Chill Subs Menu of Pushcart Nom Noms (30 lit mags that nominate)

December 7, 2022

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Chill Subs

Hungry for some nom noms? Maybe you’ve woken up in the middle of the night with some tummy grumblies and decided that a little bit of Pushcart would hit the spot. So you wander over to the newly opened Chill Subs to see what they’ve got cookin’.

Welcome! Soon, we will be adding nominations to all literary magazines listings in our database. For now, we’ve put together this little tasting menu of literary magazines who nominate for Pushcart Prizes (and many also nominate for Best of the Net, Wigleaf, and more).

* Are you a journal that nominates not on this list? Email us and we’ll add you.

Enjoy your nom noms:

1) The Adroit Journal

The Adroit Journal

"We’re looking for work that’s bizarre, authentic, subtle, outrageous, indefinable, raw, paradoxical. We’ve got our eyes on the horizon. Send us writing that lives just between the land and the sky."

Twitter followers

2) Afternoon Visitor

Afternoon Visitor

"We want work that investigates and divines, that searches out and wants. We’re looking for accidental visitors, harbingers, and spectres."

Twitter followers

3) Archetype: A Literary Journal

Archetype: A Literary Journal

"A Toronto-based literary journal that strives to publish creative work—essays, poetry, fiction, interviews, and reviews—that reminds us of what it’s like to be made of flesh."

Twitter followers

4) Baltimore Review

Baltimore Review

"The mission of The Baltimore Review is to showcase Baltimore as a literary hub of diverse writing and promote the work of emerging and established writers."

Twitter followers

5) Bellevue Literary Review (*note: submission fee: $5)

Bellevue Literary Review

"An independent literary journal that probes the nuances of our lives both in illness and health."

Twitter followers

6) Bending Genres

Bending Genres

"We seek thrilling, fanciful, oddball, unusual, stunning fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction pieces. Think Olympics on a case of Red Bull. Think October in April. Think Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey."

Twitter followers

7) Better Than Starbucks

Better Than Starbucks

"A quarterly journal, online and in print, which publishes an eclectic selection of creative writing, including poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Submissions are open year round."

Twitter followers

8) Blank Spaces

Blank Spaces

"We are an affordable, quarterly magazine, offering you the very best in Canadian talent with a specific focus on literary arts."

Twitter followers

9) Blink-Ink

Blink-Ink

"A quarterly print journal publishing the best contemporary short fiction approximately 50 word in length. Continuous publication since 2009."

We try for a week.

Twitter followers

10) Booth (*submission fee: $3)

Booth

"Lovely as a goose on a roof. Lit mag with print issues twice annually and a new issue online the first Friday of the month."

Twitter followers

11) BULLSHIT LIT MAG

BULLSHIT LIT MAG

"online lit mag, based in Philadelphia. we publish poetry, prose, fiction, art, + stuff that doesn't fit into any of those categories. new shit every W/T/F. lovers of bad poems, ugly prose, + lazy lore. "

Twitter followers

12) Chaotic Merge

Chaotic Merge

"We seek work that is adventurous and test the border of art and structure. Don’t be afraid to mess with everything you have ever learned in your lives. We write to have fun!"

Twitter followers

13) Chestnut Review (*note: submission fee for longer pieces (1k-5k words) or extra poems (4-6 per packet): $5)

Chestnut Review

"Our mission is to provide a literary home to stubborn artists and writers. We believe literary markets should be open to everyone, and we are passionate about holding the door open for all writers who wish to enter ours."

Twitter followers

14) Cobra Milk

Cobra Milk

"Cobra Milk invites you to get weird, get vulnerable, and get at us with the work you want to bring into the world. "

2 weeks - 3 months

Twitter followers

15) fifth wheel press

fifth wheel press

"An independent community-focused publisher of art and writing by queer, trans, and gender non-conforming creatives."

$5/piece (anths)

Twitter followers

16) Hippocampus Magazine

Hippocampus Magazine

"An exclusively online publication set out to entertain, educate and engage writers and readers of creative nonfiction. Each issue features memoir excerpts, personal essays, reviews, interviews and craft articles."

Twitter followers

17) Identity Theory

Identity Theory

"An online literary magazine and cultural hub that has been publishing original writing, interviews, and other forms of creative expression since July 2000."

Twitter followers

18) Last Leaves Magazine

Last Leaves Magazine

"We believe that poetry is rooted in community. We know that sharing your work can be difficult, so we aim to provide a space where you can be proud of your words and revel in the words of others."

Twitter followers

19) The Lumiere Review (*note: accept work previously posted on personal blogs/social media)

The Lumiere Review

"We are intrigued by the inextinguishable sparks of truth and connection, the effervescent meddling of narrative, and the luminous creations that expand on perceptions of genre, language, and form. After all, we aspire to be the brightest magazine around."

Twitter followers

20) Moon Park Review

Moon Park Review

"An online literary journal devoted to publishing compelling, imaginative short prose that breaks our hearts, haunts us, makes us laugh, or gives us hope."

Twitter followers

21) Okay Donkey

Okay Donkey

"At OKD Magazine, we like to read the odd, the off-kilter, and the just plain weird. We like things that are funny, things that are sad, and things that are funny and sad at the same time."

Twitter followers

22) Papeachu Press

Papeachu Press

"A feminist small press publishing the works of women & nonbinary creators. We publish the works we believe in & believe in the people we publish. Our mission is to see more inclusive work on bookstore shelves & in the hands of young readers & in the homes of everyone we both know & don't."

Twitter followers

23) River Mouth Review

River Mouth Review

"An eclectic, quarterly online poetry review--anchored in the Pacific Northwest, inspired by the world. Our aesthetic is fluid, eclectic, forged in the power of immediacy. "

Twitter followers

24) Sans. PRESS

Sans. PRESS

"We are a collective of friends who are in love with telling stories, and who are passionate about sharing them. We are united in our passion for finding new voices, new narratives, new ways of seeing and sharing the world"

Twitter followers

25) Sky Island Journal (*note: submission fee: $4.99)

Sky Island Journal

"We're an independent, international, free-access literary journal. We provide over 125,000 readers in 145 countries with a powerful, focused, advertising-free literary experience that transports them: one that challenges them intellectually and moves them emotionally. "

Twitter followers

26) Split Lip Magazine

Split Lip Magazine

"A literary journal that’s totally bonkers-in-love with voice-driven writing, pop culture, and the kind of honesty that gets you right in the kidneys."

Twitter followers

27) Stanchion

Stanchion

"This humble literary zine also stands ready to shine a light onto deft skill, a soft touch, and if lucky, a thunderbolt you won’t see coming."

Twitter followers

28) Terrain.org

Terrain.org

"An independent, ad-free online magazine founded in 1997 that focuses on place by publishing a mix of award-winning contributions, including poetry, nonfiction, fiction, editorials, interviews, reviews, recommended reads, artwork, and community/regional case studies."

Twitter followers

29) A Thin Slice of Anxiety (*note: accept previously published work)

A Thin Slice of Anxiety

"An independent publication which strives to nurture and promote the best up-and-coming writers of our generation. Writers who are brave enough to guide us into places of amalgamation where the unplumbed depths of the known are made and unmade."

Twitter followers

30) trampset

trampset

"A literary journal, trampset publishes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry on a rolling basis. We welcome diverse voices, including writers working outside academia."

Twitter followers