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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
Temenos Journal We seek to publish the very best new fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and literary essays by established and emerging writers. All manuscripts are given full consideration. We suggest you first familiarize yourself with Temenos before you submit. Only previously unpublished work will be considered. We do accept simultaneous submissions, but ask that you inform us immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere. Please read the submission guidelines carefully.	Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction	Yes	Yes	Jan 1 - Dec 31	Web Print
	Payment: Contributor copies only Subgenre: Cross-genre, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Prose Poetry
Temporary Infinity We are looking for high quality submissions. Whatever form your work takes, as long as it is quality, we want it.	Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, Fiction	Yes	No	Jan 1 - Dec 31	Web E-publication
	Payment: Cash Subgenre: Autobiography/Memoir, Commercial Fiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, Formal, Graphic/Illustrated, Healing/Health, Historical, Humor, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, LGBT, Literary Fiction, Love, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Regional, Religious/Spiritual, Serialized Fiction, War
Terracotta Typewriter We seek submissions of literary works with a connection to China. The definition of “connection to China” can be stretched as much as an author sees fit. For example, expatriate writers living in China or who have lived in China, Chinese writers writing in English, translators of Chinese writing, works that are set in China, manuscripts covered in Chinese food (General Tso’s chicken doesn’t count), or anything else a creative mind can imagine as a connection to China.	Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, Fiction	Yes	Yes	Jan 1 - Dec 31	Web E-publication
	Payment: No payment
Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built + Natural Environments A theme-based literary and technical journal published quarterly and using editorials, poetry, essays, fiction, articles, reviews, interviews, artwork, videos, and case studies to explore the nexus between our built and natural environments.	Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction	Yes	Yes	Jan 1 - Dec 31	Web Audio Video
	Payment: No payment Subgenre: Autobiography/Memoir, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, Healing/Health, Humor, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, LGBT, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Translation
THEMA THEMA is a theme-generated journal of short stories, poetry, art and photography. Each issue is a stand-alone anthology based on a unique theme.	Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction	No	Yes	Jan 1 - Dec 31	Print
	Payment: Cash
theNewerYork We are a magazine of forms! Literature has been confined to poetry and short-stories (or myths) for thousands of years, and novels have been around for less than 400-years. We want narratives that challenge this triumvirate, that while being categorically a poem or short-story, are not restricted by those titles.	Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction	Yes	Yes	Jan 1 - Dec 31	Web Print
	Payment: Contributor copies only Subgenre: Experimental
Thieves Jargon We like it edgy and impulsive and informed by experience.	Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction	Yes	Yes	Jan 1 - Dec 31

Think Journal Think Journal publishes emerging and established writers whose work exhibits a balance between form and content.	Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction	Yes	No	Jan 1 - Dec 31	Web Print Audio
	Payment: Contributor copies only
Third Coast Third Coast is one of the nation’s premier literary magazines—and one of only a handful of nationally distributed literary magazines to regularly include four genres. Third Coast consistently publishes excellent--and often award-winning--fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and drama. Work from Third Coast has appeared in the O Henry Award Series, The Pushcart Prize Series, Best American Poetry, and Best of the West: New Stories from the Wide Side of the Missouri.	Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction	Yes	Yes	Sep 15 - May 1	Print
	Payment: Contributor copies only
This Great Society The Concept: A "by peers, for peers" online creative journal, This Great Society provides a creative outlet for artists, musicians, writers, photographers, etc. We publish monthly. The Content: We publish anything creatively exceptional that we can upload. If there is talent, we will find a place to put it. The Themes: The Society introduces a new theme each month for contributors to draw on.	Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, Fiction	Yes	Yes	Jan 1 - Dec 31	Web
	Payment: No payment Subgenre: Autobiography/Memoir, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Prose Poetry
THIS Literary Magazine THIS Literary Magazine is an online literary publication seeking the best work of new and emerging writers. We publish a new issue quarterly and showcase a poet yearly as part of our Poet Spotlight series. Find us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/thiszine Follow us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/thiszine	Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction	Yes	Yes	Jan 1 - Dec 31	Web Video
	Payment: No payment Subgenre: Experimental, Flash Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Serialized Fiction, Translation
Thoughtsmith Thoughtsmith was founded in 2009 with the intention of promoting the arts in any small way possible.	Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction	Yes	Yes	Jan 1 - Dec 31	Web E-publication
	Payment: No payment Subgenre: Humor, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Prose Poetry
The Threepenny Review We are an arts magazine that combines literature, the visual and performing arts, memoir, and essay, based in the San Francisco Bay Area but with a second office in New York and a national (possibly international) focus.	Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction	No	No	Jan 1 - Aug 31

Thrice Fiction We want to show traditional fictive forms alongside the new.	Fiction	Yes	Yes		Web E-publication Print
	Payment: No payment Subgenre: Cross-genre, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry
THRUSH Poetry Journal Our taste is eclectic. We want poems that move us, a strong sense of imagery, emotion, with interesting and surprising use of language, words that resonate. We want voice. Established and new poets are encouraged to submit. Experimental poetry is fine, randomness is fine also. However, we do not want experimental and random just for the sake of calling it such. No long poems. We prefer a poem that will fit on one page.	Poetry	Yes	Yes	Jan 1 - Dec 31	Web Print
	Payment: No payment

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