Literary Magazines

Publishes ten featured poets times three poems per issue. Other poetry, including longer poems and prose poems are also featured. Once a poet is published in 10x3 plus, he or she becomes a 10x3 writer and is encouraged to submit again.

At 32 Poems our bias is for engaging language complicated by music, form, and sentiment. As a rule we publish shorter work that can fit on a single page (32 lines or less), but we sometimes make exceptions to accommodate particularly exciting poems that run a little longer. Perhaps most importantly, our editors believe that a poem’s publication should not begin its disappearance, so we actively champion contributing poets by placing issues with other publications, nominating writers for recognition and prizes, and sharing their work outside the confines of the physical journal.

491 is a twice-yearly print magazine whose aim is to feature up-and-coming poets and artists. Formed in May 2009, 491 is an independent publication.

The more unique the better. We like weird poems and stories. We like strange, odd, bizarre, even leaning towards psychotic.

5x5 is a pocket-sized literary magazine packed with concise written and visual art, full of new and established voices, both young and old, that push the limits of our five inch by five inch format.

As a national, nonprofit HIV/AIDS magazine, A&U is interested in publishing original literature, art, opinion, and reportage relating in any way to the AIDS pandemic. We encourage all topics related to HIV/AIDS, including international perspectives, personal accounts, historical perspectives, and personal responses to HIV-related art or artists. We also welcome English translations of work that is unpublished or previously published in a language other than English. See our Submissions page for further information.

To identify new and emerging writers and visual artists who have a particular focus on re-defining the landscape of their artform. Artists of color and those others who are traditionally underrepresented in the field are especially encouraged to submit work.

We are a poetry journal, focusing on the highest quality literary poetry. Abramelin has been publishing since the summer of 2006. Many of the best small press writers have graced our pages. I have changed the format from one or two issues a year to monthly updates, often with a featured poet for the month. We no longer take paper submissions, only email, to: nessaralindaran@aol.com We will be reading submissions year-round. I hope to respond to all submissions now within 2 weeks. I look forward to reading and sharing with everyone.

The Acentos Review publishes poetry, fiction, memoir, interviews, translations and artwork by emerging and established Latina/o writers four times a year. We welcome submissions in English, Spanish, Spanglish and indigenous languages.

The Adirondack Review is an independent on-line quarterly of literature and the arts published by Black Lawrence Press. It is dedicated to publishing quality poetry, fiction, artwork, and photography, as well as interviews, articles, book reviews, and film reviews. TAR was established in the spring of 2000, with its first issue appearing that summer. A unique feature of The Adirondack Review is that issues are published as they come together; i.e., readers can watch the issue unfold as new work is accepted and published by clicking on the evolving issue link on the cover page.

We look for the honest voice, the idiosyncratic signature, experimental where necessary but not willfully so. Writing that grows from a vision, a perspective, and a passion will interest us, regardless of structure or approach.

Alaska Quarterly Review (AQR) publishes fiction, short plays, poetry, photo essays, and literary non-fiction in traditional and experimental styles. Although AQR publishes established writers, most of our content comes from unsolicited submissions and the editors are committed to publishing new and emerging writers.

We publish poems on all topics in all forms, up to approximately 60 lines.

A publication of Prescott College, Alligator Juniper features contemporary poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. We encourage submissions from writers at all levels, especially emerging and early-career writers. AJ has twice won the AWP Directors' Prize for Undergraduate Literary Magazines.

American Letters & Commentary is an eclectic literary magazine featuring innovative and challenging writing in all forms. Each annual issue features a substantial and diverse selection of fiction, poetry, essays, translation, and critical opinion by renowned and up-and-coming writers.

A quarterly, American Short Fiction (ASF) strives to discover and publish new fiction in which transformations of language, narrative, and character occur swiftly, deftly, and unexpectedly. We are drawn to evocative language, unique subject matter, and an overall sense of immediacy.

We publish both new and seasoned writers, accepting stories, poems, essays, and BW photography on all subjects, in any form. We usually have some New England writers and pieces, but strive to be eclectic and interesting. Check Submission Guidelines for occasional Special Issue topics.

amphibi.us is looking for inventive, incendiary fiction, prose and poetry that lights everyone's eyes on fire. We want the stuff that you couldn't stop yourself from writing, the stuff that your mother told you was not poetry. We want the clean stuff, the dirty stuff, and everything in between. We update (nearly) daily, established and unknown writers alike.

Founded by The New Yorker fiction contributor and Whiting Writers' Award-winner Rick Rofihe, anderbo.com is a New York City-based Literary Online Journal that publishes short stories, poetry, and nonfiction (a.k.a. “fact”). Named “The Best New Online Journal” by storySouth, anderbo.com accepts work from previously-unpublished and emerging talents, as well as established writers and poets.

