76 Weekly Sub Calls: Expanded | 12.03.25
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Little magazine
12 min read
This article lists numerous small literary magazines and journals - understanding the history and cultural significance of 'little magazines' in the literary world provides essential context for why these submission opportunities exist and their role in publishing emerging writers
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Flash fiction
15 min read
Several publications like Baffling Magazine and Blink-Ink specifically publish flash fiction (stories of 50-1000 words) - understanding this literary form's constraints, history, and techniques would help writers craft appropriate submissions
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There are 76 weekly sub calls today. Also, in case you missed it, here’s everything we published in the last week:
ONLY POEMS | Theme: ELEGY → Deadline: Dec 7 | Fee: No | Pay: $33/piece | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 56 days | A: <1% | 50K+ followers | Canada | 2023 — “Fall in love with poetry. Send us your weird, wild & wonderful poems & book reviews. As Leonard Cohen said, “Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”“
Trash Cat Lit | Theme: Call for Cat Stories - Winter Pop-Up → Deadline: Dec 14 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 10% | 700+ followers | United Kingdom | 2024 — “The Unexpected Place for Treasured Words”
Baffling Magazine → Deadline: Dec 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 120 days | A: 10.07% | 1K+ followers | United States | 2020 — “Baffling Magazine is a quarterly online magazine of flash fiction. We love fantasy, science fiction & horror stories with a queer bent.”
In a Flash | Theme: December theme: MAPS → Deadline: Dec 15 | Fee: No | Pay: $25/piece | Open for Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | 1K+ followers | United States | 2024 — “A monthly literary magazine for creative nonfiction in 500 words or less, each issue has a specific theme.”
Rust and Moth → Deadline: Dec 21 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 42 days | A: 10.76% | 15K+ followers | United States | 2008 — “Lit journal, cellar door knocker”
Stone of Madness Press → Deadline: Dec 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 19.33% | 6K+ followers | United States | 2020 — “Stone of Madness Press is a physical [online]
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