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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
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 Poetry Review Broad range of poetry, translations, criticism, reviews, interviews, and columns.	Poetry	Yes	No	Jan 1 - Dec 31

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

Amethyst Arsenic Amethyst Arsenic was founded in 2011 to publish the best poetry and art to the widest possible audience. We pay for accepted work and seek to nominate poems for awards. We are open to all forms of poetry from new and established voices. We have a goal to publish at least twice a year, as well as create opportunities for guest editors.	Poetry	Yes	Yes	Jan 1 - Dec 31	Web Audio Video
	Payment: Cash
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

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