Annalemma Magazine is a literary and arts journal printed biannually and updated weekly online. Founded in 2007 with the expressed mission of engaging as many people as possible in the life-changing experience of telling good stories, Annalemma’s print issues are a lavish celebration of colorful artwork and photography that accompany short stories and essays from writers of all ages, nationalities, disciplines and echelons of the publishing world.

Anomalous Press launched in March of 2011 as a non-profit press dedicated to the diffusion of writing in the forms it can take. Its backbone is an editorial collective from different backgrounds and geographies that keep an eye out for compelling projects that, in any number of ways, challenge expectations of what writing and reading should be.

The Antioch Review, founded in 1941, is one of the oldest, continuously publishing literary magazines in America, publishing fiction, essays, and poetry from both emerging as well as established authors. Our authors are consistently included in Best American anthologies & Pushcart.

The Apple Valley Review is an online literary journal. It is published twice annually, once in spring and once in fall. Each issue features a collection of poetry, short fiction, and essays. Our goal is to support and promote both emerging and established writers.

The Arava Review is a contemporary art and poetry review. We are interested in poetry and art on the page. We also hold readings and curate shows.

Here at Arcadia, we have become increasingly aware of the limitations other journals pin on themselves. They only want a certain word count, a certain brushstroke, a certain aesthetic. We want to put an end to that. We want to see your very best work. Novella, short story, poem, painting, photograph, stand-up comedy routine, album, short film, mockumentary, epic poem about the Dukes of Hazzard, we don't care. We want to see it, read it, hear it, and love it. If it kicks ass, we will find a way to publish it.

Arkansas Review is a journal of Delta studies. All materials must evoke or respond to the natural and/or cultural experience of the seven state Mississippi River Delta (IL, MO, KY, TN, AR, MS, LA).

At Armchair/Shotgun, we do not care about your bio. We read all submissions anonymously, and conceal even an author’s name until a piece has been selected for publication. We feel that good writing does not know one MFA program from another. It does not know a Ph.D. from a high school drop-out. Good writing knows only story. We accept poetry, fiction, non-fiction and visual arts submissions for publication on real honest-to-goodness paper.

Artichoke Haircut was created not to reaffirm the editors pre-existing aesthetic prejudices, just the opposite. We were bored of much of the contemporary literature we had been reading and much of what had been force-fed to us by larger literary publications. We wanted to be surprised and we wanted to publish a magazine that would surprise our readers. For that reason, we strive to publish the best work from around the country by up-and-coming writers who have yet to have their voices heard by a large audience.

The Asian American Literary Review is a space for those who consider the designation "Asian American" a fruitful starting point for artistic vision and community. In showcasing the work of established and emerging writers, the journal aims to incubate dialogues and, just as importantly, open those dialogues to regional, national, and international audiences of all constituencies. Published biannually, AALR features fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, translations, comic art, interviews, and book reviews.

Assisi offers an eclectic mix of essays (both academic and personal), fiction and poetry.

At Length is a venue for ambitious, in-depth writing, music, photography, and art that are open to possibilities shorter forms preclude. As a print-friendly online magazine, we create ways for readers, listeners, and viewers to interact with noteworthy long work.

The Audio Zine, at In Stereo Press, provides a space for underground writers, musicians, and visual artists.  The main focus is to put a voice and a face to all the work, creating a sense of closeness for the audience with the artist.  The Audio Zine is not just an online publication, but a community builder.

The Aurorean (April and October) and has been published continually since 1995, featuring the work of over 1,000 poets worldwide. The Aurorean has been featured in Poet’s Market and several-times recommended as a “Pick” by the prestigious Small Press Review. SPR: “a journal that has both high production values and quality poetry ... perfect to elevate you from the dark night of the soul.” NewPages: "This little journal will fill you up." Pays $30 for "Best Poem" each issue and $10 for Creative Writing Student Outstanding Haiku Award each issue.

We publish poetry, short fiction, essays, visual art and prose poems. We look first for the finely crafted piece and believe in Pound’s dictum, “Fundamental accuracy of statement is the sole morality of writing.” We’re open to all forms, but have a bias toward clear, concise, understandable work that communicates, surprises or disturbs-writing that bears witness to the world we live in.

A monthly review of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and intellectual life, we started The Bacon Review because we care deeply about high-quality literature. We are also aware that the commercial publishing industry is facing difficult times, and consequently, it’s often the case that good writing is not published and authors not promoted. It’s our goal to make excellent work available for free. We also believe that writing should be about more than just publishing. We are interested in our authors as people; we want to know what inspires and motivates our contributors to write.

We publish the best fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction.

There is great complexity in any form or creative assertion of “here”, and it is in this spirit that BARELY SOUTH REVIEW embraces the opportunity to feature works from emerging as well as established writers. We are interested in great writing in its myriad forms. We seek to present many voices, especially those that defy easy regional, thematic, and stylistic categorization.

