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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
Weber—The Contemporary West Weber invites submissions in the genres of personal narrative, critical commentary, fiction, creative non-fiction, and poetry that offer insight into the environment and culture (both broadly defined) of the contemporary western United States.	Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, Fiction	Yes	Yes	Jan 1 - Dec 31	Web Print
	Payment: Contributor copies only Subgenre: Regional
West Branch	Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, Fiction	Yes	Yes	Aug 15 - Apr 15	Web E-publication Print
West Branch	Payment: Cash Subgenre: Translation
Whiskey & Fox A journal of Poetry, Theory, Queer-Heterotopia.	Poetry	Yes	Yes	Oct 1 - Dec 31	Web Print

Whiskey Island Magazine Whiskey Island is a nonprofit literary journal that has been published by Cleveland State University for over thirty years. We welcome poetry and fiction submissions. We look to publish exciting new voices as well as established authors.	Poetry, Fiction	Yes	Yes	Aug 15 - May 1	Print
	Payment: Contributor copies only Subgenre: Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, LGBT, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Prose Poetry
White Whale Review Published quarterly, White Whale Review is an online literary magazine devoted to the single-minded pursuit of that which eludes easy capture: "beauty"; "truth"; the fictions that window or curtain each. Those skeletally abstract words for ideas best suggested in tangible form, what we want is a dialogue between art and the world lodged hard in the throat of things. White Whale Review stands as a forum for poetry, short fiction, and nonfiction from both established and new writers, favoring quality over genre or theme.	Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, Fiction	Yes	Yes	Jan 1 - Dec 31	Web
	Payment: No payment
Whitefish Review We are a nationally-acclaimed non-profit journal publishing the distinctive literature, art, and photography of mountain culture. Featuring established and emerging authors and artists, we weave a diverse mix of narratives with a 12-page color section. We publish work by both established and emerging writers and artists that captivates and illuminates. Writing style isn't as necessary as thoughtfulness or consideration. Art in all forms that reaches and strives for excellence is the only real criteria.	Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction	Yes	Yes	Jan 1 - Mar 15	Print
	Payment: Contributor copies only
Wigleaf We publish accomplished fiction under 1000 words. In recent months, we've run stories by Iowa Short Fiction Award and Grace Paley Prize winning authors, as well as by writers who were previously unpublished. The forthcoming volume of the Pushcart Prize contains a story from our pages (only the 2nd time that an online journal has received this distinction). Also we are the home of the Wigleaf Top 50, a link-based award annual (Laura Ellen Scott is the Series Editor; the most recent Selecting Editor was Dan Chaon.)	Fiction	Yes	Yes	Sep 1 - May 31	Web
	Payment: No payment Subgenre: Flash Fiction
Wild Goose Poetry Review Quarterly online journal of poetry, reviews, and poetry-related news. To facilitate further conversation about the poetry in the Goose, Wild Goose posts commentary by the poets and invites readers to leave their comments as well.	Poetry	Yes	No	Jan 1 - Dec 31
	Payment: No payment
Wilderness House Literary Review The Wilderness House Literary Review is a publication devoted to excellence in literature and the arts.	Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction	Yes	Yes	Jan 1 - Dec 31	Web E-publication
	Payment: No payment Subgenre: Autobiography/Memoir, Commercial Fiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Flash Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, Historical, Humor, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Regional, Serialized Fiction, Translation, War
Willow Springs Willow Springs publishes the finest in contemporary fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, as well as interviews with some of the most notable authors in contemporary literature. Founded in 1977 and published twice yearly, Willow Springs features two interviews per issue, as well as arresting essays, fiction, and poetry by a diverse variety of writers—from the unknown and up and coming, to U.S. Poet Laureates and Pulitzer Prize winners. An indispensable resource for writers and readers, Willow Springs engages its audience in an ongoing discussion of art, ideas, and what it means to be human.	Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction	Yes	Yes	Sep 1 - May 31	E-publication Print
	Payment: Contributor copies only Subgenre: Autobiography/Memoir, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Prose Poetry
Wisconsin Review The Wisconsin Review publishes both new and established authors of outstanding poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. We publish bi-annually in the spring and fall.	Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction	Yes	Yes	Jan 1 - Dec 31	Print
	Payment: Contributor copies only Subgenre: Autobiography/Memoir
Witness Witness blends the features of a literary and an issue-oriented magazine to highlight the role of the modern writer as witness to his or her times.	Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction	Yes	Yes	Jan 1 - Mar 31	Web Print
	Payment: Cash
Women in REDzine We look for writing that is surprisingly exceptional, not necessarily the in your face brilliance, but the kind of writing that surprises you with story and a clear focus and voice. We love new writers, adore established writers, and embrace the I've-Never-Done-This-Before writers. If you have a story, a poem, an essay, or something that you haven't quite classified yet, but you think it could stand up to being read, then please submit it. Our staff loves to read!	Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction	Yes	Yes		Web E-publication Print Audio Video
	Payment: Contributor copies only Subgenre: Autobiography/Memoir, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, Humor, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, LGBT, Literary Fiction, Love, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Prose Poetry, Regional
WomenArts Quarterly Journal WomenArts Quarterly Journal is published by Vivace Press at the University of Missouri-St. Louis as an initiative of the Women in the Arts organization. The editors invite submissions of unpublished essays, fiction, poetry, visual art, interviews, and reviews by women	Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction	Yes	Yes	Jan 1 - Dec 31	Print
	Payment: Contributor copies only Subgenre: Cross-genre, Humor, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Prose Poetry
The Worcester Review We are an annual journal. All submissions are read independently by at least two editors. Crititcal work should have a central New England connection.	Poetry, Fiction	Yes	Yes	May 1 - Jul 31	Print
	Payment: Contributor copies only

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