They are accepting fiction, non-fiction, translations, comics, and also have a Featured Artist section. Poetry submissions are closed. They have detailed guidelines on the Kink & Culture theme, including, “The idea for Kink and Culture did not arrive to me as theory first, but through a certain embodied friction: a ghazal layered over electronic basslines on a warm Nashville night, a Bombay sandwich served in a café thousands of miles from where it was born. Both moments were translations—familiar yet not quite. That’s what kink and culture share: they thrive in the spaces where memory collides with invention, where desire remakes tradition into something subversive and new. ... Consider this your permission to push against boundaries—of genre, of body, of expectation. Send us fiction with tension and truth. Play with length – write micro, flash, short story, and longer short story. Play with genre, form, and content. Send us non-fiction essays that unpack the historical, political, and personal. … Send us translations, hybrid work, music, and visual art that give permission to not just your own voice, but also of those who come after you.” Nashville Review is affiliated with Vanderbilt University.
Deadline: Until filled for fiction; 30 September 2025 for other genres
Length: Up to 7,000 words for fiction, up to 8,000 words for non-fiction
Pay: $100 for prose and art
Details here and here.
 

Deadline: September 30th, 2025