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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 -
After Dinner Conversation publishes short stories (1,500 to 7,000 words), of any genre, that ask interesting ethical and/or philosphical questions in a narrative format. You can learn more by watching a video from our...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
American Poetry Journal (APJ) looks for emotionally adept, risk-taking work that hones its craft skillfully, honestly, and imaginatively, always keeping not only APJ’s readers in mind but also the journal’s commitment of transparency to the...
Read moreReading Period: Jun 1 to Jun 30, Jan 1 to Jan 31, Apr 1 to Apr 30, Jul 1 to Jul 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry -
Another Chicago Magazine seeks work urgent and beautiful, that was written with lightning and a sense that tomorrow may never come. The magazine loves work that is personal and political—political in the largest sense, as in awareness of...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Nov 30Genre: 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
