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A platform for emerging writers & artists ✍️🎨 Celebrating creativity through poetry, prose, and art Submissions open—let your voice be heard 📢 thecrossroadsreview.org/submit

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Amorak Huey @amorak.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Wintry —
An Ohio cornfield in the snow.
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Vestal Review @vestalreview.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Our winter 2025 issue is here! vestalreview.net/issue-67 We've got the latest by: @marioaliberto3.bsky.social, Alisa Golden, @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social, L. F. Khouri, @mattleibel.bsky.social, @skyskkyy.bsky.social, Jennifer Met, Manuel Moyano, James Womack, @emilyrinkema.bsky.social, +
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Duotrope @duotrope.com · 04/12/2025
The Crossroads Review @crossrdsreview.bsky.social (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction Art; non-paying) opened to submissions duotrope.com... #amwriting
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The Crossroads Review @crossrdsreview.bsky.social (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction Art; non-paying) opened to submissions https://duotrope.com/magazine/the-crossroads-review-38176 #amwriting
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The Crossroads Review (SUBS OPEN) @crossrdsreview.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
remember, when you submit your work to us, make sure to include your AGE in the bio. if you want specifics, take a look at our submission guidelines: www.thecrossroadsreview.org/submit thanks thanks thanks! #fiction #art #poetry #callforsubmissions #literaryjournal #writingcommunity
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The Crossroads Review (SUBS OPEN) @crossrdsreview.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
thanks for all the recent submissions to our winter issue! contributors and potential contributors alike, send us more of your stuff! we'll read anything! #writing #fiction #art #callforsubmissions #literaryjournal #photography #writingcommunity #callforwriters
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-ette review @ettereview.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
-ette Issue 6: Roulette is now live! www.ettereview.com/fall2025/ Spin the animated wheel and check out new work by: Laura Cronk @josehernandezdz.bsky.social @suzyeynon.bsky.social @rachel-kowalsky.bsky.social @mattleibel.bsky.social Emma Raimondo
Lit mag issue cover showing croupier at roulette wheel. List of writers and stories in issue. Laura Cronk, Jose Hernandez Diaz, Suzy Eynon, Rachel Kowalsky, Matt Leibel, Emma Raimondo
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
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The Crossroads Review (SUBS OPEN) @crossrdsreview.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
all youth writers and artists... feel free to send us any #art or #fiction that you have! we are open to pretty much anything! click link in bio or go to our duotrope to submit! #writing #callforartists #callforsubmissions #literaryjournal #photography #writingcommunity
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JAKE @publishedbyjake.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
JAKE's been hungry. He's even (reluctantly) put a napkin on his lap in preparation to nosh down on some writing (mostly figuratively) TOMORROW. Subs open 10/20.
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The Crossroads Review (SUBS OPEN) @crossrdsreview.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
guys, just a PSA. when you submit your pieces to us, please MAKE SURE to include your age! we can't review your work otherwise! if you're confused about this, please visit our submission guidelines: www.thecrossroadsreview.org/submit
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Duotrope @duotrope.com · 15/10/2025
The Mamba: Journal of African Haiku (Poetry; non-paying) opened to poetry submissions. duotrope.com... #amwriting
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Re-opening: The Mamba: Journal of African Haiku
The Mamba: Journal of African Haiku (Poetry; non-paying) opened to poetry submissions. https://duotrope.com/magazine/the-mamba-journal-of-african-haiku-34383 #amwriting
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The Crossroads Review (SUBS OPEN) @crossrdsreview.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
we are FINALLY onto issue 4!! youth writers and artists, send us your stuffff #fiction, #art, #poetry, anything! click link in bio for submissions guidelines! #writing #callforartists #callforsubmissions #literaryjournal #photography #writingcommunity #callforwriters
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The Crossroads Review (SUBS OPEN) @crossrdsreview.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
ANDDDD we are DONE!! issue 3 is now out! go check it out here: duotrope.com/duosuma/subm... and in the meantime, prepare your submissions for our upcoming issue 4!! #writing #callforartists #callforsubmissions #literaryjournal #photography #writingcommunity #callforwriters
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Kitchen Table Quarterly @kitchentableqtrly.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Subs are open and our Autumn issue is here!
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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Submissions are OPEN for Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume Four (the best of 2025). Send me your SFF published in 2025, you crazy Canucks! Details on my site at the link below. DON'T SELF REJECT! You can't win if you don't play ;) Subs close Feb 28, 2026. Pls share WIDELY.
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Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction | Stephen Kotowych
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Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
psst.... we open for chapbook submissions in two days (October 1). www.glass-poetry.com/submissions....
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Submissions Guidelines | Glass Poetry Press
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New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
