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  • WordPress Hosted Literary Journals accepting submissions

    WordPress Hosted Literary Journals accepting submissions

    This list is regularly monitored and updated, so come back often to see what’s been added.

    Burning House Press: Burning House Press is born from a community arts ethos and focus. We seek to cultivate spaces where people feel safe and encouraged to explore and express their creativity. We hold a belief in the power of creativity, and share a faith in the fundamental connectivity of all peoples, especially as expressed through the commonality and community of multi-disciplinary arts. We believe that capitalism and its attendant profit culture is a public health issue, affecting us all on the level of our mental, emotional, spiritual and physical health and well-being.

    Dogwood: A Journal of Poetry and Prose: An annual national literary journal seeking works from writers during its fall reading period each year. We publish fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction of both contest winners and other writers in May of each year. The literary journal is produced by the faculty in the Department of English at Fairfield University, and Fairfield undergraduate students gain hands-on experience in helping to edit and produce the journal by taking EN 340: The World of Publishing or The World of Publishing II.

    Eyes+ Words: Words have immense power and, when used responsibly, can help shape the world in hopes to make a better tomorrow. Let’s come together and share a story or two. Please feel free to share your original poetry/stories and we will gladly post them on our website, full credit will be given. Email us: EyesPlusWords@gmail.com

    Gulf Stream Literary Magazine: Publishing emerging and established writers of exceptional fiction, nonfiction and poetry since 1989. We also publish interviews and book reviews. Past contributors include Sherman Alexie, Steve Almond, Jan Beatty, Lee Martin, Robert Wrigley, Dennis Lehane, Liz Robbins, Stuart Dybek, David Kirby, Ann Hood, Ha Jin, B.H. Fairchild, Naomi Shihab Nye, F. Daniel Rzicznek, and Connie May Fowler. Gulf Stream Magazine is supported by the Creative Writing Program at Florida International University in Miami, Florida.

    Little Patuxent Review: Little Patuxent Review is a community-based publication focused on writers and artists from the Mid-Atlantic region, but all excellent work originating in the United States will be considered.Although our issues are organized around themes, we allow considerable leeway in how contributors interpret them in order to ensure access to the broadest range of high-quality work.

    The Mantle: Founded in 2017, The Mantle Poetry is an online quarterly journal dedicated to contemporary poetry. We’ll publish the most memorable poems we receive. When the time comes, we’ll nominate for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize.

    Naugatuk River Review: What NRR is looking for are poems that tell a story, or have a strong sense of story. They can be stories of a moment or an experience, and can be personal, fictional or historical. A good narrative poem that would work for our journal has a compressed narrative, and we prefer poems that take up two pages or less of the journal (50 lines max). We are looking above all for poems that are well-crafted, have an excellent lyric quality and contain a strong emotional core. Any style of poem is considered, including prose poems. Poems with very long lines don’t fit well in the format. Hope this helps

    Panoply, A Literary Zine: Join us for a wide-ranging and impressive array of writing

    Peacock Journal: strives to publish beautiful creative works. Please read the guidelines below carefully before you submit work (and please note our “Alice’s Restaurant” Rule).

    Prosetrics, pronounced as “Pro-zet-ricks,” is an independent publication based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It was created with aspiring poets, writers, artists, and photographers in mind. This effort is for the talented people out there who are looking for a place to display their work, and we aim to publish new talent. “Prosetrics” is a combination of prose and poetry in its matrix. In other words, Prosetrics is a prose, art, and photography matrix created by extremely outstanding poets, authors, artists, and photographers around the world.

    QuillsEdge Press: A small (yet mighty) non-profit press dedicated to publishing the poetry of womxn and non-binary femmes who are at least 40 years old. Please browse our available books and support the indispensable poetry we’re proud to be publishing. We are committed to equity in publishing, and honor the voices of womxn who are members of historically underrepresented groups.

    Third Wednesday began as a monthly writers’ workshop for poets meeting at an Ann Arbor bookstore every third Wednesday. While another literary anthology might seem unnecessary, we believe it’s vital to publish contemporary creative work. Third Wednesday offers writers and artists another opportunity to see their work in print. Our initial focus was publishing compelling poetry, but we’ve expanded to include short fiction and artwork to reach more contributors and satisfy readers’ creative appetites.

    Vox Populi A curated webspace for Poetry, Politics, and Nature reaching over 20,000 subscribers each day and featuring over 8,000 archived posts.

  • Coldsurge by John C. Mannone

                After ‘Heatwave’ by Ted Hughes

    Between Huntingburg and frozen Indianapolis
    The Midwest plains had entered the fly’s belly.

    Like black-eyed rabbits half-buried in snow
    My plane shudders in the icy wind.

    The illusion of a runway is so real
    Trees sprout on it, and human carcasses.

    Only droning of the engine
    And no beacons for the hapless.

    I cannot penetrate the silence till sunset
    Releases its raptor

    Over the clouds, and birds are suddenly
    Everywhere, and my pilot’s flesh

    freezes in the breathing-in of great eagles.

    —
    John C. Mannone has work in Blue Fifth Review, Poetry South, Peacock Journal, Baltimore Review, and others. He won the Jean Ritchie Fellowship (2017) in Appalachian literature and served as celebrity judge for the National Federation of State Poetry Societies (2018). He edits poetry for Abyss & Apex and others. http://jcmannone.wordpress.com

     

  • no consensus reached by Sanjida Yasmin

    four Fridays later, six
    bloodshot eyes confront
    eight boxes of hand-me-downs
    & that one house sparrow with
    the black goatee & white patch—
    startled by the shattered glass

    yesterday was about moving
    ten years from floor two
    to floor four—
    a good work-out

    today, the dusky dawn is
    filled with a goose egg;
    the fat house sparrow
    chirps a question

    followed by another starless night
    & when the goose egg finally sets,
    the sparrow & the owners lose
    pulse of the feathery momentums.

    —

    Sanjida Yasmin is a poet, writer and an artist who lives in the Bronx, New York. She splits her time between the Long Island Business Institute, where she teaches English, and St. Dominic’s Home, where she provides therapy and finds inspiration for her work. Her poems have appeared in print and online journals, among them are Pink Panther Magazine, Peacock Journal, The Promethean, Nebo, Panoplyzine, Poetry in Performance and Anomaly. She earned her MFA degree from the City University of New York.

  • Safe by Karlo Sevilla

    “Along the sidewalk,
    always safest along the sidewalk,”
    father used to say.
    (A truck may swerve,
    roll over the sidewalk
    and pin you against
    a lamppost…)
    Still, always safest
    along the sidewalk.

    I wear my brand new pair
    of Air Jordan while I walk
    on the sidewalk.
    (They’re affordable
    and look and feel great
    as the real deal.)

    I’m safe as I stroll
    with my shoes
    on the sidewalk.

    —

    Karlo Sevilla is the author of “You” (Origami Poems Project, 2017). His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Radius, Matter, Yellow Chair Review, Eunoia, Poetry24, The Ramingo’s Porch, Ariel Chart, In Between Hangovers, in the anthologies of Peacock Journal, Eternal Remedy, Riverfeet Press, and Azoth Khem Publishing, and elsewhere.

     

  • If You See Me Dancing by Jan Day

    If you see me dancing don’t let me drive
    he said back when he drank
    till he could do the two-step with his eyes shut.
    I followed like a blind woman
    who lived by touch.

    Last call we’d spin out the door
    so dizzy we saw stars on saguaros
    and coyotes in trucks. He sang their lament.
    He knew it by heart.
    I found the keys.

    We drove without headlights until there was no road left.
    It seemed like a lifetime dancing in the dark
    from coast to coast and back again. Then we stayed home
    till he dared to climb
    the deep part of night alone.

    It was like a cave with airless walls
    where I searched for him. Only once did I hear
    his shuffle on stone,
    the scuff of a boot to a western song.
    I can’t forgive him. Not now.
    He knew I’d never learn to dance on my own.

    —

    Jan Day says she is fortunate to live in interior Florida where water and light come together to create a lushness, not only of the earth but also of the imagination. She writes in several genres including fiction and plays and has written five children’s picture books published by Pelican Publishing.  Her poetry was most recently published in Peacock Journal. She resides in Okeechobee, Florida.