Weekly Sub Calls: Expanded | 12.17.25
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Little magazine
12 min read
This article lists dozens of small literary magazines - understanding the century-long tradition of 'little magazines' as alternative publishing venues for experimental and emerging writers provides essential context for why these submission opportunities exist and their role in literary culture
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Flash fiction
15 min read
Several listings specifically seek flash fiction (100-Foot Crow publishes exactly 100-word stories, Fiction Attic seeks 'novellas-in-flash') - understanding this literary form's constraints and history enriches appreciation for these specialized markets
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ONLY POEMS | Fee: No | Pay: Yes | Open for Poetry, Essays, Book Reviews | ☑︎ 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.”“
Penumbric Speculative Fiction Magazine → Deadline: Jan 14, 2026 | Fee: No | Pay: From $10/piece | Open for Multimedia, Fiction, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 30 days | A: 9.79% | Under 100 followers | United States — “An online magazine dedicated to riding that ever-changing edge of new and original fiction and art and sound and everything into tomorrow, to being a conduit for the voices that speak along that edge, to helping in some way those voices to move the world forward”
100-Foot Crow → Deadline: Jan 15, 2026 | Fee: No | Pay: $0.08/word | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 60 days | A: 1.45% | 500+ followers | 2024 — “We’re the magazine for busy people who want to be wowed by great science fiction & fantasy stories—in exactly 100 words.”
Plork Press | Theme: PLORKOLOGY 2025 → Deadline: Feb 7, 2026 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ☑︎ Some Reprints | R: 30 days | 300+ followers | United States | 2013 — “Plork Press is a student-run press at the University of Baltimore.”
Aberration Labyrinth → Deadline: Feb 15, 2026 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Poetry, Multimedia, Fiction | ✖️ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 60 days | A: 35% | Under 100 followers | United States | 2012 — “We do not want poems about sailboats. They’re sort of tired and boring. We are looking for underground writers who are looking for a place to muck up the
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