We are OPEN for submissions!
We’re publishing on a rolling basis (for now) so we can get work up on the site asap so submitters will have a better idea of which reader to submit to!
Guidelines on our site.
We’d appreciate retweets so we can get the brawler teams started 👾
We wanna be your first pub and your 1000th. We wanna take the bones of your words and bury them in amber until future scientists can extract their essence and rebirth them new and holy. The metaphor is getting away from us but we hope your words won’t.
All this to say, submit.
If you haven’t submitted to us yet, no worries; we’re still open, always free to submit and our free feedback is only open for 23 more days. We are ready and eagerly awaiting your work!
Jump on in the water is fine! More than fine actually!!!! It’s pretty awesome!!
Also just wanna get on here and express our gratitude.
We are in awe of the kindness people have expressed toward our magazine. We constantly get the funnest cover letters, the kindest responses to both rejections and acceptances, and great feedback on our concept/process.
Hi guys! Here is a list of 60+ literary mags that are open for submissions (and closing soon*) or opening for submissions in September! All are fee-free and paying magazines. Good luck!
#poetrysubmission
Hey! Here are some literary journals that are open for submissions now or in July or August! Some will close soon. Genres, themes, & guidelines vary, & dates are tentative. I think these are all no-fee submissions. There are many more resources & journals out there! Good luck! ❤️
We are so grateful to have hit 500 followers in our first two months of being open! Thank you all for supporting us, and vibing with our mag 🦖💀
Keep on submitting folks!!!! We will champion you and your work for eternity!!!!
Happy start to another new week! One day your body will be a fossilized remainder of a million year ish geological period and so really life is too short to not submit your work to any/all lit mags!
Start by submitting here! We offer free feedback! Our site has Easter Eggs™️!
Wanna keep being open about this so here’s another reminder:
We are open for subs. You can consent into getting feedback (this is free only for another 16 days tho bc school is starting and we both teach/are students)
Submit and have your work fossilized on our site forever.
Also just wanna get on here and express our gratitude.
We are in awe of the kindness people have expressed toward our magazine. We constantly get the funnest cover letters, the kindest responses to both rejections and acceptances, and great feedback on our concept/process.
Our EIC is also the assistant poetry editor here !! (Because there is more than enough room for all the poems !!!!!!)
So get ya poems ready to send to Phoebe !
Submissions for issue 54.1 open soon! Send us your best poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and visual art!!! We can't wait to see the amazing submissions that are coming our way.
“Motherhood is a mirror. To be able to look oneself in the eye, flawed and hurt and unobstructed, is a terrible blessing for a poet.” -Vic Nogay (
@vicnogaywrites
)
(If you aren’t reading the interviews, you’re missing out on some great stuff)
My debut chapbook is OUT today! Huge thank you to
@GhostCityPress
! Head to their site to download yr copy, pay whatever you’d like and maybe toss a lil gratuity in this writer’s pocket. I hope you have as much fun reading it as I did writing it:
New Brawler Unlocked: Team Taylor
Our first ever submission was also our first ever acceptance. Taylor accepted this powerful piece from
@phlat_soda
You can read the poem, an interview with the author, and why Taylor loved it on our site at
Since this whole thing is about transparency, we thought we’d take a moment to introduce the readers, like as real people.
So here is a thread to help you get to know Taylor and Martheaus, complete with embarrassing photos.
🚨New Brawler Unlocked: Team Taylor 🚨
Debut poet
@mollyrotoole
is coming out swinging with a 1-2 poem punch that’ll knock you out (okay done with the punching metaphors but seriously these two poems rock)
Need a place to publish your poetry, short stories, or art? Check out this list of 42
#litmags
that are open for submissions right now! Don't forget to follow and sign up for my email newsletter to get this list every week.
#WritingCommunity
Transparency tweet of the week:
All of the money we receive from tips/expedited subs is going toward paying writers.
We are 20% of the way toward what we need to pay a year’s worth of writers. As soon as we hit that, we’ll begin paying writers immediately!
