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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.

  • Of Things Past by Lenny Lianne

    A long time, too long, since we have done — this,
    he said and plopped a fat bottle of Mateus
    and two small paper cups from the bathroom
    onto the table. He took out a maimed box
    of Jolly Time Blast O Butter popcorn
    from a grocery bag, and grinned at her.

    She could tell that this was a campaign
    to coax her to laugh, to forget
    about the future. The distant past
    would be the tactic tonight, the way
    they used to take turns telling
    each other about what had come before

    — about those freakish Christmas gifts
    from screwball aunts, sibling pranks,
    his teen summer by a cirque-cupped pond.
    And after a third refill of new wine,
    they spilled out stories of lapsed romances
    as though, by sharing their own secrets,

    they’d earned whatever alighted afterwards.
    Shag carpets, concrete block with wood
    plank bookcases and black beanbag
    chairs, each had departed by now,
    passing away for better or worse,
    like something familiar that’s lost its way.

         after a line by Lucia Perillo
    —
    Lenny Lianne is the author of four full-length books of poetry. She holds a MFA from George Mason University. Her poems have appeared in Rattle, California Quarterly, Third Wednesday, The Dead Mule of Southern Literature, and others.

  • The Last Massacre in My Lonely Notebook by David Spicer

    Solitude isn’t a gate that opens.
     –Norman Dubie

    I volunteered for the nightshift,
    so don’t surprise me, Emma,
    with your tribe of goats.
    I can’t sleep, and if I could,
    I’d dream of standing
    on a snow-topped mountain
    to view the valley below.
    Emma, I need solitude,
    not couriers from Eros
    or a copper cup
    filled with black coffee.
    I’d rather watch reruns
    of Alfalfa and his gang
    chasing geese or wait
    for angels to hold umbrellas
    for me—I doubt if I’d
    leave with them: my soul
    has too many scars,
    and gunshots on the beach
    don’t help. God, I miss
    the lack of terror now.
    Windmills circle in my ears,
    and I need to call a shrink,
    but my throat is a cipher.
    No, I want my black bones
    to heal, ice to drop from the sky
    like frozen tears, and a vase filled
    with scarlet pimpernel adorning
    the window sill. Then I could
    savor a slice of pumpkin pie
    before I write of the last Indian
    massacre in my lonely notebook.

    —

    David Spicer has had poems in Alcatraz, Gargoyle, Third Wednesday, Reed Magazine,  Ploughshares, The American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. The author of Everybody Has a Story and four chapbooks, he is scheduled to have From the Limbs of a Pear Tree (Flutter Press) released in the Fall of 2017.