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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
BOMB Magazine Written, edited and produced by industry professionals and funded by those interested in the arts. Publishes writing which is unconventional and contains an edge, whether it be in style or subject matter.	Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction	Yes	Yes	Jan 1 - Dec 31

Bombay Gin Started in 1974, Bombay Gin is the literary journal of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics—co-founded by Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman—at Naropa University. Edited by program faculty and students, Bombay Gin publishes innovative poetry, prose, and hybrid texts as well as art, translations and interviews. Emerging from the “Outrider” or left-hand lineage, which operates outside the cultural mainstream, Bombay Gin honors a heritage of powerful scholarship and counter-poetics through the publication of work that challenges the boundaries of language, form, and genre.	Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction	No	Yes	May 1 - Sep 1	Print
	Payment: Contributor copies only Subgenre: Cross-genre, Experimental, Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry, Translation
Booth Booth invites submissions of art, poetry, prose, lists, and literary comics. The editors welcome submissions by both emerging voices and established writers.	Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction	Yes	Yes	Sep 1 - May 1	Web Print
	Subgenre: Autobiography/Memoir, Flash Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry
Born Magazine Born is an all-volunteer project that brings together writers, artists, and others from diverse fields to create multimedia artworks that explore the art of storytelling on the Web.	Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction	Yes	No	Jan 1 - Dec 31

Boston Review Boston Review is a nonpartisan magazine of ideas: animated by hope, committed to equality and reason, convinced that the imagination eludes political categories.	Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction	Yes	Yes	Jan 1 - Dec 31

Botticelli Literary Magazine Botticelli Magazine is an online literary and art journal produced and edited by students at Columbus College of Art and Design.	Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction	Yes	No	Jan 1 - Dec 31	Web Print
	Payment: Contributor copies only Subgenre: Literary Fiction
Boulevard We believe that creative and critical work should be presented in a magazine in a variegated yet coherent and balanced way. We seek writihg that both stimulates our minds and touches our hearts.	Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction	Yes	Yes	Oct 2 - Apr 30	Print

Box of Jars Box of Jars is a collection of words, music, art, and ideas. A space that promotes Auden's notion that poetry is 'memorable speech.' We could extend the idea to say that music is memorable sound, and painting is memorable imagery, and so forth. The three basic tenets we want to uphold are: sincerity, integrity, illumination. The work should be deeply felt and deeply considered; the form of each piece should be purposeful; the experience of each piece should linger.	Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, Fiction	Yes	Yes	Jan 1 - Dec 31	Web
	Payment: No payment
Brain, Child Through essays, poetry fiction and feature stories our writers provide their unique perspectives on being mothers. We aim to be down-to-earth, literary, commonsensical, funny, poignant, honest, respectful, irreverent, relevant and intelligent. We like to cover traditional and not-so-traditional parenting subjects; our writers are willing to address the big questions. Each issue of Brain, Child is packed with personal essays, in-depth features, a debate, a parody, fiction, and words from you: our community, our readers.	Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction	Yes	Yes	Jan 1 - Dec 31	Web E-publication Print
	Payment: Cash Subgenre: Autobiography/Memoir, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction
Breakwater Review Breakwater Review is an online arts journal committed to publishing poetry and prose by established and emerging writers. We’re looking for sincere, well-crafted work that takes us somewhere unexpected and sticks with us. Our team of staff and volunteers is drawn from UMass Boston students. The journal is supported, but not governed by, the Creative Writing MFA program at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.	Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction	Yes	Yes	Jan 1 - Dec 31	Web