⚔️NEW EDGE SWORD & SORCERY NOVELLAS🧙‍♀️ ⏳FINAL HOURS⌛ 📚Four books and a free bonus 'zine 📦An international shipping discount 🗺️Illustrated maps inside each novella Grab it all, and more, before 4pm EST today! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b... Learn more at the crowdfund...or read this thread🧵1/?
Caption: LAST CHANCE. Crowdfund ends at 4pm EST
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The Crossroads Review (SUBS OPEN) @crossrdsreview.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
remember, our submission close tonight at 11:59!!! make sure to get in your #art, #fiction, and #poetry by tonight! please, please, please send us all you have! #writing #literature #callforartists #callforsubmissions #literaryjournal #photography #writingcommunity
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Noemi Press @noemipress.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Submissions for the 2025 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize close in ONE WEEK on September 30th! The Etel Adnan Poetry Prize offers a $2000 prize and publication by Noemi Press in the US and Out-Spoken Press in the UK for a first or second full-length poetry collection written by a poet of Arab heritage.
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The Crossroads Review (SUBS OPEN) @crossrdsreview.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
a snippet from our upcoming issue 3 more #art, #fiction, and #poetry coming soon submit, submit, submit!!! #writing #literature #magazine #journal #callforartists #callforsubmissions #literaryjournal #photography #writingcommunity #callforwriters
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Genrepunk Magazine @genrepunkmag.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Congrats & good luck to our nominees! 🦋 genrepunkmag.wordpress.com/2025/09/13/g...
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Genrepunk Monarch Queer Literary Awards Nominations
“Drink Up My Spine” – Alex Shenstone “Θevrumineš” – tripp j crouse “Family Tree as Past Prescriptions with Missing Data” – Eva Lewis “If a + b = c, then a …
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The Crossroads Review (SUBS OPEN) @crossrdsreview.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
sent out a couple acceptances today! students, make sure to keep on submitting your #art, #fiction, and #poetry! we always have room for more! #writing #magazine #journal #callforsubmissions #literaryjournal #photography #writingcommunity
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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 03/09/2025
And it's go time! Submissions to our Lost/Found imprint are now open. Is your out-of-print prose book in need of a new home? If so, we'd love to consider your book for republication. Our Lost/Found Editor @abigailoswald.bsky.social is waiting at splitlippress.submittable.com (also linked in bio)!
OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS: Looking to home your out-of-print book? Try us at Lost/Found, a new imprint at Split/Lip Press. Rolling submissions are now open! splitlippress.submittable.com
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Brandy is in her ✨AUTHOR ✨ Era @inkedauthor31.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Our submission window is still OPEN! I already have quite a few gems in my inbox. 🤩 Get those stories in!! www.littlethoughtspress.com/submissions?... @littlethoughtspress.com
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The Crossroads Review (SUBS OPEN) @crossrdsreview.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
sorry for this period of inactivity :( getting used to school schedule again remember, submit to our fall issue! we have plenty of room for #art, #poetry, and #fiction left! #writing #magazine #journal #callforsubmissions #literaryjournal #photography #writingcommunity
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Moss Puppy Magazine @mosspuppymag.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Our submission our open! Send us your prose, poetry, and art. We want to read them! #poetry #literaryjournal #Howl
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The Crossroads Review (SUBS OPEN) @crossrdsreview.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
just sent out an fiction acceptance today! we're so grateful for our contributors! remember, if yall students have anything #fiction #poetry #art wise, send them to us ASAP! #writing #magazine #callforartists #callforsubmissions #literaryjournal #photography #writingcommunity
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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
ICYMI, PLEASE REPOST! "Uncanny Magazine Is Looking for Submissions Editors Once Again!" buff.ly/7Ol5DQu
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The Crossroads Review (SUBS OPEN) @crossrdsreview.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
artists and photographers, a picture is worth a thousand words... so send us all your pictures! writers, match those pictures with your words! submit to our summer issue now! #art #fiction #poetry #writing #callforartists #callforsubmissions #photography #writingcommunity
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L'Esprit Literary Review @lespritlit.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
#callforsubmissions: L'Esprit seeks stories, essays, translation, reviews. Consciousness-forward, language-driven, risk-adept. Send us writing beyond convention. G’Lines + open calls: lespritliteraryreview.org/submission-g... #modernism #Essays #bookreviews #litmag #shortstories #creativewriting
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Submission Guidelines
L’Esprit Literary Review publishes work written in the fearless, risk-adept, and revolutionary spirit of High Modernism. We accept short fiction, creative non-fiction, novel extracts, literar…
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Thirty West Publishing @thirtywestph.com · 29/07/2025
Thirty West + The Sealey Challenge! Many fine poetry books are on sale for 25% off with code SIZZLE. The sale is extended to 8/29 in our Book Shop. Additionally, we're reviving our archive of handmade chapbooks for free in e-PDF form for all readers this August. Thank you for your readership!
The Sealey Challenge with Thirty West

