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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 |
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 The Tusculum ReviewWe want writing that takes risks while still paying attention to craft. We are happy to see prose poems, stories that burst into poems, poems that burst into stories, etc. Mixing genres doesn’t scare us. Of course boring, self-involved, over-inflated pap turns us off. We publish poems, fiction, nonfiction, and plays. |
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction |
No | Yes | Jan 1 - Dec 31 |
Print |
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Contributor copies only Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, LGBT, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Prose Poetry |
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 Two Hawks QuarterlyA digital literary journal brought to you by writers in the BA in Liberal Studies Creative Writing Concentration at Antioch University Los Angeles. Two Hawks is dedicated to sparking debate and discussion by exposing the world to the most daring, lyrical, and edgy poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, and experimental writing available. |
Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, Fiction |
Yes | Yes | Jan 1 - Dec 31 |
Web |
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No payment Cross-genre, Flash Fiction |
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 Vandalvandal/van-dal/’vaendl/van-dl 1. it is not a reaction to something, but a catalyst to conversation. 2. it is the immigrant and the disenfranchised, the frustrated and the abandoned, the hopeful and the progressive. 3. is the work of the activist, for we believe that art and literature are obsolete if they don't move you, make you cry, make your bowels hurt from beneath your skin, make you outraged, sympathetic, or simply give a fuck. |
Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, Fiction |
Yes | Yes | Jan 1 - Dec 31 |
Web |
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No payment Cross-genre |
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 VerdadVerdad is an online, twice-yearly literary and fine arts journal that showcases the best unpublished poetry, short stories, non-fiction and visual art that comes our way. We also offer a wide range of interviews featuring contemporary writers and artists. We encourage new writers and artists to submit |
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction |
Yes | Yes | Jan 1 - Dec 31 |
Web |
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No payment Cross-genre |
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 VersalVersal, the literary & arts journal out of Amsterdam, seeks work that is urgent, involved, and unexpected. A publication celebrating translocal intersections and cross-cultural dialogue, Versal is internationally renowned for the quality of work published by up-and-coming as well as established writers, and for its strong attention to design and production values. Versal has been featured many times in Poets&Writers Magazine, including being named among the "top indie innovators" (November/December 2010). |
Poetry, Fiction |
Yes | Yes | Sep 15 - Jan 15 |
Print |
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Cash Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, Formal, Graphic/Illustrated, LGBT, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Nature/Environmental, Political, Prose Poetry, Translation |
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 Vinyl PoetryPoetry and Prose that leave us excited and wanting more. |
Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, Fiction |
Yes | Yes | Nov 1 - Dec 1 |
Web E-publication |
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No payment Cross-genre, Experimental, Flash Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, LGBT, Literary Fiction, Love, Micro-poetry, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry |
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