Closed Door Publishing is a new electronic publisher that will launch in early 2009. Titles are best described as manfiction erotica. They feature characters that are straight out of everyday life doing things every guy likes to do (or wishes he could do.) Stories will be available by electronic download to your hard drive, CD, memory stick, or any other media storage device, (even to your cell phone and read them anywhere.)
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2River is a quarterly of poetry, art, and theory. Also occasionally publishes individual authors in the 2River Chapbook Series, as well as podcasting 2River authors from the Muddy Bank blog. Reads year-round. No simultaneous submissions. Responds in 1 day to 3 months.
7474 Drexel DR
University City, MO 63130
submissions@2River.org
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Abalone Moon publishes poetry, interviews, photography and visual art that is seamless in its craft and originality, and both universal and current in its content. Many issues follow individual themes. Also publishes two or three poet issues. E-mail to: amjrnl@yahoo.com
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anderbo.com is always looking for, excellent new fiction, ‘fact,’ poetry & photography. Accepts simultaneous submissions and email submissions. Responds within 4 weeks.
270 Lafayette St., Suite 1412
New York, NY 10012
rrofihe@yahoo.com
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Apple Valley Review is a semi-annual online literary journal published in the Spring and Fall. Each issue features poetry, short fiction, and essays. All work published in the Apple Valley Review during a given calendar year is considered for the annual Apple Valley Review Editor’s Prize. No Simultaneous submissions. Responds in 1-12 weeks. Email submissions to editor@ leahbrowning.net
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Arch is an annual that publishes interviews, translations, poetry, fiction, & essays from new and established writers. Arch is run by graduate students and advised by faculty from many different disciplines. Allows simultaneous submissions. Responds within 2 months.
c/o L. Revard
Campus Box 1122
English Dept., Washington University
St. Louis, MO 63130
archword@artsci.wustl.edu
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Babel Fruit is an independent quarterly initiative developed in cooperation with the International Cities of Refuge Network. Focusing on “Writing Under the Influence of the Other,” they publish all genres. The literature may be a response to another culture, sub-culture or the other within. Also invites recorded readings and book “previews”. Simultaneous submissions allowed. Email to editors@babelfruit.org
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Blood Lotus is a young online quarterly literary journal of passionate writers and fierce critics. They “crave: writing that is well-crafted and takes risks with fresh, evocative, visceral language and imagery.” Accepts simultaneous submissions. Responds within 3 months. Email submissions to bloodlotusjournal@gmail.com.
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Cadillac Cicatrix is a semi-annual that publishes innovative, emerging, and established writers and artists online and in limited print editions on a semi-annual basis. From the creators of NorthernPros.com. Accepts simultaneous submissions with notice. Responds within 3-6 months.
21800 Parrot Ranch Rd
Carmel Valley, CA 93924
caddymag@gmail.com
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Carve Magazine is honest fiction. With a new editor since January 2007, Carvezine.com features a new site layout and new short stories quarterly. “The kind of stories that linger long after they are read—stories that are honest, that are willing to reveal the flaws and the beauty hidden in each of us.” Accepts simultaneous submissions. Responds within 3-6 months
PO Box 701510
Dallas, TX 75370
editor@carvezine.com
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Cezanne’s Carrot is a quarterly that publishes high-quality fiction, creative nonfiction, and art that explores spiritual, metaphysical, transformational, visionary, or contemplative themes. Prefers work that celebrates the higher aspects of human nature, the integration of inner and outer worlds, and the exciting threshold where the familiar meets the unknown. Accepts simultaneous submissions. Response time is 1 week to 4 months. Email to query@cezannescarrot.org
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Clapboard House is a quarterly built on traditional American South expectations of great story—beautifully written. They welcome writers from any locale. Send stories and poems that “explore the frailties and the beauty of our hearts and minds, remembering our expectations, and we’ll find room for you in our house.” Encourages simultaneous submissions. Response time is 2-6 weeks. Email to clapboardhouse@msn.com
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Dark Sky Magazine is a weekly publication out of Charleston, SC. featuring photography, literature, film, and art. Email: editor@darkskymagazine.com
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decomP is an online literary magazine that is updated monthly. Originally called Decomposition Magazine, they publish prose, poetry, art, and solicited book reviews. Simultaneous submissions are OK. Response time is 30 days or less. Email to decomp.magazine@gmail.com
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diode poetry journal is looking for poetry from all points on the arc, from formal to experimental (no light verse or erotic poetry, please). Simultaneous submissions are welcomed with notification if they’re accepted elsewhere. diode does not accept previously published work. Publishes 3 times a year with a response time of 4-8 weeks. Email to submit@diodepoetry.com
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Earthshine “The voice of Earthshine is one of reflection, compassion, humanity, and reason. If the world is to be saved, the poets will be needed; they who see the connections between all things, and the patterns shared.” They seek poetry of high literary quality which will illuminate readers.” No simultaneous submissions. Response time of 1-2 months. Email to poetry@ruminations.us
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Elsewhere is a semiannual journal dedicated to publishing a broad range of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction that embraces a “storied relationship” to place. The name and online format of the journal echoes the principles our endeavor. Simultaneous submissions allowed. Reading period is September 1st – May 1st. Response time is 2 months. Email to editor@elsewherejournal.org
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Etude: New Voices in Literary Nonfiction is an online quarterly that showcases narrative nonfiction and immersion reportage by new and emerging writers. Published at the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication, the magazine celebrates evocative storytelling, fresh perspectives and intelligent voices. They also publish multi-media pieces, book reviews and essays. Query first on simultaneous submissions. Response time is 3 weeks.
