13 Alternatives to Submittable

intake systems for poetry, short stories, art calls at literary magazines, journals and presses

This is just a list. If you’d like to see my thoughts and ratings on most of these, along with main feature comparisons, please check out the following linked review article:

1. Subfolio

2. Duosuma

3. Dapple

4. Ola

5. Moksha

6. One Story’s Submission Manager, aka SubMgr

7. Oleada (Being Discontinued Feb 2026, see Ola instead)

8. Tally Forms

9. Fillout Forms

10. Typeform

11. Jotform

12. Google Forms

13. Microsoft Forms

14. E-mail

Additional Notes: A lot of form builders and grant management tools exist beyond this list with free or limited plans; however, submission management systems #1-6 can be beneficial for juggling hundreds or thousands of submissions each year. You can easily collaborate with your team members and message submitters in most—they help provide efficient notifications, closely keep tabs on your review/editing/publishing stages, and you can stay organized.

Some editors have gone as far as building their own submission systems or in-house solutions, too, which may offer further customization and save money in some cases, but that can add more work to one’s plate.

With email, there are storage limits often requiring you to upgrade your plan, so the nice thing again is that with Subfolio, and several others, is that you can establish an archive, and signed agreement records can be centrally kept and have customized tagging. Please check out some of the podcast episodes where I discuss a majority of these for lit mags and presses.

The following have CLMP membership discounts, too, as of 2025:

• Subfolio

• Duosuma

• Dapple

• Submittable