Literary Magazines

New Madrid is the national journal of the low-residency MFA program at Murray State University. It takes its name from the New Madrid seismic zone, which falls within the central Mississippi Valley and extends through western Kentucky.

We publish work that addresses the purpose and mystery of being, in any shape or form. We appreciate humor, if it's got depth. We appreciate experimental work, if it's not gimmicky. What we look for is a voice that is genuine, speaking with some degree of lucidity and intelligence about something that feels urgently felt.

New Plains Review provides an outlet for the creative and intellectual efforts of the academic community. Dedicated to fostering and maintaining the written word, New Plains Review gives a collective presentation of a wide range of cultural perspectives and demonstrates the drive toward academic excellence upon which the University of Central Oklahoma is founded.

Newport Review is an independent online journal of fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction and visual art. Founded in the 1980s as a print journal, we are now an electronic publication dedicated to publishing innovative, language-rich fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction. We are also open to prose poetry, one-act plays and experimental forms and photography. Our New Voices section welcomes work from new and younger writers from high school through college.

For over 50 years, Nimrod's mission has been the discovery and support of new writing. The journal seeks new, unheralded writers, as well as established authors with new work that has not found a home within the establishment.

Noctua Review is the literary publication of Southern Connecticut State University's (SCSU) English department. We encourage well-crafted poetry and fiction submissions of any style from emerging and established writers.

Published five times each year, the NAR is well-known for its early discovery of young, talented fiction writers and poets. But it also publishes creative nonfiction, with emphasis on increasing concerns about environmental and ecological matters, multiculturalism, and exigent issues of gender and class.

North Dakota Quarterly is a literary journal whose roots extend back to the early days of the University of North Dakota. One of the famous “little magazines” that have been the traditional seed beds of talented writers, it puts UND on the map while contributing to the nation’s cultural and artistic life.

The Northville Review is an online literary journal. It is named for Northville, CT — a town that Google thinks exists, but was never independently incorporated. We strive to publish work that tweaks, pokes, bends, and occasionally rolls its eyes at the everyday.

nthWORD is an online magazine for people who are passionate about ideas, words and images."Original, thoughtful, smart, funny, curious, outgoing, insightful, provocative, poetic, artistic, literary and great taste in music—come to think of it, nthWORD is about as close as I've gotten to the perfect man." —Courtney Eldridge (author of Unkempt and The Generosity of Women)

Oak Bend Review is an innovative literary magazine which seeks to merge the academic and underground communities.

OneTitle Magazine is an independent, Canadian magazine of fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, and indie book reviews. We are based out of Peterborough, Ontario and aim to publish both local work and writing from all over North America and abroad. Our goal is to publish quality fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction of any style and almost all genres. In addition to this, we aim to conduct honest and informed reviews on books from indie authors and publishers. All of our content is currently available on our website.

What are we looking for? Poems, short stories, narrative non-fiction and art that causes a thunk in the pulse and a spark in the brain. We want works that combine intellect and emotion without pandering to either. Yeah, we don’t know what that means either. But we know that a work has to make us care about whatever is happening in that work. In short, we’re looking for something memorable.

The Other Journal welcomes the submission of critical essays, reviews, creative writing, and visual or performance art that encounter life through the lens of theology and culture; we seek pieces that consider the interaction of faith with contemporary life, art, politics, sexuality, technology, economics, and social justice. Although we primarily focus on perspectives within the Christian tradition, we invite dialogue with all who are interested in exploring the ongoing role of faith and spirituality in the world.

Our Stories Literary Journal publishes short stories by some of the best emerging writers online and interviews. Our staff reviews every short story that is received and provides feedback to each submission.

Out of Print provides an online platform for writers of short fiction with a connection to the subcontinent.

The Owen Wister Review is the University of Wyoming’s Arts and Literary Journal produced through the Student Media department. The editorial staff is comprised entirely of undergraduate and graduate students who have nuanced yet supportive tastes in art and writing and strive to publish the best quality creative non-fiction, poetry, fiction, and art submitted from both emerging and established authors and artists. We encourage work that challenges itself, that is naturally surprising.

We publish poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, plays, literary translation, and comics by emerging and established writers. The journal is edited and designed by the graduate students in the MFA Program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation at Queens College - CUNY. The cross-genre nature of our MFA curriculum, along with our location in an area known for ethnic and linguistic diversity, gives Ozone Park its editorial vision. Our contributors hail from all over the US and the world, and our editors represent a variety of cultural backgrounds and literary interests.

PALABRA's focus is on writing by Chicano & Latino writers that stretches the boundaries of language and literary convention.

The nonprofit literary arts collective [PANK] — PANK Magazine, Pankmagazine.com, the Little Book Series, the Invasion Readings — fosters access to emerging and experimental poetry and prose, publishing the brightest and most promising writers for the most adventurous readers. To the end of the road, up country, a far shore, the edge of things, to a place of amalgamation and unplumbed depths, where the known is made and unmade, and where unimagined futures are born, a place inhabited by contradictions, a place of quirk and startling anomaly, [PANK], no soft pink hands allowed.

Founded in 2011, Paper Nautilus has a broad range of taste. Our only criteria is quality, so whether you specialize in hybrid genres, minimalist experimental short stories, traditional sonnets, you name it—if it's done well, we want to see it. We believe in variety, and gravitate toward producing a magazine that's dynamic, eclectic, and refreshing in our selections. We also strive to support emerging writers, in addition to those already established in their careers.

