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Making your writing life not so freaking exhausting
Joined January 2022
Hey! I made a nice little website to help everyone find a home for their writing without stressing too much:) It has cool search tools, lots of details about each magazine (+/-, open/closed, examples, contributors list!) LOOK! and go browse yourself😎
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👏Kudos to these mags. IMPORTANT: The full list of magazines that just opened is the first link in bio. Happy submitting 💞
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50 magazines on Chill Subs opened for subs!. A few:.@AGNIMagazine .@ALitReview .@arcpoetry .@BennReview .@commonmag .@foglifterpress .@FourthGenre .@GrantaMag .@IndianaReview .@kenyonreview .@NERweb .@TheSchooner .@PassagesNorth and mooore. Browse🙃.
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Okay writers get your bag 💰. These literary magazines don't close until Saturday so there is still plenty of time left to submit!. We also have a giant detailed list of 73 other magazines that are closing this week linked in bio if you want it 👍
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ITS TIME. Congratulations TOP 5 LITMAGS OF 2023💫. @TBQuarterly .@SmokeLong .@HooghlyReview .@press_roi .@StanchionZine . And thank you to EVERYONE that celebrated these spectacular journals this week🖤. ⬇️ Why won & how to submit. #WritingCommunity
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Hello October 🍂 38 magazines on Chill Subs opened recently, including:. @bansheelit .@brickliterary .@CV2magazine .@DenverQuarterly .@FenceBooks .@MassReview .@peachmgzn .@pidgeonholes .@PoetLoreMag .@Salamander_Mag .@PoetryShore .@SundogLit .@YaleReview
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Hello, march! Lots of great new calls (85) 📣. @RoomMagazine .@foglifterpress .@GrantaMag .@hippocampusmag .@SundogLit .@Splonk1 .@parisreview .@adroitjournal .@NERweb .@hexagonmagazine .@gonelawn .@OrionsBeltMag.@MudRoomMag .
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Being a brand new writer is stupidly intimidating (at least it was for us). Can't let that stop you from submitting though. We put this list together for our Sub Club newsletter of Mags founded after 2021 that love emerging writers.
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You know what sucks? Candy corn. You know what doesn’t?. These magazines offering sweet payment without scary fees. (a few do charge but its very minimal). We have the full list of magazines in our browse that opened recently linked in our bio.
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Chill Subs 2.0 everyone. User accounts, MORE types of opportunities, and now bookmarks. Add your publication history and services, discover other users and their work. Submission calls notifications and deadlines calendar. AND it’s only a start. SHARE. ❤️
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Aaand we're back from vacation! Enjoy these new calls😎. @BadLilies .@Briefly_Zine .@creamcityreview .@fifthwheelpress .@fullhouselit .@GhostGirlsZine .@bullshithorns.@mosspuppymag .@NorthGravy .@parisreview .@pidgeonholes .@RamEyePress .@PoetryShore .@spellbindermag .@trampset
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Okay guys, this is a big one! Happy submitting 🙂. @DUKEpress.@IndianaReview.@SycamoreReview.@ndrmag.@okaydonkeymag.@NewOhioReview.@OSUtheJOURNAL.@Heroin_Chic_Mag.@Lolwe_.@augurmag.@BaltimoreEditor.@tahomareview.@dustmagpoetry.@sfwp.@poetrynw.@post_road.@SouthernHReview
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We see several mags asking for young writers, but not many specifically asking for 40/50/60+ (but have a lot of writers asking us for them). Are there any mags out there we could happily send their way? (And cultivate a demographics filter for it).
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Hello hello, it's new submission calls season❄️. @BlackWarriorRev .@CincinnReview .@GrantaMag .@SouthwestReview .@celestitepoetry.@kaleidotrope.@SnowflakeMag.@sylviamagazine.@madness_press.@ToilTroLitMag. We gathered them all in a blog post with details:.
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💥Soo we added 1200 writing contests and 800 more lit mags. You're welcome. @swamp_pink.@CraftLiterary.@MastersReview.@FracturedLit.@RoomMagazine.@WritersDigest.@winningwriters.@BathNovelAward.@sarabandebooks.@TheFLReview.@NorthAmerReview.@flashfroglitmag.
