Peatsmoke Journal

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Online literary journal committed to diverse voices, accessibility, and to writers. Fiction, nonfiction, poems, flash, hybrid, art. peatsmokejournal.com

Congratulations! "Whale Song Lullabies" BY TOMMY DEAN SELECTED FOR WIGLEAF TOP 50 "He's a bridge and she's the boat, and gravity hungers to bring them together."
Printmaking art stamped onto a page from a novel depicts a crow against a block of yellow paint that partially covers the text on the page. Multiple circular red designs go over the bird and the text
Fall 2022 Poetry Contest Winner "God has nothing" by Shannan Mann "God has nothing to do with this. It is always time that hurts us, chisel after chisel, a slow-dance in sync to a forest fire somewhere, a still juncture of space and death where it forms keloids that could be tumors but are in fact armour, a sign your body healed much more than the injury justified." Art: "Hope" by Victoria Smith Yellow caption: Submit Now: Summer 2026 Editor's Prize Contest Submissions open June 15-July 15 $12 Entry Fee $500 Prize!
Fall 2022 Fiction Contest Winner "The Parable of Eleanor Perkins and Her Limp" by Joe Johnson "This was how normal people with normal knees walked: without arousal, without the constant teasing and pricking and stimulation coursing up the thigh, without having to change underwear two or three times a day. It was nice to be normal." Photo caption: "Katrin in a Field of Flowers" by Christopher Paul Brown Yellow text box: Submit Now- Summer 2026 Editor's Prize Contest Submissions Open June 15-July 15th $12 Prize Entry $500 Prize!
Painting of a meadow in shades of yellow and green with tall grasses in the foreground.
"I'll Be Waiting" by Ani King chosen for the Monarch Queer Literary Awards! "...I wanted to touch your hand that was touching your collar, I wanted to touch your collar that was touching your neck, I wanted to touch your neck." -Excerpt from "I'll Be Waiting", published in our Spring 2025 Issue
We are pleased to announce Peatsmoke is now paying contributors!
Best of Net 2026 Nominations Peatsmoke Journal
2025 Summer Editor's Prize Poetry Winner: "The Odds" by Emily Portillo. Finalists: Sean Cho A. for "A cube who is growing. and growing unsure of himself. #4" and Sarah Moore for "Vampire Wife" Flash Winner: "Orange Juice" by David Cohen. Finalists: Rosaleen Lynch for "Bodies of Water", Eileen Frankel Tomarchio for "Sad Library Things", and Kim Magowan for "On Her Way to the Corner Store" Fiction Winner: "Teeth in All the Wrong Places" by Emely Taveras. Finalists: Emily Drew for "Terminal Break", Erin Striff for "Sustainable Living", and Gretta Trafficante for "Penny's Head" Congratulations to all the winners, and we thank everyone for their submissions! Sincerely, Peatsmoke Journal
Congratulations! "Sticks and Stones" by Jennifer S. Lange Chosen for Best of Net 2025
Color photo of the flowering weed, Common Teasel. One of the flowering heads is being pollinated by a butterfly and a bumble bee.
Peatsmoke Journal 2025 Summer Editor's Prize Contest What can I submit? Flash Fiction Poetry Winner Receives $350 and publication in Peatsmoke Journal! When? July 1- August 1, 2025 Entry fee: $12 All entries will be considered for publication! For more information, please visit our website! www.peatsmokejournal.com
Art: "Memory of Bliss" by Lindy Giusta Winner! "Corn Soup" By Sammi Chiyao Selected for the 2025 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers Congratulations Peatsmoke Original "Now I understood why Mama's animosity sprang vicious and unbidden."
A lone oak tree stands near a fence line in a field full of long, dry grass. On the other side of the fence, large clouds linger low in the sky.
Peatsmoke is accepting submissions! Send us your poetry, fiction, flash, nonfiction, and art by following the "Submit" tab on our website! March 15-31!
Peatsmoke Journal Best Small Fiction 2025 Nomincations "A List of Bodies" by K.M. McCorkendal "Aftermath" by Elina Kumra "The Last Time I Saw Frank" by Aimee LaBrie "Baltimore" by Lydia Kim "When We Shrunk" by Rebecca Fishow
Best Microfiction 2025 "Anya Underground" by Ryan Griffith Quote: "Across from her a woman's knuckles flex around a bag as if the bag itself is her salvation, and Anya's sight rises to a face much like hers, pale and tired but with an eye bruised purpleblack..." Art: "Arm's Length" by Katy Stewart