Flash Fiction, Poetry, Mixed-Genre Works, Art/Text and Artwork. Tastes lean toward surreal, experimental, ambivalent, darkly lyrical and wildly imaginative.
Literary Magazines
Find a home for your poems, stories, essays, and reviews by researching the publications vetted by our editorial staff and listed in the Literary Magazines database. Here you’ll find editorial policies, submission guidelines, and contact information—everything you need to determine which publications match your vision for your writing and your writing life. Use the filters below to find magazines with reading periods that are open now or opening soon (within the next thirty days), accept unsolicited submissions, and match all of your criteria for the perfect publisher of your work.
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Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry -
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...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Cross-genre -
Able Muse predominantly publishes metrical poetry complemented by art and photography, fiction and non-fiction including essays, book reviews and interviews with a focus on metrical and formal poetry. We also welcome exceptional free...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Jun 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
About Place Journal is the literary publication of the Black Earth Institute. BEI is dedicated to art serving the causes of spirit, earth and society. Issues are guest edited by fellows of the Institute. Themes (titles of issues) are chosen by...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Mar 10, Jun 1 to Aug 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Acentos Review publishes poetry, fiction, memoir, interviews, translations, and artwork by emerging and established Latin@ writers four times a year. It welcomes submissions in English, Spanish, Spanglish, Portuguese, and indigenous...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Cross-genre, Experimental -
Acorn is a biannual journal dedicated to publishing the best of contemporary English-language haiku. In particular, it showcases the individual poem and the ability of haiku to reveal the extraordinary moments found in everyday life.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Mar 1, Jul 1 to Sep 1Genre: PoetryGenres: Micro-poetry -
Adanna publishes work about women’s issues or topics. Submissions for artwork, poetry, essay, and short fiction are accepted by both women and men.
Reading Period: Apr 1 to May 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Feminist -
Add to Cart Magazine seeks experimental, avant-garde, and challenging writing and art that pushes well beyond comfortable boundaries, whether they be of form, style, or thought. It is open to “neglected voices and forms.”
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Adirondack Review is an independent online quarterly of literature and the arts. It publishes poetry, fiction, artwork, photography, translations, and book reviews. TAR was established in the spring of 2000, with its first...
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The Adroit Journal is looking for work that’s bizarre, authentic, subtle, outrageous, indefinable, raw, paradoxical.
Reading Period: Jun 1 to Apr 10Genre: Poetry -
The Aeolian Harp Series is a special anthology series consisting of ten folio sections for each poet with up to six pieces by each author, with a personal essay to spotlight each poet.
Reading Period: Jan 15 to Feb 28Genre: Poetry -
After Dinner Conversation publishes short stories (1,500-8,000 words), of any genre, that ask interesting ethical and/or philosphical questions in a narrative format.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
For this reading period, After Happy Hour is running a contest with a visual theme. The 5 theme images are available on their website. They are not looking for works written about these images, but instead for finished, polished stories...
Read moreReading Period: Jul 1 to Aug 31, Nov 1 to Jan 15, Mar 1 to Apr 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
After the Art seeks personal review essays that explore the ways reading can enrich the experience of looking at art. Each essay must be about a piece of art as well as a written text.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Creative NonfictionGenres: Graphic/Illustrated, Nonfiction -
Agni sees literature and the arts as part of a broad, ongoing cultural conversation that every society needs to remain vibrant and alive. They look for “the honest voice, the idiosyncratic signature, experimental where necessary but not...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to May 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Airplane Reading is a site that features nonfiction writing about air travel. Beyond throwaway entertainment or mere distraction, it sees airplane reading as a kind of storytelling that can animate, reflect on, and rejuvenate the...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Creative NonfictionGenres: Autobiography/Memoir -
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 the content comes from...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 19 to May 26Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Albion Review is a national literary journal based out of Albion College in Michigan. Published annually since 2004, The Review features works of short fiction, poetry, essays, and visual art. The Review strives to showcase the work...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Oct 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Experimental, Formal Poetry, Literary Fiction -
Alchemy is committed to publishing quality, contemporary translations of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction creative writing. It publishes creative translations and adaptations. Alchemy is based in the University of California, San Diego’s...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Experimental, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translation -
Open to anyone in the Altadena/ Pasadena/Greater Los Angeles area, The Altadena Poetry Journal is published yearly and accepts poetry of all content and form.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry -
American Chordata is a literary and arts magazine based out of Brooklyn, NY. It’s interested in making space for hybrid work, lyric essays, prose poems, longform pieces, and poem sequences, as well as work that falls into the traditional...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 15 to Mar 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Translation -
American Poetry Journal publishes poetry from diverse backgrounds and orientations, from new and established voices. It publishes poetry that is committed, distinct and moving.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Aug 1Genre: PoetryGenres: Prose Poetry -
Publishing a broad range of poetry, translations, criticism, reviews, interviews, and columns, the American Poetry Review is dedicated to reaching a worldwide audience with a diverse array of contemporary poetry and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
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. It is drawn to evocative language, unique...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction -
Started in August 2010, Anak Sastra Literary Magazine is a quarterly online publication which hopes to provide a venue for Southeast Asian writers to promote their writings in English. The magazine also encourages expats, tourists and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
