Lit journal pays $400 for short prose pieces; plus places to send your silly stuff, your 100-word memoirs, your emotional pieces, and your poetry

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Bullshit Press call for submissions. “Bullshit is a literary magazine and chapbook press based out of Houston, Texas. Inspired by a stack of silly poems, BS is meant to serve as the antithesis to those flowery submissions calls for, like, ‘the deepest echo in the canyon of your trembling heart.’ We don't take ourselves that seriously.

“We want to see the work that you haven't sent to other lit mags because you know it's just not working. Your half-baked prose, fucked-up line breaks, abandoned sketches, nonsensical plots, yadda yadda. Everybody else wants your best—we want your worst. We especially like it when shit gets weird.”

Submissions for the first Bullshit Anthology are open until April 1, 2022. 

Pays $5 us. Contributors will also receive a copy of the print edition. “We wanna see your silly poems, inane stories, funky prose, blatherings, riddles, diss tracks, sketches, word games, and whatever.”

Send your bullshit to: bslitmag@gmail.com

Full guidelines here.

 

The Threepenny Review publishes short stories and memoirs{4,000 words or less},  critical articles about books, plays, etc {1,200–2,500 words}, poetry {100 lines or less} and Table Talk pieces {1,000 words or less}. Read a sample Table Talk piece here. Read a broad sampling of pieces here. 

Threepenny Review pays $400 US per story or article, $200 US per poem or Table Talk piece.

“The Threepenny Review is as lively and original a literary magazine as exists in this country. Mercifully compact, uncompromisingly elegant, animated by the curiosity of its editor, it mixes the legendary and eminent with the unknown, which the eminent were when Wendy Lesser first published them. Not an issue goes by without some unexpected marvel.” – Louise Glück

Submissions accepted January 1 – April 30. Full guidelines here.

 

Five Minutes publishes 100-word pieces about five minutes in your life. There should be an identifiable moment {about five minutes} that’s the crux of the piece. No dreams, erotic memoirs, graphic violence, pieces from the perspective of abusers, poetry or fiction, promotion of an ideology, pieces recounting someone else’s memory, hate speech or slurs.

Also, they’re getting many, many, many pieces about the last time a writer saw a beloved person and about putting a pet to sleep.

Full guidelines here.

 

Evoke is an online, quarterly literary magazine founded by Editor-in-Chief, Jennifer Fox. “As the name states, we crave work that evokes strong emotion, that stirs something in our soul, and haunts us long after we've left the page. Send us your passions, your heartaches, and buried regrets.”

Submit 1–3 poems all in one file; fiction up to 3,500 words, or creative nonfiction up t 3,500 words.

Send to evokelit@gmasil.com

Include a cover letter and a third-person bio (50 words or less). Attach work as a Word file or paste into body of email. No PDFs. Full submission guidelines here.

 

Publish your poems again. Most places only want poetry from you if it’s never been previously published. I’m turning that inside out. This is a call for poetry that has already been published in a literary journal or whatever that you’d like to see published again on Quick Brown Fox in April, poetry month. 

Submit to: brianhenry@sympatico.ca

Include a short bio at the end of your piece and attach a photo of yourself if you have one that’s okay.

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