Subgenres: Creative Nonfiction

Better Than Starbucks

Better Than Starbucks features outstanding poetry and fiction in many genres and many voices. Poetry includes free verse, haiku, formal poetry, prose poetry, form poetry, experimental poetry, sentimental poetry, and international poetry... Read more

Reading Period: 
Jan 1 to Dec 31
Temporarily closed to submissions
Genres Published: 
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation

Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine

Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine’s primary interest is quality. It welcomes submissions in any and all forms, genres, styles, and approaches in written word and image and encourages innovation as well as tradition. Read more

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Reading Periods: 
Feb 1 to Jun 15
Aug 1 to Dec 15
Genres Published: 
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation

Wising Up Press

Wising Up Press is a press with a clear social mission, fostering an appreciation of the rewards and challenges of pluralism at every level in society, and, most importantly, an interest in the role that art, particularly story, can play in... Read more

Reading Period: 
Jan 1 to Dec 31
Genres Published: 
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction

Jennifer Joel

Creative Artists Agency
65 East 55th Street
New York, NY 10022

Autumn House Press

Autumn House Press is a nationally renowned nonprofit publisher based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, whose mission is to publish and promote poetry and other fine literature. The press believes literature is an affirmation of the... Read more

Reading Periods: 
Jan 1 to Feb 28
Mar 1 to Apr 30
May 1 to Jun 30
Genres Published: 
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction

The Common

The Common is a print and digital literary journal published biannually, in the fall and spring. Inspired by the role of the town common, a public gathering place for the display and exchange of ideas, The Common seeks to deepen... Read more

Reading Periods: 
Mar 1 to Jun 1
Sep 1 to Dec 1
Genres Published: 
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation

West Trade Review

West Trade Review strives to put forth the best contemporary poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction (memoir/personal essays) and publishes a mix of established and up-and-coming writers. It is committed to the principles of diversity,... Read more

Reading Periods: 
Apr 1 to Aug 1
Aug 15 to Dec 15
Jan 15 to Mar 15
Genres Published: 
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction

Hunger Mountain

Hunger Mountain is created by the faculty and students in the Writing Program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. The editors share VCFA’s belief that the arts are central to the human experience and have the ability not only to reflect... Read more

Reading Periods: 
Sep 1 to Nov 30
Feb 1 to Apr 30
Genres Published: 
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction

Stillhouse Press

Stillhouse Press publishes surprising, gutsy fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that can’t or doesn’t want to find a home in big publishing. The editors are drawn to the strange, the unconventional, the transcendent, the risky. They’re looking for... Read more

Reading Period: 
Nov 1 to Feb 1
Genres Published: 
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction

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