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One of my favorite parts of the day is looking through all the comments on our Best Lit Mag Awards votes, like this super sweet one left for @okaydonkeymag.com!

Click here to show your favorite lit mags + editors some love <3: www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...

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Okay Donkey is one of the lit mags that I always stop to read. The work is always stunning and full of heart. From their social media presence, it's also abundantly clear that they love celebrating the continued success of their contributors. Grateful for them and their continued work!
November 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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That's a tough one! Honestly, I'd fiddle around in the browse filters for subgenres and just see what catches your eye. These are just the most common ones in fiction, for example.
The image shows a list of fiction subgenres, each with a checkbox next to them and a number. Literary 2511 Hybrid 603 Speculative Fiction 503 Fantasy 301 Experimental 299 Science Fiction 297 Horror 273 Humor 208 Other 195 Magical Realism 189 Absurdist 138 Gothic 129 Mystery 125 Thriller 99 Folklore 98
November 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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A little bit of luck, a little bit of skill—you might just make it through the sweet spot.

Check out how to submit to them here: www.chillsubs.com/lists/sweet-...

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17 Lit mags in the sweet spot (3-8%) Competitive | Popular • The Colored Lens - Stories that shift our perspective • New Ohio Review - The breadth of the American experience • Fiction - Publishing the difficult, experimental, and unusual • Oxford Poetry - Oldest dedicated poetry magazine in the UK • Gulf Coast - International cultures, voices, and aesthetics • North American Review - Challenging the status quo • Pseudopod - Podcast of dark, compelling short horror • The Shore Poetry - Cutting, strange, and daring work • Intrepidus Ink - Danger, struggle, emotion, and overcoming • Pigeon Pages - Voices not always allowed to sing loudly • Waxwing Literary Journal - Harmony and dissonance • Hayden's Ferry Review - Work that takes risks and engages • EPOCH - Cornell University's long-established print magazine • Factor Four Magazine - High-quality speculative flash fiction • lowa Review - Expertly curated, carefully edited, and beautifully designed • Sundog Lit - Engaging with tension, introspection, empathy • Room - Canada's oldest feminist literary journal Our stats-backed lists are based on 258642 tracked submissions from our 69378 users. Check them out at our link in bio!
November 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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We adore that this person could not stop singing @trashcatlit.bsky.social 's praises in the comments!

Vote for your favorite lit mags + editors to win our 2025 Best Lit Mag Awards here: www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...

#writing #writingcommunity #litmags
Apart from publishing great stories, and their quick feedback, and publishing links to writers’ other work, and publishing interviews about their writing, and their regular newsletter promoting writers’ work, and informing them of new opportunities, and having started to publish their writers in print, and putting a lot of effort into building up a great community of writers (see their wall of Trash Family Portraits for just one example of many) they are a pleasure to to work with!
November 21, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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We love seeing all the comments people leave for their favorite mags! This one goes out to @troublemakerfire.bsky.social <3

Show your favorite lit mags + editors some love and vote for our annual Best Lit Mag Awards: www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...

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Amazing to work with, Davi is hilarious and iconic, published me AND nominated me for a prize! Don’t sleep on the small indies; you’ll get more attention and love than you will from a big magazine.
November 20, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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This is your annual reminder that the only one who decides when you're done submitting to a magazine is YOU 🫵

Never give up. Never surrender.

Submit to these mags here: www.chillsubs.com/lists/one-pe...

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The 1% club (good fuckin' luck) • Boulevard - Publishing the linest promising new voices • Frontier Poetry - Poetry that pushes language forward • Blue Earth Review - Ambitious and exuberant work in a small format • Lunch Ticket - Work that strives for a more just world • The Adroit Journal - Bizarre, raw, paradoxical work between land and sky • Sixth Finch - Bringing contemporary art and poetry to all • A Velvet Giant - Experimental work that resists binary categorization • Boston Review - Reimagining the world through reason and hope • TriQuarterly - Cultural inquiry through writing and art • The Dark - The best in dark fantasy and horror monthly • Gasher Journal - Art that precisely guts us with surgical skill • James Gunn's Ad Astra - Celebrating speculative fiction in the 21st century • Banshee Exciting, accessible contemporary Irish writing • Muzzle Magazine - Writing of revolution and revelation • Ninth Letter - Exceptional literary writing illuminated by cutting-edge design • Seize the Press Magazine - Dark and anticapitalist speculative fiction • Shoreline of Infinity - Award-winning international SF magazine from Scotland • The Deadlands - Monthly speculative stories, poems, essays on the beyond Check out our link in bio for this list + more recommendations!
November 19, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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It’s back 😏

Nominate Your Favorite Lit Mags of 2025 through this form ⬇️

www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...

