Free Talk: Literary Agent Sera Rivers on Seeking Representation for Your Work

Learn how to find the right literary agent for your work.

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Free Talk: How to Write a Satisfying Final Act for Your Novel

How to keep readers engaged, ramp up the tension, resolve essential plot points, and give your readers a satisfying end to your story.

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Notes from the Editor’s Desk: December 2025

This monthly column is published on the fourth Thursday of every month, and is a space to share information that doesn’t fit anywhere else in our publication. This includes a wide range of opportunities for writers, news and information, and subscriber’s recent success stories. Opportunities: Tokyo Poetry Journal is open for submissions from now through…

30 Magazines Accepting Flash Fiction

These magazines publish a wide variety of flash fiction, up to 1,500 words. Many of them publish other genres as well, like nonfiction and poetry. They are a mix of literary and genre magazines. Many, but not all of them, are open for submissions now. A few of these magazines pay writers.Ink In ThirdsThey publish…

5 Paying Literary Magazines to Submit to in December 2025

These magazines pay for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. They’re a mix of literary and genre magazines. Not all are open through the month. The Ex-PuritanThis Canadian literary magazine publishes fiction, nonfiction, experimental/hybrid work, interviews, reviews, poetry, and poetry in translation. The deadline is 25 December, or until filled, for the next issue; they accept a…

Lamp Lit: Now Seeking Submissions

A journal of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. They nominate writers for The Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net.