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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 Albion Review The Albion Review is a national undergraduate literary magazine based of out Albion College in Michigan. Published annually since 2004, The Review features works of poetry, fiction, art, and essays. The Review strives to showcase the work of emerging undergraduate talents.	Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction	No	No	Sep 1 - Jan 1

Alimentum - The Literature of Food The only literary review all about food. Food in its finest form. Sating a loftier appetite. Savor the word of food.	Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction	No	Yes	Oct 1 - Mar 15

Alligator Juniper A publication of Prescott College, Alligator Juniper features contemporary poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. We encourage submissions from writers at all levels, especially emerging and early-career writers. AJ has twice won the AWP Directors' Prize for Undergraduate Literary Magazines.	Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction	Yes	Yes	Aug 15 - Oct 1

American Athenaeum American Athenaeum is a cultural magazine that features fiction, poetry, essays, opinion, author book reviews, and other literary contributions. Each journal explores the world of words like a patron explores a museum—by offering a view of the past, right up until the present. We consider this journal to be a museum of artistic endeavors, filled with cultural appreciation and stories that not only teach, but demonstrate the frailty of the human condition.	Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction	Yes	Yes	Jan 1 - Dec 31	Print
	Payment: Contributor copies only Subgenre: Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, Healing/Health, Historical, LGBT, Literary Fiction, Nature/Environmental, Political, Religious/Spiritual, War
American Letters and Commentary American Letters & Commentary is an eclectic literary magazine featuring innovative and challenging writing in all forms. Each annual issue features a substantial and diverse selection of fiction, poetry, essays, translation, and critical opinion by renowned and up-and-coming writers.	Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction	No	Yes	Oct 1 - Mar 1

American Short Fiction A quarterly, American Short Fiction (ASF) strives to discover and publish new fiction in which transformations of language, narrative, and character occur swiftly, deftly, and unexpectedly. We are drawn to evocative language, unique subject matter, and an overall sense of immediacy.	Fiction	Yes	Yes	Dec 1 - May 31

Amoskeag: the Journal of Southern New Hampshire University We publish both new and seasoned writers, accepting stories, poems, essays, and BW photography on all subjects, in any form. We usually have some New England writers and pieces, but strive to be eclectic and interesting. Check Submission Guidelines for occasional Special Issue topics.	Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction	No	Yes	Sep 1 - Dec 1

The Ampersand Review We are looking for creative work, but only good creative work. Give us God, give us god, give us man, give us people & make us laugh. If you can make us cry, do so, if you want to lament loss of pets & family, do not. We enjoy smiling & the bizarre sensation of the rabble-rouse. We want to feel, & we want to want, & we don't want Cheap Trick jokes inserted here, unless they are awesome. We are strict & unbiased; we value aesthetic above morality; we want to read a good piece as much as our readers, so write one before submitting.	Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction	Yes	Yes	Jan 1 - Dec 31	Web Print
	Payment: Contributor copies only
amphibi.us 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.	Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction	Yes	Yes		Web
	Payment: No payment Subgenre: Autobiography/Memoir, Cross-genre, Experimental, Flash Fiction, Humor, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Prose Poetry
Anastomoo Beyond Language Language	Poetry, Fiction	Yes	No	Jan 1 - Dec 31	Web
Anastomoo Beyond Language Language	Payment: No payment Subgenre: Formal
anderbo.com 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.	Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction	Yes	Yes	Jan 1 - Dec 31	Web E-publication
	Payment: No payment Subgenre: Autobiography/Memoir
andreview andreview is an artist-run publication that nurtures the work of local and international writers and artists. For each issue, we showcase historical and contemporary trends in thought and art-making. As readers, researchers, artists, and designers, we are interested in collections—connected ideas that can be compiled and offered as food for thought.	Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction	Yes	Yes		Web E-publication Print
	Payment: No payment Subgenre: Autobiography/Memoir, Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry
Annalemma Magazine Annalemma Magazine is a literary and arts journal printed biannually and updated weekly online. Founded in 2007 with the expressed mission of engaging as many people as possible in the life-changing experience of telling good stories, Annalemma’s print issues are a lavish celebration of colorful artwork and photography that accompany short stories and essays from writers of all ages, nationalities, disciplines and echelons of the publishing world.	Fiction, Creative Nonfiction	Yes	Yes		Print
	Payment: Cash
Anobium Literary publishing, multimedia arts, psychonautics.	Fiction, Creative Nonfiction	Yes	Yes	Jan 1 - Dec 31	Web Print
	Payment: Contributor copies only Subgenre: Cross-genre, Experimental, Flash Fiction, Humor, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry
Anomalous Press 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.	Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction	Yes	Yes	Mar 1 - Apr 1	Web E-publication Audio Video
	Payment: No payment Subgenre: Autobiography/Memoir, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, LGBT, Literary Fiction, Love, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Serialized Fiction, Translation, War

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