“Q: What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? A: Living in fear.”

The Smart Search List of the Day is: Paying Fee-Free Mainstream Fiction feat. @schaffnerpress.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com/search/smart/fiction/paying-fee-free-mainstream-fiction-DvAn09F7

Support independent literary publishers by picking a read from the list below, which features new books released by CLMP members in September 2026.   Freely Frayed by Don Mee Choi Wave Books |…

[Leer en Español] We're currently reading for Reckoning 11, which will close to submissions August 31st, 2026. There are never any fees to submit. We pay SFWA-qualifying "professional" rates upon acce...

For Women in Translation Month, observed annually during the month of August, we asked the many independent literary presses and magazines that make up our membership to share with us some of the…

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Southern Humanities Review (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction; pays) opened to fee-based submissions https://duotrope.com/magazine/southern-humanities-review-667 #amwriting

There's a new social media refrain any time there's a discovery about the moon, or trees, or a strange animal: "Don't tell the poets"

A collection of fiction and essays about disability by disabled writers and translated by disabled translators.

The poet and novelist Stephen Dobyns died on June 14, at the age of eighty-five; I’d always admired the way he conducted his care...

Alexander Liebermann, an accomplished composer living in Berlin, has been challenging himself to transcribe the sounds of penguins, whales, and other animals as an exercise for ear training.  Give his...

Your host in Osaka, Japan, slips on a pair of headphones and suddenly hears your words transformed into flawless Kansai Japanese. Even better, their reply in their native tongue comes through perfectl...

In the 1990s, a corner grocery store on Sheridan and Belmont in Chicago served me as a post office. Returning once from an early morning visit, I saw a young woman exit her highrise on Sheridan, dash ...

*** UPDATE: All 85 of our available fee waivers have been distributed to submitters who need them. Remaining submissions are subject to the standard reading fee of $35, which directly supports our…

Isele Quarterly (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction Art; pays) opened to submissions https://duotrope.com/magazine/isele-quarterly-37457 #amwriting

In the 1990s, a corner grocery store on Sheridan and Belmont in Chicago served me as a post office. Returning once from an early morning visit, I saw a young woman exit her highrise on Sheridan, dash…

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