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Lit mags are usually known for their slow response times, but these amazing flash fiction pubs are trying to change that!

Submit to them here: www.chillsubs.com/lists/fast-f...

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Fastest flash fiction magazines that respond in 1 week or less • Bending Genres - Thrilling, fanciful, oddball, unusual, stunning • Flash Frog - Stories like dart frogs: small, bright, and deadly to the touch • HAD - Minimalist, irreverent mag with popup submission calls • Kinda Weird Mag - Celebrating creativity at its roots • The Insurgence - Informative critical writing and celebratory creative writing • Genrepunk Magazine - Literary magazine for weird little experiments • Mukoli: The Magazine for Peace - Peacebuilding, healing, and changemaking • Hotch Potch Literature and Art - Discover, delight and differentiate • The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts - Weekly bursts of compression & decompression • MetaStellar - Wandering to the limits of what could be • The Future Fire - Progressive speculative fiction • The Rye Whiskey Review - E-zine dedicated to all things barroom • Intrepidus Ink - Gutsy, fearless, and unapologetic November 13, 2025
November 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Went down a New Yorker research rabbit hole and now we’re all gonna get FAMOUS, friends!

Read the full list here: bit.ly/m/ChillSubs FULL DISCLOSURE THOUGH - that is one of our paid pieces.

#writing #writingcommunity #litmags
Want to publish in The New Yorker? Start with these 5 lit mags • The American Poetry Review + A top-ranked lit mag known for making careers • Denver Quarterly + Dedicated to pushing the boundaries of prose and poetry by publishing experimental work • London Review of Books + Work that reaches deep into the heart of the human condition and asks the difficult questions • Mid-American Review + A small but mighty open secret of a lit mag that's been around since the 70s • Poetry + A sprawling poetry paradise organized and designed with the reader front and center
November 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Tbh all poets have main character energy, so idk HOW we managed to narrow it down to 11. A lot of help from @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social and sleep deprivation probably.

Submit here: www.chillsubs.com/lists/poetry...

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11 Poetry mags with main character energy • Poetry #The power of words to transform lives • The Common #Literature with a modern sense of place • Lucky Jefferson #Publishing social change • The Stinging Fly #The best new writing from Ireland and beyond • Swamp Pink #Poems that leap from the very first line • Gulf Coast #Flow of international cultures, voices, and aesthetics • Seedlings #Roots in the old world and branches in the new • The Poetry Review #The heart and hands of poetry in the UK • 32 Poems #Poetry for the ear, the eye, and the ego • The Threepenny Review #Inspiration, radical accuracy, and genuineness • The Kenyon Review #Emerging writers from diverse communities CHILL SUBS® X ONLY POEMS
November 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Wowwweee over 3000 of you have already have joined First Draft November 🥲

Our free 30-day challenge where we write 50,000 words of our first drafts, side by side.

We have so many festivities planned friends. Come join? (Link in bio)

#writing #writingcommunity #writers
this is YOUR sign to write a novel First Draft November
November 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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It’s the spooky-ooky season and we’ve got a treat for you 👀 Bloodletter Magazine is extending their submission deadline by a week for all your last-minute scares! (Because we all know that writers are soooo good at hitting deadlines…)

www.chillsubs.com/lists/freak-...

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Lit Mags That Want Your Freak Shit Bloodletter Magazine x Chill Subs Graphic is a white, stylized illustration of a skeleton on a black background with the Bloodletter Magazine Logo on the left side. The Bloodletter Magazine logo is the word Bloodletter on a stencil of a wax seal.
October 31, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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These lit mags remind us of enchanting libraries, misty gardens, and secrets hidden within dusty tomes. If that sounds like your perfect afternoon, click the link to submit <3

➡️ www.chillsubs.com/lists/dark-a...

