We are seeking non-fiction submissions from emerging writers and writers with a connection to Wales. There is an optional theme of language, but any weird and nuanced non-fic will fit the bill. 

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Refreshing writing, curated in Wales. A Cardiff-based magazine seeking emerging writers from all over, and any writer with a connection to Wales.

The Tonic Review is a quarterly, youth-run literary magazine publishing poetry, prose and visual art from emerging writers and any writers with a connection to Wales. Our work has a fresh, fizzy feel and if you think you’re a fit, you should submit. Keep up with us online for submission opportunities.

The Tonic Review

We are seeking fiction submissions from emerging writers and writers with a connection to Wales. There is an optional theme of language, but any weird and fizzy fiction will fit the bill. 

We are looking for any poems that feel fresh, fizzy and maybe all too alive. There is an optional theme of language, however you interpret it :) 

Housebound Magazine is thrilled to present our inaugural poetry prize, created in memory of Richard Wanderman (1951-2019).<div><br></div><div>Our Editor-in-Chief, Erin, knew Richard simply as Grandpa R., but he was hailed more widely as an artist, teacher, photographer, potter, blogger, web designer, bread maker, hiker, trailblazer, activist, engaged citizen, and cinephile.</div><div><br></div><div>Richard passed away from glioblastoma (brain cancer) in March of 2019. His ashes were scattered in the backyard of his home in rural Connecticut as well as along the Appalachian Trail.</div><div><br></div><div>To honor Richard's spirit, one with nature, Housebound is debuting a yearly poetry prize with the broad theme of home and nature.</div><div><br></div><div>This theme can be channeled in a myriad of ways, and we welcome a wide range of interpretations. A 'nature poem' varies from poet to poet. Poems written straight from personal nature immersion (Mary Oliver style) are just one option.</div><div><br></div><div>The wonderful paradox of poetry is that it both expands and narrows one's gaze at the same time. Nature can be a poetic lens, rather than just a subject/topic.</div><div><br></div><div>Some potential keywords and phrases to use as inspiration: <i>trails, visitors, stewardship, soil, snow tires, migration, wind chimes, tadpoles, garden frost, leave no trace. </i></div><div><i><br></i></div><div><font face="__tekst_b3fd78, __tekst_Fallback_b3fd78, ui-serif, Georgia, serif">More about the prize can be found on our website: https://www.houseboundmagazine.com/richard-wanderman-poetry-prize/</font></div>

Richard Wanderman Poetry Prize

A literary journal dedicated to the fraught and expansive concept of home. 
@houseboundmagazine

We conjure 'home' not just as a discrete physical location, but home as a memory (however hazy), a feeling, perhaps home as one's own body.

We recognize that home is also differentially constructed - that is, home often emerges through/in dislocation or distress. Home is haunted. To go home is, indeed, a deathbed wish.

To that end, we welcome works about thresholds, illness and disability, estrangement & return, fierce and disorienting nostalgia, coming-of-age, etc. We have a penchant for Gothic undertones, but all genres/styles have a place at the table.

Housebound opens its arms to new and emerging writers, writers underrepresented, writers who trust their gut, writers taken by paradox, writers finding their way back home.

Bottom line: we are in pursuit of bold, dizzying, lavish leaps of language, unearthing realizations that you chew on and imagery made to savor. We're here for the sacred, the strange, and the searching. We beseech you: what does home hold?

Housebound Magazine

Submit up to 3 poems per submission period. Use standard 12-point font, single spaced (except for form poems). Attach as Word doc, docx, or PDF with your name and title in the file name. Include a short cover letter, brief third person bio, content warnings, and any social or professional website links.

General call

Literary magazine celebrating the rejects

Spare Parts Literary is a magazine seeking to provoke thought and inspire our readers by discovering and promoting diverse and cerebral works from emerging and established creatives alike. 

We publish Art, Fiction, Photography, Poetry, Play Extracts and Novel Excerpts. 

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Spare Parts Lit

Submit novel excerpts or short plays up to 10 pages per submission period. Submit as .doc, .docx, or .pdf with your name and title in the file name. Include a short cover letter, brief third person bio, a pitch or full blurb, content warnings, and any social or professional website links. Formatting should be clear and easy to read.

Plays and Novel Excerpts

Submit one flash fiction piece up to 1,500 words per submission period. Use standard 12-point font, double spaced. Attach as Word doc, docx, or PDF with your name and title in the file name. Include a short cover letter, brief third person bio, content warnings, and any social or professional website links.

