Latest Posts Under: Creative Writing

The Alchemist Review is the literary journal at the University of Illinois at Springfield is excited to announce their journal is open to submissions from all undergraduate students in Illinois! The Alchemist Review is a print journal that launches in April. They publish creative writing including but not limited to fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction, art, and photography by new and experienced writers. They especially encourage submissions from women, people of color, LGBTQIA+ writers, writers with disabilities, and writers with intersectional identities. Their submission deadline is February 15, 2020. Submission details can be found on their website. All… Read Article →

HerStry, an online literary magazine and writing community for women based in Milwaukee, is open for 2020 submissions! HerStry accepts both personal essays (not paying) and monthly theme essays (paying). They welcome women identifying writers of all levels and talents to tell their stories. They accept all types of stories as long as they are true and about you. No topic is off limits! Women of color and LGBTQ writers are especially encouraged to submit. Submissions guidelines can be found here and themes for the year may be found here.

Open Call: Stories of Inequality and Struggle Deadline February 5, 2020   The ‘20s have arrived with a roar. Another global recession looms before many have even recovered from the last. Millionaires flaunt their wealth on Instagram while delivery drivers work from apps on multiple smartphones to afford the increasing rent on their shared room. Housing, education, and everything except technology has grown more expensive while wages have flatlined. Austerity has led to more urban rough-sleepers as billionaires leave luxury flats empty for their investment portfolios. The gap between the rich and the poor has… Read Article →

Claremont Graduate University’s poetry journal Foothill is open for submissions!  Find more details below and on the attached submissions flyer. Submissions of up to six unpublished, English-language-based poems composed in any poetic genre or form are welcome from poets actively enrolled in a graduate program anywhere in the world. Graduate-student poets writing in a foreign language are welcome to submit, so long as the work is translated into English. We will happily give the translator credit. Foothill accepts simultaneous submissions, and read them year round. The journal asks for first publishing rights, with rights reverting to the… Read Article →