Call for Submissions: Shadow Falls Review

We are open for submissions August 20-January 20. Multiple submissions are acceptable, but please only submit once per genre per submission period (except for visual art).

• We do not accept previously published work. Simultaneous submissions are acceptable so long as you notify us and withdraw your piece if it is accepted elsewhere.

• Submissions are accepted only through Subfolio. Submissions sent via mail or email will be discarded. 

• Please include your name, email address, and a word count at the top of the first page. Please use page numbers, and include a short cover letter with a third-person bio (no more than 150 words).

• All writing submission files should be either DOCX or PDF.

  Shadow Falls Review is committed to uplifting the work of underrepresented voices: writers of color, Indigenous writers, LGBTQ+ writers, and writers with disabilities are all encouraged to submit.

  Your submissions will be reviewed with sensitivity and care by graduate students in the Creative Writing and Publishing program at the University of St. Thomas. We're looking for work that demonstrates intentionality, revision, and voice. We are accepting pieces which invoke emotions within the reader, leaving them with a lasting impression even after their eyes leave the page. 

  Shadow Falls Review does not accept any piece in which LLMs, image generation, or any other form of generative AI were used at any point in the creative process.

  Contributors are given two copies of the issue in which their work appears. SFR will also promote and market their work as much as possible.

  Shadow Falls Review acquires First North American Serial Rights. Rights revert to the author upon publication in our printed journal, but we ask that we are acknowledged should the piece be published elsewhere. 

  Submissions from current St. Thomas students or from alumni of the last five years are ineligible. We ask all contributors to wait at least two years before submitting again. 

  Response times vary, but if you have not heard from us by April 1 feel free to reach out at:

  editors@shadowfallsreview.com

  Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions on Theme of "After": Liminal Lit

 

Liminal Lit: for voices that exist between cultures, languages, and belonging. 

Theme: After

After explores what remains, what changes, and what begins following moments that shape us. We invite poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction that interprets this theme in original and compelling ways.

We encourage broad interpretation, whether your work reflects on memory, transformation, grief, joy, migration, family, identity, love, language, resilience, or entirely unexpected places the theme may lead.

Contributor Payment
Every published contributor receives a $100 honorarium.

Poetry | Short Fiction | Creative Nonfiction

Deadline: September 15th, 2026

Submit to Issue II

Submissions are free. If you encounter any issues with the submission form, please email:

liminallit@gmail.com

Call for Submissions from Asian American Teen Writers: Temple Literary Magazine

 

Temple Lit Mag values the voices of every Asian American writer who has a story to tell. Submission is free; however, we are unable to pay our writers at this time.

Temple Lit Mag accepts submissions on a rolling basis. Issues are published four times a year, once per season.

Temple Lit Mag accepts works that tells a story about emotionally resonating Asian American experiences. All new submissions will be considered for Issue #04.

You must be Asian American and aged 13 to 19 years old to submit. Temple Literary Magazine is a magazine for Asian American youth writers only. If you have Asian heritage and raised in Asia and moved to the United States, or you were raised in the United States and moved to Asia, you are also eligible to submit. If you are mixed heritage with two or more races including Asian, (e.g., Black and Asian, White and Asian, Latino/Latina and Asian, etc.) you are also eligible to submit.

Simultaneous submissions are allowed and encouraged. You can submit any work to other literary magazines; however, unpublished work is preferred. If your work has been published anywhere else, please indicate so in the submission form. You may also enter submissions to multiple categories.
Use of generative AI is prohibited. We do not tolerate any hate speech, discrimination, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and other forms of bigotry. Submissions promoting hate speech will be rejected and writers will be blacklisted from future submissions.

We will not be accepting submissions with explicit sexual content or graphic, excessive violence. This is a literary magazine targeted towards youth, and we hope to create a safe and inclusive space for all writers and readers.

Text in foreign language is allowed and encouraged, but please put English translations of them in the footnotes.

Response time is an average of 2-3 weeks, but can be upwards of 3-4 weeks. If you would like to receive feedback from our staff, please indicate so on the Google Form submission.

Submissions must be sent in a pdf, docx or Word file.

All rights remain with the author upon publication. Click here to view our publishing contract.

More information and submission form here. 

Call for Submissions: Ginosko

 

Accepting short fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, social justice, literary insights.

Length flexible, accept excerpts.

Publishing as semiannual litzine. Check downloadable issues on website for tone & style, http://GinoskoLiteraryJournal.com/

Submit by Submittable: http://ginosko.submittable.com/submit/ 

Ginosko

A Greek word meaning to perceive, understand, realize, come to know; knowledge that has an inception, a progress, an attainment. The recognition of truth from experience. 

Payment: $40-70.

Open year round.

Publishing as a semiannual litzine. Check downloadable issues on website for tone & style.

Call for Submissions: The Prairie Schooner

The Prairie Schooner 

Submission Periods

Poetry, Fiction, and Essays: We accept unsolicited submissions two times per year:

September 1 – September 15 (or until submission caps are reached). The 2026 fall submission period will include a call for general submissions as well as a special issue on Cafes & Cocktails.