Bartleby-Snopes is an online literary magazine with several goals in mind. We want to publish the best new fiction we can find. We want to give the many writers that are out there an opportunity to publish their best work. We want to inspire you to create great works of fiction. We publish eight stories per month, and we always respond within two weeks.

Bayou Magazine publishes short fiction, nonfiction and poetry from established, award-winning authors as well as emerging writers. In keeping the aesthetics of the Creative Writing Workshop at UNO, Bayou is especially interested in discovering and showcasing fresh literary voices. The journal awards yearly contests in both fiction and poetry.

Bellevue Literary Review is a unique literary magazine that examines human existence through the prism of health and healing, illness and disease. We invite submissions of previously unpublished works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that touch upon these themes.

We are always interested in new writers as well as established writers in the field of contemporary fiction.

We strive to showcase the richness and diversity of Washington, DC area authors in every issue, with poets from different backgrounds, races, ethnicities, ages, and sexual orientations represented. We have included Pulitzer Prize winners and those who have never previously published.

The Bicycle Review is an electronic journal of literature and art. We publish no specific genre. Rejecting the web 2.0 format of online literary journals, our goal is to create a complete work with each issue. We strive to create something more closely resembling a traditional journal than a collection of hyperlinks to the works of individual authors and artists.

We are looking for poems that vault us to a new level of understanding an individual's true perception, and not one that falls under the customs of a dictated language which only obeys the known, the understood and the repetitive. Be imaginative, not fantastical which is never the same.

Short fiction, poetry and Character Crushes welcome. We also post occasional book reviews and author interviews. We DO NOT publish horror or hardcore erotica, and we will not discuss children's or YA books.

Founded in 1974, Black Warrior Review publishes contemporary fiction, poetry, and nonfiction by award-winning writers alongside work by new and emerging voices. Each issue also features art, comics, and a poetry chapbook solicited by the editors.

While it is true that excellence can be differently defined and construed, our primary definition will be this: Beyond simple obvious criteria such as “well written in a variety of technical senses,” and “original in terms of subject and style,” excellent writing challenges traditions in profound ways, and is radical insofar as it is aware of its own origins in tradition and seeks to expand the boundaries of the realm of discourse of which it is a part.

Things that move--characters, lines, ideas. Images that evoke--memory, sense, emotion. Writing that lives--on the page, the bridge between two minds, reader and writer. Voices that carry-- through a room, down the road, over time. The Black Boot finds writers and artists who care about the authentic, the volcanic, the experimental, the sensitive, the brazen, the heart. Help us guide our flashlight beams into the dark corners of the world as we unearth the stories that rattle us to the core. Who do you want to trip with?

BlazeVOX is a haven for undervalued writers to convene with readers worldwide, delivering the contemporary through books-in-hand and ebooks-in-a-minute. Articles of submission depend on many criteria, but overall items submitted must conform to one ethereal trait, your work must not suck. This put plainly, bad art should be punished; we will not promote it. However, all submissions will be reviewed and the author will receive feedback. We are human too. Please send your work.

An online literary quarterly run by editors who refuse to believe everything has already been written, and who want to promote your best writing as proof.

Bloodroot Literary Magazine is dedicated to publishing diverse voices through the adventure of poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction. Our aim is to provide a platform for the free-spirited emerging and established writer.

The Bloomsbury Review is a book magazine. Our focus is on reviewing books overlooked by mainstream review media that come from small, independent, university, as well as larger corporate publishers. We DO NOT publish short stories or fiction. See the magazine for submitting "Out-of-Bounds" Essays (300 words or less).

The Blue Pencil Online is edited and produced by the students in the Writing & Publishing Program at Walnut Hill School for the Arts, in Natick, Massachusetts. The magazine seeks to publish the best of literary work in English by young writers (12–18) around the world.

We are a web-based literary magazine looking for the best in fiction and poetry, literature that moves readers and makes us want to keep reading. FICTION: We are looking for literary, not genre, fiction. POETRY: We are looking for poetry of all types, on all topics. ESSAYS: We are interested in essays dealing with issues of current social concern.

The Blue Moon Literary & Art Review publishes fiction and poetry of all genres, from serious fiction to murder mystery. We are especially interested in short stories and excerpts from novels in progress, and we are dedicated to high quality, interesting and unusual works.

Bodega releases digital issues on the first Monday of every month, featuring poetry, prose, and quarterly interviews by established and emerging writers. We’re here to give you a handful of essential pieces you can digest in one sitting.

Written, edited and produced by industry professionals and funded by those interested in the arts. Publishes writing which is unconventional and contains an edge, whether it be in style or subject matter.

Booth invites submissions of art, poetry, prose, lists, and literary comics. The editors welcome submissions by both emerging voices and established writers.

