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.
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: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationGenres: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry -
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 central...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 15 to May 15Genre: Poetry, 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 bi-annually, 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 -
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 ...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
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. This is a nonprofit venture, solely with the idea of growing this magazine...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationGenres: Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translation -
Moko is a non-profit journal that publishes fiction, poetry, visual arts, and non-fiction 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...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
The Momentist is looking for fiction (<7000 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 than...
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 -
The Montreal Review features long-form critical essays, book reviews, commentary and interviews, photo essays, short stories and poetry. It is illustrated with contemporary and classic art by Canadian and international artists....
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
MORIA is a national online literary magazine with an all-student editorial board, based at Woodbury University in greater Los Angeles. It accepts poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction from emerging and established writers in the...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 30 to Oct 1, Jan 15 to Mar 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Moss is a literary journal of writing from the Pacific Northwest. Published annually, Moss is dedicated to exploring the intersection of place and creative expression, while exposing the region’s outstanding writers to a broad...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
An international art and literature magazine that features witty, irreverant, and moving poetry and fiction from established and up-and-coming authors, as well as interviews with the likes of Billy Collins, Eimear McBride and DBC Pierre.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenres: Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry -
Mount Hope publishes new and emerging writers alongside established writers. The editors enjoy finding new, diverse writers they can introduce to publication.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The MSU Roadrunner Review is a student-curated literary journal out of the Creative Writing program at the Metropolitan State University of Denver. The editors welcome quality prose, poetry, and visual art.
Reading Period: Sep 1 to Nov 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Mud Season Review is an international literary journal run by members of the Burlington Writers Workshop. The journal publishes online six times annually: one story, one portfolio of poems, one essay or piece of narrative nonfiction, and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The poem is the thing at Mudlark and the essay about it. As our full name suggests, we will consider accomplished work that locates itself anywhere on the spectrum of contemporary practice. We want poems, of course, but we want essays,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
Mulberry Literary is an online literary and art magazine dedicated to showcasing creative work in its every form. It aims to provide a longstanding, international platform that is inclusive to all creative work,...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Nov 1, Mar 1 to May 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationGenres: BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Historical, Humor, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Lyric Essay, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Translation -
the museum of americana is an online literary review dedicated to fiction, poetry, nonfiction, photography, music, and artwork that revives or repurposes the old, the dying, the forgotten, or the almost entirely unknown...
Read moreReading Period: Apr 1 to Apr 30, Aug 1 to Aug 31, Dec 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Muzzle aims to bring together the voices of poets from a diverse array of backgrounds, paying special homage to poets from communities that are historically underrepresented in print and online publications.
Reading Period: Jun 15 to Jul 15, Dec 15 to Jan 15Genre: PoetryGenres: Feminist, LGBTQ Voices, Political
