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y'all - that's a wrap!
received 151 submissions
15 acceptances
thanks a lot for playing along - it's thanks to all of you that this whole thing has been so much fun!
gonna go hibernate now. until next time<3
《 NEWS 》
Stanchion Magazine will open for submissions on January 5, 2026, for one day only, one month from today.
And for the first time, there's a theme: MUSIC.
All the pertinent info can be read here:
stanchionzine.com/submission…
Thank you for your interest in Stanchion. 🖤🤍
Wondering what to submit? This week we’re especially interested in: clouds, turtles, prose poetry, geology, reddit posts, seasonal depression, non-seasonal depression, antarctica, break-ups, autumn colors, mushrooms, knitting, and all modes of transportation
The winter season starts its slow creep inward... but we like to view winters as a reminder of our human resilience! January's issue will be themed "Wintergreen," so send us your herb-inspired original poetry, fiction, cnf, visual art, etc!
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🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️QUEER WRITERS OF COLOUR! 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
We’re now open for submissions until 30th November. We want to read your boundary-bending writing – fiction, non-fiction, poetry, hybrid & visual work all welcome!🍎See our guidelines: fruitjournal.co.uk/submit/#queer#LGBTQIA#WritingCommmunity
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You read that right! miCRo submissions are OPEN! Send us your best work of 500 words or fewer.
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🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️QUEER WRITERS OF COLOUR! 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
We’re now open for submissions until 30th November. We want to read your boundary-bending writing – fiction, non-fiction, poetry, hybrid & visual work all welcome!🍎See our guidelines: fruitjournal.co.uk/submit/#queer#LGBTQIA#WritingCommmunity
ALT Text reads: Fruit queer literary journal. Submissions open for Writers of Colour, now until 30th November. Text is on a background photograph of mixed fruit.
Keep sending us your poems and prose! We'd love to see more weird stuff in the poetry queue. If you're not sure it makes sense, but couldn't imagine it any other way-our submissions are open!
Fellow lit mags... feel free to share your open sub calls below in the comments/replies! If our Issue 9: Echoed Howls theme didn't resonate with you, don't worry. Plenty of other lit mags are open for submissions with and without themes!!
have just learned that magpies used to just be called “pies” and then people were like “you look like your name is maggie” and that’s why they’re called magpies
Hey London friends, I’m reading at Senate House in a couple of weeks for the @RoyalHolloway Small Press takeover feat @GhostCityPress authors.
There will be there will be gay birds, there will be found poems, there will be baby animals, there will be surely be something for you