BORDERLINE is the first literary journal of its kind, specializing in the genre of persona poetry. We accept submissions of page and performance poetry pieces, alike, that dare to step outside of their comfort zones and inhabit a whole new world, whether it be that of a character, object, idea, or what have you. The wilder the approach & the more innovative the perspective of the piece, the better. All that we ask of our authors is a willingness to live outside of boxes, and to hold fast in their faith in that little thing we like to call imagination.

Boston Review is a nonpartisan magazine of ideas: animated by hope, committed to equality and reason, convinced that the imagination eludes political categories.

We believe that creative and critical work should be presented in a magazine in a variegated yet coherent and balanced way. We seek writihg that both stimulates our minds and touches our hearts.

Box of Jars is a collection of words, music, art, and ideas. A space that promotes Auden's notion that poetry is 'memorable speech.' We could extend the idea to say that music is memorable sound, and painting is memorable imagery, and so forth. The three basic tenets we want to uphold are: sincerity, integrity, illumination. The work should be deeply felt and deeply considered; the form of each piece should be purposeful; the experience of each piece should linger.

Through essays, poetry fiction and feature stories our writers provide their unique perspectives on being mothers. We aim to be down-to-earth, literary, commonsensical, funny, poignant, honest, respectful, irreverent, relevant and intelligent. We like to cover traditional and not-so-traditional parenting subjects; our writers are willing to address the big questions. Each issue of Brain, Child is packed with personal essays, in-depth features, a debate, a parody, fiction, and words from you: our community, our readers.

Brick is an international literary magazine based in Toronto, Canada, and edited by Michael Ondaatje, Michael Redhill, Linda Spalding, Michael Helm, Rebecca Silver Slayter, and Esta Spalding. Published twice a year, the magazine is a beautifully produced keepsake filled with essays, interviews, memoirs, travelogues, belles lettres, and casual, idiosyncratic ephemera that can only be described as “Bricky.”

We publish fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. We also encourage visual artists to submit for possible cover art. In addition, we sponsor two contests, the Rash Awards, with $500 first prizes in fiction and poetry.

Buddhist Poetry Review is a quarterly online poetry magazine dedicated to publishing fresh and insightful Buddhist poetry.

Burningword is a quarterly literary journal focussing on emerging writers of poetry and short fiction.

Cadillac Cicatrix publishes and promotes innovative emerging and established writers and artists on a semiannual basis with a special focus for each issue. Follow us: on Twitter.com/caddymag + on Facebook/caddymag + on Paper.li/caddymag

Calliope is the official publication of the Writers' Special Interest Group (SIG) of American Mensa, Ltd. It is published four times a year with a circulation that spans six countries and nearly every state in the USA. Calliope is essentially a writer’s workshop by mail, providing a forum where writers can exchange ideas, learn more about their craft, and see their work in print. New writers are always welcome. Membership in Mensa is not required to subscribe or to submit works for publication.

Showcasing the work of both established and emerging artists, Camera Obscura Journal is a full-color volume of contemporary literature and photography, intended to be read and enjoyed, as well as displayed. The writing and photography is selected on the individual merit of each piece, creating an organic collaboration of art forms.

We publish fiction, poetry, and essays that examine the creative processes of writers, artists, chefs, wine critics, and even a CIA agent.

Carcinogenic Poetry is interested in verse containing quaities of truth derived from the human soul; bold, creative, brave. The truth is to lies like cancer.

carte blanche is the online venue for narratives of all forms. Published three times annually, we accept unsolicited, previously unpublished works of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, translation, graphic fiction, photography and audio submissions. We accept work from late November to March 1st.

Carve seeks to publish outstanding literary fiction and to promote the writers we publish, helping both new, emerging, and established authors reach a wider literary audience. This is achieved through sharing their stories across a variety of publication mediums: online, print, e-readers, and more.

The Caterpillar Chronicles is a fledgling nonprofit literary and arts magazine born in the liminal realm between text and image. Our magazine hopes to kindle experimental exercises in creative writing based on images. Each issue will propose first lines and images as starting points for texts of many forms, lengths, colours and complexions. We're also open to various other means of artistic expression such as photographs, paintings, drawings, collages, comics, videos, mixed media, etc. We value many-sidedness and embrace all forms of creative expression.

Cave Wall publishes the best contemporary poetry of all lengths and styles by emerging and established poets.

We look for Fiction, Poetry and Creative Nonfiction that is well-crafted and lively, has an intelligent sense of form and language, assumes a degree of risk, and has consequence beyond the world of its speakers or narrators.

Chaparral is an online journal featuring poetry from and/or about Southern California.

The editors actively solicit writing that expresses the values of Chautauqua Institution broadly construed: a sense of inquiry into questions of personal, social, political, spiritual, and aesthetic importance, regardless of genre.

