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(F, P, NF, R) Sigma Tau Delta (Duluth Chapter): InkWell Magazine 

You can submit to us! We offer a writer-centric space, catering to those with unique styles and tons of personality. We accept a variety of work including: informative nonfiction, creative nonfiction, fiction, poetry, screenplays, stage plays, and reviews. 

Deadline: N/A 

Length: Less than 5000 words 

Contact: huntx321@umn.edu with submissions 

(F, P, NF,T) The Literary Guild: The Roaring Muse 

The Roaring Muse is one of your UMD publishing options. They provide a welcoming space for the local community and student artists to celebrate their work. The Roaring Muse accepts a variety of work including: nonfiction, creative nonfiction, fiction, poetry, one-act dramas, visual art, and multimedia. Due to increasing submissions, The Roaring Muse rejects some work, but whether you are accepted or rejected, the editors are willing to provide feedback. 

Deadline: April 28th 

Length: Less than 5000 words for fiction non-fiction and creative non-fiction, 5 poems or fewer no more than 5 pages, 15 pages for drama: one-act plays, Visual artists must submit a brief artist statement (150-300 words) that notes the title of your work, the methods and materials used, and the year of creation. The statement should also briefly describe the work's central themes, tensions, and/or explorations. Please send in images 300 DPI or greater, Multimedia: Musical Recording should have either melody transcriptions or lyrics sheets (both if possible). These submissions will be published on the Roaring Muse youtube channel. Please include a brief statement (150-300 words) that notes the title of your work and any other information you wish to include. 

Email submissions to muse@d.umn.edu with the subject line “Submission, {Your Name}, {Genre of Work}.” Please make sure your name does NOT appear in your submission file (all submissions will be read blind). Email a contact sheet with your name, email, phone, and affiliated institution (if applicable) as a separate attachment. 

(F, P, NF, R) The Bark: The Bite 

The Bark is one of your UMD publishing options. The Bark is the UMD campus paper, they accept articles, listicles, audio, visual art and audio. Their creative writing section The Bite features short fiction and poetry. 

Deadline: N/A 

Length: N/A 

https://www.thebarkumd.com/contribute 

(F) Gallery of Curiosities 

Gallery of Curiosities is an anthology and short story podcast seeking punk short fiction. Gallery of Curiosities elaborates, “that means steampunk, dieselpunk, dreadpunk, 

bronzepunk, dark fantasy, the Odd, and others that haven’t even been invented yet punk … but not atompunk.” 

Deadline: April 15th 

Length: 7,500 words 

https://gallerycurious.com/p/submissions-1599834174/ (NF, P, F) Chapter House Journal 

From Chapter House Journal, “Chapter House Journal is an online literary journal promoting the ideals and vision of the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) Low Residency MFA 

Creative Writing Program.” Chapter House is currently excepting fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and 

screenwriting submissions. 

Deadline April 16th 

Length 3-5 poems under 5 pages, up to 5000 words for fiction and non-fiction. https://chjournal.com/ 

(F, P, NF) Goatshed Press 

Goatshed Press is a literary magazine, “aim(ing) to deliver exciting, unpretentious content, while discovering and uplifting a new generation of writers and artists.” Goatshed is accepting short stories, flash fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction.”- Goatshed Press 

Deadline None listed 

Length None listed 

https://www.goatshedpress.co.uk/submito 

(F, NF, R) Dark Recesses Press: Quarterly Print Magazine 

Dark Recesses is a horror/dark fiction publisher and magazine. They look for horror/dark fiction, nonfiction, and reviews. 

Deadline April 30th 

Length: Fiction pieces 500-5000 words, articles 1,250 words, and briefs 300 words 

https://darkrecessespress.com/submissions/ 

(F) Dark Void Magazine 

Dark Void Magazine is a science fiction horror magazine. Each issue features four original short stories that take place off planet Earth. Dark Void’s submissions are always open but they have publication dates in April and October. 

Deadline None listed

Length 3000 to 4000 words 

https://www.darkvoidmagazine.com/submissions 

(F) Fanatical: Tales from the Table Top 

Fanatical is a sci-fi and fantasy magazine that features “stories based on tabletop games.” Fanatical elaborates, “often when playing games around a table with friends, stories are told that go on to fuel the imagination well after the game has finished. This could be the result of roleplaying games, board games or miniature wargames. 

