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

BULLSHIT LIT

Submissions of  poetry, prose, art, and photography that deal in some way with money, work, class, or capitalism are welcome.

Prolit

We like the absurd, the heartbreaking, the hysterical. We like rejection letters, fiction, poetry, CNF, hybrid, whatever.

Rejection Letters

Our goal is to showcase the work of independent and up-and-coming artists and authors in communities around the world.

Fine Print Press

Its editorial tastes are broad, but in all cases it looks for craft in making and freshness of sensibility. Unlike many journals, SLANT looks favorably upon traditional verse forms and narrative poetry.

Slant

We adore, promote and publish the weird and wonderful work of artists and poets that melt the minds of the mainstream.

the6ress

Twelve poems each month— Kissing Dynamite curates compact issues that honor the thematic threads presented by contributing poets.

Kissing Dynamite

We like pieces that are intimate, pieces that challenge the status quo, pieces that our readers will be thinking about when they are driving home late at night. We like humor, especially when that humor serves a bigger purpose.

South Broadway Ghost Society

We are an upcoming international literary magazine hoping to amplify the voices of marginalized communities through creative art forms. Every issue published centers around a specific social issue we wish to combat.

The Global Youth Review

Providing a home for poetry, art, and photography. All artists retain full rights to their work.

High Shelf

SPAM aims to publish exciting poetry that speaks to the post-internet generation. We welcome any type of content that may be deemed 'poetic' in the 21st century.

SPAM

A literary magazine all about censorship. We take inspiration from the little magazines of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. We welcome poetry, prose and visual art, as experimental as they come!

C*nsorship Magazine

What we like: Punchy brevity. Frogs. Pieces that feel like a soft, retro filter. Desert grunge. Midwest indie.

Blue River Review

elsewhere cares only about the line / no line. We want short prose works (flash fiction, prose poetry, nonfiction) that cross, blur, and/or mutilate genre. We publish only six writers quarterly. Give us your homeless, your animals, your lunch money: we're hungry.

elsewhere

We encourage broad interpretations of what the idea or image of an empty house might evoke. This includes but is not limited to writing about home, landscape, place, memory, and of course, the atmosphere of previously inhabited spaces.

Empty House Press

Established in 1990 at the University of Idaho, Fugue biannually publishes poetry, fiction, essays, hybrid work, and visual art from established and emerging writers and artists.

Fugue

In a world filled with Jolly Ranchers, G*Mob is a Warhead.

G*MOB

We want unique voices and risky writing; send your predictable stuff to those hoary old journals who’ve been printing the same thing since 1970. Professors and baristas will receive equal consideration. Sonnets and memes will receive equal consideration. If it is excellent and gives us the feels, we’ll print it.

Pacifica Literary Review

Paperbag is interested in presenting larger bodies of poetry, visual art, sound, collaboration, and experiment from established and emerging writers and artists throughout the world.

Paperbag

Pigeon Pages is a literary space where emerging and established writers from all backgrounds are encouraged to nest together. We seek to champion voices that are not always allowed to sing loudly.

Pigeon Pages

Press Pause is a literary magazine with zero social media presence. We want to create an online (and real-life) place away from the usual spaces—a primarily quiet place. 

Press Pause Press

We are committed to bringing the best in contemporary art and poetry to our readers at no cost.

Sixth Finch

We aim for content that reminds us that our lenses matter—they focus, distort, clarify, conceal. We value and emphasize relationships between the literary and visual arts, pairing the majority of the pieces we publish with original work from a variety of contributing visual artists.

THE SPECTACLE

Our mission is to publish literature and visual art illustrating diversity in thought and experience, capturing the crucial narratives and images of our current cultural moment, as well as awareness of the shifting edges of genre.

Watershed Review

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

Cobra Milk

Near Window is a zine about having a view out/in through a window. I wanted to make something that was a space for softness, for emotional vulnerability, for weirdness, and openness. Near Window is about opening up, and about getting a different perspective.

Near Window

We want writing that doesn't really fit elsewhere, those about waking up and walking and how clouds look strange. Even a thought that just bopped across your mind.

Neuro Logical Magazine

WE VALUE the insides of things, vivisection, urgency, risk, elegance, flamboyance, work that moves us, language that does something new, or does something old--well. We like iteration and reiteration. Ruins and ghosts. Mechanical, moving parts, balloons, and frenzy. Buzz us.

Diagram

Before you submit to the Furious Gazelle, ask yourself the following about your submission: Does it have a good story? Is it compulsively readable? Are you a living human being who has written some words? If you answered “yes” to any of those questions, we encourage you to submit.

The Furious Gazelle

Publishes original poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and visual artwork, and feature a blend of emerging and established voices. Ranked as one of the 25 Fastest Fiction & Poetry Markets in Duotrope's database.

