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Literary Magazines

Connect your poems, stories, essays, and reviews to the right audiences by researching over eight hundred literary magazines in our database. Here, you’ll find editorial policies, submission guidelines, contact information—everything you need to direct your work to the publications most amenable to your vision.

Journal	Genres Published	Accepts Electronic Submissions?	Accepts Simultaneous Submissions?	Reading Period	Format
The Southern Review The Southern Review publishes fiction, poetry, critical essays, interviews, book reviews, and excerpts from novels in progress, with emphasis on contemporary literature in the United States and abroad.	Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction	No	Yes	Sep 1 - Mar 1	Print
	Payment: Cash
Southwestern American Literature We publish fiction, nonfiction, poetry, literary criticism, and book reviews. Generally speaking, we want material covering the Greater Southwest or material written by Southwestern writers. Est. 1971. We look for crisp language, an interesting approach to material; a regional approach is desired but not required. We seek creative works that move beyond stereotype and approach the larger defining elements that, as William Faulkner noted, treat subjects central to good literature—the old verities of the human heart.	Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction	Yes	Yes	Jan 1 - Dec 31	Print
	Payment: Contributor copies only
Southword We publish poetry and literary fiction of quality from around the world, but with an emphasis on new Irish writing.	Poetry, Fiction	Yes	No	Jul 1 - Sep 15	Web
	Payment: Cash Subgenre: Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry
The Sow's Ear Poetry Review Our purposes are to encourage and give voice to fine poets and artists; to move, delight, and humanize our readers; and to support fresh ways of writing, understanding, and using poetry.	Poetry	No	Yes	Jan 1 - Dec 31	Print
	Payment: Contributor copies only
specs specs (specifications, speculations . . .) is a journal that aims to produce a charged atmosphere around artistic and critical approaches. Hence, specs is willing to live in a constant state of flux, with the mission of propagating strange and involved sympathies between disparate genres and forms. We want to break down hierarchies between poems, fictions, and critical writing. We hope for seepages, warped conversations, and misappropriations between areas of content.	Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction	Yes	Yes	Jan 1 - Dec 31

Spectrum An annual journal of art and literature published by UC Santa Barbara's College of Creative Studies. Founded in 1957, it is the longest-standing literary magazine in the UC system. We accept art, poetry, fiction, and non-fiction works including interviews, personal essays, and creative or scholarly essays.	Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction	Yes	Yes	Oct 1 - Feb 11	Print
	Payment: Contributor copies only

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