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It's that time of the month. Hello November submission calls!🍂. @a_journal .@barrelhouse .@BoulevardLitMag .@BureauDispatch .@geistmagazine .@GIGANTICsequins .@hexagonmagazine .@HungerJournal .@NecessaryFic .@ParenthesesArt .@sweettoothpoets . Browse:
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Closing time… except not yet 😉.There is still time to submit but you gotta be quick!
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WE LOVE TO SEE IT. Where to submit you're writing this week! . More subcalls & details here: #WritingCommunity
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Magazines you can submit to right freakin' now! or next week, or the day before they close. Submission details here → #writingcommunity #submissioncall
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We decided to start making cool lists for you! Liiike. "19 LitMags for Impatient Poets Open Now (With Response Times Under One Week)"⏱⚡️. Challenge: see how many you can submit to in a day😎.And share with your friends!.
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📢📢📢 Ok here it goes. I added ALL the magazines left in the Google form. Which is 1-1-8. All the general suggestions are coming next week. Now Chill Subs lists 350 magazines. We'll double it next week. HOW? I changed the way I'm adding magazines. Read the note. And SHARE.
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Last chance to submit: over 40 magazines closing for subs this week⏱ (almost all of them on Nov 30-Dec 1). @ndrmag .@BaltimoreEditor .@ApparitionLit .@FourthGenre .@PoetLoreMag .@poetrynw .@poetrywales .@SundogLit .@commonmag .@VestalReview .@CrowKeys .
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Hey writers! Get that 🍞 . We linked a master copy of all the magazines closing for submissions this week in our bio. 😱(There are 60+). The master list has room for way more details including hyper links to all the info to submit.
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Hiiiii Social Media was on vaca last week - it was lovely. BUT we're back now with sunburnt bellys and where to submit this week 🖤
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Love a themed call and these are great. All the info you need to submit and a metric f*k ton more opportunities: . #WritingCommunity
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I'm making a list of magazines that have beautiful websites. Who should I include? . Nominate some of your favorites.
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📣 TOP 25 BEST LITMAGS OF 2023 ROUND 2 BABY!. Help us celebrate these magazines that made the TOP 10 because they’re freakin' amazing!. ⬇️ Why they were nominated and how to submit. #writingcommunity
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Hey <3 Where to submit this week! . There’s actually a metric fuck ton of submission opportunities right now -. - 105 Recently Opened Submission Calls.- 45 Theme Calls To Inspire You.- And moreee here: #writingcommunity
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😎 The frizz in our hair would indicate that summer must indeed be approaching. New month, new openings. Enjoy!
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There are 340 literary magazines open for submissions right now that charge no fee to submit and pay their writers. Just saying. What are you waiting for?
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We can finally say it…. WE ARE OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS!. Back from our honey moon with @WriteorDieMag . Things to know…. - No Fee. Sim-subs are cool. - Rejections get entered into a raffle for prizes. - Acceptances get money, publication, & promotion. - Subs close 5/31
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👍Theme Calls for Writers!. 💛These are some super cool mags with super cool themes. ⚡Theme calls are a great way to cut out a lot of competition and target some excellent mags who are looking for what you’re writing (or hoping you’ll write for what their looking for).
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hahaha social media isn't always useless. Rejection letter erasure poems = the best trend ever. #WritingCommunity #rejection.
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$20 to enter a short story contest is thievery. Don't do it. If the mag also doesn't have a masthead, run like you would from a bear on fire.
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Um so Chill Subs has a SUBMISSIONS TRACKER now (v1.0). It’s stupidly simple, supportive and hilarious. And it has a Rejection Bingo. And it’s free. And it’s our 6 months birthday today, so you owe us some reposts and signups. End of announcement. Post:
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Wanted to do this one for a while. 74 mags that don't really care where your work was published💃🏻🕺🏻.open now!. @filtercoffeemag .@healthline_zine .@icelollyreview .@publishedbyJAKE .@RadonJournal .@sadgoosecoop .@spooniepress .@tideriseslit . Full list:.
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Yay! Free contests. There are several more in our database that are open right now, but we chose to cut it down to the most useful ones. For example, we removed any “weekly” or “monthly” contests or any that require people to sign up for their website.
