October 31, 2024
Authors Publish was founded in the United States, but has since moved to Canada. Our subscribers are based all over the world, with a majority based in the United States. A lot of the journals and publishers we cover are still based in the United States for two reasons. Most publishers and literary journals are…
The Imagist is an online journal of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. The journal was originally published by and for the students at McGill University in Canada, but now submissions are open to everyone. They are looking for original writing that feels, “new, fresh, and concise.” You can find out more about what they like by…
Ratika Deshpande I previously wrote here about the benefits of maintaining a writing log and setting concrete goals, such as finishing first drafts or writing 500 words every day. Word counts have always been an integral part of my writing process; reaching the daily goal gave me something to work towards. However, for the past…
October 28, 2024
The bulk of the journals we review are based in North America, with a smattering in the UK. Although we sometimes seek out and include international journals, the bulk of the journals we’ve reviewed are in these two regions. All of the journals in this list are not in either of these regions. They span…
October 24, 2024
I was based in the United States while first submitting my work. I received over 40 rejections before I received my first acceptance. The first acceptance came from a UK-based journal. In fact throughout my first few years of actively submitting my work, most of my acceptances came from the UK. Over time, this has…
Trollbreath Magazine is a new online publisher of speculative fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. They publish a wide variety of genres and styles: “Our interests are as varied as the endless amount of genres, from dark fantasy to hope punk to surrealism, and everything in between.” But they especially love slipstream and fabulism. They also like…
By Kristen Holt-Browning Ten years ago, I took a writing class in my small town in upstate New York with the novelist Julie Chibbaro. Although I had written poems and stories as a kid and a young person, I had pretty much stopped writing in my thirties. My husband was working full-time and commuting, I…
October 22, 2024
Strange Attractor is an independent publishing house based in London, founded in 2003. They are run by Mark Pilkington and Jamie Sutcliffe, who bring independent contractors to help with some components of the publication. They have a well designed and easy to navigate website. Their books are widely available online as well as distributed internationally…
Epic focuses on publishing Young Adult (YA) and New Adult (NA) Romance. They are part of Entwined Publishing, which used to be called The Totally Entwined Group, up till the end of September. You can learn more about Entwined Publishing here. I really encourage you to read that review also for larger context about the…
October 21, 2024
These magazines and anthologies publish horror fiction. Most of them also publish other genres, like science fiction and fantasy. While they all publish horror, the kind of stories they want varies widely; please read the guidelines and, where possible, their stories, to see if your work is a good fit. Many are open for submissions…
October 17, 2024
Dishsoap Quarterly is an online publication of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Self-described as a “nerdy, uncool, earnest magazine,” that is “too bad at math to care about measuring accolades against one another,” Dishsoap quarterly has a fun, contemporary online presence. They accept a wide range of styles, and you can get a sense of what…
The Inexplicable Behavior of Skyhorse; Thrush Closing Down; and 3 Noteworthy Opportunities. This is a brand new monthly feature, that we are trying out. We will only continue it if it develops a following. We have sadly had to discontinue our Other Side of the Desk series of interviews, because it never developed a readership….
This list of publishers meet our guiding principles, but are only open to free submissions from historically underrepresented writers or focus on publishing content produced by historically underrepresented writers. Some of these publications are open to a wide range of writers including writers of color, gender non-conforming and LGBTQ+ writers, and those living with disabilities….
By Gabrielle Brinsmead H. F. Brinsmead, the environmentalist, author and my grandmother, gave me the ambition to write. She and my grandfather (whose successful weed-spraying business may have prompted her environmentalism: they argued about everything), lived in a two-storey colonial homestead on Australia’s Gold Coast. Her writing room was a tiny cubby-hole on the ground…
October 16, 2024
We just arranged to have an established literary agent offer consultations and in-depth feedback to authors of literary fiction (novels, short story collections), memoir, history, science, and journalism. Michael Mungiello is an agent with Inkwell management, where he regularly sells books to a wide variety of publishers. This is a wonderful opportunity to learn directly…