Literary Magazines

Inlandia: A Literary Journey is currently seeking fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and images by writers and artists whose work is in some way grounded in Inland Southern California; works that will give readers around the globe a sense of the region and its people. Inlandia: A Literary Journey is the online literary journal for the Inlandia Institute. Inlandia provides free public readings, professional development seminars, creative writing workshops, and more, throughout the Inland Empire.

“The always new requirements of the social and the metaphysical engage the artist in finding a new language and new techniques.” -- Jean-Paul Sartre

Irish Pages is a biannual journal, edited in Belfast and publishing, in equal measure, writing from Ireland and overseas. Its policy is to publish poetry, short fiction, essays, creative nonfiction, memoir, essay reviews, nature-writing, translated work, literary journalism, and other autobiographical, historical, religious and scientific writing of literary distinction.

J Journal examines justice through creative work, directly and tangentially.

Jersey Devil Press releases a monthly online magazine of short fiction and, occasionally, a novel or story collection in the more established “dead tree” format. We're partial to the stories that don’t fit into the traditional definitions of speculative fiction or literature.

jmww is an online quarterly accepting fiction, nonfiction, poetry, book reviews, and essays.

Matter Press is a community-based, non-profit 501(c)(3) literary press that publishes an online literary journal (The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts), manages an annual short fiction and poetry chapbook contest, and supports a regular reading series. Matter Press offers internships to graduate MFA and Publishing students as submission readers, literary editors, and publication designers. Matter Press focuses on supporting emerging and established authors working with condensed forms of fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, and visual arts.

Kalyani Magazine is a community focused around a semi-annual literary publication featuring diverse writing styles from women of color. Each issue explores one theme, word, or concept that impacts women in diverse ways. We specifically welcome submissions from previously unpublished authors. Our goal is to be an accessible literary magazine which encourages all women of color to view themselves as writers, readers, and supports each other on this path.

Kartika Review serves the Asian American community and those involved with Diasporic Asian-inspired literature. We scout for compelling Asian American creative writing and artwork to present to the public at large. Our editors actively solicit contributions from established writers in our community in hopes their works here will inspire others. We also want to promote emerging writers and artists we foresee to be the future powerhouses of their craft. Ultimately, Kartika strives to create a literary forum that caters to and celebrates the wordsmiths of the Asian Diaspora.

We publish what we like.

We are looking for fiction and creative nonfiction that is difficult to define—-the more you blur the line, the better. We consider any prose that is smart, illuminating, experimental, and/or funny. We accept queries for interviews with writers and artists of any medium. In our Reviews of Things section, writers can review practically anything, so long as their review is somewhat humorous and speaks to a deeper aspect of truth.

Our focus is post-natural ecological literature and essay.

Kweli celebrates cultural kinships and the role of the literary imagination. In our shared space, you will come to know the lived experience of people of color. Our memories are wrapped inside the music of the Muscogee, the blues songs of the South, the clipped patois of the Caribbean. In English and Spanish, Zulu and Tagalog, a useful past is lying down next to an ailing present. Listen. Grow. Lift. Kweli Journal is a monthly literary publication.  We seek high quality literary work that is beautiful, sustaining, and profound.

Fiction that falls in the cracks between genres.

Lalitamba is a contemporary journal of international writings for liberation. From page to page, you’ll find the writings of saints, wanderers, prison inmates, and award-winning novelists. These are the mystics of our time. They challenge us to live and to love without hesitation. Lalitamba was inspired by a pilgrimage through India. In early 2004, we traveled from village to village, seeking to alleviate the suffering of poverty, illness, and plain loss of hope. The name Lalitamba comes from a devotional song. It means Divine Mother.

The LBJ, published semiannually, is dedicated to creative writing and birds. Its title is drawn from the term “little brown job” or “lbj,” used by birders, at once dismissively and affectionately, when struggling to identify a sparrow-like individual in the field. The LBJ, also known as the literary bird journal, celebrates these non-nondescripts and other avians in contemporary literature. The journal publishes creative nonfiction, fiction, poetry, narrative scholarship, literary journalism, and book reviews.

We welcome articles, reviews, op-eds, poetry, fiction, art, photography, essays and interviews that reflect our mission of broadening perspectives on the Middle East and North Africa in the media and the public eye, and promoting peace through a focus on the arts and culture—on creative and intellectual work that broadens the discourse between “east” and “west.” While, generally speaking, the Levantine Review addresses the Arab/Muslim world both in the MENA and diaspora, we also include the many minority cultures that are part of the region.

Lifelines is a literary journal sposored by Dartmouth Medical School. Content in the journal includes short stories, essays, plays and interviews. The editorial review staff are comprised of Dartmouth faculty and alum, physicians and medical school students. We are a literary and art journal committed to exploring the intersection of creativity and the experience of medicine, death and art.

Line Zero is an emerging, independent print journal dedicated to writing and the arts. Unlike any other publication of its kind, Line Zero features the hybrid content of a traditional literary journal and a collection of editorial essays on art, writing, music, publishing, photography, creative writing reference, book and tech reviews, and art events.

Caffeinating minds for eighteen years. Stimulating careers for writers; great literature for readers. First ten years gave away 30,000 copies free in New York coffeehouses. Now free online to all.

Literary Juice is dedicated to publishing both established and budding writers. We prefer that works of fiction and poetry deliver an element of surprise within the plot.

Publishers of contemporary fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. We publish works in translation.

We are a high-quality, innovative, literary magazine specializing in short fiction. We publish stories that excite us from new and established writers with strong voices and something to say.

