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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 Nonfiction -
November 6-12, 2023: THE FABULIST FLASH
We are pleased to announce that our new flash-fiction project, The Fabulist Flash, will open a submissions window from Nov. 6-12 for short, fantastical fiction of up to 1,000 words....
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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.
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Founded in 2005 by Kate Bernheimer, Fairy Tale Review is an annual literary journal dedicated to publishing new fairy tales and to helping raise public awareness of fairy tales as a diverse, innovative art form.
Reading Period: Mar 8 to Jul 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Experimental, Literary Fiction, Nature/Environmental, Translation -
Since our founding in 2020, The Fantastic Other’s mission has been to provide a place to showcase the literary side of all things speculative. The editors welcome poetry, fiction, flash fiction, and art submissions that contain elements...
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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 31Genre: 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,...
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Fiction Week Literary Review seeks innovative fiction, fiction that breaks new ground by finding new ways to tell a story. Any length 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...
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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.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Mar 31, Sep 15 to Nov 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Translation -
Figure 1 is committed to writing that reconfigures how people see the world. The editors 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...
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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: Jan 1 to Apr 30, Aug 1 to Dec 31Genre: 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. We publish flash fiction, poetry, humor, non-fiction, and longer fiction. See our guidelines for more...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Commercial Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Humor, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Poetry, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Speculative Poetry, Translation, Visual 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...
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Flare is an international literary journal founded by a dedicated group of writers, photographers, and artists to explore the complexity of the human experience. They hope that their journal is able to empower through that mission.
Reading 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 -
Flora Fiction is dedicated to artists of all types: poets, writers, photographers, and illustrations. We're here to provide a platform for emerging creatives to showcase their work. Our literary magazine comes out every quarter. We are...
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The Florida Review publishes exciting new work from around the world from writers both emerging and well-known. It is not Florida-exclusive, though it strives to continue offering a home for many Florida writers.
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: Sep 1 to Oct 15, Feb 1 to Mar 17Genre: 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 Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: 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 nonfiction. The journal looks for work that ignites and endures, is artful and natural, daring and elegant.
Reading Period: Sep 19 to Dec 3Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Four Way Review accepts poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and works in translation from both established and emerging authors. We accept unsolicited submissions year-round through our submissions manager. We look for work that...
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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 -
The Fourth River is the literary journal of Chatham University’s MFA Program, printed annually. The journal welcomes submissions of creative writing that explore the relationship between humans and their environments, both natural and...
Read moreReading Period: Jul 1 to Sep 1, Nov 15 to Jan 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
