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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  • Valley Voices is located in the heartland of the Mississippi Delta. It features fiction, poetry, interviews, and criticism from writers and scholars anywhere, though they hope to see more creative work about the South.

    Reading Period: Jan 1 to Apr 30, Sep 1 to Dec 30
    Subgenres: Regional
  • Verse-Virtual is both an online community and journal that has been published monthly since June 2014, with only a couple of exceptions. The emphasis of the community is on kindness and civility. Readers are encouraged to email authors...

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    Reading Period: Jan 1 to Jan 10, Feb 1 to Feb 10, Mar 1 to Mar 10, Apr 1 to Apr 10, May 1 to May 10, Jun 1 to Jun 10, Jul 1 to Jul 10, Aug 1 to Aug 10, Sep 1 to Sep 10, Oct 1 to Oct 10, Nov 1 to Nov 10, Dec 1 to Dec 10
    Genre: Poetry