100+ Publications by Lit Mag Love Alums

Every piece listed here belongs to someone who was once, at some point, unsure. Unsure if the draft was ready. Unsure if it was worth sending. Unsure if there was even a place for it. And still, they kept going. They revised. They opened documents again. They pressed send.

What followed, in these cases, was publication, recognition, or simply a next step on the long, uneven path of making a writing life.

This archive holds 100 of those moments.

And note that what looks like a single acceptance is almost always the visible edge of something much longer: drafting, waiting, returning, trying again.

You don’t need to read this list in order. You don’t need to finish it. Let it be something you move through slowly, or quickly, or not at all. Let it be evidence that writing does not move in a straight line, and that “yes” is rarely the beginning of the story.

If you’re here because you’re building your own submission practice, I hope you find something steady in what follows. (Think of it as a low-pressure recognition of process!)

A sample of twelve pieces

I’ll start with a bite-sized list so you can scan what’s possible in twelve pieces that serve as an appetizer to our 100 list. I chose these to show as many different writers and lit mags as possible, some of which are delightfully niche.

1. “Three Beats for the Broken Hearted”, Eunoia Review, by Agata Antonow
2. oracle bone, Augur Magazine Issue 4.2, by Ellen Chang-Richardson
3. “Nothing to Worry About”, The /t3mz/ Review, by Nicole Chatelain
4. “Rearview”, JMWW, by Erin Hogarth
5. “Good Girl”, Longridge Review, by Lina Lau
6. “A Sudden Gust of Wind”, Cleaver, by Darcy Lohmiller
7. “The Fragility of Bowls”, Hippocampus, by Gwen Martin (RIP Gwen)
8. “Fly Past The Sun”, Killer Nashville Magazine, by Denisha Naidoo
9. “we lifted him”, Five Minute Lit, by Laurel Parry
10. “Pareidolia”, CRAFT, by Kelly Pedro
11. “Little Packages”, River Teeth, by Jennifer Robinson
12. “Grievances of a Young Midwife”, The Deadlands, by Lacey Yong

The Epic 100-Publications List (alphabetical by title)

Here are 100 MORE lit mag and book publications, along with contest placements, all by Lit Mag Love alumni. Many of the links will take you directly to the writer’s work, or to a place where you can order the journal or book. Others lead to contest announcements.

Please know that this list isn’t exhaustive! There are many more publications I could have included here, while I also aimed not to overlook any alum. (If you feel missed, please reach out to update my publication records!) Also, a few of the journals have closed. (Sigh.) In some cases, I was able to find archived issues or links about the publication:

