Submissions to Tin House Magazine are now open. Submissions accepted through February 28, 2016. Tin House considers each submission for all upcoming issues regardless of theme. Summer and winter issues are not themed Submission Guidelines page includes a helpful FAQ’s column. Worth reading. Good advice for submissions to almost all magazines. Submit only one story or essay (10,000-word limit), or up to five poems at a time. Multiple submissions will be returned unread. Please wait until you hear from Tin House before submitting new work for consideration. “We shall do our best to respond within six months but, in some cases, this period may be longer. If you have not received a response from us within six months, we will be happy to receive e-mail inquiries and will do our best to respond.”
Category: Places to submit
Tri-Quarterly – writing, art and cultural inquiry
TriQuarterly is the literary magazine of Northwestern University. This web journal is edited by graduate students and supervised by faculty. TriQuarterly is “an international journal of writing, art, and cultural inquiry.” From now until May 1, 2016, TQ welcomes submissions of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, short drama, short-short prose pieces, video essays, and hybrid work from established as well as emerging writers. TQ is especially interested in work that embraces the world and continues, however subtly, the ongoing global conversation about culture and society that TriQuarterly pursued from its beginning in 1964. TriQuarterly pays honoraria for creative work and publishes two issues a year. Submission Guidelines.
weirderary . . . encourages creativity
weirderary is an online literary magazine dedicated to high quality creative work. “We publish writing, comics, art, and hybrid pieces, favoring fresh and uncommon forms, subjects, and points of view. Over here, “weird” is a compliment, not a pejorative. weirderary comes out three times per year: March, June, and October 17th.” Accepting submissions now and up to March 1, 2016. The genius of weirderary: Jessica Thompson, TJ Murray, and Colleen Kolba. “Send us your weirdest stuff, whether in content or form. We want the unusual. We want to be surprised. We appreciate humor, but that doesn’t only mean light-hearted and goofy. Feel free to go dark. Get serious, just do it in a form or from a perspective we don’t see very often. Cross genre lines and experiment. Send us the work you don’t know how to define.” Submit by email: submit-at-weirderary.com. Put the category and title of what you’re submitting in the…
Mystery Writing Magazines
Since The Write Spot Blog has been featuring Agatha Christie this past week, it seems right to post ideas where you can submit your mystery writing. At the end of this post, link to the writing style of Agatha Christie. Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine welcomes submissions from both new and established writers. They publish “every kind of mystery short story: the psychological suspense tale, the deductive puzzle, the private eye case—the gamut of crime and detection from the realistic (including the policeman’s lot and stories of police procedure) to the more imaginative (including ‘locked rooms’ and ‘impossible crimes’). We need hardboiled stories as well as ‘cozies,’ but we are not interested in explicit sex or violence. We do not want true detective or crime stories.” With the exception of a regular book-review column and a mystery crossword, EQMM publishes only fiction. EQMM is especially happy to review first stories by…
Alaska Quarterly Review encourages new and emerging writers
Alaska Quarterly Review is a literary journal devoted to contemporary literary art, publishing fiction, short plays, poetry, photo essays, and literary non-fiction in traditional and experimental styles. The editors encourage new and emerging writers, while continuing to publish award winning and established writers. Guidelines FICTION: Short stories and novel excerpts (generally not exceeding 50 pages). POETRY: Poems (up to 20 pages). DRAMA: Short plays (generally not exceeding 50 pages). PROSE: Literary nonfiction (generally not exceeding 50 pages). PHOTO ESSAYS: Query before submitting. All manuscripts must be typed and accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope (SASE). Unsolicited manuscripts are read between August 15 and May 15. AQR responds to e-mail queries, but cannot review electronic submissions. Identify simultaneous submissions in cover letter.