The goal of the magazine continues to be to import the best writing to local readers, to juxtapose the work of established writers with new writers, and to export the best local writers to a national readership. Each poem and story submitted toTLR is judged entirely on its own merit whether the author is already nationally known or previously unpublished.

LUMINA, established in 2000, is the annual print publication of the Sarah Lawrence College graduate writing program. Every year, Lumina is greeted by a new editorial staff; as a result we are not tied to any style or subject matter. Instead, we seek the new, exciting and rule-breaking work from writers both established and emerging.

Collaborative, edgy, experimental, provocative, playful, lyrical, jazzy, maximalist. We publish poetry, fictions, whatnots, collages, mini-movies, cartoons, columns, dramas, art galleries, music, recitations.

Malahat is one of Canada's most acclaimed literary magazines, publishing poetry and fiction by emerging and established writers from around the world. Malahat is a multiple National Magazine Award, Western Magazine Award, and Journey, O. Henry, and Pushcart Prize recipient.

Excellent international literature, with focus on Asia/the Pacific/the Americas; often in new translations. Thematic.

Original, literary/ mainstream fiction, flash fiction, poetry, poetry and narrative nonfiction. We seek exceptional work.

As a literary journal with an educational twist, Mason’s Road aims to focus each issue on a particular element of the writing craft.

The pieces that give us chills, the pieces that make us step back and think about our surroundings, those are the ones we are looking for. Make us laugh, make us cry, make us fear death. Hell, make us want to die. Love, hate, hope, irony, depression—life has many feelings and emotions. What makes you feel these things? We want to read something that proves to us that the human brain is still worth something. Or maybe it is worth nothing.

The Medulla Review is a literary journal that caters to experimental and surreal writing, a place in the hindbrain where breathing, swallowing, and circulation are done through words, a venue for those who believe in creating reality.

We 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.

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.

Midway Journal accepts submissions of aesthetically ambitious work that occupies the realms between both the traditional and experimental.

MilSpeak Memo, MilSpeak Foundation's flagship pub, seeks creative work addressing themes relevant to military life. Publishes new work and best of the web selections, including visual art. MilSpeak Foundation, Inc. (501c3 NPO) exists to raise awareness of creative works by military people, introduces military people to stress management through Arts participation, publishes MilSpeak Books & MilSpeak Memo, preserves history of the everyday in military life, and fosters communication between military and civilian cultures.

The Missing Slate is an online art and literary journal with roots in Pakistan and an international editorial team. The magazine aims both to promote new writing from across the world to a South Asian audience and to promote new writing from South Asia to an audience across the world. We are not afraid to publish material that would be considered ‘taboo’ by similar magazines, and we aim to include previously unpublished writers in every issue. As a non-profit organisation, we continue to rely on the support of a global network of readers and contributors.

Since 1978, The Missouri Review has held a reputation for finding and publishing the very best writers first. We are based at the University of Missouri and publish four issues each year. Each issue contains new fiction, poetry and essays. We also run author interviews and found-text features where we print never before published works such as a short story by William Faulkner or one of Tennessee Williams' plays. Our annual contest is the Editors' Prize, which awards $5000 and publication in each category for a group of poems, a short story, and an essay.

We've never been able to answer satisfactorily what we mean by "social change." To paraphrase Justice Douglas, we know a Mobius story or poem when we see one. We like writing that offers some form of social commentary, but we don't necessarily favor the overtly political, or the overtly anything. We have a marked distaste for prosaic didacticism (but a weakness for prose poems).

MOLT is a new literary journal based in the principles of honesty and simplicity. We believe that good writing deserves to be read, regardless of who wrote it or how many pages we have left. (We resolved this issue by abandoning pages altogether.) We hope to provide a voice for emerging writers, especially those whose work falls in the gap between “mainstream” and “alternative” writing—which in contemporary literature is alarmingly wide. We are also committed to responding personally to every submission, opening a channel of communication between writers and editors.

Monday Night has been bringing quality new literature to the airwaves since 2001. We seek to publish the best new and emerging writers from around the U.S. and are open to international submissions as well.

The Montucky Review is an online poetry publication that seeks well crafted poetry from both established and novice writers alike. We hope to be the antithesis of all the snootiness and pretension that dominates the poetry publishing world. That is not to say that we will publish everything that comes our way, we won't. Well established writer or first submission, you have an equal chance of being published or rejected. We look for poetry we like, with "like" being very subjective, indeed.

Mosaic is a website and triannual print magazine that explores the literary arts of the African Diaspora. Mosaic features a unique blend of essays, profiles, and reviews.

Mud Luscious Press is an independent press focused on raw & aggressive work. We publish an online quarterly, a novel(la) series, and two imprint series.

An online magazine of the short and in-between.  NAP seeks writing that is any combination of the following: sensory, crisp, detailed, odd, humorous, serious, short, really short, in-between, emotional, mysterious, visual, dense, charming, imaginative, absurd, animated and experimental.

Nat. Brut is a multimedia literary journal featuring original and groundbreaking fiction, poetry, and essays, plus short films, visual art, and a free quarterly audio mixtape. Each issue of Nat. Brut is a collection of strange, intelligent creative works, selected by artists of varying levels of fame and experience.

Bilingual journal for readers and writers in English and Crimean Tatar. While Crimean Tatar culture is our first love, we love everything about books, art, and intercultural exchanges. Within our pages we publish your work in Romania, in English, occasionally translating your poetry in Crimean Tatar. We publish anthologies in English, Crimean Tatar and Romanian (poetry, fiction, and non-fiction).