Whale Road Review publishes poetry, flash fiction, and micro essays that don’t demand too much time up front, but somehow leave readers changed.
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: Jun 1 to Jun 15, Dec 1 to Dec 15Genre: 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 NonfictionSubgenres: 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. Our stories appeared in the last two volumes of the Pushcart Prize annual. Feature interviews with our editor appeared in the 2021 volume of Best Microfiction and in the 2022...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 26 to Nov 30, Jan 24 to Mar 31Genre: FictionSubgenres: Flash Fiction -
Wild Garlic is a tri-annual online literary journal produced by the Brooklyn Women's Writing Group. It publishes women-identified writers from all over. It features courageous, wild writing of all genres. It fosters the full range of...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 1 to Mar 1, Apr 1 to May 1, Sep 1 to Oct 1Genre: 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 a bi-annual online magazine for poetry and art. Each issue features the poem prompt of a northwest poet laureate, sometimes with a model response from the editor. Submissions are open (only) in February and August. Our...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 1 to Feb 28, Aug 1 to Aug 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: 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...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to May 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
wind-up mice wants to publish distinct voices, unforgettable imagery, your experiments. They love blending forms until they are unrecognizable. They seek the intimate, the mystical within mundanity. Give them your thoughts on the evening...
Read moreReading Period: Jun 15 to Aug 15Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
The Windhover is dedicated to promoting poetry, 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 -
WINK is a digital magazine with a print 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 -
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: Sep 5 to Oct 31, Jan 20 to Mar 20Genre: 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 Aug 1Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Worcester Review is an annual print journal published with the support of the Worcester County Poetry Association. Each issue includes poetry, fiction, and a critical feature on an aspect of Central New England culture and/or history...
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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, Translation -
Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature is a digital, open access, biannual journal of disability poetry, literature, and the arts.
Reading Period: Mar 1 to May 1, Sep 1 to Nov 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, Healing/Health, Historical, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Lyric Essay, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction, Speculative Poetry, Visual Poetry -
Digital platform for international literature in English translation.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
WordSwell is a quarterly journal that seeks personal essays, stories, poems, videos, artwork, and photography that embody deep, heartfelt honesty. WordSwell organization was founded by Beat Generation poet Clive Matson in 2008. The...
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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 award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, founded in 1927. The editors welcome submissions on contemporary literary and cultural topics addressing any...
Read moreReading Period: Dec 1 to Dec 31, Jun 1 to Jun 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Literary Fiction, Poetry, Translation -
The WTP magazine is a true hybrid of noteworthy writing and visual arts — at once a fine art magazine and literary journal. We regularly feature a rich and resonate roster of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and the visual arts, by...
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, Translation -
Write or Die Magazine is an online community and literary space for writers. We publish fiction, essays and author interviews.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Write or Die's focus is on first-person narrative essays exploring the strange, obsessive, and spiritual/magical aspects of how writing and reading shape reality. These are paired with character-driven fiction that focuses on interiority...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
