Hump Day Submission Carousel 9

#9: 3/24/21

It's Wednesday, so you know what that means! HUMP DAY SUBMISSIONS! Because it's easy to fall off the submission train during the week I'm presenting you with 3 cool and very different small journals currently open for submissions to save you research time! Pick one of the three journals presented and read some of the pieces in your genre. If you're not digging them, check the next journal. Don't agonize over it, if you're not enjoying the writing or you don't feel your writing would fit in there move along to the next journal. If none of them seem to fit... maybe next week? 

Journal 1: Mojo. Mojo is the online journal from Wichita State University, they are currently reading all genres for their 19th issue until March 31, 2021. As always read the newest issue. Click here for their submission guidelines. They read no fee submissions via Submittable.

"We’re dedicated to the revolution of literary spaces—the breaking of conventions, the exploration of provocation, the inclusion of all voices. Established, emerging, or identities often marginalized by our society’s narrative—we want your work. Bring on your off-the-wall, genre-mixing, mad-scientist-experimentation of the written word. Bring on your wildest imaginings of just how far you can push form, structure, the foundation of human moments and what it means to share them. Bring on your best. We don’t sacrifice quality for novelty. The best way to see what we’re interested in? Read our past issues."

Journal 2:  Madison Review. This is the online literary magazine from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a long history and usually a preference for accessible but quality work. Check out their newest issue here. They are reading poetry and fiction for a $2 fee via Submittable.

From their site: "Founded in the early 1970s by students from the university’s creative writing program, The Madison Review remains a student-run journal to this day. The staff—including editors—is composed entirely of undergraduates from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Since the staff changes frequently, each issue attempts to showcase the distinct aesthetics of that year’s reviewing panel."

Journal 3: Lemonspouting. This 'fledgling' online literary magazine is reading for their first issue with a deadline of April 24th 2021. They read email submissions for no fee, but ask that you consider joining their Patreon to help them pay writers, $10 per poem and $15 per prose piece. Check out their submission guidelines here.

"Lemonspouting is a new quarterly Canadian and International online Journal of Literature & Art. For years it was a personal writing Twitter handle referring to ‘citrusy bursts of inspiration, to refresh the mind.’ We are looking for fresh, contemporary poetry, fiction, non-fiction, art, and photography from new and established writers, and artists."

Get your writing out there! You got this! I know it's mid-week, but spending just a little bit of time with reading well-crafted creative writing in the middle of the week it can keep your creativity a little fresher when the weekend comes around. I think, at least.

Also a gentle reminder that Sparked is reading submissions of writing from Notebooking Daily prompts, so send them work now! And if you thought this post was helpful, consider shooting me a buck or two for my own future submissions or to help pay writers for Sparked (which comes out of my pocket). No pressure though. I'm just trying to get better with the begging for pennies, submission fees in 2020 are pretty monumental and 2021 is shaping up to be just as bad!