July 10, 2023

21 Literary Journals Focused on Limited Demographics

This list focuses on a wide variety of journals that are seeking specific kinds of writers, including older writers, working class writers, the incarcerated, Italian Americans, veterans and their families, women writers, and Southern writers. Some of these limitations are geographic, some are not. Some publications have stricter guidelines than others. Not all are currently…

July 5, 2023

5 Paying Literary Magazines to Submit to in July 2023

These magazines pay for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. They are a mix of literary and genre magazines. Not all are open through the month.The DrabblecastThis is a speculative fiction magazine and podcast that publishes Weird fiction — science fiction, fantasy, and horror. They also accept Drabbles (100 word stories) and Twabbles (100-character stories), though there…

Repeater Books: Open to Manuscript Submissions

Updated August 8th 2024: They appear to have removed their submission guidelines from their website and appear to be no longer open to submissions. Repeater Books was founded in 2014 by Mark Fisher, Tariq Goddard, Etan Ilfeld, and others, as an imprint of Watkins publishing, which has been around since 1983. You can learn more…

Immigration Diaries: Now Seeking Submissions

Immigration Diaries is a new online journal of stories about immigration. They aim to connect and empower those who have experienced immigration, or have been affected by it, through the communal act of sharing stories. The editor of the journal is a Chinese-American immigrant who found comfort in reading about people with similar experiences. She…

How to Write Nonfiction Books for Young and Emerging Readers

By Ann Ingalls The first word I ever read and made sense of was the word come. I sat alone at my parents’ dining room table. Held my book and it occurred to me that C made a hard sound. M made a soothing sound. That was enough information to read the word. I was gob-smacked!…

July 3, 2023

48 Themed Submission Calls and Contests for July 2023

These are themed submission calls and contests for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Some of the submission calls are: Gothic; college life; teachers (and teacher appreciation); bad horror tropes done right; world tour; relief; ghost stories; smoke & mirrors; alternative leadership; occult detectives; and queens in wonderland. THEMED SUBMISSION CALLS Wyngraf: Cozy fantasy This is a…