Southword is an international literary journal featuring poetry, literary fiction, essays, and interviews. The Spring Issue consists of work drawn from our writing competitions and specially commissioned work. The Autumn Issue consists...
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Reading Period: Dec 1 to Mar 31Subgenres: Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry -
Sou’wester is committed to investing in and encouraging the words/stories/voices of all writers, prioritizing those belonging to marginalized communities.
Reading Period: Sep 12 to Nov 15Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Translation -
Spank the Carp publishes unique, thought-provoking fiction and poetry that isn't obscure or pretentious. Its goal is to invite readers to wade into the stream, not make them afraid of water for fear it's too cold. We look for tight,...
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Based out of the English, Creative Writing, and Visual Art departments at Washington University in St. Louis, The Spectacle is committed to publishing work from under-represented voices, including BIPOC, women, people from LGBTQIA+...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Feb 5, Sep 1 to Oct 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Speculative City is a literary magazine featuring works that explore themes, characters, and landscapes exclusive to urban environments and that highlight voices often unheard. Each magazine issue is relevant to the magazine mission and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Poetry, Speculative Fiction -
A “speculative essay” concerns itself with the figurative over the literal, ambiguity over knowing, meditation over reportage. Thus the editors propose the lens of speculative nonfiction. With this journal they hope to begin a new dialogue about...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Oct 15Genre: Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Experimental, Nonfiction -
Split Lip Magazine is voice-driven literary magazine with a pop culture twist. We publish online monthly and in print annually.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Jun 30, Aug 1 to Dec 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Pop Culture -
Split Rock Review publishes innovative place-based and environmental poetry, creative nonfiction, graphic narratives, comics, and art. It also hosts an annual poetry chapbook contest and publishes themed anthologies.
Reading Period: Feb 1 to Mar 31, Jun 1 to Aug 31Genre: Poetry, Creative Nonfiction -
Spoonie Magazine publishes art, articles, audio, poetry, prose, video, and hybrid works by disabled, chronically ill, and/or neurodiverse individuals (or their loved ones) on related subject matters weekly in their online magazine. All...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Healing/Health, Humor, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Love, Lyric Essay, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction, Speculative Poetry, Visual Poetry -
Spry is a literary journal that features undiscovered and established writers’ concise, experimental, hybrid, modern, vintage or just plain vulnerable writing. This is a place for people who excel at taking risks, who thrive under...
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Star 82 Review is a full-color, online and print magazine. Each issue may feature microfiction and creative nonfiction, erasure texts, narrative art, word + image, and poetry, including haibun and prose. We like gentle works filled with...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Star*Line is a journal of speculative poetry, including not only science fiction, but fantasy, horror, and what lies between these genres. It also publishes relevant articles and SF poetry book reviews.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Translation -
Steam Ticket, A Third Coast Review, is published each April. It is the national literary magazine of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. We publish high-quality poetry, fiction, and essays from both experienced and emerging writers....
Reading Period: Dec 1 to Mar 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
StepAway Magazine is an online literary magazine publishing the best urban flash fiction and poetry by writers from across the globe. The title of the magazine draws inspiration from Frank O’ Hara’s landmark flâneur poem, “A Step Away...
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Still Point Arts Quarterly has a clear focus on nature, art, and spirit as it explores a unique theme with each issue. The publication has been praised for its rich content and splendid layout and design. Intended for art and literary...
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The Stillwater Review was founded back in 2010 at Sussex County Community College by poet and now retired professor Priscilla Orr and is made possible through the support of the Betty June Silconas Poetry Center. The journal maintains a...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Dec 1Genre: Poetry, Creative Nonfiction -
Stone Canoe showcases the work of a diverse mix of emerging and well-established artists and writers who are current or former residents of Upstate New York. In doing so, the journal supports the YMCA's Downtown Writers Center's ongoing...
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Stone Poetry Quarterly (formerly Stone Poetry Journal) is an online poetry journal that publishes poems ranging from the visceral to the cerebral across a full scope of human experience and awareness. We prefer to publish...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Oct 31, Dec 1 to Jan 31, Mar 1 to Apr 30, Jun 1 to Jul 31Genre: Poetry -
Stoneboat is an online, independent journal of literature and arts dedicated to publishing quality fiction, nonfiction, memoir, poetry, artwork, and graphic literature. It strives to showcase outstanding and diverse work from both...
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The Stonecoast Review is a literary arts journal edited by students and alumni from Stonecoast’s MFA program in Creative Writing. It welcomes writing in the genres of creative nonfiction, fiction, dramatic works, poetry, and experimental...
Read moreReading Period: Jul 20 to Oct 1, Feb 1 to Apr 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Storm Cellar curates writing that is surprising, formally and affectively innovative, and represents the highest quality of various literary traditions. Each issue reflects the current tastes of the editorial team. It actively prefers...
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Story is an independent literary journal of narrative fiction and nonfiction aimed to enrich the American literary life through a publication of a diverse and inclusive roster of contemporary voices. Founded in 1931, Story has...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction -
Story Unlikely is an award-winning monthly email publication that features quality fiction and nonfiction that focuses on storytelling.
Reading Period: Jan 2 to Sep 29Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Founded in 1975, StoryQuarterly has been publishing emerging and established writers for over thirty years.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to May 21, Jan 1 to Apr 2, Mar 19 to Jun 4Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
storySouth focuses on writing from and about the American South.
Reading Period: Jun 15 to Jul 15, Dec 15 to Jan 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
