The MacGuffin is an international publication based out of Schoolcraft College in Livonia, Michigan. Published three times a year, we strive to usher in the best poetry, fiction, and artwork that we receive to the literary community.
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: Sep 1 to Jun 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
We prefer poetry that is alive with the poet’s own experiences, fiction that is character-driven and often quirky. Reviews, interviews should query first.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31, May 1 to Jun 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Send us writing that you’re excited about. Send us work that took courage to begin and tenacity to complete. Send us your proudest personal essay, your classic short story, your reboot of the villanelle, or your weirdest experimental text. Send...
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The Malahat Review is among Canada’s leading literary journals. Published quarterly, it features contemporary works of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction by emerging and established writers from around the world. TMR is a...
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We focus on experimental writing, and surrealism.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Experimental, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry -
Flash fiction, poetry, short fiction, nonfiction, image. Brevity, lyric, place, experiment.
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Manzano Mountain Review is on hiatus and closed for submissions through 2022. Submissions will reopen...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 1 to Sep 15Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Flash Fiction, Prose Poetry -
Map Literary is dedicated to celebrating quality works of new literature. Rather than aligning with any one aesthetic, we aspire to promote the finest provocative writing of our time, publishing semiannual issues of original fiction,...
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Mascara Literary Review is an online journal particularly interested in the work of contemporary Asian, Australian and Indigenous writers. We publish poetry, short fiction and essays from and about Asia.
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The Massachusetts Review is an independent quarterly journal of literature, the arts, and public affairs. MR has deep local roots but an international scope, with an emphasis on work that provokes debate, challenges ideology,...
Read moreReading Period: Oct 1 to Apr 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Masters Review publishes new and emerging writers and is open to any writer who does not have a novel under contract with a major press. Stories are published online and in print. Our printed anthology acts as a showcase of today’s...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Matter is a monthly online journal of political poetry and commentary established with the intention of breaking down structural antimonies between labor and capital, and aesthetics and politics. In this “post-everything” (including...
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Maudlin House is a literary experience that curates the best in experimental lit by both emerging, and established authors. We encourage you to write weird, life's too short not to. Belong to where you don’t belong. Stay up all night and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genres: Experimental, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Pop Culture -
The Maynard, an intimate, international space for poets, publishes 22-24 voices/issue and features poems in print and audio. New feature: VIEWS—For Reviews, two people read one book and talk about it, then we publish the conversation;...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry -
The Meadow is the annual print and online literary journal of Truckee Meadows Community College in Reno, Nevada.
Reading Period: Sep 1 to Feb 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
We seek your most raw emotionally intense and intimate essays, work you hesitate to send elsewhere, but that you know deep down is the realest deal of all. We want to share your story, know what it's like to be you--to wear your shoes, and be...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Creative Nonfiction -
We publish poetry and fiction by emerging and established writers. We also collaborate with the Chicago Organization Singers On New Ground for an annual art song contest, in which a guest composer selects a poem to set. The winning work is...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 1 to Jun 1Genres: Literary Fiction -
Men Matters Online Journal (MMOJ) is a literary journal devoted to topics concerning men, masculinity, gender, culture, politics, sexuality, and challenging men’s roles in traditional patriarchal societies. It is interested in...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Apr 30, Jul 1 to Oct 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Menacing Hedge is a quarterly journal of poetry, fiction and artwork, that is committed to fostering access to emerging and experimental poetry and prose. Ongoing publication is scheduled for the first weeks of July, October, January,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genres: Experimental, Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry -
Meow Meow Pow Pow is a weekly broadside that revolves around a theme. We publish one piece a week around a premise that lasts three months, with four different themes throughout the year.
Our mission is ensure accessibility – ya...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Founded in 1998, Meridian has featured the works of numerous Pulitzer Prize Winners, National Book Award Winners, and established writers. However, as a magazine edited by young writers, we value nothing more than showcasing tomorrow's talent,...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 15 to Apr 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Literary Fiction -
We are the Metaworker, an online literary magazine where great stories are forged.
We started out as a group of recent graduates from Chapman University, where we were editors of the on-campus literary magazine, the Calliope...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Experimental, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry -
Michigan Quarterly Review embraces creative urgency and cultural relevance, aiming to challenge conventions and address long-overdue conversations.
Reading Period: Mar 1 to Nov 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Cross-genre, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Translation -
MicroLit Almanac publishes innovative flash work, any genre. Although conventional micros are fewer than 300 words, we are far from conventional. So take up to a thousand, but no more.
We hold up fostering community as necessary:...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Sep 30, Mar 1 to Mar 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationGenres: Cross-genre -
Midway Journal accepts submissions of aesthetically ambitious work that occupies the realms between both the traditional and experimental.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to May 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
We look 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 central United States...
Read moreReading Period: Jun 1 to May 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
