Publishing Opportunities for Up and Comers
The process of getting published for many a fledgling writer has long been murky, and as part of the Idea farms efforts to build a more diverse community of authors and create more pathways to publishing, we’ve made this handy article to provide you with resources that might help you be seen. Below are some opportunities we think will help you to get yourself out there and on your way to recognition. We've broken them down into categories for people who already know their own comfort zone.
HORROR
Dragon Soul Press
DSP strives to publish writers of all experience levels. All are welcome there. They "have your best interests at heart." Dragon Soul Press provides high-quality anthologies with a broad audience reach. There a a short story anthology need, just click the above link to see the options.
REVIEWS
Chestnut Review appears four times per year online and once per year in print in an annual anthology. We are drawn to beautiful language, resonant images, and we crave narrative. We enjoy a broad array of styles, but please read a few of our issues to get a sense of our lens.The Hudson Review publishes fiction, poetry, essays, book reviews; criticism of literature, art, theatre, dance, film, and music; and articles on contemporary cultural developments. If you are interested in writing reviews for our magazine, please note that we consider first submissions on-spec only.
They want to host content from new and emerging Black millennial voices on pop culture, LGBTQIA+ issues, politics, feminism, and many other topics. Please note that they do not publish pieces that reinforce respectability politics. We embrace Black feminism in our politics and it informs what we do. They also accept republishes.
POETRY AND LITERATURE
Vast Chasm Magazine publishes bold work that explores the expansive human experience, including flash and short fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and other nonconforming work.
We read year-round, on a rolling basis, for our quarterly online issues.
Unicorn Press seeks to publish excellent works of poetry that are unlikely to find a home elsewhere. We do not publish short fiction, general non-fiction, novels, science fiction, how-to or self-help books, reference texts, individual poems, artist books, or children’s literature.
We read year-round, on a rolling basis, for our quarterly online issues.
Codhill Press is seeking poetry manuscripts for the second round of its Guest Editor Poetry Series. Designed to both honor its past and expand its poetry offerings into the future, each year, the Guest Editor will select one manuscript for book publication. The inaugural selection, from last year, was Jeddie Sophronius’ Happy Poems & Other Lies, which will be released this summer.
The Offing is an online literary magazine publishing creative writing in all genres and art in all media.
This mag actively seeks out and supports work by and about those often marginalized in literary spaces, including Black and Indigenous people, and people of color; trans people, cis women, agender, gender non-conforming, genderqueer, two-spirit, and non-binary people; intersex people; LGBQA (lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, asexual/aromantic) people; people with disabilities; and especially people living at the intersections of these identities.