Let’s love on some editors, folks. They freakin’ deserve it!
Writers! Who are the best litmags of 2025? CHILL SUBS®
November 17, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Lit mags are usually known for their slow response times, but these amazing flash fiction pubs are trying to change that!

Submit to them here: www.chillsubs.com/lists/fast-f...

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Fastest flash fiction magazines that respond in 1 week or less • Bending Genres - Thrilling, fanciful, oddball, unusual, stunning • Flash Frog - Stories like dart frogs: small, bright, and deadly to the touch • HAD - Minimalist, irreverent mag with popup submission calls • Kinda Weird Mag - Celebrating creativity at its roots • The Insurgence - Informative critical writing and celebratory creative writing • Genrepunk Magazine - Literary magazine for weird little experiments • Mukoli: The Magazine for Peace - Peacebuilding, healing, and changemaking • Hotch Potch Literature and Art - Discover, delight and differentiate • The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts - Weekly bursts of compression & decompression • MetaStellar - Wandering to the limits of what could be • The Future Fire - Progressive speculative fiction • The Rye Whiskey Review - E-zine dedicated to all things barroom • Intrepidus Ink - Gutsy, fearless, and unapologetic November 13, 2025
November 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Went down a New Yorker research rabbit hole and now we’re all gonna get FAMOUS, friends!

Read the full list here: bit.ly/m/ChillSubs FULL DISCLOSURE THOUGH - that is one of our paid pieces.

#writing #writingcommunity #litmags
Want to publish in The New Yorker? Start with these 5 lit mags • The American Poetry Review + A top-ranked lit mag known for making careers • Denver Quarterly + Dedicated to pushing the boundaries of prose and poetry by publishing experimental work • London Review of Books + Work that reaches deep into the heart of the human condition and asks the difficult questions • Mid-American Review + A small but mighty open secret of a lit mag that's been around since the 70s • Poetry + A sprawling poetry paradise organized and designed with the reader front and center
November 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Tbh all poets have main character energy, so idk HOW we managed to narrow it down to 11. A lot of help from @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social and sleep deprivation probably.

Submit here: www.chillsubs.com/lists/poetry...

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11 Poetry mags with main character energy • Poetry #The power of words to transform lives • The Common #Literature with a modern sense of place • Lucky Jefferson #Publishing social change • The Stinging Fly #The best new writing from Ireland and beyond • Swamp Pink #Poems that leap from the very first line • Gulf Coast #Flow of international cultures, voices, and aesthetics • Seedlings #Roots in the old world and branches in the new • The Poetry Review #The heart and hands of poetry in the UK • 32 Poems #Poetry for the ear, the eye, and the ego • The Threepenny Review #Inspiration, radical accuracy, and genuineness • The Kenyon Review #Emerging writers from diverse communities CHILL SUBS® X ONLY POEMS
November 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Wowwweee over 3000 of you have already have joined First Draft November 🥲

Our free 30-day challenge where we write 50,000 words of our first drafts, side by side.

We have so many festivities planned friends. Come join? (Link in bio)

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this is YOUR sign to write a novel First Draft November
November 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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It’s the spooky-ooky season and we’ve got a treat for you 👀 Bloodletter Magazine is extending their submission deadline by a week for all your last-minute scares! (Because we all know that writers are soooo good at hitting deadlines…)

www.chillsubs.com/lists/freak-...

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Lit Mags That Want Your Freak Shit Bloodletter Magazine x Chill Subs Graphic is a white, stylized illustration of a skeleton on a black background with the Bloodletter Magazine Logo on the left side. The Bloodletter Magazine logo is the word Bloodletter on a stencil of a wax seal.
October 31, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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These lit mags remind us of enchanting libraries, misty gardens, and secrets hidden within dusty tomes. If that sounds like your perfect afternoon, click the link to submit <3

➡️ www.chillsubs.com/lists/dark-a...

