The Good Men Project was founded by Tom Matlack in 2009. The editors set out to collect stories about the defining moments in men’s lives. Over the years, The Good Men Project has grown into a diverse community that is actively...
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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 -
Good River Review is the literary journal of the Sena Jeter Naslund-Karen Mann Graduate School of Writing at Spalding University. It publishes two issues a year. Good River Review is a home for writing that launches quickly,...
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Grain Magazine, a literary quarterly, publishes engaging, eclectic, and challenging writing and art by Canadian and international writers and artists. Published by the Saskatchewan Writers Guild, Grain has earned national and...
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Grand Little Things caters to formalistic, stylized poetry, but is also welcome to invented/nonce forms as well.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
The Gravity of the Thing is an independent magazine dedicated to innovative and defamiliarized creative writing. Its ongoing goal is to publish work that defamiliarizes literary forms, writing that stranges to achieve a renewed sense of...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 1 to Mar 31, Jun 1 to Jun 30, Sep 1 to Sep 30, Dec 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Great Lakes Review publishes fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry from Toronto, Chicago, Cleveland, Milwaukee, Buffalo, Hamilton and the rest of the Great Lakes region.
Reading Period: Sep 1 to Mar 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry -
Green Blotter is published annually by the Green Blotter Literary Society of Lebanon Valley College in Annville, PA, and features poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and art submitted by undergraduate student writers everywhere. Its...
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Green Mountains Review is an international journal publishing poems, stories, and creative nonfiction by both well-known authors and promising newcomers. The magazine also features interviews, literary criticism, and book reviews. The...
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Produced by the University of North Carolina at Greensboro Master of Fine Arts program in creative writing, The Greensboro Review publishes fiction and poetry twice a year, each fall and spring. Works from the journal are consistently...
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Strictly literary writing please; flash and poetry. Emerging and established voices are welcome. Sparrow poets address global issues that haunt us all. Book manuscripts are published sporadically. Grey Sparrow Journal also offers a "...
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Grist: A Journal of the Literary Arts seeks high quality submissions from both emerging and established writers. It publishes craft essays and interviews as well as fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
Reading Period: May 15 to Aug 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Founded in 1952, Grub Street is Towson University’s literary journal. Produced annually, it publishes works of fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, and visual art.
Reading Period: Aug 31 to Dec 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Guernica publishes fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. The magazine looks for work that feels global and outward-looking; fearless in its willingness to ask tough questions; original in the ways it enters and illuminates the fray; and,...
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Gulf Coast publishes fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and critical art writing as well as reviews and interviews by both emerging and established writers. Each issue features two full-color art sections.
Reading Period: Sep 1 to Mar 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Translation -
Gulf Stream Magazine, started in 1989, is a national literary magazine published by The Creative Writing Program at Florida International University. It is a bi-annual online journal dedicated to publishing great fiction, nonfiction,...
Read moreReading Period: Jun 1 to Mar 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Flash Fiction, Micro-poetry -
GUTS publishes literary essays and reviews, long-form journalism, interviews, fiction, and new media that further feminist correspondence, criticism, and community in Canada. We also accept shorter (500-1500 words) submissions to our...
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Gutter is an award-winning, high quality, printed journal for fiction and poetry from writers born or living in Scotland. The editors believe there is a need for an energetic, ambitious magazine dedicated exclusively to the best in new...
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Gyroscope Review publishes fine contemporary poetry in a variety of forms and themes. We welcome both new and established writers. Editor: Constance Brewer. Assistant Editors: Elya Braden and Betsy Mars.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31, Apr 1 to Jun 1, Jul 1 to Sep 1, Oct 1 to Dec 1Genre: PoetryGenres: Poetry -
Haikuniverse publishes a haiku every day. Haikuniverse is edited by Poetry Super Highway’s Rick Lupert.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetryGenres: Micro-poetry -
Halcyon Days is a publication that “promotes the peaceful things in life. Themes will focus on comfortable circumstances, fun, good things, times of plenty, prosperity, and content that quiets you down.”
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Half Mystic Journal, established in 2015, is an independent, internationally-acclaimed literary journal dedicated to the celebration of music in all its forms.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Jun 1, Aug 1 to Jan 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
The Hamilton Stone Review is part of a movement of small, independent publishers and publications dedicated to distributing high quality fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction.
Reading Period: Feb 15 to Mar 15, Aug 15 to Sep 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Experimental, Feminist, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry -
For more than half a century, Hanging Loose Press has championed and the work of groundbreaking poets and writers whose work has been marginalized by mainstream publishing--work frequently less visible, whether because of gender, race, age, class...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationGenres: Autobiography/Memoir -
Harpur Palate seeks submissions of high-quality work without restriction on form or content.
Reading Period: Feb 15 to Apr 15, Sep 15 to Nov 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Harvard Review is a major literary journal that publishes short fiction, poetry, essays, and book reviews. Writers at all stages of their careers are invited to apply; however, the magazine can only publish a very small fraction of the...
Read moreReading Period: Nov 1 to Jun 1Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
