Top 10+ no fee submission calls for creatives (May 2022)

This is a list of magazines and journals accepting submission this May. This list is curated by @thestripesmag to help creatives find homes for their works. you may share and also leave a comment on how our lists help your creative career.

~ Night Coffee

Night Coffee is looking for your poetry, art, and ephemera to publish in our magazine.

See guidelines here: https://www.night-coffee.com/submit

~ Bodega

Bodega releases digital issues on the first Monday of every month (except January) featuring poetry, prose, and occasional interviews by established and emerging writers. We’re here to give you a handful of essential pieces you can digest in one sitting.

See guidelines here: https://bodegamagazine.submittable.com/submit

~ NoContact

Nocontact considers art, fiction, creative non-fiction, humor, poetry, and any fusion therein. Please take a look at their guidelines (listed under each category) before submitting.

See guidelines here: https://nocontact.submittable.com/submit

~ Thuya Poetry Review.

Thuya looks forward to reading your work. We are currently accepting submissions for issue two.

Deadline: May 15, 2022.

See guidelines here: https://thuyapoetryreview.submittable.com/submit

~ Poemify Magazine

Poemify Magazine is open for Issue III. They accept all forms of prose, poetry, and artwork.

The theme of Issue IV is “PEACE”
"In recent years, we’ve seen an increase in violence, invasions, terrorism, and community disputes that have displaced thousands of people, killed a thousand more, and ruined many more."

Send your poems, stories, essays, and artwork about peace and conflict.

Deadline: 18, June 2022

See guidelines here: https://poemifypublishers.com/submissions-are-open-for-issue-iv-of-poemify-magazine/?utm_source=sendfox&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=contactfirst-name-submissions-are-open-for-issue-iv-of-poemify-magazine

~ Frontier

We are looking for poetry that pushes language forward, for poets and poems that strive to place themselves at the edge of what language can do. But this does not mean that we are only concerned with experimental poetry. We believe that sonnets can be at the frontier, book-length poems can be at the frontier, confessional poetry can be at the frontier—as long as a piece is constructed with exceptional consideration for language & craft, that poem is a fit for us.

See guidelines here: https://frontier.submittable.com/submit

~ Undiscovered Poets

While undiscovered does not necessarily mean unpublished, and previously published poems will be considered, the journal is interested in poems by writers striving to enter the world of published poets. All ages, levels of education and life experience are welcome.

See guidelines here: https://www.undiscoveredpoets.com/submit

~ Arc

Arc invites sub­mis­sions from poets at all stages of their writing careers.

Arc accepts unso­licited sub­mis­sions of pre­vi­ously unpub­lished poetry in English, or translations of poetry into English, on any sub­ject and in any form.

See guidelines here: https://arcpoetry.ca/submit/

~ Palette Poetry

Submissions for our Featured Poetry category are open year-round to poets at any stage of their careers. Featured poems are published online only and will spotlight a number of poems from new authors each month. We highly encourage emerging authors to submit.

See guidelines here: https://www.palettepoetry.com/submit/

~ Contemporary Verse 2

Contemporary Verse 2 is accepting only online submissions for consideration.

See guidelines here: https://contemporaryverse2.ca/submission-guidelines/

~ Randon

Radon welcomes short story and poetry submissions containing elements of anarchism, trans-humanism, dystopia, and/or science fiction.

Deadline: Submission open year round

See guidelines here: https://www.radonjournal.com/submit

~ Poet Lore

Poet Lore is a biannual print journal of poetry and translations. Published with the conviction that poetry provides a record of human experience as valuable as history.

June 1, 2022

https://poetlore.submittable.com/submit

~ Subliminal

We accept all forms and genres of art, and some general guidelines are listed below. As a rule, we do not tolerate and reserve the right to ignore work that contains racism, homophobia, NSFW (not safe for work), etc. content. Currently, we hope to respond to art submissions in a week, and writing submissions in two weeks. After a month has passed, feel free to query.

See guidelines here: https://readsubliminal.wixsite.com/readsubliminal/submit

~ Biscuit Hill

Biscuit Hill is open for submissions and accepting: poetry, prose poetry, poetry comics, anything poetry. We're also open to hybrid stuff.

See guidelines here: https://www.thebiscuithill.com/submissions

~ (mac)ro(mic)

We want your heart, your soul, the pieces that are a part of you. We want stories that are worlds in words, pieces that tell a (mac)ro story in a (mic)ro word count. We want works that focus on expressing, not impressing.

See guidelines here: https://macromic.org/submit/

~ The Shallow Tales Review

The Shallow Tales Review is accepting fiction, creative non-fiction, book reviews, poems, one-act plays, cultural and social essays, art photographs, and translations that touch on the sensibilities of the African.

See guidelines here: https://theshallowtalesreview.com.ng/submissions/

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