51 Weekly Sub Calls: Expanded | 02.18.26

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There are 51 weekly sub calls today. Also, in case you missed it from this past week:

The Malahat Review → Deadline: Feb 28 | Fee: Some | Pay: $70/page | Open for Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 270 days | A: 3.50% | 10K+ followers | Canada | 1967 — “One of Canada’s leading literary journals, featuring poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and book reviews.”

ONLY POEMS | Theme: Ekphrasis → Deadline: Feb 28 | Fee: Some | Pay: $22 flat or $50/piece or $100 flat | Open for Nonfiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 56 days | A: <1% | 80K+ 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.”“

Frozen Sea → Deadline: Mar 1 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 5% | 1.5K+ followers | United States | 2023 — “Publishing exceptional work from early-career poets in a mobile-friendly format.”

Rock and a Hard Place Magazine | Theme: American Gestapo → Deadline: Mar 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 2K+ followers | United States | 2019 — “Rock and a Hard Place Press is a lit-noir publisher, focused on stories of struggle, tales of the powerless and marginalized, characters on the fringes of society … and what they do next.”

MODieval Magazine → Deadline: Mar 17 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | 600+ followers | United States | 2025 — “𝔄𝔫 𝔦𝔫𝔡𝔦𝔢 𝔪𝔞𝔤𝔞𝔷𝔦𝔫𝔢 𝔠𝔢𝔩𝔢𝔟𝔯𝔞𝔱𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔭𝔞𝔰𝔱 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔭𝔯𝔢𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔱 𝔱𝔥𝔯𝔬𝔲𝔤𝔥 𝔠𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔱𝔦𝔳𝔦𝔱𝔶.”

Cosmic Double → Deadline: Mar 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 90 days | A: 7.69% | 100+ followers | United States | 2022 — “A magazine of speculative, soft sci-fi, dystopian, and weird/uncanny/dark fiction.”

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