We seek to publish unorthodox approaches to form and aesthetics. We love work that is nongenre, those that straddle multiple categories. We want memorable, haunting approaches to art and language that turn us inside out and convey novel insights...
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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: Feb 1 to Jul 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Invisible City publishes fiction, creative non-fiction, and poetry. We seek work that encourages us to see the world from new perspectives and different angles, ones that we may not have previously considered or imagined.
Reading Period: Mar 16 to Apr 16Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
We select most of our content from the several thousand unsolicited manuscripts that arrive each year from throughout the country and abroad. We take our mission to be nudging along American literature, to be local but not provincial, to be...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 1 to Nov 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Irish Pages is a biannual journal, edited in Belfast and publishing, in equal measure, writing from Ireland and overseas. Its policy is to publish poetry, short fiction, essays, creative nonfiction, memoir, essay...
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Iron City Magazine is an online and print journal devoted entirely to writing and art from the prison world.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to May 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
J Journal examines justice through creative work, directly and tangentially. Housed at CUNY’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice, one of the nation’s premier criminal justice institutions, J Journal’s contributors have included established and...
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Jabberwock Review is a literary journal published semi-annually by students and faculty of Mississippi State University. The journal consists of art, poetry, fiction, and non-fiction from around the world. It welcomes all forms and...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 15 to Oct 1, Jan 15 to Mar 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Jelly Bucket features established and new writers and artists. We are committed to publishing writers from, and writing about, marginalized and under-represented communities. The special section will comprise roughly 50% of the issue and...
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Jersey Devil Press is an online lit journal, born on the toll roads and raised in the diners of the great Garden State.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: FictionGenres: Cross-genre, Feminist, Flash Fiction, Humor, Pop Culture -
Jet Fuel Review is a student-run, faculty-advised, online literary magazine. Believing in the power of language, they seek to provide a platform for quality writing and artwork that pushes boundaries, surpasses expectations, and creates...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 15 to Oct 15, Jan 15 to Mar 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
JMWW is a weekly online literary journal accepting fiction, nonfiction, poetry, book reviews, interviews, and essays.
Reading Period: Mar 1 to Apr 30, Jul 1 to Aug 31, Nov 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Fiction, shorts, very short-shorts, humor, and mildy humorous non-fiction essay-like things.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
“JONAHmagazine is comprised of stories. Stories of journeys, in space, in time, in the heart, or in the mind. Beginnings, endings, triumphs and frustrations, odysseys of the spirit. Poetry, prose, true stories, memoir. Tales humorous or...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Humor, Translation -
Established in 1972, The Journal is the nationally distributed, prize-winning literary journal of The Ohio State University. It publishes the highest quality fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and reviews by both emerging and established...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Dec 1, Feb 1 to May 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Matter Press is a community-based, non-profit 501(c)(3) literary press that publishes an online literary journal, The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, manages an annual short fiction and poetry chapbook contest, and supports a...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Dec 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry -
The first online literary journal to publish expressive writing, freewriting, non-fiction, personal essay, memoir, reflective essay, poetry, prose, contemplative discourse, and creative non-fiction—all that originates from a writing prompt.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Creative NonfictionGenres: BIPOC Voices, Healing/Health, LGBTQ Voices, Nonfiction, Prose Poetry -
We mean to publish poets who do not have access to traditional opportunities, usually because they are not in situations where there are many readings and public events, or in academic settings.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
The juke joint has always been a place beyond the margin, somewhere along the line. Barrelhouses of the South, juke joints served as a place for sharecroppers & slaves to socialize & celebrate counterculture in a society marred by slavery...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Apr 15, May 1 to Aug 15, Sep 1 to Dec 15Genre: PoetryGenres: Feminist, LGBTQ Voices, Poetry, Political, Regional -
Juniper seeks poetry that deepens understanding and brings the reader back to themselves.
Reading Period: Sep 1 to Sep 14, Jan 1 to Jan 14, May 1 to May 14Genre: Poetry -
JuxtaProse is an online literary journal that publishes fiction, nonfiction and poetry from around the world. Our contributors have included Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, and Man Booker Prize winners, and other acclaimed authors from...
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Kaleidoscoped Mag is a literary arts magazine formed by MFA students at UC San Diego. It is especially interested in literary and visual art that makes use of cross-genre, hybrid, experimental, unusual, or fragmented forms.
Reading Period: Apr 1 to Jul 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Kalopsia is a literary and arts journal run by high school and college students from all over the world who aim to promote art and writing among (seemingly) ordinary people. We strongly encourage submissions from students, emerging writers...
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Founded in 1994, Kansas City Voices is a magazine that highlights regional talent and welcomes creative work from around the globe.
Reading Period: Dec 15 to Mar 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Keepthings is a digital storytelling project that collects stories of the physical items people hang onto in order to remember loved ones who've died. Essentially, they're love stories told through objects. Though small in size—600...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Creative NonfictionGenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Narrative Nonfiction -
Attention to craft is crucial but we are open to all forms/genres of poetry and prose that is believable and thought-provoking, that makes new the expected conventions. We have published work from the U.S., Canada, Ireland, France, Haiti, etc....
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
