INTERNATIONAL ZINE SCENE
Button Eye Review is a new literary magazine spun off from Ember Chasm Review. It needs ‘stories and poetry within the genres of horror, gothic, dark fantasy, dark science fiction, thriller, crime, and mystery’. The team like ‘stories that bury themselves under dead leaves and gravel, the ones… only found… through the locked door, the ones that crawl to disturbed, alienated places and people.’
Keep submissions under 7,500 words. Both short stories and novel excerpts are accepted.
Poetry should ‘rattle’ the team. Submit dark poems written on themes associated with horror and its subgenres’. They accept ‘one to five poems per reading period’.
Response time is ‘reasonable’. Payment is $10. Website: https://buttoneyereview.com
Tikkun is a US journal aiming to bring hope and positive outcomes for Jewish, interfaith, and secular peoples. They aim to publish ‘prophetic voices encouraging tolerance’. Submissions should be ‘a catalyst for longterm social change’ and ‘readers will be empowered… to heal the world’. They seek to promote a caring society which protects both people and planet and seek submissions from ‘all communities, all races, all religions, all ethnicities, and all ages’.
All forms and style of short fiction are wanted, ‘though we especially like stories that deal with the spiritual, progressive, regenerative, and transformative elements of life’. They’re also highly drawn to works about ‘the Mideast conflicts, and social justice’.
Submit short stories and novel excerpts, no more than 5,000 words, through the website: Response is