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3Elements Review || A Literary Journal
32 Poems Magazine | Poetry for the ear, the eye, and the ego.
Since 2011, George David Clark has edited the journal, now based in Washington, Pennsylvania. In 2013, 32 Poems expanded to begin publishing regular prose features online. These reviews, essays, and interviews have themselves been reprinted in collections of essays and criticism and in such series as the Poetry Daily Prose Feature. The journal also partners with teachers of creative writing through a program called 32 Classrooms in which editors introduce students to the craft of literary editing, discuss work featured in recent issues, and invite student contributions to 32 Poems’ prose features.
ABR Inglis Fellowship
Abstract Mag TV – Contemporary Expressions
Abstract is a Pushcart Prize-winning fine arts journal featuring a broad range of artistic works curated from an international group of exciting and innovative creative talent. Abstract seeks fine art in all forms that engages with both the crises and joys of our shared human condition. We seek art that engages the edge of now; we seek to explore a future forward zeitgeist with a respect for the gifts of the past. We are looking for both established and emerging artists across genres. Our criterion is quality.
ACU Prize for Poetry
Acumen Poetry | Poetry Prose Reviews
Acumen is among the longest-running literary magazines today. Patricia Oxley started Acumen in 1985 armed with only an electric typewriter, and without subscribers or contributions. Since then it has grown to one of the country’s leading literary journals.
Adelaide Literary Magazine — NY and Lisbon
Adelaide Literary Magazine is an independent international monthly publication, based in New York and Lisbon. Founded by Stevan V. Nikolic and Adelaide Franco Nikolic in 2015, the magazine’s aim is to publish quality poetry, fiction, nonfiction, artwork, and photography, as well as interviews, articles, and book reviews, written in English and Portuguese. We seek to publish outstanding literary fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, and to promote the writers we publish, helping both new, emerging, and established authors reach a wider literary audience.
Aeon | a world of ideas
Aerogramme Writers’ Studio
Aesthetica Magazine – Aesthetica Art Prize
Aesthetica Magazine – Creative Writing Award
American Poetry Journal | publishing exceptional poetry
American Poetry Review
The American Poetry Review is dedicated to serving a worldwide audience excellent contemporary poetry and literary criticism. APR also aims to expand the audience for poetry, to provide poets with a far-reaching forum in which to present their work. The American Poetry Review has been in continuous publication since 1972 and has published the work of over 6,000 writers.
Atrium
Australia Reads — Literary Calendar
Australian Writers’ Centre
BACKCHANNELS – FOR WRITERS, ARTISTS, AND READERS
bæst
Blackbox Manifold
https://sites.google.com/sheffield.ac.uk/blackboxmanifold/home
https://sites.google.com/sheffield.ac.uk/blackboxmanifold/submissions
Blackbox Manifold is an online forum with a slant towards innovative poetry that has prose, narrative, or sequences in its sights. That said, we don’t hold allegiance to any one poetry school or group, and we’re happy to receive submissions from established and emerging poets alike.
Our aim is to present new juxtapositions of voice while using the web’s fluid solidity to cast around for as wide and varied a readership as possible. The journal is continuingly archived by the British Library in its Web Archive.
On occasion, a current topic or event will be the focus for an issue – in bringing together poems that warp current woofs our hope is that some news, at least, may be broken. Voices that record by trembling are always welcome. But to ensure that we don’t settle into familiar patterns, guest editors will also occasionally be invited to take charge of an issue and solicit new work. Calling on a range of poets for editorial advice is fundamental to our own collaborative approach.
Calls for submission, competitions, and opportunities in Australia – Australian Poetry
Camberwell Art Show
Chill Subs – The place for writers
Coastlines Journal | A Journal of Good Writing
Cordite Poetry Review
Creative Australia
Critical Inquiry
Critical Inquiry – Facebook
Current Affairs
Eunoia Review
Existential Comics
Fellowships | Copyright Agency
Flying Islands Pocket Poets
Google Arts & Culture
Griffith Review
https://www.griffithreview.com/for-writers/
Hornsby Art Prize
Hunter Writers Centre
Newcastle Poetry Prize
https://hunterwriterscentre.org/newcastle-poetry-prize/
Identity Theory
Identity Theory is an online literary magazine and cultural hub that has been publishing original writing, interviews, and other forms of creative expression since July 2000.
ISLAND — Australian Literary and Arts Magazine
Kleksograph
La Mama Theatre – poetica
lana turner journal
Lazuli Literary Group | AZURE Journal
Limina: A journal of historical and cultural studies
A journal of historical and cultural studies, Limina, has been published at the University of Western Australia since 1995. The journal’s editorial collective works with an international advisory board to publish two issues each year: a themed issue (linked to the Limina Annual Conference theme), at a minimum, a general issue.
