Our editors are also interested in pieces that defy categorization. Regardless of form, we want material that feels fresh. The pieces we accept tend to surprise us and remind us...
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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 -
Poetry attentive to form; short fiction with a lasting impact; nonfiction with a focus on the natural world.
Reading Period: Mar 1 to Jun 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Third Coast is one of the nation’s premier literary magazines—and one of only a handful of nationally distributed literary magazines to regularly include four genres. Third Coast consistently publishes excellent--and often award...
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Three Line Poetry celebrates the art of three lines. We accept all forms of poetry. What can you say in only three lines?
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Threepenny Review is an arts magazine that combines literature, the visual and performing arts, memoir, and essay, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. It has been published since 1980. Every issue contains essays, stories, poems, and...
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One featured writer per issue by invitation. Supporting cast (1-3 other writers) are 100% unsolicited. We have changed formats from years past. We have also added 1 topical essay per issue - our subject call.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Nonfiction -
Our taste is eclectic. We want poems that move us, a strong sense of imagery, emotion, with interesting and surprising use of language, words that resonate. We want voice. Established and new poets are encouraged to submit. Experimental poetry is...
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Tiferet publishes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, interviews, and art. We look for high-quality creative work that expresses spiritual experiences and/or promotes tolerance. Our mission is to help raise individual and global consciousness,...
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The Tiger Moth Review publishes poetry, prose, art and photography that engage with the themes of nature, culture, the environment and ecology. Send us work that is eco-conscious and critical, work that celebrates the beauty/ bounty of...
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We especially like stories, poems, and non-fiction pieces that deal with the spiritual, progressive, regenerative, and transformative elements of life. We’re also highly drawn to works about religion, Israel/Palestine, the Mideast conflicts, and...
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Tilted House Review is a biannual arts and literary journal made by hand in small batches in the small city of New Orleans. Through this outfit, we strive to cultivate a creative and communal unit from and for the city....
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TOS is published by Wind & Water Press, and its purpose is to provide a market for literary Christian poetry, with "Christian" defined in the widest sense. Free verse and all forms are welcome. I encourage poets to take chances and write...
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We do not have any specific aesthetic criteria, except to say that we seek pieces of exceptional literary quality, not genre work.
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We are an international journal of micropoetry and miniature poetry in English, including but not limited to, haiku, senryu and tanka. We also publish very brief haibun and haiga. tinywords is listed in the Haiku Society of America’s 2008 Guide...
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For lesbians, by lesbians! We would LOVE to see more lesbian fiction, flash fiction, ghost stories, poems about nature and gardens, mysteries, humour, fantasy, and more!
Reading Period: Jul 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: BIPOC Voices, Commercial Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, 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, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Visual Poetry -
Tipton Poetry Journal, located in the heartland of the Midwest, publishes quality poetry from Indiana and around the world.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
Toasted Cheese welcomes submissions of emerging and established authors. We're actively searching for minority voices. Our emphasis is on submission quality, not a list of previous publications.
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Tofu Ink Arts Press, a not for profit celebratory venture aims at publishing poems and other arts of un-humdrum’d inclusive rhizomatic errant possibilities. We support work of established and emerging poets and artists. We strive...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetryGenres: BIPOC Voices, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Formal Poetry, LGBTQ Voices, Poetry -
Shorter Fiction and Creative Nonfiction (under 500 words), Poetry
Reading Period: Apr 1 to Apr 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Topical Poetry is an all-inclusive webzine, publishing diverse poems on current events. It combines the power of poetry and the dynamism of modern societies. In this ever-changing world, the life of topical news is short but the impact it has on...
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Torch Literary Arts is a nonprofit organization established to support and promote the work of African American women. We publish contemporary poetry, prose, and short stories by experienced and emerging writers alike. Our signature online...
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Toyon publishes distinguished literary and art work, with particular interest in promoting environmental and social justice.
We seek diverse voices from around the world and welcome submissions in all languages.
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Trafika Europe showcases current fiction and poetry in English and English translation from across the 47 Council of Europe countries, with our online quarterly digest. . . and preparing to launch Trafika Europe Radio - Europe's "literary" radio...
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Transition is a unique forum for the freshest, most compelling, most curious ideas about race. Since its founding in Uganda in 1961, the magazine has kept apace of the rapid transformation of the black world and has remained a leading...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
