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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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 Memorious: A Journal of New Verse and FictionWe publish poetry and fiction by emerging and established writers. We also collaborate with the Chicago Organization SIngers On New Ground for an annual art song contest, in which a guest composer selects a poem to set. The winning work is performed in Chicago, and a studio recording is published in the magazine. Memorious was founded in 2004 by Robert Arnold, Brian Green, and Rebecca Morgan Frank. Site design by Brian Green. Memorious is a member of the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses. |
Poetry, Fiction |
Yes | Yes | Jan 1 - Dec 31 |
Web |
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No payment Literary Fiction |
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 Menacing HedgeMenacing Hedge is a quarterly journal of poetry, fiction and artwork, that is committed to fostering access to emerging and experimental poetry and prose. Ongoing publication is scheduled for the first weeks of July, October, January, and April with an annual "Best of" print edition. |
Poetry, Fiction |
Yes | Yes | Jan 1 - Dec 31 |
Web Audio |
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No payment Experimental |
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Meridian Founded in 1998, Meridian has featured the works of numerous Pulitzer Prize Winners, National Book Award Winners, and established writers. However, as a magazine edited by young writers, we value nothing more than showcasing tomorrow's talent, often publishing a new author's first story or poem. |
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction |
Yes | Yes | Aug 15 - Apr 15 |
E-publication Print |
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Michigan Quarterly Review MQR publishes essays, memoirs, interviews, fiction, poetry, and book reviews, including an annual theme issue, for an intellectual, but not necessarily academic, readership. |
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction |
No | No | Jan 1 - Dec 31 | |
 Midway JournalMidway Journal accepts submissions of aesthetically ambitious work that occupies the realms between both the traditional and experimental. |
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction |
Yes | Yes | Jan 1 - May 31 |
Web |
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No payment Cross-genre, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry |
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 Milk SugarMilk Sugar is a literary journal that was formed with the creative writer in mind. We want to provide a forum where writers feel free to express their creative side in an environment that actually promotes creativity and not the status quo. Milk Sugar is not meant to be your typical literary journal, hence the name. We want the erotic, the fantastical, the existential, the dirt, the grime and most of all the ultimate beauty that is a well written piece. Allow us the privilege of finding out who you are through your work. Represent yourself well. |
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction |
No | Yes | Oct 1 - Jan 31 |
Web |
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No payment Autobiography/Memoir, Commercial Fiction, Erotica, Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, Humor, LGBT, Literary Fiction, Love, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry |
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