These magazines accept hybrid/genre-bending/cross-genre works. They also accept other genres, like fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. A few of these magazines pay writers. Many, but not all, are open for submissions now.
The Literary Times Magazine
They publish “original, experimental, and aesthetically powerful literature” – hybrid (2,000-3,000 words), fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. They want work “with an emphasis on depth, experimentation, emotional intelligence, and narrative craftsmanship.” They want submissions on the Half-Being theme till 30th June 2026. Details here and here.
SmokeLong Quarterly
They publish flash fiction, nonfiction, and hybrid works (between fiction and non-fiction), and have some fee-free reading periods. They also accept work in other formats – reviews, art, global flash series. Regarding payment, ““For our usual issues, we pay $100/story or $150/story with audio, upon publication in the quarterly issue. Payment will be issued via PayPal or Zelle, and in rare cases the writer may be responsible for any associated fees if applicable.” Send works up to 1,000 words. The deadline for fee-free submissions is 15th June 2026. Details here.
Always Crashing
They accept “fiction, poetry, collage text, visual collage, video, labyrinths, manifestos, the generically transgressive, and nonfiction (though we prefer not to be told if it’s nonfiction). … We publish new work online every two weeks, and print issues sporadically. … Submissions with audio-visual components are particularly welcome.” Submission is via a form. Details here.
The Ex-Puritan
This Canadian magazine publishes fiction, nonfiction, experimental/hybrid work, interviews, reviews, and poetry. You can read about them here. They accept a limited number of fee-free submissions every month. They pay CAD50-200. The deadline is 25 June 2026, or until filled, for the Summer issue; they read submissions year-round, and have a monthly submission cap. Details here and here.
Chestnut Review
This is a print and online magazine. “We are drawn to beautiful language, resonant images, and we crave narrative.” They have fee-free submissions of poetry, flash, and art; also, “If you have work that doesn’t fit neatly into the below categories, that doesn’t mean we won’t want to see it. Choose the most appropriate and include a note—we’ll figure it out.” They also have fee-free submissions of longer fiction for Black and Indigenous authors, other authors are charged a fee for this category. Contributors are paid $120. They read throughout the year, with cut-off dates for issues; the deadline for their Autumn issue is 30 June 2026. Details here.
Pine Hills Review
They publish fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and visual art. Hybrid and experimental works are especially encouraged. “Hybrid or cross-genre work or visual work or excerpts from larger projects should also be no more than 3,000 words total. If there are visual elements or are sending visual work, attach as jpeg in your email or paste it into your Word file.” They’ll reopen for submissions in September. Details here.
The Ana
They accept hybrid/cross-genre prose (up to 4,000 words) as well as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, poetry in translation, and art. “We prioritize BIPOC, Queer, and working-class people.”The deadline is 30th June 2026. Details here and here.
River’s Edge
“Like the edge of a river—where land meets water, and stillness meets motion—we embrace writing that dwells in transition, evokes reflection, and stirs transformation.
We publish fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and hybrid works that challenge convention or use established forms with modern reinterpretation. We look for works that celebrate diversity and invite readers to linger in the in-between.
We believe in amplifying voices historically silenced—those navigating the complexities of identity, culture, gender, race, and belonging.” You can read about them here. They are reading submissions on the Travel theme till 14th June 2026. Details here.
Foglifter
This is a journal for LGBTQ+ contributors. They want fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, drama, and hybrid works; “up to 20 pages of cross-genre work, text-image hybrids”. They are especially interested in cross-genre, intersectional, marginal, and transgressive work. They also have a Writers In Need fund to support sliding scale payments for their contributors who opt into the fund. They will reopen for submissions in August. Details here and here.
Brink
They will read submissions on the Invitation theme during July. “Through Submittable, we accept a variety of hybrid work that resists categories, from Nonfiction to Fiction, from Poetry to Translation.
We are interested in writing that presses boundaries by using more than one medium to tell a story; work that looks and feels different on the page. Additionally, we look for submissions that engage the issue’s theme and the notion of being on the brink.” They pay $25-100. Their upcoming reading period is 1st to 31st July 2026. Details here.