Thirty West has printed poetry chapbooks as early as 2017. 
We publish many poetry books (some are debuts) such as:

-On the Tip of Your Mother's Tongue by JP Infante 
-Keep Her in Your Mouth by Steph Castor
-Every Living Day by Adam Gianforcaro
-Glass Labyrinth by Hailey Spencer

Thirty West is reviving classic print chapbooks 
as FREE e-PDFs for Sealey readers.
See the list at www.thirtywestph.com

Get 25% off any order with code 'Sizzle'. Good until 8/29
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The Crossroads Review (SUBS OPEN) @crossrdsreview.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
writers and artists... remember, you can send us your work through both email and Duotrope! email: thecrossroadsreview@gmail.com duotrope: duotrope.com/duosuma/subm... send us your stuff! #fiction #art #poetry #callforsubmissions #literarymagazine #photography #writingcommunity
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Submit to The Crossroads Review. Powered by Duosuma: Duotrope's Submission Manager.
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The Hooghly Review @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
We're grateful to Commonwealth Foundation Creatives and Authors Publish for hosting our submission call for “The Many Lives of Atlas A.” If you have been looking for an opportunity to flex your creative muscles, this is the opportunity for you! Details: thehooghlyreview.com/guidelines-s...
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The Crossroads Review (SUBS OPEN) @crossrdsreview.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
if you're ever in need of inspiration when submitting, take a look at our previous issues. we take anything and everything good! submit your #fiction, #art, and #poetry now! #callforartists #callforsubmissions #literarymagazine #photography #writingcommunity #callforwriters
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L'Esprit Literary Review @lespritlit.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Want to know more about how your writing is being read? Not sure where to begin your revision process? Personalized feedback is available at L'Esprit, starting at $10. Guidelines here: lespritliteraryreview.org/submission-g... #writingcommunity #litmag #fiction #nonfiction #CallForSubmissions
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Submission Guidelines
L’Esprit Literary Review publishes work written in the fearless, risk-adept, and revolutionary spirit of High Modernism. We accept short fiction, creative non-fiction, novel extracts, literar…
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The Crossroads Review (SUBS OPEN) @crossrdsreview.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
writers, artists, poets... we are so grateful for all the #art, #poetry, and #fiction we have received. tell your friends, family, neighbors submit your work today! #writing #magazine #callforartists #callforsubmissions #literaryjournal #writingcommunity #callforwriters
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The Braag | Press & Journal @thebraag.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
UK writers can submit ⭐ Poetry Pamphlets 🌟 Novellas/fiction experiments/flash or short story collections up to around 30,000 words Writers worldwide can submit 💫 9 a5 pages of work for limited run micro-chapbooks We pay our authors! We never use AI! Could you please share this? We want your work!
The Braag is a Poetry and speculative fiction publisher looking for manuscripts June 15th - July 31st

