Terrain.org is the first online literary journal of place, publishing award-winning literature, art, editorials, and community case studies since 1998. They accept the finest poetry, essays, fiction, and articles. According to their guidelines, they pay all contributors $50 per published submission. To learn more, refer to this page.
Contemporary Verse 2's primary aim is to educate, engage, and expand public appreciation of the poetic art form by sharing and promoting high-calibre, original verse and critical writing by local, national, and international poets. They offer free submissions to all Canadians and Canadians residents, but international submitters have to pay a fee to apply. According to ther guidelines, they pay $35 per poem, $75-$150 for interviews, $75-$150 for articles, $75-$150 for essays, $65-$100 for reviews, and $65-$150 for web-only content. To learn more, refer to this page.
Mizna presents contemporary, critical, and experimental art, writing, and film centering the work of Arab and Southwest Asian and North African artists. In general, literary works of poetry, visual poetry, fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, creative nonfiction, and comics are considered. According to one of their calls, contributors receive a $200 honorarium. To learn more, refer to the bottom of this page.
Fairy Tale Review is an annual literary journal dedicated to publishing new fairy tales and to helping raise public awareness of fairy tales as a diverse, innovative art form. They consider prose fiction, verse fiction, nonfiction, creative scholarship, and poetry; they also welcome work that does not fall neatly into any category. According to their guidelines, they pay a $50 honorarium. To learn more, refer to this page.
Grain is an internationally acclaimed literary journal that publishes engaging, surprising, eclectic, and challenging writing and art by Canadian and international writers and artists. They are interested in poetry, fiction, and literary nonfiction. According to their guidelines, all contributors, regardless of genre, are paid $50 per page to a maximum of $250. To learn more, refer to this page.
The Suburban Review is a quarterly digital journal of short fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry and art. They’re interested in publishing the work of writers from all over Australia and the world. According to their guidelines, they pay $450 for fiction of 2000-2500 words, $400 for creative non-fiction of 1250-2000 words, and $375 for one poem over 30 lines. To learn more, refer to this page.
The Offing is an online literary magazine publishing creative writing in all genres and art in all media. According to their guidelines, they pay a $25–$100 fee, depending on department and number/length of works published. To learn more, refer to this page.
Solarpunk Magazine publishes fiction, poetry, essays, and art that envisions a hopeful and sustainable future. According to their guidelines, they pay $.08 per word for fiction ($100 minimum), $40 per poem, and $75 for nonfiction (per essay or article). To learn more, refer to this page.
Ninth Letter is the award-winning literary arts journal edited and produced by the Creative Writing Program at the University of Illinois. They are interested in prose and poetry that experiment with form, narrative, and nontraditional subject matter, as well as more traditional literary work. They charge a submission fee, but there are waivers. According to their guidelines, they pay $25 per poem and $100 for prose. To learn more, refer to this page.
Mud Season Review is an international literary journal run by members of the Burlington Writers Workshop, a free writing workshop based in Vermont. They seek deeply human work that will teach something about life, but also about the craft of writing or visual art. According to their guidelines, they pay $50 for work that appears in their issues. To learn more, refer to this page.
The Polis Project, Inc. is “a New York-based digital magazine and a hybrid research and journalism organisation that documents communities in resistance at the intersection of politics, art and culture.” They’re open to pitches from writers of all experience levels and from anywhere in the world. They accept submissions for both their politics and culture sections, though they don’t believe in air-tight distinctions between the two. Rate is $100 to $400. To learn more, refer to their submissions page.
Design Observer is “a leading platform offering thought-provoking content on design, culture, and social innovation.” They offer a $150 honorarium for art-eds, op-eds, and essays (around 800 to 900 words). Rates begin at $1.50/word for commissioned short pieces that include original reporting and sourcing (usually 500 to 900 words). To learn more, refer to their call for pitches.
Belmont Story Review is a national magazine of literary arts, faith and culture. They seek to publish new and established writers, and feature works of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. According to their guidelines, they pay $100 for prose and $50 for poetry. To learn more, refer to this page.
Split Lip Magazine is a literary journal that loves stories, poetry and art. They only accept free submissions a few times a year. According to their guidelines, they pay $75 per author for poems, memoirs, flash, fiction, art, and interviews/reviews, and $50 for mini-reviews for our web issues. To learn more, refer to this page.
Nashville Review is an online, MFA student-run literary magazine at Vanderbilt University. A triannual review, they publish fiction, poetry, comics, art, nonfiction, and performance art videos. They consider submissions in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction two times a year — August and January. According to their guidelines, they pay $25 per poem and $100 for prose and art pieces. To learn more, refer to this page.
Oestrogeneration is a magazine platform highlighting the voices of trans women and transfeminine writers in the UK. They publish essays, opinion pieces, first-person stories, arts and culture content, pop culture reviews, think-pieces and other forms of journalistic writing with a word limit of 1200. According to their pitch guide, they pay a flat rate of £50 per piece. To learn more, refer to this page.
