Every month we publish a Submissions Spotlight, highlighting a publication we think our writers and readers should check out. We’re always looking for the next publication! The list below is a work in progress; links and brief descriptions coming soon.

Bending Genres: CNF, fiction, poetry, microreviews

Beautiful Things: “River Teeth’s weekly online magazine featuring micro-essays of 250 words or fewer.”

Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction publishes “writers working in the brief essay form” (750 words or less). The Brevity blog publishes pieces on the craft of writing nonfiction, including “issues in editing and publishing, writing conference experiences, interviews with writers or editors, writing prompts, close readings of essays or essayists, or specific issues.”

Does It Have Pockets? “An online literary magazine with an emphasis on the uncategorizable” publishing CNF, fiction, poetry, artwork.

Fahmidan “hopes to bring out diverse voices and their cacophonous words.” Nonfiction, flash, fiction, poetry.

Five on the Fifth publishes “five short pieces online on the fifth of each month.” CNF, flash fiction, fiction, poetry, horror, book reviews, experimental work. Max 5,000 words.

The Forge Literary Magazine “publishes short prose selected by a rotating cast of editors.” CNF and fiction, flash, micro, and up to 5,000 words (under 3,000 preferred)

Fractured Lit “publishes flash fiction with emotional resonance.” Microfiction (400 words max.) and flash fiction (401-1000 words)

Genrepunk Magazine is “dedicated to weird little experiments” seeking “work that is in some way strange, experimental, multimedia, and/or multi-modal.” All genres (15 pages max.)

Hippocampus Magazine: “Memorable creative nonfiction.” Flash CNF, personal essays, and memoir excerpts.

HuffPost Personal: American news site HuffPost includes “HuffPost Personal,” featuring pieces that are “original, authentic, compelling and told from the first person.” Pitching info. here.

Hunger Mountain Review: “… created by the faculty and students in the Writing Program at Vermont College of Fine Arts … [Hunger Mountain Review values] . . . vulnerability, adventure, and accessibility … discovering new voices, as well as publishing the freshest work from established artists.” CNF including flash, fiction including flash, poetry.

Identity Theory: “original writing, interviews, and other forms of creative expression.” CNF including micro, fiction including micro, poetry including micro, hybrid/mixed genre.

In A Flash: “A literary magazine edited and hosted by the flash writing group, Flashies.” CNF (500 words max.)

The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts

Juked

Longleaf

Kelp

The Milk House

Molecule

Pangyrus

Roi Faineant Press

Sledgehammer

Spillwords

SugarSugarSalt

Taco Bell Quarterly

Tangled Locks

A Thin Slice of Anxiety

Tiny Molecules

X-R-A-Y

Y2K Quarterly

Your Life Is A Trip: Publishes first-person travel stories.

Defunct (or possibly on hiatus): Antithesis, Atlas & Alice, The Birdseed, Dead Skunk, The Drabble.