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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Send us a flash fiction piece of up to 704 words that engages the reader intellectually and emotionally. $704 and publication in the Spring 2026 print edition of West Trade Review will be awarded to the winning story. Submissions open. See details below: buff.ly/3oOX7yW #writingcommunity
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The Crossroads Review (SUBS OPEN) @crossrdsreview.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
a snippet from our newly published issue 3 by Morgan Laidler more #fiction, #art, #poetry, we want more! (as long as they fit into our guidelines) #writing #magazine #journal #callforartists #callforsubmissions #literaryjournal #photography #writingcommunity #callforwriters
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European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
✨️ We've collated a list of European literary journals and magazines here bsky.app/profile/did:... Latest addition = @theberlinreview.bsky.social ✨️
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Angela T. Carr @angelatcarrpoetry.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
It's here! Over 160 calls for literary competitions & submissions including poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, art, photography, & more - contests, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or with deadlines in July 2025. Best of luck & pls share! www.thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog...
Black and white photo of open notebook and pen on a wooden table in a white daylit room. Overlay text reads: Publishing Your Work - July 2025; Poetry & Writing Submissions - Journals, Competitions, Bursaries, Residencies. www.thisiswordbox.com
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The Crossroads Review (SUBS OPEN) @crossrdsreview.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
on to issue #3! if you are a youth writer or artists ages 11-22, send us your work! we accept #art, #fiction, and #poetry. submit now! #writing #literature #magazine #journal #callforartists #callforsubmissions #literaryjournal #photography #writingcommunity #callforwriters
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Silly Goose Press @sillygoosepress.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
🪿NON-FICTION 🪿 (we're so back) Something so grounding about this (FIRST PUB!!) piece: QUEER JOY IS FOUND IN THE WEEDS by #J.S.Harrison “What makes a plant a weed?” sillygoosepress.com/pride-unedit...
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Queer Joy is Found in the Weeds — SillyGoosePress
Queer joy is the sunshine on my skin on a not-too-hot day.  It’s walking my dog down the street, watching her bounce and sniff and enjoy nature, even though she’s old and her health is failing h...
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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Sundress Publications is open for submissions for grant applications from trans writers with a chapbook or full-length book in progress. All eligible authors are welcome to submit during our application period which closes on July 15th, 2025. www.sundresspublications.com/submit#trans...
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The Crossroads Review (SUBS OPEN) @crossrdsreview.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
what's this? issue two is now out!!!!! a huge thanks to all our contributors this season. check their work out now! thecrossroadsreview.org/issue-two-su... #writing #fiction #art #literature #magazine #journal #callforsubmissions #photography #writingcommunity
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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Only two days to go! ALOCASIA is open for creative writing for an all-Indigenous issue to be published this summer. ALOCASIA publishes writing about plants by Indigenous queer writers around the world. Deadline: June 25th alocasia.org/about-send-w...
ALOCASIA'S all-Indigenous issue. Call for new work. ALOCASIA is now accepting previously unpublished creative writing for an all-Indigenous issue to be published this summer. ALOCASIA publishes writing about plants by queer writers. Our honorarium is $50 per contributor.

Deadline: June 25th

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Frazzled Lit *Closed for Submissions* @frazzledlit.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Closing for submissions 30th June. Don't miss out!
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The Crossroads Review (SUBS OPEN) @crossrdsreview.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
if yall have any #art, #fiction, #photography, send it on over! submissons close July 1st! #writing #literature #magazine #journal #callforartists #callforsubmissions #literaryjournal #photography #WritingCommunity bsky.app/profile/cros...
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Vestal Review @vestalreview.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
One more day till our spring submissions window closes (midnight on May 31st), but no need to panic. 🙂 We'll reopen on August 1. Meanwhile: www.vestalreview.net/guidelines
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Submission Guidelines — Vestal Review
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Viridine Literary @viridinelit.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Just over 24 hours to go until we close subs for Issue 03! All categories still welcome, but we'd especially love a few more essays or reviews.
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