Here are a devil’s dozen new opportunities for writers. Good luck getting your work out to these journals and the world. Special thanks to Raina K. Puels, editor at Redivider, for reaching out to solicit YOUR work.
Redivider
Redivider made a big announcement this week that they are switching to an all-digital platform. Issue 15.2 (Spring 2018) will be the final print issue. Issue 16.1 (Autumn 2018) will be the very first digital issue. Editor Raina K. Puels asked me to help spread the word that Redivider will remain “a journal dedicated to supporting a diversity of voices. In this political climate, we think it’s especially important to represent the unique intersections of gender, class, race, and sexuality in our poems, essays, stories, and graphic art.” Redivider is currently looking for fiction submissions up to 8,000 words, nonfiction submissions up to 6,000 words, and up to five poems per submission. Submit today!
http://www.redividerjournal.org/submit/
Pithead Chapel
Pithead Chapel is an independent and volunteer-run literary journal and small press founded in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula in 2012. We publish gutsy fiction, nonfiction, and prose poetry online every month and a couple of printed chapbooks every year. Pithead Chapel electronically publishes art, literary fiction, nonfiction, and prose poetry monthly. At present, we only accept submissions under 4,000 words. All submissions that follow our guidelines below will be considered for an upcoming issue.
https://pitheadchapel.submittable.com/submit
Tuck Magazine
Tuck Magazine is an online, globally focused and socially conscious journal for the discerning reader, where vital commentary and the arts merge. We are looking for new writers with something fresh, interesting and important to say. This can be political, opinion, human rights based or anything you feel is important that needs to be heard. For further information, contact Managing Editor Michael Organ at editor@tuckmagazine.com. We are also looking for writers who can regularly contribute pieces based on music, film, art, photography, reviews, interviews; in fact anything interesting. Short Stories / Flash Fiction: 800-2400 words, Stories must be engaging and original, we are particularly interested in work that challenges the reader to see another perspective. We also have a sense of humour at Tuck, therefore satire is something we love to see. Our goal at Tuck is to entertain and enlighten with a good story written by emerging writers. Send two poems per submission. We also accept book reviews.
http://tuckmagazine.com/write-for-us/
Dialogist
Dialogist is an online platform for diversity through discourse. Be clear. Be dynamic. Start a conversation. And send us your best. We accept poetry and art/photography/illustration. Submit up to five poems of any length. Include all submissions within a single Word document, with a poem per page. Submissions should be paginated—to include an identifying header (name and email address), and be in 12 point Times New Roman.
Coachella Review
The Coachella Review accepts original work that is vibrant, thoughtful, and precise. Whether your work is innovative or traditional, we strive to celebrate writing that holds readers in awe. We publish two issues a year, in June and December. There are no deadlines. We welcome creative nonfiction of all kinds. Submissions should not exceed 6,000 words. We invite poets to send up to five poems per submission. Include all works in a single attachment. There are no restrictions on form or length. We welcome short stories, novel excerpts, and experimental forms. Both literary and genre works are invited. Submissions should not exceed 6,000 words.
http://thecoachellareview.com/wordpress/submissions/
Heartwood
HeartWood, an online literary magazine in association with West Virginia Wesleyan’s Low-Residency MFA program, publishes twice yearly, in April and October. We accept submissions year round through Submittable, and welcome previously unpublished poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, from both established and emerging writers. We do love Appalachian voices, but we enthusiastically encourage writers from all backgrounds to submit. Fiction submissions may include short stories, flash fiction, or novel excerpts. You may submit more than one piece of flash fiction as long as the total word count does not exceed 3000 words. We’re open to a wide range of nonfiction, with the exception of academic articles, or that which would be considered more traditionally journalistic. Personal essay, memoir, lyric, literary journalism, or some blurring in between, are all acceptable. Poets should submit no more than 3-5 single-spaced poems at a time. Include all poems in a single document for upload.
http://www.heartwoodlitmag.com/submit/
The Shanghai Literary Review
The Shanghai Literary Review is an English language magazine of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, translation, book review, and art, run by an editorial team between New York, London, & Shanghai. Our magazine sells in stores in London, New York, Shanghai, and Beijing. All pieces are eventually posted on our website as well. The deadline for our summer 2018 issue (Issue 3) is February 15, 2018. There is no fee for submitting work to TSLR. We are interested in art and criticism about urbanism, globalism, identity, and transnationalism, though by no means should submissions be limited to those topics. We’ll publish a good story about cats in Africa if it floors us. We publish: Fiction – less than 5,000 words; Poetry – 2 poems submission limit per person; Non-Fiction & Essay – less than 5,000 words; Flash Fiction or Nonfiction – less than 500 words.
https://www.shanghailiterary.com/submissions/
Copper Nickel
Copper Nickel accepts submissions of poetry, fiction, essays, and translation folios now through March 1, 2018. Please submit four to six poems, one story, or one essay at a time.
http://copper-nickel.org/submit/
Lit Fest Fellowships for Emerging Writers
Applications are now open for our Fellowships for Emerging Writers, which cover full tuition for a Master Workshop in poetry, nonfiction, fiction, and screen/playwriting at our 13th annual Lit Fest. A two-week celebration of the literary arts, Lit Fest features seminars, parties, workshops, salons, and agent consultations at our historic mansion in Denver. Our faculty includes Lydia Millet, Sheila Heti, Terrance Hayes, CAConrad, Charles D’Ambrosio, Min Jin Lee, Emily Rapp Black, Jenny Offill, Leslie Jamison, Maggie Shipstead, Daniel Goldfarb, Robin Black, Alexandre Philippe, Steve Almond, and others. Applications are due March 15, 2018. There is a $30 application fee.
https://www.lighthousewriters.org/events/lit-fest
https://www.lighthousewriters.org/lit-fest-master-workshops-2018
Fiddlehead – Creative Nonfiction Issue
For our creative nonfiction issue. Tell us your true stories, bring us your belles lettres! Announcing the first ever creative nonfiction issue. Creative nonfiction is construed widely and can include personal essays, narrative non-fiction, think pieces, etc. Submissions in this genre should be double-spaced and maximum 6,000 words. Deadline: March 31, 2018.
https://thefiddlehead.ca/submit
Lunch Ticket
Lunch Ticket is the online literary and art journal published by the MFA community of Antioch University (AU), a program devoted to the education of literary artists, community engagement, and the pursuit of social, economic, and environmental justice. We are currently reading from now through April 30, 2018. Submit up to three poems. We accept fiction from 751 up to 5,000 words and CNF under 750 words. If your fiction is 750 words and under, please submit it to the Flash Prose category.
http://lunchticket.org/about/submission-guidelines/
Floyd County Moonshine
Any and all subject matter is welcome, although we gravitate toward Local Color (especially stories set in Floyd, the New River Valley, or a specific rural setting) and the Southern Gothic. Short stories, essays, & novel excerpts should not exceed 8,000 words. Submit up to 5 poems. The deadline for Floyd County Moonshine’s special anniversary issue is April 30, 2018. Prior contributors are also encouraged to submit once again. Interviews should not exceed 3,000 words.
http://www.floydcountymoonshine.com/submissions.html
Columbia Journal
We’re dedicated to publishing and displaying the work of the freshest voices alongside established artists, poets and writers. Submissions for the journal’s website are open from through May 2018. Prose pieces should be 5,000 words or less, and poetry submissions can be 5 printed pages.
Denton Loving 