So to Speak, founded in 1993 by an editorial collective of women MFA candidates at George Mason University. So to Speak has served as a space for feminist writing and art for nearly twelve years. So to Speak publishes poetry, fiction,...
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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: Aug 7 to Oct 20Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
SOILED is an architectural periodical. It investigates latent issues in the built environment and the politics of space. SOILED operates at the interstices of architecture, urbanism, and the pedosphere, providing a venue for...
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Sojourners magazine sits at the intersection of faith, politics, and culture. Our call to prophetic interrogation means we seek the truth as informed by our biblical roots. Sojourners' three key commitments are racial and social justice...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Feminist, Nature/Environmental, Poetry, Political, Religious/Spiritual, War -
With each issue our cover art will change. We want your prose, poetry, and art to respond to, reflect on, or reimagine this picture.
Reading Period: Jul 31 to Oct 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Solstice is committed to publishing works by diverse authors, and writers-on-the margins. It is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit.
Reading Period: Sep 1 to Jun 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre -
Solum Journal is a Christian literary journal featuring poetry, short stories, homilies, and visual art.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Subgenres: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Religious/Spiritual -
Somos en escrito: The Latino Literary Magazine is dedicated to providing an outlet to new and established writers in the various fields of literature: fiction (short stories, novellas, excerpts from novels), essays, poetry (all genre),...
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Sonder primarily focuses on publishing and supporting the work of young, new, and barely published artists. Sonder accepts poetry, fiction, photography, digital art, and other purely original works. Have something else you think...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Feminist, LGBTQ Voices, Poetry, Prose Poetry -
The Sonder Review is a biannual print publication of short fiction, creative nonfiction and visual art based in New York. We believe in language. Words raw and shuddering and unabashed. Prose which is spare and piercing, delicately and...
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We publish quality poetry of any genre and length congruent with our quarterly themes, including traditional poems, form poems, prose poems, and narrative poems. We also consider extraordinaryily good poems that are not congruent with our themes...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 1 to Feb 15, May 1 to May 15, Aug 1 to Aug 15, Nov 1 to Nov 15Genre: Poetry -
Since the magazine’s inception in 1980, editors and readers have worked to keep alive the journal’s tradition of publishing both established and emerging writers who uphold the highest standards of innovative prose and poetry.
Reading Period: Sep 1 to Apr 1Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Sons and Daughters aims to publish poetry and articles that take the attitudes of radical modernism and use them in today's creative, social, and political envionment to capture a vital energy for innovation to sustain art in the 21st...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Creative Nonfiction -
SORTES is a collection of stories, poems, songs, and illustrations to help while away the wintery June nights. We have neither theme nor scene. We publish both the sufficiently strange and insufficiently boring: swart stories, hoity poetry,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
We are committed to investing in and encouraging the words/stories/voices of all writers, prioritizing those belonging to marginalized communities.
Reading Period: Sep 12 to Nov 15Genre: Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Translation -
Soundings East, the literary journal of Salem State University, has published quality fiction, poetry, and nonfiction for forty years. The magazine is published annually with support from the Center for Creative and Performing Arts. Edited by...
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The South Carolina Review reimagines the Southern Literary Magazine. We’re expanding our range to encompass the best of contemporary literature from various perspectives, and we want to reflect the diverse experiences of our readers and...
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SoFloPoJo considers all genres of poetry. We especially like fairy tales, magic realism, haunting prose-poems, lyrical vignettes, crafted narratives. Send us your best work. We will begin to take essay submissions in January 2021.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Creative Nonfiction -
Our goal in putting TSR together is to create a literary journal filled with debut, emerging, and established authors; a literary journal that is inclusive of marginalized voices; a literary journal in which our readers will find themselves...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 1 to Sep 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Southeast Review, established in 1979 as Sundog, is a national literary magazine housed in the English department at Florida State University and is edited and managed by its graduate students and a faculty consulting editor...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Translation -
Southern Humanities Review publishes fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Translations in all genres have also appeared in the journal. The journal recently established the Auburn Witness Poetry Prize Honoring Jake Adam York, poet...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 10 to Nov 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Southern Indiana Review presents a cross-section of emerging and established artists and writers whose work is both regional and national in scope and degree of recognition.
Reading Period: Sep 1 to Apr 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
SPR reads submissions year-round and annually sponsors The Guy Owen Prize Contest. The result is a semi-annual literary publication showcasing poems by leading poets as well as those writers we think will become leading poets. We look...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
Established in 1951, the Southern Quill is the literary publication of Dixie State University. We accept poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and visual art from residents of Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming.
Reading Period: Oct 12 to Mar 10Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Southern Review is one of the nation’s premier literary journals. Hailed by Time as "superior to any other journal in the English language," we have made literary history since our 1935 founding. The Southern Review...
Read moreReading Period: Oct 1 to Jan 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Celebrating over 100 years of publication and located on the campus of Southern Methodist University, Southwest Review is the third oldest, continuously published literary quarterly in the United States. Selections from Southwest Review have been...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to May 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
