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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: PoetrySubgenres: Micro-poetry -
Halcyon Days is a publication that “promotes the peaceful things in life. Themes will focus on comfortable circumstances, fun, good things, times of plenty, prosperity, and content that quiets you down.”
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Half Mystic Journal, established in 2015, is an independent, internationally-acclaimed literary journal dedicated to the celebration of music in all its forms.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Jun 1, Aug 1 to Jan 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Cross-genre, Experimental, Fiction, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Lyric Essay, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction -
The Hamilton Stone Review is part of a movement of small, independent publishers and publications dedicated to distributing high quality fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction.
Reading Period: Feb 15 to Mar 15, Aug 15 to Sep 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Experimental, Feminist, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry -
For more than half a century, Hanging Loose Press has championed and the work of groundbreaking poets and writers whose work has been marginalized by mainstream publishing--work frequently less visible, whether because of gender, race, age, class...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir -
Harpur Palate seeks submissions of high-quality work without restriction on form or content.
Reading Period: Feb 15 to Apr 15, Sep 15 to Nov 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Harvard Review is a major literary journal that publishes short fiction, poetry, essays, and book reviews. Writers at all stages of their careers are invited to apply; however, the magazine can only publish a very small fraction of the...
Read moreReading Period: Nov 1 to Jun 1Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Havik: The Las Positas College Journal of Arts, Literature, and Academic Writing, founded in 1978, has served as a student-led publication for the past four decades. Our journal was established by David A. Wright, an English Department...
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Poetry, short stories, and personal essays from diverse perspectives. Hawai'i Pacific Review features work from Hawaii and the Pacific region, but we are interested in great writing from anywhere in the world.
Reading Period: Aug 1 to Feb 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Fiction, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Regional -
Hayden’s Ferry Review is a semi-annual journal of literature and art out of Arizona State University. Our mission is to identify and support emerging writers and visual artists whose work we feel is of significant cultural merit. HFR...
Read moreReading Period: Jun 15 to Jul 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
We want to read your work. Inspire us. Make us laugh, cry, smile. That’s why we’re here. We want to support writers, engage readers, and create space for great art to be realized.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Healing Muse is the annual journal of literary and visual art published by SUNY Upstate Medical University's Center for Bioethics & Humanities. It welcomes fiction, poetry, narratives, essays, memoirs, and visual art,...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Apr 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Prose poetry speaking life and heart into ordinary thoughts, and moments to lines. Annual cash award offered each edition. Visit website for details and featured writers.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Prose Poetry -
Heart of Flesh is a biannual literary journal that seeks quality writing and art with Christian themes.
Reading Period: Feb 1 to Mar 31, Aug 1 to Sep 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Hektoen International publishes literary and visual works that explore the intersection of culture and health.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Hermine is an annual, print-only journal of short fiction. The National Magazine Awards recently recognized Mehdi M. Kashani with a nomination in the fiction category for his story “While Tehran Was Silent” in Issue One. Issue Two...
Read moreReading Period: May 1 to May 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Fiction -
Telling your story is a revolutionary act. Unless she did something very incredible (or very, very bad) most women don’t get named in history. HerStry wants to rewrite the narrative and put women’s stories front and center.
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Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Creative Nonfiction -
Hidden Peak Review is a magazine of poetry and fiction based in Colorado that showcases gut-punch free verse and eye-opening prose from across the U.S. and abroad. A literary magazine at the confluence of Charles Simic and Ray Bradbury,...
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If not quite an “experimental” magazine, we do lean towards work that subverts or plays with conventions of form and tone. Highly stylized or genre-inflected work is welcome, but so is more conventionally realist work.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Hippocampus Magazine is an exclusively online publication set out to entertain, educate, and engage writers and readers of creative nonfiction. Each issue (6x year) features memoir excerpts, essays, flash CNF, reviews, interviews, and...
Read moreReading Period: Oct 15 to Jan 15Genre: Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction -
The Hole in the Head Review is a vibrant online journal of poetry and art that is attracting an international audience and submissions from new and established poets. One reader described us this way: “I found it terrifically gratifying...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 14 to Jun 30Genre: Poetry -
Published five times a year, The Hollins Critic has been a leading American literary journal since 1964. Each issue includes an essay on the work of a contemporary poet, fiction writer, or dramatist, an artist's cover portrait of the...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 15 to Dec 1Genre: Poetry -
Home Planet News began publishing in 1968. It is looking for good writing in any genre. It accepts writing in English and Spanish, prose and poetry, with or without translations.
Reading Period: May 1 to Oct 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Hoot is a magazine on postcards. It publishes stand-alone pieces of writing under 150 words, with art to match. The idea is that current, quality literature should be shareable and accessible and that there is no reason why people can't...
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While we are open to style, we’re looking for work that is nuanced, raw, and imagistic with strong elements of the natural world or the human-nature relationship. We tend to favor work that is unexpected, real, evocative, yet subtle, with a...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
