Ignatian is a student-run publication at the University of San Francisco that aims to showcase an array of original pieces of art and writing from diverse voices, genres, and mediums. Ignatian does not promote hatred, violence,...
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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: Nov 1 to Feb 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Ilanot Review publishes experimental as well as traditional work in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, hybrid literature, interviews, and graphic literature/art. It especially encourages translations.
Each issue is themed and edited...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 1 to Sep 30, Feb 1 to Mar 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Image fosters contemporary art and writing that grapple with the mystery of being human by curating, cultivating, convening, and celebrating work that explores religious faith and spiritual questions.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Another New Calligraphy’s online journal Impossible Task publishes short works connected in its exploration of conflict, a term open to interpretation though ever present in these increasingly challenging times.
As in ANC’s other...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Healing/Health, Historical, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, LGBTQ Voices, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, Prose Poetry, Speculative Fiction, Translation, War -
In Short: A Journal of Flash Nonfiction is an independent literary magazine for short-form creative nonfiction. The Journal publishes flash nonfiction of 1,000 words or fewer, micros of 400 words or fewer, and short-shorts of...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 31 to Mar 31, Sep 30 to Nov 30Genre: Creative Nonfiction -
Infrarrealista Review invites Texan writers outside of the literary tradition to reject binaries and saddle up their experiences with full autonomy rather than accept labels invited by elitist institutions. The editors believe you own...
Read moreReading Period: Jun 1 to Oct 31, Jan 1 to Mar 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Ink & Ember is a quarterly, independent, interactive literary magazine. Created by published poet and content creator Cecilia Parker (@thejournalingrat, amongst other monikers), this magazine seeks to uplift and provide a space both...
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Inlandia: A Literary Journey is the literary journal of Inlandia Institute, a literary nonprofit. The journal publishes two issues per year: Fall is open to all, but special consideration is given to those works or writers with a tie to...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Mar 31, Sep 1 to Oct 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Founded in 1944 by poet Wilber Stevens, Interim is edited by Claudia Keelan and Andrew Nicholson. It is an international literary journal that publishes art, flash and experimental fiction, hybrid texts, literary nonfiction, poetry,...
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Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine is a literary journal dedicated to promoting the theory and practice of narrative medicine, an interdisciplinary field that enhances healthcare through the effective communication, empathy, and...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 1 to Mar 1, Aug 16 to Sep 16Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Invisible City publishes fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. They seek work that encourages them to see the world from new perspectives and different angles, ones that they may not have previously considered or imagined.
Reading Period: Mar 13 to Apr 13, Sep 16 to Oct 16Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Iowa Review selects most of their content from the several thousand unsolicited manuscripts that arrive each year from throughout the country and abroad. They take their mission to be nudging along American literature, to be local...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 1 to Nov 1, Jan 1 to Jan 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
