The Smart Search List of the Day is: Paying Fee-Free General Literary Poems feat. Baltimore Review Takahē Magazine Guernica Magazine Black Fox Lit The Lascaux Review et al. duotrope.com/search/smart/p…

Last chance to send your writing to these places before their submission window closes at the end of the month! Submission info here: chillsubs.com/lists/pay_no_f… #WritingCommunity

Happy National Flash Fiction Day! Check out all the flash on FlashFlood. New stories popping up every 5 to 10 minutes.

Our summer 2025 issue is live! Thanks to everyone who made this issue possible. baltimorereview.org

We asked you where the cool kids are submitting these days and here’s what you said! Find everything you need to submit here: chillsubs.com/lists/cool_kid… & drop some names for part 2 👇

“This is a story I’ve carried for a long time. It’s about Bertha Murphy, but it’s also about my mother, and about the strange, intuitive pull I’ve always felt toward the supernatural. I’m grateful to finally give it shape on the page.” - Fay Sachpatzidis baltimorereview.org/summer_2025/co…

Now open for submissions and reading for our fall issue. Knock our socks off. baltimorereview.org

Congratulations to all the CLMP members who published new issues in July! Find your next favorite writers in After Dinner Conversation, Baltimore Review, Chestnut Review, DirtbagWriting (Closed), Ecotone Magazine, Georgia Review, and more magazines: clmp.org/news/july-2025…

Some places to send your writing this week, or next week, or never but its fine because we love you anyway 🖤 To submit: chillsubs.com/lists/Recently… #writingcommunity

"I wanted to show how family connections strengthen regardless of outside pressure. No matter the climate, the people, or the distance, I like to think we can always find home in the life around us." - Andrea Figueroa-Irizarry baltimorereview.org/summer_2025/co…

We'll have a table at the Baltimore Book Festival. September 13 and 14. Locals, mark your calendars. baltimorebookfest.com

Get ready for our fall issue special micro category: 400 words max, submit one or two, micro submission period (9/1 – 9/14) and response by 9/30. Payment at our usual rate. Because we love the microscopic. baltimorereview.org

The Smart Search List of the Day is: Fee-Free Literary Essays feat. Baltimore Review Blue Earth Review filling Station The Adroit Journal Five on the Fifth @offassignment Past Ten The Brussels Review et al. duotrope.com/search/smart/n…

Baltimore Review's special micro category is now open and closes Sept. 14. Responses by Sept. 30. Hope to see some stunners from the micro masters. baltimorereview.submittable.com/submit/334143/…

Ready for Day 2 of Baltimore Book Festival!

Baltimore Review's Winter Contest is open! Wow them with how you can turn 1k words into pure magic. Open to flash fiction, flash CNF, & prose poems. $400 & publication awarded/each category. Deadline: November 30. $8 fee. #writingcontest Baltimore Review newpages.com/guide-submissi…

Baltimore Writers' Conference is November 15, 2025. Register before October 24 for the early-bird registration rate. Always an excellent conference! towson.edu/cla/department…

This is the third game of TELEPHONE and consists of 1,395 individual, interconnected, and original works by artists from 930 cities in 65 countries. Including many wonderful writers. Kudos to everyone who made this huge ekphrastic art project possible! telephonegame.art

Congratulations to Donna Vorreyer! A wonderful poet. You can purchase her book here: sundress-publications.square.site/product/unrive… SundressPublications

Happy to announce that Mandy Moe Pwint Tu will serve as the final judge for our winter contest--prose poem, flash fiction, flash creative nonfiction. Contest deadline: Nov. 30. moepwinttu.com