Susurrus ★Work published here has won or been selected for: Best Small Fictions.

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

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Susurrus is a literary arts magazine of the American South publishing poetry, flash, fiction, and creative nonfiction three times a year.

Submission calls

fictionLiteraryEligibility requirementsCloses Nov 15Pays: No payment.

Open to: Artists must be 18 or older; submissions are accepted from across the American South.

Submissions are open October 1-November 15 for the Winter 2026 issue. Fiction may be up to 6,000 words, with up to three pieces per period. No payment is offered.

flashLiteraryEligibility requirementsCloses Nov 15Pays: No payment.

Open to: Artists must be 18 or older; submissions are accepted from across the American South.

Submissions are open October 1-November 15 for the Winter 2026 issue. Flash fiction and nonfiction may be up to 1,000 words, with up to three pieces per period. No payment is offered.

nonfictionLiteraryEligibility requirementsCloses Nov 15Pays: No payment.

Open to: Artists must be 18 or older; submissions are accepted from across the American South.

Submissions are open October 1-November 15 for the Winter 2026 issue. Creative nonfiction may be up to 6,000 words, with up to three pieces per period. No payment is offered.

poetryLiteraryEligibility requirementsCloses Nov 15Pays: No payment.

Open to: Artists must be 18 or older; submissions are accepted from across the American South.

Submissions are open October 1-November 15 for the Winter 2026 issue. Submit no more than three previously unpublished poems per period; each poem may be up to three pages. No payment is offered.

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