Southern Lit/Crime Writing

Writer’s Thought for the Week: The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you the knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ~  Elizabeth Hardwick

The ReviewReview Has a list of 6 literary magazines from the southern USA, but material need not be southern.

ROOM, “Canada’s oldest journal by and about women,” is working on an issue with “crime” as the theme. “Sin, wrongdoing, injurious acts, murder, deceit, contraband. Poison, theft, larceny, lust, fraud, family and foreclosure.”

Deadline: January 31, 2013.

You may submit fiction and creative nonfiction up to 3500 words, or up to five poems. Pays $50 for up to 2 pages, $60 for 3 pages, $80 for 4 pages, $100 for 5 pages, $120 for 6+ pages for First North American Serial Rights.