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Independent, biannual print magazine Passion: Poetry is seeking submissions for its inaugural issue (scheduled for September 2013). Accepting poetry, short creative pieces (1 page or less), photographs, and artistic images. Looking for passionate words and imagery that inspire and motivate. Deadline: July 31, 2013
Online journal Cactus Heart Literary Magazine (U.S.) seeks poetry, fiction, nonfiction, reviews, art & photos for e-Issue #5. Looking “your spiny, your sharp, your relentless… work coursing with energy and able to thrive in the harshest of places, while maintaining a vulnerable, succulent interior.” Deadline: July 1, 2013.
Online literature/arts magazine The Broken City (Toronto, ON) is currently accepting submissions for its summer 2013 edition: “Eat this magazine.” Looking for food-related poetry, fiction, essays, comics, illustrations, photography, and music/book reviews. Deadline: May 1, 2013. Non-paying.
New food-based magazine Toast Point Press (Canada) seeks submissions for its inaugural issue (June 2013). Looking for short fiction and prose (2500 words max.), poetry, drawings, and photography. Prefers the witty, thoughtful, unique, and engaging. Deadline: May 31, 2013. Website still under contruction.
Sweptmedia.ca, an online youth-culture magazine based in Toronto/GTA, is looking for original contributions in all print mediums: journalism, short fiction, poetry, etc. Also willing to consider other forms of visual communication modes: photography, painting, comic strips, etc.
New online magazine The Island Review (international) seeks submissions of poetry, short fiction, non-fiction, photography and art from islanders, island-lovers, and those whose work is influenced by islands, or explores ideas of islandness.
Annual journal Echolocation (University of Toronto) seeks submissions for Issue 13. Accept short fiction (1000-1500 words), flash fiction (500 words max.), poetry (3-5), artwork, and b&w photography. Seeks work by writers in and around Toronto, and from North America. Deadline: April 8, 2013.
Guidelines: https://echolocationmag.submittable.com/submit
Deadline updated. New online literary magazine AndWeWereHungry is open to entries for their inaugural short fiction contest: the Flying Elephants Short Story Prize. Grand prize: $2000. Also seeking other prose (flash fiction, literary nonfiction, poetry, & essay), photography, and visual artwork for the debut issue. Theme: “And we were hungry” or “hunger” (open to interpretation). Deadline: March 31, 2013. No entry fee.
Submissions are being accepted for an anthology “One Night: My 24 Hours with a Perfect Stranger” (publication: April 2013). Topics could include misguided adventures, one-night-stands, travel snafus, or any scenario that brings two people together only to separate them the next day. Submit poems, short stories, photographs, mixed media, and mediums that are suitable for print. Send e-mail submissions to Aleah Sato (aleahsato@hotmail.com). Include “One Night Submission” in the subject line. Deadline: March 1, 2013.
New online literary magazine and blog Hello Horror (US) welcomes submissions for their first issue. Looking for short fiction, poetry, photography, and visual art (including film) from writers and artists that “have a special knack for inducing goosebumps and raised hairs.” Deadline: January 31, 2013.