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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Stand was founded in 1952 with £5 of Jon Silkin’s redundancy money. The magazine's title expressed its aim, to stand against injustice and oppression; to make a stand for the role that the arts, poetry and fiction in particular, could play (should... Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31
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Star 82 Review is a full-color, online and print magazine. We are especially open to writers who make art and artists who write but are interested excellent work, whatever it may be. Each issue features microfiction and creative nonfiction,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Star*Line is a journal of speculative poetry, including not only science fiction, but fantasy, horror, and what lies between these genres. We also publish relevant articles and SF poetry book reviews.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
Steam Ticket, A Third Coast Review, is published each April. It is the national literary magazine of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. We aspire to publish high-quality poetry, fiction, and essays from both experienced and emerging writers...
Reading Period: Dec 1 to Mar 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
We publish interesting fiction, poetry, essays, and multimedia work from all over the world. However, preference is given to writers, artists, and subject matter with some connection to the South. We are particularly interested in work that uses...
Read moreReading Period: Jul 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
StepAway Magazine is an online literary magazine publishing the best urban flash fiction and poetry by writers from across the globe. The title of the magazine draws inspiration from Frank O’ Hara’s landmark flâneur poem, “A Step Away from Them...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, Fiction -
STILL POINT ARTS QUARTERLY has a clear focus on nature, art, and spirit as it explores a unique theme with each issue. The publication has been praised for its rich content and splendid layout and design. It is, quite simply, a beautiful...
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The Stillwater Review was founded back in 2010 at Sussex County Community College by poet and now retired professor Priscilla Orr and is made possible through the support of the Betty June Silconas Poetry Center. The journal maintains a...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Dec 1Genre: Poetry, Creative Nonfiction -
Stone Canoe showcases the work of a diverse mix of emerging and well-established artists and writers who are current or former residents of Upstate New York. In doing so, the journal supports the YMCA's Downtown Writers Center's ongoing...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 15 to Jul 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Stoneboat is an online, independent journal of literature and arts dedicated to publishing quality fiction, nonfiction, memoir, poetry, artwork, and graphic literature. We strive to showcase outstanding and diverse work from both emerging and...
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The Stonecoast Review is a literary arts journal edited by students and alumni from Stonecoast’s MFA program in Creative Writing. We welcome writing in the genres of creative nonfiction, fiction, dramatic works, poetry, and experimental. The...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 4 to Apr 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
We’ll look at any genre. We like serious, comic, lighthearted, dark, emotional, and acerbic. The important factor for us is that the work use story, characters, emotions, and other fundamental elements of storytelling to think, to ask questions,...
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We are looking for original literary work of the highest quality in many styles, surprising and affecting, formally and affectively innovative. We publish both fresh and experienced voices. We welcome submissions by authors from all walks of life...
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Story is an independent literary journal of narrative fiction and nonfiction aimed to enrich the American literary life through a publication of a diverse and inclusive roster of contemporary voices. Founded in 1931, Story has...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Story Shack is a daily online flash fiction publication that celebrates the collaboration between writers and illustrators. We are proud to say that all stories we publish come with an accompanying illustration.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: FictionGenres: Flash Fiction -
Founded in 1975, StoryQuarterly has been publishing emerging and established writers for over thirty years.
Reading Period: Mar 20 to Jul 1Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
We are actively looking for unique modes of storytelling that fall outside conventional boundaries while still maintaining the core essence of "story." We accept stories in all forms and formats, especially those we haven't thought of yet.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Focus on writing from and about the American South.
Reading Period: Sep 15 to Dec 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
No themes or gimmicks — we just want your best.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Cross-genre, Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction -
We're looking for fiction, poetry, memoir and art -- especially pieces that reflect a sense of place.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
We publish writing we love, whether from established writers or new voices. On the fiction side we sometimes tend towards the slipstream end of things. We print poetry in translation and original verse in English.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry -
We welcome poetry, short story and art submissions from all people and places. Send us your most oneiric, moonlit work.
We enjoy writing that’s dream-like but tactile—something that lets one feel the moonbeams between the fingertips.
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“Strong Words for a Polite Nation” subTerrain Magazine was founded in 1988 to publish writers from the other side of the tracks. Each issue features progressive and sometimes controversial writing, alongside timely book reviews and contemporary...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
We are a new literary magazine which aims to publish the best short fiction online. We are interested in short stories and flash fiction pieces of no more than 3,000 words. Fiction which does not fit into a box. It must be lively, daring, and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: FictionGenres: Experimental, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction -
Sugar House Review is an independent poetry mag. published semiannually in Utah. We intend to publish a wide variety of the best poetry we can get our hands on without displaying a bias to a particular style or voice. We hope our content...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 31 to Jul 31Genre: Poetry