Vast Chasm
“Vast Chasm Magazine publishes bold work that explores the expansive human experience, including flash and short fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and other nonconforming work.” For nonconfirming works, they say, “You may use this submission category if you feel your work does not conform to the other genres listed. For example, you might submit a hybrid piece, a hermit crab essay, or anything we haven’t seen before. We won’t impose a strict word or page limit, as we don’t know what you might have created; however, we ask that you be mindful of our usual guidelines of up to 1,200 words for flash or up to 5,000 words for longer pieces.” They pay $50. Details here and here.
Afternoon Visitor
For hybrid works, they say, “lyric essay, cross-genre—just keep it under 3,000 words, in one document. You may send up to three short pieces as long as the total word count does not exceed 3,000.” They also publish poetry, visual poetry/visual art. Submission is via Submittable. Details here.
Pamenar Online Magazine
Their website says, “We invite poetry and hybrid/critical writing which is cross-cultural, multilingual, and working in those provisional and radical areas of interconnected and parallel traditions sometimes and inadequately called ‘experimental’.” They also want audio/video recordings of poems, and translations. Send about 3-6 pages of poetry, prose or any hybrid formats. Details here and here.
Thin Air Magazine
The magazine is published by Northern Arizona University. They charge for print magazine submissions but submissions for Thin Air Online are fee-free. “Thin Air Online, distinct from our print magazine, accepts the following: poems, art, fiction, tiny films, nonfiction, humor, songs, paintings, collages, interpretative dances, jokes, audio projects and other precious creations. We especially appreciate submissions that don’t exactly fit into printed mediums.” Details here.
20:05
“Inspired by the work of countless activists, and taking our namesake from the duration of Senator Cory Booker’s historic speech on the U.S. Senate floor, 25:05 was founded in response to the 2025 American climate with the aim of uplifting the voices of the people. 25:05 responds to the need to bear witness (as poignantly outlined by filmmaker and activist James Lautz in this video), to reaffirm through resistance that we exist and that our stories deserve to be told.” You can read more about them here. They accept “any form of the written word, as long as it is your own original work …. Slap a genre label on it—or call it genreless—and send it. Though the journal does have a political slant, the editor believes that politics can be found in and severely impacts the everyday. It is those everyday moments of resistance that 25:05 seeks. And, “For pieces written in response to something else (ekphrastic poetry, book reviews, etc.): please mention the inspiration in your cover letter or in the document.” Send written works up to 5,000 words. They also accept reprints and art. Details here and here.
The Cincinnati Review
They accept fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and hybrid works for their online feature, miCRo (up to 500 words), for most of the year, as well as for their print magazine, usually, thrice a year – September, December, and May. There is a cap on print submissions. Pay is $25/page for prose and $30/page for poetry in the print journal and $25 for miCRo posts or special features. Details here (what the editors look for), and here (Submittable). They’re currently open for an award for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, for which they charge a submission fee.
Two Hawks Quarterly
Two Hawks Quarterly is affiliated with Antioch University Los Angeles. They publish nonfiction (including hybrid forms), fiction, poetry, art, and cross-genre (Genre X) work. Details here and here.
Bending Genres
They like work in all categories that blends genres. Send up to 1,000 words for fiction, up to 1,500 words for nonfiction, or up to 3 poems. Details here.
elsewhere
This is a prose poetry magazine. Submit up to 3 pieces of unlineated work, less than 1,000 words each. “elsewhere cares only about the line / no line. We want short prose works (flash fiction, prose poetry, nonfiction) that cross, blur, and/or mutilate genre.” They accept fee-free as well as tip-jar submissions. Details here. (They’re also open for a chapbook prize, for which they charge a submission fee.)
The Gravity of the Thing
They publish genre-bending works, fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, including prose poems and multimedia works, and work for Baring the Device column (about defamiliarized writing). They will reopen for submissions in October. Details here.
Scrawl Place
This is a journal of place and they publish hybrids, creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry. This is “part visitor’s guide, part literary journal.
The audience for this online publication is the guest, the visitor, the traveler, the day-tripper, the out-of-towner, and the in-towners eager to wander. I’m looking for submissions about “places in the places” where you live or where you’ve visited.” They also accept previously published work. They’re open for general submissions year-round, and for Chicago-themed submissions till mid-July. They pay $35. Details here.
Club Plum
They publish hybrid works, lyric essays/creative nonfiction, flash fiction, prose poetry, and art. “Send genre-bending and language-bending works up to 3,000 words. We like strange things.” Details here.