The Chimaera is an online literary miscellany which publishes verse, both themed and various, as well as prose. Our prose content includes fiction and also critical prose, which may cover a wide range of subjects: principally poetry and literature, but also historiography, art, film, drama, mythology and all sorts of other cultural matters; in short, whatever we find interesting and entertaining. In verse we have a bias towards form, of one kind or another, but will look at whatever is submitted. In verse and prose we have a global range and interest, but also somewhat of an Australian accent.

One of the oldest quarterlies in the nation, Cimarron Review publishes work by writers at all stages of their careers, including Pulitzer prize winners, writers appearing in the Best American Series and the Pushcart anthologies, and winners of national book contests.

Clapboard House publishes the finest stories and poetry written by established and emerging writers, including undergraduates. Dorothy Allison, acclaimed author of BASTARD OUT OF CAROLINA, recently judged our undergraduate short story contest. Included in Steve Almond’s 2008 BEST OF THE WEB, Clapboard House plans a best of the house print anthology for 2010. Whether we are considering the work of an award-winning, much published writer or the first submission of a fledgling writer, our expectation and only requirement of both is excellence.

The guiding aesthetic is cleanliness; we look for each work to display in its own way precision of thought and meticulous crafting of sound and language.

Clockwise Cat is a progressive literary webzine that features poetry, polemics/satire, and appraisals (reviews). Clockwise Cat prefers to receive poems that are in some way akin to the Symbolist, Dadaist, Surrealist, Beat, spoken word, and experimental genres. However, we will regard all well-crafted submissions that brashly flout conventions.

Cobalt is a quarterly literary magazine published online. We also publish an annual print issue, and will be rolling out an all-baseball issue in July 2013. Each issue will feature fiction, non-fiction and poetry of the highest caliber, as well as interviews with some of the most influential writers in the literary community. We seek to publish quality creative work and promote the literary arts, as well as those who celebrate them.

The Collagist is a monthly journal published the 15th of each month since August 2009. Each issue contains short fiction, poetry, essays, book reviews, and one or more excerpts from novels forthcoming from (mostly) independent presses.

Colorado Review's only commitment is to the publication of serious poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. We do not publish genre fiction nor do we subscribe to a particular literary philosophy or school of poetry or fiction. We are determinedly eclectic and intend to stay that way. Note that we read nonfiction year-round.

We look for poems with strong imagery and interesting ideas that unfold or explode or explore new and unexpected places in 61 lines or less. We like publishing new poets or new work from more established poets. Please note: though we don't charge a reading fee for regular submissions, we do have a contest entry fee for the Spring/Summer Poetry contest.

Conclave is an annual print journal that focuses on character-driven writing in short stories, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and prose poems; we also print black and white photographs, and excerpts from plays: monologues, scenes, single acts, or one-act plays.

Literary material of high quality in various forms and genres. We are eclectic.

Conjunctions publishes innovative contemporary fiction, poetry, drama, art, and essays by established and emerging writers in America and abroad, providing a forum for the now over 1000 contributors whose work challenges accepted forms and modes of expression and experiments with language and thought.

Contrary is a quarterly literary journal that publishes commentary, fiction, and poetry and especially specimens that defy those categories. Founded at the University of Chicago in 2003, it operates independently on the South Side of Chicago and publishes writers from throughout the world.

Copper Nickel is about combination: the emerging writer with the established author, the student with the master, the traditional with the experimental. Copper Nickel is a journal with national interest edited through collaboration between students and professors at the University of Colorado Denver.

The Cortland Review is an online magazine publishing both established and emerging writers from the print and online worlds. Using audio paired with text to complete the link between reader and writer, TCR provides regular and feature issues with poems and short fiction selected by staff as well as illustrious guest editors.

The focus of Counterexample Poetics is on International displays of poetry, art, and photography which reside within the interpretational realms of philosophical, experimental, post-postmodern, esoteric, and the avant-garde. Reviews of poetic works will also be accepted.

Crack the Spine loves the written word. Some might say we're in love with the written word. But that's just a silly rumor. We seek to publish diverse and sharp literary works, including flash fiction, micro-fiction, poetry, short stories, personal essays, and book reviews. We don't care if it's four words or four thousand words, if it's charged with artistry, we want to publish it. Given the choice, we will always select madness over method.

Crazyhorse has been publishing the best established and emerging writers for over 50 years. Each year Crazyhorse offers the Crazyhorse Fiction Prize for a single short story, the Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize for a single poem, and now the Crazyhorse Nonfiction Prize. The competition is open to all. Submit online in the month of January. The prize awards are $2000 for each genre, and the winning story, poem, and essay are published in Crazyhorse.

The Cresset, a journal of commentary on literature, the arts, and public affairs, explores ideas and trends in contemporary culture from a perspective grounded in the Lutheran tradition of scholarship, freedom, and faith while informed by the wisdom of the broader Christian community.

We publish works of prose and prose collections between 5,000 and 10,000 words. Currently reading for our third-ever contest, judged by Kevin Wilson!

