Waccamaw is a graduate student and faculty collaboration featuring contemporary poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. The magazine is published online once a year, in the fall, by The Athenaeum Press at Coastal Carolina University....
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: Aug 1 to Sep 8Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
War, Literature, & the Arts publishes short fiction, poetry, personal essay/memoir, visuals, book reviews and scholarly essays for a general audience. From the Iliad to The Hurt Locker to The Things They Carried...
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warning lines publishes work exclusively from queer and/or neurodivergent creators.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: BIPOC Voices, LGBTQ Voices -
Washington Square Review is an innovative, nationally-distributed literary journal publishing a dynamica and diverse array of new fiction, poetry, and translations, as well as insightful interviews with distinguished authors. It is...
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The Watershed Journal is always looking for storytellers in our region of the Pennsylvania Wilds to submit poetry, short stories, personal essays, local journalism, and storytelling photography or imagery. A diversity of life happens...
Read moreReading Period: Jun 6 to Jun 20Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
We hope authors will take advantage of our refusal to define what we publish, and send us un-name-able bits and pieces. A fiction that has no shape but feels complete and leaves a hole in your stomach; a nonfiction layered in obvious lies; a...
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The Wax Paper is a broadsheet publication open to all forms of written word, imagery, and collected conversation.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Commercial Fiction, Experimental, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Historical, Humor, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Love, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Regional, Translation, Young Adult -
Waxing & Waning is a literary journal that seeks what’s on the fringe.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Waxwing is a literary journal promoting the tremendous cultural diversity of contemporary American literature, alongside international voices in translation. We believe that American voices are, at their cores, both multicultural and...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Apr 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Since 2012, The Wayfarer has been offering literature, interviews, and art with the intention to inspires our readers, enrich their lives, and highlight the power for agency and change-making that each individual holds.
Reading Period: Sep 1 to Jan 31, Feb 1 to Jul 1Genre: Poetry, Creative Nonfiction -
The Wayne Literary Review is a yearly literary journal published in Detroit, MI, by Wayne State Press. We publish writing that inspires, experiments, and pushes language in new and interesting directions. We are edited by Wayne State...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 15 to Feb 20Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Weber invites submissions in the genres of personal narrative, critical commentary, fiction, creative non-fiction, and poetry that offer insight into the environment and culture (both broadly defined) of the contemporary western United...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Nature/Environmental, Regional -
Welter is an annual print literary magazine—originated in 1965—now produced by the MFA program at the University of Baltimore. Additional content is published online. As our name implies, we are looking for work that is provocative, exciting,...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 4 to Mar 2Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
West Branch is a a thrice-yearly magazine of poetry, fiction, essays, and reviews based at Bucknell University.
Reading Period: Aug 1 to Apr 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Translation -
West Trade Review strives to put forth the best contemporary poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction (memoir/personal essays) and publishes a mix of established and up and coming writers. We are committed to the principles of diversity...
Read moreReading Period: Apr 1 to Aug 1, Aug 15 to Dec 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Westchester Review is dedicated to publishing the work of established and emerging writers. It has received acclaim from The New York Times and local media.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Whale Road Review will publish poetry, flash fiction, and micro essays that “don’t demand too much time up front, but somehow leave readers changed.”
Reading Period: Jun 1 to Jun 30, Dec 1 to Jan 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
What Are Birds? is a literary journal looking for work that enthralls us. We are especially excited about hybrid work that crosses genre boundaries or exists outside of genre altogether. We understand the dire need for representation and...
Read moreReading Period: Dec 1 to Feb 1Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Whimperbang invites the submission of serious, directed artistic expressions that reflect or comment upon today’s world.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Cross-genre -
Whitefish Review is a nationally acclaimed journal that celebrates wild rivers, mountains, and the wide-open spaces of Montana and beyond to help create a more sustainable world through the power of art and literature. Whitefish...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Mar 31, Jul 1 to Sep 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Wigleaf publishes 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...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 26 to Nov 30, Jan 24 to Mar 31Genre: FictionGenres: Flash Fiction -
Wild Garlic is a tri-annual online literary journal produced by the Brooklyn Women's Writing Group. We publish women identified writers from all over. We feature courageous, wild writing of all genres. We foster the full range of voices...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
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 narrative non-fiction. Founded in 2015, each thoughtfully compiled issue strives to unearth new work from both established and up-and-coming writers.
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 28, Aug 1 to Aug 31Genre: PoetryGenres: Graphic/Illustrated