The Penn Review

A literary journal that has been edited and published by students in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Mary Washington since 2013.

The Rappahannock Review

handmade books | online publications | tapes

Spork Press

One of the famous “little magazines” that have been the traditional seed beds of talented writers and contributed so much to the nation’s cultural and artistic life.

North Dakota Quarterly

Seeks film, TV, music, video games, and all pop culture-related submissions of previously unpublished fiction, nonfiction, poetry, lists, reviews, quizzes, and comics

The Daily Drunk

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.

Bending Genres

HOLYFLEA! is an online magazine dedicated to the weird and writing with strong voices. We like short things, longer short things and straight up long things that would otherwise just stay in your documents because you weren’t sure what else to do with it.

HOLYFLEA!

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.

Stanchion

Crows are known and beloved for bringing their human friends shiny gifts. We at Crow Name see your writing as the most gorgeous bric-a-brac glinting in the sun and we want to share its blinding glory with everyone!

Crow Name

The staff of Grub Street is committed to supporting emerging writers in the development of their work and will work with submitters personally to help them realize their artistic goals.

Grub Street

We welcome the literary, the weird, the disobedient, and the avant-garde. Send us poems that make claims we can’t stop chewing on and stories that reframe the ordinary. If you have work in hybrid genres, send that, too!

Many Nice Donkeys

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!

Chaotic Merge

Submit your stuff! I can’t wait to see your stories, essays, poems, interviews, comics, reviews, etc. Aim for 1500 words or fewer, but no one’s really counting.

Little Engines

What we’re looking for: weird, outsider works of fiction or poetry, non-fiction articles and multimedia experiments, games of all kinds, and other strange, terrible shit.

Misery Tourism

We’re seeking personal essay, memoir, confessional poetry, curated journal/diary, curated letters/e-mail, hybrid explorations of the self, and any writing that makes art from your life.

autofocus

Hooligan functions as a deeply personal process that stems from a passion for creating, storytelling and critical thought -- and being a platform for artists who continue to shift the paradigms and structures in which we live under.

Hooligan Mag

We had an idea for a journal that, like most things Hobart-related, started as something of a joke... until it became a real thing. If submissions are open, we've probably had a couple drinks. We're Hobart After Dark. Best source of parenting content on the internet.

A small literary journal publishing pieces that sing. Submit and see if we like your tune! Always seeking weird and wonderful work.

Corvus Review

We want poetry from the margins, words that open new space without closing off recurring possibilities. There's no one type of poem that we prefer of the other, although we're often interested in poetry that doesn't necessarily know it's poetry. We are looking to be moved by the beauty in what is common.

Hobart

brave voices magazine is a literary & arts magazine that started in 2018. we aim to publish work from marginalized individuals about the human experience.

Brave Voices

Give us pieces of the puzzle. Skip the haunting - give us what’s beyond it. We want: no-context stories, experimental poetry, form-altering CNF, writing we can hear.

Twin Pies Literary

Fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry––all of it weird

Longleaf Review

Barrelhouse bridges the gap between serious art and pop culture. It's a biannual print journal featuring fiction, poetry, interviews, and essays about music, art, and the detritus of popular culture.

Barrelhouse

We strive to promote the tremendous cultural diversity of contemporary American literature, alongside international voices both in English and in translation.

Waxwing Literary Journal

Willow Springs publishes work by unknown and up and coming writers, and by U.S. Poet Laureates and Pulitzer Prize winners, engaging our readers in an ongoing discussion of art, ideas, and the human experience.

Willow Springs

Electric Literature’s second weekly magazine, The Commuter, is publishing strange and diverting poetry, flash fiction, and graphic narratives every Monday.

Electric Lit

We aren't the pub to send your best work to. We want your cringeworthy, embarrassing, "dollar store" writing.

Dollar Store Magazine

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.

The Lumiere Review

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

Identity Theory

A chill place for weird indie lit on the internet and in print. We like stuff that explores the strangeness in the mundane and usually stuff that references junk food or shitty beer.

Back Patio Press

An ad–free independent space for writers & their work

Neutral Spaces

A quarterly art and lit, online and printed magazine prioritizing traditionally marginalized creators, but open to all

The Bitchin’ Kitsch

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

trampset

We are looking for work the reader can interact with or influence in some way

the voidspace

Nostalgia, trauma, & painful memories in 500 words or less. Single weekly pubs. Sporadic sub windows. Make us bleed—emotionally

CLOVES

Stories that examine the truth in the bitterness, in the anti-heroes. Heavy stories full of grit and discomfort that shed sympathetic light on the questionable, the unfavorable. Stories that ask difficult questions, that provide difficult answers. 