🚨 2024 BOTN NOMINATIONS: 🚨
It’s on like Donkey Kong! We may be new but that won’t stop us from shouting our Brawlers praises
@phlat_soda
@diaz_james
Annalisa Hansford
&
@catielaura
Transparency Tuesday? (May become a series?)
We have been open for subs for 1 month and received over 100 submissions!
(We plan to publish 104 poets a year which means if we kept getting subs at this rate we can only accept around 8% of people who submit)
New cool & quirky lit mag called
@BRAWL_Lit
where you get to pick your reader. Look at this acceptance email they (specifically, Taylor) sent me. When someone actually takes the time to tell you why they love your poem! All the feels! Excited to share this one soon.😍💗
Suggestions for your weekend plans
Discover and name a new dinosaur
Submit to BRAWL
Eat pizza
Dance to Chappell Roan until the wee hours of the morn
Honestly that’s it…
Transparency Tuesday:
🧵
T&M are both MFA students which means things pick up for us in September 📚
We have decided our free feedback will be a summer special only in order to preserve our sanity during the school year. So get those free feedback subs in ASAP !!!
🚨New Brawler Unlocked: Team Martheaus 🚨
Chester has a new friend 👀 and Brawler fans have two new poems from
@whismicalraven
to dig into today. Mar showed off a lil with the “why he loved it” section so be sure to check that out too!
Turns out, when you open a lit mag, there’s a learning curve!!! Who woulda thought?!
Ok so fr tho we are moving to a Monday/Thursday publishing schedule. (Monday for team Martheaus and Thursday for team Taylor, ha get it?)
Keep on submitting folks!!!
🚨 New Brawler Unlocked: Team Taylor 🚨
Gear up for some Olympic action with a sports poem from the brilliant
@romyewing
(who also has an amazing chap out!)
If you haven’t had a chance to look at the collages yet, this tweet feels like a pretty good reason to…
What an honor it is for us to have been able to published your art James.
I'm so grateful to have 3 new collages in
@BRAWL_Lit
, much gratitude to
@martheaus
for giving them a good home. "Saint Eleanor: At The Mouth of The Great Wide Open" was made in loving memory of my late Grandmother, who well earned the nickname with her warm & all-receiving heart.
🚨New Brawler Unlocked: Team Taylor🚨
In case you thought we couldn’t be fun AND classy, here’s an ekphrastic poem
holla @ engaging with traditional poetic forms
Today’s poem is from the talented and lovely
@BethanyJarmul
(go buy her books too!)
🚨New Brawler Unlocked: Team Martheaus 🚨
Martheaus’s Texas heart swooped these two poems from Taylor’s inbox and now here they are for y’all to enjoy 💗
Tw: the first poem references the Uvalde tragedy
Somehow, y’all have managed to submit an exactly equal number to both team Taylor and team Martheaus. We’re feeling competitive. Who’s gonna tip the scale?
We are officially on Duotrope and are diligently reading and recording submissions as they come in.
We’ll be reporting statistics as soon as we can. Transparency only baby!!
Now for Taylor’s intro by Martheaus:
IN THE RED CORNER, representing the punchiest poetry from BONE VALLEY, it’s TAAYYYYYYLLLOOORRRRRRRR “THE DINO VERSE EXPERT” FRANSON-THIEL. (Add a raptor holding and round 1 fight card in your head).
Somehow, y’all have managed to submit an exactly equal number to both team Taylor and team Martheaus. We’re feeling competitive. Who’s gonna tip the scale?
🚨 New Brawler Unlocked: Team Martheaus 🚨
Had to google a Say’s Phoebe for this avatar!
Poem, bio, interview, Martheaus talking bout his love for the poem
And 🤫 (between you and me, Taylor has an upcoming poetry collection coming out with
@EmergeJournal
and it’ll make you socks wet…in the best way possible)
🚨New Brawler Unlocked: Team Martheaus 🚨
Did you know you needed an Ode to Lorelai and Rory Gilmore in your life? Well, you do.
Welllllll worth the read here:
Really proud of this ekphrastic poem published with
@BRAWL_Lit
today! At the link, you can listen to me read it & read why
@TaylorFranson
chose it. Plus, a mini interview with me about the poem, if you scroll down!
The fun part is we’re introducing each other!