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→ Lit mags with dark academia vibes • The Yale Review #Join a conversation 200 years in the making • Poetry London #A catalyst for change • Fugue #Work that haunts and echoes • 32 Poems #Poetry for the ear, the eye, and the ego • The Ex-Puritan #A pioneering literature • The London Magazine #Since 1732 • New England Review #A vital snapshot of the literary moment • Willow Springs #Work that commands attention • The Massachusetts Review #Variety and vitality October 29, 2025
October 29, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Free MFA “ask-me-anything” event tomorrow(:

Register here: luma.com/pq8khn3q

Hosted by The University of Alabama’s MFA faculty

📍Virtual 📅 Wed 10/29 🕐 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM EDT

#Mfa
The University of Alabama is Partnered with Chill Subs
October 28, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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These award-winning lit mags would be a crown jewel in any writer's bio *wink*

Submit to them here: www.chillsubs.com/lists/excell...

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14 Lit mags with excellent reputations *Competitive *Popular • AGNI #Jolting the inner eye • Baltimore Review #Space for expression • Brevity #Spotlighting the brief essay form • Gulf Coast #Community-oriented excellence • The Cincinnati Review #Championing diversity and growth • Granta #Narrative, visceral, and high-stakes • Georgia Review #Honoring differences • Kenyon Review #Lyric risk and emotional presence • The Malahat Review #Top-tier writing with a Canadian focus • Island Magazine #Sharp, artful, and grounded • The Missouri Review #Current and curated • Black Warrior Review #A beacon for adventurous writing • The Threepenny Review #Radical accuracy and genuineness • SmokeLong Quarterly #Eclectic and challenging work
October 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Are you:
- Applying to MFA programs?
- Curious about how an MFA can support your goals?
- Baffled by what to include in an MFA application?

Join University of Alabama MFA in Creative Writing faculty members John Estes and Brooke Champagne on Oct 30 for an AMA on all things MFA!

luma.com/pq8khn3q
Poster graphic for a virtual AMA event. Title reads, "The MFA Life (star symbol) From applications, finding community & beyond" There is also a white RSVP button, and a few variously aligned texts that read "Chill Subs Live" and "with John Estes and Brooke Champagne" The right hand side shows two photos of people: John Estes, who has deep-set eyes, short brown hair, and some greying facial hair, is wearing a black button-up shirt and standing in front of a well-lit tree and white picket fence while smiling softly. Brooke Champagne, who has long brown hair, is wearing a light orange shirt under a navy blue jacket and orange earrings. She is standing against a blurred grey background and has a radiant smile.
October 23, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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I think that covers all our bases. Probably.

Submit here: www.chillsubs.com/lists/girlho...

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9 places to send your writing about girlhood, grief, or god On girlhood... • Dreamworldgirl Zine #Whimsical, creative, and nostalgic • phoebe #Soulful and human • Milk Candy Review #Beautifully weird, lyrical flash fiction On grief... • Thimble #Armor found in the oddest of places • Bellevue Literary Review #In illness and in health • Bennington Review #Innovative, intelligent, and moving On faith... • Image Journal #Art, faith, and the human experience • EcoTheo Collective #Ecology, spirituality, and culture • Pensive #Work that deepens the inward life
October 22, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Okay, but don’t actually give up, because we have Raging Against the State of the Publishing World at 9am tomorrow. Maybe we could do brunch after?

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Submitters' Bingo (below is listed in a 3x3 grid) Got excited but it was the confirmation email 5th form rejection from the same place Bookmarked 100 mags, submitted to 0 Found a typo 10 mins after submitting Free "I give up" square The editor has a personal vendetta against me Pile of unread lit mags building up Exported packet in the wrong format Way too many unused notes app bits
October 20, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Will you get an agent? Who knows. Will you sound important at parties? Absolutely.

No database exists for agents’ reading habits, so we did this the hard way—by asking every agent, editor, and writing-adjacent human we could.

Submit here: www.chillsubs.com/lists/15_fic...