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Hiiii(: can you to drop a link to your most recently published piece? . Feeling nosey today.
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Creeping up on the end of the month, you know what that means. IT'S GO TIME PEOPLE. Where to submit your writing this week: . #WritingCommunity
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Some pubs with pretty poetry payouts!. 89 mags paying $50+ (Most of without sub fees) linked here ⬇️. #writingcommunity #poetry
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We want to keep making rejections fun, that's why:. The Who Freakin' Cares Writing Contest for Poetic Rejects! 🏆🏅 brought to you by Chill Subs and Onwords (@withonwords). No entry fee. No long waits. Money, fame, ostriches. Subs open 9/16. Now share.
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Here comes closings!. The dates range from Aug 25-31 and they are ordered from soonest to furthest!. Use our browse to search allllll the mags.
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WHERE TO SUBMIT THIS WEEK. End of the month means lots of closings so we focused on those 🙂. Sub deets:
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😱 These are some of the most bookmarked - highly competitive magazines on Chill Subs according to our data. [Acceptance rates <4%]. ⬇️ Their submission details are here. #writingcommunity #literarymagazines
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Sooo yeah. It’s finally happening. Been constantly moving the release cause the ideas just kept coming lol, but the wait is almost over! I know our bio literally says “without losing your shit”, but you’ll totally lose your shit
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Alright, we heard you. Here's [ugh] - Chill Subs’s Elon free space for writers who like a different kind of drama. What is it like? Like Twitter, but way worse. Read the full announcement: Browse [ugh]: share share share
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How do they do it??? . We don't know but damn we're glad they do! . ⬇️ 50+ Lit Mags Closing for Submissions Soon (26 Pay) here . #writingcommunity #literarymagazines
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Hooray! Plenty of time to procrastinate 😘. As always, find all of the submission details as well as more mags that recently opened here:
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🙀 600+ Literary Magazines Accepting Your Previously Published Writing (Yeah, holy shit.). 👉Here are 35 with under a 1 week response time. 🔎 Find more you know where.
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hooly shit 900 followers in 14 hours?! wtf are you guys doing (keep going).I couldn’t fall asleep, stared at all the notifications, then became hungry at 2am and had to eat in my bed feeling really happy😀 thank you all so much, I’m gonna work really hard to make it even better!.
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Where to submit this week coming atcha!. Submission details:
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The beginning of the year brings with it lots of magazines opening back up for subs!. Can be tough to nail them all down so we did it for you 😇. ⬇️ 50+ Magazines that opened for submissions recently.
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Hey, we're up to sumthin' 😏 . ⬇️ Nominate Your Favorite Lit Mags of 2023 through this form!. Let's show some love for editors and the wonderful work they do 💕
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Theme call for submissions!.INVISIBLE CITIES. Tell us about a city that doesn't exist. Future, past, fantasy, sci-fi, satire, on earth or far away, whatever. Thread Litmag issue 3! Submit to our micro publishing experiment via link in bio!.
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🕜We think 11 days is a nice timeframe. 🫠It gives the right amount of pressure to kick us into gear, without making our palms stress-sweat slip off the keyboard.
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Happy to report that I received 108 form submissions suggesting magazines, a lot of them with more than 1 mag😀 so around 200 total. I’ll add a few of those tomorrow! Will also prepare an extended form so it could ask for all the basic info right away:) 🚀🚀.
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To our knowledge, nearly 200 magazines were founded in 2023. And to be honest? Most of them are fucking killing it. New pubs, congrats on making it through year 1 and here’s to many more 🍻. ⬇️ Every mag in our database founded in 2023.
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Well hello (: WHERE TO SUBMIT THIS WEEK. I know its Wednesday, and we usually do this on Mondays but these mags just opened so you’ve got time. ↓ Submission details.
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Important delivery for my fellow procrastinators (; . Search all of these pubs & their details: #WritingCommunity
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Heyyo! Where to submit this week!. You know the drill: . *Heavy breathing* I just have to say it incase you don't infact know the drill - click that link to find the details you need to submit ok thank you bye)
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What advice would you give to someone starting out submitting to lit mags?.
