Subgenres: Formal Poetry

Impossible Task

Another New Calligraphy’s online journal Impossible Task publishes short works connected in its exploration of conflict, a term open to interpretation though ever present in these increasingly challenging times. Read more

As in ANC’s other... Read more

Reading Period: 
Jan 1 to Dec 31
Genres Published: 
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
Subgenres: 
Autobiography/Memoir, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Healing/Health, Historical, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, LGBTQ Voices, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, Prose Poetry, Speculative Fiction, Translation, War

The Wax Paper

The Wax Paper is a broadsheet publication open to all forms of written word, imagery, and collected conversation.

Reading Period: 
Jan 1 to Dec 31
Temporarily closed to submissions
Genres Published: 
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
Subgenres: 
Autobiography/Memoir, Commercial Fiction, Experimental, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Historical, Humor, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Love, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Regional, Translation, Young Adult

Foundlings Press

Foundlings seeks to publish—in paper and ink—the best writing. The press takes its ethic and aesthetic from the Canon Law of the Roman Catholic Church. Not all of it; just Canon 1115, which closes with the provoking observation that “Foundlings... Read more

Reading Period: 
Jan 1 to Dec 31
Temporarily closed to submissions
Genres Published: 
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
Subgenres: 
Autobiography/Memoir, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Regional, Translation

akinoga press

akinoga press is a Baltimore-based micro press that specialzes in hand-bound chapbooks of a spacious/minimalist/austere flavor, though on the lookout for anything small, quiet, odd, easily-missed, and a hundred percent needs to be read.

Reading Period: 
Apr 1 to Apr 30
Temporarily closed to submissions
Genres Published: 
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
Subgenres: 
Autobiography/Memoir, Cross-genre, Experimental, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Regional

Eastern Structures

Eastern Structures picks up where Contemporary Ghazals left off, publishing English-language examples of the Middle Eastern form, but now also Korean sijo and Japanese tanka—the latter rendered exclusively in the five-seven-five... Read more

Reading Period: 
Jan 1 to Dec 31
Genres Published: 
Poetry
Subgenres: 
Formal Poetry

MORIA

MORIA is a national online literary magazine with an all-student editorial board, based at Woodbury University in greater Los Angeles. It accepts poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction from emerging and established writers in the... Read more

Reading Periods: 
Aug 30 to Oct 1
Jan 15 to Mar 1
Genres Published: 
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Subgenres: 
Autobiography/Memoir, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Love, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Regional, Religious/Spiritual, War

SWWIM Every Day

Founded and edited by a diverse, award-winning team of female poets, SWWIM Every Day publishes poems every weekday by cis/trans women, nonbinary, intersex, and other gender-expansive writers of all ages, races, ethnicities, cultures,... Read more

Reading Period: 
Jan 1 to Dec 31
Genres Published: 
Poetry
Subgenres: 
BIPOC Voices, Experimental, Feminist, Formal Poetry, Healing/Health, LGBTQ Voices, Micro-poetry, Nature/Environmental, Poetry, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Visual Poetry

Sky Island Journal

Sky Island Journal is an independent, international, free-access literary journal; it is dedicated to discovering and publishing the finest original poetry, flash fiction, and creative nonfiction. The magazine publishes accomplished,... Read more

Reading Period: 
Jan 1 to Dec 31
Genres Published: 
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
Subgenres: 
Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Erotica, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Healing/Health, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Love, Magical Realism, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Religious/Spiritual, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Speculative Poetry, Translation, War

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