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petrichor mag: Accepting Submissions

petrichor mag was established in 2016. They are a beautifully designed online poetry journal. They publish a lot of visual poetry, visual art, and comic poetry, as well as text-based poetry. You can learn more about their editors here. You can get a feel for what they have published by reading their most recent issue…

Sinking City: Accepting Submissions

Sinking City is an online literary journal published twice a year. It is run by MFA students and undergraduate interns at the University of Miami. To get a good feel for what they publish you can read their most recent issue here. Their most recent issue included a formal poem (a golden shovel), alongside freeverse,…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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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Common House Magazine: Now Seeking Submissions

Common House Magazine is an online journal of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, artwork, photography, audio, and video, produced and published by students at the University of Ottawa. They welcome submissions from around the world, and they publish student writing, too. You can read the journal online to get a sense of what they publish. Common…

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Shadow Falls Review: Now Seeking Submissions

Shadow Falls Review is a new print journal of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, produced and published by the graduate students at The University of St. Thomas. Named after a waterfall along the Mississippi River, Shadow Falls Review hopes to emulate the sense of quiet mystery found there: “We all have shadows, lived in and…

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Freshwater Literary Journal: Now Seeking Submissions

Freshwater Literary Journal is print and online journal produced by the students at the Asnuntuck campus of Connecticut State Community College. They publish poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction from around the world, as well as student writing. And they publish both experimental and traditional forms. You can read the journal online to get a sense of…

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Gastropoda: Now Seeking Submissions

Gastropoda is an online magazine of poetry, prose poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. They aim to publish uplifting writing that, “slows you down and spins you around, helps you see the beauty and wonder in all of life’s twists and turns.” You can read the magazine online to get a sense of what they publish. Launched…

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Ley Lines Literary Review: Now Seeking Submissions

Ley Lines is an online journal of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Named after the theory that suggests there are lines of energy connecting within the earth, Ley Lines aims to publish writing that connects “lit & life:” “we see literature as integrally connected to the broad conversations that characterize our contemporary lives.” They’re looking…

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Indigo: Now Seeking Submissions

Indigo is a new online journal of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and “other text-focused experiences”. Although they accept all types of writing, they especially love experimental, cross-genre, hybrid and “medium-bending” work. They aim to showcase writing that lives in liminal spaces: “Show us the jagged pink edge of twilight just before moon rise, when the sky…

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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”….

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