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#15: 5/5/21

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: Gris-Gris. Gris-Gris, a journal of literature, culture, and the arts located at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, Louisiana. We seek original literary poetry, fiction, and nonfiction from emerging and established writers. We are open to all styles and subjects. Our main criterion is excellence in any form it takes.. Click here for their submission guidelines. They read $2 submissions via Submittable all year (I think). As always I recommend reading the newest issue in at least your own genre before submitting to them.

From Duotrope: "Gris-Gris, a journal of literature, culture, and the arts located at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, Louisiana. We seek original literary poetry, fiction, and nonfiction from emerging and established writers. We are open to all styles and subjects. Our main criterion is excellence in any form it takes."

Journal 2: FRiGG Magazine. FRiGG Magazine is a biannual online literary magazine of poetry and fiction with a unique design that I can't get enough of. Check out their guidelines here. As always I recommend checking out their newest issue (at least in your genre) before selecting pieces to submit to them. They read poetry and fiction for no fee via Submittable. Check out their editor's interview with Duotope here.

"Literary fiction. We publish single, longer short stories from 1,200 to 8,000 words. Flash-length short stories of up to 1,000 words are published in groups of at least three. 

Poetry and prose poetry. Any length. Shorter works of poetry are published in groups of at least three; very long pieces are published alone. 

Creative nonfiction. We publish longer works of creative nonfiction from 1,200 to 8,000 words. Shorter, flash-length works of creative nonfiction (1,000 words or fewer) are published in groups of at least three. "

Journal 3: Nashville Review. Nashville Review seeks to publish the best work we can get our hands on, period. From expansive to minimalist, narrative to lyric, epiphanic to subtle—if it’s a moving work of art, we want it. We hope to provide a venue for both distinguished and emerging artists. Most importantly, thank you for giving us a chance to read your work. We appreciate it.. Check out their submission guidelines here. And of course, as usual, read their newest issue (at least in your genre) to get a good idea of what they're looking for. and they are reading no fee submissions via Submittable in all genres right now. 

"Nashville Review was founded with two guiding principles: that our venue would be inclusive of all forms of storytelling, and that it would be both free and available online to anyone who wished to enjoy it. We publish three issues annually: on the 1st of April, August, and December. NR is edited by the MFA students at Vanderbilt University."

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!