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 8Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: 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...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Prose Poetry, War -
Publishes 10–15 poems, 2–3 fictional stories, and 1–2 pieces of creative nonfiction each issue. We value #OwnVoices literature and equity in publishing. Our goal is to reflect a range of unique experiences and perspectives with each issue’s theme...
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warning lines publishes work exclusively from queer and/or neurodivergent creators.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: 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...
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The purpose of our very limited edition publication is to publish only poetry. We have been publishing regularly for 35 years. Our choices reflect our editorial tastes. We are open to new work. There are no ads.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
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. The first priority of the Wax Paper is to expand our understanding of the people we share the world with, and in...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: 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. Whatever is deep and true. The moon represents this idea: what is dark, what is brooding, what is wild. Work submitted to Waxing & Waning should be...
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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...
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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: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: 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 States....
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: 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 NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Experimental, Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry -
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 NonfictionSubgenres: 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...
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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 1Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: 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...
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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 NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre -
Whiskey Island is a nonprofit literary journal that has been published by Cleveland State University for over thirty years. We welcome poetry and fiction submissions. We look to publish exciting new voices as well as established authors...
Reading Period: Aug 15 to Nov 15, Jan 15 to Apr 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Prose Poetry -
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 Review...
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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 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: 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
