These magazines accept fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and hybrid work on climate/environment/nature, ranging from new nature writing to environmental justice to eco-horror. Most, but not all, are open for submissions now. Some magazines pay writers.
About Place Journal
Their tagline is, ‘a literary journal published by the Black Earth Institute dedicated to re-forging the links between art and spirit, earth and society’. They’re reading submissions on The Ground Beneath Us: Place, Power, and Resistance. “In this current political moment marked by state repression, attacks on bodily autonomy, climate collapse, and rising authoritarianism, we are reminded that place is never neutral. It is shaped by power, haunted by memory, and pulsing with resistance. … We seek writing and art that engage with land, home, borders, environment, and community, not as static backdrops, but as living terrains that hold grief, memory, and the seeds of transformation.
We welcome poetry, essays, fiction, hybrid work, visual art, and multimedia submissions from those rooted in activism, spirit, and justice.” Some suggested themes are: land justice and Indigenous sovereignty; environmental racism and ecological grief; gentrification, housing, and community defense; diaspora, exile, and return; spiritual and ancestral ties to place. The deadline is 10th March 2026. Details here and here.
Panorama
This is ‘the journal of travel, place, and nature’. For their upcoming issue, they want nonfiction (including new nature writing), fiction, poetry, art, and more on the Reflections theme. Regarding new nature writing, they say, “New nature writing is a genre-fluid form that encompasses memoir/travel/and nature writing with an especial foregrounding of the challenges of the Climate Crisis. It is a form that loves to transgress borders. We would be delighted to receive writing with an ethical dimension and ecological awareness that encourages the reader to mindfully negotiate the shared landscapes of the human and more-than-human. 1500-3000 words.” The submission deadline is 14 February 2026. Details here, here, and here.
Terrain.org
They publish literature, artwork, and commentary on place, climate, and justice. “Our online journal accepts … essays, fiction, articles, artwork, videos, and other contributions—material that reaches deep into the earth’s fiery core, or humanity’s incalculable core, and brings forth new insights and wisdom. We are seeking work in English (or translation) from around the world, and particularly Indigenous, Native, Black, Brown, and other historically marginalized and underrepresented voices as we expand our contributions on social, environmental, and climate justice.” They pay $50. Poetry is closed; fiction and nonfiction of up to 5,000 words are open till 30th April 2026. They also accept submissions for ARTerrain and Letter to America sections. Details here and here.
Fork Apple Press: The Core Review
The Core Review is a project of Fork Apple Press, which publishes “themes and symbols of desire, consumption, spirituality, gender, environment, cultivation, and wildness. … We’re excited about pieces engaged with environmental justice, postcolonial feminism, queerness in all its humanizing and messy forms, and to support writers’ expansion beyond these topics in ways that move them. … We deconstruct the narratives that have traditionally dominated literary spaces and conventions and are committed to work that writes toward a future beyond prejudice and limitations. We invite work that upends, restructures, and reformats the predetermined conversation through genre blurring, experimentation, multimodality, and authenticity.” You can read more about them here. The Core Review publishes prose (up to 6,000 words), visual narrative, and poetry. And, Fork Apple Press’s blog, The Juice Blog, publishes craft essays. The deadline for prose and poetry for The Core Review is end-March. Details here and here.
(Fork Apple Press also runs short fiction collection and poetry chapbook contests, which are fee-based.)
Violet Lichen Books: ECO25 – The Year’s Best Speculative Ecofiction
Violet Lichen Books is an imprint of Apex Book Company. This is their second annual reprint anthology. “Editors and publishers are encouraged to nominate their best works of speculative ecofiction published in 2025. … This is a best-of anthology and nominations are open to previously published stories only.” Authors can nominate their own works. “The story must be ecofiction; e.g., the plot or main themes must be focused on ecology, climate, the environment, conservation, the natural world, our relationship to animals and other non-human life, or related themes. A story merely set in nature or in a climate-based scenario is not enough to qualify, if it does not engage with these themes.” Stories must contain speculative elements. The original publication date must be between January 1 and December 31 2025. If the story is a translation, the eligibility year is the English publication date. And, stories published in Apex Magazine or in Apex Book Company anthologies or in works edited by staff are eligible. They pay $0.01/word for stories of 950 – 7,500 words, and the deadline is 31 January 2026. Details here and here.
Rotting Leaf Magazine
Rotting Leaf Magazine accepts eco-fiction (broadly defined), eco-horror, eco-Gothic/Antigothic, and more; any other uses of eco-fiction that challenge, shift, or obliterate the nature-society binary. They open for fiction as well as hybrid and experimental forms (no poetry) up to 1,500 words during the first week of each month, and stay open until a submission cap is reached. They pay $0.06/word. Details here.
