Cool Beans Lit

02/08/2024

Open for submissions until March 1.

Our spring issue will be a beauty. We’re already blown away by the quality of early subs received. Keep it coming!

Link to submit:
CoolBeansLit.submittable.com

02/01/2024

Today is the day!

Subs are now open for our Spring 2024 issue. Submit to us your most divine art and ruthless writing. Deadline is March 1.

CoolBeansLit.Submittable.com

01/25/2024

One week from today the sub gates will open! Send us your best words and images.

No theme. No fee to submit.

coolbeanslit.submittable.com

01/17/2024

Mark your calendars and bookmark us. Subs will open Feb. 1 on our Submittable page. No theme. No fee to submit.

We can’t wait to see what ideas you’ve got percolating!

https://coolbeanslit.submittable.com/submit

01/11/2024

Lauren Groff is opening a bookstore in Gainesville, FL, called The Lynx, which will champion banned books. You can support this effort and get some sweet perks! (Signed first editions, Lauren Groff critiques and much more)

A bookstore that bites back. | Check out 'The Lynx, A Bookstore in Gainesville, FL' on Indiegogo.

01/11/2024

Featured Poem by Gerry Fabian
(Issue 2 - Cool Beans Lit)

R. Gerry Fabian has published five novels as well as five books of poetry: Parallels, Coming Out of the Atlantic, Electronic Forecasts, Wildflower Women and his poetry baseball book titled, Ball on the Mound. We are proud and grateful to have his work in our publication.

coolbeanslit.com/r-gerry-fabian

01/05/2024

We are honored to feature this poem from Issue 3 by author Hiram Larew.
www.CoolBeansLit.com/hiram-larew

Founder of Poetry X Hunger (Bringing a World of Poets to the Anti-Hunger Cause), Hiram Larew has had poems appear in recent issues of Contemporary American Voices, The Iowa Review, Honest Ulsterman and other journals. His most recent collection Patchy Ways was published in 2023 by CyberWit Press.


www.PoetryXHunger.com

01/01/2024

What a year! We’re only getting started! Looking forward to printing more magic in 2024.

Send us the good stuff beginning February 1st. No fees ever to submit. We can’t wait to see your work.

12/31/2023

Thank you for a fantastic first year for our publication! What a ride.

Authors, artists, readers, editors and all of the lit mags in this community: thank you for your steadfast support. May the next trip around the sun serve you well and keep us close.

Happy New Year! 🎊 Stay cool.

12/28/2023

12/27/2023

Featured Author: Jade Han
Title: How I Annotate

Fall in love with the rest of this beautiful poem in our Issue 2.

Jade Han is an up-and-coming writer whose words will provoke and scintillate your senses. Keep an eye on this one. Soon to be published in many journals with good reason. 🙌

CoolBeansLit.com/jade-han

12/15/2023

Thrilled to see our latest Cool Beans Lit issue featured by CLMP.org in their December roundup!

We’re proud to share this list of literary journals—all members of CLMP—publishing new poetry, fiction, nonfiction, artwork, and more in December 2023.   After Dinner Conversation | December 2023 Featuring fiction by Lise Halpern, M.C. Schmidt, Thea Swanson, Penny Milam, and Deborah Serra.  ...

12/06/2023

Cool Beans!
Issue No 2 is now live. 🎉 ENJOY!

You can view it 3 ways:
1. PDF flipbook
2. Downloadable pdf print version
3. Hyperlinked on our website

coolbeanslit.com/issue2

Thanks again to all who contributed!

12/06/2023

🌟 Cover Reveal 🌟

Artist: LuizA Naslyan
“My love, my life, my Armenia”

Issue No 2 releasing tomorrow!
CoolBeansLit.com

12/02/2023

Announcing our 31 wonderful contributors for Cool Beans Lit issue 2!

Please join us in celebrating their work in the winter issue, which will be published on December 6, 2023.

They are the light in the dark. 💡

coolbeanslit.com

11/16/2023

Submissions for Issue 2 are now closed. Huge thanks to everyone who sent us work! We have been dazzled by you.

Responses will go out to all by the end of this week. Our winter issue is scheduled for early December (12/6) with a contributor list being announced very soon. Until then, keep writing!

10/10/2023

Subs are still open through November 15. Dazzle us with your favorite work.

10/01/2023

Subs are now open! Spread the word.

Fiction, CNF, Poetry, Visual Art and Photography.

Review our submission guidelines prior to sending in your work. https://CoolBeansLit.com/submissions

09/27/2023

Cool Beans Lit Issue No. 1 available now, as featured by CLMP in their September magazine roundup.

We’re proud to share this list of literary journals—all members of CLMP—publishing new poetry, fiction, nonfiction, artwork, and more in September 2023.   Adi Magazine | Issue 16: Omens—The Recurring Dream of the Water Mothers Featuring poetry by Airea D. Matthews and photography by Laylah ...

09/19/2023

These are just two of five beautiful art pieces by Elizabeth Ricketson in our Issue No. 1, Fall 2023.

“Forward Bend”
“Practice, Practice, Practice”

To see more of Elizabeth’s work and read her blog, visit https://www.ElizabethRicketson.net

09/01/2023

Check out the inaugural issue of Cool Beans Lit!

Thank you to our contributors for making it possible, several of whom are being published today for the very first time. 🙌 Congrats to all.

https://www.CoolBeansLit.com

Vol. 1, Issue 1

08/28/2023

We are excited to share with you our cover image for Issue 1 of Cool Beans Lit! Full issue coming September 1.

She not only exudes talent but is a very cool and kind human being. We are grateful to have discovered Stefania Morgante all the way across the pond in Italia!

Artist: Stefania Morgante
IG:
stefaniamorgante.com
Stefania Morgante

08/23/2023

Please join us in congratulating our 36 contributors to the inaugural issue of Cool Beans Lit! Coming September 1.

Some are being published for the first time. 👏 We are very proud. Thanks for everyone’s support!

08/19/2023

Little hints of the inspiration behind some of our contributors’ work for the inaugural issue of Cool Beans Lit coming September 1. We cannot wait to publish it.

Traveled to Boston and spent an entire day inside the Museum of Fine Arts. 🖼️ Exquisite.

08/01/2023

Sharing some recent add-ons to our growing TBR. What’s on your list?

07/25/2023

One week left until submissions close on August 1st for our inaugural issue.
➡️ CoolBeansLit.com/submissions

07/07/2023

Quote by Rainier Maria Wilke, Letters to a Young Poet, 1929.