The Sun Magazine
“The Sun is an independent, ad-free magazine that for more than forty years has used words and photographs to evoke the splendor and heartache of being human. Each monthly issue celebrates life, but not in a way that ignores its complexity. The personal essays, short stories, interviews, poetry, and photographs that appear in The Sun’s pages explore the challenges we face and the moments when we rise to meet them.” “We publish essays, interviews, fiction, and poetry. We tend to favor personal writing, but we’re also looking for provocative pieces on political and cultural issues. And we’re open to just about anything. Surprise us; we often don’t know what we’ll like until we read it. We pay from $300 to $2,000 for essays and interviews, $300 to $1,500 for fiction, and $100 to $200 for poetry. We also give contributors a complimentary one-year subscription to The Sun. We purchase one-time rights. All other…
Superstition Review
Superstition Review is the online literary magazine published by Arizona State University twice yearly (May and December), featuring art, fiction, interviews, nonfiction and poetry. Their mission is to promote contemporary art and literature by providing a free, easy-to-navigate, high quality online publication that features work by established and emerging artists and authors from all over the world. Superstition Review welcomes submissions of art, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry during their two reading periods in spring (January and February) and fall (September and October). Submission Guidelines. Superstition Review maintains a strong year-round community of editors, submitters, contributors, and readers through social networks: s[r} Blog s[r]Facebook s[r]Goodreads s[r]Google+ iTunes U LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Twitter YouTube The Write Spot Blog is part of the Festive Spirit Blog Hop, hosted by Francis H. Powell. To read posts by participating bloggers, click on Francis H. Powell’s Home Page. Scroll down, choose a name, click on one and you will magically be…
American Short Fiction Magazine
“American Short Fiction publishes work by emerging and established voices: stories that dive into the wreck, that stretch the reader between recognition and surprise, that conjure a particular world with delicate expertise—stories that take a different way home.” “Our goal here at American Short Fiction is to respect . . . involvement by offering consistently intelligent, engrossing, and beautiful reading, in print and on this website, and we appreciate your company. “Stories! Stories, stories, stories!” cried the narrator on the final page of that first Spring ’91 issue, in a work by W. D. Wetherell. Stories, indeed.” American Short(er) Fiction Contest The prize recognizes extraordinary short fiction under 1,000 words. The first-place winner will receive a $1,000 prize and publication, and the second-place winner will receive $250 and publication. All entries will be considered for publication. Submission period ends: February 1, 2016. Guidelines for contest. Submission Guidelines for regular submissions….
Colorado Review
THE COLORADO REVIEW accepts short fiction, personal essay, poetry, and book reviews. FICTION & NONFICTION Colorado Review considers short fiction and personal essays with contemporary themes (no genre fiction or literary criticism). POETRY Poetry of any style is accepted. Please limit poetry submissions to no more than five poems at a time. PRIZE FOR POETRY NELLIGAN PRIZE BOOK REVIEWS If you would like to submit a book review, please send query to respective editors. SUBMISSION DATES AND FORMAT (Scroll down) Nonfiction manuscripts are read year-round. Fiction & poetry manuscripts are read from August 1 to April 30. Simultaneous submissions are accepted; writers must notify CR immediately if the work is accepted elsewhere. CR considers only previously unpublished work. Colorado Review purchases First North American Serial Rights; all rights revert to the author upon publication in CR. We pay $10 per page ($30 minimum) for poetry and $200 for short stories and essays. Authors…
AGNI accepts fiction, nonfiction, poetry, interviews.
AGNI Magazine accepts fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and interviews for their print and online literary magazines. “We see literature and the arts as part of a broad, ongoing cultural conversation that every society needs to remain vibrant and alive. Our writers and artists hold a mirror up to nature, mankind, the world; they courageously reflect their age, for better or worse; and their work provokes perceptions and thoughts that help us understand and respond to our age. Literature for literature’s sake is not what AGNI is about.” Submission period: Between September 1st and May 31st. Payment: $10 per printed (or printed-out) page for all accepted prose, $20 per page for poetry, $150 maximum, along with a year’s subscription, and, for the print magazine, two contributor’s copies and four gift copies of the issue. Be sure to read all details regarding submissions. It would be a shame to miss out on being published due to a…