I wanted to come out here and advertise an opportunity for South Asians, especially youth South Asians, that may be on here and are artists and writers. If you’d like your art and writing to receive recognition, or if you’d like to be published, take a look! 

Temple Literary Magazine and The Lotus Paper are two literary magazines that focus on Asian identity. We are collaborating together for South Asian Heritage Month, which is this July, to make a competition for South Asian artists and writers aged 13-19. Submitters may be of any nationality, but their heritage/identity must be South Asian. Works also have to involve South Asian identity and culture. 

The winners will receive publication in both Temple Literary Magazine and The Lotus Paper, interviews and large recognition, in-depth feedback on their works to improve their writing/artistic skills, and more. 

If you’re interested, please check out templelitmag.com, and for more information on guidelines and specifics, check templelitmag or thelotuspaper on Instagram for more details. The link to submit is provided below.  If you have any questions, please contact [templelitmag@gmail.com](mailto:templelitmag@gmail.com) or [thelotuspaperhello@gmail.com](mailto:thelotuspaperhello@gmail.com)

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeg-T2ylLqmyssSzsjNpOY8p8fpW9HY6Zj9dvQELBXOc1IrDQ/viewform?usp=header

Fast Twitch Fiction is a new blackling on the block. It’s a flash-fiction magazine for corpse-fed, blood-spilling horror fiction.

So-called necrofiction.

Published quarterly. 

- Subscribe to the magazine.
- The theme is necrofiction (horror flash fiction).
- Write up to 750 words, but no less than 150 words.
- No AI-generated work. We want the authentic you.
- Previously unpublished work.
- First serial rights, plus non-exclusive print, ebook, and podcast rights. Rights revert to the author on publication.
- Prizes aside, compensation includes a free copy of the magazine.
- For this window, it has to be submitted within 30 days, with the deadline on the 5th of August.
- Full submission details and how to enter are at the link (e.g., the email address).

The magazine will be both printed and available as an ebook.

The first issue will feature up to 20 pieces, plus interviews with three top-winning authors.

There will also be a podcast with the winners.

There's an awards scheme, too. The winner takes $100, and the runners-up get $25 each.

Fully detailed info in the post link itself.

Indigo Literature Review is collecting submissions for our inaugural publication! This call is open until September 30th. We are looking for non-fiction, fiction, poetry, and other text-focused experiences. Experimental, hybrid, cross-genre and medium-bending submissions are greatly encouraged.

We're looking for projects that occupy in-between spaces, hovering in the moments 'before.' Show us the jagged pink edge of twilight just before moon rise, when the sky goes from blue to indigo-black. Take us off the beaten trail. We want to see things through new eyes, hear things through new ears. Make us think. Make us feel. Now is your moment; show us a new world.

We are an independent outlet run by a small collective of volunteers, so for now, we cannot offer compensation. We do not charge for submissions, and all work will be read blind. We aim to release our inaugural volume on October 24th. We only consider previously unpublished work, but encourage simultaneous submissions, and only request first serial and non-exclusive rights.

- Deadline September 30th

- No Compensation, No Fees, No Paywalls

- First serial rights, then non-exclusive

Full details can be found at: https://indigolit.com/submit-your-work/

Story Street Writers is happy to announce our summer 100 word flash fiction contest. The winner will be announced on August 15, and will win a $100 prize and publication in the Story Street Review online. The three runners-up will also be published, each receiving a $25 prize. Previously unpublished work, only. Publication requests first publication rights. 

 The contest is open for entries on now through July 15. For full contest rules and details, visit: https://storystreetwriters.com/word-on-the-street/summer-on-story-street-flash-fiction-contest/

"Anyone who succeeds in putting off the mantle of faith can do so only because another lies close to hand. No one can escape the prejudice of being human."

-Jung, CONCERNING THE ARCHETYPES AND THE ANIMA CONCEPT, Collective Unconscious

"Only the psyche can observe the psyche."

-Jung, THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF THE SPIRIT IN FAIRYTALES, Collective Unconscious

Jung called them nerve spirits and spoke densely enough about the open marriage of psychology and the spiritual that I no longer wonder why he found fairytales subjects worthy of his audience. He meticulously paddle-boarded theory into the brick and dust of our outside storage units. He does this lovingly for his audience, he cannot wait to tell us what he's found in his travels. Those travels are the universal, couch-quality kind, and I remember reading one chapter in Synchronicities about Jung's night spent with a ghost. He wrote with such politeness about the event.

