The pacificREVIEW is an annual review of prose, poetry, and artwork on a given theme, published in affiliation with San Diego State University Press.
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: Dec 1 to Feb 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Pacifica Literary Review publishes poetry, fiction, and creative non three times a year. Based in Seattle, it invites writers from all backgrounds, races, orientations, and occupations to send work.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Packingtown Review was founded in 2007 at the University of Illinois at Chicago by Ph.D. students in the English department.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Painted Bride Quarterly’s editorial staff is triangulated out of Philadelphia, NYC, and Abu Dhabi, with a community-based process for work. PBQ publishes poems, stories, & non-fiction that represent the individual, with a...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Palette Poetry endeavors to uplift and engage emerging and established poets in our larger community. The magazine has no particular aesthetic vision or mission. Its goal is to simply find and publish the best poetry it can, no matter...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
Palm-Sized Press is an independent press and online flash fiction writing community, accepting writing from all over the world. We publish collections of short fiction and a bi-annual magazine.
Additionally, each month a new prompt is...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: FictionGenres: Flash Fiction -
"I decided some years ago that I wanted to create a space for people taking on the struggle, a venue to give those writers and artists a truly fair shot at publication and the chance to be seen, read, and recognized—no connections, no...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Pamplemousse publishes high quality, forward thinking, innovative, and well-crafted writing in many genres and styles. We relish discovering new voices, as well as featuring established favorites.
Reading Period: Sep 1 to Apr 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Pangyrus is a literary magazine that is dedicated to art, ideas, and making culture thrive. Its name is a portmanteau of pan (all) and gyrus (the folds on the cerebral cortex of the brain).
Reading Period: Jul 15 to Oct 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The nonprofit literary arts collective [PANK] — PANK Magazine, Pankmagazine.com, the Little Book Series, the Invasion Readings — fosters access to emerging and experimental poetry and prose, publishing the brightest and most promising...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Experimental -
Paper Dragon is the Drexel MFA literary magazine committed to publishing poetry, short stories, short screenplays, creative nonfiction, and artwork that resonates with contemporary readers. We are committed to showcasing exciting and...
Read moreReading Period: Jul 1 to Jul 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Paperbag is an online journal for expansive bodies of poetry, visual art, sound work, collaboration, and hybrid experiment from established and emerging creators.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, TranslationGenres: Experimental -
Parhelion Literary Magazine welcomes submissions for fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and visual art. It is especially interested in strong and diverse voices, compelling stories, and innovative narrative techniques.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to May 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Paris-American’s mission is to unite talented emerging poets and established poets on the same stage, while also serving as a weekly e-zine for new poetry.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
Passager Magazine publishes two issues per year featuring poetry, fiction and memoir by writers over 50. Its mission is to bring attention to older writers with a publication that is beautifully designed and professionally edited. Our...
Read moreReading Period: Jul 15 to Sep 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Passages North publishes diverse, literary fiction, poetry, and nonfiction by emerging as well as established writers. The journal is open to submissions of poetry, short-shorts, nonfiction, and hybrid work from September 1 until April...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Apr 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: BIPOC Voices, LGBTQ Voices, Short Fiction -
The Paterson Literary Review (PLR), edited by Maria Mazziotti Gillan since 1979, is huge in every sense of the word. It is a Journal of poets and fiction writers both famous and new. Brimming with energy and vitality, PLR publishes real...
Read moreReading Period: Jun 1 to Sep 30, Oct 1 to Jan 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Pattern Recognition publishes well-written short fiction, non-fiction, poetry and comics. Experimentation is always welcome.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
This is a journal committed to diverse voices, an accessible journal, a journal for everyone. We’re interested in the work you’re producing--not where you’ve been published before. Our passion lies in giving readers a place to find exciting new...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Peeking Cat is an online magazine, annual anthology, podcast, and all-round writing community and resource. At Peeking Cat, we like writing that tells the truth in some way, by daring to be honest about something important, or...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Founded in 1951, The Penn Review is the oldest continuously published and premier literary magazine at the University of Pennsylvania. Devoted to the literary and visual arts, The Penn Review publishes original poetry, fiction,...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 25 to Mar 31, Oct 25 to Nov 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Pennsylvania Literary Journal (ISSN#: 2151-3066) is a printed journal that publishes scholarly essays on a range of different topics, periods, genres and fields, as well as book-reviews, short fiction stories, interviews, photographs,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Pensive publishes work that deepens the inward life; expresses a range of religious/spiritual/humanist experiences and perspectives; envisions a more just, peaceful, and sustainable world; advances dialogue across difference; and...
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Peregrine has provided a forum for national and international writers since 1983 and is committed to finding exceptional work by established as well as emerging writers.
Reading Period: Mar 15 to Apr 30Genres: Literary Fiction -
Permafrost, the farthest north literary journal for writing and the arts, publishes original work in all genres, including fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and hybrid. We publish two issues annually, one print and one online. Our journal...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 15 to May 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