Curbside Quotidian is a haven for the thoughts and ruminations of our fellow artists, writers and creatives of all backgrounds, who seek thoughtful and innovative outlooks on quotidian people, places and things. Read: we like oddities, off-beat, pretty ugly and the like.

We publish two issues a year of compelling poetry, fiction, and literary nonfiction by established writers and new voices alike. We're global in scope, but with a regional bias.

Damazine is an online literary journal publishing fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. We focus on authors based in or with ties to the Muslim world in the largest sense. At the same time, we strive to present a rainbow of themes and writing styles. Our biggest criterion is quality. We are looking for powerful, well-crafted pieces that throb with meaning.

We present a monthly buffet of writers from across the literary spectrum. Our contributors hail from around the world; we also showcase kunst und kunstler whose neglected works suffer the temperamental vicissitudes of the literatti from beyond the grave. Our mission is to further expand the imaginative landscape of the literary web. Our central criterion is the overall creative effort deployed to transcend prevailing orthodoxies. The narrative contours of magical realism, world poetry, and Mitteleuropean kunst und kultur are especially appreciated.

Dear Sir, is a quarterly online journal created from the want to present innovative, unconventional or emerging voices in literature. It is based around the concept of quality over quantity and therefore only features a clutch of writers in each issue whose work, in some way, and somehow, surprises. We lean towards the poetic, the speculative and the cross-genre.

Since 1958, december has been committed to distributing the work of emerging writers and artists and celebrating more seasoned voices through a semi-annual nonprofit literary magazine featuring fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and visual art.

Deep South Magazine is committed to being a forum for Southern writers and showcasing Southern literature and accepts submissions of original fiction, nonfiction, poetry, short stories and short shorts. The Deep South has a rich history in literature thanks to writers like Eudora Welty, Ernest Gaines and more recently Joshilyn Jackson and Michael Morris. We aim to help the next generation of Southern writers find their voice.

Del Sol Review seeks to publish unsolicited work in the categories of poetry, prose poetry, creative non-fiction, short stories, and flash fiction. All forms and styles are considered. Please note that editors prefer fiction and cnf containing unique and interesting subject matter.

We believe in an infinite universe, not in limited real estate. We recognize all editors are biased, including ourselves. We created this publication to add our bias to the mix. We believe in the power of the Internet, and that the digital isn't inferior to the printed.

DIAGRAM is an electronic journal of text and art. As our name indicates, we're interested in representations. In naming. In indicating. In schematics. In the labelling and taxonomy of things. In poems that masquerade as stories; in stories that disguise themselves as indices or obituaries.

dirtcakes offers space for international writers to illuminate shared global humanity by exploring diverse concepts suggested by the UN Millennium Goals to eradicate extreme poverty.

Do Not Look at the Sun is an offbeat literary magazine based in London. It is published twice a year in print (spring & autumn), as well as weekly online. The idea behind Do Not Look at the Sun is 'Found Poetry/ Free Prose', an ethos made possible by a global network of volunteers. Each issue is put out in a different form that is in keeping with this ideal, from street walls to paper planes.

Now in its eleventh year, Dogwood seeks work that connects directly with readers. Judges for the competition have included former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, NEA Chairman Dana Gioia, and Oprah book club author A. Manette Ansay. Work from Dogwood has been selected for The Pushcart Prize Anthology and has been featured on Verse Daily.

drafthorse is a biannual online publication of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, visual narrative, and other media art where work, occupation, labor—or lack of the same—is in some way intrinsic to a narrative’s potential for epiphany.

We are an eclectic online journal, which publishes original short stories and poems along with personal and cultural essays film reviews, and TV recaps.

We are dedicated to publishing the best stories we can get our hands on, regardless of genre. On the first of the month we'll publish the best story we've received to date, and then, as exceptional stories come in, we'll publish them at our discretion. When the month is up, the stories will be saved in our archives. Our goal is to make the online reading experience more like reading a well printed book.

We publish poems each of which addresses a single work of art.

Eleven Eleven is a biannual journal of literature and art based at California College of the Arts. The aim of the publication is to provide a forum for risk and experimentation and to serve as an exchange between writers and artists.

A literary and current affairs magazine with the openness and pioneering spirit of the Pacific Northwest, Empirical aspires for truth by boldly introducing thought-provoking points of view and new paradigms. A forum for discourse on contemporary issues, the magazine is "radically empirical" in considering the broad range of human experience. Exploring new ideas in politics, and with an eye on changes in technology and everyday life, the Empirical reader will come away enlivened and inspired by its short stories, poems, art, beautiful photography, and interfaith spiritual perspectives.

Enhance is a literary and art magazine that will try to understand the human’s perception of life through literature and art. Some say we're interested in the human condition, but really we're interested in stories, ideas, feelings, expressions... everything we find in life and everything we don't. Everyone's perspective is unique, and we want to see it.

