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Full details Contemporary Verse 2 accepts only online submissions for consideration. We no longer accept mail or email submissions. Please use the link at the bottom of this page to submit. Send any questions or concerns regarding the online submission process to submissions@contemporaryverse2.ca . Note that CV2's reading period runs from Sept 1 through May 31. CV2 does not accept submissions from June 1 through August 31. Submission Guidelines Any submissions that do not follow correct guidelines or do not include full contact information will not be considered for publication and will not receive a reply. Please read the submission guidelines before sending us your work. Submit your work using the link below. Editorial Aim and Policy Contemporary Verse 2 is a quarterly literary journal that publishes poetry and critical writing about poetry, including interviews, articles, essays, and reviews. It is our policy to publish new writing by both emerging and estab...

Full details Litbreak is open for submissions year-round but with a limit of fifty unpaid submissions per month. Please submit from the first of the month onward if you are shut out of the previous month. We accept submissions only through Submittable. Submissions received any other way will be marked as spam. Please read our submissions policy carefully before submitting anything. Litbreak Magazine , founded in December of 2015 by Jason Chambers and edited by Dennis Haritou, publishes a wide mix of literary fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. We also publish novel excerpts. The novel must not be scheduled for publication, or be published. We aim to present as diverse a mix as possible of geographic area, gender and ethnicity. All work submitted must be previously unpublished. To enhance literary diversity, all contributing writers can be published on Litbreak only once. Litbreak accepts simultaneous submissions but please let us know if your work has been ac...

Full details You know the drill. Read our issues to see if we’re a good home for your work. Then hit up our Submittable. All submissions are currently being considered for our monthly online issues and our annual print issue. In an effort to promote Black voices, Split Lip Magazine is opening free submissions for Black writers in all genres for the rest of the year (with the exception of July, when we are closed to all submissions). Free Submissions: January, March, May, August, September, November Sometimes we have to shut free subs early due to a really-rad-but-also-overwhelming response. (A peek behind the curtain: our free sub cap with Submittable maxes out 😭💸). We recommend submitting early in free subs months! And hey — if the fees are a burden, please reach out to us! We can’t always help out, but we like to try when we can. Tip Jar submissions only: February, April, June, October, December We don’t accept submissions in July. Expedited Submissions: For...

Full details General guidelines: Please include a short, 3-5 sentence, third person bio on the last page of your submission. Fiction Flash fiction and short stories accepted Up to 3 submissions, no more than 5,000 words total Poetry Up to 5 poems, no more than 15 pages total Nonfiction Creative nonfiction and personal essays accepted Submit only one piece, no more than 10,000 words You may submit pieces for multiple categories. The maximum number of submissions per person, per issue is five. Example: 4 poems and 1 nonfiction, or 3 fiction and 2 poems. Simultaneous submissions are okay; previously published work is not.

Full detail s The Drabblecast is an award-winning online speculative fiction magazine and podcast that publishes “Strange Stories for Strange Listeners,” often also classified as “Weird Fiction.” Loosely, this encompasses any and all genres, but largely centers around those of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror . We’re looking for powerful stories that are simultaneously relatable and a good degree off the beaten path. We’re looking for stories that will work particularly well when read aloud and treated with full cast audio production. We’re looking for submissions that are humorous, bizarre, gross, disturbing, badass, interesting and original— your favorite story that we both know would be a hit if only it found the right home. We’ve been expecting you! Please wipe your feet on the various dismembered feet on your way in. What We Buy Short Fiction  — 500- 4,000 words We Also Run Drabbles  — Exactly 100 words. Twabbles  — Exactly 100 characte...

Full details Submissions - Fiction We are looking for highly imaginative stories with a healthy dose of the odd.  Odd characters, odd experiences, odd realities. We're looking for genre / speculative stories and are quite partial to slipstream, cross-genre, magic realism, absurdist, and the surreal. We want character.  For us, stories live and die by their characters.  We’re looking for fully drawn characters who surprise us with their honesty, complexity, and contradictions. We want mysterious.  We’re looking for stories that grab the reader, make them ask, “what the hell is going on?” and then deliver on the tease. We want ideas and we want action.  We love exploring big, philosophical ideas, but we revel in suspenseful plotting.  If you’re adept at blending these elements, we can't wait to read your work. We want fresh voices and exciting prose.  We want to be surprised.  We want ...

Full details Please send only one submission per reading period. Please review the guidelines below. You can find samples of accepted work on our Excerpts page and our Soundcloud channel . Submission fees: Standard submission fees for poetry and flash prose are $4; for longer prose the fee is $5. With each submission we provide a download of our latest issue. You can review our Transparency in Publishing page to see how submission and subscription fees help us pay our contributors and our support team. Submission expectations: Our response time is up to three months. Previous contributors to Tahoma Literary Review should wait one full reading period before submitting again. Word or PDF files only. If we accept a file in PDF, we will need a Word (or compatible) version. Prose submissions should be in standard manuscript format. (Double-spaced, Times New Roman font, 12-point type, one-inch margins, author name and contact information on the title page) Poetry sub...