Submissions open May 1st and close July 31st in the following areas:
- Short Fiction – up to 5000 words; or 3 flash pieces up to 1000 words.
- Novel Chapter- up to 5000 words.
- Creative Nonfiction – up to 5000...
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: May 1 to Jul 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The editors of petrichor want sign waves, code tomes, bop abstracts and jagged graphemes. Easy enough, right?
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: PoetryGenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Prose Poetry -
Phantom Drift is one of the few literary journals in the United States focused on fabulist writing. It aims to nurture the literature of fabulism, the fantastic, and the surreal by publishing an appealing, top-quality perfectly bound...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to May 10Genres: Cross-genre, Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry -
Phare, an old English word for lighthouse or beacon to guide seafarers, is a UK based literary magazine which, true to its name, “shines a light on exceptional writing from around the world.”
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31 -
Phoebe prides itself on supporting up-and-coming writers, whose style, form, voice, and subject matter demonstrate a vigorous appeal to the senses, intellect, and emotions of our readers. It chooses writers because they believe their...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 15 to Apr 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Phoenix literary journal craves memorable, evocative work.
Created in 1958 in the heart of Western North Carolina and has a long tradition of publishing fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, artwork, and photography.
Reading Period: Sep 1 to Dec 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
phren-Z is a quarterly online magazine celebrating the community of Santa Cruz writers.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Weird, in the etymological meaning of the word: that which comes. Literary, speculative, experimental, or absurdly unclassifiable, just make it bold and beautifully written.
Reading Period: Jul 1 to Jul 15, Oct 1 to Oct 15 -
New and emerging writers. We like stories that meander and explore the world around us. Stories that tend to blur the line between fiction and reality.
We also accept art submissions!
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction -
The Pinch is a nationally recognized literary journal published by the University of Memphis. Its name is derived from the historic Pinch District in Memphis. By referencing one of Memphis’ first communities, it aims to reflect the heart...
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Pine Hills Review publishes artful, honest, and compelling work of new and established writers, from fiction, nonfiction, and poetry to visual art, interviews, and experimental, cross-genre work.
Reading Period: Sep 1 to Apr 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Pinyon is a national journal of poetry, prose, and art published at Colorado Mesa University that invites submissions from both established and emerging writers.
Reading Period: Aug 1 to Dec 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
pioneertown is an online literary journal publishing both traditional and genre-bending work. Named after an old western movie town in the southern California desert, pioneertown aims to establish a collection of work new and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry -
Pithead Chapel is looking for engaging stories told in honest voices. Most of all, we want to feel something. We want to reach the last word and immediately crave more. We want your work to leave a brilliant bruise.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
We want to highlight the work of both new and established writers passionate about film, music, literature, fine arts, and culture. We are also interested in your poetry and short fiction!
Simply put, we want to start...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Featuring poetry that runs the gamut from traditional to experimental, from realist to surrealist, Plainsongs strives to capture the multiplicity of voices--including those of feminist, nonwhite, immigrant, and LGBTQ+ writers--that make up the...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 15 to Dec 15, Feb 15 to Jun 15Genre: Poetry -
Plant-Human Quarterly explores the myriad ways writers manifest their relationship to the botanical world—from heavily researched pieces, to keen observation, to less systematic, intuitive ways of knowing and interacting—that attempt to...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Creative NonfictionGenres: Creative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Poetry -
Platform Review is an online venue that publishes a diverse selection of art and literature four times a year.
ARTS By The People and Platform Review do not promote or accept any racist, hateful, violent, or...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Nov 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Plath Profiles is an international, interdisciplinary journal of studies on Sylvia Plath. All submissions are peer-reviewed. We accept essays, book reviews, notes, teacher-reactions, poetry, memoirs, student essays, responses, art, ...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Jul 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Please See Me is an online literary journal that features health-related stories. The mission of the publication is to elevate voices and stories of vulnerable and underserved populations and those who care for them. At the heart of this...
Read moreReading Period: Jul 21 to Sep 5Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Pleiades: Literature in Context is a literary biannual featuring poetry, fiction, essays, and reviews by authors from around the world. Past contributors include winners of the Nobel, Ruth Lilly, Pulitzer, Bollingen, Prix de la Liberté,...
Read moreReading Period: Jun 1 to Jun 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Plentitudes is a quarterly international literary journal showcasing captivating short stories, personal essays, and poetry from diverse voices. We believe in the power of writing—in its plentitudes of forms, styles, and modes of...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Commercial Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Formal Poetry, Healing/Health, Historical, Humor, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Love, Lyric Essay, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Religious/Spiritual, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction -
Ploughshares is a journal of new writing, and two out of three issues per year are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles, with each year's Winter issue staff-edited. 50...
Read moreReading Period: Jun 1 to Jan 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
A provisional indication of our tastes – “what we are looking for” — may be inferred from the quoted passages (which will change often): a sense of the uncanny, foremost, and of the fineness of language, the huge absences to which it points and...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 1 to Mar 31, Sep 1 to Nov 1Genre: Poetry -
Pocket Samovar is an international literary magazine dedicated to underrepresented post-Soviet writing, art & diaspora. We originated in 2019 as a group of Jack Kerouac School students influenced—but not determined—by our Soviet...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 15 to Jun 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: BIPOC Voices, Experimental, Healing/Health, LGBTQ Voices, Lyric Essay, Poetry, Political, Regional, Translation