February 1 – February 15 (or until submission caps are reached)

Submissions of book reviews and interviews are open year-round.

General Guidelines

The Schooner’s intention is to publish the best and most interesting writing available, both from beginning and established writers. We publish short stories, poems, imaginative essays of general interest, reviews of current books of poetry and fiction, and interviews. Scholarly articles requiring footnote references should be submitted to journals of literary scholarship. We particularly welcome work by writers of color and writers who come from disenfranchised or previously disenfranchised backgrounds.

We do not consider work that has been previously published, including work that has appeared online or on any social media platform. While we do consider work that has been simultaneously submitted to other journals, we request that you withdraw the piece immediately upon acceptance elsewhere. We do consider translations of work that have not been published prior in English. We do not consider work that has been produced using generative AI at any stage in the writing process.

Length: For poetry, send a selection of up to seven poems contained within a single document. For fiction, essays, and reviews/interviews, send only one selection at a time. Please send only one submission per genre per submission window.

Withdrawing: To withdraw an individual poem from consideration, please send us a message through Submittable. To withdraw an essay, short story, or review/interview, please withdraw the full manuscript through Submittable.

We encourage you to read the Schooner before you submit. Sample copies are available below for just $9.00. There's never a fee to submit to our general reading period, and we're grateful for the support we receive through donations and orders.

Submit your work here. 

Calll for Submissions on Theme of "How has an educator shaped you?": Epistle Literary Magazine

Epistle Literary Magazine 

Submit Your Work

We accept any form of writing, so long as it responds to the theme: "How has an educator or mentor shaped you?" Consider poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction, and letters to honor your educators. We are also newly accepting visual art submissions specifically for our issue's cover! Cover art entries follow the same deadline and submission protocol as written works. All forms of visual art are welcomed, but art created with artificial intelligence will not be accepted. Up to 3 poems (max 5 pages total)

• Short stories up to 3,000 words

• Essays, memoirs, or letters up to 2,000 words

• Cover art: Up to 3 high-resolution visual art pieces of any format. Selected art will feature as the primary cover image for both digital and print formats.

We accept and encourage simultaneous submissions, but please let us know if your work is accepted elsewhere so that we can congratulate you and withdraw the submission on our end! We do not consider previously published submissions.

Along with your submission, please include a brief, third-person bio.

By submitting your work, you certify that it is your original creation, in no way plagiarized, and that you have obtained any necessary permissions from individuals named or identifiable in your piece. We reserve the right to remove your work from our site if we are made aware of plagiarism or unauthorized use of personal details.

Additionally, by submitting, you grant us the right to publish your submission in both digital and print formats if it is accepted, including on our website and social media platforms, and in any promotional materials related to the issue. Authors retain full rights to their work and may republish it elsewhere after it appears in Epistle, with credit to the magazine as the original place of publication.

Please send your submission to:

submissions@epistleliterary.org 

as a PDF. Submissions not attached as PDFs will not be opened for consideration.

Thanks to the help of generous friends and family on our end, every accepted author with a mailing address in the United States will receive a printed copy of the issue once it is released. You will have the opportunity to choose to mail this copy to the educator by whom your piece is inspired as a way to show your appreciation. Additional print and digital copies will be available for purchase by authors and readers.

Submissions close September 15, 2026.

Decisions regarding the status of your submission will be shared after the submission period ends. All submissions are read and curated by Rory Baskin, Editor-in-Chief.

Call for Submissions: Ley Lines Literary Review

Ley Lines Literary Review 

Submit all work through email:

leylinesliteraryreview@gmail.com

There is no fee to submit your work.

Include in your email:

A cover letter with the name of the file you’re attaching

Your phone number and email address in the body of your letter

The titles of the pieces you’re submitting

Your name as you would like it to appear if we publish your work

A third-person brief bio (75 or fewer words)

An attachment with your work in a single docx Word file (no pdf submissions accepted)

Submission Format Info

For prose, include a word-count; for poetry, include a line-count

Use Times Roman 12-pt type for all submissions

Include your contact info (phone number and email address) on the first page of your submission

Submit four or fewer poems per submission (single-spaced with each poem appearing on a separate page) or one piece of prose per submission (double-spaced with numbered pages)

Important Additional Information—Please read!

While we have no word or line limit on the work that we publish, due to space limitations, we prefer shorter rather than longer work. Prose should be no longer than 5,000 words; poetry should be no longer than 80 lines.

Simultaneous submissions are welcomed, though we do ask that you let us know immediately if a poem you’ve submitted has been accepted elsewhere. All submissions must be original—and all writers own their copyright upon publication.

We do not publish AI-generated work or AI-partially generated work, and we rely on our writers to be ethical about this issue.

We do not publish previously published work.

We try to respond to submissions within a three-month period. Feel free to email us if you have not heard back from us within that time period.

We look forward to reading your work.