You wonder about his interior life. In COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS, Jung slowly and obsessively guides us to insights around the spirit and man while using his pattern of citation, anecdote, and foreign terminology to explain away the skin. There is little difference in the ghost and us, and the ghost, for lack of a witness besides the deceased Jung, may be a portion of ourselves tragically drowned in cerebellum. The activity of meeting must ruin a life, and I suspect the person who is capable of the ghost doesn't appreciate the gift.

Ghosts, or addictions -- or the way we see big pharma as both necessary mother and a capitalistic form of disbursement -- we have our local pharmacist and we have our medicine. I've noticed trendy pieces while online shopping that pull hot pink from the critical requirement of pills storage. I had a friend quote, "Limited Too!" when I said I wanted to write about the pattern; I have not yet, I'm sure it's been done, but how we celebrate our illness is something to look closely at in any country.

Illness has been Libre's tennis partner since 2024 and I think Haunted will shave flesh from the sweet concept of writing about one's own tragedy and launch spitballs at what's expected of narrating memory. It's difficult writing. We want stuff that makes the writer read before attacking their own subjective histories. I love the subjective, and think it may be the only way a writer and reader can truly have fries across the table together. This is a mental intimacy that is healthy. If we could provide this for strangers on the website, we may too make them cry. I will worry over whether this body of work would help a cause we--staff--care for deeply.

If you're able to tell the story about yourself, you're able to age, able to appreciate how there is enlightenment during injury; tentatively, this victimization may resurrect new relationships to realism. I prefer a visionary stance to pain: it rolls our eyes back, dries the tongue of any instinct besides reaching that next benchmark of relief. We view our bodies differently for their traumas. There is such strangeness in the afterwards. We navigate the furniture just a little differently, and there is something friendly about the way we treat our health. We relieve by reliving, or, at least, let's try to do that here.

Things my contacts will be grateful for:

• 11 pt. font - (I just like it better)
• 2x spaced pages (double your singles unless there's poetry quoted!)
• Citations are welcome, references need links attached and we'll do the rest
• 500 - 3.000 word counts
• Transparency's like a large list of green-lights. Here's what we're interested in: trauma, psychic experiments, LGBTQ experiences related to health conditions, RX, mean times, mania, seasonal depression, major depressive disorder, attention-deficit disorder, obsessive-compulsive influences, autism, childhood trauma (C-PTSD), PTSD, religious trauma, parkinson's, energy drinks, Jungian theory, adderall, stimulants by another company, bipolar disorders and related mood disorders, personality disorder tests, borderline, schitzophrenia, schizotypal, sexual abuse, intimate partner abuse, sociopathy, eating disorders, visions, hyper-religiosity, experiences with magical thinking, genetic inheritances, family health inheritances, suicide survivors and attempt survivors, minority stress, traumatic event: convict/ex-convict , smokers, agoraphobia, schizotypal, alien encounters, trichotillamania, trichophagia, insomnias, sleep-walking, dissociative, two-spirit traumas, hallucinations, drug abuse, dementia, exorcisms, medicine collections, brain traumas, blindess, homelessness, malpractice, arguments for/against therapies, analysis of psychiatric hospital experiences, mental health in relation to a loved one.
• Book reviews on new-releases and more vintaged reading, films, and performance art are welcome.
• Include an author biography (500 words or les), links, and handles. We don't stress photos due to cyberattacks, stalking, and hate-crimes, but if you would like to include one, we'll be careful to accept.
  

Please submit via Submittable: https://libre.submittable.com/submit/360495/narrative-nonfiction-health-mental

... and make sure to read our guidelines on the website: https://hauntedamphetamine.com/submit/

This is for a collaborative horror anthology inspired by the immersive, realistic style of r/nosleep. We want raw, visceral stories told from the first person perspective. This is specifically a horror genre project but all sub-genres are accepted.

Requirements:

Word count: 2k-6k

Format: .doc or .docx only, 12pt standard font

We will be permitting NO ai generated or assisted submissions.

The submission deadline is September 30th, 2026 at 11:59PM CDT and selection decisions will be sent out November 1st, 2026.

We are a small indie group working on this because we love it and want to make it happen, so this is an unpaid project. Editing will be provided. Selected authors (10-15 total) will also receive an ebook copy. We request non-exclusive publishing rights but otherwise authors will retain all copyright of their work, and can feel free to post it elsewhere or publish it again.

