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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: Mar 30 to Apr 30Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Poetry, Short Fiction, Translation -
As Surely As the Sun is a Christian literary journal that seeks to illuminate Christ’s presence in the world through poetry, prose, and art. Their mission is to answer the calling presented in Hosea 6:3, to provide space for writers and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Creative Nonfiction, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Poetry, Religious/Spiritual -
At Assignment Literary Magazine, the editors believe in the joy of creating and sharing art. The editorial team is passionate about curating a platform that both celebrates and elevates literature and the diverse individuals who produce...
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Atlantic Northeast is a magazine dedicated to exploring and celebrating the best writers, writing, artists, and art of the Northeastern United States and Canada. It looks to highlight the shared culture and history of the region through...
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Atmo: A Literary Journal is a curated digital journal celebrating short-form writing from writers and authors. Each issue presents eight featured voices through compelling poems, stories, and excerpts.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Aura Literary Arts Review is an award-winning creative literary magazine that is published through the Student Media division of the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The publication is led and run by UAB students from various...
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A poem each day.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
AZURE publishes work that is linguistically, intellectually, and emotionally demanding of its reader. It seeks pieces that increase in complexity upon each visitation and exhibit a density worthy of scholarly or artistic study. AZURE...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Historical, Literary Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, Prose Poetry, Serialized Fiction -
The B’K is a quarterly art and lit magazine prioritizing traditionally marginalized creators, but it’s open to all. The B’K is interested in people being able to decolonize and tell their own stories.
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Bacopa Literary Review is an annual international print journal published by the Writers Alliance of Gainesville. Cash prizes in multiple genres. The specific genres and subgenres they seek change from year to year, but always include...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 1 to Apr 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry -
The mission of the Baltimore Review is to showcase Baltimore as a literary hub of diverse writing and promote the work of emerging and established writers from the U.S. and beyond. The journal publishes poetry, fiction, and creative...
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Banshee is a print literary journal published twice a year—in spring and autumn—and features short stories, flash fiction, poetry, and personal essays.
Reading Period: Mar 1 to Mar 31, Oct 1 to Oct 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
The Barely South Review’s name refers to their unique location in the U.S. while highlighting the idiosyncratic blend of voices and histories that commingle there. If not impossible, they find it unwise to assert an exact “here” or “...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 20 to Apr 1, Sep 1 to Nov 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Barnstorm is an online literary magazine sponsored by the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of New Hampshire.
Reading Period: Jan 15 to May 15, Sep 15 to Dec 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
BAUXITE is an independent literary magazine based in Arkansas. They serve to uplift the underdog; that is, to hand a megaphone to small but powerful literary voices from all across the world and give them a chance to speak through their...
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Bayou Magazine’s focus: the best fiction and poetry submitted by authors at every age and level of experience and from all over the globe.
Reading Period: Sep 15 to Dec 15 -
The editors of Bear Review are open to a wide variety of poetry, by poets at various phases of development, and they read submissions 10 months of the year. They close regular submissions during November and December while receiving...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 15 to Nov 1Genre: PoetrySubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, LGBTQ Voices, Lyric Essay, Micro-poetry, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Translation, Visual Poetry -
Founded in 2007, Beatdom is dedicated to the study of the Beat Generation. It publishes one issue annually with a predesignated topic. All submissions must related this topic to the Beat Generation.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Historical, Narrative Nonfiction -
Bellevue Literary Review is an award-winning literary journal that mines the connective tissue between illness, healing, and the arts. Through fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, BLR explores these universal conditions and life’s...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 1 to Jul 1, Sep 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Bellingham Review publishes poetry, fiction, nonfiction, translations, and hybrid work on a now fully digital platform. Established in 1977, Bellingham Review has earned a reputation for publishing both established and emerging...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 15 to Dec 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
The Beloit Fiction Journal publishes the best in contemporary short fiction. Traditional and experimental narratives find a home in its pages. It publishes new writers alongside established writers. As one of the few fiction-only...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 1 to Nov 16Genre: Fiction -
Since 1950, the BPJ has been publishing poetry that matters. They are open to a wide range of forms and styles in contemporary poetry. They are always watching for new poets, quickened language, and poems with a fresh purchase on the...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Jan 31, Feb 1 to Apr 30, Jul 1 to Jul 31, Oct 1 to Nov 30Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Poetry -
Beltway Poetry (formerly Beltway Poetry Quarterly) is an award-winning online literary journal that showcases poetry from all over the world. It also features translations and reviews. During the first 20 years of its existence, it...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, TranslationSubgenres: Poetry -
Bennington Review aims to contribute distinctive style and substance to the national literary conversation through publishing sharp, unexpected, original poetry and prose from a geographically broad and culturally rich spectrum of...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 4 to Mar 5Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Berkeley Fiction Review looks for innovative short fiction that plays with form and content, as well as traditionally constructed stories with fresh voices and original ideas. It invites submissions of previously unpublished short...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to May 1Genre: Fiction
