24 New Lit Mags Added to Our Database

Hey! So, we used to publish our list of new friends—you know, literary magazines newly added to our database—over on Sub Club, first as part of our Where to Submit newsletter, then as its own separate thing. But then, we were like … why not just throw that bad boy over on Chill Subs, where it belongs?

And here we are.

Every month, we’ll generate a list of new magazines added to the Chill Subs database, and share it right here on the Chill Subs blog. The magazines themselves won’t necessarily be new—more like they’re new to us. Either way, it’s an opportunity to find new places to submit to, to be accepted by, to be rejected by, to bring into the cockles of your literary heart. Too much?

A quick note: The list will always start with new magazines that are open to submissions right now, and will be followed by new magazines that are currently closed.

Southword: New International Writing [Munster Literature Centre] → Deadline: Oct 11 | Fee: No | Pay: $2012 flat | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 3K+ followers | Ireland | 2000 — "A biannual print literary journal published by the Munster Literature Centre, featuring new international writing."

Splinter Journal [Writers SA] | Theme: First Nations → Deadline: Oct 4 | Fee: No | Pay: AU$250 flat | Open for Poetry | ✖️ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | Australia | 2024 — "A biannual literary journal exploring the gaps between perception and reality, published from Adelaide, Australia."

Swing: New Writing that Moves You [The Porch] → Deadline: Oct 1 | Fee: No | Pay: $15-$8000 flat | Open for Nonfiction, Multimedia, Fiction, Poetry | ✖️ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2022 — "A biannual print magazine showcasing fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and comics, reflecting the dynamic spirit of Nashville."

The Cambridge Quarterly [Oxford University Press] | Fee: No | Pay: Yes | Open for Nonfiction | ✖️ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United Kingdom | 1966 — "A literary journal publishing articles on literature, cinema, music, and visual arts."

Stone's Throw [Rock and a Hard Place Press] | Theme: War → Deadline: Oct 4 | Fee: No | Pay: $25 flat | Open for Fiction | ✖️ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2022 — "Stone's Throw is the monthly online companion to Rock and a Hard Place Magazine, delivering shorter, sharper content on a regular basis in an electronic medium, before collecting all 12 stories for an annual print anthology."

Tricycle → Deadline: Dec 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 200K+ followers | United States | 1991 — "Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, the first magazine intended to present Buddhist perspectives to a Western readership."

Trestle Creek Review | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 30K+ followers | United States | 1993 — "Trestle Creek Review is a publication of North Idaho College that publishes annually."

TRANSFER MAGAZINE → Deadline: Oct 6 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States — "Transfer is San Francisco State’s student-run literary magazine featuring poetry, fiction, drama, creative nonfiction and art by SFSU students. Each semester, the undergraduate staff taking CW 640 discusses and selects student submissions for publica"

Glossy Planet | Theme: Monsters We Made → Deadline: Oct 15 | Fee: $10 | Pay: $1300 flat | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 28 days | Under 100 followers | United States | 2025 — "Write like it matters. Because it does. If it feels like “I had to write this now,” we want to read it."

Wound Up Literary | Fee: No | Pay: Yes | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 21 days | A: 5% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2025 — "For anxious, wound-up flash fiction. We publish a new piece every Monday."

Front Porch Magazine | Theme: Fall '25 Issue: Southern Gothic → Deadline: Nov 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | 100+ followers | United States | 2025 — "A student-run literary and art magazine dedicated to elevating marginalized voices of the American South"

Walrus Proetry | Walrus Protocol Poetry and Prose | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | Under 100 followers | United States | 2025 — "A fully web3 literary journal existing on the Sui blockchain. We publish traditional literature as well as blockchain-native literature that explores the language arts applications of distributed ledger technology (DLT)"

mothertongue magazine | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 200+ followers | United States | 2021 — "This magazine is actually for travel writing."

Scribbled | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2018 — "Scribbled is a free platform run entirely by volunteers."

Verses From The Underground | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 60 days | 1K+ followers | United States | 2023 — "Poetry for the Poor"

The Drift & Dribble Miscellany | Fee: $2 | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2025 — "An artistic publication of literary voices that share their eclectic perspectives through a love of the written word."

SP(A)CE SPECS | Theme: Issue I: The Witching Hour → Deadline: Oct 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States — "we are a new international magazine dedicated to uplifting writers, poets, and artists who identify with aromantic, asexual, and agender spectrums!"

Golgonooza Magazine → Deadline: Dec 14 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 1979 — "Golgonooza Magazine is a new venture from our artistic collective dedicated to the exploration and innovation of The Weird as an artistic philosophy."

Tales from the Crosstimbers → Closed | Fee: No | Pay: $10-$50/word | Publishes Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ✖️ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2024 — "A quarterly magazine publishing speculative fiction, including science fiction, fantasy, slipstream, and horror."

The Orange & Bee → Closed | Fee: No | Pay: No | Publishes Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 300+ followers | United States — "Our real and not-so-secret mission is to build a community—a virtual salon—around our shared passion for fairy tales."

Lọ́unlọ́un → Closed | Fee: No | Pay: No | Publishes Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 35 days | 700+ followers | South Africa | 2023 — "Lọ́unlọ́un is a Pan-African literary journal. We want to tell stories about Africa by African writers, both at home and abroad."

PERVERSE → Closed | Fee: No | Pay: No | Publishes Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | 2020 — "PERVERSE is a free newsletter-based poetry magazine for “deliberate, obstinate, unreasonable or unacceptable poems, contrary to the expected practice”."

Pretentious Literarian → Closed | Fee: No | Pay: $5 flat | Publishes Fiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States — "We believe in fiction that carries a pulse. A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end."

InterrobangLit → Closed | Fee: No | Pay: No | Publishes Fiction, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | India | 2024 — "We can't beat subjectivity, but we can temper it."