Brick, A Literary Journal Brick is an international literary magazine based in Toronto, Canada, and edited by Michael Ondaatje, Michael Redhill, Linda Spalding, Michael Helm, Rebecca Silver Slayter, and Esta Spalding. Published twice a year, the magazine is a beautifully produced keepsake filled with essays, interviews, memoirs, travelogues, belles lettres, and casual, idiosyncratic ephemera that can only be described as “Bricky.”	Creative Nonfiction	No	No		Print
	Payment: Cash
Broad River Review We publish fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. We also encourage visual artists to submit for possible cover art. In addition, we sponsor two contests, the Rash Awards, with $500 first prizes in fiction and poetry.	Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction	Yes	Yes	Aug 1 - Nov 15	Print
	Payment: Contributor copies only Subgenre: Autobiography/Memoir, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Regional
Broad! Broad! is an online semiannual that publishes exclusively women (e.g. female-bodied or female-identified) writers, artists and photographers. We welcome both emerging and published writers.	Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction	Yes	Yes	Jan 1 - Dec 31	Web E-publication
	Subgenre: Autobiography/Memoir, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, LGBT, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Political, Prose Poetry
Brooklyn Review The Brooklyn Review is published annually by Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. Begun almost 30 years ago by John Ashbery, The Brooklyn Review has been overseen throughout its history by esteemed writers such as L.S. Asekoff, Amy Hempel, Josh Henkin, and Jonathan Baumbach. While traditionally having published only poetry, short fiction, plays, and visual art, The Brooklyn Review is expanding to include multimedia works as well as interviews with working writers and artists.	Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction	No	Yes	Sep 1 - Nov 15	E-publication Print Audio Video
	Payment: Contributor copies only Subgenre: Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, Formal, Graphic/Illustrated, LGBT, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Regional, Translation
The Brooklyner	Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction	Yes	Yes	Jan 1 - Dec 31	Web E-publication Print Audio Video
The Brooklyner	Subgenre: Autobiography/Memoir, Flash Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Regional
Burner Magazine Burner is that girl. She's witty, pretty, and doesn't dumb herself down. By day, she's a kindergarten teacher and by night, dances gogo. Inspired by fellow revolutionaries from John Lennon to Virginia Woolf, she's a muse and amusing, compelling and never complacent. The Burner girl gets hot and bothered by the Marquis de Lafayette, aspires to redefine the zeitgeist like Nietzsche, and provokes thought like Margaret Atwood.	Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction	Yes	Yes	Jan 1 - Dec 31	Web E-publication
	Payment: No payment Subgenre: Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, Humor, LGBT, Literary Fiction, Love, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry
Cadillac Cicatrix Cadillac Cicatrix publishes and promotes innovative emerging and established writers and artists on a semiannual basis with a special focus for each issue. Follow us: on Twitter.com/caddymag + on Facebook/caddymag + on Paper.li/caddymag	Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction	Yes	Yes	Jan 1 - Aug 15	Web
	Payment: No payment
Caketrain Our interest is in bringing readers the very best in contemporary creative writing. Please visit our website to learn more about this.	Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction	Yes	Yes	Jan 1 - Dec 31	E-publication Print
	Payment: Contributor copies only
Calliope Calliope is the official publication of the Writers' Special Interest Group (SIG) of American Mensa, Ltd. It is published four times a year with a circulation that spans six countries and nearly every state in the USA. Calliope is essentially a writer’s workshop by mail, providing a forum where writers can exchange ideas, learn more about their craft, and see their work in print. New writers are always welcome. Membership in Mensa is not required to subscribe or to submit works for publication.	Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction	Yes	Yes	Jan 1 - Dec 31	Web Print
	Payment: Contributor copies only
CALYX, A Journal of Art and Literature by Women CALYX Journal publishes fine art & literature, art, and book reviews by developing and emerging women authors and artists. CALYX is committed to publishing authors from diverse backgrounds. CALYX Journal is known for discovering many now well-known authors first or early in their careers.	Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction	Yes	Yes	Oct 1 - Dec 31

Canary Canary is a magazine of poetry, fiction and essays which address the environmental crisis with its heartbreaking loss of habitat and species.	Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction	Yes	Yes	Jan 1 - Dec 31	E-publication
	Payment: No payment Subgenre: Nature/Environmental
Canteen We publish fiction, poetry, and essays that examine the creative processes of writers, artists, chefs, wine critics, and even a CIA agent.	Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction	Yes	Yes	Jan 1 - Dec 31

Carolina Quarterly The history of the journal that was to become The Carolina Quarterly stretches back to 1844. Published under its current title since 1948, CQ has long been a home for the early works of significant voices in American literature, including A. R. Ammons, T. C. Boyle, Raymond Carver, Don DeLillo, Annie Dillard, Louise Erdrich, Ha Jin, Denis Johnson, Denise Levertov, Joyce Carol Oates, and Lee Smith. Works published in The Carolina Quarterly have appeared in New Stories from the South, Best of the South, Poetry Daily, O. Henry Prize Stories, The Pushcart Prizes, and Best American Short Stories.	Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction	Yes	Yes	Jan 1 - Dec 31	Web Print
	Payment: Contributor copies only Subgenre: Autobiography/Memoir, Experimental, Flash Fiction, Formal, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Prose Poetry, Translation
carte blanche carte blanche is the online venue for narratives of all forms. Published three times annually, we accept unsolicited, previously unpublished works of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, translation, graphic fiction, photography and audio submissions. We accept work from late November to March 1st.	Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction	Yes	Yes	Dec 1 - Apr 30	Web
	Payment: Cash Subgenre: Graphic/Illustrated, Translation
The Cat's Meow for Writers & Readers Magazine To publish the poetry, short stories, haikus, flash fiction, and essays of new and established writers for my reading audience (10,000+ subscribers so far). Plus, bring helpful nonfiction articles to my readers and links to purchase authors' books in my Off The Press! section.	Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction	Yes	Yes	Jan 1 - Dec 31	Web E-publication
	Payment: Contributor copies only Subgenre: Autobiography/Memoir, Commercial Fiction, Flash Fiction, Healing/Health, Historical, Humor, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, LGBT, Literary Fiction, Love, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental

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