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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: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
The Tusculum Review is a community of professional and undergraduate writers. Student editors develop crucial skills in the art of literary publication. The editors seek and publish thought-provoking writing from a diversity of...
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The Twin Bill is a quarterly online literary baseball publication founded in 2020 at the start of the pandemic. The editors celebrate the rich history of the game while also recognizing its vibrant present through essays, fiction, poetry...
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Established in 2023, Twin Bird Review is a biannual online literary publication for imaginative fiction, poetry, essays, art, and comics. The editors love the metaphorical, the speculative, the fantastical, the whimsical, and the strange...
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A digital literary journal brought to you by students and faculty in the BA in Liberal Studies Creative Writing Concentration at Antioch University Los Angeles. Two Hawks Quarterly is dedicated to publishing works that spark debate,...
Read moreReading Period: Oct 1 to Jun 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Cross-genre, Flash Fiction -
For over two decades, Two Lines has brought readers the best from translation’s acknowledged masters and world literature’s up-and-comers. Each issue includes writing from around 10 different languages and over a dozen countries, plus...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Translation -
Two Thirds North is an international annual publication of poetry, short fiction, short nonfiction, graphics, and photography. They seek works with a view to the world, and insight into the details of the human condition and...
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The Typescript is an online journal about art, politics, and culture. It is accepting submissions in a range of categories. The editors are interested in writing about the intersections of culture and politics, both in terms of cultural...
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TYPO is a journal interested in Lettrism, semantics, visual poetry, experimentally constrained writing à la Oulipo, asemic texts, and articles and essays on typography, film, surrealism and design.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationGenres: Humor, Nonfiction, Short Fiction, Translation, Visual Poetry -
Mainly work by Zambian writers, except for January, when work by African writers living in Africa is also considered.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Jan 31, May 1 to May 31, Jul 1 to Jul 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Unbroken is a quarterly online journal that seeks to showcase prose poems and poetic prose, both from established and emerging voices.
Reading Period: Feb 1 to Mar 15, May 1 to Jun 15, Aug 1 to Sep 15, Nov 1 to Dec 15 -
Under a Warm Green Linden is a biannual digital journal featuring original poetry, reviews, and interviews. Each issue is accompanied by a selection of broadsides signed by the authors. The journal is a project of Green Linden Press,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, TranslationGenres: BIPOC Voices, Experimental, LGBTQ Voices, Translation, Visual Poetry -
Under the Gum Tree is a storytelling project, publishing creative nonfiction in the form of a micro-magazine.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Creative Nonfiction -
Unlost is an extension of Unbroken Journal that publishes found poetry in all its forms.
Reading Period: May 1 to Jun 15, Nov 1 to Dec 15Genre: Poetry -
Up the Staircase Quarterly publishes unique, eclectic, and quality poetry that is vivid in imagery and idea. It seeks writers going in new directions, originals. It also publishes artwork: paintings, drawings, photography, comics, short...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Mar 15, Aug 1 to Dec 10Genre: Poetry -
The Usawa Literary Review is a biannual English language literary magazine dedicated to feminist literature and writings by and about underrepresented communities. We publish poetry, fiction, nonfiction, reviews, and interviews that...
Read moreReading Period: Jul 1 to Sep 20, Dec 1 to Mar 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
VAINE is an online literary and arts magazine for and by emerging artists and writers. The focus of its issues is on topical themes. Contributors are also welcome to present work about any relevant current events. It aims to give a voice...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Valiant Scribe is a platform that focuses on faith and social issues. It covers a wide range of topics, including violence against women, forced labor, human trafficking, criminal justice, mental health, climate change, poverty, and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Valley Voices is located in the heartland of the Mississippi Delta. It features fiction, poetry, interviews, and criticism from writers and scholars anywhere, though they hope to see more creative work about the South.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Apr 30, Sep 1 to Dec 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Regional -
Valparaiso Poetry Review presents poems, interviews, and essays by new, emerging, or well-known poets. VPR also offers book reviews and essays on various poets.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
Variety Pack tries to live up their namesake! A bedrock of diverse voices, expressing a variety of arts & letters. Open to both genre and literary. Sure there’s an aesthetic, but it’s a broad atlas rather than a narrow stream!
Reading Period: May 15 to Jul 15, Sep 15 to Nov 15Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationGenres: Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Historical, Humor, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Lyric Essay, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Regional, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Translation, Visual Poetry, War, Young Adult -
The Vassar Review aims to reconsider the traditions that have defined many publications and structures, those that are not open to all, open to interpretation, or open to change, and unfold them into a collaborative journal that believes...
Read moreReading Period: Nov 16 to Jan 22Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
A Velvet Giant is a literary journal for work that exists outside the boundaries of genre.
Reading Period: Mar 15 to May 15Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Verdad is an online, twice-yearly literary and fine arts journal that showcases the best unpublished poetry, short stories, nonfiction, and visual art that comes their way. They also offer a wide range of interviews featuring...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Cross-genre -
Verse-Virtual is both an online community and journal that has been published monthly since June 2014, with only a couple of exceptions. The emphasis of the community is on kindness and civility. Readers are encouraged to email authors...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Jan 10, Feb 1 to Feb 10, Mar 1 to Mar 10, Apr 1 to Apr 10, May 1 to May 10, Jun 1 to Jun 10, Jul 1 to Jul 10, Aug 1 to Aug 10, Sep 1 to Sep 10, Oct 1 to Oct 10, Nov 1 to Nov 10, Dec 1 to Dec 10Genre: Poetry
