Deep South Magazine is committed to being a forum for Southern writers and showcasing Southern literature and accepts submissions of original fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. For fiction, they do themed calls throughout the year. Poetry...
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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 Feb 14Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Regional -
The Deronda Review is mainly a poetry magazine but will consider prose up to 500 words. Longer prose works may occasionally be published on the homepage of the magazine. It seeks poetry of beauty and dignity (wit is also welcome) with a...
Read moreReading Period: May 15 to Jul 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Poetry, Prose Poetry -
Diagram is an electronic journal of text and art. As its name indicates, the editors are interested in representations. In naming. In indicating. In schematics. In the labeling and taxonomy of things. In poems that masquerade as stories...
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DIALOGIST is an online platform for diversity through discourse. Both well-established poets and poets without any prior publications have had their work appear. DIALOGIST publishes poetry once a week, one poet per week.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
Published by Black Sun Lit, digital vestiges is an online miscellany of poetic ephemera.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, LGBTQ Voices, Lyric Essay, Nonfiction, Prose Poetry, Translation -
Dishsoap is a nerdy, uncool, earnest magazine that wouldn’t wait three days to call you if it got your number. That’s quarterly in the sense that a week is a quarter of a month. That’s easily excitable. That can’t wait to see what you’ve...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry -
DMQ Review, one of the longest continuously running online journals in the nation, welcomes American and international Prose Poems from all cultural identities in the English language. Read about their specific focus on the “About” page...
Read moreReading Period: Apr 1 to Apr 30Genre: PoetrySubgenres: BIPOC Voices, LGBTQ Voices, Magical Realism, Prose Poetry, Speculative Poetry -
The Dodge seeks fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, visual art, and translation focused on place and environment. We’re excited by a wide range of forms and approaches, including hybrid and experimental work. We especially seek...
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Now in its twenty-sixth year, Dogwood seeks work that connects directly with readers. Judges for the competition have included former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, NEA Chairman Dana Gioia, and Oprah book club author A. Manette Ansay...
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The Dolomite Review is a quarterly literary magazine publishing fiction, poetry, and essays that linger long after the final line. Rooted in Michigan and inspired by the Midwest, it champions emerging...
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Doubly Mad takes its title from the poem “Listening” by Robert Bly: “because the world is mad, / the only way through the world is to learn the arts / and double the madness.” It is interested not only in emotionally powerful work, but...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 2 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Drift & Dribble Miscellany publishes an eclectic compendium of stories, poems, essays, and dribbles, and especially those works that capture the uniqueness and beauty of inhabiting our complex human world. The society has an...
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John Updike once said, “Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.” Driftwood Press is actively searching for artists who care about doing it...
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Northern Michigan’s premier independent literary journal in continuous publication since 1996, Dunes Review publishes two volumes of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction per year. It is a print journal. Work originally published in ...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 15 to Mar 15, Sep 1 to Oct 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Earth’s Daughters is a feminist literary and arts periodical published in Buffalo, New York. The longest-running feminist literary magazine, continuously published since 1971.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsSubgenres: Prose Poetry -
The goal of the East on Central Association is to encourage artistic expression of the creative spirit through its journal and activities. The annual journal began with a local focus but now includes work from artists and writers throughout...
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Eastern Iowa Review especially likes lyric essays and prose poetry, but check their guidelines for genres accepted during specific reading periods. They have occasional print issues every few years, usually as a collection of select...
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Eastern Structures picks up where Contemporary Ghazals left off, publishing English-language examples of the Middle Eastern form, but now also Korean sijo and Japanese tanka—the latter rendered exclusively in the five-seven-five...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Formal Poetry -
This magazine is for bilingual (and trilingual) readers and writers. All texts on this site are published with translations—into English if the text is in Russian or Ukrainian, and into Russian or Ukrainian if the text is in English.
Reading Period: Aug 1 to Oct 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Ebony Tomatoes Collective is a literary organization for personal and political liberation run by a Black queer collective. Its platform includes up to three print issues annually, a monthly newsletter, and low-cost events and workshops...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, LGBTQ Voices, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Nonfiction, Poetry, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Religious/Spiritual, Speculative Fiction -
Each issue of Ecotone brings together the literary and scientific, the personal and biological, the urban and rural.
Reading Period: Aug 29 to Aug 31, Sep 1 to Sep 5, Jan 26 to Jan 31, Feb 1 to Feb 6, Feb 14 to Feb 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Nature/Environmental -
The Ekphrastic Review is an online journal devoted entirely to writing inspired by visual art. Its objective is to promote ekphrastic writing, promote art appreciation, and experience how the two strengthen each other and bring...
Read moreReading Period: May 1 to May 31, Aug 1 to Aug 31, Nov 1 to Nov 30, Feb 1 to Feb 28, May 1 to May 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Élan international student literary magazine accepts original fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, screenwriting, and plays from students currently enrolled in grades nine through 12. The editors seek original...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Sep 30, Feb 1 to Feb 28Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Young Adult -
Recommended Reading, a magazine by Electric Literature, publishes one story a week: a piece of original fiction, or a story chosen by today’s best authors or editors. Each issue includes a personal foreword by that week’s editor...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 7 to Mar 13, Sep 26 to Oct 2Genre: FictionSubgenres: Literary Fiction -
Their only requirement is that a piece has been previously rejected and revised since it was initially sent out. The writers they want to publish have sat with their work; they have considered their rejections and have actively worked on their...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 1 to Mar 15, Aug 1 to Sep 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Magical Realism, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Speculative Poetry
