Literary Magazines

Flash Fiction, Poetry, Mixed-Genre Works, Art/Text and Artwork. Tastes lean toward surreal, experimental, ambivalent, darkly lyrical and wildly imaginative.

We are a poetry journal, focusing on the highest quality literary poetry. Abramelin has been publishing since the summer of 2006. Many of the best small press writers have graced our pages. I have changed the format from one or two issues a year to monthly updates, often with a featured poet for the month. We no longer take paper submissions, only email, to: nessaralindaran@aol.com We will be reading submissions year-round. I hope to respond to all submissions now within 2 weeks. I look forward to reading and sharing with everyone.

amphibi.us is looking for inventive, incendiary fiction, prose and poetry that lights everyone's eyes on fire. We want the stuff that you couldn't stop yourself from writing, the stuff that your mother told you was not poetry. We want the clean stuff, the dirty stuff, and everything in between. We update (nearly) daily, established and unknown writers alike.

Founded by The New Yorker fiction contributor and Whiting Writers' Award-winner Rick Rofihe, anderbo.com is a New York City-based Literary Online Journal that publishes short stories, poetry, and nonfiction (a.k.a. “fact”). Named “The Best New Online Journal” by storySouth, anderbo.com accepts work from previously-unpublished and emerging talents, as well as established writers and poets.

Anomalous Press launched in March of 2011 as a non-profit press dedicated to the diffusion of writing in the forms it can take. Its backbone is an editorial collective from different backgrounds and geographies that keep an eye out for compelling projects that, in any number of ways, challenge expectations of what writing and reading should be.

Asymptote is an exciting new international journal dedicated to literary translation and bringing together in one place the best in contemporary writing. We are interested in encounters between languages and the consequences of these encounters. Though a translation may never fully replicate the original in effect (thus our name, “asymptote”: the dotted line on a graph that a mathematical function may tend towards but never reach), it is in itself an act of creation.

Atticus Review is a weekly online journal that publishes stories, poems, electric literature, and other genre-busting words of wisdom and interactive whimsy. We are focused on creating an immersive reading experience and geared to rise above the noise of the marketplace; foster communication; build a micro-community of curious minds; create an inviting space for readers and writers to mingle; change the public’s perception of reading as a static activity; turn the platform of digital publishing into an interactive trampoline; and redefine the role of literature.

The Barefoot Review publishes original written work by people who have or have had physical difficulties in their lives, from cancer to seizures, Alzheimer's to Lupus. It is also a place for caretakers, families, significant others and friends to write about their experiences and relationships to the person. They are a vital part to being able to live with an illness. Writing can be a tremendous source of healing and allow difficult feelings and ideas to be expressed, verbalizing feelings that may be subconscious.

Beatdom is a young magazine concerning, inspired by, and moving on from the Beat Generation.

Our mission is to publish refined poetry by "poets of place," with themes deeply rooted in place. We value refined poetry that is architecturally functional and distinctive on the page. We value poetry that is stripped--burnt down--to its purest state, in both form and context. We value brave poetry that takes risks and, therefore, resonates with a discriminating audience. We value soulful poetry from the core--recited or read aloud--as it was originally intended.

We seek more than an interesting story or descriptive image. The pieces we publish are the ones that we remember days or even weeks afterward for their compelling characters, believable voices, or sharp revelations. We’re not afraid of anything, but if we bristle or stop having fun, we figure there is a good chance our readers will too. In a word, write deftly. Leave us desiring more.

Bodega releases digital issues on the first Monday of every month, featuring poetry, prose, and quarterly interviews by established and emerging writers. We’re here to give you a handful of essential pieces you can digest in one sitting.

BORDERLINE is the first literary journal of its kind, specializing in the genre of persona poetry. We accept submissions of page and performance poetry pieces, alike, that dare to step outside of their comfort zones and inhabit a whole new world, whether it be that of a character, object, idea, or what have you. The wilder the approach & the more innovative the perspective of the piece, the better. All that we ask of our authors is a willingness to live outside of boxes, and to hold fast in their faith in that little thing we like to call imagination.

Interested in work that moves us. Transport us someplace new through lyric, narrative, image, and voice. Surprise us. Surprise yourself.

Burner is that girl. She's witty, pretty, and doesn't dumb herself down. By day, she's a kindergarten teacher and by night, dances gogo. Inspired by fellow revolutionaries from John Lennon to Virginia Woolf, she's a muse and amusing, compelling and never complacent. The Burner girl gets hot and bothered by the Marquis de Lafayette, aspires to redefine the zeitgeist like Nietzsche, and provokes thought like Margaret Atwood.

Cadillac Cicatrix publishes and promotes innovative emerging and established writers and artists on a semiannual basis with a special focus for each issue. Follow us: on Twitter.com/caddymag + on Facebook/caddymag + on Paper.li/caddymag

Carcinogenic Poetry is interested in verse containing quaities of truth derived from the human soul; bold, creative, brave. The truth is to lies like cancer.

The Caterpillar Chronicles is a fledgling nonprofit literary and arts magazine born in the liminal realm between text and image. Our magazine hopes to kindle experimental exercises in creative writing based on images. Each issue will propose first lines and images as starting points for texts of many forms, lengths, colours and complexions. We're also open to various other means of artistic expression such as photographs, paintings, drawings, collages, comics, videos, mixed media, etc. We value many-sidedness and embrace all forms of creative expression.

The Collagist is a monthly journal published the 15th of each month since August 2009. Each issue contains short fiction, poetry, essays, book reviews, and one or more excerpts from novels forthcoming from (mostly) independent presses.

Founded in 2005, Conte is an online journal that aims to celebrate, explore, and expand the boundaries of both narrative writing and digital publishing.