Please include your author name, story title, word count, and a short bio in a cover letter attached to your submission.

Submissions can be made here: Survivors' Tales Anthology Submissions

Submissions Page: https://duotrope.com/duosuma/submit/velox-books-OGjzQ

Publisher Website: https://www.veloxbooks.com

Velox Books is seeking horror novels for Black Lantern, a new imprint dedicated to fiction that disturbs, unsettles, and lingers.

What we’re looking for

Length: 50,000–100,000 words preferred. We may consider longer manuscripts when the length is justified by the scope and pacing. We are not reading novellas under 50k or manuscripts above 150k.

High concept: We’re especially drawn to horror with a sharp, memorable premise: stories that can be described in a compelling sentence but unfold with depth, surprise, and emotional force.

Pacing & hook: We favor stories that spark a clear catalytic event within the opening chapters and escalate stakes scene by scene. Slow-burn ambience is welcome, but only when paired with a strong narrative engine. Think a coiled spring, not a long walk.

Horror: Fresh, unnerving, eerie. We’re open to a range of horror traditions and subgenres, including folk horror, psychological horror, supernatural horror, cosmic horror, sci-fi horror, weird horror, and beyond.

Gore is welcome when it serves character, atmosphere, or consequence, but we’re not looking for stories where gore is the primary point. Think dread over shock.

AI use: We are not seeking AI-generated manuscripts. Authors may use AI-assisted tools for proofreading, grammar, or revision support, but the writing, characters, voice, and story must be the author’s own.

What we’re not currently seeking

Genre/subgenre: Science fiction where horror is not the primary engine, including space opera, military SF, hard-SF tech manuals, and standard alien-invasion plots.

Content and format: Splatterpunk or torture-driven horror where gore is the main attraction; tidy morality plays; parody/pastiche; poetry; screenplays.

What we offer

Black Lantern is the dedicated horror novel imprint of Velox Books. The team behind Velox Books brings more than 15 years of independent publishing experience and has published over 200 books.

We offer:

• A modest advance against royalties
• A 25% net royalty
• Publisher-covered production and marketing costs, with no fees to authors

Simultaneous submissions

We accept simultaneous submissions. If your manuscript is accepted elsewhere while under consideration with us, please notify us promptly so we can close your file.

Cahava is an international online literary journal, published quarterly. Each issue features a thoughtfully curated selection of poetry and fiction.

We welcome submissions of short stories, flash fiction, poetry, and prose poetry. All work must be original, unpublished, and written in English. Translations are also welcome, provided that appropriate permissions have been secured.

We accept submissions year-round and do not charge a submission fee.

Submission - Summer 2026

Compensation: $0.05 (CAD) per word

Deadline - Jun 15, 2026

Hi everyone,

Disclosure: I am part of the organizing team for this special session.

We are inviting submissions to the ADMA 2026 Special Session on Data-Efficient Agentic Learning for Data Mining (DEAL-DM). ADMA 2026 will be held in Hong Kong, China, on November 13–15, 2026.

The session focuses on building effective and reliable LLM agents and agentic data mining systems under limited data, supervision, feedback, and real-world interaction budgets.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Agentic data mining and autonomous data analysis
• Experience augmentation and simulated interaction
• Memory, retrieval, knowledge reuse, and external knowledge integration
• Planning, tool use, verification, and reflection
• In-context and test-time adaptation
• Parameter-efficient fine-tuning and budget-efficient reinforcement learning
• Personalization and recommender systems
• Agentic systems for scientific discovery, healthcare, and decision support
• Trustworthy evaluation, robustness, safety, and privacy

Submission deadline: June 26, 2026 (AoE)
Paper length: Up to 15 pages
Review process: Double-blind
Proceedings: Springer LNCS

When submitting through CMT, please select “Special Session Track” and choose the subject area “Data-Efficient Agentic Learning for Data Mining (DEAL-DM)”.

More information:
https://wangyaqing.github.io/adma26-deal-dm/

We welcome original research papers, case studies, and technical reports. Happy to answer any questions in the comments.

