A national, print literary journal devoted to poetry and poetics.
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: PoetryGenres: Experimental, Poetry, Prose Poetry -
The Redheaded Stepchild only accepts poems that have been rejected by other magazines. We publish biannually, and we accept submissions in the months of August and February only. We do not accept previously published work. We do, however...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 1 to Feb 1Genre: Poetry -
Published twice a year, Redivider welcomes fiction, nonfiction, graphic art, and poetry submissions from new, emerging, and established artists and writers. We strive to showcase the very best previously unpublished art and literature we can find...
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Reed Magazine is one of the oldest student-run literary journals west of the Mississippi. We publish outstanding poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and art as a service to the South Bay literary community.
Reading Period: Jun 1 to Nov 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
For over a decade, Relief has helped shape the landscapes of faith and imagination for readers around the world. We feature fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, graphic narrative, and reviews by some of today’s finest literary...
Read moreReading Period: Oct 1 to Mar 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The aim of Remembered Arts is to encourage the rediscovery of what it means to be human—a meaning bound up in the practicality and poetry of our daily experiences. We offer a synthesis of real life and real art, recognizing our readers and...
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We are looking for writing that explores the boundaries of text and form, writing that is both progressive and unbound. We would like to see hybrid and transgenre pieces that remain critically engaging. We are interested in poetry, fiction, drama...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, LGBTQ, Micro-poetry, Prose Poetry -
Reservoir is a semi-annual, online literary journal. We publish poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction and art. New issues are released in the summer and in the winter.
Reading Period: Mar 17 to May 17Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
For over two decades, Reunion: The Dallas Review has been dedicated to finding and publishing exceptional examples of short fiction, drama, visual art, poetry, translation work, non-fiction, and interviews. Our mission remains cultivating the...
Read moreReading Period: Oct 15 to Jan 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Cross-genre -
Reverberations is an online publication for young people to engage emotionally, analytically, and intuitively with all forms of art. We hope to share the stories of young people all over the world. The Fresh Thoughts section contains timely...
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RHINO is a high-quality, perfect-bound annual journal with online content including poems, event updates, and monthly e-zine RHINO Reviews. We invite traditional or experimental work reflecting passion, originality, artistic conviction, and a...
Read moreReading Period: Apr 15 to Jul 31Genre: PoetryGenres: Flash Fiction, Poetry, Translation -
We publish short poetry (under 16 lines), flash fiction (under 500 words), and art. "Short work for smart people with short attention spans."
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genres: Flash Fiction, Micro-poetry, Prose Poetry -
RipRap offers a humble invitation to talented and aspiring writers of all genres (short fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and art). RipRap 41 will highlight multitude and diversity in all forms, celebrating the uniqueness of culture...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 12 to Dec 17Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
River Heron Review was established to support the arts through the sharing of poetry in our online journal, at readings, workshops, and by making public the transformative power of poetic expression.
We hope to contribute...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Nov 30Genre: Poetry -
We publish imaginative contemporary poetry, short fiction, essays, memoir by well established writers as well as writers with great potential. Visit our website for type of work published. We also publish art & photography.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
As a multicultural magazine of poetry, prose and art, River Styx publishes works of both new and established artists significant for their originality, energy and deft of craft. The high quality of its form and content have made it a leader among...
Read moreReading Period: Jun 1 to Nov 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
A journal combining the best of creative nonfiction, including narrative reportage, essays & memoir, with critical essays that examine the emerging genre & that explore the impact of nonfiction narrative on the lives of its writers,...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to May 1Genre: Creative Nonfiction -
RiverSedge is published annually by the Creative Writing Program at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. While our name reflects the specific geographical and cultural nuances of the Rio Grande Valley, we believe RiverSedge...
Read moreReading Period: Oct 1 to Mar 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Rivet publishes writing that breaks from the mainstream to surprise, challenge, and delight. Each issue brings together poetry, fiction, and nonfiction that test the boundaries of form and content--a surrealist sestina followed by a lyric essay...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
We publish 3-6 featured pieces every two weeks--focusing primarily on poetry, creative nonfiction, and fiction.
Our digital gallery publishes photo essays, visual poetry, and artists from southwestern Virginia.
On occasion, we...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Jan 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The editors of Rock & Sling want to be surprised, more than anything. Surprised at the solidity of your work, the beauty of it, the tension in it, the argument of it, the freshness of it, the experiment of it. We live in a mysterious,...
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We prefer interior rhyme in poems, as opposed to rhymed endings, and nonviolent, non-vulgar prose.
Reading Period: Aug 1 to Oct 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Room [est. 1975] showcases fiction, poetry, reviews, art work, interviews and profiles about the female experience. The magazine was originally called Room of One's Own, in honour of Virginia Woolf's assertion that, “[for a woman] it is necessary...
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To supply an eclectic, quality, national venue for new and underappreciated writers of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Rougarou, a Journal of Arts and Literature, aims to publish an eclectic, resonant selection of creative writing by emerging and established writers. Founded in 2007 by the faculty and graduate students of the University of Louisiana at...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
