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Burnline: Now Seeking Submissions

Burnline is a brand new digital literary journal that is looking for “any short fiction or art that you’d categorize as “solarpunk.” Themes, characters, and plot could range to just about anything, but we prefer settings where we’re all living in a more sustainable world.” If you aren’t familiar with solarpunk, it is a subgenre…
Always open to submissions Fiction Issue Seven Hundred Literary Journals

16 Literary Magazines Accepting Artwork

These literary magazines accept a wide variety of artwork and comics. They also accept other genres, like fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Some of these magazines pay writers. Most, but not all, of them are open for submissions now. Strange HorizonsThis award-winning speculative fiction magazine commissions artwork and they have detailed guidelines, including: “Strange Horizons publishes…
Issue Seven Hundred Special Feature

The Scene After the Scene

Let’s start with this: “The argument ended three paragraphs ago. Nobody has recovered.” That sentence interests me more than the argument itself. We tend to treat the end of a scene as a little door: somebody says the thing, somebody leaves, chapter break, done. Very tidy. Suspiciously tidy. Real people are rarely that cooperative. After…
Issue Seven Hundred

Redivider: Now Accepting Submissions

Redivider is run by graduate students at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. Originally founded in 1986 as the Beacon Street Review it was renamed Redivider in 2004. They publish two longer online issues a year as well as a summer mini issue focused on blurred genre. They do not accept submissions from current Emerson College…
Issue Six Hundred Ninety Nine Literary Journals

Notes From the Editor’s Desk: October 2026

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: Catalogue Zine is open to submissions till November 30th for…
Issue Six Hundred Ninety Nine Notes from the Editor's Desk

Why I Always Read Acknowledgements in a Book

I’m a completionist—when I pick up a book, I read everything that can be read in it, from the blurb on the back cover to the excerpts of positive reviews inside, the author’s note, the translator’s note, and, most importantly, the acknowledgements. Try as I might, I can’t skip the latter; I feel guilty of…
Issue Six Hundred Ninety Nine

Lake Effect: Now Seeking Submissions

Lake Effect is a publication of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. They publish one print issue per year. They are a non-paying market but do offer two contributor copies to authors whose work is accepted. They publish poetry, fiction, and non fiction. They have a very…
Creative Non Fiction Fiction Issue Six Hundred Ninety Eight Literary Journals Poetry Print

73 Publishing, Grant, and Fellowship Opportunities for Historically Underrepresented Writers (October 2026)

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….
Issue Six Hundred Ninety Eight Special Feature

What Writers Get Wrong About Strong Female Characters

The more I read, the more I come across “strong female characters” (SFCs) who seem all the same to me. This is worrying, because while people are similar in many ways, there are downsides if all SFCs have nothing that distinguishes them from each other in how they are strong and how they’re female. Following…
Issue Six Hundred Ninety Eight

5 Paying Literary Magazines to Submit to in October 2026

These magazines pay for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. They are a mix of literary and genre magazines. Translunar Travelers LoungeThey want fun speculative fiction; stories must have elements of science fiction or fantasy. “A fun story, at its core, is one that works on the premise that things aren’t all bad; that ultimately, good wins…
Issue Six Hundred Ninety Seven Paying Market

Five Minutes: Accepting Submissions

Five Minutes is a nonfiction only online literary journal with an unusual premise. They only publish 100-word pieces that explore five minutes of the author’s life. These are very much “micro memoirs” (and in the past they ran a micro memoir marathon). The five-minute limit is not particularly literal, what they say about it is…
Creative Non Fiction Issue Six Hundred Ninety Seven Literary Journals

The Single List That Finally Made Me a Productive Writer

Beginning is the second-most difficult part of writing (the most difficult is finishing what you start) and I’d been struggling with it for the last few months, when the writer’s block was rather more severe than usual. I wanted to write, but just couldn’t get started. I didn’t know where to begin. I had a…
Issue Six Hundred Ninety Seven

Changes to the Canon of Ethics at the Association of American Literary Agents

This article started out as a note for Notes from the Editor’s Desk, and as such very much reflects my personal opinion as an editor, and is more informal in tone. I am not trying to tell anyone else what to think, only where I am coming from, in terms of this. I’m always happy…
Issue Six Hundred Ninety Seven Publishing Industry News

Ten Publishers Open to Direct Submissions in October 2026

This list focuses on ten publishers that are open to submissions this month. Some are only open for a short period of time, others will be open the whole month and beyond. At least four of these are presses we have not covered previously. Please note that if a publisher doesn’t have a specific submission…
Issue Six Hundred Ninety Six

Alchemical: Seeking Submissions

Alchemical is a new online journal focused on publishing speculative works with literary merit, or as they put it “Our mission is to broaden the horizon of literary fiction, raise the bar for speculative fiction, and curate stories that open our minds to great possibilities while striking the human chord at its most resonant. There…
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