SAND is an international journal publishing risk-taking work from a diverse range of creatives making visual art, poetry, fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, and translations. They look for work that subverts, crosses borders, and...
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Reading Period: Sep 10 to Sep 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationGenres: BIPOC Voices, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, LGBTQ Voices -
Sand Hills brings together new and established voices from diverse backgrounds. They are looking for works that celebrate different perspectives.
They want writers to submit their truths, their fictions—to share their humanity. They...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 15 to Mar 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry -
An in-print and online literary journal, SFLR features work by local, national, and international writers and artists. Each issue of SFLR has a suggested theme; the 2024-25 SFLR theme is “Bloodlines: Lineage,...
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Founded by poet and fiction writer Jim Krusoe in 1988, Santa Monica Review is a nationally distributed literary arts journal sponsored by Santa Monica College. The journal is published twice yearly, in Fall and Spring. Early appearances...
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Saw Palm is a Florida-themed literary journal produced by the MFA program at the University of South Florida. It publishes poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, comics, art, photography, reviews, and interviews.
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Scarlet is a bimonthly blog published by Jaded Ibis Press that is dedicated to publishing the work of artists whose pieces give voice to the complexities of multiple identities. In keeping with JIP’s mission to uplift marginalized voices...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Scoundrel Time is a nonprofit online literary journal publishing fiction, essays, poetry, translated works, graphic memoir and fiction, humor, and visual art that addresses threats to people, cultures, and landscapes posed by the current...
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Scrawl Place is a travel litmag for the guest, the visitor, the traveler, the day-tripper, the out-of-towner, and the in-towners eager to wander. It accepts submissions about “places in the places” where you live or where you’ve visited...
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Seaside Gothic publishes fiction, poetry, and nonfiction of high quality that meet the criteria of seaside gothic literature. Each issue also features a selection of images from a single photographer or artist, including the cover.
Reading Period: Jan 13 to Jan 19, Apr 14 to Apr 20, Jul 14 to Jul 20, Oct 13 to Oct 19Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Seattle Star is an online journal of politics and culture that seeks to open up the world.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Fiction, Humor, Poetry, Political, Pop Culture -
Sensitive Skin Magazine publishes work by emerging and established artists, writers and musicians.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Sepia is committed to showcasing the work of both emerging and established artists. All artists are eligible to submit.
The publication is currently on hiatus.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Sequestrum publishes new, emerging, and internationally acclaimed writers of short fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and cross-genre. All publications are paired with a unique visual component with the goal of fostering and exposing writers...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationGenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Commercial Fiction, Cross-genre, Erotica, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Historical, Humor, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Love, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Nonfiction, Poetry, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Regional, Religious/Spiritual, Serialized Fiction, Translation, War -
Sequoia Speaks is an international literary magazine dedicated to serving writers. Founded in 2021, Sequoia Speaks is based in Northern California.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
The Seventh Wave is a BIPOC- and queer-led arts and literary nonprofit that invites writers, artists, activists, and creators to take part in a conversation surrounding the most pressing social issues of our times.
Reading Period: Oct 31 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Founded in 1892 by William Peterfield Trent, the Sewanee Review is the longest-running literary quarterly in America. SR has published many of the twentieth century’s great writers, including T. S. Eliot, William Faulkner,...
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An annual print literary journal designed and edited by graduate students at the University of Arkansas at Monticello, Shadowplay welcomes submissions in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. The masthead accepts all artistic voices,...
Read moreReading Period: Oct 15 to Mar 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
An international, student-run journal published by Ringling College of Art and Design, Shift features fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, graphic texts or other work in English or translation by emerging and established writers. It...
Read moreReading Period: Oct 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationGenres: Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, Humor, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Translation, Visual Poetry -
Short Reads showcases a mix of original essays and previously published pieces—work that appeared only in print, in now-defunct publications, or that the editors are excited to bring to a new audience of readers.
Reading Period: Aug 10 to Sep 30Genre: Creative Nonfiction -
The Sierra Nevada Review publishes poetry, fiction, and nonfiction that leans toward the unconventional, surprising, and risky. Editors appreciate experiments in form and content and prefer works whose meanings deepen on repeated...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 1 to May 1, Oct 1 to Dec 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
sin cesar (formerly Dryland) is an independent print literary journal born in South Central Los Angeles in 2015. It aims to publish the best in Black and Brown (POC) poetry, fiction, and nonfiction from around the world,...
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Sinister Wisdom is a multicultural lesbian literary and art journal that publishes four issues each year. Publishing since 1976, Sinister Wisdom works to create a multicultural, multiclass lesbian space. Sinister Wisdom...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationGenres: LGBTQ Voices -
Sisyphus is a magazine that focuses on contemporary issues surrounding art, culture, and language.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Poetry, Political -
Sky Island Journal is an independent, international, free-access literary journal; it is dedicated to discovering and publishing the finest original poetry, flash fiction, and creative nonfiction. The magazine publishes accomplished,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationGenres: Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Erotica, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Healing/Health, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Love, Magical Realism, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Religious/Spiritual, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Speculative Poetry, Translation, War -
Sleet publishes writers in all phases of their careers. They are looking for love (!) and beautiful oddness in its various forms.
Reading Period: Dec 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Cross-genre, Flash Fiction, Micro-poetry, Prose Poetry
