Published three times a year, Carte Blanche is ‘open-ended and open-minded’. It’s a place for writers to ‘sound off, send up, amuse, follow their muse, versify, dramatise, sketch, snap, think big, get famous, polish, perish and, above all, publish’. It publishes narrative in all forms, fiction to nonfiction, poetry to photo essays.
Submissions are currently open for poetry and creative non-fiction, up to 3,500 words. Submissions open in September for fiction, comics, photography and audio.
Creative non-fiction should be factual, with author’s note if you have changed people’s names. Poetry is wide-ranging, from ‘odes and haikus to free verse and sonnets’. Submit up to three poems per submission round, uploaded separately. Simultaneous submissions are accepted but not multiples or reprints. Response time is ‘slow’. Payment is ‘token’ for the ‘usual rights’.