School of Journalism and Communication
1275 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR, 97403-1275
etude@uoregon.edu
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JMWW is a quarterly literary e-zine out of Baltimore publishing fiction, poetry, flash fiction, essays, and creative nonfiction. They also feature one or more visual artists per issue and interviews with writers and artists. They regularly nominate writers for the storySouth Million Writers, Best of the Net, the Pushcart, and other online awards. Accepts simultaneous submissions. Response time is up to 10 weeks, usually sooner Pays in copy to those included in yearly print anthology
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The King’s English may be the only online literary journal devoted to novella-length fiction and long personal essays. Also publishes book reviews and poetry. Its high editorial standards have made it the winner of the Million Writers Award for being the “Best Publisher of Novella-Length Fiction” three years in a row. Publishes 2-3 issues per year. Accepts simultaneous submissions. Responds within 4-6 weeks.
3114 NE 47th Ave
Portland, OR 97213
thekingsenglish@comcast.net
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Narrative Magazine publishes first-rank fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. A nonprofit organization, Narrative is dedicated to advancing the literary arts in the digital age by supporting the finest writing talent and encouraging readership around the world and across generations. Free online library of new literature by celebrated authors and by the best new and emerging writers. Publishes 3 issues per year. Accepts simultaneous submissions. Reading period is April 1-15, and August 1-15th. Holds contests: January 1st – March 31st May 1st-August 31, and September 1st -November 30th. Responds within one month.
P. O. Box 29272
San Francisco, CA. 94129
Email: pg@narrativemagazine.com
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Our Stories seeks the very best contemporary short stories from emerging writers. Interviews established authors. “We pay particular attention to the submission process; all stories are thoroughly read and reviewed by our staff and individual feedback is given to every author who submits to Our Stories.” Published quarterly, they accept simultaneous submissions for contests entries, but not open submissions. Response time is 3 weeks to 3 months. E-mail: editor@ourstories.us
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Paradigm is a quarterly online literary journal that is eclectic, surprising, and innovative. It features new voices alongside established writers and artists. Paradigm is published through Rain Farm Press, is unbound by genre and open to all fiction, nonfiction, poetry, essays, scripts, art, and photography. Accepts simultaneous submissions. Response time is 8-10 weeks. Email: mailbox@therainfarm.com
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Persimmon Tree is an online quarterly literary magazine by women over sixty. It includes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and art. Associated with Mills College, it showcases the often-unrecognized talent and skill of older women. Accepts simultaneous submission. Response time is within 12 weeks.
1534 Campus Dr
Berkeley, CA 94708
Email: editor@persimmontree.org
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POST NO ILLS a web-based and print annual magazine publishing book reviews, interviews, and multimedia. It aims to provide a participatory venue for balanced arts criticism and commentary as well as interdisciplinary exchange between artists and arts administrators in various fields. Accepts simultaneous submissions. Reading period is year-round for website content, September-November for print content. Response time is about three months. Pays $50 for reviews, and essays. Two Copies for creative work (fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, etc.)
Kyle Dargan, Editor
Dept. of Literature, CAS
American University
4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20016
Email: post.no.ills@gmail.com
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Prick of the Spindle is an online quarterly literary journal that seeks poetry, fiction, nonfiction, essays, reviews, and drama. Issues include author interviews, as well as the best contemporary writing among burgeoning and established writers. Accepts simultaneous submissions. Response time is within 6-8 weeks. Email: pseditor@prickofthespindle.com
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Ramble Underground is a quarterly journal of Fiction that “believes that art begins beneath the surface. It’s not hanging on the walls of rich folks’ houses or written within the bounds of proper storytelling and literary etiquette. We seek literary bravery.” Accepts simultaneous submissions. Closed to general submissions from March 15 to May 15 and September 15 to November 15. (“If you would like to submit during these times, please consider our short fiction contest.”) Response time is 3 to 6 months. Email: editor@rambleunderground.org
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Raving Dove is a quarterly seeking “to share thought-provoking poetry, prose, and art that champions human rights and social justice—and opposes physical and psychological violence in all its forms, including war, discrimination against sexual orientation, and every shade of bigotry.” Send original poetry, nonfiction essays, fiction, photography, and art to ravingdove@gmail.com. Accepts simultaneous submissions
Response time is up to 3 months, max. Pays “When funding is available.”
