The Metaworker is an online literary magazine where great stories are forged. Their mission is to publish great things to read and the editors are interested in stories, poems, and art that have new, interesting perspectives or...
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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 NonfictionGenres: BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Magical Realism, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Speculative Poetry, Visual Poetry -
Michigan Quarterly Review seeks, cultivates, and amplifies a wide range of artistic expressions that interrogate the world and expand the imagination.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Apr 1, Aug 1 to Nov 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationGenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Cross-genre, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Translation -
MicroLit publishes innovative flash work in any genre. We also publish reviews1
Reading Period: Mar 1 to Mar 30, Sep 1 to Sep 30Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationGenres: Cross-genre -
The people of Mid-American Review seek to publish works of fine literary art from a diverse body of artists. The magazine is on the lookout for work that has the power to move and astonish while displaying the highest level of craft.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationGenres: Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Poetry, Translation -
midnight & indigo is a literary magazine dedicated to celebrating the voices of Black women writers worldwide. In addition to our tri-annual anthologies and a literary journal, we publish works online, facilitate...
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The editors are looking for work that speaks to culture. Either reexamining something familiar or exploring something not familiar. This can be fiction, poetry, nonfiction, art, photography, creative use of space, etc.
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Midsummer Dream House publishes an independent literary and arts magazine based in San Diego, California, that includes a wide variety of artistic and thought-provoking work, including the experimental and avant-garde.
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Midway Journal accepts submissions of aesthetically ambitious work that occupies the realms between both the traditional and experimental.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Midwest Review looks for well-crafted, thoughtful, and thought-provoking writing and visual art that examines, interprets, and redefines the full spectrum of life, past and present, in the Midwest. The Midwest is the region of the north...
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Midwest Weird is an audio literary magazine featuring weird fiction and nonfiction by Midwestern writers.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Launched in 2018, Milk Press is the literary and visual art journal of the Poetry Society of New York. Milk Press merges the poetic, visual, and digital art worlds by cultivating, presenting, and publishing multidisciplinary and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 7 to Mar 22, Jun 10 to Aug 1, Sep 3 to Oct 31Genre: Poetry -
Minerva Rising, an independent literary press, publishes thought-provoking and insightful stories and essays written by a diverse collective of women writers to elevate women’s voices and create a more compassionate world.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Minola Review is an online literary journal founded in 2016 with the aim of giving space for women’s writing. Today, the journal publishes the work of all those who identify as women and non-binary writers, continuing the founding...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Jul 1Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Feminist, LGBTQ Voices -
Miracle Monocle is an online journal of innovative literary and visual art. Published biannually, the journal features poems, short stories, literary nonfiction, reviews and interviews, and a broad range of experimental works.
Reading Period: Aug 1 to Aug 31, Jan 1 to Jan 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationGenres: Experimental, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry -
Miramichi Flash showcases outstanding flash fiction from writers across the globe. They publish marvels of compression—words that are handpicked, sumptuous imagery, and emotional resonance—stories that paint a picture of the human...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Jan 7, May 1 to May 7Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: FictionGenres: Flash Fiction -
Founded in 1978, the Missouri Review has earned a reputation for finding and publishing the very best writers first. Each issue contains new fiction, poetry, and essays, along with author interviews, art, and found-text features such as ...
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Mithila Review is an international speculative arts and culture magazine. It is open to original submissions as well as translations from around the world. Along with original speculative fiction and poetry, it will host reviews,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Established in 1989 as a quarterly print journal with local free distribution in Madison, Wisconsin, Mobius strives to publish challenging fiction and poetry that deal with social change as either a primary or a secondary theme.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genres: Political -
MockingHeart Review is an online literary journal. Founded as a poetry magazine in 2015 by Louisiana poet Clare L. Martin, MHR is now under the editorship of poet and critic Tyler Robert Sheldon. The aesthetic is ever expanding...
Read moreReading Period: Apr 1 to Apr 30, Aug 1 to Aug 31, Dec 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
Modern Haiku, the oldest and largest haiku journal outside Japan, seeks the best in contemporary English-language haiku, senryu, haibun, and haiga, as well as book reviews and essays on related topics. We also publish work originally...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
Modern Literature is an online, international literary magazine, aspiring to grow into a global platform for showcasing the latest trends in modern literature. They are a nonprofit venture, solely with the idea of growing their magazine...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationGenres: Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translation -
Moko is a nonprofit journal that publishes fiction, poetry, visual arts, and nonfiction essays that reflect a Caribbean heritage or experience. Their goal is to create networks with a Pan-Caribbean ethos in a way that is also sensitive...
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The Molotov Cocktail is interested in volatile flash fiction, the kind of prose you cook up in a bathtub and handle with rubber gloves. While literary fiction is certainly welcomed, the Molotov Cocktail isn’t some erudite...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: FictionGenres: Flash Fiction -
The Momentist is looking for fiction (under 7,000 words), poetry, critical essays, and translations.
The journal name comes from something once said by Harold Brodkey: “The reader in his or her life has more access to the real...
Read moreReading Period: Jul 5 to Aug 23Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Experimental, Literary Fiction, Translation -
Monkeybicycle is an online literary journal which is updated almost daily. The magazine was also a print journal for a time, publishing nine issues in total over several years. Many of these issues—which feature amazing writing from...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Humor, Narrative Nonfiction