Hollow and Sky
This is a new magazine, they are reading for their first issue. “We welcome work that arrives from a place of attention.
Hollow and Sky is a space for writing and art shaped by listening to the inner world, to the living world, and to the spaces where the two meet.” And, “We are interested in poetry, short prose, and visual work that engages with:
- Spiritual or metaphysical inquiry
- The natural world
- Interior landscapes
- Stillness, grief, wonder, memory, and restraint
We value work grounded in lived experience and honest observation. We are not interested in doctrine, instruction, or certainty.” They accept prose of up to 3,000 words, up to 5 poems, and art. The submission deadline is 5th February 2026. Details here.
Catalogue Zine
Their About page says, “We’re a magazine based on helping people learn about and get involved in climate action, while demonstrating not only the scientific aspects of climate advocacy but how our lives are intertwined and intersect with our climate, cultures, and communities.” They want submissions on the Lifestyle theme; “Lifestyle represents the moving pieces that texture how you move around in this world. When we talk about the environment, “individual action” is core to the world because we all have equal stakes in taking care of the one place we can call home. This issue, we want to see (but is not limited to)
Thoughtful reflections on individual action: Are you using ChatGPT, partaking in fast fashion, or using public transportation when it’s an option? Your relationship with the Earth: do you feel connected to the ocean, the animals, and the plant life that are our neighbors on Earth? Are you being mindful about places you are traveling to, like Hawai’i? What small changes can we be making in our everyday life to make the greatest difference? How should we navigate adapting our lifestyle?
We want to see poetry, photography, art, short stories, personal essays, and informative pieces on this topic.” The deadline is 20th February 2026. Details here.
Haven Speculative
They publish speculative fiction and poetry. They now have Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall submission periods; during each period, they have a month reserved for submissions from underrepresented writers, and a month for general submissions from all writers. They also publish climate crisis focused Dry and Wet issues each year. They accept up to 5,000 words for fiction, up to 5 poems, and pay $0.08/word for fiction, $20/poem. Till 31 January 2026, they want submissions from underrepresented writers only; “authors of color, members of the LGBTQIA+ community, and other underrepresented groups.” And from 1st to 28th February, they will be open to submissions by all writers. Details here and here.
Channel Magazine
This Ireland-based magazine publishes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. “We love work that speaks directly of a writer’s bond with and fear for our planet, and work that takes a local landscape, or a local flower, as its subject; equally, though, we love work that draws on an aspect of nature as setting, image or metaphor. We believe that all writing relies to some extent on historical engagement with nature, in that all human language has been shaped by our embeddedness in our shared environments.” Fiction and poetry are read during submission periods. Nonfiction (considered for both print and online) is accepted on an ongoing bases. They accept submissions in English and Irish. They pay €35 per printed page up to €250 per piece and with a minimum fee of €60 for single-page works; and €35 per 400 words, up to a maximum of €250 per piece, with a minimum fee of €60 for work published online. Details here.
The Other Folk: Fables for the Dying
“The Other Folk publishes short, horrific prose—by which we mean flash fiction, essays, and prose poems dealing with horror tropes, themes, and subjects”. For their Fables for the Dying series, they accept horror-themed flash and short fiction and nonfiction, prose poetry, and hybrid works; they’re interested in a wide range of horror subgenres, including eco-horror. They accept up to 1,500 words for prose and up to 500 words for prose poetry. Details here.
The Dodge
“The Dodge seeks fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, visual art, and translation focused on place and environment. We’re excited by a wide range of forms and approaches, including hybrid and experimental work. We especially seek creative works that imagine a just future for the planet, and among other things, we’re interested in broadening the scope of stories, poems, and essays about nature, animals, and nonhuman life; we hope to see translations across borders, time, and space.
Given our focus on environmental justice, we’re eager to champion emerging and marginalized voices underrepresented in magazine publishing and eco-writing, including writers and artists who are Black, Indigenous, people of color, people who are trans, gender-nonconforming, and LGBTQIA+, people with disabilities, women, and others.
A note on writing about animals: We receive a lot of work focused on dogs, cats, and charismatic megafauna. Obviously, these nonhuman animals are important in our human lives, and people write great things about them, many of which we’ve published. But we’re really excited to read about other less explicable creatures as well. Eco-writing as we see it can include minerals, fungi, forests, insects, fire, etc.” At the time of writing, they were open for translation, nonfiction, and visual art. The deadline is 1st April 2026. Details here and here.
Bio: S. Kalekar is the pseudonym of a regular contributor to this magazine. She can be reached here.