What are the things that haunt you at night? What are the things that choke you with every breath?<div>What is truly pulling you down when you're underwater? What are the things that linger, refusing to let you live?The things that kill you every waking second but never grant the mercy of release?</div><div>The things that break your heart but don’t stop it from beating— maybe it's because of them that you’re still here, or they make existence excruciating?</div><div>What is your haunt.</div><div>You can submit your horror stories too! 😝</div>

Haunt

Hiraeth Hollow is a non-profit, online literary magazine devoted to voicing young writers around the globe.

Founded in August 2024, we welcome all literature- poetry, prose, short stories, essays, letters, one-liners and what not.
Speak your truth, or indulge readers in your world of wonder.
We aim to provide a safe space for writers, especially the systematically disadvantaged ones, to showcase their work and find a place of belonging.
Share your talent, culture, experiences, imaginations, analysis, notes app entries, journal entries, everything! We want it all!
Welcome to a world of limitless opportunities, hang around a while, sit by the fireplace or nestle into the hollow. Warm your hands, fellow traveler; and ease your mind in the garden of poetry, art and literature. Dip your feet in the lake, swing your hand through the grass, let your nose feel the chill in the air.
We have: 1. Magazine Issues
               2. Articles
               3. Media Reviews
               4. Challenges & Competitions

Hiraeth Hollow

We publish expressive writing, free writing, personal essay, flash non-fiction, non-fiction, micro-memoir, memoir, reflective essay, poetry, prose narrative, contemplative discourse, and creative non-fiction—all that originate from a writing prompt—by both established and emerging writers.

Themes:

- Never will I forget<div>- The story I told myself</div><div>- Peace</div><div>- The way i see it</div><div>- What is love?</div><div>- Joy is</div>

THEMES by PROMPT

Journal of Expressive Writing

Unendurable is a space for writing that contextualizes your eternal, ironic punishment, and maybe even attempts to wring some dignity out of it. We’re looking for poetry that struggles against the oppressions and degradations of Hell (a crumbling empire).

Send a maximum of 3 pages total of prose. Include your submission in the body of the email or as an attached .docx, shared google doc or .pdf.

Issue 3

Unendurable is a space for poetry and short-form writing that contextualizes your eternal, ironic punishment, and maybe even attempts to wring some dignity out of it.

And you sat, Sisyphus, on your rock: The bright lyre of Orpheus was enough to make even Sisyphus pause in his eternal task. 

Unendurable is a space for writing that contextualizes your eternal, ironic punishment, and maybe even attempts to wring some dignity out of it. We’re looking for poetry and short-form prose that struggles against the oppressions and degradations of Hell (a crumbling empire). 

Submission Guidelines: 

Send a maximum of 5 pages total of poetry or 3 pages of prose. Include your submission in the body of the email or as an attached .docx, shared google doc or .pdf.

There is no fee to submit, and at this time we do not have the funding to pay writers (though we would love for this to one day become a paying journal!).

We maintain rolling submissions and an ongoing reading period. In an effort to prioritize quality over quantity, we publish on an irregular basis (but we strive for at least quarterly).

Send all submissions or questions to unendurablejournal@gmail.com

Unendurable Journal

<div>Romantic Fantasy series.</div><div>The Fae have been known for centuries to be mercurial and unpredictable. At times accommodating and playful, at others deceptive and wrathful, their true intentions often reside somewhere beyond human understanding, and woe to any mortal who draws too close. Most powerful among the magical folk, the Fae Princess rules her kingdom in a manner that might perplex or even endanger humans. The meeting of different worlds can often lead to entanglements of the heart, stirring up conflict and endangering both those mortal and magical involved. These stories of romance delve into themes of worlds colliding and the often unexpected consequences.<br><div>Reprints are accepted for consideration.</div></div>

Fae Princess

Independent publisher and creator of fine books, journals, notebooks and art calendars, with a focus on myths, gothic fantasy and great works. Regular open submission calls for our themed short-story anthologies.

The Flame Tree Beyond and Within, Gothic Fantasy, Classic Stories and Epic Tales collections bring together the entire range of myth, folklore and modern short fiction. 

Highlighting the roots of suspense, supernatural, science fiction and mystery stories the books in various Flame Tree Collections series are beautifully presented, highly collectable, perfect as a gift and offer a lifetime of reading pleasure.

