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New online literary journal Hamilton Review of Books (Canada) seeks queries and submissions for their debut and subsequent issues. Publishes book reviews (500-750 words) and essays (1500-5000 words) on literary subjects. No fees to submit. Pays an honorarium of $50 per book review and $75 per essay. Deadline: ongoing.
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Wanted: Your controversial & radical, unhinged & bizarre
The Matador Review, an online literature and art quarterly based in Chicago, is accepting work for their third issue (Winter 2017 publication). Looking for poetry, fiction, flash fiction, translations, and creative nonfiction. Identifies as an “alternative” magazine with the purpose to to promote work that is thought-provoking and unconventional. Deadline: November 30, 2016.
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Seeking unique, vulnerable, and even humorous fiction
Cat on a Leash Review seeks submissions for their second issue. Looking for short fiction (1000-2500 words) and flash fiction (1000 words max.). Deadline: December 15, 2016.
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Paying journal seeks Halloween writing
Independent literary and arts publication The Quilliad (Toronto) seeks writing and art for their October issue. Theme: Halloween. Looking for literary science fiction, apocalyptic stories and poetry, retold/re-imagined fairy tales/folklore/myths, horror, dark or strange art, and other spooky, speculative, or macabre work. Payment: $13 honorarium, contributor copy, and free launch admission. Deadline: September 30, 2016.
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Witchiness and mischievery wanted for new online journal
What Fresh Witch Is This?, a feminist publishing platform for new writing devoted to the strange, the transgressive, and the mischievous, seeks submissions for their debut issue. Looking for fiction and creative non-fiction (4000 words max.), flash fiction (70-500 words), poetry and/or spells, and visual projects. Them: place and precarity. Deadline: September 30, 2016.
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Looking for work from under-25ers
Second Star Magazine is looking for submissions for its second issue. Looking for fiction (up to 3000 words), short excerpts from unpublished novels, short one act plays or screenplays, and visual art/photography from writers under the age of 25. Deadline: October 31, 2016.
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L.A. journal seeks submissions
Biannual journal Lunch Ticket (California) is accepting submissions for the Winter/Spring 2017 issue. Publishes fiction, flash, creative nonfiction, poetry, YA 13+, and visual art. like work that sparks conversation about social justice and community activism. Deadline: October 31, 2016.
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Seeking submissions that use these three words
Quarterly online magazine 3Elements Review is accepting submissions for Issue 13. The following three words must be used the submission: Thread, Glaze, and Murmur. Accepts poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Issue will be released January 1. Deadline: October 31, 2016.
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Wanted: Writing that digs deep, sacrifices something
The Sacrificial seeks concise, original, dark, humorous, twisted, and insensitively-sensitive works. Accepts short stories, poetic prose, dialogues, commentaries, etc. Length: 500 words. Deadline: Ongoing.
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Got grit? This literary rodeo needs you
The Round Up Zine is currently looking for shorts, poems and art for their fall edition. Prefers work that is edgy, dark and transgressive, gritty, or off-the-beaten-path. Deadline: September 30, 2016.
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Wanted: Your gut punch fiction
Blue Skirt Productions is looking for stories that are emotional, philosophical, and transgressive that leave the reader feeling punched in the gut. Looking for short stories (100-3,000 words) to publish on our website, and novels and novellas to publish through their press. Deadline: rolling.
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Poetry & prose wanted for 24-day chapbook series
Platypus Press (UK) invites submissions for a special project, 2412: “Twenty-four mini-digital-chapbooks, one per day, through the first 24 days of December.” Seeking prose (1500 words max) and poetry (up to 5 poems of no more than 30 lines each). The mini-chapbooks will be available digitally and free for everyone. Deadline: September 30, 2016.
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Paying queer mag wants your subtle, brash & unrelenting
Plenitude Magazine seeks writing by LGBTTQ of all ages, gender, colour, and ability. Plenitude aims to complicate expressions of queerness through the publication of diverse, sophisticated literary writing. Interested in literary fiction, non-fiction and poetry from both emerging and established writers. Deadline: ongoing.
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Wanted: Writing by women about home & away
Understorey Magazine seeks submissions for Issue 9: Home and Away. Send poetry, prose or spoken word on arrival and departure, acceptance and exclusion, displacement and settlement, or other topics related to home as a country, nation, community, land or state of mind. Open to Canadian writers who identify as women. Strives to publish underrepresented voices and experiences and lean toward personal stories. Small honorarium for accepted work. Deadline: December 1, 2016.
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UK mag seeks writing — Ekphrastic and not
Long Exposure Magazine (UK) is seeking submissions of poetry and flash fiction under 700 words for their fourth issue. Accepts writing on any theme or subject. Of particular interest: work in the Ekphrastic genre or that engages in some way with the visual arts. Deadline: September 30, 2016.
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Looking for contributors on mental health topics (unpaid)
SickNotWeak is looking for writers in the following areas: current issues, LGTBQIA topics, Aboriginal mental health, holistic and self-care, & student mental health. Accepts freelance pieces, but are looking to expand their roster of regular writers (bi-weekly/monthly articles). Also interested in mental health video blogs and podcasts. Deadline: Ongoing. Note: Positions are currently unpaid.
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Wanted: distinct voices with clear sweeping visions (pays)
87 Bedford is a young literary short story magazine and online curator of creative content. Seeking submissions of short fiction, micro/flash fiction, serial fiction, poetry, spoken-word, art & photography, and other amalgams of creative media. Prefers stories to have a literary bent but “that shouldn’t exclude compelling genre-y tales of passion, mystery or the speculative.” No submission fees. Pays $10 per short story, $5 for everything else. Deadline: ongoing.
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Wanted: Writing about music, the Saudade
The Half Mystic seeks submissions for Issue II: Saudade. “Saudade embodies the drifting photograph – the ache so tender-willing – the shards of bitter-soft yearning just before the fall.” Open to pieces of up to 3000 words, as well as music submissions. Deadline: ongoing, until sufficient submissions received.
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Publisher seeks literary fiction manuscripts
Independent ebook publisher Moby Books (Canada) is looking for novels, novellas, and short story collections by emerging and established authors. Authors can submit full length manuscripts or partial queries for consideration. Payment and contract based on a print publishing model. Deadline: ongoing.
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Print & online journal seeks poetry & prose
The Cossack Review is looking for submissions of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, flash fiction and works in translation for their next print and online issues. Send 3-6 poems, one story, or one essay. Especially interested in thoughtful, diverse work.