Breaking news that’s not actually breaking (or news, if I’m perfectly honest): Our latest batch of new lit mags and journals is here and ready for your perusal.
Same spiel as always: These mags are new to Chill Subs, not necessarily, like, newborn baby new. But some of them might be in their literal infancy. As you may know, we like to keep things exciting.
Happy submitting and or bookmarking!
Hollow and Sky → Deadline: Feb 5 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Nonfiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 4 days | A: 6% | 100+ followers | United States | 2025 — "An online literary journal publishing poetry and creative nonfiction shaped by attention, memory, silence, and the natural world. We seek work rooted in presence rather than urgency."
Sunday Service | Theme: Submission Call - Debut Issue "After." → Deadline: Mar 31 | Fee: No | Pay: $1 flat | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2026 — "Sunday Service is a small literary space for work that doesn't clean itself up. Rural, Southern, and queer-attentive. Short fiction. Fragments. Unfinished things."
Shadow's Call → Deadline: Mar 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Multimedia, Nonfiction, Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 60 days | 400+ followers | United States | 2025 — "Shadow’s Call is our free digital quarterly featuring short stories, essays, poetry, art, press news, reviews, interviews, profiles, and more."
Luminaura Magazine | Theme: Luminaura Magazine - Call for Literary Works → Deadline: Mar 27 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ✖️ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | Under 100 followers | United States | 2025 — "Let Your Aura Glow."
Poiema Magazine | Theme: Issue 02: Local Praises (Fiction Submissions) → Deadline: Feb 7 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 21 days | 1.5K+ followers | Australia | 2025 — "Tell us, how does salt and light reflect in your eyes?"
Gnome & Bone Magazine → Deadline: Mar 8 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | 100+ followers | United States | 2026 — "Fantasy & Folklore literary magazine. Accepts fiction (up to 9k words), poetry, essays and art. Non-paying. Publishes online and in print."
Altar | Theme: Issue One: Spirals and Stars → Deadline: Mar 1 | Fee: No | Pay: $5 flat | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 200+ followers — "We want your offerings. A flower, a candle, a memory. Altar is a space for your mythic and elemental stories. We want poetry that isn’t afraid of the darkness and revels in the light."
Wage Theft Review | Theme: Wage Theft Review | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | United States | 2026 — "We showcase work made on company time."
Dirt Freckles → Deadline: Apr 2 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | Under 100 followers — "An online literary magazine yearning for nature and nostalgia."
Tern Journal → Deadline: Mar 8 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers — "A journal of translation and conversation with a focus on international authors."
Sentenced | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers — "SENTENCED is a Marxist literature collective which seeks to express the exact state of culture as it could be. There is nothing annoying about our publication. We always seek beauty."
Poems for Persons of Interest → Deadline: Feb 10 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | 800+ followers | Canada | 2024 — "Online quarterly poetry magazine interested in poems of any style on any subject. Both formal verse and free verse welcome."
Xenolithic Edges Literary → Closed | Fee: No | Pay: No | Publishes Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 120 days | 100+ followers | United States | 2026 — "A journal by and for queer diaspora writers of color/the global majority who are living and writing on margins, against limits, over borders, in limbo, between lines, and with hybridity."
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rachael vaughan clemmons
rachael is the Senior Editor of Chill Subs. Sometimes writing, always procrastinating.