Blood+Honey is a literary magazine dedicated to experimental and avant-garde poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction that challenges conventional norms and provokes thought.

Blood+Honey is a literary magazine dedicated to experimental and avant-garde poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction that challenges conventional norms and provokes thought. Founded by David Estringel, the magazine seeks to provide readers with innovative and compelling works that test the limits of imagination, embracing the absurd, the existential, and the surreal.

 The publication is committed to creating a safe space for writers and artists, supporting the creation, presentation, and representation of innovative works and creatives. Blood+Honey publishes accepted pieces on an ongoing basis throughout the day, the week, the month, and the year, aiming to offer readers a continuous stream of thought-provoking content. 

The magazine also features columns, interviews, and serialized chapbooks, providing a platform for both established and emerging voices in the literary community. Blood+Honey is open to submissions of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, reviews, articles, and digital art, encouraging contributors to share their work and engage with a diverse and supportive audience.

Every year, we try to highlight some up-and-coming lit mags that were founded in the past year. The lit mag world is ever-changing, and the scene is always shifting to include more and more amazing, diverse publications. For 2025, these are the 20 new magazines (not that it was easy to decide!) we think everyone should keep an eye on.

20 Lit Mags Founded in 2025 That We Think Will Be the Next Big Thing

We asked, you guys answered. Here are the community's spring 2026 favorites for you cool kids, weird kids, very serious adults, etc. 

Want to check out Parts 1 & 2? We've un-paywalled them for you guys, so get them before they're gone.
Part 1: https://www.chillsubs.com/lists/cool_kids_3
Part 2: https://www.chillsubs.com/lists/Cool_kids_2

Where The Cool Kids Are Submitting Their Writing: Part 3

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Blood+Honey

Blood+Honey is looking for innovative, compelling, and well-written poetry that will blow our readers us away, as well as challenge us to see the world from a different slant.

  Submit up to five poems in a single Word or PDF document . 


 
Contributors may submit again to the same category after receiving a final determination for their previous submission; however, they may submit concurrenlty to a different category.

Poetry

Blood+ Honey is looking for innovative, compelling, and well-written fiction (including micro and flash) that will blow our readers away, as well as challenge us see the world from a different slant.

  Submit up to three stories (entire submission not to exceed 5000 words).


 
Contributors may submit again to the same category after receiving a final determination for their previous submission; however, they may submit concurrenlty to a different category.

Fiction

Blood+Honey is looking for innovative, compelling, and well-written creative nonfiction (including micro and flash) that will blow our readers away, as well as challenge us see the world from a different slant.

  Submit up to three essays (entire submission not to exceed 5000 words).


 
Contributors may submit again to the same category after receiving a final determination for their previous submission; however, they may submit concurrenlty to a different category.

Creative Nonfiction

Blood+Honey is accepting subs for our  special poetry edition “Rules of Verse: Poetry Inspired by the Velvet Underground” on October 1st, 2025 @ 12 AM CST!!!
Edited by Damon Hubbs and Guest Editor Sean G. Meggeson

 The Velvet Underground is often considered one of the most influential bands of all time—far ahead of its time, inspiring countless other bands while at the same time expressing the dark, edgy and quirky sides of human experience. The Velvets remain a touchstone for the poetic imperatives of experimentalism, exploration of self, and artistic risk-taking. How has the band inspired you?
Blood+Honey wants your VU poetry that celebrates the band. Your poetry might focus on a song, album or explore any of the various personalities in the band or related to it like Lou, John, Mo, Andy, or Nico. Your poetry might be inspired by the Velvet’s New York landscape or their infamous Exploding Plastic Inevitable. The options are wide and deep—surprise, shock and beat us down with your knowledge of Velvet lyrics and lore.
Use of lyrics from any Velvet Underground songs in your poetry is strictly verboden —doing so will incur the wrath of the copyright gods, but referencing songs or album titles is fine.

 
Send us up to three poems of no more than one page in length in one document with one poem per page. No reprints—original POEMS only!

"Rules of Verse: Poetry Inspired by the Velvet Underground"

Blood+Honey is looking for innovative, compelling, and well-crafted digital art that will blow our readers us away, as well as challenge us to see the world we live in from a different slant.

  Submit up to five visual files (.jpg or .png)


 
Contributors may submit again to the same category after receiving a final determination for their previous submission; however, they may submit concurrenlty to a different category.

Digital Art

Blood+Honey is open to pitches for columns, feature pieces, book reviews, and more. Want to write a column for Blood+Honey? Be a volunteer editor? We’re open. Just submit your pitch, and we will go from there.

Make Your Pitch to the EIC! (columns, features, reviews, etc.)

We are seeking insightful, clear, first-person narratives in the spirit of Gonzo journalism. Through poetry, fiction, CNF, and digital art, paint a picture, craft a narrative that reports honestly within the strange mechanism of the present moment. We need social temperature reports. Trailer park happenings. Rooftop perspectives of cities that smell like cheap beer foaming onto your laps while your neighbors launch fireworks ninety degrees into the stinking air while manic dogs curse the foul ambience of a Tuesday night, if only because they can.

New Gonzo captures what is happening right now in the wild fog of 2026. It is conviction on the page. It is writing that bleeds honestly but still stands with dignity. It’s immersive. It’s subjective. It’s not afraid to be hyperbolic if it drives the message home. We want creative work that looks directly at the absurd, the perverse, the ridiculous, and the real.

We want words and images with gravity. Twin grenades rolling down a steel pipe onto the virtual page. We want to hear the hiss.

The New Gonzo Project

 Reviews/articles - max of 1,500 words (single submission; query first)
We are seeking insightful, clear, first-person narratives in the spirit of Gonzo journalism. Through poetry, fiction, CNF, and digital art, paint a picture, craft a narrative that reports honestly within the strange mechanism of the present moment. We need social temperature reports. Trailer park happenings. Rooftop perspectives of cities that smell like cheap beer foaming onto your laps while your neighbors launch fireworks ninety degrees into the stinking air while manic dogs curse the foul ambience of a Tuesday night, if only because they can.

New Gonzo captures what is happening right now in the wild fog of 2026. It is conviction on the page. It is writing that bleeds honestly but still stands with dignity. It’s immersive. It’s subjective. It’s not afraid to be hyperbolic if it drives the message home. We want creative work that looks directly at the absurd, the perverse, the ridiculous, and the real.

We want words and images with gravity. Twin grenades rolling down a steel pipe onto the virtual page. We want to hear the hiss.

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