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 subscribers’ recent success stories.
Opportunities:
Afterbodies, a new literary journal, pays a 20$ flat rate honorarium to all contributors. They are only open to submissions from authors under the age of 25. They say “We seek writing that tacks, cajoles, and resurfaces the unseen.” They close to submissions for their first issue on July 1st.
Backsliders Magazine is a “literary & arts magazine for those who decided to leave the church behind”. They are open to submissions.
The 2084 Literary Competition bills itself as “a poetry contest where writers from every country can participate.” The theme for this contest is to “write something that pertains to a bigger, brighter future. Anything futuristic counts!” Winners of the contest will have their bio and poem displayed on the home page of 2084’s site and the top 6 winners will receive Pushcart Prize nominations. They do not allow simultaneous submissions. The deadline is July 1st. To learn more or to submit, go here.
Mizna is an award-winning journal focused on publishing work from authors from Southwest Asia and North Africa. They are open to submissions till July 6th. They are seeking poetry, prose, and hybrid literary work that focuses on ancestry and indigeneity. They state “Guest-edited by poet and scholar Umniya Najaer, this issue is interested in honoring Indigenous wisdoms in their many forms and giving space for writers and artists to explore their relationships to ancestry, inheritance, memory, spirit, land, flora, fauna, and the cultural practices that have grown from them.”
The Last Girls’ Club: The Witches’ Cosmo is opening July 1st to submissions for its next themed issue, Hive Collapse/Cascade Event. Learn all the details for the themed call here.
News:
The Authors Guild published a very interesting article testing five of the most commonly used AI detectors. You can read it here.
Subscriber Success Stories:
Alicia Maskley‘s poem, A Fine Powder, was published by Small Wonders and her short story St. Anthony’s Fire was published in the anthology Pharmacopoeia Obscura by JayHenge Publishing.
W. Adam Mandelbaum’s book Unholy Matrimony is available on pre-order through Miskatonic Books.
Stephen Kamugasa’s article The Invisible Deficit Part II: Beyond Science—Building Democratic Will for Climate Truth was published by The New Climate.
Cathy Carroll-Moriarty’s flash fiction piece, At a Cafe in Little Bohemia, was published at Bright Flash Literary Review .
Loralee Clark’s poetry collection Neolithic Imaginings was published by Kelsay Books.
Ignatius Fernandez’s pieces On Managing Money, and On the Need for Repentance, were published by Chewers.
Sarah Louise’s poem Send Offs was published in Skylight 47.
Robert Temple’s The Strange Courtship of Kathleen O’Dwyer is available for pre-order through Piccadilly Publishing.
R. Bremner’s full-length poetry collection You Who Are the Stranger: Collected Poems 1979-1989 has been published by the Westbrae Literary Group,
Masimba Musodza’s piece The Shame Eater was published by Small World City.
Joan Hyams Schmitz‘s piece, The Cultures of Childhood, was published by Persimmon Tree.
Duane L Herrmann’s piece Behind the Hidden Door was published by MasticadoresUSA.
Barry L. Lewis’s piece Forgive Him, He is Lost was published by The Bloomin’ Onion.
Donald Reed Greenwood’s short story Reprise was published by Peruse Lit.
Anca Vlasopolos’s poem Un/Like the Nautilus was published in Skylight 47.
Cindy Kluck-Nygren’s piece Ours. Yours. His. Whose. received first place in the 2026 Roe River Review Editor’s Prize.
K.D. Zwierz had two poems published in ANTAE and the poem 53 Miles Left of Venus was published by The Argyle.
Oleg Olizev‘s piece New York was published by Complete Sentence: a Magazine of Single-Sentence Prose. His poem Blank Space was published by B O D Y. His essay Coming Out from Siberia was published by The Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide.
Robin Pond’s book Future Concerns was published by Broken Tribe Press. His story Learned Attraction was published in Unnamed Journal.
Valerie Thornton‘s poem Sunday Ritual was published by The Ranger’s Almanac.
Stephanie Ross‘s poem The Art Thief was published by SAGE Magazine. She also had two poems published in Peace Anthology from Wildfire Words.
Linda Boroff‘s story Charlotte’s Law was published by Short-Story.me.
David Stanford Burr‘s poem Safe at Home was one of the poems selected for recognition by the National Baseball Poetry Festival.
Norie Suzuki’s short story Perchance was published by Brown Hound Press.
Lewis Brett Smiler published The Election in Academy of the Heart and Mind.
Neal Lipschutz’s second novel, Long Arm of the Past, is available for pre-order from Tucker DS Press.
Chris Clemen‘s piece Morning Stars was published in the Journal for Compressed Creative Arts. His poem Single Parenting in the House of Refined Appetites was published by Radon Journal. His flash story How to Deploy an Antimemetic Field Device: Restaurant Edition was published by FlashFlood Journal.
F.I. Goldhaber’s poem Cassandra Complex was published by The Amphibian and their poem Lunch was published by The Five-Two.
Amy Maris’s short story was published by Superpresent.
Please send us an email at success.stories@authorspublish.com if you have a publication success you want to share in our next update. You must include a link to the publication. You can also include a link to your website (if you have one), and the publisher/journals main landing page. To be featured in the July update your work must be published no earlier than April. Work available for pre-order can be shared. Please note that we are only listing work that has been traditionally published by literary journals, magazines, or traditional presses. We are not covering vanity presses or self-published books. We are not vetting presses before adding them to this list. We can only list three successes per person per update.
