Issue Six Hundred Eighty Nine

5 Paying Literary Magazines to Submit to in August 2026

These magazines pay for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. They’re a mix of literary and genre magazines.  Haven SpeculativeThey publish speculative fiction and poetry. They also publish climate crisis focused Dry and Wet issues each year; scroll down on the guidelines page for details. “We like stories that are subtle in their telling and stick with…
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Wild Willow Magazine: Now Seeking Submissions

Wild Willow Magazine is an online publication of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, “where word takes roots”. You can read the journal online to get a sense of what they publish. Formerly The Minison Project, Wild Willow was launched in 2025. Since then they’ve published six issues with themes such as “Mums”, “Wintergreen”, and “Pomegranate”….
Creative Non Fiction Electronic Fiction Issue Six Hundred Eighty Nine Literary Journals Poetry

Writing Characters Who Are Bad at Explaining Themselves

Some characters speak like they’re trying to carry soup across an icy parking lot. Careful. Sloshing. Half the meaning ends up on the ground anyway. Those are usually the characters I trust. Fiction has this weird historical addiction to emotional fluency. People in novels somehow produce perfectly shaped confessions while under immense psychological stress. Their…
Issue Six Hundred Eighty Nine

Should Writers Write to Make a Difference?

Can writing change the world? I don’t have a definite answer to that. But I’m sure I’m not the only one who has been changed by other people’s writing and who’s also dreamed of writing something that would change someone else—if not writing something that would change the world (or at least, a significant part…
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