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15 fiction magazines that will make agents notice you • One Story #One great short story at a time • Passages North #Brave, risk-taking work • Conjunctions #Groundbreaking experimentation and rigorous quality • Clarkesworld #Top-tier speculative fiction since 2006 • Fairy Tale Review #Bringing fabulism into the foreground • Joyland #Where writers can tell the stories that matter to them most • Ecotone #Writing and art that reimagine place • F(r)iction #Boundary-pushing literature in themed anthologies • n+1#A history of the present day • American Short Fiction #Urgent, resh stories that shake you awake • McSweeney's Internet Tendency #Challenging conventional expectations • Ploughshares Literary Journal #Championing community, new writers, and diverse voices • Cricket #Beloved children's literary publication • Chicago Review #A contemporary standard of good writing • Harper's #Fine writing and original thought since 1850
October 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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I've rewritten this caption 5x.
If you can relate, you'll love these places as much as we do.

Find the list here: www.chillsubs.com/lists/_beaut...
Lit mags for beautiful overthinkers • The Sun #The splendor and heartache of being human • Gastropoda #Celebrating the spiralic nature of life • X-R-A-Y #Uncomfortable, entertaining, and unforgettable prose • Press Pause Press #Your space, far away from the noise • 3:AM Magazine #Whatever it is, they're against it! • Gasher Press #Fresh voices and innovative forms • petrichor mag #Dedicated to the fusion of text and image • OVER/EXPOSED Lit #Modern and enigmatic work • ONLY POEMS #Poetry is just the evidence of life • Tension Literary #Writing with an edge • Cabinet Magazine #Curiosity about the world • The Lemonwood Quarterly #Holding up half the sky • Clarity Magazine #Mental health, minus the fluff October 15, 2025
October 15, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Our new 💡Smart Search💡 is about to make finding magazines way faster, and here's how:

- See magazines instantly (with their open/closed status in the dropdown)
- Apply filters as tags to narrow down listings by genre, country, keywords, and more!

www.chillsubs.com/blog/chill-subs-new-smart-search
The image is a screenshot of the Chill Subs website's new Smart Search browse set against a pastel pink-orange background. The page is on the Magazines tab of the website. The letters "poe" are typed into the search bar, and the dropdown below shows these items, each with its own thumbnail (usually the cover of the lit mag): Poetry Genre Poem-a-Day Literary Magazine Closes on Nov 15 Poemeleon: A Journal of Poetry Literary Magazine Closed Poems for Tomorrow Literary Magazine Open Poesy Literary Magazine Closed (End list. Note: the open/closed status and date is right-aligned, unlike the rest of the info.) Under the filters button, which is located to the left of the search bar, there is a oblong bubble labeled Canada with a small x on the right to delete. This is the new tag filter function, and the search in the screenshot is filtering to view Canadian magazines.
October 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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A small, dirty My Melody plushie is laying haphazardly on asphalt. On the right side, the end of a car can be seen, implying that the stuffed animal has been run over. The text on the image reads, "fucking 50 rejections in bro i can't take this shit anymore"
October 8, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Harvard Law? What, like it’s hard? 💅💖 Yes, if you get a job there you are legally required to say that. @rachaelclemz.bsky.social is pretty sure it’s in their contract.

Apply here: bit.ly/m/chillsubs-...

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Places hiring writers right now Position Who's hiring Salary Location Editor Harvard Law School $87.7k-$150.9k/yr Cambridge, MA Editorial Director, Audio Macmillan $130k-$135k/yr New York, NY Communications Specialist Princeton University $85k-$94k/yr Princeton, NJ Senior Managing Editor HarperCollins $100k-$120k/yr New York, NY (Hybrid) Senior Editor, Adult Nonfiction Bloomsbury $75k-$85k/yr New York, NY (Hybrid)
October 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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It’s always hard to start up a lit mag and get momentum, but we think these folks have cracked the code 💥💪 Here’s 10 amazing places to submit if you want to support publications that are coming into the spotlight! ✨🩵

www.chillsubs.com/lists/new-li...

