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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
Turk's Head Review Turk’s Head Review features distinctive writing, art, & media. It is published online on a rolling basis. The idea behind Turk’s Head is to combine the strengths of the blog format (steady stream of content) and the small-press literary magazine (quality work from professional artists and writers). We publish yearly print-on-demand issues of selected work from our contributors.	Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction	Yes	Yes	Jan 1 - Dec 31	Web E-publication
	Payment: No payment Subgenre: Commercial Fiction, Experimental, Flash Fiction, Formal, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Prose Poetry
The Tusculum Review We 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
	Payment: Contributor copies only Subgenre: Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, LGBT, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Prose Poetry
Union Station Magazine Designed off the image of a train station with many tracks extending outward, Union Station has a distinct urban aesthetic. We seek to be inclusive, to put into relation the many narratives, images, and voices that are redefining our landscape.	Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction	Yes	Yes	Jan 1 - Dec 31	Web
	Payment: No payment Subgenre: Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Prose Poetry
Versal Versal, 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
	Payment: Cash Subgenre: Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, Formal, Graphic/Illustrated, LGBT, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Nature/Environmental, Political, Prose Poetry, Translation
Vine Leaves Literary Journal In late 2011, Jessica Bell and Dawn Ius founded Vine Leaves Literary Journal to offer the vignette, a forgotten literary form, the exposure and credit it deserves. The journal, published quarterly online, is a lush synergy of atmospheric prose, poetry, photography and illustrations, put together with an eye for aesthetics as well as literary merit.	Poetry, Fiction	Yes	Yes	Jan 1 - Dec 31	Web Print
	Payment: Cash Subgenre: Autobiography/Memoir, Commercial Fiction, Experimental, Flash Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, Humor, LGBT, Literary Fiction, Love, Micro-poetry, Political, Prose Poetry
Vinyl Poetry Poetry and Prose that leave us excited and wanting more.	Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, Fiction	Yes	Yes	Nov 1 - Dec 1	Web E-publication
	Payment: No payment Subgenre: Cross-genre, Experimental, Flash Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, LGBT, Literary Fiction, Love, Micro-poetry, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry

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