With every new year comes a craving or mild pressure to set new goals, birth new hopes, and experience [new] growth.
Writers are not exempt from this positive culture. We have had dialogues with writers whose goals for the year include: write more, get published, live a little longer, win prices, seek highs, go-down-low, better their craft, bless nights with candlelight and tangled pants, etc.
We discovered that writers who desire to get published and receive financial remuneration from their crafts, often find it difficult to access suitable literary homes for their works. Here at Arts lounge, we have curated a playlist of ten places you can send your works to this month, and get paid upon acceptance or publication.

The 10 Places where writers can submit their works

1. Adi Magazine: Adi magazine focuses on political fiction that “unearths new worlds, that plumb interior
   lives alongside external conflicts, that satirize and fantasize, that disturb, beguile, challenge, surprise,
   ignite.”
   Payment: 2,500 words or more — $500
   Flash fiction — $200
   Deadline: 15th January 2022. Visit https://adimagazine.com

2: Shenandoah: They are looking for short stories and creative nonfiction, poetry, novel excerpts, and comics.
“Shenandoah aims to showcase a wide variety of voices and perspectives in terms of gender identity,
age, class. We love publishing new writers; publishing history is not a prerequisite either.”
Payment: Poem — $100 (per poem)
Prose — $100 (per 1000 words of prose up to $500)
Comics — $50 (per page of comics)
Deadline: 15th January, 2022. Visit https://shenandoahliterary.org

3. Look2 Essays: They are looking for essays on underappreciated or overlooked writers.
   Genre: Essays
   Payment: $45 per page (up to $450)
   Deadline: 15th January, 2022. Visit https://www.pshares.org/submit/look2-essay
4. Women Artists Datebook: inviting all interested female artists and poets to submit works on the
   theme “Peace and Justice.”
   Payment: Art — $200
   Poetry — $70
   Deadline: 15th January, 2022. Visit https://www.syracuseculturalworkers.com/products/women-artists-2021-datebook
5. Event:
   Genre: Fiction, Poetry, & book reviews.
   Payment: Poetry —$40 (per page)
   Prose — $35 (per page)
   Deadline: 31 st January, 2022. Visit https://www.eventmagazine.ca/
6. Nashville Review:
   Genre: Fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, comics, and translations.
   Payment: Prose — $100
   Art — $100
   Poetry — $25
   Deadline: 31 st January, 2022. Visit https://nashvillereview.submittable.com/submit
7. Midnight & Indigo: Are soliciting works from/by black women
   Genre: Fiction & personal essays (First person POV)
   Payment: Fiction — $50 – $150
   Essays — $50
   Deadline: 31 st January, 2022. Visit https://midnightindigo.submittable.com/submit
8. Paper Lanterns
   Genre: Poetry, short stories & flash fiction
   Payment: Short story — €75
   Poetry — €50 Flash fiction — €50 Deadline: 31 st January, 2022. Visit https://paperlanternslit.com/

9. Belmont Story review:
   Genre: Fiction, nonfiction & poetry
   Payment: Prose — $50 – $100 (For fiction & nonfiction)
   Poetry — $25 – $50
   Deadline: 31 st January, 2021. Visit https://belmontstoryreview.wixsite.com/website
10. 34 Orchard:
    Genre: Fiction, poetry
    Payment: $50
    Deadline: 31 st January, 2022. Visit https://34orchard.com

Best of lucks as you submit. Have a wonderful year!