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32 Lit Mags That Want Your Work Right Freakin' Now (December 2022)

Hello, it's snowing somewhere and somewhere else it's not snowing, and your cup of tea is cold now because you've been staring at Submittable far too long. Happy December submitting to you and your poor family.

1) The /temz/ Review

2) 100 Word Story (*submission fee: $2)

3) Agbowó

4) Archive of the Odd

5) Barrow Street Journal

6) Black Warrior Review (*note: submission fee: $3)

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Black Warrior Review

Established in 1974 by graduate students in the MFA in Creative Writing, Black Warrior Review is named for the river tha...

Theme: More Than One
Responds: 1-6 months

Payment: $20-$200

Followers: 24k+

7) Blink-Ink

8) celestite poetry

9) Chaotic Merge

10) The Cincinnati Review

11) A Coup of Owls

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A Coup of Owls

Quarterly online stories (free to read) + annual print anthologies Publishing only marginalised/under-represented creato...

Theme: Othered
Responds: 1 month

Payment: see Genres section for details

Followers: 1k+

12) Diet Milk Magazine

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Diet Milk Magazine

A biannual literary magazine devoted to Gothic prose, poetry, and art.

Theme: Gothic writing & art
Responds: 3 weeks

Payment: see Genres section for details

Followers: 3k+

13) The Ekphrastic Review (*note: Accepts previously published work)

14) Empyrean Literary Magazine

15) ENTRAILS Magazine

16) FATHERFATHER

17) Granta (*note: submission fee: $3)

18) Grub Street

19) The Hooghly Review

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The Hooghly Review

The Hooghly Review is a digital non-profit and free-access magazine of literature & arts with the aim to shine a light o...

Theme: Unthemed
Responds: 1 month

Payment: No

Followers: 2k+

20) Kaleidotrope

21) Karma Comes Before

22) Kissing Dynamite

23) Last Leaves Magazine

24) Little Patuxent Review

25) Penumbra Online

26) Sleet Magazine (*note: Accepts previously published work)

27) Snowflake Magazine (*note: Accepts previously published work)

28) Southwest Review

29) Stone of Madness Press (*note: Accepts previously published work)

30) Sylvia

31) Toil and Trouble Lit Mag

32) A Velvet Giant