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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  • The Cupboard Pamphlet publishes works of prose and prose collections between 5,000 and 10,000 words. Submissions can be composed of one piece or multiple pieces. The editors make no demands on content or genre, with the exception of...

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    Reading Period: Apr 1 to Jul 2
  • Established by Richard Hugo and William Kittredge in 1973, CutBank is Montana’s oldest literary magazine. They are run by the students of the University of Montana Creative Writing MFA program, publishing two annual print issues of fiction...

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    Reading Period: Sep 15 to Feb 1

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