25 Literary Magazines That Accept Work Combining Text and Image

More and more literary magazines are accepting work that combines text and image. Here are twenty-five online and print journals interested in comics, graphic storytelling, visual poetry, erasure, schematics, collage, and hybrid/experimental forms in-between. We’ve included information on how to submit, deadlines, reading fees, and payment for contributors. Be sure to check the submission guidelines for each publication to learn what to include in your submission!

This roundup was posted on October 7, 2021. You can check submission deadlines for each publication via their website.

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A Velvet Giant is an online literary journal and “a collective space for work that exists outside the boundaries of genre.”

A Velvet Giant accepts submissions on a rolling basis. There’s no submission fee, but there is a donation option. It pays contributors $20.

Send all formats, including words, recordings, visual art, and hybrid forms to the editors at avelvetgiant@gmail.com. For more information, check the submission guidelines.

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The Believer is an online and print magazine that publishes five times a year. It publishes essays, interviews, long-form journalism, comics, and schema.

The Believer’s comics submissions are open year-round. It has no submission fee. The Believer pays between $250 and $1000 for interviews and featured stories, but payment for comics and illustrations are not specified.

Send illustrations and nonfiction comics to Lille Allen at lille.allen@unlv.edu. For more information, check the submission guidelines.

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Black Warrior Review is an online and print literary magazine created by University of Alabama MFA students. It publishes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics, and art biannually.

BWR’s submissions for comics, art, and nonfiction are open year-round. There is no fee for comic submissions. BWR offers a one-year subscription and a lump-sum fee for all works published. It pays royalty payments to regular-submission print contributors between $100 and $220, but the payment amount for art and comics are not specified on the website.

Send comics, sequential art, and graphic essays, stories, and poems through Submittable or by mail. For more information, check the submission guidelines.

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Cosmonauts Ave is an online literary magazine run by POC, queer, and trans folks dedicated to elevating and amplifying underrepresented voices. It publishes essays, poetry, fiction, visual art, and hybrid work.

Cosmonauts Ave’s submissions are open year-round. There’s no submission fee, but there is a donation option. It is not able to pay contributors at this time.

Send hybrid genre, multimedia, graphic stories, and comics through Submittable under the X-genre category. For more information, check the submission guidelines on Submittable.

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ctrl + v is a biannual online journal committed to accessibility and exploring the intersection of poetry and collage.

ctrl + v’s submissions are open year-round. There is no submission fee. We found no mention of payment to contributors on the website.

Send “all forms of collage—digital, scissor-and-glue, mixed media, fabric, sound” to submit@ctrlvjournal.com with a brief third-person bio. For more information, check the submission guidelines.

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DIAGRAM is an electronic journal of text and art interested in “the labeling and taxonomy of things.” It publishes essays, poetry, reviews, schematics, mixed media, and hybrid work.

DIAGRAM’s submissions are open year-round. There is no submission fee. It is not able to pay contributors.

Send all genres, including image and “indeterminate” work, through the Submission Manager. For more information, check the submission guidelines.

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Diode is a triannual online journal that publishes original poetry as well as book reviews, interviews, and essays on poetics.

Diode’s submissions are open year-round. There is no submission fee. We found no mention of payment to contributors on the website.

Send all kinds of poetry including visual, erasure, found, and experimental to submit@diodepoetry.com. For more information, check the submission guidelines.

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Dream Pop Journal is a biannual online literary journal for experimental, non-narrative work. “We are interested in lyric memoirists, cross-genre experimenters, fearless inventors, and poets who dream in made-up languages.”

Submissions are open year-round. There is no submission fee, but there is a donation option. We found no mention of payment to contributors on the website.

Send erasure and visual poetry through the Dream Pop website.

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Ecotone is a literary magazine founded at the University of North Carolina Wilmington publishing place-based work. It publishes prose, poetry, art, and comics.

Ecotone’s submissions are currently closed but will reopen from January 26 to February 2, 2022. There is a $3 submission fee through Submittable, but after your submission is read you’ll receive a $3 discount off a year's subscription to the magazine. Current subscribers and BIPOC writers may submit for no fee through Submittable starting January 26, 2022. Anyone can submit by mail for free. There is mention of payment to contributors on the website, but it does not specify an amount.

Send comics through Submittable or by mail. For more information, check the submission guidelines.

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ENTROPY is an online magazine and community space for writers, especially writers of marginalized identities. ENTROPY publishes essays, fiction, reviews, and comics on a diverse array of topics.

ENTROPY’s The New Comics series is open for submissions. There is no submission fee. It is not able to pay contributors.

Send comics to Keith McCleary at keith@entropymag.org. For more information, check the submission guidelines.

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FIVE:2:ONE is a quarterly print journal of art, poetry, fiction, nonfiction, reviews, interviews, and more. FIVE:2:ONE also publishes an online daily journal called #thesideshow of flash fiction, micropoetry, art, and micrononfiction.

FIVE:2:ONE’s submissions are open year-round, but occasionally close to catch up on reading. There’s no submission fee, but there is a donation option. We found no mention of payment to contributors on the website.

Send comics and “all forms of experimental weird babies” including visual and erasure poetry through the “Art” and “Poetry” categories on Submittable. For more information, check the submission guidelines.

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Ghost Proposal is a digital journal interested in “work that does not sit comfortably inside genre labels.” It publishes poetry, essays, hybrid, cross-genre, and post-genre work, including mixed media pieces.

Ghost Proposal’s general submissions are currently closed. We found no mention of submission fees or payment for contributors on the website.

