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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 -
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...
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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.
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The Fictional Café is a nonprofit literary magazine that publishes short fiction (short stories and novel excerpts), poetry, fine art, photography and podcasts (audio versions of novels) each month.
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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 -
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...
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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 -
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...
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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...
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Fjords publishes a number of styles, approaches, and voices.
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The Flexible Persona is an independent magazine of writing that publishes both online and biannual print issues.
We read for engaging, character-driven fiction in which something happens. Show us the story. We are open to all...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Fiction, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Translation -
Flock publishes slippery, softly experimental work in biannual issues. The journal releases a general issue in the spring and a theme issue in the fall.
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Floor Plan is committed to providing an arrangement of rooms that pulls readers back into the work that, like anything of quality, requires more than a second glance.
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We are looking for innovative, luxuriant, insightful human stories—and for things that might surprise us. We like writing that takes risks, affects us deeply, and yet also meets the highest standards of beautiful language and appropriate syntax...
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, urban,...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to May 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Nature/Environmental -
Foglifter is a biannual compendium of the most dynamic, urgent queer writing today. It’s a spacewhere queer writers celebrate, mourn, rage, and embrace.
Reading Period: Sep 1 to Nov 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, LGBTQ, Literary Fiction, Political -
UAM undergraduates solicit enticing writing from emerging and established authors, art and photography, and graphic literature.
Reading Period: Aug 1 to Apr 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, Humor, LGBTQ, Micro-poetry, Nonfiction, Prose 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: Aug 15 to Jan 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Without restricting ourselves to a particular genre, media, or theme, we aim to publish interesting, quality works, and every issue has a unique flavour.
Each of our two General Editors takes ownership of at least one issue per year,...
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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 Prize,...
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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 -
We are looking for unique artwork and interesting but effective writing about ideas that mean something to you. Simultaneous submissions and unsolicited submissions are okay; please advise immediately if a story has been accepted elsewhere, as we...
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Forty-Eight Review is an online literary magazine that strives to feature the works of Asian writers of all ages around the world. We believe in the power of words and its ability to bring people together, aiming to increase Asian...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political -
Four Ties Lit Review is an online independent literary magazine. We are committed to the idea that creative writing and photographic arts are forms of expression that are essential to a thriving modern culture. We aim to publish writing and art...
Read moreReading Period: May 7 to Jun 24Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