#writingcommunity #publishing #poetry
New lit mags blowing up right now and they want your writing! • Strange Pilgrims #Real, surreal & brutally beautiful • Seedlings #Roots in the old world and branches in the new • RUNT Magazine #Proudly elevating the small and scrappy • Heavy Traffic Magazine #Unbounded, instinctual writing • Vellichor Literary #Raw, indie, and DIY expression • Trash Cat Lit #Treasure in unexpected places • Bread and Butter Magazine #Simplicity and the core of the human experience • The CryptoNaturalist #David Attenborough meets The X Files • The Bloomin' Onion #All stories come from somewhere • wildscape. literary journal #Whimsical, chaotic, gentle, and everything in-between
October 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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New jobs! Get your hot new jobs from @rachaelclemz.bsky.social! 💼

BTW, my personal fave here is the American Bird Conservancy, because who doesn’t want to make money writing about birds? 🐦📚

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Places hiring writers right now Writer/Editor American Bird Conservancy $60.5k/yr Remote Associate Director Out of Print (Penguin Random House) $82k-$92k/yr Remote Associate Manager/Manager, Marketing Storehouse Voices (Penguin Random House) $66.5k-$77k/yr New York, NY (Hybrid) Director of Marketing and Retail Strategy James Patterson Publishing Program $110k-$130k/r New York, NY Senior Editor Flatiron Books $80k-$85k/yr New York, NY
October 1, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Micro fiction is having a moment…maybe because we’re all losing our collective attention spans BUT in the hopes of spreading some positivity, here are some places that want your super-short-but-ultra-awesome writing ⬇️

Submit here: www.chillsubs.com/lists/micro-...

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Lit mags for micro fiction (<500 words) • Whale Road Review #Micro essays that don't demand too much time up front, but somehow leave readers changed • Citron Review #Literary venue that celebrates short literature • 101 Words #Comprehensive ecosystem and community • 50-Word Stories #Built around twists or climactic moments • 50 Give or Take #Literary initiative by Vine Leaves Press • Switch #An act of adopting one way of life in place of another • dadakuku #Unconventional and avant-garde forms of expression • Thread #Experiment in micro-publishing • Camp Hiawatha #We want your tents, hammocks, & gravel roads in written form • scaffold #Weird / absurd / minimal / sad / grotestqueries with bold imagery • 100-Foot Crow #Exclusively focused on speculative drabbles • infiniteVscroll #Seeks to explore the essence of language • Micromance #Only lit mag dedicated to flash romance
September 26, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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We're sponsoring ethical writing contests now.

Yes those exist, there's like 4.

Learn how to spot them / check if your contest qualifies for sponsorship: www.chillsubs.com/blog/were-sp...

About our first partner ⬇️ @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social
ON POEMS Leonard Cohen Poetry Prize Contest This contest was verified by the organizer. They scored 7.4 on our calculator and have maintained a track record of transparency and fairness across their various offerings. They announce all their winners, clearly state their fees upfront and what you get for them, and have a solid history of actually awarding the prizes they promise and provide additional value
September 25, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Get ready... it's ✨new browse time✨

- No more sidebar! Full-page browsing!
- Tag-style filters (easy to add and delete)
- Quick-add feature (to let us know about any magazines not in our database)
- Smoother search with less bugs 🪲

Read all about it here: www.chillsubs.com/blog/new-bro...
The image is a screenshot of the Chill Subs website's browse page, which has recently been updated. The new format organizes magazines into horizontal cards (with two in each row) which are each divided into a left and right portion. The left portion shows an image of the literary magazine's newest issue cover, while the right portion shows the following information (from top to bottom): Open/Closed/Submission deadline, Name of magazine, Genres accepted (with color indication as to open or closed), Brief "about us" info, response time, payment, and social media follower count. The screenshot shows four magazines: Chestnut Review, The Adroit Journal, Split Lip Magazine, and Baltimore Review.
September 23, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Because we’ve all been there. 🥲🚗