Rooted is a publication uplifting underrepresented voices in media, arts, and entertainment. They are interested in interviews and profiles, media commentary and critiques, narrative journalism, personal essays, news, and reviews. Their rates are negotiable depending on the needs of a story and are determined at the time of assignment. They pay a 50% cancellation fee. To learn more, refer to this page.
EPOCH publishes fiction, poetry, essays, comics, and graphic art. In continuous publication since 1947, the magazine is edited by students and faculty of the MFA Program in Creative Writing, in Cornell University’s Department of Literatures in English. They are open for electronic submissions only during the months of August and January. Each submission costs $3, but there is a free-submission weekend during each submission period. According to their guidelines, they presently pay between $100 and $500 for poetry, prose, and comics, depending on length. To learn more, refer to this page.
The Skinny presents a cross-section of the most exciting cultural happenings across Scotland. They cover the best new music, film, comedy, theatre, visual art, food and drink, club nights, literature and spoken word to be found in Edinburgh, Glasgow and beyond. They're seeking features between 700-1400 words and reviews of 200-400 words. According to their payments page, they pay between £40-65 for a feature, and between £10-20 for a review. To learn more, refer to this page.
Artdose Magazine is an independent print and digital art magazine based in Wisconsin, committed to connecting and supporting the visual arts in the Midwest. They are seeking arts writers from Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. They're looking for articles (500 words max) on visual arts-related topics that have connection to the writer's region, state, or art community. They are open to submissions from arts writers at all skill levels and experience. According to their pitch guide, they pay $125 per selected article for print only. To learn more, refer to this page.
Broad Sound is “a journal of arts and culture.” They’re always seeking new work on film, music, literature, visual art, and more. According to their pitch guide, they pay $100 per piece. If interested, email your pitches to broadsoundmag@gmail.com. To learn more, refer to this page.
The International Examiner is the oldest and largest nonprofit, pan-Asian Pacific American publication in the Northwest. They are seeking news and arts freelance writers. Compensation depends on experience. To learn more, refer to this page.
Baltimore Beat is a Black-led, Black-controlled nonprofit newspaper and media outlet. They aim to serve all of Baltimore City, including those with limited internet access and those who are a part of underrepresented communities. They publish thoughtful and unique arts coverage and community-minded, solutions-oriented journalism. To pitch them, refer to this page.
ARCHITECT is a magazine for architectural industry news. They are interested in hearing from architecture journalists and local reporters. All writers are paid. To learn more, refer to this page.
Newcity Brazil is an English-language digital publishing operation focused on the visual art culture of Brazil, with special emphasis on São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. They are seeking art critics and journalists based in São Paulo and throughout Brazil who are familiar with artists and the gallery and museum scene, and are also looking to expand their coverage into design and architecture. They publish art exhibition reviews, art news, artist and gallery profiles, and interviews and features. Reviews and news are 500 or so words, and features or interviews are 1,000 or more words. According to their pitch guide, reviews pay $50; features $125. To learn more, refer to this page.
Curationist enables users and communities to seek, find, and reimagine cultural heritage through their vast archives of open access images, radical work with metadata, and editorial features shining light on marginalized histories of art and objects. They seek proposals for their editorial features and want to hear from arts writers, artists, historians, curators, librarians, archivists, and anyone in the GLAM field. The editorial features critically investigate and contextualize the Works in open access archives. According to their guidelines, they pay $1500 (aiming for ~1500 words). To learn more, refer to this page.
The Land, Food, and Freedom Journal is a nonprofit publication that curates “interdisciplinary conversations about Black food sovereignty, land justice, and art.” They publish work within the categories of “Land, Food, Freedom, and Culture.” They welcome essays, prose, poetry, reviews, recipes, multimedia pieces, visual art, and more. According to their rate sheet, they offer an honorarium of $350 to $750 per piece. For details, refer to this page.
The Floor Magazine is an online and print publication celebrating black art and their artists. They welcome pitches for reviews of art (music albums, films, books, photography exhibitions etc), commentary, interviews (Q&A or profile), personal essays, and long form essays. They pay a flat rate for 800-1200 word pieces. To learn more, refer to this page.
AFM is the magazine of Feeld, a dating app for the curious; those open to experiencing people and relationships in new ways. They are looking to publish new work from contributors of all kinds—whether that’s essays, art, fiction, poetry, photography, or any medium you can think of. According to their pitch guide, they pay $800USD for fiction, $500USD for poetry, and $1/word for essays, features, profiles, interviews, with a typical word count of 1500-2000 words. To learn more, refer to this page.
Rhizome champions born-digital art and culture through commissions, exhibitions, scholarship, and digital preservation. They publish writing by artists and specialists for an art-interested audience. They accept pitches for articles that offer new research and perspectives on works in two of their categories: ArtBase and #Artist Profiles. According to their guidelines, rates are $250 for Artist Profiles and $0.50-$0.75/word (up to 1500 words) for articles about works in the Rhizome ArtBase. To learn more, refer to this page.