Literary Magazines

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.

Creative Nonfiction has always generated energy, intellectual substance, and debate within the genre of creative nonfiction, in part by publishing timely, often controversial theme issues. Each issue contains work by established and emerging writers.

Crosstimbers is a Multicultural and Interdisciplinary Publication of the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma Foundation. This publication focuses on the relatedness of the many ecological and cultural groups in the cross timbers region. A full range of academic disciplines explores the separate yet interrelated units in the region. While our primary focus is regional we also accept essays and articles with international and global themes. In addition, we are interested in high-quality short stories, poems, plays, and works of creative nonfiction, along with visual art.

CURA: A Literary Magazine of Art and Action is a multi-media initiative based at Fordham University committed to integrating the arts and social justice. Featuring creative writing, visual art, new media and video in response to current news, we seek to enable an artistic process that is rigorously engaged with the world at the present moment.

We publish literary fiction and poetry based in contemporary urban (and sometimes sub-urban) settings. We have a free monthly e-zine, and a semi-annual print journal. We accept submissions for both year-round. We also publish books in print and digitally.  Our goal is to support the independent publishing process and to promote urban-themed writing.

We have no regional, gender or cultural biases. Puveyors of fresh, original and meaningful work, we promote excellent literary fiction and poetry. We are also open to short book reviews of short story and poetry collections, especially from small presses.

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.

Amid a host of journals dedicated to covering the latest political happenings and controversies, Dappled Things stands aside as a forum for appreciating the permanent things. While commentators in other publications often talk about culture, the writers and artists who contribute to Dappled Things are in the business of creating it. Their work is inspired by the same tradition of Catholic art and literature that gave the world Dante and Dostoevsky, gothic architecture and A Good Man is Hard to Find, Michaelangelo and Middle Earth.

Bohemian Pupil Press' Poetry Rag takes its name from the Rolling Stones’ song on the 1971 album Sticky Fingers. This song is emblamatic of a quintessential irreverance: it portrays a most elegant “Fuck You.” Please, do not interpret this as meaning that Dead Flowers is a platform for sex, drugs, and rock ‘n roll. Dead Flowers is an extension of Bohemian Pupil Press’ tagline and motive: “Publishing for the Clear-Sighted Imbiber.” Please visit our About This Rag page to discover more.

Since 1958, december has been committed to distributing the work of emerging writers and artists and celebrating more seasoned voices through a semi-annual nonprofit literary magazine featuring fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and visual art.

Deep South Magazine is committed to being a forum for Southern writers and showcasing Southern literature and accepts submissions of original fiction, nonfiction, poetry, short stories and short shorts. The Deep South has a rich history in literature thanks to writers like Eudora Welty, Ernest Gaines and more recently Joshilyn Jackson and Michael Morris. We aim to help the next generation of Southern writers find their voice.

Del Sol Review seeks to publish unsolicited work in the categories of poetry, prose poetry, creative non-fiction, short stories, and flash fiction. All forms and styles are considered. Please note that editors prefer fiction and cnf containing unique and interesting subject matter.

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.

dirtcakes offers space for international writers to illuminate shared global humanity by exploring diverse concepts suggested by the UN Millennium Goals to eradicate extreme poverty.

Do Not Look at the Sun is an offbeat literary magazine based in London. It is published twice a year in print (spring & autumn), as well as weekly online. The idea behind Do Not Look at the Sun is 'Found Poetry/ Free Prose', an ethos made possible by a global network of volunteers. Each issue is put out in a different form that is in keeping with this ideal, from street walls to paper planes.

Now in its eleventh year, Dogwood seeks work that connects directly with readers. Judges for the competition have included former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, NEA Chairman Dana Gioia, and Oprah book club author A. Manette Ansay. Work from Dogwood has been selected for The Pushcart Prize Anthology and has been featured on Verse Daily.

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.

We are an eclectic online journal, which publishes original short stories and poems along with personal and cultural essays film reviews, and TV recaps.

English literature from or connected to East and South East Asia.

Each issue of Ecotone brings together the literary and scientific, the personal and biological, the urban and rural. Much of the writing we publish addresses the idea of place—overlapping habitats both real and aesthetic. We aim to bridge the gap between science and culture, to break out of the pen of the purely literary and wander freely among the disciplines.

Recommended Reading, a magazine by Electric Literature, publishes one story a week, each chosen by today’s best authors or editors. Each issue includes an editor’s note written by that week’s partner, introducing you to the work and their mission. In this age of distraction, we’re uncovering writing that’s worth slowing down and spending some time with. And in doing so, we’re giving great writers, literary magazines, and independent presses the recognition (and readership) they deserve.

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.

We are looking for innovative and edgy pieces of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and everything in between. We are an undergraduate literary journal interested in giving college students a method of publication.

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.

Epiphany -epiphmag.com was started in 2010 soley to be an on-line Only venue in which writers and artists can display their works. We like to have a cross section of writing styles and content subjects.

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.

Eunoia Review is an online literary journal committed to sharing the fruits of ‘beautiful thinking’. Each day, we publish two new pieces of writing for your reading pleasure. We believe that Eunoia Review can and should be a home for all sorts of writing, and we welcome submissions from writers of all ages and backgrounds.

