Issue Five Hundred Ninety Four

Dishsoap Quarterly: Now Seeking Submissions

Dishsoap Quarterly is an online publication of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Self-described as a “nerdy, uncool, earnest magazine,” that is “too bad at math to care about measuring accolades against one another,” Dishsoap quarterly has a fun, contemporary online presence. They accept a wide range of styles, and you can get a sense of what…

Notes from the Editor’s Desk: October 2024

The Inexplicable Behavior of Skyhorse; Thrush Closing Down; and 3 Noteworthy Opportunities. This is a brand new monthly feature, that we are trying out. We will only continue it if it develops a following. We have sadly had to discontinue our Other Side of the Desk series of interviews, because it never developed a readership….

Opportunities for Historically Underrepresented Writers October 2024

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….

The Real Benefit of Persistence

By Gabrielle Brinsmead H. F. Brinsmead, the environmentalist, author and my grandmother, gave me the ambition to write. She and my grandfather (whose successful weed-spraying business may have prompted her environmentalism: they argued about everything), lived in a two-storey colonial homestead on Australia’s Gold Coast. Her writing room was a tiny cubby-hole on the ground…

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