse is a journal published quarterly to give space and support to new talent. They look to publish the best short fiction and poetry emerging from the UK writing scene.
Submission Window(s): Various times during the year.
Litro
Genres: Short Fiction
Format: Print, Online
About: The online platform accompanies the monthly print edition and is now a fully-fledged literary and creative arts platform a place for readers, writers, and the broader creative community to discuss various aspects of literature, fiction, arts and culture through features, reviews, non-themed fiction, interviews, columns and more.
Submission Window(s): Anytime
The London Magazine
Genres: Poetry, Short fiction
Format: Print, Online
About: The London Magazine is England’s oldest literary periodical, with a history stretching back to 1732. Today – reinvigorated for a new century – the Magazine’s essence remains unchanged: it is a home for the best writing and an indispensable feature on the British literary landscape.
Submission Window(s): Various times during the year.
The Moth Magazine
Genres: Poetry, Short fiction
Format: Print
About: Founded in June 2010, The Moth is a quarterly printed arts & literature magazine featuring poetry, short fiction, and art by established and up-and-coming writers and artists.
Submission Window(s): Anytime
Mslexia
Genres: Poetry, Short fiction
Format: Print, Online
About: Mslexia are committed to helping women writers progress and succeed, through our quarterly magazine, women’s writing weekend and annual writing competitions.
Submission Window(s): Anytime
The Nottingham Review
Genres: Short Fiction, Flash Fiction
Format: Print, Online
About: The Nottingham Review is an international short story and flash fiction journal, published online.
Submission Window(s): Anytime
Open Pen
Genres: Fiction
Format: Print
About: Their aim is to create a print publication that is both interesting and relevant, and encourages growth within their talented, fertile, literary underbelly. They are a platform for up-and-coming writers from all backgrounds, with a particular interest in working-class writers.
Submission Window(s): Three times a year
Popshot
Genres: Fiction, Poetry, Flash
Format: Print
About: Popshot is an illustrated literary magazine that publishes short stories, flash fiction, and poetry from the literary new blood.
Submission Window(s): Four times a year
The Puritan
Genres: Short Fiction, Poetry
Format: Online
About: The Puritan is one of Canada’s premier online literary magazines. Based in Toronto, and founded in late 2006.
Submission Window(s): Anytime
Riggwelter
Genres: Short Fiction, Poetry, Scripts, Visual Art, Experimental, Essays, Reviews
Format: Online, Print
About: Riggwelter is a journal of creative arts founded by Amy Kinsman in 2017. It releases an issue once a month, containing poetry, short fiction, visual art, and experimental media. Riggwelter also releases reviews and essays on an as and when basis. In 2018, Riggwelter was shortlisted for a Saboteur Award for Best Magazine.
Submission Window(s): Currently closed for submissions
Storgy
Genres: Fiction, Poetry, Comics
Format: Print, Online
About: STORGY seeks to publish and promote exceptional literary fiction whilst providing authors with the opportunity to reach a wider literary audience.
Submission Window(s): Anytime
Structo
Genres: Fiction, Poetry, Comics
Format: Print
About: Twice a year they produce a print issue containing remarkable new short stories and poetry from all around the world, alongside essays and interviews with authors and others.
Submission Window(s): Currently closed for submissions
Spry
Genres: Short Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry, Artwork, Flash
Format: Online
About: Spry is a literary journal that features undiscovered and established writers’ concise, experimental, hybrid, modern, vintage or just plain vulnerable writing.
Submission Window(s): Anytime
The Stinging Fly
Genres: Short Fiction, Poetry
Format: Print, Online
About: The Stinging Fly magazine was established in 1997 to seek out, publish and promote the very best new Irish and international writing.
Submission Window(s): December 2nd 2019 until midnight on January 16th 2020.
Token Magazine
Genres: Short Fiction, Poetry
Format: Print
About: TOKEN Magazine is a bi-annual literature and arts print magazine which launched in May 2017. The name comes from the experience of tokenism that underrepresented groups often face. This includes people of colour, LGBT+, those with disabilities, and other minority groups.
Submission Window(s): Submissions are currently closed
Untitled: Voices
Genres: Fiction, Poetry, Articles, Essays, Experimental Writing
Format: Online
About: Untitled: Voices is an online journal working to amplify the work done by underrepresented writers around the world.
Submission Window(s): Submissions are open until March 19.
Wasafiri Magazine
Genres: Fiction, Poetry, Academic Articles, Essays, Interviews, Book Reviews
Format: Online, Print
About: Wasafirihas become the UK’s leading magazine for international contemporary writing. Launched in 1984, it is now renowned for publishing some of the world’s most distinguished writers including Chinua Achebe, Kamau Brathwaite, Anita and Kiran Desai, Sam Selvon, Nadine Gordimer, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Michael Ondaatje, Vikram Seth, Nayantara Sahgal, Gillian Slovo and Ben Okri amongst many others.
Submission Window(s): 6 January 2020 to 8 May 2020.
The White Review
Genres: Fiction, Poetry, Essays
Format: Print, Online
About: The White Review is an arts and literature quarterly magazine, with triannual print and monthly online editions. The magazine launched in February 2011 to provide ‘a space for a new generation to express itself unconstrained by form, subject or genre’, and publishes fiction, essays, interviews with writers and artists, poetry, and series of artworks.
Submission Window(s): 1 March 2020, and close on 1 June 2020.
Wig Leaf
Genres: Short Fiction
Format: Online
About: Publishes very short fiction of under 1000 words.
Submission Window(s): Submissions are currently closed
Visual Verse
Genres: Short fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry, Artwork
Format: Online
About: Each month they supply a compelling image and invite writers – published or unpublished – to submit a piece in response.
Submission Window(s): Monthly
Wildness
Genres: Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry
Format: Online
About: Wildness was founded by Michelle Tudor and Peter Barnfather in 2015, and operates as an imprint of Platypus Press.
Submission Window(s): Quarterly