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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: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Raleigh Review is a nonprofit magazine of poetry, short fiction, and art, offering accessible works of experience that are emotionally and intellectually complex. At Raleigh Review, the editors believe that great literature...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Apr 1, Jul 1 to Oct 31, Dec 10 to Dec 25, Nov 1 to Dec 31, Jun 1 to Jun 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Rathalla Review is the literary magazine published by the students of Rosemont College’s MFA in Creative Writing and Graduate Publishing programs.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Flash Fiction -
Rattle is a publication of the Rattle Foundation, and its mission is to promote the practice of poetry.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Experimental, Formal Poetry, Humor, Love, Micro-poetry, Political, Prose Poetry -
Rat’s Ass Review is an online poetry journal whose editorial fancies are no more arbitrary than any other; they are simply more openly so. They print what they like.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Feb 1, Jul 1 to Aug 1Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Experimental, Formal Poetry, Micro-poetry, Poetry, Prose Poetry -
Based in Central Texas, The Raven Review is a digital literary magazine that publishes poetry and short fiction that explores the human experience through dark, atmospheric writing. Since January 2020, the magazine has been publishing...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Subgenres: Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Poetry, Short Fiction -
Rawhead is an online journal of poetry, short fiction, nonfiction, and visual art. Named for a folkloric monster once used to scare children, it reclaims that symbol as an act of defiance. Rawhead stands for the power of art and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Mar 1, May 1 to Jul 1, Aug 1 to Oct 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Razor is a literary magazine produced by Gotham Writers Workshop. It publishes two pieces each month—one fiction, one nonfiction. For now, it does not publish poetry. Each published piece will be presented with audio and original...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Réapparition Journal is a literary journal that focuses on the experience of chronic and mental illnesses. Many times, the stigmatization of some of these conditions is what hurts just as much as the situation itself. The ability to...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Healing/Health -
Recenter Press was founded in June 2017 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and moved home to the Bay Area in May 2023. Works published speak to workers’ rights and experiences, LGBTQ and racial justice, recovery and mysticism, and interdependence...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 15 to Nov 30Genre: PoetrySubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Feminist, Healing/Health, Historical, LGBTQ Voices, Nature/Environmental, Political, Religious/Spiritual, War -
The Red Branch Review is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and literary and visual art annual based in Knoxville, Tennessee. Red Branch seeks to bring to readers the kaleidoscope of human experience and was founded in response to the...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 15 to May 1Subgenres: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Poetry -
Red Dirt Forum is an online zine publication that features contemporary voices of the Southern United States. Multicultural voices are encouraged to submit.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Flash Fiction -
Red Ogre Review is an online journal started by the graduate students from Lancaster University’s 2021 Creative Writing class. It primarily publishes poetry, critical essays, visual art, and music.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
Red River Review is a digital literary journal founded in 1999 and relaunched in 2025. Rooted in poetry, it also now publishes short stories, creative essays, and visual art. The journal seeks thoughtful, resonant work and is committed...
Read moreReading Period: Jul 1 to Aug 31, Oct 1 to Dec 31, Jan 1 to Mar 31, Apr 1 to Jun 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Red Tree Review seeks to celebrate poems that surprise, harrow, and awe by providing them with a platform and hungry readers.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Experimental, Feminist, LGBTQ Voices, Poetry, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry -
Red Wheelbarrow (since 2000), formerly Bottomfish, believes that everything that crosses the transom merits deep attention. It believes that beauty and meaning will inhabit wildly varied and unexpected tones and styles.
Reading Period: Sep 1 to Feb 15, Apr 1 to Aug 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Redivider is operated by the MFA and MA students of the Writing, Literature & Publishing Department at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. It is published online three times per year, with fall, spring, and summer blurred genre...
Read moreReading Period: May 1 to Jun 1, Aug 1 to Dec 1, Jan 1 to May 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
redrosethorns journal is a literary online publication that publishes work around mental health, self-care, gender, and sexuality in any genre and style. This journal publication is inspired by the feminist consciousness-raising movement...
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For over 150 years, Reed Magazine has published the work of writers and artists whose voices persist beyond the page. Based in San José, California, Reed is honored to feature the works of new and emerging authors alongside...
Read moreReading Period: Jun 1 to Oct 1, Jun 1 to Nov 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
For over a decade, Relief has helped shape the landscapes of faith and imagination for readers around the world. The journal features fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, graphic narrative, and reviews by some of today’s finest literary...
Read moreReading Period: Oct 1 to Mar 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
RHINO is a high-quality, perfect-bound annual journal with online content including poems, event updates, and monthly e-zine RHINO Reviews. It invites traditional or experimental work reflecting passion, originality, artistic...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 1 to Jun 30, Aug 1 to Sep 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Creative Nonfiction, Flash Fiction, Poetry, Translation -
Rialto Books Review is interested in publishing works that builds upon the literary tradition of the Western Canon. The editors prioritize formal verse when it comes to our review of poetry for publication. In fiction, they look for...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
As a multicultural magazine of poetry, prose and art with a 50-year history, River Styx publishes works of both new and established artists significant for their originality, energy, and deft of craft. They publish poetry, short fiction...
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River Teeth is a biannual print journal publishing the best of creative nonfiction, including narrative reportage, essays, and memoir. They are also home to Beautiful Things, a weekly online magazine of micro essays.
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Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Dec 1, Jan 1 to Apr 1Genre: Creative Nonfiction -
Rockford Review prefers interior rhyme in poems, as opposed to rhymed endings, and nonviolent, non-vulgar prose. Write about topics that have meaning.
Reading Period: Jul 15 to Oct 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
