The Pinch is a nationally recognized literary journal published by the University of Memphis. Our name is derived from the historic Pinch District in Memphis. By referencing one of Memphis’ first communities, we aim to reflect the heart of our...
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Reading Period: Aug 15 to Mar 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Pinwheel is a tri-annual poetry journal. Our issues include poets at various stages of their writing careers, and we refuse to subscribe to one creative aesthetic over another.
Reading Period: May 1 to May 31Genre: Poetry -
We appreciate a strong voice and clear vision. We seach for emerging as well as established 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 needed on the...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Flash Fiction, Prose Poetry, Literary Fiction -
Pirene's is an eclectic poetry journal that celebrates diverse writing styles, schools and topics.
Reading Period: May 1 to Aug 1Genre: Poetry -
Pismire is an audio journal for experimental poetry.
Pismire wants to fill a niche in contemporary poetry: it wants to exhibit poems that--without the auditory experience--other journals might overlook.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Experimental -
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 -
Our goal is to become a subscription-driven tri-annual journal. The issues will be glossy-cover and perfect-bound, containing 100-200 pages of poetry. We hope our website will become a virtual gathering place for all of Pittsburgh poetry,...
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Plath Profiles is an international, interdisciplinary journal of studies on Sylvia Plath. Peer-reviewed. International Board of Directors, Plath scholars. We accept essays, book reviews, notes, teacher-reactions, poetry, memoirs,...
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Please Hold Magazine is a St. Louis based quarterly multimedia arts and literary magazine publishing experimental work from emerging and established artists around the world.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Pleiades: Literature in Context publishes the best poetry, fiction, and essays that come across our desk. In addition, the Pleiades Book Review, which comprises a 100-150 supplement to the magazine, prints detailed book reviews of recent small-...
Read moreReading Period: Jul 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, Humor, Prose Poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Literary 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% of each...
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...
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Poecology is an online literary journal for contemporary writing about place, ecology, and the environment. We publish poetry, fiction, and nonfiction that meditates human responses to ecological and place-based themes from various perspectives...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Nature/Environmental -
Each issue focuses on a specific kind of poetry. Check the guidelines to view our current call for submisions.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
We enjoy poetry from accomplished as well as emerging poets. Each issue has a unique theme and we encourage unique perspectives and interpretations of each theme. We like all forms of poetry, but tend to shy away from sing-songy forced rhyme. We...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Poetry -
Poesis is an independent, international, free-access literary journal. We are an online journal, exclusively. It’s like a desert where you can build your literary home. Because the acceptance rate for almost all literary journals is about...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Oct 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Poetry -
Established in 1889, Poet Lore is the oldest continuously published poetry magazine in the United States. Poet Lore publishes semi-annual installments of the finest contemporary poetry both by established writers and those breaking into print. We...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Jun 30Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Poetry, Translation -
Poetica Magazine accepts works centered on the Jewish experience. All writers of all backgrounds are encouraged to submit. We offer an annual poetry contest (Anna Davidson Rosenberg Award), and chapbook publishing services.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Micro-poetry, Prose Poetry, Religious/Spiritual -
POETRY embraces the "open-door policy" set forth by founding editor, Harriet Monroe. As she put it, we "desire to print the best English verse which is being written today, regardless of where, by whom, or under what theory of art it is written...
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
Poetry East, edited by Richard Jones, is committed to an art that is immediate, accessible, and universal. Poetry East is described by Choice as “one of the best current journals of poetry” and ranked by London’s Poetry Review as one of the top...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
Poetry International is a celebration of poetry on a global scale. Each issue is a unique collection of original works, translations, and reviews, with every issue showcasing the contemporary poetry of one nation. Some recent examples include:...
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Unique, long-running, bilingual & multi-cultural international venue for exciting poetry in English and Japanese poetry in English translation, Poetry Kanto offers an in-depth look at featured poets from all sides of the cultural and...
Read moreReading Period: Dec 1 to Jun 15Genre: Poetry -
We publish the best in contemporary poetry — exploring the intersection of poetry and the other arts and sciences, enhancing the role that poetry plays in enriching public discourse and maintaining a purposeful quality of life. As the Northwest's...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 15 to Mar 15Genre: Poetry -
Poetry Pacific functions to publish and promote 'the Best Contemporary Poetry in English' it can find.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry