Chill Subs Menu of Pushcart Nom Noms (30 lit mags that nominate)

December 7, 2022

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Chill Subs

Hungry for some nom noms? Maybe you’ve woken up in the middle of the night with some tummy grumblies and decided that a little bit of Pushcart would hit the spot. So you wander over to the newly opened Chill Subs to see what they’ve got cookin’.

Welcome! Soon, we will be adding nominations to all literary magazines listings in our database. For now, we’ve put together this little tasting menu of literary magazines who nominate for Pushcart Prizes (and many also nominate for Best of the Net, Wigleaf, and more).

* Are you a journal that nominates not on this list? Email us and we’ll add you.

Enjoy your nom noms:

1) The Adroit Journal

The Adroit Journal

"We’re looking for work that’s bizarre, authentic, subtle, outrageous, indefinable, raw, paradoxical. We’ve got our eyes on the horizon. Send us writing that lives just between the land and the sky."

Twitter followers

2) Afternoon Visitor

Afternoon Visitor

"We want work that investigates and divines, that searches out and wants. We’re looking for accidental visitors, harbingers, and spectres."

Twitter followers

3) Archetype: A Literary Journal

Archetype: A Literary Journal

"A Toronto-based artistic and literary journal that strives to publish creative work—essays, poetry, fiction, interviews, reviews, photography, art—that reminds us of what it’s like to be made of flesh."

Twitter followers

4) Baltimore Review

Baltimore Review

"The mission of The Baltimore Review is to showcase Baltimore as a literary hub of diverse writing and promote the work of emerging and established writers."

Twitter followers

5) Bending Genres

Bending Genres

"We seek thrilling, fanciful, oddball, unusual, stunning fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction pieces. Think Olympics on a case of Red Bull. Think October in April. Think Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey."

Twitter followers

6) Better Than Starbucks

Better Than Starbucks

"A quarterly journal, online and in print, which publishes an eclectic selection of creative writing, including poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Submissions are open year round."

Twitter followers

7) Blink-Ink

Blink-Ink

"A quarterly print journal publishing the best in stories of approximately 50 words since 2009"

Twitter followers

8) BULLSHIT LIT

BULLSHIT LIT

"Your shitty prose, fucked-up line breaks, abandoned sketches, nonsensical plots, and so on. Everybody else wants your best—we want your worst."

Twitter followers

9) Chaotic Merge

Chaotic Merge

"We seek work that is adventurous and test the border of art and structure. Don’t be afraid to mess with everything you have ever learned in your lives. We write to have fun!"

2 weeks - 3 months

Twitter followers

10) Chestnut Review (*note: submission fee for longer pieces (1k-5k words) or extra poems (4-6 per packet): $5)

Chestnut Review

"Our mission is to provide a literary home to stubborn artists and writers. We believe literary markets should be open to everyone, and we are passionate about holding the door open for all writers who wish to enter ours."

Twitter followers

11) Cobra Milk

Cobra Milk

"Cobra Milk invites you to get weird, get vulnerable, and get at us with the work you want to bring into the world. "

2 weeks - 3 months

Twitter followers

12) CRAFT Literary (*note: accept previously published work)

CRAFT Literary

"CRAFT explores the art of prose, celebrating both emerging and established writers. We focus on the craft of writing and how the elements of craft make a good story or essay shine."

Twitter followers

13) fifth wheel press

fifth wheel press

"An independent community-focused publisher of art and writing by queer, trans, and gender non-conforming creatives."

Twitter followers

14) Hippocampus Magazine

Hippocampus Magazine

"An exclusively online publication set out to entertain, educate and engage writers and readers of creative nonfiction. Each issue features memoir excerpts, personal essays, reviews, interviews and craft articles."

Twitter followers

15) Identity Theory

Identity Theory

"An online literary magazine and cultural hub that has been publishing original writing, interviews, and other forms of creative expression since July 2000."

Twitter followers

16) The Lumiere Review (*note: accept work previously posted on personal blogs/social media)

The Lumiere Review

"We are intrigued by the inextinguishable sparks of truth and connection, the effervescent meddling of narrative, and the luminous creations that expand on perceptions of genre, language, and form. After all, we aspire to be the brightest magazine around."

Twitter followers

17) Okay Donkey

Okay Donkey

"At OKD Magazine, we like to read the odd, the off-kilter, and the just plain weird. We like things that are funny, things that are sad, and things that are funny and sad at the same time."

Twitter followers

18) Papeachu Press

Papeachu Press

"A feminist small press publishing the works of women & nonbinary creators. We publish the works we believe in & believe in the people we publish. Our mission is to see more inclusive work on bookstore shelves & in the hands of young readers & in the homes of everyone we both know & don't."

Twitter followers

19) Sans. PRESS

Sans. PRESS

"We are a collective of friends who are in love with telling stories, and who are passionate about sharing them. We are united in our passion for finding new voices, new narratives, new ways of seeing and sharing the world"

Twitter followers

20) Sky Island Journal (*note: submission fee: $4.99)

Sky Island Journal

"An independent, international, free-access literary journal. Our mission is to provide readers around the world with a powerful, focused, advertising-free literary experience that transports them: one that challenges them intellectually and moves them emotionally."

Twitter followers

21) Split Lip Magazine

Split Lip Magazine

"A literary journal that’s totally bonkers-in-love with voice-driven writing, pop culture, and the kind of honesty that gets you right in the kidneys."

Twitter followers

22) Stanchion

Stanchion

"This humble literary zine also stands ready to shine a light onto deft skill, a soft touch, and if lucky, a thunderbolt you won’t see coming."

Twitter followers

23) A Thin Slice of Anxiety (*note: accept previously published work)

A Thin Slice of Anxiety

"An independent publication which strives to nurture and promote the best up-and-coming writers of our generation. Writers who are brave enough to guide us into places of amalgamation where the unplumbed depths of the known are made and unmade."

Twitter followers

24) trampset

trampset

"A literary journal, trampset publishes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry on a rolling basis. We welcome diverse voices, including writers working outside academia."

Twitter followers