Entasis is a new, online literary quarterly based out of Irvine, California. Our focus is poetry, with fiction, literary non-fiction, and art at our discretion.

Epiphany publishes fiction, nonfiction, poetry and visual media from both established and emerging writers and artists. We believe continuous study, practice, collaboration and careful editing all lead to good writing. Epiphany supports and honors the determination of writers and artists.

Eratio publishes poetry in the postmodern idioms with an emphasis on the intransitive. Eratio publishes a pdf version of every issue. Eratio Editions, an e-chap publisher, is reading for poetry, innovative narrative prose and recollection, and critical and theoretical essays.  

About: Essays & Fictions publishes fictional essay, reflective essay, academic rhetorical essay, literary essay, narrative essay, linear fiction, non-linear fiction, essayistic fiction, cultural criticism, compositional criticism, or any blend thereof. (Our statement of purpose is too many characters for this space; please see website.)

Euphony welcomes submissions of unpublished poetry, fiction, essays, reviews, creative non-fiction, and plays. Nearly all our writingcomes from outside our staff, and ranges from University of Chicago students as well as authors around the country (and internationally), professional to first-time writers and everything in between.

Every Day Fiction is an online magazine that specializes in bringing you fine fiction in bite-sized doses. Every day, we publish a new flash fiction story (1000 words or fewer), perfect for your coffee break, your commute, or whenever you have a few minutes for yourself.

WExplosion-Proof is a print-only literary quarterly dedicated to the discovery of new writers and push the limits of the imagination. While we recognize the shortcomings of dead-tree publishing, we remind you that books, the kind held in hand and laid on shelves, may not travel the speed of light, but neither do they disappear when plugs are pulled. And, we guarantee, neither do they explode.

Eyeshot is internationally accessible. Fiction, photographs, rants, reviews, links, essays, and other unclassifiables are accepted and declined. We pay in dissemination and validation, however meager. We tend to like things that are denser (not so quick to include space breaks between sentences), that are somewhat elusive and inventive and overblown languagewise and not-so-sane aesthetically.

failbetter.com publishes original fiction, poetry, and visual art. We seek that which is at once original and personal. When choosing work to submit, be certain that what you have created could only have come from you.

Falling Star Magazine is a print quarterly featuring short fiction, poetry and art of all mediums. Founded in Winter 2000, Falling Star presents work from the world's emerging writers and established literary voices; recent contributors hail from Michigan and Poland, L.A. and the U.K. Our issues regularly circulate in the bookstores and art havens of Los Angeles, the San Fernando Valley, Ventura, and other national markets.

Fickle Muses is an online journal of poetry and fiction engaged with myth and legend. A poet or fiction writer is featured each week, with new selections posted on Sundays. Art is updated monthly. Fickle Muses welcomes submissions of poetry, fiction and art. Submissions are considered year-round and are open to all mythic traditions. Simultaneous and previously published submissions will be considered. Please send no more than one submission per genre per year unless requested.

We are looking for innovative fiction, fiction that breaks new ground by finding new ways to tell a story. Any length fiction will be considered. Selections from novels will also be considered.

Fiction Fix, the literary journal of the University of North Florida, publishes quarterly online issues. Our authors are both national and international, new and established. A partial list of the diverse types of works we include: experimental and traditional fiction, magical realism, graphic literature, graphic novellas, novellas, historical fiction, humor, flash fiction, novel excerpts, poetic prose. The Journal recognizes particularly creative cover letters and biographies with the Gypsy Sachet Award.

The Fiddlehead, Atlantic Canada’s international literary journal, is open to good writing in English from all over the world, looking always for freshness and surprise. Our editors are always happy to see new unsolicited works in fiction and poetry and are dedicated to discovering and promoting new writers. The Fiddlehead represents the Atlantic Canada’s lively cultural and literary diversity; and places the best of new and established Canadian writing in an international context.

FWJ publishes established and emerging writers. We use guest editors for each issue. Consult our guidelines for length considerations of both prose and poetry.

The purpose of The First Line is to jump start the imagination-to help writers break through the block that is the blank page. Each issue contains short stories that stem from a common first line; it also provides a forum for discussing favorite first lines in literature. The First Line is an exercise in creativity for writers and a chance for readers to see how many different directions we can take when we start from the same place.

Five Quarterly is an online literary project that facilitates an innovative and constantly changing dialogue among readers and writers. We have created an opportunity for all the various kinds of people who appreciate reading to express their literary preferences by participating in our editorial process. Each quarter, a new group of five guest editors ultimately selects five poems and five pieces of fiction for online publication. Our hope is that this project will yield a multitude of voices, diversify the face of publishing, and encourage an expanding literary community.

Fjords publishes a number of styles, approaches, and voices.

