Rabid Oak is a biannual literary journal broadcasting from California’s southern San Joaquin Valley. In addition to their twice-yearly online journal open to anyone from anywhere, they publish an ongoing series of “Locally Sourced”...
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Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Flash Fiction -
The Racket Journal is a weekly online literary journal. The editors want to promote the work of up-and-coming, emerging, established, and never-before-seen writers from around the country.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Fiction, Flash Fiction, Humor, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Speculative Fiction -
Radar Poetry currently publishes three issues each year: the Winter Issue, the Summer Issue, and the Conistion Prize Issue.
“A writer-friend of ours once said, "Great poems make everyone sick." We believe the most successful poems...
Read moreReading Period: Nov 1 to Jan 1, Mar 1 to May 1Genre: Poetry -
Radon is a triannual online journal publishing prose and poetry relating to science fiction, anarchism, transhumanism, and dystopia. It is a paying market publishing quality literature every January, May, and September. Pay rates are...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Subgenres: Feminist, Political, Speculative Fiction -
Raising Mothers is an online literary magazine created by and for femme identifying and NBPOC writers who parent. We exist at the intersection of art, scholarship, and community. We aim to elevate our voices, share our stories, talk about...
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Raleigh Review is a nonprofit magazine of poetry, short fiction, and art, offering accessible works of experience that are emotionally and intellectually complex. At Raleigh Review we believe that great literature inspires...
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The Rappahannock Review is a new online literary journal published twice a year (with an occasional bonus issue) by the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
Reading Period: Aug 1 to Oct 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry -
Rathalla Review is the literary magazine published by the students of Rosemont College's MFA in Creative Writing and Graduate Publishing programs.
Reading Period: Aug 15 to Oct 15, Jan 1 to Mar 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Flash Fiction -
Rattle is a publication of the Rattle Foundation and its mission is to promote the practice of poetry.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Experimental, Formal Poetry, Humor, Love, Micro-poetry, Political, Prose Poetry -
Rat’s Ass Review is an online poetry journal whose editorial fancies are no more arbitrary than any other; they are simply more openly so.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Feb 1, Jul 1 to Aug 1Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Experimental, Formal Poetry, Micro-poetry, Poetry, Prose Poetry -
Based in Central Texas, The Raven Review is a literary magazine that publishes poetry and short fiction that explores the human experience through dark, atmospheric writing. Since January 2020, the magazine has been publishing both...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Subgenres: Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Poetry, Short Fiction -
The Razor is a literary magazine produced by Gotham Writers Workshop. It publishes two pieces each month—one fiction, one nonfiction. For now, it does not publish poetry. Each published piece will be presented with audio and original...
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Réapparition Journal is a literary journal that focuses on the experience of chronic and mental illnesses. Many times, the stigmatization of some of these conditions is what hurts just as much as the situation itself. The ability to express one's...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Healing/Health -
Red Flag Poetry is a postcard project that aims to deliver poetry to the mailbox of subscribers every month on a postcard. It looks for poetry that is creative, original, and well crafted. It wants to see poems that critically reflect...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
Red Ogre Review is an online journal started by the graduate students from Lancaster University’s 2021 Creative Writing class. It primarily publishes poetry, book reviews and critical essays. It also accepts visual art submissions.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Experimental, Graphic/Illustrated, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Visual Poetry -
Red Wheelbarrow (since 2000), formerly Bottomfish, believes that everything that crosses the transom merits deep attention. It believes that beauty and meaning will inhabit wildly varied and unexpected tones and styles.
Reading Period: Sep 1 to Feb 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
A national, print literary journal devoted to poetry and poetics.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Experimental, Poetry, Prose Poetry -
Redheaded Stepchild only accepts poems that have been rejected by other magazines. It publishes biannually and accepts submissions in the months of August and February only.
Reading Period: Feb 1 to Feb 28, Aug 1 to Aug 31Genre: Poetry -
Redivider is operated by the MFA and MA students of the Writing, Literature & Publishing Department at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. It is published online twice per year.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
For over 150 years, Reed Magazine has published the work of writers and artists whose voices persist beyond the page. Based in San José, California, Reed is honored to feature the works of new and emerging authors alongside pieces by literary...
Read moreReading Period: Jun 1 to Oct 1, 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. It features fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, graphic narrative, and reviews by some of today’s finest literary...
Read moreReading Period: Oct 1 to Mar 1Genre: 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. Its mission remains...
Read moreReading Period: Oct 1 to Jan 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Cross-genre -
Revolute is a digital literary magazine founded in 2019 by the Randolph College MFA program. Revolute is committed to publishing the most engaging writing possible and is further committed to publishing emerging writers from...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 15 to Dec 8Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Experimental, Fiction, Literary Fiction, Poetry, Speculative Poetry -
Revue {R}évolution is a polymath review of poetry and art. We reunite poetry, art, mythology, and philosophy, as well as the East, the West, and Africa. The magazine is bilingual and publishes poetry and prose in English...
Read moreReading Period: Jun 21 to Jan 22Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Creative Nonfiction, Historical, Lyric Essay, Narrative Nonfiction -
RHINO is a high-quality, perfect-bound annual journal with online content including poems, event updates, and monthly e-zine RHINO Reviews. It invites traditional or experimental work reflecting passion, originality, artistic conviction...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 1 to Jun 30Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Flash Fiction, Poetry, Translation