Deadline May 31st 

Length 2,000-6,000 words 

https://www.fanaticalmag.com/p/submissions_16.html 

(F, R) Hyphen Punk: 

Hyphen Punk is a magazine concentrating on punk short fiction and reviews. Hyphen Punk elaborates, “we do favor fiction that puts the punk elements first. Street level people working against the systems of power in place is what we look for. We love working class or downtrodden people fighting for their place in the world.” 

Deadline None listed 

Length Fiction 1000-7500 words, reviews 500 words https://hyphenpunk.com/submissions/ 

(F, NF) Psyhcopomp

From Psyhcopomp, “Psychopomp.com is a small press that seeks to publish otherworldly novellas (and eventually novels) about death, multiverses, time travel, and other strange lands. We also publish rad nonfiction pertaining to goth and death subjects in entertainment and culture, and a little magazine you may have heard of called The Deadlands.” 

Deadline None listed 

Length Novellas 20,000 to 40,000 words, and Nonfiction 1,000 – 2,000 words 

https://psychopomp.com/about/ 

(F, P) Fantastic Other 

Fantastic Other is a literary magazine currently accepting submissions for their summer issue. Fantastic Other elaborates, “we are interested in all things fantasy, sci-fi, paranormal, surrealist, fabulist, and magical realist. Show off your weird!” 

Deadline None listed 

Length Fiction 3,500 words, flash fiction 1,000 words, and poetry 50 lines and under three pages. 

https://fantasticother.com/submissions/ 

(F, P, NF) Flash Frog 

Flash Frog is a flash fiction publisher currently accepting ghost stories.

Deadline July 

Length 1,000 words 

https://flash-frog.com/submit/ 

(F, P, NF) Reckoning 8 

Reckoning is an environmental justice themed literary journal. For Reckoning 8, they are looking for “thinking, writing and art about … this. All of this, right now. We want to hear about active resistance to the patriarchofascist, corporate-captured extractive state.” 

Deadline September 22nd 

Length None listed 

https://reckoning.press/reckoning-8-submission-call/ 

(F, P, NF) Bourbon Penn 

Bourbon Penn a literary magazine featuring “odd” fiction. Bourbon Penn elaborates, “We are looking for highly imaginative stories with a healthy dose of the odd. Odd characters, odd experiences, odd realities. We’re looking for genre / speculative stories and are quite partial to slipstream, cross-genre, magic realism, absurdist, and the surreal.” 

Deadline April 16th 

Length 2000 - 7500 words 

https://www.bourbonpenn.com/submissions 

(F, P) Fairy Tale Magazine

Fairy Tale Magazine is a literary magazine for new fairy tales and poems inspired by fairy tales. 

Deadline June 30th 

Length None listed 

https://www.fairytalemagazine.com/submissions 

(F, P) Orion’s Belt 

Orion’s Belt is a speculative-fiction magazine. “We specialize in the strange and poignant and awe-inspiring, stories that have a cosmic scale and intimate personal stakes.” They focus on sci fi, but have an open definition of speculative fiction including “slipstream, horror, magic realism, myth retellings, surrealism, superhero stories, and all other fantastical genres and subgenres. 

Deadline None listed 

Length one story and one poem per month 1200 words each https://www.orions-belt.net/submissions 

(F, P, NF) Old Moon Quarterly 

From Old Moon Quarterly, “Old Moon Quarterly is a small, independent online magazine devoted to publishing weird sword-and-sorcery fiction set in a historical paranormal setting or a secondary-world, with a focus on well-rounded characters driving strange action.” 

https://www.oldmoonpublishing.com/submissions 

Deadline None listed

Length : 1000-6000 words 

(F) Translunar Travelers Lounge 

Translunar Travelers Lounge is a more lighthearted science fiction magazine. Translunar Travelers Lounge is looking for fun stories, they elaborate, “a fun story, at its core, is one that works on the premise that things aren’t all bad; that 

ultimately, good wins out. This doesn’t necessarily mean that your story has to be silly or lighthearted (though it certainly can be). Joy can be made all the more powerful when juxtaposed against tragedy. In the end, though, there should be hope, and we want stories that are truly fun for as many different kinds of people as possible.” 