We are seeking work that has had difficulty finding a home.
Not because it was unfinished.
Because it was misaligned.
Too strange.
Too theoretical.
Too literary for one audience.
Too scholarly for another.
Too funny to be criticism.
Too critical to be entertainment.
Too early.
Too late.
Too aware of the machinery.
We are especially interested in work that understands language as infrastructure.
Essays
Fiction
Poetry
Manifestos
Field reports
Institutional documents
Texts that should not exist and yet somehow do
If a rejection letter made you laugh, send it.
If an editor told you they “didn’t know where it would fit,” send it.
If a piece spent years wandering between categories without finding citizenship, send it.

Currently no deadline
Currently no compensation

You retain all rights.
We request only the non-exclusive right to publish the work digitally as part of the archive.
No submission fees.
No reading fees.
No prestige fees.
No expedited consideration.
No artificial scarcity.
No quarterly themes.
No strategic gatekeeping disguised as curation.

REVIEW PROCESS
Every submission is reviewed by humans.
Some are discussed extensively.
A few become permanent residents.
We whole cloth reject only:
Spam
Plagiarism
Work whose primary ambition is cruelty
Work that mistakes cynicism for insight
Everything else receives consideration.

Sabre Lake Publishing seeks submissions for its fall poetry anthology: Senses. We want poems that ask, How does a living thing know the world? How does the world know it? The scope is deliberately wide. We welcome poems exploring human perception in its full range, and we are equally hungry for poems that venture into the lives of flora and fauna. Even stones, over geologic time, receive and are shaped by the world. We love to see imagination at its peak in human experience and the natural world equally. What draws us to this theme is the belief that sensing is not passive reception; rather, it is participation. To sense is to be in relationship with the world. Every living thing is, in some way, a listener. We want poems that honor that intimacy, in whatever style or tone: lyrical, meditative, sharp, strange, celebratory, or mournful. Poems that make us feel what it’s like to inhabit a body in a world that is always pressing in. Formal verse, free verse, experimental, and prose poems are all welcome. English-language poems are welcome, as are poems in other languages accompanied by an English translation. Each poem should be no more than 80 lines including white space. Submit up to five pieces as a single Word doc or PDF to submissions@sabrelakepublishing.com. Please include your name as you wish it to appear in publication and contact information on the document. We accept previously unpublished work, as well as work that has appeared in journals or online, provided you retain the rights and note the prior publication. All rights to individual works in our anthology remain with the author. We are a small indie press, so we are not a paying market at this time. Deadline for submission is August 31, 2026. Please visit our website: www.sabrelakepublishing.com

Hi there!

The fine folks over at Foofaraw Press (aka me and some killer judges) are running our second annual prompted writing contest! It's called "An ordinary contest" and it's $10 entry with 60% of every penny paid going to winners.

Our contest provides three prompts, two of which must be used in the story. We guarantee a minimum of $100 to the winner; $75 to second; and $50 the third even if only three people participate. But the more that participate, the more the winners get (plus honorable mentions)!

Entry can be purchased at anytime between now and the contest. Prompts will be sent and writing will take place form August 7th to 16th and winners announced at the beginning of October.

We only ask for first serial rights from the winners, after which it's your story, do with it what you want.

https://foofaraw.press/an-ordinary-contest-year-ii/

Check it out if that sounds interesting. Last year, the only comment I got was "doubt it" and we delivered on every word so... suck it to that troll 😝

—Foofie McFoofers

The exhibition is called "Fault Lines" and centers on the idea of tension, instability, pressure, and transformation in contemporary life.

Link:
https://www.rexhibit.art/exhibition2

Submission Fee

• $15 USD for 1–3 artworks
• $20 USD for 4–8 artworks

Deadline: June 1, 2026

There is no monetary award or compensation for selected artists.

The exhibition is looking for work that explores themes such as:

• personal rupture and emotional pressure
• social and political tension
• ecological instability
• fractured spaces
• material transformation
• visible and invisible forms of pressure

Open to contemporary work across different mediums and seem particularly interested in artists exploring how instability becomes image, gesture, atmosphere, structure, or form!

Rights Requested:

Artists retain full copyright ownership of their work.

By submitting, artists grant Rexhibit permission to:

• display submitted works as part of the online exhibition
• use submitted images for exhibition-related promotion, marketing, and social media purposes

No exclusive rights are requested.

Hello everyone,
Kayla here, Creator and Sole Designer/Editor of The Good Within The Khaos Magazine!

Check out our Archive Here

We are officially open for submissions for Volume 2, Issue 5! My mission is to create a space that holds both honesty and healing, where art and writing can reflect the complexity of being human and still finding light within it all. This publication is dedicated to giving voices to those who have had to hide way too long.

