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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 31Subgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry -
The Acentos Review publishes poetry, fiction, memoir, interviews, translations and artwork by emerging and established Latin@ writers four times a year. We welcome submissions in English, Spanish, Spanglish, Portuguese, and indigenous...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Cross-genre, Experimental -
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 Adroit Journal is looking for work that’s bizarre, authentic, subtle, outrageous, indefinable, raw, paradoxical.
Reading Period: Jun 1 to Apr 1Genre: Poetry -
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 Nov 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: 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 NonfictionSubgenres: Experimental, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translation -
All the Sins is a quarterly digital magazine that encourages writers and artists to have courage and to sin against staid storytelling. The magazine was “conceived as a blend of visual, digital and written art that takes storytelling to...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Historical, Humor, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Regional, Translation, War -
Ang(st) focuses on feminist bodies and physical experiences. It is a space for marginalized voices and identities: bodies that are considered outside the realm of ‘normal’ and ‘able’. They publish BIPOC, LGBTQ+, differently abled, and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Mar 31, Jul 1 to Sep 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Angel Rust publishes exciting, challenging, and edgy work in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
In Kazakh, angime means conversation. In the spirit of this word, Angime promotes international, multilingual, and multidisciplinary literary and artistic conversations. It welcomes submissions in English, Kazakh, and Russian...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Creative Nonfiction, Experimental, Narrative Nonfiction, Regional, Translation -
Anomaly is an international journal of literature and the arts. It provides a platform for works of art that challenge conventions of form and format, of voice and genre. Anomaly is committed to actively seeking out and promoting the...
Read moreReading Period: Jun 1 to Sep 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
We want work that is urgent and beautiful, that was written with lightning and a sense that tomorrow may never come. We want work that pushes edges and tells us something new. We love work that is personal and political—political in the largest...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Jun 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Erotica, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Historical, Humor, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Lyric Essay, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Regional, Serialized Fiction, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Translation, Visual Poetry, War -
Apogee is a literary journal specializing in art and literature that engage with issues of identity politics: race, gender, sexuality, class, and hyphenated identities. We currently produce a biannual issue featuring fiction, nonfiction...
Read moreReading Period: Jun 1 to Jul 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, LGBTQ Voices, Political -
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. Their goal is to support and promote both...
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“Established in 2015, Apricity Press was created to fill an immense void in the publishing world. While there are a myriad of presses, literary journals and magazines, many lack the ability to publish multi-genre works, especially dance...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Jan 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
apt is a literary journal featuring challenging writing that combines the cerebral and the visceral. We publish an annual print issue focused on longform work, and our website is updated frequently with short fiction, poetry, and essays...
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
We have no restrictions on the content we publish, except that we’re passionate about publishing new perspectives — new ideas, new voices, new worlds, new challenges, new ways of seeing, etc.— a theme that can take an infinite...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Arkana is the journal of mysteries and marginalized voices. It seeks and fosters a sense of shared wonder by publishing inclusive art that asks questions, explores mystery, and works to make visible the marginalized, the overlooked, and...
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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...
Read moreReading Period: Jun 1 to Aug 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Assisi’s mission is, first and foremost, to publish works of literature and art that are thoughtful, engaging, and well written/composed. It looks for work that examines the human condition, that helps the reader view things from a...
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Asymptote welcomes submissions of translated poetry, fiction, nonfiction and drama; certain types of original English-language nonfiction, including literary and critical writing; interviews as well as visual art. An annual English-...
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MISSION: Our aim at Atticus Review is to provoke and encourage conversation through the publishing of art and literature from under-represented artists and writers. We seek to give visibility to our contributors by promoting,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Jul 16Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The AutoEthnographer is an award-winning, non-profit, open-access, peer-reviewed literary and arts magazine dedicated to presenting the creative side of autoethnography, a qualitative research method that unites autobiography and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Erotica, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Healing/Health, Historical, Humor, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, LGBTQ Voices, Love, Lyric Essay, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Regional, Religious/Spiritual, Serialized Fiction, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Translation, Visual Poetry, War, Young Adult -
We are looking for non-fiction writing and photo essays about travel, broadly conceived. We are especially interested in pieces by writers and artists who are aware of the complicated space that writing about travel occupies. We do not shy away...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Cross-genre, Experimental, Narrative Nonfiction -
AZURE publishes work that is linguistically, intellectually, and emotionally demanding of its reader. It seeks pieces that increase in complexity upon each visitation and exhibit a density worthy of scholarly or artistic study. AZURE's aesthetic...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Historical, Literary Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, Prose Poetry, Serialized Fiction
