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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
La Petite Zine La Petite Zine is an online literary magazine founded in 1999, which currently publishes fierce poetry and petite prose pieces of 1000 words or less. LPZ is not affiliated with a particular literary school or movement; we like what we like. Above all else, LPZ seeks to be un-boring, a panacea for your emotional hangover.	Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction	Yes	Yes	Jan 1 - Dec 31

Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet Fiction that falls in the cracks between genres.	Poetry, Fiction	No	No	Jan 1 - Dec 31

Lake Effect Lake Effect seeks to publish literary fiction and nonfiction and poetry of the highest quality by established and new and emerging writers from across the country and, in translation, from around the world, and to give that work an attractive venue. Appearances of our work in The Best American Short Stories, Best American Essays, and Pushcart Prize anthologies attests to our success in finding some of the best work in the country to publish.	Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction	No	Yes		Print
	Payment: Contributor copies only
Lalitamba Lalitamba is a bold and innovative journal for liberation. From page to page, you’ll find the writings of saints, wanderers, prison inmates, and award-winning novelists. These are the mystics of our generation. They challenge us to live and to love without hesitation. The journal includes fiction, poetry, essays, interviews, translation, and artwork. Lalitamba was inspired by travels through India. The name Lalitamba comes from a devotional song. It means Divine Mother.	Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction	No	Yes	Jan 1 - Dec 31	Print
	Payment: Contributor copies only Subgenre: Experimental, Literary Fiction, Translation
Lantern Review LANTERN REVIEW aims to provide a virtual space in which to showcase Asian American poetry and to engage with issues relevant to its production and dissemination. We seek to publish expertly crafted work in a variety of forms and aesthetics, including traditional and experimental pieces, hybrid forms, multimedia work, and new translations. We welcome pieces from anglophone writers of all ethnic backgrounds whose work interests itself in critical questions relevant to the Asian diaspora in North America, as well as work created collaboratively in a community context.	Poetry	Yes	Yes		Web E-publication
	Payment: No payment Subgenre: Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Formal, LGBT, Political, Prose Poetry, Translation, War
The Lascaux Review The Lascaux Review provides a showcase for emerging and established writers and artists. The fiction, poetry, and art all tell stories intended to have a lingering impact on the reader. The Review conducts annual contests in fiction and poetry.	Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction	Yes	Yes	Jan 1 - Dec 31	Web
	Subgenre: Literary Fiction

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