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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
Pleiades Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing (& Reviews) publishes the best poetry, fiction, and essays that come across our desk. In addition, the Pleiades Book Review, which comprises 100-150 pages of the magazine, prints detailed book reviews of recent small-press poetry and fiction.	Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction	Yes	Yes	Aug 15 - May 15	Print
	Payment: Contributor copies only
Ploughshares 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.	Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction	Yes	Yes	Jun 1 - Jan 15	Web E-publication Print
	Payment: Cash Subgenre: Autobiography/Memoir, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Prose Poetry, Translation
Plume A provisional indication of our tastes – “what we are looking for” — may be inferred from the quoted passages (which will change often): a sense of the uncanny, foremost, and of the fineness of language, the huge absences to which it points and partakes of, and the urgency and permanence of its state of departure — the coattails forever –just now—disappearing around the corner.	Poetry	Yes	Yes		Web Print
	Payment: No payment
Poecology Poecology is an online literary journal for contemporary writing about place, ecology, and the environment. We publish poetry, fiction, and nonfiction that meditates human responses to ecological and place-based themes from various perspectives and aesthetics, pushing boundaries and experimenting whenever possible.	Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction	Yes	Yes	Sep 1 - Jun 1	Web
	Payment: No payment Subgenre: Nature/Environmental
Poemeleon: A Journal of Poetry Each issue focuses on a specific kind of poetry. Check the guidelines to view our current call for submisions.	Poetry	Yes	Yes	Jan 1 - Dec 31	Web
	Payment: No payment
Poems & Plays During our open reading period, we also read for the Tennessee Chapbook Prize, with the winning entry published in the subsequent issue of the journal. Manuscripts of up to 24 pages, any combination of poems and/or short plays, are eligible. Please contact for information.	Poetry	No	No	Oct 1 - Nov 30	Print
	Payment: Contributor copies only

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