This monthly column is published on the fourth Thursday of every month, and is a space to share information that doesn’t fit anywhere else in our publication. This includes a wide range of opportunities for writers, news and information, and subscribers’ recent success stories.
Opportunities:
Epistle Literary Magazine is open for submissions from now through September 15th, 2026. They are seeking work on the theme “How has an educator or mentor shaped you?” They will consider poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction, and letters to honor educators. For this issue, only authors based in the US will receive a print contributor copies. Please read the full guidelines before submitting.
Backsliders Magazine is a “literary & arts magazine for those who decided to leave the church behind.” They are open to submissions.
News:
The respected and established Lascaux Review has closed to submissions and is on indefinite hiatus. The editor Stephen Parrish shared why on FB here. The reason given was that there was a real increase in AI or potentially AI submissions.
Pratiksha Ahuja wrote an extended post on Substack about The New English Review, which you can read here. The post contains numerous examples of what The New English Review is focused on publishing, including anti-women, anti-trans, anti-immigrant stances and hate filled language. The post focused in part on a successful request to chill subs to remove the journal from their listing and then an unsuccessful attempt to get it removed from Duotrope. Duotrope claimed removing the listing would be censorship. Authors Publish signed an open letter that the editor of Global Majority Press Chris Talbot wrote, asking for Duotrope to “implement a comprehensive screening process and to refrain from listing publications that are spouting rhetoric that dehumanizes and stirs fear and hatred against marginalized communities.” You can read the letter here. But it is no longer open for signing, and there’s been an update about the situation on the original Google form here. The short version is that Duotrope responded to the email by sending this letter: “Per your request, the listings for Global Majority Press, All My Relations, and The B’K Magazine have been opted out of Duotrope participation. There was no Duosuma account associated with any of these projects. Other editors do have to contact us directly about their respective publications. Personal subscriptions can be cancelled from the Subscription page under the Account menu.”
As a long-time subscriber of Duotrope, and someone who has written about them extensively, I’m frustrated about the situation in a deep and abiding way. There have always been issues with Duotrope listing predatory presses, agents of ill repute, and literary journals with predatory practices. When I reported these issues in the past, my emails were ignored, and eventually I stopped reporting. However, these journals and presses were not publishing hate speech. I really encourage subscribers, as much as possible to support chill subs and The (Submission) Grinder, as both take reports much more seriously.
Subscriber Success Stories:
Angela Jane Fountas’s debut novel, Another Kind of Symmetry, was published by the University of Alaska Press.
Laurinda Lind’s flash fiction Your Feet Wait for Your Brain to Catch Up, was published by Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine and was longlisted in annual writing competition. Her poetry microchap, The Air Out There, was published by Origami Poems Project. Two poems, were published in International Women’s Writing Guild anthology Something Inside So Strong.
Amy Allison’s novel Sunset was published by Willow River Press.
Abby Remer‘s piece My Mother Sleeps Around…a Lot was published by Shift.
Martina Clavadetscher’s prose poem, Cecilia Gallerani, was translated from the German by Melody Winkle and published in LIT Magazine.
KI-TYØ ‘Ssemma’nda’s poem Red on dominant Ganja Blac was published by Variety Pack Poetry.
Debra Bream’s cyanotype Mapclock was published by Superpresent magazine.
Anushka’s poem Efficient was published in Steam Ticket: A Third Coast Review.
Cithara Patra‘s poem When The Dragons Are Resting was published by Lunara Nether and their poem Gasoline was published by Four Tulips.
Jean Burgess‘s novel Navigating Her Next Chapter, was published by Apprentice House Press.
Ignatius Fernandez’s article The Hand of God in the Wonders of Nature! was published by Catalogue Zine. His article Why We Fail to Communicate Effectively? was published in egophobia.
Lee Patton’s novel The Last Californians, is available for preorder from Regal House Publishing.
TK Hudson’s vignette, Daddy’s House, was published in Door is a Jar Magazine.
Sunitha Mary Mookken’s poems All She Was and Seen Not Heard were published in Down in the Dirt. from Scars Publication. They also had two poems published in Leafline.
Odi Welter‘s poem When I Grow Up was published in IHRAM Press’s Becoming: Voices on Gender and Queerness. Their poem Reusable Water Bottles was published by Catalogue Zine and their poem “Butterfly Massacre” was published in Every Bombed Village was published by Deceleration News.
Stephen Dean Ingram’s short story The Refrigerator was published by Blood & Bourbon. His short story Louisiana Street was republished in The Argyle Literary Magazine.
Denise Diehl’s short story The Forbidden Floor was published by Freedom Fiction Journal.
Oleg Olizev‘s flash fiction The First Night was published by Thirteen Bridges Review. His short story The Seven was published by Beyond Queer Words. His essay How Not to Meet Leonardo DiCaprio was published by The Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide.
Guylaine Spencer’s short story I Need to Tell You was published in Certain Age Magazine.
John A. Tures Ahead to the Past was published by Infinity Wanderers and Shelter from the Storm Surge was published by Bunker Squirrel Publications.
Elisabeth Frischauf had three poems published by the Hudson Valley Writers Guild.
Stephen Kamugasa’s piece Stewardship Scale: the Global Icon and the Plight of the Pangolin was published by The New Climate.
Mona Mehas‘s novel, Under the Bubble, was published by Between the Lines Publishing.
Cindy Kluck-Nygren’s fiction chapbook A Vacant Lot and A Viennese Waltz was published by Henlopen Press,
Stephanie Ross‘s poem Crocodylia In Rising Fog was published by The Courtship of Winds.
Susan M. Klarich’s short story I Was in the Room was published in Tales from the Bedside from Code Blue Publishing. Their story story Let Sleeping Trolls Lie was published by Starspun Lit. Their short story Walking With Sadness was published in The Journal of Creative Ageing Sage -ing.
Khushi Bajaj’s chapbook The Girl Who Ate the Words was published by Parlyaree Press.
CM Pickard’s poem Resistance Launched From a Landing was in published by Swerve Magazine,
Maria Nikolova’s two poems were published in Hearts of Thunder magazine.
Please send us an email at success.stories@authorspublish.com if you have a publication success you want to share in our next update. You must include a link to the publication. You can also include a link to your website (if you have one), and the publisher/journals main landing page. To be featured in the August update your work must be published no earlier than May. Work available for pre-order can be shared. Please note that we are only listing work that has been traditionally published by literary journals, magazines, or traditional presses. We are not covering vanity presses or self-published books. We are not vetting presses before adding them to this list. We can only list three successes per person per update.
Bio: Caitlin Jans has an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. She is the co-founder of Authors Publish and The Poetry Marathon. Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies and literary journals including: The Literary Review of Canada, The Fiddlehead, Jelly Bucket, The Penn Review, The Adroit Journal, and Killer Verse. Her prose and poetry has been nominated for The Pushcart Prize, BILiNE, The Best Small Fictions Anthology, and The Best of the Net. You can learn more at her website or follow her on Facebook.
