Issue Six Hundred Sixty One

The Carrier Bag: Now Seeking Submissions

The Carrier Bag is a new online literary journal of fiction and poetry that spotlights small, everyday experiences, and celebrates the mundane: “You can often transform something ignored into something beautiful just by looking at it. We look for the writing that does this.” You can get a sense of what they publish by reading…

12 Magazines Seeking Writing on Climate, the Environment, and Nature

These magazines accept fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and hybrid work on climate/environment/nature, ranging from new nature writing to environmental justice to eco-horror. Most, but not all, are open for submissions now. Some magazines pay writers. About Place JournalTheir tagline is, ‘a literary journal published by the Black Earth Institute dedicated to re-forging the links between art…

When the Story Turns Its Back: Learning to Abandon Gracefully

Some stories are like those friends who say, “We should totally hang out,” and then vanish like they got drafted by NASA. You try calling them back—chapter one, chapter two, that weird half-scene you wrote on a bus—and the story just rolls over, shows you its spine, and pretends it doesn’t know you. That’s when…

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