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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 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Graphic/Illustrated -
Based out of Iowa State University, Flyway: Journal of Writing and Environment is an online journal publishing poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and visual art that explores the many complicated facets of the word environment – at once rural...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 15 to Feb 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Nature/Environmental -
Foglifter is a biannual compendium of the most dynamic, urgent queer writing today. It’s a space where queer writers celebrate, mourn, rage, and embrace.
Reading Period: Mar 1 to May 1, Sep 1 to Nov 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Political -
Folder presents the work of one poet monthly.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
Folio is a journal of poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction. We look for work that ignites and endures, is artful and natural, daring and elegant.
Reading Period: Oct 1 to Dec 3Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Foreign is a literary journal that seeks to read and publish fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry, related—somehow—to life away from home. This can be life in a foreign land, where different languages, cultures and needs are ripe...
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The Forge Literary Magazine was founded by volunteers from the Fiction Forge, an international online writers’ forum, which counts amongst its members and alumni winners of numerous literary awards, including the Commonwealth Short Story...
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We aim to be pluralists in our exploration of things neo-modern. This is not a movement nor is it a pretense to a clear aesthetic criteria as much as a zeitgeist and a de-personalization of the arts. We are like the orphaned children of deposed...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Flash Fiction, Prose Poetry -
Four Way Review accepts poetry and fiction from both established and emerging authors. We accept unsolicited submissions year-round through our submissions manager. We look for work that demonstrates fine attention to craft while...
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Since its inception in 1994, Fourteen Hills: The SFSU Review has contributed to a vibrant literary tradition on the West Coast centered in the San Francisco Bay Area. Its commitment to presenting a diversity of experimental and...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 15 to Jun 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Flash Fiction -
Fourth Genre is devoted to publishing notable, innovative work in literary (creative) nonfiction, and are especially looking to provide space to voices less seldom heard from in literary publications.
Reading Period: Sep 1 to Nov 30Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Experimental, Graphic/Illustrated, Humor, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental -
Frak\ture is both a biannual poetry lit mag and a mag of lit poetry. Frak\ture posts poetry with a social bent. We look for works that highlight cracks in society’s masonry, the glitch in the Matrix, the secret plans...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
Totally Limited Omniscience
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry -
Free Verse is a bi-annual electronic journal that focuses on publishing the finest free verse being written today. Free Verse is looking for eclectic, sophisticated, accomplished poetry possessed by a sense of poetic...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Apr 1Genre: Poetry -
Freeze Frame Fiction is a quarterly flash fiction publication. The idea: any genre, no content restrictions—just good flash fiction. We pay authors semi-pro rates to publish online and in illustrated ebooks, with an annual print volume in the...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: FictionSubgenres: Flash Fiction -
Where poetry and pop culture collide. We ask that your poems have a pop culture focus (i.e. movies, TV, video games, comic books, music, etc).
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Poetry, Pop Culture -
We seek to publish the best haiku and related forms in the English language as well as the most insightful articles and reviews. Our purpose is to remain the haiku journal with the largest circulation outside Japan. It is listed in the MLA...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 1 to Mar 31, Jul 1 to Jul 31, Nov 1 to Nov 30Genre: Poetry -
We are looking for well written, polished work. We accept all genres, so long as they address more than the genre itself. We are of the belief that there is no 'right' way to write a story. Be creative. Rethink what it means to tell a story....
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Thank you for considering Haunted Waters Press. We are an independent publisher located in the shadows of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia along the banks of the Shenandoah River. We publish works from new, emerging, and established writers....
Read moreReading Period: Nov 1 to Sep 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
We are looking for poetry that pushes language forward, for poets and poems that strive to place themselves at the edge of what language can do. But this does not mean that we are only concerned with experimental poetry. We also take our role as...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
Fterota Logia aims to encapsulate the essence of young adult literature, while also providing a space for open discussion and theorizing of the genre.
Our mission is to create a forum where new works of young adult fiction will be...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Nov 30Genre: Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Young Adult -
Fugue is a journal of new literature edited by graduate students within the University of Idaho’s English and Creative Writing Programs. Fugue publishes fiction, nonfiction, poetry and experiment pieces. We look for writing that incorporates new...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Apr 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Furious Gazelle is striving to provide the best collection of original writing and art from across the World Wide Web. We’re furious because we can never have enough submissions. Before you submit to the Furious Gazelle, ask yourself the...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
