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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: Oct 1 to Apr 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Salmagundi is a quarterly of the Humanities and Social Sciences which is addressed to the “general” reader rather than to the academic specialist. Founded in 1965 and published since 1969 at Skidmore College, the magazine routinely...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Apr 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Translation -
Salt Hill is published by a group of writers affiliated with the Creative Writing Program at Syracuse University.
Reading Period: Dec 1 to Jan 31, Aug 1 to Sep 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
samfiftyfour is devoted to building a literary community by sharing voices from around the globe. To date, 27 different countries, including writers from all walks of life writing on various topics, have been represented.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Founded in 2008, San Pedro River Review is a biannual journal of poetry and art named after the river that flows north from the mountains of Sonora, Mexico, into Arizona. We seek an economy of language with keen focus on voice and image...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Jan 31, Jul 1 to Jul 31Genre: Poetry -
SAND is an international journal publishing risk-taking work from the diverse range of creatives making visual art, poetry, fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, and translations. We look for work that subverts, crosses borders, and...
Read moreReading Period: Apr 10 to Apr 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, LGBTQ Voices -
Sand Hills brings together new and established voices from diverse backgrounds. We are looking for works that celebrate different perspectives.
We want writers to submit their truths, their fictions—to share their humanity. We...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 15 to Mar 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry -
Santa Barbara Literary Journal considers all kinds of fiction, flash, and poetry, and have a soft spot for fantasy, science fiction, experimental, funny, and quirky work.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Aug 1 -
An in-print and online literary journal, SFLR features work by local, national, and international writers and artists. Each issue of SFLR has a suggested theme; the 2022-2023 SFLR theme is "Myth: Invention, Legend, and Lore." SFLR is committed to...
Read moreReading Period: Jun 1 to Nov 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Founded by Jim Krusoe in 1988, Santa Monica Review is a nationally distributed literary arts journal sponsored by Santa Monica College.
The journal is published twice yearly, in Fall and Spring.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Saw Palm is a Florida-themed literary journal produced by the MFA program at the University of South Florida. It publishes poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, comics, art, photography, reviews, and interviews.
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Read moreReading Period: Jul 1 to Oct 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
The mission of Scarlet Leaf Review is to promote various genre and provide writers with access to publication.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Scarlet is a bimonthly blog published by Jaded Ibis Press that is dedicated to publishing the work of artists whose pieces give voice to the complexities of multiple identities. In keeping with JIP’s mission to uplift marginalized voices, ...
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The Schuylkill Valley Journal publishes poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, personal reflections, visual art, and more
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Regional -
Scoundrel Time is a nonprofit online literary journal launched after the 2016 U.S. presidential election. It publishes fiction, essays, poetry, works in translation, humor, music, and visual art that engages with the threats against ...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Scrawl Place is a travel litmag for the guest, the visitor, the traveler, the day-tripper, the out-of-towner, and the in-towners eager to wander. It accepts submissions about “places in the places” where you live or where you’ve visited...
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Seaside Gothic publishes fiction, poetry, and nonfiction of high quality that meet the criteria of seaside gothic literature. Each issue also features a selection of images from a single photographer or artist, including the cover.
Reading Period: Jan 9 to Jan 15, Apr 10 to Apr 16, Jul 10 to Jul 16, Oct 9 to Oct 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Seattle Star is an online journal of politics and culture that seeks to open up the world.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Fiction, Humor, Poetry, Political, Pop Culture -
Sensitive Skin Magazine publishes work by emerging and established artists, writers and musicians.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Experimental, Literary Fiction, Serialized Fiction -
Sepia is committed to showcasing the work of both emerging and established artists. All artists are eligible to submit.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Sequestrum publishes new, emerging, and internationally-acclaimed writers of short fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and cross-genre. All publications are paired with a unique visual component with the goal of fostering and exposing writers...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Commercial Fiction, Cross-genre, Erotica, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Historical, Humor, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Love, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Nonfiction, Poetry, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Regional, Religious/Spiritual, Serialized Fiction, Translation, War -
Sequoia Speaks is an international literary magazine dedicated to serving writers. Founded in 2021, Sequoia Speaks is based in Northern California.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Micro-poetry, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction -
Serotonin is a new literary journal that publishes poetry and flash fiction on mental illness and suicide prevention.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Serpentine Literary Magazine looks to celebrate modern womanhood and find the joy in subverting the patriarchy one piece of art at a time.
Reading Period: Mar 11 to Jun 10Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Creative Nonfiction, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, LGBTQ Voices, Poetry, Prose Poetry -
Seventh Wave engages writers and artists in conversation around timely and timeless social issues.
Reading Period: Apr 15 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