Flame Tree Publishing

<div>Romantic Fantasy series.</div>The divide between the noble and the brave and the treacherous and the dishonourable is sometimes obvious, with straightforward moral lines and a clear choice for who should win the duel at dawn or the surprise sword fight. But not always, especially when matters of the heart are involved. Sometimes a shadowy moral ambiguity can descend and those who seem virtuous can be led by temptations, or the irredeemable can show a glimmer of kindness. These captivating stories will ask questions about what is right and wrong, exploring what draws us to the valiant saints and the notorious scoundrels. Against a backdrop of majestic royal courts, ancient landscapes and mythical beings we must decide whose side we are on.<div>Reprints are accepted for consideration.</div>

Heroes & Villains

Shit Butt Quarterly wants your <b>Essays, reviews, scene reports, and all things nonfic</b>. <div><br><div>No themes. No formatting requirements. Just be kind and sensible.</div><div><br></div><div>Please send all submission(s) to:  editors@shitbuttquarterly.com</div><div><br></div><div>We'll aim to get back to you within 4 weeks.</div><div><br></div><div>We pay a flat rate of $20 which will be paid upon publication.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Thanks Holes :)</b></div></div>

ALL HOLES OPEN FOR 48 HRS

Hello holes! We're an independent, not-for-profit (until we make some) literary magazine established in 2026. We post weekly over on our substack, rotating  between essays, poetry, and fiction. Our little brown books come out four times a year, and feature every single piece we've published that quarter.

There are No themes. if you can Shit it, we can Post it.

Submissions are free, and we pay a flat rate of $20 on publication (+ a print issue mailed to you). We'd love to be able to print more books and continue to pay writers an increasingly fair rate over time, so all donations are both welcome and appreciated. 

please send all submissions directly to: shitbuttsubs@protonmail.com

Shit Butt Quarterly

We prefer fiction that is unconventional, experimental, or otherwise weird.

Short Fiction

Free quarterly online journal of creative writing and art. Our muse and inspirations are the gender-non-conforming artists and antifascist activists, Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore.

We seek work that is personal and willing to challenge.

Poetry, essays, hybrid writing, experimental writing, creative non-fiction, and art (especially photography and collage).

Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore were French gender-bending writers, visual artists, anti-fascist activists activist, in the first half of the last century.

Their creative and political work centered on identity and opposition to cultural conformity. They were part of the surrealist movement, performed acts of symbolic cultural protest and propaganda, and were imprisoned for their work in the French Resistance. They were sentenced to death, but escaped that fate when the war ended.

The publisher/editor is a male survivor of sexual victimization, living with CPTSD.

Exist Otherwise

Shit Butt Quarterly wants your <b>POEMS</b>. Whether they're Pushshart Prize worthy or just straight up shit from a butt, go ahead and send them our way.<div><br></div><div>No themes. No formatting requirements. Just be kind and sensible.</div><div><br></div><div>Please send all submission(s) to:  editors@shitbuttquarterly.com</div><div><br></div><div>We'll aim to get back to you within 4 weeks.</div><div><br></div><div>We pay a flat rate of $20 which will be paid upon publication.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Thanks Holes :)</b></div>

Shit Butt Quarterly wants your <b>SHORT STORIES</b>. Whether they're Pushshart Prize worthy or just straight up shit from a butt, go ahead and send them our way.<div><br></div><div>No themes. No formatting requirements. Just be kind and sensible.</div><div><br></div><div>Please send all submission(s) to:  editors@shitbuttquarterly.com</div><div><br></div><div>We'll aim to get back to you within 4 weeks.</div><div><br></div><div>We pay a flat rate of $20 which will be paid upon publication.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Thanks Holes :)</b></div>

Shit Butt Quarterly wants your <b>FLASH</b>. Whether it's Pushshart Prize worthy or just straight up shit from a butt, go ahead and send it our way.<div><br></div><div>No themes. No formatting requirements. Just be kind and sensible.</div><div><br></div><div>Please send all submission(s) to:  editors@shitbuttquarterly.com</div><div><br></div><div>We'll aim to get back to you within 4 weeks.</div><div><br></div><div>We pay a flat rate of $20 which will be paid upon publication.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Thanks Holes :)</b></div>

All forms of poetry are accepted. Submit 1-3 poems. 

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