When trying to find a home for your writing (if that’s one of your goals), sometimes it can feel a little overwhelming combing through the internet (or books! Remember books with places to submit? If those still exist, I’m sure it’s hard to keep them up to date!). We here at Plume have decided that because we love you and want to help support your work, we’re going to post a bi-monthly blog about submission opportunities. Nothing beats a simple, creative list that you didn’t have to take the time to make yourself!
Salty at Heart
“A Journal Embracing Women from the Cosmos to the Sea”
Seeking: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Interviews, Photography, Art
Submission Period: Upcoming deadline, May 20th
The Acentos Review
“The Acentos Review publishes poetry, fiction, memoir, interviews, translations, and artwork by emerging and established Latinx writers and artists four times a year.”
Seeking: the above genres, plus a special call for submissions, “A Performance of Breath”
Submission Period: July 1st for special call; others vary
Callaloo
“A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters”
Seeking:scholarly articles, book reviews, interviews, nonfiction essays, short fiction, poetry, and visual art
Nashville Review
“Nashville Review seeks to publish the best work we can get our hands on, period. From expansive to minimalist, narrative to lyric, epiphanic to subtle: if it’s a moving work of art, we want it.”
Seeking: fiction, poetry, and nonfiction
Submission period: January, May, September each year
Storm Cellar
“Storm Cellar is a literary journal of safety and danger. We place a special emphasis on the Midwest, but even more emphasis on amazing writing and art. We aim to display aesthetic ambition as well as the work of authors and artists who are under-represented in the Anglophone literary world.”
Seeking: fiction, flash, nonfiction, poetry
We hope this small list gives you a boost in your submission journey. If you have a lit mag you want to promote, either because it’s your fave or you happen to work on it (or, you know, both!), email at encouragement@plumeforwriters.org and we’ll try to give it a shout next time.
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