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Literary magazine
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This article lists 40+ literary magazines accepting submissions. Understanding the history, economics, and cultural role of literary magazines would give writers context for why these publications exist and how the ecosystem developed from 18th-century periodicals to today's digital journals.
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Haiku
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The Poetry Pea Journal specifically focuses on haiku, senryu, and Japanese short-form poetry. Understanding the strict formal rules, historical development from Matsuo Bashō, and the distinction between haiku and senryu would help poets considering submissions to this Switzerland-based journal.
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There are 40 sub calls today. Also, in case you missed it, here’s everything we published in the last 7 days:
ONLY POEMS | Theme: Best New Poems → Deadline: Dec 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | 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.”“
The Bowery Review: NY’s Best and Only Humor Magazine | Theme: Funny Short Stories → Deadline: Nov 28 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 2 days | 300+ followers — “The Bowery Review is looking for funny short stories, poems, cartoons, gags, and jokes! Please send us what you’ve got to theboweryreview@gmail.com.”
Poetry Pea Journal and Podcast → Deadline: Nov 30 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry | ✖️ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | 3K+ followers | Switzerland | 2018 — “A platform dedicated to haiku, senryu, and other Japanese short-form poetry, offering podcasts, journals, and workshops.”
Oroboro Literary Journal - Death Rattle Literary → Deadline: Dec 15 | Fee: $3 | Pay: No | Open for Multimedia, Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 42 days | A: 6% | 2K+ followers | United States | 2017 — “A literary journal published bi-annually by Death Rattle, aimed at publishing and promoting poets, authors, and artists. We publish new work from both established and emerging writers.”
Macrame → Deadline: Dec 15 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | Under 100 followers | 2024 — “Like the macrame weaver, the writer conjures a vision of a new creation. Carefully selecting the words, the writer painstakingly knots, pulls, twists, and aligns them into the strings of sentences until line by line, a unique literary work is born.”
Postbox Magazine → Deadline: Dec 31 | Fee: No |
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