The Country Dog Review is a journal of poetry, book reviews, and interviews. We are interested in the work of emerging and established poets. Despite our title, we are not a regional journal, rather we are interested in reading work from national and international writers who are committed to the genre of poetry. We are eclectic in our tastes, and are open to most styles and subjects.

CRATE is the literary magazine of the University of California, Riverside’s MFA program. CRATE recently made the switch from print to digital, and now seeks work by emerging and established writers for publication in our monthly online journal. CRATE accepts fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, and short dramatic works.

damselfly press seeks to promote exceptional writing by women. We welcome work from female writers of all experiences. We accept fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. We are interested in work that is honest and explores human nature. We think there is truth even in fiction.

Dark Eye Glances Magazine is on hiatus and has temporarily suspended publication until further notice.

decomP (ISSN: 1947-0436) is an online literary magazine that is published monthly. We have existed since April 2004, and were originally called Decomposition Magazine. We publish prose, poetry, art, and solicited book reviews. Our e-mail address is decomp.magazine@gmail.com (no submissions to this address).

We believe in an infinite universe, not in limited real estate. We recognize all editors are biased, including ourselves. We created this publication to add our bias to the mix. We believe in the power of the Internet, and that the digital isn't inferior to the printed.

DIAGRAM is an electronic journal of text and art. As our name indicates, we're interested in representations. In naming. In indicating. In schematics. In the labelling and taxonomy of things. In poems that masquerade as stories; in stories that disguise themselves as indices or obituaries.

drafthorse is a biannual online publication of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, visual narrative, and other media art where work, occupation, labor—or lack of the same—is in some way intrinsic to a narrative’s potential for epiphany.

Published each season, em:me magazine is an online journal of poetry, visual art, and cross-genre creations. Specific interests: visual poetry/experimental work. Primarily: seeks to publish the work of up + coming poets/artists. Looking for: distinctness, strangeness + that indescribable thing that makes us want to return again and again.

EOAGH: A Journal of the Arts is concerned with reading as a process, the productive chaos of investigative poetic work. These acts of attention explore the close listening inherent not just in writing but also in being written. Inspired by Whitman's assertion that "Reading is a gymnast's act," we see readings as embodied, interdisciplinary responses that engage with one's environment through ekphrasis, phenomenology, queering, conceptual multiplicity, density and difficulty.

escarp explores the potential for super-brief literatures, via the immediacy of text-messages, to provide both writers and the general public with a literary appetizer--a ringing, vibrating love-note from the world of words.

FEILE-FESTA is a multicultural journal of literary and visual arts, available only online, starting with the 2012-2013 issue. Though our preference is for creative work related to Irish and Italian/Sicilian themes, we are open to other Mediterranean and Celtic cultures. We are also interested in writing that evokes life in NYC.

We look for writing that pushes the boundaries of language, for writers who would never be clichéd enough to use the phrasing “pushes the boundaries of language.” We believe that strong writers are mindful of the words they hire to represent them and understand that infinitudes can be built or lost within the slippery confines of the sentence. We are tired of stories and poems that don’t play for keeps. We are more inclined toward the outlandish, toward the unsayable, toward the spectacle.

Flying House aims to discover, advocate, and elevate fine artists and writers by hand-picking twelve participants annually, from a pool of applicants, and inspiring them to create a brand new body of work for a public gallery event and reading. Participants learn to think widely about art’s relationship to literature, they learn to connect with new aesthetics, and they learn to present their work professionally while making good connections to further their artistic goals.

ForPoetry is rated code II in Poet's Market: This means that we are not open to beginners' submissions. Poets interested in submitting to ForPoetry should be familiar with literary journals and magazines. Due to the large number of submissions, please do not send more than two poems.

Our vision is to provide poets/ writers with a showcase for their work. The Review is published on line in order to provide a broad audience for the poets we publish. The Review is published three times a year. Submissions to the review are by invitation only. Queries welcome. Occasional book reviews, interviews, poetry news and our reading events are published at The Fox Chase Reading Series blog. http://foxchasereview.wordpress.com

Fringe publishes political and experimental work in many genres. Our special mission is to diversify the existing literary community, both aesthetically and demographically: We aspire to publish styles and genres that other journals eschew and we take particular pleasure in publishing voices that are not often included in the canon. To learn more, read our manifesto.

Our goal is to bring to our readers engaging works in the forms of poetry, prose poetry, creative nonfiction, and short fiction. For our contributors, we focus on the presentation and promotion of each accepted work, and we strive to form lasting bonds with our writers. We are interested in stories that entertain us, stories that captivate us, but most of all, stories that haunt us.

We accept works in all genres, as long as the writing either melts faces or rocks waffles. That is your mission.

We are not bound by any specific aesthetic; our only mission is to present high quality writing. We like poems that show a careful understanding of language, sound, passion and creativity and poems that surprise us.

Glint Literary Journal publishes an eclectic selection of creative work (poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and visual art) once a year.

Gulf Stream Magazine, started in 1989, is a national literary magazine published by The Creative Writing Program at Florida International University. It is a bi-annual online journal dedicated to publishing great fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. In addition, we publish first-book reviews and interviews.

Inspiring seasonal-related content accompanied with beautiful images.

The Higgs Weldon is an online humor magazine that seeks to feature funny fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and opinion pieces as well as cartoons.

The Ilanot Review is a journal of creative writing which publishes a stellar selection of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and interviews. We put out two themed issues a year, and invite submissions from poets,writers and literary translators.

Ink Well is a collaborative online showcase for emerging talent in art, creative writing, and photography organized around a central theme. We publish on a rolling basis, six volumes a year.