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→ Lit mags with dark academia vibes • The Yale Review #Join a conversation 200 years in the making • Poetry London #A catalyst for change • Fugue #Work that haunts and echoes • 32 Poems #Poetry for the ear, the eye, and the ego • The Ex-Puritan #A pioneering literature • The London Magazine #Since 1732 • New England Review #A vital snapshot of the literary moment • Willow Springs #Work that commands attention • The Massachusetts Review #Variety and vitality October 29, 2025
October 29, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Free MFA “ask-me-anything” event tomorrow(:

Register here: luma.com/pq8khn3q

Hosted by The University of Alabama’s MFA faculty

📍Virtual 📅 Wed 10/29 🕐 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM EDT

#Mfa
The University of Alabama is Partnered with Chill Subs
October 28, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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These award-winning lit mags would be a crown jewel in any writer's bio *wink*

Submit to them here: www.chillsubs.com/lists/excell...

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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
October 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Are you:
- Applying to MFA programs?
- Curious about how an MFA can support your goals?
- Baffled by what to include in an MFA application?

Join University of Alabama MFA in Creative Writing faculty members John Estes and Brooke Champagne on Oct 30 for an AMA on all things MFA!

luma.com/pq8khn3q
Poster graphic for a virtual AMA event. Title reads, "The MFA Life (star symbol) From applications, finding community & beyond" There is also a white RSVP button, and a few variously aligned texts that read "Chill Subs Live" and "with John Estes and Brooke Champagne" The right hand side shows two photos of people: John Estes, who has deep-set eyes, short brown hair, and some greying facial hair, is wearing a black button-up shirt and standing in front of a well-lit tree and white picket fence while smiling softly. Brooke Champagne, who has long brown hair, is wearing a light orange shirt under a navy blue jacket and orange earrings. She is standing against a blurred grey background and has a radiant smile.
October 23, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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I think that covers all our bases. Probably.

Submit here: www.chillsubs.com/lists/girlho...

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9 places to send your writing about girlhood, grief, or god On girlhood... • Dreamworldgirl Zine #Whimsical, creative, and nostalgic • phoebe #Soulful and human • Milk Candy Review #Beautifully weird, lyrical flash fiction On grief... • Thimble #Armor found in the oddest of places • Bellevue Literary Review #In illness and in health • Bennington Review #Innovative, intelligent, and moving On faith... • Image Journal #Art, faith, and the human experience • EcoTheo Collective #Ecology, spirituality, and culture • Pensive #Work that deepens the inward life
October 22, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Okay, but don’t actually give up, because we have Raging Against the State of the Publishing World at 9am tomorrow. Maybe we could do brunch after?

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Submitters' Bingo (below is listed in a 3x3 grid) Got excited but it was the confirmation email 5th form rejection from the same place Bookmarked 100 mags, submitted to 0 Found a typo 10 mins after submitting Free "I give up" square The editor has a personal vendetta against me Pile of unread lit mags building up Exported packet in the wrong format Way too many unused notes app bits
October 20, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Will you get an agent? Who knows. Will you sound important at parties? Absolutely.

No database exists for agents’ reading habits, so we did this the hard way—by asking every agent, editor, and writing-adjacent human we could.

Submit here: www.chillsubs.com/lists/15_fic...

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15 fiction magazines that will make agents notice you • One Story #One great short story at a time • Passages North #Brave, risk-taking work • Conjunctions #Groundbreaking experimentation and rigorous quality • Clarkesworld #Top-tier speculative fiction since 2006 • Fairy Tale Review #Bringing fabulism into the foreground • Joyland #Where writers can tell the stories that matter to them most • Ecotone #Writing and art that reimagine place • F(r)iction #Boundary-pushing literature in themed anthologies • n+1#A history of the present day • American Short Fiction #Urgent, resh stories that shake you awake • McSweeney's Internet Tendency #Challenging conventional expectations • Ploughshares Literary Journal #Championing community, new writers, and diverse voices • Cricket #Beloved children's literary publication • Chicago Review #A contemporary standard of good writing • Harper's #Fine writing and original thought since 1850
October 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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I've rewritten this caption 5x.
If you can relate, you'll love these places as much as we do.