#writingcommunity #litmag
→ Where to publish that piece you wrote crying in your car that is actually good for some reason. • No Tokens Journal #Work that is felt in the spine • Luna Luna Magazine #Lush poetics, rever dreams, and the dark ecstatic • WILDNESS #Work that moves you, surprises you, bowls you over • Poet Lore #America's oldest poetry magazine • Lost Balloon #For the small, sad, and whimsical moments in life • Honey Literary #BIPOC-focused journal built by women of color • The Fiddlehead #Atlantic Canada's international literary journal • filling Station #Innovative magazine of experimental literature • Fictive Dream #Devoted to the traditional literary short story • Fruitslice #Queer-run lit mag documenting the present and building the future • Dust Poetry Magazine #Unsolicited and international poetry • Nat. Brut #Playiul, experimental, and socially conscious • ONE ART: a journal of poetry #Home for good poems • Lucent Dreaming #Beautiful, strange and surreal work from worldwide contributors • Fahmidan Journal #Diverse voices and their cacophonous words • Waxwing Literary Journal #Tremendous cultural diversity of contemporary literature • Mulberry Literary #Boundless creative work in its every form Check out our link in bio for this list + more recommendations!
September 19, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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This is your reminder to go through all those snippets in your notes app 📝 How did we know they were there? ✨Magic✨

Click here to submit: www.chillsubs.com/lists/corner...

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Quiet corners of the internet that want your notes app masterpieces • Constellations #Fresh voices and new constellations • Empty House Press #Previously inhabited spaces and memory • Taco Bell Quarterly #Raging against the gatekeepers and tastemakers • miniskirt magazine #Flirtations, sweet confections, and lush love • carte blanche #Voices to help make sense of life and the world • beestung #Non-binary, genderqueer, and two-spirit work that's sweet and stings • Thimble #Armor found in the oddest of places • Ghost City Review #Online indie lit community-building • Okay Donkey #The odd, the beautiful, and the surprising • Gone Lawn #Sincere, imaginative, unconventional work • Exposed Bone #Uncanny fiction and poetry Check out our link in bio for this list + more recommendations!
September 18, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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For anyone who’s ever been told “poetry doesn’t pay” … here’s proof it sometimes does. File under: unexpected checks, joy, & validation. 🌟

Click here to submit: www.chillsubs.com/lists/big-bu...

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Yes you can get paid big bucks for poetry (these places prove it)! • POETRY $400/poem minimum • Georgia Review $4/line of poetry; up to $800 • The Evergreen Review $250 minimum • EPOCH $100-$500 for poetry • The Sun $200/page of poetry • Rattle $200/poem • Virginia Quarterly Review $200/poem • The Threepenny Review $200/poem • Island Magazine $175/poem • The Drift $150/poem • IMAGE Journal $3/line of poetry; $100-$400 • Boulevard $50-$250 • Iowa Review $100 minimum; $1.50 per line of poetry • Geist $100/poem • Kenyon Review $40-$200 • Ecotone $100/poem • LitMag $100/poem • American Poetry Review $1/per line of poetry
September 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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About 3 months ago, we launched a lit mag incubator to give $1000 to 5 mags willing to try something new, serve underrepresented communities, and prove ethical publishing can actually work.

Today we picked our 5 (okay, and 10 finalists) and it’s time to CELEBRATE THEM✨
15 Lit Mags That Are About to Change Everything Chill Subs Incubator Winners & Finalists Winners • Folly • NWF Journal • Dreamworldgirl Zine • Notch Magazine • Space and Time Finalists • Paratextos • Gather • OTHERSIDE • OyeDrum • Ubwali Literary Magazine • Pafuera • Silly Goose Press • Zine Machine • Chabutra • Stanchion CHILL SUBS®
September 10, 2025 at 7:26 PM