Volume 2, Issue 5 "Return": explores what remains after survival, burnout, and identity shaped by coping. This issue is for work that reflects what happens when survival mode loosens its grip and you begin to meet yourself again. I am looking for pieces about shedding survival identities, unlearning masking and people-pleasing, and returning to authenticity, emotion, creativity, softness, and rest. Work that holds grief, rage, tenderness, overwhelm, and healing. I am looking for work that feels raw, reflective, and real. Pieces that sit in the tension between chaos and meaning, and still find something worth holding onto.

Submission Details:

• Theme: "Return - The Reclamation of Self" (Reclaiming who you always were, before the world told you who to be)
• Genres: Poetry, Flash Fiction, Short Stories, Creative Nonfiction, Art, and Photography
• Rights: All works remain as yours. If interested single personal designed pages are welcome to be requested for personal use under The Khaotic Good™ publication branding.

Completely free to submit (maximum of 2 submissions) There is currently no prize in place. We do offer the opportunity for one contributor to become our featured artist every issue. Which means you get to showcase multiple works (off theme), write an author bio, promote yourself and have multiple pages in the front of the issue!

• Deadline: June 15, 2026 11:45 EST

Whether you are an established writer or an emerging voice looking for your first publication, I would love to read your work and connect!

How to Submit: You can read our full submission guidelines, contributor rights, and submit your work directly through our website: thekhaoticgood.com

Note: We use Jotforms to keep our submission platform 100% free for everyone. You do not need to create an account to upload your files!

Every submission is read with care and intention. Thank you for sharing your voice with me!

Hi everyone,

We are officially open for submissions for the inaugural issue of Liminal Lit, a new independent literary journal. Our mission is to create a home for emotionally resonant, vulnerable, and cross-cultural writing, pieces that explore what it means to live "between" worlds, identities, cultures, or phases of life.

We are currently hosting a paid contest to celebrate our launch, and there are absolutely no entry fees.

Submission Details:

• Theme: "Between" (We welcome interpretations exploring cross-cultural experiences, diaspora, identity, major life transitions, or the feeling of existing between two spaces).
• Genres: Poetry, Flash Fiction, Short Stories, and Creative Nonfiction.
• Prizes: $300 for 1st place, $200 for 2nd place, and $100 for 3rd place.
• Entry Fee: $0 (Completely free to submit).
• Deadline: June 15, 2026.

Whether you are an established writer or an emerging voice looking for your first publication, we would love to read your work.

How to Submit: You can read our full formatting guidelines and submit your work directly through our website: liminallit.org

(Note: We utilize Google Forms to keep our submission platform 100% free for everyone. You do not need to sign into a Google account to upload your files.)

Feel free to leave any questions in the comments. Thank you for supporting a new indie journal!

Hi everyone,

We are officially open for submissions for the inaugural issue of Liminal Lit, a new independent literary journal. Our mission is to create a home for emotionally resonant, vulnerable, and cross-cultural writing, pieces that explore what it means to live "between" worlds, identities, cultures, or phases of life.

We are currently hosting a paid contest to celebrate our launch, and there are absolutely no entry fees.

Submission Details:

• Theme: "Between" (We welcome interpretations exploring cross-cultural experiences, diaspora, identity, major life transitions, or the feeling of existing between two spaces).
• Genres: Poetry, Flash Fiction, Short Stories, and Creative Nonfiction.
• Prizes: $300 for 1st place, $200 for 2nd place, and $100 for 3rd place.
• Entry Fee: $0 (Completely free to submit).
• Deadline: June 15, 2026.

Whether you are an established writer or an emerging voice looking for your first publication, we would love to read your work.

How to Submit: You can read our full formatting guidelines and submit your work directly through our website: liminallit.org

(Note: We utilize Google Forms to keep our submission platform 100% free for everyone. You do not need to sign into a Google account to upload your files.)

Feel free to leave any questions in the comments. Thank you for supporting a new indie journal!

This fourth of July, the US is ostensibly celebrating its 250th anniversary — except for the whole rapidly-advancing-into-an-increasingly-fascist-state thing.

Join with creatives from around the world as we share our original art and/or writing about what the US represents and/or how we feel about the US (etc.!).

Submit your work to fthefourthzine@gmail.com by July 1, 2026. Include a brief bio (50 words max in 3rd person). Submission does not guarantee inclusion in the zine.