1. “3 Recipes for Cabbage from My Grandmother”, The Gravity of the Thing, by Agata Antonow
2. “A CLASSICAL EDUCATION”, JMWW, by Lacey Yong
3. “A Day With Wawa”, Tangled Locks Journal, by Kate Bird
4. “Am I Still Bisexual? A Quiz”, Bi Women Quarterly, by Yolande House
5. “Angakkuq”, Aurora Awards, by Shantell Powell
6. “The Anxious GERD Diet”, Plenitude, by Yolande House
7. “Archival Record AN1940s”, The Malahat Review, Constance Rook Prize shortlist, by Kate Bird
8. “A Song for the Generations”, Syncopation Literary Journal, by Lori Sebastianutti
9. “A-Beta (Amyloid beta)”, untethered magazine, by Lana Crossman
10. “Baby Hands”, Poetry Pause, by Terri Gower
11. “Black Raspberries”, Melted Butter Magazine, by Pamela Mosher
12. Blood Belies, Buckrider Books (Wolsak & Wynn), by Ellen Chang-Richardson
13. “The Bouncy Colon Show”, JMWW, by Laurel Parry
14. “Broken Glass”, Brilliant Flash Fiction, by Agata Antonow
15. Buoyant, at Last, Rose Garden Press, by Lana Crossman
16. “Call Me Later”, Alison Wearing (Amy Award), by Hilary Fair
17. “Cantonese Lessons for a Foreign Daughter-in-Law”, The New Quarterly, by Danica Longair
18. “Cello Duet”, Lowestoft Chronicle Issue 50, by Kimberly Peterson
19. “Cherry Roots”, October Hill Magazine, by Agata Antonow
20. “Coming down from Mt. Kinabalu”, flo. Literary Magazine, by Susan Johnston
21. “COLOR CODED”, Compressed Journal of Creative Arts, by Mary Kuna
22. “Crane”, Prairie Fire, by Crystal Randall Barnett
23. “Current Events”, Funicular Magazine, by Genie MacLeod
24. “Dancing Little Marionettes”, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, by Megan Beadle
25. “Dear Mx. Ortiz”, Compressed Journal of Creative Arts, by Natalie Schriefer
26. “Delivering the Tragic”, Understorey Magazine, by Set L. Shuter
27. “Descansos”, Entropy, by Sabrina Reeves
28. “The Dingle Peninsula”, Riddle Fence, by Laurel Parry
29. “Disability Tax”, The Fiddlehead Issue 301, by Yolande House
30. “Driver”, Scribble, by Agata Antonow
31. “Duck Duck Duck”, Amazing Stories, by Denisha Naidoo
32. “The Family Company”, Defenestration, by Agata Antonow
33. “for my husband on Father’s Day”, The Humber Lit Review, by Catherine Lewis
34. “Ghabrahat (Nervous)”, Five Minute Lit, by Mridula Morgan
35. Girl Running, Thistledown Press, by Diana Tegenkamp
36. “The Ghosts of Forests Past”, ALOCASIA, by Shantell Powell
37. “Hostage Letters From My Body”, LIGHT4PH, by Agata Antonow
38. “How a Sex Book Helped Me Overcome Writers’ Block”, Brevity, by Louise Julig
39. “I began baking Christmas gingerbread in the summer — hoping to unlock my relationship with my parents”, CBC First Person, by Agata Antonow
40. “In Art as in Life”, Queen’s Quarterly, by Lori Sebastianutti
41. “In Defence of Grief”, Writer’s Guild of Alberta, by Jessica Waite
42. “Into Stone”, Weird Lit Magazine, by Agata Antonow
43. “Invisible Walls: A Decentred Hermit Crab Sticky Note Narrative”, The Fiddlehead, by Shirley Harshenin
44. “Irregularities”, Held Magazine, by Hege Jakobsen Lepri
45. “k.d. lang Performing Barefoot”, Poetry Pause, by Pamela Mosher
46. “Kintsugi”, Sleet Magazine, by Astrid Egger
47. “The Last Days”, Empty House Press, by Malgosia Halliop
48. “Lesser phenomena”, FERAL: A Journal of Poetry and Art, by Lana Crossman
49. “The Lifecycle of a Writer”, Breathing Space Creative Blog, by Lori Sebastianutti
50. “Liked”, Polar Borealis, by Agata Antonow
51. “Mariah Carey Was Right”, The Creative Nonfiction Podcast Issue 3: Heroes, by Lori Sebastianutti
52. “Mooning”, Bywords, by Kimberly Peterson
53. “Moonlight in the Palm of My Hand”, The Spirits Have Nothing to Do with Us: New Chinese Canadian Fiction, by Ellen Chang-Richardson
54. “Mother, Mary”, The New Quarterly, by Lori Sebastianutti
55. “My Brother and the Bulls”, Levitate Magazine Issue 5, by Julia Laurie
56. “My Writing Space”, The New Quarterly, by Kerrie Penney
57. “Newsie”, Hamilton Public Library Short Works Prize, by Agata Antonow
58. “Nuliajuk and the Birds”, Strange Horizons, by Shantell Powell
59. “Oh, The Places You’ll Go!” (How Teaching Gets in Your Blood), Porcupine Literary, by Karen Zey
60. “Our Father, Who Art Asleep”, The Writers’ Union of Canada, by A.L. Bishop
61. “The Passing Game”, National Magazine Awards (Nominees), by Jennifer Robinson
62. “The Qalupalik”, Flash Fiction Online, by Shantell Powell
63. “Pony”, ZO Magazine (Decennelia Contest), by Shantell Powell
64. “Pregnancy Test”, The Headlight Review, by Julia Laurie
65. “Proof”, Short Story Town, by Alison Gadsby
66. “Pyrocene”, Emerge Literary Journal, by Shantell Powell
67. “Recordings of Truths and Facts”, Humber Literary Review, by Kelly S. Thompson
68. “Red Canna”, The Ekphrastic Review, by Nicole Chatelain
69. “Ruskalka”, The Icarus Writing Collective, by Agata Antonow
70. “Salvage”, perhappened (also selected for Best Microfiction 2022), by Lacey Yong
71. “Shame Catcher”, Spry Literary Magazine, by Kimberly Peterson
72. “She Leaves”, Reckon Review, by Jennifer Robinson
73. “The Solitude Booth”, midnight & indigo Issue 12, by Olwen Wilson
74. “Social Clues”, The Nasiona, by Eve Krakow
75. “Son of Many Questions; Corn Moon Wanes; and Crackle of Moon”, These Small Hours Chapbook, by Kimberly Peterson
76. “Spinning on a Fish Hook”, Hippocampus Magazine, by Lina Lau
77. “Spring comes a garden”, This Might Help, by Kerrie Penney
78. “St. Lawrence”, Prairie Fire MRB Creative Non-Fiction Contest (third place), by Kate Bird
79. “(step) Mother’s Day”, untethered magazine, by Andrea Martineau
80. “Strife”, Dreamers Creative Writing, by Alison Gadsby
81. “SUNDAY MORNING AT CITY BURGER, 1978”, JMWW, by Michele Genest
82. “Summer Evenings After Dinner”, The Humber Lit Review, by Eve Krakow
83. “The Swimming Hole”, Five on the Fifth, by Candace Webb
84. “Teach Me”, Parentheses Journal Issue 12, by Malgosia Halliop
85. “THE BIRDS: A POEM”, Entropy, by Kimberly Peterson
86. “Third Ear Acoustics”, Pinhole Poetry, by Kimberly Peterson
87. “Things I Did While Amazonia Burned”, Grist Issue 14, by Hege Jakobsen Lepri
88. “Three Feelings Walk Into a Bar”, The New Quarterly, by Kerrie Penney
89. “Three Things I Didn’t Pack in My Husband’s Suitcase”, Spotlong Review, by Agata Antonow
90. “Tongues”, Bywords, by Kimberly Peterson
91. “Two Dishes”, Voices From the Fold (FOLD 2022 program), by Agata Antonow
92. “Unmasked”, Five Minute Lit, by Molly Freedenberg
93. “Vandellia Cirrhosa”, October Hill Magazine, by Julia Laurie
94. “Wake”, The Shore, by Anna Pele
95. “Wildfire Season”, Federation of BC Writers, by Shirley Harshenin
96. “The Weight of Loon”, Mom Egg Review, by Gwen Martin
97. The Widow’s Guide to Dead Bastards, Simon & Schuster (Atria), by Jessica Waite
98. Worldly Girls, Bookhug Press, by Tamara Jong
99. “Your Contract Will Not Be Renewed (And You Have Two Months to Leave Job/Apartment/Country)”, The Fiddlehead, by Yolande House
100. Zipless, 845 Press, by Catherine Lewis