INTERNATIONAL ZINE SCENE
image and sound’, poems that sound great read aloud. Send 1-3 poems of any length. Fiction should ‘explore the human condition with empathy and curiosity’. Speculative, experimental, and flash fiction are welcomed. here. Submit one story of no more than 7,000 words, or three flash pieces. Non-fiction could be anything from ‘a brief flash prose poem using academic language that’s also a sonnet’ to essays ‘that (like poetry) emphasize image, that show the process of discovery.’ Limit prose to 7,000 words. Submit online at: www.peatsmokejournal.com
Anomaly is an international journal of literature and the arts. The editorial team aim ‘to provide a platform for works of art that challenge conventions of form and format, of voice and genre’. They despise the notion of ‘literary merit’ calling it ‘an inherently and inescapably racist principle’ a definition ‘by a white supremacist institution’. Give them ‘innovative and experimental literature and arts... poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and translations’ as well as comics. Submissions are open until 1 Sept, then 1 Nov-1 March.
Submit one to five poems in a single document, or fiction and non-fiction, up to 5,000 words, especially ‘work that is recalcitrant, wayward, rebellious, whether formally, linguistically, politically, generically, or in some clever way that hasn’t occurred to us yet’.
Submit through the website: https:// anmly.org. Response time is 3-4 months.
The Good Life Review is a literary journal with an editorial team ‘committed to exploring the overlooked’. They want ‘the myriad of voices that call… lift up the strange, the daring, and the underrepresented to reveal complexities hidden in our heartland’. Submit original, creative non-fiction, fiction, stage plays screenplays, and poetry. They also welcome hybrid or collaborative work.
Poetry should push boundaries. Submit 1-6 poems of no more than ten pages in total.
Flash prose, no more than 1,000 words, should ‘move, transform and twist on the page’. Submit one to three pieces in a single text file.
Long prose, up to 5,000 words, should be labelled as fiction or creative non-fiction.
Response time is ‘up to four months on general submissions and up to six months on contest submissions’. Payment is $25 for all work’ for first North American serial rights and archival rights.
Website: https://thegoodlifereview.com/
Pumpernickel House is a specialist zine ‘devoted to fairy tales and fabulism’.
Submissions are open for stories, both flash and long form, 1,00010,000 words, and poems, 3-5 in a single document of no more than five pages. Response time is ‘reasonable’. Payment is $50 for long fiction, $15 for flash and $10 for poems.
Website: www.pumpernickelhouse.com
The Rumpus is a cheerful online place where creative people are welcomed. The editorial team ‘strive to be a platform for marginalised voices and writing that might not find a home elsewhere... to shine a light on stories that build bridges, tear down walls, and speak truth to power’.
Please read the detailed guidelines for each genre. They are accepting essays, original fiction, interviews, book reviews, but not poetry. Subs for poetry open in January.
Book reviews are accepted year-round. Interview pitches and finished submissions are also accepted year-round and should be sent by email to the Interviews team: interviews@ therumpus.net
Response time varies ‘from a few days to a few months. Please allow three months.’ Payment is usually $10-$25 per writer.
Website: https://therumpus.net
riddlebird is a new journal striving ‘to make a space for more diversity (of interest, of authorship, of meaning)’. Check out the website and follow the guidelines.
Submit literary fiction, personal essays and wellwritten genre fiction, up to 6,000 words, by email: riddlebirdmag@ gmail.com
Response time is ‘reasonable’. Payment is $100 for North American Serial Rights.
Website: www.riddlebird.com