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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: Feb 15 to Mar 30, Sep 15 to Nov 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Alaska Quarterly Review (AQR) publishes fiction, short plays, poetry, photo essays, and literary nonfiction in traditional and experimental styles. AQR is committed to discovering and publishing innovative work by new...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 14 to Feb 22, Apr 10 to Apr 19, May 23 to May 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Our tastes range from conventional to experimental, but we are especially drawn to writing that engages deeply with the world without becoming polemical or didactic.
We have long championed independent presses—those enterprises Raymond...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Dec 31, Jun 1 to Jul 31Genre: 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 -
Appalachia welcomes narrative, historical, and science essays on mountains, climbing, wilderness and backcountry journeys, river and lake journeys; and adventure-related climate change. The journal is now also considering fiction stories...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Fiction, Flash Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Poetry -
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, Translation -
Ark Review was founded in 2023 as a literary journal to spread creative perspectives on ecological justice. An offshoot of the environmental nonprofit Everything Starts Small, the journal aims to highlight both emerging and established...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Nature/Environmental -
Aura Literary Arts Review is an award-winning creative literary magazine that is published through the Student Media division of the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The publication is led and run by UAB students from various...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