Evening Street Press is centered on Elizabeth Cady Stanton's 1848 revision of the Declaration of Independence: "that all men -- and women -- are created equal," with equal rights to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." It focuses on the realities of experience, personal and historical, from the most gritty to the most dreamlike, including awareness of the personal and social forces that block or develop the possibilities of this new culture.

Extract(s) features bite-sized literature in surprising forms. We don’t want to be your everything, but we do want to be one thing that makes your day more interesting. Drop by for a few minutes every day. We’ll give you something to think about.

FACT-SIMILE is a small independent publisher of mostly handmade books and book-objects. We strive to compose all of our products from recycled and reclaimed materials and to help further expand the physical definitions of literature wherever possible. FACT-SIMILE is also an 8.5 x 11 literary journal published annual in the summer months.

Our mission is to provide a new outlet for artistic work ranging from poetry to sculpture and everything in between. The Faircloth Review has an “anything goes” attitude and seeks to showcase a variety of high-quality, interesting, and thought-provoking work–in a way that fully embraces contemporary internet and blog culture–while still focusing on the essentials of an artistic publication.

FEILE-FESTA is a multicultural journal of literary and visual arts, available only online, starting with the 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.

The Fiction Desk publishes a range of short stories from new and emerging authors, with a focus on strong plots and characters. We're currently the UK's only quarterly dedicated to new short fiction, but we accept submissions from authors around the world.

The Fiction Circus is an online literary magazine with daily content and rolling short story submissions engaged in an epic, medium-spanning fight to not just "show up" to the modern world, but to actually win, to actually return the printed word to primacy in culture and in the human experience.

Fiction International is the only literary journal in the United States emphasizing formal innovation and progressive politics. Each year, Fiction International selects a theme and accepts fiction, non-fiction, and indeterminate prose that addresses the theme. The journal is edited by Harold Jaffe.

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.

FIELD combines fresh viewpoints, editorial discrimination, and attention to the best work being produced in the U.S. and abroad, regardless of allegiance to schools or categories or reputations.

Established in November 2009 by two graduated students of UC Santa Cruz, The Fine Line is here to provide a space for the individual’s need to produce creative works through writing and visual arts. Our magazine is not aimed at a particular style, or based on any traditional canon, but instead unites a variety of genres and experience levels. It is our hope that this diversity of talent will inspire and challenge all involved to push their work to new levels…or, to simply enjoy.

We seek work that's original, imaginative, and informed by craft. Generally prose pieces usually run no longer than 7,500 words, and we invite poetry in both closed and open forms.

FiveChapters was founded in October 2006 and is one of the pioneering online literary journals, publishing a new short story every week (in a five-part serial form). FC has published new work by some of today's best-known and award-winning writers -- including winners of the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner -- as well as the best emerging voices. Stories published by FC have appeared in several different Best American volumes.

The intent of THE FLEA broadsheets is to serve the Soveraigne Muse, by publishing first-rate poems which accord with Her Ideal of poetic Delight, in an occasional Broadsheet, using cutting-edge Seventeenth Century Technology, & state-of-the-art Alchemy. THE FLEA is friendly to strong poems in Formal Verse, including poetry which might not, for sundry reasons, fit the Style and Orthodoxy of some prevailing Schools and Sects; poems which deploy difficult & bizarre Conceits, or (it may be) use abstruse language not found in every common inn or marketplace.

Our intent, as a publisher, is to publish nothing but poetry and prose, artwork and photographs of the highest quality and literary standards. In other words, give us work that’s going to affect us emotionally, work thick with metaphor, or is simply said in beautiful way, or makes us see something in a beautiful way, or makes us see in another completely different way that we’ve never seen before. Make us see it. Make us feel it. Send only your best work.

Folio is a journal of poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction. We look for work that ignites and endures, is artful and natural, daring and elegant.

Without restricting ourselves to a particular genre, media, or theme, we aim to publish interesting, quality works, and every issue has a unique flavour. Each of our two General Editors takes ownership of at least one issue per year, acting as the chief editor (or Uber-editor) for a particular issue, and leaves one issue per year open for a Guest Editor to act as Uber-editor.  This is just one more way in which Forge celebrates the diversity of contributors while exercising our own unique style, issue by issue.

Found Press is a digital short-story publisher. Our titles are available for purchase through Kobo, Kindle, and our website. Every three months we release a handful of stories in Found Press Quarterly. Unlike traditional short-writing collections, FPQ features pieces that are produced, promoted, and—most notably—sold as stand-alone works. We strongly feel that short-story writers deserve as much recognition as authors of full-length books, and our unique publishing model gives us the freedom to help our authors reach as broad an audience as possible.

Four and Twenty is an online poetry journal that publishes the shortest of short form poetry.The guidelines are simple. All poems must be four lines or fewer in length and contain no more than twenty words (hence, Four and Twenty). All submissions are judged on the author’s ability to create a vivid picture, evoke an emotional response, and use creative wordplay. There is no set theme for the journal. A new issue of the journal is released the third Tuesday of each month.