Find the list here: www.chillsubs.com/lists/_beaut...
Lit mags for beautiful overthinkers • The Sun #The splendor and heartache of being human • Gastropoda #Celebrating the spiralic nature of life • X-R-A-Y #Uncomfortable, entertaining, and unforgettable prose • Press Pause Press #Your space, far away from the noise • 3:AM Magazine #Whatever it is, they're against it! • Gasher Press #Fresh voices and innovative forms • petrichor mag #Dedicated to the fusion of text and image • OVER/EXPOSED Lit #Modern and enigmatic work • ONLY POEMS #Poetry is just the evidence of life • Tension Literary #Writing with an edge • Cabinet Magazine #Curiosity about the world • The Lemonwood Quarterly #Holding up half the sky • Clarity Magazine #Mental health, minus the fluff October 15, 2025
October 15, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Our new 💡Smart Search💡 is about to make finding magazines way faster, and here's how:

- See magazines instantly (with their open/closed status in the dropdown)
- Apply filters as tags to narrow down listings by genre, country, keywords, and more!

www.chillsubs.com/blog/chill-subs-new-smart-search
The image is a screenshot of the Chill Subs website's new Smart Search browse set against a pastel pink-orange background. The page is on the Magazines tab of the website. The letters "poe" are typed into the search bar, and the dropdown below shows these items, each with its own thumbnail (usually the cover of the lit mag): Poetry Genre Poem-a-Day Literary Magazine Closes on Nov 15 Poemeleon: A Journal of Poetry Literary Magazine Closed Poems for Tomorrow Literary Magazine Open Poesy Literary Magazine Closed (End list. Note: the open/closed status and date is right-aligned, unlike the rest of the info.) Under the filters button, which is located to the left of the search bar, there is a oblong bubble labeled Canada with a small x on the right to delete. This is the new tag filter function, and the search in the screenshot is filtering to view Canadian magazines.
October 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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A small, dirty My Melody plushie is laying haphazardly on asphalt. On the right side, the end of a car can be seen, implying that the stuffed animal has been run over. The text on the image reads, "fucking 50 rejections in bro i can't take this shit anymore"
October 8, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Harvard Law? What, like it’s hard? 💅💖 Yes, if you get a job there you are legally required to say that. @rachaelclemz.bsky.social is pretty sure it’s in their contract.

Apply here: bit.ly/m/chillsubs-...

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Places hiring writers right now Position Who's hiring Salary Location Editor Harvard Law School $87.7k-$150.9k/yr Cambridge, MA Editorial Director, Audio Macmillan $130k-$135k/yr New York, NY Communications Specialist Princeton University $85k-$94k/yr Princeton, NJ Senior Managing Editor HarperCollins $100k-$120k/yr New York, NY (Hybrid) Senior Editor, Adult Nonfiction Bloomsbury $75k-$85k/yr New York, NY (Hybrid)
October 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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It’s always hard to start up a lit mag and get momentum, but we think these folks have cracked the code 💥💪 Here’s 10 amazing places to submit if you want to support publications that are coming into the spotlight! ✨🩵

www.chillsubs.com/lists/new-li...

#writingcommunity #publishing #poetry
New lit mags blowing up right now and they want your writing! • Strange Pilgrims #Real, surreal & brutally beautiful • Seedlings #Roots in the old world and branches in the new • RUNT Magazine #Proudly elevating the small and scrappy • Heavy Traffic Magazine #Unbounded, instinctual writing • Vellichor Literary #Raw, indie, and DIY expression • Trash Cat Lit #Treasure in unexpected places • Bread and Butter Magazine #Simplicity and the core of the human experience • The CryptoNaturalist #David Attenborough meets The X Files • The Bloomin' Onion #All stories come from somewhere • wildscape. literary journal #Whimsical, chaotic, gentle, and everything in-between
October 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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New jobs! Get your hot new jobs from @rachaelclemz.bsky.social! 💼

BTW, my personal fave here is the American Bird Conservancy, because who doesn’t want to make money writing about birds? 🐦📚

#writingcommunity
Places hiring writers right now Writer/Editor American Bird Conservancy $60.5k/yr Remote Associate Director Out of Print (Penguin Random House) $82k-$92k/yr Remote Associate Manager/Manager, Marketing Storehouse Voices (Penguin Random House) $66.5k-$77k/yr New York, NY (Hybrid) Director of Marketing and Retail Strategy James Patterson Publishing Program $110k-$130k/r New York, NY Senior Editor Flatiron Books $80k-$85k/yr New York, NY
October 1, 2025 at 4:09 PM