Deadline April 15th 

Length 5000 words 

https://translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions

(F) Erro Press: All Women are Werewolves: An Anthology of Womanhood 

Are you into full moons? For their new anthology, All Women are Werewolves: An Anthology of Womanhood, Erro Press is looking for transformation stories focused on womanhood from “women writers only, inclusive of those who identify as non-binary and trans women”. Erro Press elaborates, “This anthology is a collection of stories about the transformative experiences that shape womanhood; dark, uncanny, curious and captured by vivid, varied feminine voices.”

Deadline: April 14th 

Length: 1,500-6000 words 

https://www.erropress.com/submissions 

(F) A Thin Slice of Anxiety: Mirrors Reflecting Shadows – A Trevor Project Charity Anthology 

Do you want your writing to make a difference? For their next anthology Mirrors Reflecting Shadows – A Trevor Project Charity Anthology, A Thin Slice of Anxiety is looking for short fiction and flash fiction to raise money for The Trevor Project, a charity that works to end suicide amoung LGBTQIA youth. A Thin slice of Anxiety elaborates,“we are open to most genres, including, but not limited to, literary, transgressive, horror, crime, noir, and speculative fiction. The pieces can be about most anything, so don’t feel you need to write about LGBTQ+ issues.” 

Deadline: April 15th 

Length: 300-1,000 words for flash fiction, 1,500-7,000 words for short fiction 

http://www.athinsliceofanxiety.com/2023/01/call-for-submissio ns-mirrors-reflecting.html 

(F) Sentinel Creatives: The Devil Take You: Tales of Medieval Horror 

Are you a fan of medieval stuff? For their upcoming anthology The Devil Take You: Tales of Medieval Horror, Sentinel Creatives are looking for “weird” horror short fiction set in the Medieval period. Sentinel Creatives elaborates on “weird”, “The term “weird” should be understood to mean a certain sense of breathless and unexplainable dread, of outer, unknown forces present, a suggestion of the defeat or suspension of the laws of nature which have hitherto served to protect our minds and bodies (and souls) from the assault of chaos.” 

Deadline: April 15th 

Length: 3,000-6,000 words 

https://mailchi.mp/fb90e5c74b7e/thedeviltakeyou 

(F) Sinister Smile Press: If I Die Before I Wake – Tales of Halloween Horror 

Do you still have Halloween decorations up? For their next anthology, If I Die Before I Wake – Tales of Halloween Horror, Sinister Smile Press is looking for Halloween horror themed short fiction. 

Deadline: April 19th 

Length: 4,000-10,000 words 

https://www.sinistersmilepress.com/about 

(F) Smoking Pen Press: Look at that Weather! 

Are you a fan of rainy days? For their next anthology Look at that Weather!, Smoking Pen Press is looking for short stories about weather. Smoking Pen Press elaborates, “we’re seeking stories about weather. But we aren’t interested in fair winds or ordinary weather, we are looking for Ill Winds, and Wild Weather. All fiction genres are considered.” 

Deadline: April 30th 

Length: 1,200-7,000 words 

http://smokingpenpress.com/submissions-2 

(F) Strange Elf Press: ANTERIOR SKIES

“ANTERIOR SKIES will be an annual anthology. Its aim is to find the best cosmic and weird stories, ranging from fantasy (preferably low fantasy, but high fantasy will be considered, but it has to wow me) to sci-fi to noir, as long as there’s a dab of horror somewhere in there.” 

Deadline None listed 

Length 100-6,000 words 

https://jcstreetsoldier3.wixsite.com/strange-elf-press/blank-1 

(F) Literary Rebel: Savage Realms Monthly 

“Are you a sword and sorcery fan? Do you pen tales of savages and wizards in your spare time? Have you always wanted to be a published author but have no idea where to start? Literary Rebel is seeking talented writers to feature in Savage Realms Monthly! The best part… We pay! Savage Realms Monthly is a new sword and sorcery magazine for fans of R.E. Howard, Karl Edward Wagner, and Michael Moorcock, featuring heroic tales of savage barbarians, evil wizards, and beautiful maidens. We aim to revitalize the Sword and Sorcery genre with brand new tales of adventure from some of today’s most talented authors.” 

Deadline March 30th 

Length 1,000-5,000 words 

https://www.literaryrebel.com/savage-submissions/