Cutleaf Journal
Cutleaf is the literary journal of Eastover Press. They publish fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Regarding nonfiction, “Cutleaf is interested in essays in both standard and hybrid forms. We welcome new approaches such as speculative nonfiction, essays based in metaphor, essays in verse, and other re-imaginings of the format. We welcome work about literature, travel, music, visual art, and film in multiple formats. We are less interested in journalistic approaches than in work that shows the larger and smaller truths about being human. We are not the place for editorials, polemics, or position statements, or for pitches for work yet to be completed. We do not re-publish previously published work. We expect nonfiction writers to hew to the truth as they see it.” They pay $100-300 for essays up to 6,000 words, and have a submission cap during their brief reading periods. Details here.
The Spectacle
They publish fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and art. “We welcome and embrace all styles, genres, and modes of writing, but we are particularly interested in vivid, striking imagery and language that lingers with us long after we’ve finished reading. We value relationships between the literary and visual arts, and aim for content that reminds us that our lenses matter—they focus, distort, clarify, and conceal.
Send us your slipstream and irrealism. Send us your eco-fabulism. Send us your villanelles about time travel and your reimagined fairy tales. Send us something new to believe in. Push and break boundaries. Stretch a genre to its extreme. Invent a new genre.” This magazine is published by Washington University in St. Louis. Watch for their next submission period. Details here.
Matter Press: The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts
They publish fiction and creative nonfiction, as well as fiction and creative nonfiction prose poetry, as long as it is compressed in some way. Pay is $50 for works up to 600 words, and the deadline is 15 June 2026. Details here and here.
Mslexia
They publish fiction, nonfiction, poetry, articles, and fun stuff by women. They ask for some mixed-genre submissions too, including Eyeverse in poetry – “A short poem (no more than four lines) on any subject, plus an original illustration – related to the poem – which may be a drawing, painting or photograph, but must be created by the poet herself or by someone who has given permission for the illustration to be used with the poem.” Some sections are only open to subscribers, but not all; a few calls are themed; and deadlines vary. Fees start at £30 for most pieces, while some pieces are unpaid (see here). Details here.
Harpy Hybrid Review
Their guidelines say, “Harpy Hybrid Review (HHR) exists to celebrate and showcase hybrid works in all their varied forms: poetry, songs, translations, multilingual/bilingual work, flash/micro fiction, creative nonfiction, videos, collaborations, erasures/found poetry, ekphrastic work and visual arts including comics and broadsides.” They also accept reprints. They also have a helpful section, What is Hybrid Work?, on their guidelines page. Watch for their next submission period. Details here.
LIT Magazine
They accept hybrid prose of up to 10 pages, fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translations, book reviews, and art. “Hybrid prose works generally experiment with non-traditional stylistic forms. This category is not just for works that defy casual interpretation, but also works that include elements generally reserved for non-prose writing.
At Lit, we are interested in hybrid prose that is aware of the tension between fiction and non-fiction, and wants to exploit, reify, and expand those terms, but not be contained by them. If it’s too prose-y to be a poem, but not clearly a short story or an essay, it might belong here. But this is not a category for the unsure – on the contrary, the best examples of hybrid prose are always the most deliberate.” LIT is published by The New School MFA in Creative Writing program. The deadline is 15th June 2026. Details here and here.
The Orange & Bee
This is an Australian Substack-based magazine, and they accept work related to fairy tales. They want fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and hybrid works “that engage in a significant way with the long history of fairy tales. We are interested in works that stretch, expand, test, subvert, and challenge the fairy-tale tradition.” And, “We’re excited about the possibility of experimentation, and so also invite submissions of hybrid or experimental works, including but certainly not limited to works that combine life writing and fiction or poetry.” They pay $80 for flash fiction, $0.08/word for short fiction, $50 for poetry. Their next reading period is 1st to 14th July (11.59 p.m. AEST) 2026 . Details here.
JMWW
“JMWWis a literary journal publishing fiction, flash, poetry, hybrid work, essays, interviews, and other miscellany weekly.” They also say, “Blended & Beyond: Our home for hybrid, blended-genre, and genre-defying works. If you’re a creator working outside the conventions of traditional genres, we want to celebrate your work. If you’re a writer who has come up with something magical that doesn’t fit our other categories of fiction, creative nonfiction, essay, or poetry we’d be honored to read it.” They have submission caps. Details here and here.
Bio: S. Kalekar is the pseudonym of a regular contributor to this magazine. She can be reached here.