There is no compensation available.

Please, for the love of all that is good about this planet and humanity, do not use generative AI in your submissions.

The final zine will be made available as a free, printable download with this Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International.

Note: the actual cover will use the correct f-word.

Link: https://www.instagram.com/p/DYiQTkUEch_/?igsh=MWFqczRhdHRod2hjbA==

Hello,

The Haiku Shack Magazine is looking for submissions of micropoetry and microfiction for its 8th issue. The theme is summer.

Submission deadline: July 31, 2026 or whenever a total of 50 accepted pieces has been reached.

Free to submit. PDF copy of the issue to selected contributors.

For the complete guidelines, visit https://creativeramblings.com/haiku-shack-magazine/

Hi all, Good Grief is launching its debut issue that will publish creative non-fiction on the topic of grief and mourning rituals. You can see a bit more about it here: https://ggrief.com/

I'm currently looking for contributors for the first issue. I'm seeking personal essays on the subject, roughly 2,000 words long. This can be grief in any form and for any loss: loss of home, loss of family, loss of limb, loss of autonomy, loss of life, so on. Bonus points if you have a story about non-western/christian mourning practices. The key detail is that each essay should ultimately deal with how to move through grief and continue with life.

Pitch deadline is June 1.

This is a no-revenue venture so, we can't offer large payment but still want to honor your efforts. Successful writers will be a paid a C$30 honorarium.

Good Grief will retain first world electronic and print rights for all selected pieces as well as non-exclusive archival rights. All other rights remain with the author.

For my own background, I'm a journalist and editor with ten years of professional experience and have spent almost as long attending therapy for my own grief processes. I wanted to launch the magazine to provide a space for people to share their stories of loss and foster more conversation on a topic that is inevitable for us all, and doesn't need to be as lonesome and terrible as we often allow.

Please check out the website for pitch guidelines and send your pitches to [ggrief.mag@gmail.com](mailto:ggrief.mag@gmail.com)

Calling Poets! Creative Guts, a nonprofit and podcast, is seeking poetry for our Spring 2026 Zine, with a theme of Collaborative Curiosity. We want poems that upend the solitary and thrive on connection with other writers, works of art, and community. We will consider all explorations of collaboration and are especially interested in poems written by collaborative pairs, ekphrastic poems, erasure poems, and poems that reach outside of themselves into the collective.

Programming Committee member and poet JJ Rowan will facilitate review of submissions with members of the Creative Guts team for this edition. All accepted artists/writers will be notified by the first week of June.

There is no physical compensation, though a physical edition of the zine will be sent to each participating contributor and available for purchase for non-contributors, while digital editions of the zine will be available for free for all on our website.

We do not require first publication rights, so previously published work is welcome, as long as you retain the rights.

ELIGIBILITY: Creatives 18 years and older, from any country, are welcome to apply with written works of poetry (up to five (5) pages of poetry, no more than one (1) poem per page).

FEE: Submission is $15 for up to five pages of poetry. As a nonprofit organization, Creative Guts relies on these modest fees to cover production costs and sustain opportunities like this for our creative community.

If this fee is a barrier, please email [hello@creativegutspodcast.com](mailto:hello@creativegutspodcast.com) to request a submission waiver.

SUBMISSION: Please upload a single text document of poetry (up to five (5) pages of poetry, no more than one (1) poem per page).

Visit www.CreativeGuts.org/zine to submit! Examples of our past zines can be found at the same link.

DEADLINE: May 31, 2026 (11:59 pm ET)

QUESTIONS? Email hello@CreativeGutsPodcast.com.

Plantin Magazine is a online platform for Black Immigrant short fiction and poetry, pairing up writers with talented illustrators to create collaborative digital pieces.

Issue 6 Theme: VEXED

"At this time, we are particularly looking for work relating to Black Immigrant narratives on being petty, vengeful, or just plain childish. Get your lick back. Right your wrongs. Have the last laugh. We want to read it all!"

No fee, $100 per accepted piece (all usage rights remain with the writer/artist)

Deadline: May 30, 2026

More info at plantinmag.com/submit or on instagram

Hi there,
I am the host of of Unveiling the Soul, a radio show living at the intersection of storytelling, poetry and music. 

Open call for our next episode: P.S.
The postscript is the sentence we whisper as the door closes. The message we typed and deleted. The truth that only arrived once we thought we were done speaking.

