Printed triannually and distributed around the world, F(r)iction publishes work from bold, new writers to pioneering leaders in the industry, spotlighting underrepresented voices and celebrating the weird and wonderful.
Each issue...
Read moreLiterary Magazines
Connect your poems, stories, essays, and reviews to the right audiences by researching over twelve hundred literary magazines in our database. Here, you’ll find editorial policies, submission guidelines, contact information—everything you need to direct your work to the publications most amenable to your vision.
-
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Failbetter.com publishes original fiction, poetry, and visual art. We seek that which is at once original and personal. When choosing work to submit, be certain that what you have created could only have come from you.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31 -
We publish poems, stories, and essays with a fairy-tale feel — mainstream to experimental, genre to literary, realist to fabulist.
Reading Period: Feb 15 to Jun 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Experimental, Literary Fiction, Nature/Environmental, Translation -
Farmer-ish publishes personal essays, informational essays, poetry, book reviews, and profiles on topics related to Nature, making, the environment, farming, homesteading, animals, health, and family.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 10Genre: Poetry, Creative Nonfiction -
Fecund highlights exceptional works of new abundance. The magazine is a medium through which writers and visual artists are exquisitely showcased and paid for their work. Fecund publishes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, theory,...
Read moreReading Period: Jul 5 to Sep 26Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Fiction Desk publishes a range of short stories from new and emerging authors, with a focus on strong plots and characters. We're based in the UK, but we accept submissions from authors around the world.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: FictionSubgenres: Commercial Fiction, Cross-genre, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction -
Fiction International is the only literary journal in the United States emphasizing formal innovation and progressive politics. Each year, Fiction International selects a theme and accepts fiction, non-fiction, and indeterminate prose that...
Read moreReading Period: Oct 1 to Feb 15Genre: Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Literary Fiction -
Our Mission Fiction Southeast is an online literary journal dedicated to short fiction. The mission of Fiction Southeast is to showcase fiction from today’s most promising writers, and to create an online literary journal that allows readers to...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: FictionSubgenres: Flash Fiction -
We are looking for innovative fiction, fiction that breaks new ground by finding new ways to tell a story. Any length fiction will be considered. Selections from novels will also be considered.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Fictional Café is a nonprofit literary magazine that publishes short fiction (short stories, novel excerpts), poetry, fine art, audiobooks and audio dramas.
All submissions are considered for our print anthology as well as for...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
In terms of submissions we're particularly interested in stories that give an insight into the human condition, that is, the problems, the complexities, and the positive experiences that all people face at one time or another. Stories may be...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: FictionSubgenres: Literary Fiction -
The Fiddlehead is open to good writing in English or translations into English from all over the world and in a variety of styles, including experimental genres. We are always happy to see new unsolicited works in short fiction, creative...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Translation -
Field combines fresh viewpoints, editorial discrimination, and attention to the best work being produced in the U.S. and abroad, regardless of allegiance to schools or categories or reputations.
Reading Period: Aug 15 to May 31Genre: Poetry -
Fields magazine is a print publication designed to spotlight writers, musicians, poets, painters, illustrators, and creative types of all stripes, with an emphasis on the up and coming and the unsung. We are interested in the everyday people who...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
FWJ publishes established and emerging writers. FWJ is an independent not-for-profit literary magazine based in Lisle, Illinois. Now in its tenth year, FWJ publishes interesting and challenging literature for a diverse reading public across the...
Read moreReading Period: May 15 to Jul 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Prose Poetry -
Figure 1 is committed to writing that reconfigures how we see the world. We aim to publish new and underrepresented voices that push against any slack thinking in the current literary scene.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
The purpose of The First Line is to jump start the imagination-to help writers break through the block that is the blank page. Each issue contains short stories that stem from a common first line; it also provides a forum for discussing favorite...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31 -
FishFood Magazine is dedicated to all forms of creative expression and talent.
FishFood Magazine encourages self-expression from daily life through art. Art tends to serve as a coping mechanism from regular shenanigans and obstacles, and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Established in 2011, our goal will always be to give light to the voices that are normally hidden from the literary magazine scene. We're mostly dedicated works of art that step way from the norm; that jump into the strange, unique, and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Five on the Fifth publishes five short stories on the fifth of every month. General fiction, flash fiction, horror, fantasy, and science fiction are accepted.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction -
We seek work that is original, imaginative, and informed by craft. Generally prose pieces usually run no longer than 7,500 words, and we invite poetry in both closed and open forms.
Reading Period: Sep 1 to Dec 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Flash Fiction -
Five South is a twice-yearly literary journal with a focus on the story found within poetry or fiction. We like good stories.
Reading Period: Apr 21 to Jul 21Subgenres: BIPOC Voices, Cross-genre, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Humor, LGBTQ Voices, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Young Adult -
Each Monday, The Five-Two website debuts the text and companion spoken-word YouTube video of a poem on the subject of crime, which is open to interpretation. Annual ebooks reprint each year's worth of poems (52). 30-day April blog tour invites...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
Fjords publishes a number of styles, approaches, and voices.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Flare is an international literary journal founded by a dedicated group of young writers, photographers, and artists to explore the complexity of the human experience. Our mission is to encourage artists and writers of all backgrounds to...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Commercial Fiction, Cross-genre, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, Historical, Humor, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Nonfiction, Poetry, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Regional, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult
