Lumina

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

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Lumina is a literary arts journal publishing fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and speculative fiction.

Read the full guidelines at lumina-journal.com↗

Submission calls

fictionLiteraryPays: No monetary compensation.

Submissions for 2025 are open. Stories may be in any style, voice, content, language, or form and may be up to 5,000 words. Submit previously unpublished work as a single PDF.

fictionScience FictionFantasyHorrorPays: No monetary compensation.

Submissions for 2025 are open. The journal seeks speculative prose including fantasy, science fiction, horror, weird fiction, and magical realism, especially boundary-defying or innovative work. Preferred length is 1,000–5,000 words.

flashLiteraryPays: No monetary compensation.

Submissions for 2025 are open. Multiple nonfiction flash stories may be submitted, provided their combined word count does not exceed 1,000 words. Submit previously unpublished work as a single PDF.

nonfictionLiteraryPays: No monetary compensation.

Submissions for 2025 are open. Non-flash pieces must be 2,000–5,000 words; multiple flash pieces may be submitted with a combined maximum of 1,000 words. Submit previously unpublished work as a single PDF.

poetryLiteraryPays: No monetary compensation.

Submissions for 2025 are open. Submit 1 to 3 previously unpublished poems in a single PDF of no more than 5 pages; the issue has no specific theme.

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