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The Creative Unconscious in Writing

— By Clive Matson In her presentation of books for writers, Van Baalen’s choices suggest spells, enlightenment, nefarious doings, and lighthearted play. What would you think of “Cozy Mysteries,” “Steal Like an Artist,” “Beyond Fear,” “Bird by Bird,” and “Bones”? Adult versions of Dungeons and Dragons? These books deal with magic. The ones I most…
Issue Four Hundred Thirty Two

FEED: Now Seeking Submissions

FEED is an online journal of short-form writing, seeking to satisfy the hunger of modern readers. Serving up bite-sized poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, FEED hopes to satiate the need for literature in a fast-paced world: “…the editors of FEED aim to serve readers through the same format we’re creating from: on screens, with space and…
Issue Four Hundred Thirty One

5 Paying Literary Magazines to Submit to in September 2021

These magazines pay for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, and they are open in September. They are a mix of literary and genre markets, and not all of them are open through the month. PseudoPod This is an online and audio horror fiction magazine – “dark, weird fiction. We run the spectrum from grim realism or…
Issue Four Hundred Thirty One

What Writers Need to Know About Newsletter Service Providers

By Olaitan French Many contemporary writers build their audience and supplement their income by creating a newsletter and sending it through a subscription service.  Newsletter service providers allow content creators and individual writers to carve out a revenue program either as a side hustle or as a full-time business venture. Very little technological knowledge is…
Issue Four Hundred Thirty One Special Feature

Announcing The Eleventh and Twelfth Recipients of Authors Publish Fund for Literary Journals

In September 2020, we started a new fund for literary journals. You can learn all about this fund here. We selected the recipient of the fund using a random number generator. We are announcing the winners of the July and August. We are sorry they are a little late. Thank you to everyone who has…
Issue Four Hundred Thirty One

Always Crashing: Now Seeking Submissions

Always Crashing is a magazine of experimental poetry and prose. They also publish “nameless things around and in-betweens,” such as collages and videos, and “labyrinths, manifestos” and “the generically transgressive.” You can get a sense of their edgy aesthetic by reading the journal online. Based in Chicago and Pittsburgh, Always Crashing has been published in…
Fiction Issue Four Hundred Thirty Literary Journals Poetry

5 Types of Editing That May Help Your Manuscript

By Zenstateofmind  Editing is part of the writing process. It is something every writer must do in order to polish their work and help readers connect with the stories they are telling. Editing takes many forms, some focusing on the story on the sentence level, and others from an overarching structural level. Below I break…
Issue Four Hundred Thirty

3 Effective Ways to Boost Your Writing Productivity

By Abdulraheem Jameel Ango It is a not-so-hidden secret that writing takes more than just the ability to write. The ability to write, ideas, resources, all these are part of the ecosystem of writing; the largest and arguably most important part of this ecosystem is productivity. Productivity is simply the act of producing quality work…
Issue Four Hundred Forty Five

Rowman & Littlefield: Now Accepting Book Proposals

Updated September 17th, 2025, acquired by Bloomsbury, no longer open to direct submissions. Rowman & Littlefield is a independent publisher based outside of Washington, DC. They focus on educational publishing, academic publishing with a focus on Humanities and Social Sciences, and well as publishing government and official data. Some of what they publish is very…
Issue Four Hundred Twenty Nine Manuscript Publishers Non Fiction

Last Leaves Magazine: Now Seeking Poetry Submissions

Last Leaves is a new online poetry magazine that aims to create community. It’s an online space to share great poetry, to listen and to be heard. They publish all forms and styles of poetry, and they feature unpublished authors and established poets alike. They simply want readers to think and feel deeply in response…
Issue Four Hundred Twenty Nine Poetry

Why Writers Should Take Online Writing Classes

By Nancy Franklin There is nothing like staring at a blank screen for hours on end, especially if you’re a beginning writer. If you find yourself procrastinating in ways that range from obsessively checking Facebook and Instagram, hitting the delete key on everything you’ve written, to wearing a path to the refrigerator for snacks, taking…
Issue Four Hundred Twenty Nine

Tiny Fox Press: Now Accepting Manuscript Queries

Updated March 2025 Founded in 2015 as a collective of writers, Tiny Fox Press originally focused on publishing work by the editors. This is a form of self- publishing, but they have branched out since then, although they are still publishing some books by the editors. They used to have a regularly updated blog, a…
Fantasy Issue Four Hundred Twenty Eight Manuscript Publishers Science Fiction Young Adult

The Woolf: Now Seeking Submissions

The Woolf—an online literary journal of micro and flash fiction, short stories, nonfiction, poetry, and multimedia art—is seeking submissions for a new edition that will mark their return from a two-year hiatus. Before closing in 2019, The Woolf had been published for nearly seven years. Now they’re back, with a plan to publish more mixed…
Creative Non Fiction Fiction Issue Four Hundred Twenty Eight Literary Journals Poetry

Clubhouse for Authors

By Bhupinder Singh As new and emerging writers, and aspiring authors, we all know the power of a platform and an audience base that can later be converted into a reader base To grab a deal, especially for traditional nonfiction publishing, a platform plays a vital role. For indie authors, the platform is a major…
Issue Four Hundred Twenty Eight Uncategorized

Amble Press: Now Accepting Manuscript Submissions

Updated November 2022: Even though they don’t list this as part of their submission guidelines anywhere their website, they’ve been turning away authors for not being based in the US. We will be removing them from the next round of the manuscript publishers guide as they are no longer eligible for review as part of…
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