The MacGuffin is an international publication based out of Schoolcraft College, a two-year community college in Livonia, Michigan. Published trianually, their staff seeks to feature a diverse array of voices and styles, from...
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Reading Period: Sep 1 to Jun 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
MacQueen’s Quinterly (also known as MacQ) is a smorgasbord of memorable works of art and literature, in multiple genres and short-forms: prose poetry; flash and microfiction; essays and creative nonfiction; photographs, drawings...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 1 to Feb 17, Jul 1 to Jul 17, Nov 1 to Nov 17Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Magazine1 serves as both a showcase of excellent writing from around the world, and a literary hub for the Sarasota / Saint Pete / Tampa area. The editors want to showcase work that challenges their understanding of what writing is and...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 24 to May 24Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
The editors want writing that is strange, unexpected, hopeful, complex, well-wrought. They want your gut punches, your urban graffiti, your chewed-up paper, your loud-as-a-car-alarm confessions. Send them something no one else would have written...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 18 to Feb 19Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Experimental, Fiction, Flash Fiction, LGBTQ Voices, Poetry -
The Main Street Rag prefers poetry that is alive with the poet’s own experiences, fiction that is character-driven and often quirky. Reviews, interviews should query first, and they are the two items for which they pay in cash.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Maine Review is a biannual online literary journal that publishes culturally significant and innovative writing by writers living in Maine, across the country, and around the world. Maine Review Publications is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Mar 31, May 1 to Jul 31, Sep 1 to Nov 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Maintenant is an annual journal that features the most significant contemporary dada writing and art from around the world. Maintenant editions aim to bring to light cutting-edge poetry and art that stems from an original spirit...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Mar 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Experimental, Feminist, Poetry, Political, Pop Culture, Visual Poetry, War -
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. The Malahat...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Jan 31, May 1 to May 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Mania Magazine is a small, independent literary magazine dedicated to your 3 AM works. They accept fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, artwork, and photography. Lights off, laptops on, release the mania!
Reading Period: Sep 15 to Jan 15, Mar 15 to Jul 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Mannequin haus publishes experimental fiction, video art, gif, scanner art, photography, painting, collage, print, comics, scribbles, found art, interviews and reviews. Anything submitted with surreal, descriptive, textural and original...
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The Mantelpiece is a monthly literary journal, featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, travel writing, book reviews, light verse, and poetry.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Creative Nonfiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Literary Fiction -
Map Literary is dedicated to celebrating quality works of new literature. Rather than aligning with any one aesthetic, they aspire to promote the finest provocative writing of the time, publishing semiannual issues of original fiction,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Markaz Review is a literary arts publication and cultural institution that curates content and programs on the greater Middle East and its communities in the diaspora. The Markaz signifies “the center” in Arabic, as well as Persian,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Marrow is a literary magazine committed to publishing work that explores dark spaces. The editors are interested in writing that uses compelling language and imagery to remind them what it means to be human, that makes wonderful the...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Creative Nonfiction, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Poetry -
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, Translation -
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.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Short Fiction -
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...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Maudlin House is a new kind of publishing house for the twenty-first century. They want to challenge your perspectives, help you find your inner poet, expand your empathy, and take you to places you’ve never been. They’re devoted to...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Subgenres: Experimental, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Pop Culture -
The Meadow publishes work each summer from beginning and experienced writers and artists. They are one of the few literary journals in the country that publishes their students alongside national writers. Writing from The Meadow...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 15 to Jan 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Based at Dartmouth College, Meetinghouse is a literary magazine that provides a space for diverse voices to speak with one another. Student editors work in collaboration with faculty mentors to take Meetinghouse all the way from...
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Memoir Magazine’s mission is to be a witness to both factual and emotional truths that resonate with the human heart by supporting writers and artists in sharing their stories—whether personal, social, or political—through publication,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction -
Memorious publishes poetry and fiction by emerging and established writers. The magazine also collaborates with the Chicago Organization Singers On New Ground for an annual art song contest, in which a guest composer selects a poem to...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 1 to Jun 1Subgenres: 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...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Apr 30, Jul 1 to Oct 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Cross-genre, LGBTQ Voices, Nonfiction -
Each issue of Menagerie Magazine is a curated exhibit of poems, fictions, and hybrid works that deserve the close attention of a small stage. Like a Joseph Cornell shadow box, the editors bring together a mixture of things found and made...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 1 to May 31, Sep 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Literary Fiction, Lyric Essay, Poetry -
Meow Meow Pow Pow is a weekly broadside that revolves around a theme. It publishes one piece a week around a premise that lasts three months, with four different themes throughout the year.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Mar 1, Apr 1 to Jul 1, Sep 1 to Nov 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