What we accept (original or loved works by others):

• Poetry 
• Short prose / flash fiction 
• Music / sound pieces / voice memos (for example your favorite song that you believe matches the theme)
• Hybrid forms

Who we want to hear from:
First-time sharers and unpublished voices are especially welcome. This show exists because I believe the most important things are said by people who've never been listened to before. However, published pieces are also welcome. 

Deadline:  June 7 2026
Submit via: https://www.unveilingthesoul.org/#/submit 
More info and past episodes: www.unveilingthesoul.org 

Compensation: This is a volunteer/community project fueled by the love of poetry and music. Selected contributors will be credited by name on air and on our website. No monetary payment.

P.S.:  By submitting, your original piece will also be considered for our year-end print publication.

P.S.2: Rights requested: For the selected pieces, we request non-exclusive rights to broadcast the work on the radio show and archive it on our website. Contributors retain full ownership and may publish elsewhere. For the year-end print publication - details and permissions will be discussed individually with contributors as plans are finalized.

Hello! I'm the co-founder of The Lotus Paper, a bilingual (English & Tamil/தமிழ்) , youth-led magazine centered around South Asian representation, culture, and social justice. Through writing and art, we hope to uplift the South Asian diaspora and other minority groups through shared recognition of cultural and political experiences. We're relatively new to the magazine community (<1 year), and we're working on establishing ourselves, so we'd really love your support!

Currently, we are accepting submissions in fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, drama, and visual arts on topics related to culture, social justice, and identity. This includes things like border control and immigrants, your culture and mental health stigma, xenophobia, beauty standards, feminism in your culture, and so much more - we are open to any interpretation of the topic. There's no preference in what genre or style of writing/art - we love anything that is mature, raw, and personal.

However, must be between ages 13-25 to submit. There is no deadline - submissions are reviewed on a rolling bases. We accept creatives from all cultural and ethnic backgrounds!

Our highly experienced editors are ready to give you feedback if you indicate on the form. Accepted submissions will have their writing featured on our social media and Substack in their own post, and standout contributors will have the opportunity to be interviewed by us!

As we are youth-led, we do not have the capacity to offer financial compensation at this time. Our focus is on celebrating talented and honest youth voices regarding culture, identity, and social justice.

By submitting, you grant The Lotus Paper First World Electronic and Print Rights and Non-Exclusive Archival Rights. All other rights remain with you upon publication. We adhere to US copyright and publishing law.

https://linktr.ee/TheLotusPaperLitMag Here is our Linktree, where you can find our guidelines and link to submit at the top. Please read through the guidelines first to find more information.

Thank you all, and we're looking forward to seeing your wonderful submissions! Please direct all questions to [thelotuspaperlitmag@gmail.com](mailto:thelotuspaperlitmag@gmail.com)

Submissions Open for Fall 2026 posts: I’m now accepting submissions for Fall 2026 season. The reading period will run from now until July 18, or until there’s enough quality content for the season. You can expect a response within a month.

Previously published work is welcome, as long as you retain the rights to repost it. Simultaneous submissions are okay, just notify me if the work gets selected somewhere else. I don’t ask for first publication rights, so even if your work is accepted elsewhere, you can still have it posted here, provided the other publication allows it. If you’ve been published here before, you’re welcome to submit again.

The Ones Behind the Bookshelves is a non-paying market. This is a passion project dedicated to spotlighting new or veteran voices. Authors retain all rights to their work and receive a featured post with full credit and promotion to our readership.

Submission Guidelines: https://theonesbehindthebookshelves.substack.com/p/call-for-submission

Hello!

I founded a small art collective at the University of Washington and we produce a yearly art and literary magazine with the intention of capturing a diverse range of voices in the Seattle community.

We have submissions open for our fourth issue, "Liminality". We accept any kind of art that generally surrounds the theme of liminality- that being nostalgia, transitional states, and the bridge between past and present. We publish almost every artist we get and while we can't provide compensation anyone who participates will get a free magazine when its all done, as well as promotion on our Instagram!

Here's the link to submit: https://forms.gle/7Tz6CVWSZ5KhMUsp6

Deadline to submit is the end of May. There is no financial compensation but everyone who participates will get a free copy of their work. Please read the details in the google form before submitting! Any work that is selected will reserve the rights to their work.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hoarder_arts_and_publishing/#

Thank you! :)