Aboard a boat in the middle of Lake Monroe in Sanford, Florida, the three who would become the associate editors discussed the idea of a journal that would showcase work from all over the country, but that would be selected by an editorial board of distinguished scholars from the state of Florida. Our board is comprised of professors from every post-secondary educational level and from different regions in Florida and is charged to evaluate each submission for literary greatness.

Flying House aims to discover, advocate, and elevate fine artists and writers by hand-picking twelve participants annually, from a pool of applicants, and inspiring them to create a brand new body of work for a public gallery event and reading. Participants learn to think widely about art’s relationship to literature, they learn to connect with new aesthetics, and they learn to present their work professionally while making good connections to further their artistic goals.

Folly is an online publication featuring aesthetics, art, and poetry. We attempt to highlight the uniqueness and strengths of each artist, set of ideas, and organization presented.

ForPoetry is rated code II in Poet's Market: This means that we are not open to beginners' submissions. Poets interested in submitting to ForPoetry should be familiar with literary journals and magazines. Due to the large number of submissions, please do not send more than two poems.

What makes Foundling Review different? Nothing much. We hold PhD and Masters degrees in areas that are totally unrelated to fine arts. But we love reading, writing, and have an overwhelming passion for the well-crafted word.

Four Way Review accepts poetry and fiction from both established and emerging authors. We accept unsolicited submissions year-round through our submissions manager. We look for work that demonstrates fine attention to craft while retaining a powerful and compelling voice.

Our vision is to provide poets/ writers with a showcase for their work. The Review is published on line in order to provide a broad audience for the poets we publish. The Review is published three times a year. Submissions to the review are by invitation only. Queries welcome. Occasional book reviews, interviews, poetry news and our reading events are published at The Fox Chase Reading Series blog. http://foxchasereview.wordpress.com

Our philosophy is to allow artists of nonfiction as much freedom as possible. By this technique, we have presented memoirists, short story writers, journalists, political activists, novelists, poets, comedians, musicians and many others to promote the vast and vital world of storytelling. In other words, we are less concerned about genre boundaries and more interested in your version of the truth, your truth, in whatever form it takes.

We seek to publish the best haiku and related forms in the English language as well as the most insightful articles and reviews. Our purpose is to remain the haiku journal with the largest circulation outside Japan. It is listed in the MLA International Bibliography and Humanities International Complete.

We publish fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction from established and emerging writers. In our pages, work by Best American and Guggenheim Award winning authors has appeared alongside pieces from writers earning their first publication credit.

Fugue is a journal of new literature edited by graduate students within the University of Idaho’s English and Creative Writing Programs. Fugue publishes fiction, nonfiction, poetry and experiment pieces. We look for writing that incorporates new ideas, themes, and structures. Fugue awards cash prizes and publication for prose and poetry in our annual spring contest. Past judges include Mark Doty, BH Fairchild, Jo Ann Beard, Ilya Kaminsky, Patricia Hampl, and Tony Hoagland.

Fuselit is a UK-based multi-format magazine which publishes poetry, prose, artwork and sounds (and other format - try us!) responding to each issue's keyword. We like quirky, experimental and outright strange work, as long as it's new.

We publish poetry and flash fiction in our thematic anthologies. Our press publishes at least one anthology per year in the series called Good Works Projects. Revenues from these anthologies go toward an appropriate worthy cause. There is no fee to submit to our anthologies. We also publish books and chapbooks of individual poetry or flash fiction. To submit your book, there is a reading fee of $15. We are open to unsolicited book submissions year round. See our Press listing for information about book submissions.

A bean. The garbanzo bean...found throughout the world in nearly every culture’s cooking, and a staple of the vegan diet...is an amazingly diverse bean capable of being bread flour, one thousand flavors of hummus, is full of protein, can look (depending on one’s perspective) like a heart or a mooning buttocks, and is one of the elder crops of humankind. As such, it is the perfect mascot for a literary magazine.

Geist is a magazine of ideas and culture made in Canada with a strong literary focus and a sense of humour. The Geist tone is intelligent, plain-talking, inclusive and offbeat. Each issue represents a convergence of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, photography, art, reviews, little-known facts of interest, cartography, and the legendary Geist crossword puzzle.

We're simply looking for quality work.

Gertrude is the biannual arts and literary publication of Gertrude Press, a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization showcasing and developing the creative talents of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer-identified, and allied individuals. 

Ghost Ocean Magazine is an online literary magazine publishing short prose, fiction under 3,000 words, and poetry, with occasional interviews and reviews. Our editors have varied tastes, but tend to lean toward energetic and skillful writing that shows command of voice, tension, and language. We like non-boring writing that beckons to be read.

Literary innovation & concepts.

Glasschord Magazine was founded by a community of emerging artists as an open forum for creative expression. Each bi-monthly issue explores a single theme from a variety of contemporary perspectives. The project invites open participation, whether as a contributor or viewer.