Need to get your piece rejected before you submit to us? Based on our research, these publications respond quickly (i.e., a month or less), so they can help you earn your stripes. The plus side? If they accept your work, you don’t need to bother with us!
Please be sure to check their submission guidelines before submitting to these publications. Remember, only submit your work to places where you want to be published.
- (mac)ro(mic)
- Apex Magazine
- Bending Genres
- Big Whoopie Deal
- Bright Flash Literary Review
- Chestnut Review
- Clarkesworld Magazine
- Coolest American Stories (an anthology)
- Eunoia Review
- Five on the Fifth
- Ghost Parachute
- HAD (They respond within 24-48 hours, but their submission windows are completely random, so you need to watch their Twitter account.)
- Hexagon Speculative Fiction Magazine
- Idle Ink
- Interstellar Literary Review
- Literally Stories
- Lunch Ticket
- Milk Candy Review
- MoonPark Review
- Neon Door
- Radar Poetry
- Rejection Letters
- SOFTBLOW
- SmokeLong Quarterly
- Split Lip Magazine
- The Aurora Journal
- The Baffler
- The Birdseed
- The Blood Pudding
- The Collidescope
- The Daily Drunk
- The Dark Magazine
- The Forge Literary Magazine
- The Woven Tale Press Magazine
- trampset
- warning lines mag
- Wildness
- Words & Whispers
- X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine
