Literary Magazines

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.

TDR seeks poetry with beauty, emotional and intellectual depth, commitment to subject matter as well as language. This is a multicultural magazine with a standing interest in work that sees Judaism as a source of values and/or reflects on the current situation of Israel and the West.

An online literary journal of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, visual art, interviews, and reviews at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

diode is looking for electropositive poetry! What is electropositive poetry? It’s poetry that excites and energizes. It’s poetry that uses language that crackles and sparks. We’re looking for poetry from all points on the arc, from formal to experimental (no light verse or erotic poetry, please). Simultaneous submissions are welcomed, but please notify us if they're accepted elsewhere. diode does not accept previously published work.

dislocate is a Minnesota journal rooted in the local literary scene & attached to the University of Minnesota’s MFA program (ranked in the top 10 by P&W). dislocate benefits from contact with and access to nationally-acclaimed writers who visit the U of M, but we generally solicit & prioritize the innovative work of excellent local writers & artists, both well-known and lesser-known.

The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review is a literary and arts journal housed at The Johns Hopkins University, M.A. in Writing Program. Our aesthetic is eclectic, literary mainstream to experimental. We appreciate fusion aesthetics including magical realist, surrealist, metarealist and realist works with an offbeat spin. We value character-focused storytelling and language and welcome both edge and mainstream with punch aesthetics. We like humor that explores the gritty realities of world and human experiences.

Dossier is a new independent arts and culture journal out of Brooklyn, New York whose concept is to bring together creative writing, photography, fashion and art.

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.

We publish poems each of which addresses a single work of art.

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.

WExplosion-Proof is a print-only literary quarterly dedicated to the discovery of new writers and push the limits of the imagination. While we recognize the shortcomings of dead-tree publishing, we remind you that books, the kind held in hand and laid on shelves, may not travel the speed of light, but neither do they disappear when plugs are pulled. And, we guarantee, neither do they explode.

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.

We are looking for innovative fiction, fiction that breaks new ground by finding new ways to tell a story. Any length fiction will be considered. Selections from novels will also be considered.

The Fiddlehead, Atlantic Canada’s international literary journal, is open to good writing in English from all over the world, looking always for freshness and surprise. Our editors are always happy to see new unsolicited works in fiction and poetry and are dedicated to discovering and promoting new writers. The Fiddlehead represents the Atlantic Canada’s lively cultural and literary diversity; and places the best of new and established Canadian writing in an international context.

FWJ publishes established and emerging writers. We use guest editors for each issue. Consult our guidelines for length considerations of both prose and poetry.

The purpose of The First Line is to jump start the imagination-to help writers break through the block that is the blank page. Each issue contains short stories that stem from a common first line; it also provides a forum for discussing favorite first lines in literature. The First Line is an exercise in creativity for writers and a chance for readers to see how many different directions we can take when we start from the same place.

Five Quarterly is an online literary project that facilitates an innovative and constantly changing dialogue among readers and writers. We have created an opportunity for all the various kinds of people who appreciate reading to express their literary preferences by participating in our editorial process. Each quarter, a new group of five guest editors ultimately selects five poems and five pieces of fiction for online publication. Our hope is that this project will yield a multitude of voices, diversify the face of publishing, and encourage an expanding literary community.

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.

What makes Foundling Review different? Nothing much. We hold PhD and Masters degrees in areas that are totally unrelated to fine arts. But we love reading, writing, and have an overwhelming passion for the well-crafted word.

Four Way Review accepts poetry and fiction from both established and emerging authors. We accept unsolicited submissions year-round through our submissions manager. We look for work that demonstrates fine attention to craft while retaining a powerful and compelling voice.

The Fourth River is the literary journal of Chatham University’s MFA Program, printed annually. We welcome submissions of creative writing that explore the relationship between humans and their environments, both natural and built, urban, rural or wild. We are looking for writing that is richly situated at the confluence of place, space and identity--or that reflects upon or makes use of landscape and place in new ways.

Free Verse is a bi-annual electronic journal that focuses on publishing the finest free verse being written today. Free Verse is looking for eclectic, sophisticated, accomplished poetry possessed by a sense of poetic intelligence and power. Free Verse is especially interested in non-narrative lyrics--but we will also consider narrative poems. Translations are welcome.

We seek to publish the best haiku and related forms in the English language as well as the most insightful articles and reviews. Our purpose is to remain the haiku journal with the largest circulation outside Japan. It is listed in the MLA International Bibliography and Humanities International Complete.

We publish fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction from established and emerging writers. In our pages, work by Best American and Guggenheim Award winning authors has appeared alongside pieces from writers earning their first publication credit.

FR is a collaborative effort by poets and editors across the world to showcase the best new and emerging work that we happen to lay eyes upon.

FEM has always prided itself in accepting the widest range of entertainment mediums and genres one can bring together in PDF form. Poetry, painting, fiction, memoir, lineart, screenplays and stageplays, photography and photo documentation of sculptures, jewelry, costuming, weaving, happenings, and anything else that happens to attract us, is welcome in the pages of Future Earth Magazine.

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

Gargoyle Magazine has always been a scallywag magazine, a maverick magazine, a bit too academic for the underground and way too underground for the academics. We are a writer's magazine in that we are read by other writers and have never worried about reaching the masses.

GENERATIONS Literary Magazine publishes the original works and ideas of both emerging and established artists in an effort to encourage conversations across the generational gaps. In hopes of filling the gaps with positive discussion and interaction across the age divide we print page and stage poetry, short fiction, personal narratives, interviews, and visual art from every generation. With special thematic issues, we aim to feature the diverse voices of our global community and to promote cultural exchange and inter-generational dialogue.

THE GEORGIA REVIEW seeks memorable and distinctive poems, short stories, and essays, whether from Pulitzer Prize winners or previously unpublished writers. Thesis-oriented interdisciplinary essays are especially welcome. Occasional special features on topics or individual writers.

Our interests are varied and tastes eclectic. Our base requirement is that submissions be ambitious, intelligent, and deftly crafted.

Gigantic Sequins is print-based and biannual. Our black & white journal is known for its quality writing and its unique design/aesthetic. We accept work from unpublished writers in addition to those who have an already established voice. We enjoy publishing writers who have their hands in various sorts of figurative creative cookie jars. We are interested in cultivating an artistic community over a widespread area through our uniquely designed journal and are known for promoting our past as well as our current contributors' achievements.

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.

A magazine of literature, art, and new media.

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