We publish accomplished fiction under 1000 words. In recent months, we've run stories by Iowa Short Fiction Award and Grace Paley Prize winning authors, as well as by writers who were previously unpublished. The 2013 volume of the Pushcart Prize...
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Reading Period: Aug 26 to Apr 30Genre: FictionSubgenres: Flash Fiction -
The Wilderness House Literary Review is a publication devoted to excellence in literature and the arts.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
wildness is an online literary journal that publishes contemporary fiction, poetry and non-fiction. Founded in 2015, each thoughtfully compiled issue strives to unearth new work from both established and up-and-coming writers.
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Willawaw Journal is an online magazine for poetry and art. Each issue features the poem prompt of a northwest poet laureate with model responses from the editors, and also promotes a theme specific to demographics or media. Submissions are open...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Graphic/Illustrated -
Since 1977 Willow Springs has published the finest in contemporary fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, as well as interviews with notable authors including Marilynne Robinson, Stuart Dybek, Aimee Bender, Robert Wrigley, Joyce Carol Oates, Yusef...
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Windhover: A Journal of Christian Literature is dedicated to promoting poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and creative nonfiction that considers Christian perspectives and engages spiritual themes.
Reading Period: Feb 1 to Aug 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Explore the current issue and find guidelines, themes, and deadlines for future issues there. We are also accepting manuscripts and proposals for prospective books, both literary and visual.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Poetry -
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Flash Fiction, Poetry
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The magazine is devoted to showcasing prose, poetry, and artwork from underrepresented creatives. We accept a broad range of themes, but we are particularly interested in works grounded in personal experience. We wish to go somewhere unexpected,...
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Started in 2016, The Wire’s Dream is a semi-annual magazine that values your story, your life perspective, and your worldview. An extension of The Black Lion Journal, The Wire’s Dream features creative work in Fiction, Poetry,...
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The Wisconsin Review publishes both new and established authors of outstanding poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. We publish bi-annually in the spring and fall.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir -
Witness blends the features of a literary and an issue-oriented magazine to highlight the role of the modern writer as witness to his or her times.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Mar 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
We’re particularly interested in themes of space and place, things that change and things that don’t, the spots we share and the ones we keep to ourselves. Where do you go when you need peace? Where do you go when you need to be loud? What...
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WomenArts Quarterly Journal (WAQ), an initiative of Women in the Arts, aspires to nurture, provide support, and challenge women-identified artists of all cultures, ethnicities, backgrounds, and abilities in their role in the...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Feminist, Flash Fiction, Humor, LGBTQ, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Prose Poetry -
The issues are cohesive; the whole of the magazine is comprehensive.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
We are an annual journal. All submissions are read independently by at least two editors. Crititcal work should have a central New England connection.
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Word For/Word is open to all types of poetry, prose and visual art, but prefers innovative and post-avant work with an astute awareness of the materials, rhythms, trajectories and emerging forms of the contemporary.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
Word Fountain is the literary magazine of the Osterhout Free Library. Our goal is to feature 40 to 60 pages of the best writing we can find, with an emphasis on poetry and fiction. We feature a broad range of styles from emerging and...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 24 to Oct 29Subgenres: Fiction, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Regional -
Wordgathering provides a venue for those whose talent in writing poetry converges with an interest in the growing field of disabilities literature. We seek writing that counters stereotypes of disabilities. In addition to poetry, we publish books...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, LGBTQ, Healing/Health, Prose Poetry -
Online journal of literature in translation.
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Mission: To publish the best writing, thought and information about work, or lack thereof, while providing a forum for readership to connect and respond.
WORK is dedicated to celebrating the daily grind: white collar, blue collar, pink...
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Each issue of Workers Write! contains stories and poems from a particular workplace. The 13th issue will be Tales from the Casino and will contain stories and poems from all aspects of casino work, from dealers, to wait and hospitality staff, to...
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Works & Days prizes content; it exists as a challenge to the notion that the Internet is only good for the fleeting and ephemeral. Our aim is to publish creative work of substance and craftsmanship, in any genre that our format will allow. To...
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World Literature Today is the University of Oklahoma’s bimonthly magazine of international literature and culture, founded in 1927. The editors welcome submissions on contemporary literary and cultural topics addressing any geographic region or...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Literary Fiction, Poetry, Translation -
The Woven Tale Press is a fine arts and literary magazine that welcomes unsolicited submissions. We focus on contributors with a web presence (blog or website). You may send us new or previously published material, as long as you still...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
