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
Connect your poems, stories, essays, and reviews to the right audiences by researching over twelve hundred literary magazines in our database. Here, you’ll find editorial policies, submission guidelines, contact information—everything you need to direct your work to the publications most amenable to your vision.
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Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Madcap Review is a semiannual online journal of art and literature. As our name indicates, we embrace the impulsive, the reckless, and the lively, but we also have great respect for form and restraint. Founded in 2014 by a group of...
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We prefer poetry that is alive with the poet’s own experiences, fiction that is character-driven and often quirky.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: 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...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Translation -
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...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Cross-genre, Flash Fiction, LGBTQ, Literary Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Translation -
We founded this publication in the interest and exaltation of “common people.” Our aim is to expand thought and inspiration on the charm, magic, law of the ordinary today that makes it so predictably, ineluctably human: the frustration, the...
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All written pieces should be submitted in Times New Roman 12 pt font, double spaced. Literary files are accepted in PDF, DOC, or Dox format. Visual art files are accepted as a JPEG or PDF. Please read our current issue prior to submitting in...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 14 to Mar 4Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Experimental, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry -
We focus on experimental writing, and surrealism.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Experimental, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry -
Each issue focuses on a different part of the Asia-Pacific region, including the Americas. From time to time, we also publish thematic issues, such as ENDURING WAR or ON FREEDOM. American authors and translators were published most recently in...
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Flash fiction, poetry, short fiction, nonfiction, image.
Brevity, lyric, place, experiment.
Submissions windows:
Prose: Year-round
Poetry: Aug 1- Oct 1
Art/Image: Aug 1 - Oct 1
Reading Period: Feb 1 to Sep 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: 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, poetry, and...
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Please visit the MTLS website for details on our editorial focus.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Fiction, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translation -
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. Stories are published online and in print. Our printed anthology goes out once a year and acts as a showcase of...
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We call ourselves an “alternative” magazine; that is to say: our purpose is to promote work that is thought-provoking and unconventional. We want the controversial and the radical, the unhinged and the bizarre; we want the obsessive, the...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Commercial Fiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, Historical, Humor, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, LGBTQ, Literary Fiction, Love, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Regional, Religious/Spiritual, Serialized Fiction, Translation, War -
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 history,...
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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 drip...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Subgenres: Experimental, Flash Fiction, Micro-poetry, Literary Fiction, 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;...
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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 are looking for excellent metrical poetry. Also looking for innovative uses/subjects for meter.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
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 NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Narrative Nonfiction, 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...
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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, and April...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Subgenres: Experimental, Prose Poetry, Literary Fiction -
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 know, to...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
