Luna Luna is a literary journal for lush & unexpected poetics. They publish 13 poets each month, and sometimes they publish special, themed issues. They are edited by Lisa Marie Basile.
We lovingly welcome LGBTQIA, BIPOC, low-...
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Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Feminist, Formal Poetry, LGBTQ Voices, Micro-poetry, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Speculative Poetry, Translation -
Lunch Ticket is the literary magazine of the Creative Writing MFA Program at Antioch University Los Angeles.
Reading Period: Feb 1 to Mar 31, Aug 1 to Sep 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Macabre Magazine is dedicated to publishing high-quality horror fiction and nonfiction that nods to the genre’s iconic roots. The editors’ goal is to provide a platform for works that explore fear in both familiar and innovative ways,...
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Published trianually at Schoolcraft College, The MacGuffin is a print-only lit mag featuring poetry, prose, and fine art from both home and abroad. The magazine aims to highlight writing that takes risk with form and expands genres, along...
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MacQueen’s Quinterly is a smorgasbord of memorable works of art and literature, in multiple genres and short forms: prose poetry; flash and microfiction; essays and creative nonfiction; photographs, drawings, and fine art; poetry, both...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 1 to Feb 17, Jun 1 to Jun 17, Oct 21 to Nov 7Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Magazine1 serves as both a showcase of excellent writing from around the world, and a literary hub for the Sarasota / Saint Pete / Tampa area. The editors want to showcase work that challenges their understanding of what writing is and...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 25 to Jan 26Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
The editors want writing that is strange, unexpected, hopeful, complex, well-wrought. They want your gut punches, your urban graffiti, your chewed-up paper, your loud-as-a-car-alarm confessions. Send them something no one else would have written...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 18 to Feb 19Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Experimental, Fiction, Flash Fiction, LGBTQ Voices, Poetry -
The Main Street Rag prefers poetry that is alive with the poet’s own experiences, fiction that is character-driven and often quirky. Reviews, interviews should query first, and they are the two items for which they pay in cash.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Maine Review is a biannual online literary journal that publishes culturally significant and innovative writing by writers living in Maine, across the country, and around the world. Maine Review Publications is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Mar 31, May 1 to Jul 31, Sep 1 to Nov 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Malahat Review is among Canada’s leading literary journals. Published quarterly, it features contemporary works of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction by emerging and established writers from around the world.
Many ...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Jan 31, May 1 to May 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Mania Magazine is a small, independent literary magazine dedicated to your 3 AM works. They accept fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, artwork, and photography. Lights off, laptops on, release the mania!
Reading Period: Sep 15 to Jan 15, Mar 15 to Jul 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Map Literary is dedicated to celebrating quality works of new literature. Rather than aligning with any one aesthetic, they aspire to promote the finest provocative writing of the time, publishing semiannual issues of original fiction,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Markaz Review is a literary arts publication and cultural institution that curates content and programs on the greater Middle East and its communities in the diaspora. The Markaz signifies “the center” in Arabic, as well as Persian,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Marrow is a literary magazine committed to publishing work that explores dark spaces. The editors are interested in writing that uses compelling language and imagery to remind them what it means to be human, that makes wonderful the...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Creative Nonfiction, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Poetry -
The Massachusetts Review is an independent quarterly journal of literature, the arts, and public affairs. MR has deep local roots but an international scope, with an emphasis on work that provokes debate, challenges ideology,...
Read moreReading Period: Oct 1 to Apr 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Maudlin House is a new kind of publishing house for the twenty-first century. They want to challenge your perspectives, help you find your inner poet, expand your empathy, and take you to places you’ve never been. They’re devoted to...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Subgenres: Experimental, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Pop Culture -
The Meadow publishes work each summer from beginning and experienced writers and artists. They are one of the few literary journals in the country that publishes their students alongside national writers. Writing from The Meadow...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 15 to Jan 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Based at Dartmouth College, Meetinghouse is a literary magazine that provides a space for diverse voices to speak with one another. Student editors work in collaboration with faculty mentors to take Meetinghouse all the way from...
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Men Matters Online Journal (MMOJ) is a literary journal devoted to topics concerning men, masculinity, gender, culture, politics, sexuality, and challenging men’s roles in traditional patriarchal societies. It is...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Apr 30, Jul 1 to Oct 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Cross-genre, LGBTQ Voices, Nonfiction -
Each issue of Menagerie Magazine is a curated exhibit of poems, fictions, and hybrid works that deserve the close attention of a small stage. Like a Joseph Cornell shadow box, the editors bring together a mixture of things found and made...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 1 to May 31, Sep 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Literary Fiction, Lyric Essay, Poetry -
Meow Meow Pow Pow is a weekly broadside that revolves around a theme. It publishes one piece a week around a premise that lasts three months, with four different themes throughout the year.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Mar 1, Apr 1 to Jul 1, Sep 1 to Nov 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
MER - Mom Egg Review publishes an annual print journal and a quarterly online magazine featuring sharp, articulate, inventive work by mother writers and by others about mothers and motherhood. MER writers explore diverse experiences...
Read moreReading Period: Apr 23 to Jul 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Prose Poetry -
Meraki Review is an international literary magazine that aims to corrode the cages of realistic thinking and help teenagers spread wide the wings of their psyche. It aims to be a global platform that shines spotlight on hidden voices and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Founded in 1998, Meridian has featured the works of numerous Pulitzer Prize winners, National Book Award winners, and established writers. However, as a magazine edited by young writers, it values nothing more than showcasing tomorrow’s...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 20 to Nov 20Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Literary Fiction -
Metachrosis literary magazine is an online publication that strives to be the place where the foundations of the world are explored and celebrated. Created as part of the Art, Science, and Visual Thinking MFA at Dundee University, this...
Read moreReading Period: Dec 20 to Mar 3Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