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< a href=”www.spindlezine.com/”>Spindle is an online monthly literary magazine featuring creative non-fiction, poetry and short fiction by, for and about New Yorkers — literal and spiritual. They showcase emerging writers, artists, musicians and other creative types, and are “dedicated to the fundamental idea that cultural diversity, not cash or pseudo-celebrity, rules everything around us.” Accepts simultaneous submissions. Response time is within 1-3 weeks.
Email: submissions@spindlezine.com
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Steel City Review seeks stories that combine techy, mechanical, dry and scientific issues with juicy plots and characters you’d like to chat with. Stories in SCR are about implements, code, machines; academics and workers, and about the true Steel City: Pittsburgh, PA. Published quarterly, they accept simultaneous submissions and have a Response time of 9 weeks, max. Reading period is September 1 – May 31. Email: editor@steelcityreview.com
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STORYGLOSSIA is “the black hole of online literary journals. Once you click in, you can’t get out…we dare you to visit.” Published bi-monthly, they accept simultaneous submissions. Response time is 30 days. Email: editor@storyglossia.com
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The Straddler Straddler is an interdisciplinary quarterly journal of culture, publishing innovative criticism, essays, art, poetry, fiction and interviews, all of which aim to examine and transform their cultural context. Dismissing neither academically nor popularly informed criticism, The Straddler offers more than either, at present, provides. Accepts simultaneous submissions. Response time is 2 months, max. Email: info@thestraddler.com
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SUB-LIT “thinks that there’s not enough sex, drugs, and rock and roll in the literary world. We’re intent on publishing the best in literary dissidence, and are always seeking interesting, subversive, and experimental fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and art.” Published quarterly, they accept simultaneous submissions and have a response time of less than 60 days Email: fiction@sub-lit.com
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Superstition Review was founded in 2007 by faculty and students from Arizona State University’s Polytechnic campus. It is “committed to publishing fresh fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, book reviews, interviews and art. Named after the stunning Superstition Mountains near our campus, the Review is an integral part of several undergraduate programs at ASU.” Published bi-annually, they accept simultaneous submissions within their reading period of fall (Sept and Oct) and spring (Feb and March) Response time is 2 months. Email: superstitionreview@asu.edu
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Wild River Review is “, a cutting edge online literary magazine, presents a world of voices in conversation. Timely, provocative features, and interviews with some of the word’s greatest artists and writers, including: Orhan Pamuk, Kiran Desai, Nadine Gordimer, Neil Gaiman, Freeman Dyson. Blogs that keep you plugged in. Plus fiction, poetry, comics, and more.” Published every 3 weeks with Response to acceptances only. Email: info@wildriverreview.com
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The 2009 Green Book Festival has issued a call for entries to its annual competition honoring books that contribute to greater understanding, respect and positive action on the changing worldwide environment.
The 2009 Green Book Festival will consider published, self-published and independent publisher works in the following categories: non-fiction, fiction, children’s books, teenage, how-to, audio/spoken word, comics/graphic novels, poetry, science fiction/horror, biography/autobiography, gardening, cookbooks, animals, photography/art, e-books, wild card (anything goes!), scientific, white paper, legal and spiritual.
Entries can be in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese or Italian. Our grand prize for the 2009 Green Book Festival Author of the Year is $1500 and transportation to our April, 2009 Earth Day celebration in Los Angeles OR an equivalent amount donated in your name to the environmental charity of your choice.
A panel of judges will determine the winners based on the following criteria:
1) The overall writing style and presentation of the work;
2) The potential of the work to enhance understanding of the environment and its issues;
TO ENTER: Entry forms are available online or may be faxed/e-mailed to you by calling our office at 323-665-8080.
The Green Book Festival is produced by JM Northern Media LLC, producers of the Hollywood Book Festival, New York Book Festival and DIY Convention: Do It Yourself in Film, Music & Books and is sponsored by eDivvy, Larimar St. Croix Writers Colony, Westside Websites and Shopanista.
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Chris Bodor, the editor of “Lunch Break Book,” is posting a call for words and/or B&W line images on the subject of “work” for “The Work Book”, an anthology to be released September 2009. Submissions will be accepted until May or June.
Poems about jobs, having one or losing one, or how a job can suck the creative life out of you unless you take a lunch break and dedicate your lunch break to creativity and writing in journals while memories fade.
Please send words in the body of an email to poetplantpress@ yahoo. com
Scan the images at 300 dpi and email as an attachment to poetplantpress@ yahoo. Com
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