Wildness is an online literary journal that publishes contemporary fiction, poetry, and narrative non-fiction. Founded in 2015, each thoughtfully compiled issue strives to unearth new work from both established and up-and-coming writers.
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: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
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: Feb 1 to Feb 28Genre: 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 Apr 15, Aug 1 to Oct 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Based out of a small Quaker school in the Pacific Northwest, we showcase the writing and art of new and upcoming artists and writers. Published once a semester, the magazine includes poetry, prose, photography, illustration, and digital media. ...
Reading Period: Sep 1 to Mar 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
WINK is a print magazine with a digital companion dedicated to providing a platform for creative writers and artists nationwide. It publishes poetry, short stories, flash fiction, artwork, photography, and articles on the writing life....
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Flash Fiction, Poetry -
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: Aug 20 to Dec 1, Jan 31 to Mar 5, Mar 23 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...
Read moreReading Period: Dec 3 to Jan 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The issues are cohesive; the whole of the magazine is comprehensive.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Open to all literary work. We welcome the oppotunity to expand our community of writers.
Reading Period: Jul 16 to Sep 28Genre: 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 -
Wordgathering provides a venue for those whose talent in writing poetry converges with an interest in the growing field of disabilities literature. It seeks writing that counters stereotypes of disabilities. In addition to poetry, it...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Healing/Health, LGBTQ Voices, Prose Poetry -
Online journal of literature in translation.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31 -
Each issue of Workers Write! contains stories and poems from a particular workplace.
Reading Period: Apr 15 to Dec 31 -
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...
Read moreReading Period: Nov 1 to Jan 31, May 1 to Jul 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 -
Established by combat veterans and maintained by a diverse board of veterans, military spouses, and writers compelled by themes of social justice and human resilience, the Wrath-Bearing Tree publishes essays, reviews, fiction, and poetry...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Writing Disorder is a quarterly literary journal devoted to literature, art and culture. Our mission is to showcase new and emerging writers—particularly those in writing programs—as well as established writers. We feature new...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
WUSSY is biannual print magazine dedicated to queer art and pop culture.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: LGBTQ Voices, Regional -
WWPH Writes is looking for poetry and fiction that celebrate, unsettle, and question our lives in the DC, Maryland, and Virginia area (DMV) and in our nation. We seek work that is lyrical and dynamic, and we believe in cultivating a...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31