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Hiii(: Where to submit this week!. Details and more places to sub here: . #WritingCommunity
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Travel the world and the 7 seas, everybody's lookin' for litmags!. In Sub Club we created a list of 57 international friendly mags, thought we'd pass some along here as well 😊.
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New month - new submission calls!. Big list of 83 Magazines that recently opened for submissions if ya want it: #writingcommunity #submissioncall
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🌸 Some time ago, we asked you lovely humans to point us in the direction of litmags with gorgeous websites, and damn you delivered. 🖤 With 100+ recommendations it was hard to narrow it down to just 15 and of course taste is so subjective, but these mags REALLY blew us away.
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HELL YEAH. good on these mags. Find their submission details aannddd. - 66 Lit mags with approaching deadlines .- 5 Themed Calls.- 5 Contests That Probably Won’t Scam You. ↓ In Today's "Where to submit this week" .
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We used our database's browse filters to find all the open magazines that specifically ask for flash fiction pieces, open now, with response times under a week🖤. For the details go here ➡️
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Not everyone is looking for an agent, but whenever we happen upon some information from a trusted source we’re happy to do these lists for those that of ya that are <3
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⚡ 109 Litmags opened for submissions recently!. 👌109 Litmags are also way too many to cram onto one page so here are 29 that are also accepting art! . IMPORTANT: Find the rest on our beautiful new browse🥹 Finding places to submit just got even easier.
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You know what, I thought I’d add most of the suggested magazines first and then go to new features, but then I also thought why the fuck should I wait. so. ⚡️⚡️ GENRES AND WORD COUNTS EVERYBODY
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Couldn’t update all the calls today cause I’m falling asleep and checking 1850 mags is no joke, so here’s up to letter R! 😴. @onestorymag .@december_mag .@fandsf .@berlinlit .@BivouacMagazine.@MusingPublish .@OBR_LitJournal .@pdxreview .@rivermouthrev .
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💥126 Litmags are closing for Submissions at the end of March and there is still time to submit. 💰Bag alert: aaannndd these ones want to pay you!. Browse all the submission calls here (:
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💰 hiiiii-paying fiction magazines that are always open for submissions (Magazines that pay writers $50+). #writingcommunity #fiction #flashfiction
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We used our browse to find litmags that. > are 20+ years old.> don't charge fees.> use a paid manager.> pay writers. We found 44 of them and took a look at what they were doing well.
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🌈 Please share your favorites in the comments! There are so many fantastic magazines focusing on uplifting voices in the LGBTQIA+ community, so we can help promote them. In our browse, you can filter for these magazines using our Demographics Filter and there are 177!
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42 mags from your suggestions🙃 @okaydonkeymag @TriQuarterlyMag @sledgehammerlit @SmokeLong @pankmagazine @CraftLiterary @dishsoapquart @HoneyLiterary @Splonk1 @BatCityReview @moonrabbitcandy @ParenthesesArt @HungerJournal @CeaseCowsMag @superfrootmag and more!
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What’s something related to submitting to literary magazines that non-writers just don't understand?. (For us, it’s an innate fear of the word ‘unfortunately.’).
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We are creating a list of magazines that aren’t afraid to publish work that explores sex and pleasure in more explicit ways. Who are your favorites? . Bonus points if they’re currently open for submissions.
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Great themed calls happening now but not for long so you'd better scoot! . As always, oodles more places to submit here:
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Whaaat have chill subs just become even MORE helpful? 😨.Now you can find journals focusing on specific demographics (location/age/marginalized creators/more will be added) AND journals built around a specific theme! It's like you're finding a soulmate, not a magazine. How nice
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Impressive Lit mags where your chances of publication are better than impossible, Yay!. Not too competitive, but not exactly easy either. 3-8% acceptance rates with 100+ tracked subs. 78 Literary Magazines in the Sweet Spot:
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Soo today Chill Subs turns 1 year old.🎈. Want to see what we've done? Visit our stats page. Want to give us a present? Visit our donations page. For everything else, we'll see you tomorrow.🍻. [insert hugs]
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Where to submit this week✨ . We got some themed calls for ya today
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🔖 In our browse writers can bookmark magazines that peak their interest. 100+ magazines opened for submissions recently, too many to fit onto this list. We figured it’d be cool to narrow them down by the “most bookmarked” Enjoy!.
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