Call for Submissions!

Check out the list below for upcoming submission deadlines through November. I noted, mostly, submissions for magazines/journals that either have a little to no entry fee, or that pay writers. Of course, I couldn’t include every opportunity available. If there are any specific submission opportunities you hope to see more of/want information on, please let me know! You can email me at kpolidor@depaul.edu. You can also check out this site for many other open submission calls and contests.

September

Kenyon Review – September 30, 2025 

The Yale Review – September 30, 2025 

Seneca Review – September 30, 2025 

• Reviews 

Pembroke Magazine – September 30, 2025 

Bat City Review – October 1, 2025 

• Fiction  
• Poetry 
• Creative Nonfiction 
• Visual Art  

Sonora Review – October 1, 2025 

Iowa Review – October 1, 2025 

Potomac Review – October 1, 2025 

The Lindenwood Review – October 1, 2025 

Writer’s Digest  

Porter House Review – October 5, 2025 

The Minnesota Review – October 15, 2025 

Iron Horse Review – October 15, 2025 

Thin Air Magazine – October 20, 2025 

Theme: Systems  

In the act of living, we are all part of numerous interconnected systems. In issue 32, we are interested in work that reflects on the systems we unearth around us. These can be found everywhere, in our communities, our relationships, our governments or politicians, in systems of oppression or injustice, systems of support, in ecosystems, within class systems, our human bodies, or systems of data and technology. These are just a sample of some systems we are part of.  Living as we are, we are interwoven and defined by the systems we support, fight against, and ponder about. 

Often by writing you are reflecting on a system or part of the world that matters to you. For issue 32, we’re interested in art that pushes at the systems that we are part of, willing or unwilling, and remarks on the world around us. As Thin Air continues to grow, we invite you to submit your pieces that engage with your theme: Systems. 

Tahoma Literary Review – Oct. 31, 2025  

Indiana Review – October 31, 2025 

The Hopkins Review – October 31, 2025 

Michigan Quarterly Review – November 1, 2025 

Seneca Review – November 1, 2025 

Ninth Letter (Web Version) – November 1, 2025 

Theme: Performance 

The theme for this issue is performance. To perform is to, for some audience, create the illusion that reality is this, rather than that. We do this everywhere–our social (and social media) lives, our dress, our relationships, our feelings, our genders, all performed in their ways; all around us there is the low hum of wishful artifice imparting an intended impression onto seen and unseen—perhaps even imaginary–spectators. Taken to its logical conclusion, a reasonable, if cynical, truth emerges: performance, in our day-to-day, is so essential, so inextricable from our quote-unquote “authentic selves,” that perhaps the authentic self is simply the sum of a lifetime of performances–that the show has somehow become its own type of truth. In professional wrestling, the word for this is “kayfabe”–the unspoken agreement that not only is the show inextricable from reality, but that, in essence, the performance is the reality. Or is it? How do we perform, and for whom? Send us your work! 

Writer’s Digest

• Poetry – Early-bird deadline, Nov. 3, 2025 

Baltimore review – November 30, 2025