Up first: Martheaus intro’d by Tay
Fortunately for him and unfortunately for Twitter/Insta, Martheaus has mostly avoided social media but you can find his work pretty much everywhere. My personal fave is at
🚨 New Brawler Unlocked: Team Taylor 🚨
Today’s poem was inspired by a song and a loved one dying from cancer (trigger warning!) but it is every bit as stunning as it is heart wrenching.
Poem, bio, interview, audio, why Tay loved it all here:
Martheaus is one of the funniest humans alive alive. You haven’t lived until you’ve heard his laugh. He’s also a damn good writer AND his workshop feedback is TOP-NOTCH. Writers, if you’re open to editorial feedback let him know because he’ll 100% make amazing suggestions.
🚨 New Brawler Unlocked: Team Taylor 🚨
We are discovering Squarespace hates prose poems but this one is worth taking the time to read!!!! (Seriously this poem is incredible but it’s def best viewed on a laptop)
TW: sexual assault
🚨 SWOOP 🚨 SWOOP 🚨
New Brawler Unlocked: Swooped by Martheaus
Did you miss us yesterday? We’re a day late getting this out but that means your Tuesday just got that much better. Go read our latest poem!!!!
🚨New Brawler Unlocked: Team Taylor 🚨
Pigs, famously known as the Mermaids of the Mud, feature heavily in this deep metaphor prose poem.
Take some time with this one.
(Squarespace hates prose poems so this is best viewed on a desktop or landscape!)
🚨New Brawler Unlocked: Team Taylor 🚨
SUE the t-Rex finds the love of her life and we think Chester should officiate the wedding!
Go read this prehistoric love poem from
@EZhang77
(best viewed on desktop or landscape).
One fun fact about Martheaus is every night before going to bed. He dances to 90’s rap. Like a full choreographed dance routine. I really feel like that tells you everything you need to know about his personality. (He has asked me to ask you all to please keep that a secret.)
1) we are sorry if this causes any inconvenience
2) free feedback will return next summer !!
3) we will still offer paid feedback options if you really want our thoughts
4) if you have ANY questions we would love to answer them!
@EmergeJournal
I’m doomed to look up to T! Not only because she’s a powerhouse poet, but she also towers over me (we look like Simone Biles and Cameron Brink). She’s also my senior (by a lot…) point is, she’s my big sis and your poems are in very worthy and safe hands with T!
Y’all T is the most amazing thing to happen to Utah since Zions. One thing you can’t take away is her determination. Poetry, marriage, bball, creating a heavy dwarf metal playlist, everything she does is with the passion of a mother bear getting her cubs across the interstate.
Nothing more American than WWE, Jesus Christ and the Devil in the flesh.
New prose poem in
@BRAWL_Lit
! Thank you to
@TaylorFranson
for your kind words posted along with the piece, plus a short interview and audio of me reading ‘Boogeyman’!
When an author opts out of including an author photo, they can opt in to us creating an Avatar for them based on their fav animal / creature. Sean asked for a baby harp seal, and we are open to name suggestions 👀
@aquietroot
Yes exactly!!! Our whole goal is to remind everyone how subjective submitting is! And to give our submitters a little bit more power in the submitting process!
Truly, though, I am so grateful to be doing this with him. Writers, your work is in incredible, intelligent and compassionate hands when you submit to him. Being on team Martheaus is a pretty good sign that you’re doing a lot of things right.
@angela_joynes
@BethanyJarmul
We aren’t mad when writers try to sneak in flash pieces shorter than like a page!! Martheaus writes fiction too so he’s a better judge.
Just pretend it’s a prose poem!
If you haven’t already submitted to
@BRAWL_Lit
, what are you doing with your life?!
(Seriously, it’s a cool concept, and their editor feedback on declines is both detailed and kind)
What else? He writes a lot about growing up poor with a single Black mother, and wields humor like a scalpel. Every time I read one of his poems I start to laugh and by the end of it, I realize I’ve actually just been crying all along.
(There’s not actually too much pressure on this. We have a thing called “swooping” which means one editor can steal a banger poem from the other. Aka we do both read all the subs)