Mount Island is dedicated to supporting rural LGBTQ and POC writers and artists, whether rural by birth or at heart. We seek:
- Prose and poems that buck the standard. Any genre, whether traditional or invented.
- Art...
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 NonfictionGenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Cross-genre, Experimental, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, Historical, Humor, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Speculative Fiction -
Moxy is a literary magazine that focuses on creative nonfiction - work with a nonfiction subject matter, written with the imaginative verve and stylistic skill of the best fiction. We publish criticism, essays, travel writing, memoir,...
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Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood is a website that started in 2000. It is a collection of nonfiction stories, essays, reportage, and vignettes, all of which are set in New York City. You can search stories on the site by neighborhood (...
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Mud Season Review is an international literary journal run by members of the Burlington Writers Workshop. We publish online six times annually: one story, one portfolio of poems, one essay or piece of narrative nonfiction, and visual art...
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We present and preserve accomplished work that locates itself anywhere on the spectrum of contemporary practice. We want poems, of course, but we want essays, too, that make us read poems (and write them?) differently somehow.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
the museum of americana is an online literary review dedicated to fiction, poetry, nonfiction, photography, music, and artwork that revives or repurposes the old, the dying, the forgotten, or the almost entirely unknown...
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Muzzle aims to bring together the voices of poets from a diverse array of backgrounds, paying special homage to poets from communities that are historically underrepresented in print and online publications.
Reading Period: Jun 15 to Jul 15, Dec 15 to Jan 15Genre: PoetryGenres: Feminist, LGBTQ Voices, Political -
Mystery, Suspense and Noir Fiction with Literary Flavor
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction -
Published monthly, our Mystery Magazine presents crime and mystery short stories by some of the world's best established and emerging mystery writers. The original stories we select for each issue run the gamut from cozy to hardboiled...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: FictionGenres: Cross-genre, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction -
NAILED Magazine is designed and curated to publish and promote stories of human struggle and personal experience in an accessible medium. We are most interested in the personal stories of voices that are currently, and have been...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Nonprofit Narrative is dedicated to advancing the literary arts in the digital age by supporting the finest writing talent and encouraging readership across communities and generations, in schools, and around the globe. Each year ...
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Narrative Northeast is a literary and arts magazine dedicated to diverse voices and visions, to creating a platform for writers who actually have something to say. With our editorial picks, we’re hoping to help to break down or mitigate...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Feminist, LGBTQ Voices, Nature/Environmental -
The Nasiona is a volunteer-led nonfiction storytelling organization that amplifies the marginalized, undervalued, overlooked, silenced, and forgotten, as well as stories that glimpse into foreign, at times extraordinary, worlds.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Apr 30Genre: Poetry, Creative Nonfiction -
Nat. Brut is a Dallas-based nonprofit organization that produces a biannual art and literary magazine both online and in print. We aim to provide quality, engaging, dynamic, inspiring work from a wide array of genres and mediums in a way...
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Reading Period: Jan 1 to May 1Genre: Poetry
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Natural Bridge is committed to publishing the best new writing from established as well as emerging writers.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
We publish only narrative poetry, which means the poem is well-crafted, has a strong emotional core and the narrative is compressed.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Mar 15Genre: Poetry -
NELLE proudly publishes the best, most exciting poetry, short fiction, and nonfiction written exclusively by women.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Sep 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry -
Neologism Poetry Journal “was founded in search of new horizons of poetic language, or at minimum ways to feel something new from old words and poetic forms.”
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
We seek work that is beautiful, shocking, intense and memorable. Darker pieces are generally favoured over humorous ones—as are free verse poems over those that rhyme. Genre work is welcome, experimentation is encouraged. There are no limits on...
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The New Delta Review publishes a wide range of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction, as well as book reviews, interviews, and artwork.
Reading Period: Aug 1 to May 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Flash Fiction -
New England Review publishes quality fiction, poetry, and nonfiction that is both challenging and inviting to the general reader. The selections present a broad spectrum of viewpoints and genres, including traditional and experimental...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Nov 1, Mar 1 to May 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationGenres: Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Poetry, Translation -
We want to promote art and artists. We are interested in art from many genres that pushes the envelope a bit. We produce three online isses and a print anthology at the end of the year that collects the works from the previous year. All...
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We host writing contests in fiction and poetry and welcome international submissions. We juxtapose tradition with experiment, the up-and-comer with the established writer, and create a new dialogue.
**The Writer’s Hotel NYC Writer’s...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 1 to Jan 11Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The mission of New Letters magazine is to discover, publish and promote the best and most exciting literary writing, wherever it might be found. We publish and serve readers and writers worldwide. In recent years, New Letters ...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
