Writer News: Top 10+ No Fee Calls for Creatives (May 2023)
Sango-ota
Sango-ota is open for poetry submissions. They only accept unpublished poems and are interested in poems with a keen connection to a sense of place, nature, or otherworldly geographies.
Deadline: May 10, 2023.
Full Guidelines: https://poetrysangoota.weebly.com/submission-guidelines.html
Libretto Magazine
Libretto Magazine seeks unique works with strong sense of empathy, introspection, and courage; works that are evocative and that possess the capacity to redefine perception. This is to encourage diverse voices to share their experiences, opinions, and insights on disability-related issues. Contributors are also allowed to explore the theme in a manner that defies convention.
Deadline : May 21, 2023.
Theme: Disability
Full Guidelines: https://librettong.com/submission-guidelines/
Old Pal
Old Pal is currently open for submissions. They publish poetry, fiction, criticism, excerpts, audio, mixed media, and various mediums of art. While encouraging artists from all experience levels and communities to submit
Deadline: May 20, 2023.
Full Guidelines: https://www.oldpalmag.com/submissions
The Shallow Tales Review
The Shallow Tales Review is open for issue 41. They accept 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. For now, we do not pay contributors, but we hope to do so in the nearest future. We, however, nominate for the AKO Caine Prize.
Deadline: May 31, 2023
Full Guidelines: https://theshallowtalesreview.com.ng/submissions/
Omenana Magazine
Omenana Magazine is open for submissions for the 26th edition. For this edition, we are rooting for science fiction stories set in the depths of space or other planets, far away from Earth. We want Speculative works, art, fiction, and non-fiction from artists and writers from Africa and the African Diaspora.
Deadline: May 25, 2023
Full Guidelines: https://omenana.com/omenana-submissions/
Baltimore Review
They ask that you please review the editors’ preferences and tips to writers. “We may not be able to completely pin down what we want — and we do want to be taken pleasantly by surprise — but you may find the quotes helpful.”
Full Guidelines: https://baltimorereview.org/submit
Atrium poetry
They want poetry that excites us; poetry to provoke an unexpected tear, a woozy feeling in the stomach, a giggle on a rush hour bus. Poetry that tickles, unsettles, warms, surprises, grips. Poetry that makes readers feel.
Full Guidelines: https://atriumpoetry.com/submission-guidelines/
River Heron Review
River Heron Review seeks clear, concise, and crafted work from a variety of diverse voices and perspectives. They love poems that use language imaginatively without sacrificing meaning and movement and are receptive to all styles of poetry. We want to be awed, surprised, or moved by the poems you submit.
Deadline: May 31, 2023.
Full Guidelines: https://www.riverheronreview.com/submit
The Pierian
The Pierian seeks invigorating new poetry that engages with the sounds and sense of poetic traditions. They would consider free verse, formal verse, prose poetry, and combinations thereof. Pierian does not accept cover letters. Each poem is read blind, shuffled with other recent submissions.
Full Guidelines: https://www.thepierian.org/submit
Last Stanza
Issue #13 is open for submission. As with every issue, poems submitted do not need to follow the prompt/theme. A single $100 award will be given for an outstanding poem.
Theme: These Things We Carry
Deadline: June 30, 2023
Full Guidelines: https://laststanzapoetry.blogspot.com/
FIVEFLEAS
Five fleas is open for submission. They want art that stands out.
Full Guidelines: https://fivefleas.blogspot.com/
The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts
The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts is looking for, as you might guess, “compressed creative arts.” We accept fiction and creative nonfiction, as long if they are compressed in some way. Work is published weekly, without labels, and the labels here only exist to help us determine its best readers.
Deadline: June 15, 2023.
Full Guidelines: https://matter.submittable.com/submit
Shō Poetry Journal
Shō Poetry Journal is a small-press print journal coming out of a 20-year hibernation. Our mission is to give voice to poets who have been historically underrepresented or overlooked. We seek to champion poets at all stages of their careers, with special attention given to the work of emerging poets. They are now reading for Shō №4, which will be released in winter/spring 2024.
Full Guidelines: https://shopoetryjournal.com/submissions/
Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine
Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine is looking for well-crafted poetry, fiction, nonfiction, drama, artwork, and book reviews for our print and digital publication. Do not send in writing or art that was created using Artificial Intelligence. Submitting work generated by A.I. technology will be considered as plagiarism.
Full Guidelines: https://www.doorisajarmagazine.net/submissions
Thimble Literary Magazine
Thimble Literary Magazine is primarily a poetry journal, but we happily publish plenty of short prose and art. We are not looking for anything in particular in terms of form or style, but that it speaks to the reader or writer in some way.
Full Guidelines: https://www.thimblelitmag.com/submissions/
Scrawl Place
Scrawl Place is part visitor’s guide, part literary journal. The audience for this online publication is the guest, the visitor, the traveler, the day-tripper, the out-of-towner, and the in-towners eager to wander. I’m looking for submissions about “places in the places” where you live or where you’ve visited.
Full Guidelines: https://scrawlplace.submittable.com/submit
Psaltery & Lyre
At Psaltery & Lyre, we want essays, stories, poetry, and hybrid works that expand the borders of sacred and secular. We are particularly interested in works that speak from a place of embodiment — the lived experiences that touch belief and doubt.
Full Guidelines: https://psalteryandlyre.org/submissions/
The Hemlock Journal
The Hemlock Journal is a space built for writers to learn, explore, grow together, and be a unique source in reaching the distant perspectives of the poets and storytellers to the tribe. Our prominent aim is to help writers advance their careers, and establish their brands by providing a global platform.
Deadline: June 30, 2023
Full Guidelines: https://thehemlockjournal.wordpress.com/about/
Skipjack Review
Skipjack Review accepts fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and comic submissions.
“These waters are eclectic, baby, sometimes dyslexic, irreverent, and odd, but mom loves it anyway — Mother Nature, that is. And we love her. That’s why everything we publish at Skipjack Review must have within its radar a reeling concern for the natural world.”
Deadline: October 1, 2023.
Full Guidelines: https://skipjackreview.wordpress.com/submit/
Diet Milk Mag
We are open for submission. However, we’re willing to consider pieces posted exclusively to an author’s website OR that have appeared in now-defunct publications. If this applies to your work, please say so in your cover letter. We encourage simultaneous submissions, but ask to be informed of an acceptance elsewhere promptly.
Full Guidelines: https://www.dietmilkmag.com/submit
Coffee House Press
Coffee House Press publishes literary fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and translation. CHP does not accept submissions of anthologies, graphic novels, or books for children or young adults.
Full Guidelines: https://coffeehousepress.org/pages/submissions
Poet Lore
We have a mission of discovery at Poet Lore. Therefore, every submission is read without regard to reputation by our team of readers and editors. Please send us your best work.
Full Guidelines: https://poetlore.submittable.com/submit
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