When the submissions reopen (check back later in 2021), send mixed media and hybrid work through Submittable. For more information, check the submission guidelines.

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Gigantic Sequins is an annual print literary arts journal publishing fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, art, and comics.

Gigantic Sequins’ Arts & Comics category is open year-round. There is no submission fee. Contributors are compensated with a copy of the issue their piece is published in.

Send black and white art and comics through Submittable. For more information, check the submission guidelines.

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Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts is a print and online journal run by students at the University of Houston's English Department. It publishes poetry, fiction, nonfiction, critical art writing, and visual art.

Gulf Coast’s submissions to its Online Exclusives are currently open. It is open for submissions to its print journal from September 1 to March 1. There is a $3 submission fee. They pay $50 per page for poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, but do not specifically payment for visual work.

Send a query to EditorInChief@GulfCoastMag.org for graphic storytelling and visual narratives that are too large for upload on Submittable. For more information, check the submission guidelines.

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Hobart is a website and print journal that publishes a wide range of genres including individual comics and serial comics.

Hobart’s comics submissions are currently closed while it catches up on reading. There’s no submission fee, but there is a donation option. It is not able to pay contributors.

When submissions reopen, send comics through Submittable. For more information, check the submission guidelines.

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Honey Literary is a BIPOC-focused biannual literary journal and 501(c)(3) literary arts organization built by women of color. Honey Literary publishes comics, hybrid work, erotic lit, interviews, essays, poetry, and more by BIPOC writers.

Honey Literary’s submissions are open from September 1, 2021 to December 1, 2021. There is no submission fee. We found no mention of payment to contributors on the website.

Send “​​genre-nasty” comic submissions to comics@honeyliterary.com and hybrid submissions, including “invented forms,” to hybrid@honeyliterary.com. For more information, check the submission guidelines.

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The Indianapolis Review is an online quarterly review publishing art, poetry, and visual poetry.

The Indianapolis Review’s submissions are currently open. There is no submission fee. It is not able to pay contributors at this time.

Send submissions of any “school or style of poetry and art” to theindianapolisreview@gmail.com. For more information, check the submission guidelines.

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Narrative is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that publishes stories, poems, essays, graphic stories, and cartoons, and visual alternative-format works online.

Narrative’s graphic art submissions are open year-round. Submitting a cartoon or graphic art costs $20. Narrative pays between $25 to $1,000 for a number of different genres, but it does not specify payment for graphic work.

Send “single-panel cartoons, comic strips, and serialized graphic novels, as well as alternative-format works that focus on the visual” through Submittable. For more information, check the submission guidelines.

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Nashville Review is a triannual online magazine run by MFA students at Vanderbilt University. It publishes all forms of storytelling including comics, art, fiction, nonfiction, poetry, reviews, translation, and interviews.

NR’s comics and art submissions are open year-round. There is no submission fee and it pays contributors $25 per poem and $100 for prose and art pieces.

Send “anything from one-page comics to excerpts from graphic novels” through Submittable. For more information, check the submission guidelines.

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New Delta Review is an online literary and arts journal produced by graduate students in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Louisiana State University. NDR publishes original fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, reviews, interviews, digital media, and artwork.

NDR’s art and digital media submission are currently closed, but its general submissions are open. NDR has a $3 submission fee. They are not able to pay contributors.

When submissions reopen, send art and digital media including “visual/concrete poems, collage with text, comics, interactive writing, or anything else that challenges the borders of medium” through Submittable. For more information, check the submission guidelines.

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The Offing is an online literary magazine publishing art, comics, fiction, poetry, essays, and cross-genre work that “pushes literary and artistic forms and conventions.”

The Offings comics submissions are currently open. There is no submission fee for 2021. Contributors are paid between $25 and $100, depending on the genre, length, and number of works published.

Send “comic strips, single-panel cartoons, excerpts from graphic novels, comic zines, and experimental graphic storytelling” through Submittable. For more information, check the submission guidelines on Submittable.

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Paperbag is an annual online literary arts journal interested in portfolios of “poetry, visual art, sound, collaboration, and experiment.”

Paperbag’s submissions are currently closed. There is no submission fee. We found no mention of payment to contributors on the website.

When the submissions reopen, send hybrid work through Submittable. For more information check the submission guidelines.

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petrichor is an online journal that welcomes “underrepresented voices and unheard approaches to poetics and the melding of text & image.”

petrichor’s submissions for Issue 19 on the theme of “Documentary Poetics” are open from October 1 to December 1. There is no submission fee. We found no mention of payment to contributors on the website.

Send visual poetry and video poetics to petrichorpoems@gmail.com. For more information, check the submission guidelines.

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Pretty Cool Poetry Thing is a “lit mag, in a way, sort of.” It publishes one poem a month that is often interactive or makes use of the magazine’s digital format.

PCPT’s submissions are currently open. There is no submission fee, but it does have a Patreon. PCPT pays contributors $30.

Send all poetry submissions with a brief pitch for the digital aspects to prettycoolpoetrything@gmail.com. For more information, check the submission guidelines.

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TIMBER is a biannual journal of poetry, prose, interviews, reviews, and visual text-work. It is interested in work that “pushes against boundaries: genre-bend, build or break form, confront the rules and voices of the canon.”

TIMBER’s submissions for the Winter Issue are open from October 1st to December 1st. Summer Issue submissions are open from March 1st to May 1st. There is no submission fee. We found no mention of payment to contributors on the website.

Send text-based art & experiments through Submittable. For more information, check the submission guidelines.

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