The Lit Nerds

Accepts fiction in any genre, including contemporary, historical, and other-world settings, provided it is well-written, enjoyable, and hopeful; there is no word-count limit, with a sweet spot of 700–3,000 words. Submissions are currently accepted by email.

Accepts only specified creative nonfiction forms: Five-Star Reviews, Love Letters, and Culture, Craft & Criticism. Essays should be positive, hopeful, uplifting, or encouraging. Submissions are currently accepted by email.

Five-Star Reviews should combine personal experience, informational facts, and cultural relevance, focusing on hope, humor, heart, or a combination; there is no word-count limit, with a sweet spot of 700–2,000 words.

Love Letters are part essay and part prose poem, addressed to a person, place, pet, object, or something else, expressing wholesome love and adoration in well-crafted poetic prose; ideal length is 300–500 words.

Culture, Craft & Criticism seeks well-thought-out, well-researched essays on writing craft and the relationship between literature or other media, culture, and humanity; essays should be positive, hopeful, uplifting, or encouraging.

Seeks hopeful, joyful, or uplifting poems with strong language, imagery, and emotion; welcomes many forms and styles, but probably will not publish poems over two pages unless phenomenal. Submissions are currently accepted by email.

The special Bad Poetry Day call invites poems; the page provides no separate word-count, fee, payment, or submission-window details for this call.