www.arroyoliteraryreview.com (go to website for submissions guidelines) Arroyo Literary Review is now accepting submissions of poetry and fiction (7,000 word max). Arroyo looks to publish bold, honest writing from Northern California and beyond. To learn more about Arroyo visit www.arroyoliteraryreview.com. Our reading period for the third issue will end May 30, 2010.

The idea for Borealis – Northern Notes sprung out of an abiding love affair with Nordic/Northern literature, and a passionate interest in creative translation. Although a large portion of the journal will be dedicated to the promotion of new and exciting translations from the Nordic languages into English, we also seek to encourage creative writing connected to or touched by the Northern realms. For our inaugural issue we invite creative...

www.cra.sh Crash is an online literary journal celebrating the spontaneous, amorphous, and surreal. Embracing spontaneity, we consider a variety of genres from across the literary spectrum. Honoring amorphism, we support liberation of literature from boundaries imposed by traditional forms. Finally, Crash brings a diversity of enjoyable styles together, creating a surrealistic effect unique to each issue. Crash Issue #1 reading period:...

The editors are pleased to announce a call for submissions for A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry. We are seeking poems that work within the literary tradition of persona poetry: poems written as dramatic monologues, whose speakers employ masks, or whose character and voice are different from the poet’s own. Please submit up to 5 unpublished poems. We will also consider poems whose rights have reverted...

www.youtube.com/shapeofabox Shape of a Box, YouTube’s First Literary Magazine will be open for submissions during the month of October 2009 for our 2nd year of publishing our video literary magazine. Our detailed guidelines are available at shapeofabox.wordpress.com/guidelines We are seeking: poetry, fiction, non-fiction, stage/screen, graphic/comic work, cover art, reviews, interviews all under 5 minutes and/or 1000 words. If you have...

Versal wants your poetry, prose, and art for its eighth issue due out in May 2010. Internationally acclaimed literary annual published in Amsterdam, bringing together the world’s urgent, involved & unexpected. See website for guidelines and to submit: versal.wordsinhere.com. Inquiries (only) can be directed to: versal@wordsinhere.com. Deadline: January 15, 2010.