Need some new blood in your system? If by “new blood,” you mean new lit mags, and by “your system,” you mean your long list of potential places to submit to, we got you. If you mean anything else … I do believe you’re in the wrong place. Go to the hospital, babe.
Below is our monthly list of new lit mags and journals added to the Chill Subs database. Lots of new, juicy bits and bobs. Enjoy responsibly and see you in 2026 (ew)!
The W(hole)🕳️ | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 90 days | 10K+ followers | United States | 2025 — "The W(hole) publishes literary personal essays and flash on recovery from anything that disconnects us from ourselves. Will pay $100/essay once we reach 100 paid subscribers (close!) Formerly Voices on Addiction at The Rumpus Ed: Kelly Thompson LCSW"
Poetry Habitat | Theme: Poetry Habitat - 2025 Solstice Poetry Award - Contest → Deadline: Dec 21 | Fee: Some | Pay: $100 flat | Open for Poetry, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 14 days | Under 100 followers | United States | 2025 — "Poetry Habitat seeks work with emotional clarity, depth, and consequence, poems grounded in lived experience and crafted with intention. We value writing that speaks honestly and leaves a lasting presence."
GARDEN OF THOUGHTS | Theme: Gardens of The Mind | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 2 days | A: 100% | Under 100 followers | Australia | 2025 — "Garden of Thoughts, a literary magazine for poets and writers.Want to be featured in our first ever edition? Please email poetry or short stories to gardenofthoughtspoetry@gmail.com This month’s theme is “Gardens” and we’re excited"
The Chai Magazine | Theme: Issue 01: Adhoore (Incomplete) → Deadline: Dec 16 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Fiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 600+ followers | India | 2025 — "An independent, youth-run literary magazine from India and beyond! Love for the literary world with no borders."
Wingless Dreamer | Theme: Wingless Dreamer Publisher - Letters Beneath the Mistletoe* → Deadline: Dec 15 | Fee: $5 | Pay: Yes | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | 4K+ followers | India | 2019 — "Submit at your own pace, dream at your own rhythm. Wingless Dreamer welcomes your words—calm, unhurried, and beautifully you. 🎙️Giving voices to writers and artists ✍️ Wellness Journal | Publish | Web Design | Podcast | YouTube | Editing Services"
seasonal fruits literary | Theme: poetry submissions → Deadline: Dec 17 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ✖️ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 1K+ followers | Canada | 2023 — "seasonal fruits literary, est. 2023, is a quarterly literary magazine that publishes poetry inspired by the seasons from emerging & established poets alike. we publish emotive, perceptive works."
Raiya Magazine | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 21 days | A: 43% | 1K+ followers | 2025 — "Raiya is a youth-run magazine exploring imagination and identity. We publish fiction, poetry, critiques, essays and the visual arts."
The Hyperbolic Review → Deadline: Dec 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 60 days | 800+ followers | United States | 2024 — "Online magazine of mathematical poetry. Send us what lives beyond Euclidean space."
Orion Literary | Theme: Issue 1: Empire → Deadline: Dec 25 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 7 days | 300+ followers | Singapore | 2025 — "Youth-run independent zine"
The Parallel | Theme: The Parallel: Stories | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | Under 100 followers — "Bringing you the finest investigative journalism from the world that almost exists. We pride ourselves on having a multilingual team of journalists. Our Editor-in-Chief is Stuart Chase. We have already forgotten the name of the previous one."
Knights of Pen and Ink | Theme: Issue 1 - The Magician → Deadline: Dec 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United Kingdom | 2025 — "A free online Poetry and Illustration Magazine that strives to show unique perspectives on the universal archetypes of life, currently through Tarot's Major Arcana card titles."
The Ones Behind the Bookshelves → Deadline: Feb 25, 2026 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | Under 100 followers — "A journal for the forgotten, the almost-missed. We uplift the work that too often gets lost behind the bookshelves."
Adventitious → Closed | Fee: No | Pay: $0.08/word or $100 flat | Publishes Fiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2025 — "Unexpected in origin, inevitable in impact. Something not planned for, but impossible to imagine the world without."
Foreign Policy → Closed | Fee: Yes | Pay: $50 flat | Publishes Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 2M+ followers | United States | 1970 — "Foreign Policy was founded in 1970 with the intention of leading a root-and-branch rethink of how the United States engaged with other countries. Today, FP continues to explain Washington to the world and the world to Americans."
Fiction for People with Aphasia → Closed | Fee: No | Pay: No | Publishes Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2025 — "Adapted fiction for people with aphasia"
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rachael vaughan clemmons
rachael is the Senior Editor of Chill Subs. Sometimes writing, always procrastinating.