Club Plum Literary Journal

Open now for flash fiction, nonfiction, other work, and poetry.

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Club Plum Literary Journal is a quarterly online literary journal publishing experimental, lyrical, and genre-bending writing, including a themed literary horror issue.

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Read the full guidelines at clubplumliteraryjournal.com↗

Submission calls

flashFantasyPays: No payment.

Open for the January 2027 issue. Send one flash-fiction piece of no more than 800 words; lyrical, wondrous, fierce, reality-skating, and arresting prose are welcome. Include a short bio and an author link.

nonfictionPays: No payment.

Open for the January 2027 issue. Send one lyric essay or creative nonfiction work of up to 3,000 words; flash, segmented, braided, hermit crab, hybrid, micro-nonfiction, and hard-to-classify short pieces are welcome. Include a short bio and an author link.

otherFantasyPays: No payment.

Open for the January 2027 issue. Send up to three genre-bending or language-bending hybrid works of up to 3,000 words. Include an author link.

poetryPays: No payment.

Open for the January 2027 issue. Send up to three prose poems; lined poetry is not currently published. The journal seeks musical, surprising, strange, and emotionally resonant prose poetry. Include a short bio and an author link.

fictionHorror

Submissions are closed for the Annual Literary Horror Issue, coming out in the October 2026 issue.

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