Reservoir Road Literary Review

X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine’s vision is to publish uncomfortable, entertaining, and unforgettable prose that shines brighter than the skeleton in your body, prose that sees through the skin and reveals something deeper

X-R-A-Y

Maudlin House is a bridge between new form fiction and experimental lit that takes on mainstream pop culture through the lens of 21st-century indie art

Maudlin House

We aim to showcase poetry and prose with sincere intentions, works that forgo aesthetic goals and academic conventions to offer an honest perspective to others. We seek writing that lives in the labor, takes long breaths, words that still have the dirt in them. 

Olney

An online journal committed to publishing new flash fiction

Jellyfish Review

Is this real? A joke? A literary psy-op? We don’t fully know. We just decided to write about Taco Bell. We are absolutely not affiliated with Taco Bell and make no profits. We can’t even get extra sauce in the drive-thru.

Taco Bell Quarterly

Quarterly literary magazine founded in 1953

The Paris Review

Unparalleled reporting and commentary on politics and culture, plus humor and cartoons, fiction and poetry, reviews, and criticism

The New Yorker

An independent literary organization committed to a vigorous presence for poetry in our culture

Poetry

A common space for showcasing and celebrating African literary and visual art

Agbowó

The online literary magazine produced by creative writing and web design students at Arizona State University. We publish Art, Fiction, Interviews, Nonfiction, and Poetry.

Superstition Review

An online literary and arts journal produced by graduate students in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Louisiana State University

New Delta Review

An independent nonprofit publisher of an eponymous award-winning literary, arts, and culture magazine, and A Public Space Books

A Public Space

A literary journal. Established 2009 (as The Collagist)

The Rupture

An arts organisation and literary magazine trying to build a community and a safe space for conversations around mental health

ayaskala

We’re looking for poetry that plumbs the strange and beautiful, surprises us with new perspectives of what language does, and overwhelms us with duende. Traditional form or wildly experimental, blank verse or free, we want you to woo us within an inch of our lives. 

The Broadkill Review

We’re a literary journal for pattern-finders

Pareidolia Literary

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

Sans. PRESS

we want to read poetry and fiction that surprises us, makes us laugh, looks downright weird and is a little out of the ordinary. so if your writing is a bit of an outcast, then join us, support us and keep returning to the cake.

streetcake magazine

Seeking the wonderful and the bizarre, the beautiful and the dark. Home to all things dark and lovely. 

Crow & Cross Keys

We are a magazine that showcases compelling, accessible, and culturally relevant work–anything the mainstream is ignoring, we'll want it. We seek to offer an authentic reflection of the contemporary, and most importantly, to uplift marginalized voices in a fascinating and brutally honest way.

Defunkt Magazine

we're a ~new~ biannual poetry chapbook specializing in LGBT+ and feminist poetry. 💀🔥

Trouble Maker Fire Starter

Literature magazine celebrating the weird, the other, imaginary worlds, horror, uncanny, monsters, folklore & more

The Wild Hunt

The best new gothic writing and art. We'll take the dark, the sacrilegious, and all of that good stuff that opens mouths and wounds.

Wrongdoing Magazine

Online lit mag with a yearly print anthology Subs open year-round✨

Overheard

An online literary arts magazine for artists from the American South

Susurrus

Annulet: A Journal of Poetics is an online journal featuring literary criticism, poetry, and prose. New forum for closely reading.

Annulet

Literary journal inspired by the visual arts. First issue April. Fiction, poetry & creative non-fic inspired by encounters with art.

DEGENERATE ART literary journal

Singapore-based online literary magazine dedicated to the sweet, the sour, and the bitter

Yuzu Press

perhappened lives for your uncertain & surreal. we crave the frayed edge of memory. we embrace all styles & genres of writing & have no word limits or submission fees.

perhappened

We focus on publishing writing for and by writers ages 10 & up. We offer free feedback on all submissions (we have a no feedback option as well) and publish a variety of writers from the start of their writing journey to those with books and collections.

Ember: A Journal of Luminous Things

Process-focused poetry journal. Personal feedback on all subs. We esp. like minimal, direct stuff.

Zero Readers

A good-looking biannual black & white indie literary arts journal that has been in print since 2009.

Gigantic Sequins

An LGBTQ+ journal and press, but much more than that—we publish powerful, intersectional writing that queers our perspectives.

Foglifter

Lost Balloon publishes flash fiction, flash nonfiction, and prose poetry (1,000 words or less)

Lost Balloon

We desire to create a space where stellar artists can express themselves unapologetically, free from any oppressive, earthly confines. Our goal is to expand the boundaries of art, orbit any topic, and travel to unexplored frontiers.

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