Vagabonds is a literary journal that is published twice a year. We harbor the mad ones. People who are dedicated to their work to the point that they become misunderstood, or seen as a hot mess of crazy. Our journal does not seek to...
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Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
VAINE is an online literary and arts magazine for and by emerging artists and writers.
The focus of our issues are on topical themes (such as Covid, the Environment, mental health etc). Contributors are also welcome to present...
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Valiant Scribe focuses on faith and social issues, including topics ranging from violence against women, forced labor, human trafficking, criminal justice, mental health, empowerment impediments, to climate change, poverty, and migration...
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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 we hope to see more creative work about the South.
Reading Period: Sep 1 to Jun 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Vallum is interested in original and previously unpublished work. Ideal submissions are well-crafted, fresh, and edgy. Open to most styles, whether experimental or traditional—though issues are usually put together with an underlying...
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Valparaiso Poetry Review presents poems, interviews, and essays by new, emerging, or well-known poets. VPR also offers book reviews and essays on various poets.
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We at Variety Pack try to live up to our namesake! A bedrock of diverse voices, expressing a variety of arts & letters. We are open to both genre and literary. We have an aesthetic, but it's a broad atlas rather than a narrow stream...
Reading Period: Dec 15 to Jan 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Historical, Humor, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Lyric Essay, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Regional, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Translation, Visual Poetry, War, Young Adult -
The third edition of the Vassar Review will explore the unlikely negotiations of space within and without the queered body. We are interested in works that reconfigure experiences of becoming: their shifting textures, opacities,...
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A Velvet Giant is a collective space for work that exists outside the boundaries of genre. We recognize that it can feel impossible to talk about writing without categorizing it. When we say genreless, we don’t mean apolitical. Writing...
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Verdad is an online, twice-yearly literary and fine arts journal that showcases the best unpublished poetry, short stories, non-fiction and visual art that comes our way. We also offer a wide range of interviews featuring contemporary...
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Vestal Review is the longest-running flash fiction magazine on the planet, published continuously since March 2000. It’s an online magazine coming out twice a year, and it’s eclectic, so a lot of different approaches work, provided they...
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Black Sun Lit is the publisher of Vestiges, an irregularly printed journal of prose, poetry, essay, translation, and art that envelops a specific idea or theme unique to each issue.
Reading Period: Oct 1 to Dec 31Subgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Literary Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Translation -
TVBR publishes poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, photography, and visual art that memorably express what it means to be human. Our editorial focus is on authentic voices and evocative images. We seek work that haunts us. The...
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Welcome to the home of the Virginia Normal, an international literary journal edited by the students and faculty of Virginia State University.
We publish two issues each spring: a print issue featuring literary work submitted from...
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We publish well crafted original poetry as well as translations from modern poets, everywhere. We favor poetry that is NOT OBSCURE yet avoids the trite.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Translation -
Our primary mission in creating Visions With Voices is to promote Spoken Word as a legitimate genre with standards that differentiate excellent work. We are creating here a venue which will give the artist a sense of accomplishment...
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A visitant is a visitor from another realm—a specter, a psychopomp, or a transitory creature, like a pilgrim or bird. Visitants pop up throughout literature as ghosts, as fits of madness, and as omens. In nature, a visitant takes on a different...
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Vita Brevis publishes poetry (especially from unpublished or emerging poets), charges no reading fees, accepts unsolicited pieces, keeps poetry submissions open year-round, and tends to favor short, structured poems over long,...
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Our intention is to publish writing that pushes against convention, which challenges, subverts, or skillfully manipulates tradition, and serves to advance the understanding of human culture and experience via interesting metaphors, exciting...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, LGBTQ Voices, Nonfiction, Poetry -
VoiceCatcher is an online journal that supports, inspires, and empowers female-identified writers and artists in the greater Portland, OR and Vancouver, WA areas.
Send us work that moves us. Work that pushes the envelope. We seek...
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Voicemail Poems is an online magazine that highlights the intimate and raw voices of new and established writers of all styles.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry
