Lullaby Machine features a library of .mp3 lullabies and an e-magazine orbiting themes of ecology, performance, dreams, and the internet.

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

Lullaby Machine

We're looking for creative nonfiction (including interviews and reviews) that engages, however expansively or experimentally, with the threads connecting lullaby, rest, grief, dream, capitalism, ecology, and the internet. We welcome submissions that range in style and voice to offer creative and unexpected takes on the topics that Lullaby Machine explores. We encourage you to read about the project before submitting (lullabymachine.com), but hope you'll trust your own voice—we'd be equally excited to receive a poem about the weird dream you had last night as we would be to read an essay exploring barriers to rest amid racial capitalism. 

Learn more and submit at lullabymachine.com/submit.

Call for nonfiction submissions

We're looking for fiction that engages, however expansively or experimentally, with the threads connecting lullaby, rest, grief, dream, capitalism, ecology, and the internet. We welcome submissions that range in style and voice to offer creative and unexpected takes on the topics that Lullaby Machine explores. We encourage you to read about the project before submitting (lullabymachine.com), but hope you'll trust your own voice. 

Learn more and submit at lullabymachine.com/submit.

Call for fiction submissions

We're looking for poetry that engages with the threads connecting lullaby, rest, grief, dream, capitalism, ecology, and the internet. We welcome submissions that range in style and voice to offer creative and unexpected takes on the topics that Lullaby Machine explores. We encourage you to read about the project before submitting (lullabymachine.com), but hope you'll trust your own voice. 

Learn more and submit at lullabymachine.com/submit.

(Prose Poetry, Experimental)

Call for poetry submissions

We welcome visual and hybrid submissions to the e-magazine including (but not limited to) film, visual art, and recorded dance work. Please send us your strangest, most dreamlike projects. If you have an unrealized idea for a piece you want to make for Lullaby Machine, feel free to send a pitch to lullabymachine@gmail.com. 

Learn more and submit at lullabymachine.com/submit.

Call for visual & hybrid submissions

We are currently accepting submissions of .mp3/.m4a lullabies on a rolling basis.

We like to think of "the lullaby" as a form with an expansive and subjective definition. We are excited about contributions that span languages, geographies, genres, and production methods. A recorded soundscape, a rendition of a folk song, and an abstract collage of sound, for example, are all equally welcome.

Learn more and submit at lullabymachine.com/submit.

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