ALT 5 Impressive bylines for your literary bio • Brevity Star-studded journal of literary nonfiction publishing the best of the brief essay form • The Adroit Journal Writing that lives just between the land and the sky • Baltimore Review Literary hub of diverse writing promoting the work of emerging and established writers • Split Lip Magazine Voice-driven writing, pop culture, and the kind of honesty that gets you right in the kidneys • McSweeney's Internet Tendency Daily humor almost every day since 1998 Feb 26, 2026

ALT 14 Lit mags with excellent reputations *Competitive *Popular • AGNI #Jolting the inner eye • Baltimore Review #Space for expression • Brevity #Spotlighting the brief essay form • Gulf Coast #Community-oriented excellence • The Cincinnati Review #Championing diversity and growth • Granta #Narrative, visceral, and high-stakes • Georgia Review #Honoring differences • Kenyon Review #Lyric risk and emotional presence • The Malahat Review #Top-tier writing with a Canadian focus • Island Magazine #Sharp, artful, and grounded • The Missouri Review #Current and curated • Black Warrior Review #A beacon for adventurous writing • The Threepenny Review #Radical accuracy and genuineness • SmokeLong Quarterly #Eclectic and challenging work

ALT X 15 Lit mags that pay writers & don't charge fees opened for submissions recently Aug 5, 2025 • West Branch | $0.1/word or $100/piece • Songs of Eretz Poetry Review | $7/piece • The Deadlands | $0.1/word • Nashville Review | $25 - $100/piece • Haven Speculative | $20/piece or $0.08/word • Grimdark Magazine AU$0.01 - AU$0.07/word • Carmen et Error £5 • Philly Poetry Chapbook Review | $10 flat • Honeyguide Literary Magazine | $25 flat • Gordon Square Review | $25/piece • Baltimore Review | $50 flat • Poet Lore | $50/piece • The Celestial Glossary | pays • trampset $25/piece • Guilty Crime Story Magazine | $10 flat • Pseudopod | $0.08/word

ALT Where the cool kids are submitting their writing part 1 • Baltimore Review #Literary hub for diverse writing • Bloodletter Magazine #Feminist horror • Dreamworldgirl Zine #All things girlhood • fractured literary #Flash with emotional resonance • Fruitslice #Documenting Queer culture with the urgency and care it deserves • Gather #Social lit mag on Instagram and Substack • The Indianapolis Review #Writing that surprises, sings, and makes you think • Joyland #International fiction movement • The Margins #Asian American literary arts and ideas • ONE ART: a journal of poetry #Home for good poems • ONLY POEMS #Weird wild and wonderful poetry • Palette Magazine #Digital art collective for marginalized artists • Reed Magazine #International literary hub • River Teeth #Where good writing counts and facts matter • Sky Island Journal #Independent international literary experience • SmokeLong Quarterly #Some of the best flash narratives on the web • Sonder Literary #Showcasing every person's sto

ALT 24 Lit mags to submit to this week k that pay writers and don't charge fees • Plenitude | CA$125 • Dappled Things | $20 - $50 • A Sufferer's Digest | $5 • Baltimore Review $50 • ALOCASIA | $50 • Seedlings | £5 • Anarchist Fictions Journal | CA$10 - CA$50 • Sweet Mammalian | NZ$20 • Exist Otherwise | $15 • Lucky Jefferson | $15 - $25 • Haven Speculative | $20 • Black Fox Literary Magazine | $20 • Wallstrait | $25 • The Offing | $25 - $100 • Eternal Haunted Summer: pagan songs & tales | $5 • Abyss & Apex | $5.5 • Poet Lore | $50 • IHRAM Publishes | $50 • Escape Pod | $0.08 per word • A Public Space • Landfall • Kweli Journal • The CEA Mid-Atlantic Review (CEAMAG Journal)