Passager Magazine publishes two issues per year featuring poetry, fiction and memoir by writers over 50. Its mission is to bring attention to older writers with a publication that is beautifully designed and professionally edited. Our motto: The older the better. Annual poetry contest in April for writers over fifty, requires reading fee. We publish books by select Passager authors.

Paul Revere’s Horse is a print journal that publishes exploratory prose and poetic texts, translations, poetic reclamation projects, interviews, and other literary investigations.

Pebble Lake Review is a literary journal publishing poetry, fiction, nonfiction, reviews, and the occasional interview. PLR has regularly appeared on Verse Daily and has been featured in the 2008 Pushcart Prize anthology and Newpages.com. PLR publishes two issues a year: Fall/Winter and Spring/Summer.

Pegasus, Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College's award-winning literary magazine, is now in its thirty-seventh year of publication. The magazine is published once a year and features stories, essays, poems, art, and photography from ABAC students, faculty, staff, and alumni, Georgia high school students, and a limited number of outside contributors (by request only).

The Pennsylvania Review is an online literary monthly which publishes metrical verse, both rhymed and blank, as well as prose.

Permafrost, the farthest north literary journal for writing and the arts, publishes original work in all genres, including fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Our journal, which is published annually, also includes interviews of prominent authors, original artwork, and publication of our various contest winners. Affiliated with the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Permafrost reads for innovative and imaginative work from September through March.

Phantom Drift is one of the few literary journals in the United States focused on fabulist writing. We aim to nurture the literature of fabulism, the fantastic, and the surreal by publishing an appealing, top-quality perfectbound literary journal featuring only the best of fiction and poetry from the U.S. and abroad. Our support for writers takes the form of not only providing a showcase for their works, but offering payment, a practice that both assures us the best of writers' work and supports literature as a whole.

phati'tude Literary Magazine offers a wide collection of works that consist of poetry, prose, short stories, articles, interview and essays, along with literary criticism, book reviews and biographical profiles by established and emerging artists, poets and writers with an emphasis on writers of Native American, African, Hispanic/Latino and Asian descent. Published quarterly on POD and Amazon Kindle. phati'tude is on hiatus and will return Fall 2013 as a biannual publication.

phren-Z is a quarterly online magazine celebrating the community of Santa Cruz writers. We are interested in seeing your best work: surprise us, delight us, make us shed a tear. We accept and read submissions year-round from all adult (18 and over) writers from Santa Cruz County, both published and emerging. phren-Z accepts previously published work, as long as you hold the copyright. Simultaneous submissions are accepted: just let us know as soon as possible if a piece we are considering has been accepted elsewhere.

The Pinch is a nationally recognized literary journal published by the University of Memphis. Our name is derived from the historic Pinch District in Memphis. By referencing one of Memphis’ first communities, we aim to reflect the heart of our city’s history and the soul of our creative approach as we publish diverse voices that speak from the periphery, as well as the center, of contemporary written and artistic expression. We publish fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and visual art, and receive submissions from both established and emerging writers from all over the world.

The mission of Pith is to encourage everyone to explore and express their own creativity, and to share it with the world. Pith is published to help increase the quantity and quality of joy and laughter in the world; to recognize the many difficulties of human existence; to explore the dark and dismal side of our world, and our own psyches; and finally, to honor the triumphs of the human spirit when the human spirit actually wins.

Platte Valley Review is a juried journal of the University of Nebraska at Kearney. 

Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different and personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles. 50% of each issue is directly solicited by the guest editor, and the remaining 50% is selected from unsolicited manuscripts. Pshares Solos, a new series in 2012, will digitally publish long stories and novella length work as standalone singles. The series is staff edited, and we are actively looking for submissions. See submission guidelines for details.

Contemporary Jewish Writing and Art

Polaris publishes in the categories of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and visual art. We want to see the best that the undergraduate student has to offer and showcase the unique voice of the developing and emerging writer.

Porchlight is first and foremost about storytelling through art, image, and word. We believe there will always be a need for well-told stories that capture our imagination, poems that catch our ear, essays that make us think, and images that cause us to reflect.

POST ROAD seeks to publish up and coming writers along with more established names. We publish a wide range of styles, from realist to experimental and everything in between.

A Prairie Journal is an online magazine dedicated to providing a creative forum for writers and artists whose work reflects our relationship with the prairie and related landscapes. Submissions of poetry, prose, and artwork are invited.

After more than 85 years of continuous publication, we still seek new work from established, mid-career, and beginning prose writers and poets.

A semi-annual online anthology publishing the new works of both emerging and established literary and visual artists. A prairie wolf breathes, inhaling the positive energy enfolding each of us, exhaling intentionally-shaped howls to mindfully, helpfully balance its world. We embrace the howling animal. Prairie Wolf Press Review values the density of language, the impact of the wisely considered word.

The magazine’s goal is to publish distinctive work, regardless of theme or style.

A Public Space seeks writing that uncovers the extraordinary in the everyday, provides a rare glimpse, exposes an unexpected truth, starts a cross-cultural conversation, or puts forth a daring hypothesis. There are no boundaries or stipulations with the exception of requiring authenticity, curiosity, and an honest voice. We suggest that familiarity with the magazine – reading an issue or two – is the best way to gauge whether your work will be a good fit.

Qarrtsiluni offers electronic delivery of original poetry, prose, and art, organized into regular, themed issues, with a new post every weekday. Themes are chosen by the issue editors, who have sole discretion in deciding what to include.

The Queen City Review accepts the work of new and established writers and artists in the areas of poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, photography, sketches, paintings, graphic art, and essays on film, art, literature, and culture. We seek to publish high quality work that ranges broadly in topic and genre.