London Review of Books
Matter
Meanjin
Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture 2026 | One of the most valuable arts prizes in Australia
Monday Markets Archives – Erika Dreifus
n+1
Narratively | Substack
Off Season
Off Season is an independent quarterly literary magazine that celebrates the rough patches of a creative life. We exist as a respite from the rejection, writer’s block, and self-doubt that follows creatives, whether you are at the beginning of your career, or well established in the literary and artistic community. We aim to be a refuge for anyone trying to persevere as a writer, poet, or artist, and to help you find ways to pursue a long and fruitful career. We open for submissions twice a year and produce four online issues a year.
All submitters to Off Season should not have received a literary journal acceptance in the last three months.
OLGA MASTERS
The Olga Masters Short Story Award accepts short story entries from writers of all ages residing in Australia.
On This Date in Photography: by James Mcardle
One Sentence Poems
OutStanding
Peter Porter Poetry Prize
Poetry Foundation
ProPublica — Investigative Journalism and News in the Public Interest
Publishing … and Other Forms of Insanity
Rattle Poetry
https://rattle.com/page/about-us/
Red Room Poetry
Rochford Street Review
Seven Kitchens Press
Launched in the fall of 2007, Seven Kitchens Press has published over 200 chapbooks through eight series: the Keystone Series (focusing on the work of poets with Pennsylvania roots), the Robin Becker Series (showcasing LGBTQIA poets), the ReBound Series (bringing well-deserving out-of-print chapbooks into new, updated editions), the Editor’s Series (soliciting manuscripts by invitation and “rescuing” worthy contenders which didn’t place in our other series), the Rane Arroyo Series (honoring the memory and work of the beloved writer and professor), the Summer Kitchen Series (featuring three to five limited-edition chapbooks published over the hot summer months), and, most recently, the A.V. Christie Series for women writers over the age of 50 and the Allison Joseph Series for BIPOC women writers.
Southerly
Southerly is Australia’s oldest literary journal. The journal of the English Association, Sydney, it was launched in 1939 with works by authors such as AD Hope and Kylie Tennant. It was, from the outset, dedicated to publishing new Australian literature of the highest standard, and of providing a link between the academy and the garret.
SRB First Nations Critique Residency | Sydney Review of Books
In 2023, Wiradjuri writer, scholar, and poet Jeanine Leane published her seminal essay, ‘Cultural Rigour: First Nations Critical Culture’ in the SRB. The essay identified some of the systemic issues stymieing the reception of First Nations writing, from a lack of familiarity with, or respect for, the communal context from which authors emerge, to a tendency towards either hollow praise or casual dismissal.
This residency program aims to answer Leane’s call for cultural rigour and forms of critique responsive to the full range of ‘cultural perspectives, speaking positions, socio-cultural contexts, and intersections of identity’ present in Australian literature and art. It also joins in the efforts of recently established First Nations-led journals, such as Blue Art Journal and Sovereign Texts, to foreground critique as both a ‘cultural intervention’ and an assertion of sovereignty.
StylusLit
Sydney Review of Books
Tablet Magazine
Tears in the Fence
The Baffler Magazine
The Baffler is America’s leading voice of incisive and unconventional left-wing political criticism, cultural analysis, short stories, poems, and art. Founded in 1988 by Thomas Frank and Keith White as “the journal that blunts the cutting edge,” the magazine is currently edited by Matthew Shen Goodman and headquartered in New York. It prints five print issues annually and publishes online nearly every day of the workweek.
The Bangalore Review
The Bangalore Review is a bi-monthly online magazine aimed at promoting literature, arts, culture, criticism, and philosophy at a deeper level. Conforming to our mission of giving back to society, the magazine will remain a non-profit venture and is currently managed by Spanning Minds, Inc. (USA).
The Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize 2026 | UniSQ
The Cafe Review
The Indianapolis Review
The Manhattan Review
Snail mail submissions. Old style.
The New York Review of Books
The Submission Grinder
The Wheeler Centre
Tom Collins Poetry Prize | Fellowship of Australian writers
UNBORDER
UNFURL
University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize
Uplift Poetry
Verity La Journal
Verity La Journal was established in 2010 as an online, transnational creative arts journal publishing fiction, poetry, nonfiction, visual art, reviews and interviews from Australia and around the world.
Whitsundays Literary Heart Awards – Whitsundays Writers
Writers Victoria
https://writersvictoria.org.au/calendars/opportunities-competitions/
Writers Victoria – Competitions, Prizes and Fellowships
Writing Competitions & Opportunities
A collection of writing competitions, prizes, awards and opportunities open for submissions throughout the year for adult writers residing in NSW, Australia.
Stephen J. Williams 