Indecent is an online magazine for queer voices that forget their place. They get too loud and demand too much attention. They’re too risqué, too unrelatable, too much for the audiences of prominent literary journals, underground horror...
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Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
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Poetry, art, and photography from minimalist to avant-garde—open to innovative, imagistic, philosophical, experimental creations.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Experimental, Visual Poetry -
Indelible is a literary journal reaching out to a broader community of writers, both established and emerging. The journal seeks to publish works from distinguished writers and artists with strong voices and literary/artistic convictions...
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Indiana Review is a nonprofit literary magazine dedicated to showcasing the talents of emerging and established writers. Its mission is to offer the highest quality writing within a wide aesthetic.
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Indicia seeks to showcase a dynamic collage of passionate and profound voices hungry to produce art and write primarily in the English language. indicia enjoys feeling out the lengths to which language can be stretched, whether to convey...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Subgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, LGBTQ Voices, Micro-poetry, Nature/Environmental, Prose Poetry -
Infrarrealista Review invites Texan writers outside of the literary tradition to reject binaries and saddle up their experiences with full autonomy rather than accept labels invited by elitist institutions. The editors believe you own...
Read moreReading Period: Jun 1 to Oct 31, Jan 1 to Mar 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Inklette believes in the public role of art and literature. We like works that punctuate form and material in the private languages of their writers. We like to see works that think within, despite and outside of their own logic,...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 15 to Mar 30, Jun 1 to Jul 15, Oct 1 to Nov 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Inlandia: A Literary Journey is the literary journal of Inlandia Institute, a literary nonprofit. The journal publishes two issues per year: Fall is open to all, but special consideration is given to those works or writers with a tie to...
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Innisfree Poetry Journal publishes well-crafted poems, whether in free verse or in traditional forms, poems grounded in the specific, which speak in fresh language and telling images.
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The best food writing is not just about what’s on the plate, but is, like all literature, also interested in language, psychology, and the most pressing issues of the day. The Inquisitive Eater: New School Food provides a forum for...
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inscape is the literary journal published annually at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas. The publication, which premiered in 1972, features poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction, and visual art from the region and beyond.
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Founded in 1944 by poet Wilber Stevens, Interim is edited by Claudia Keelan and Andrew Nicholson. We are international literary journal that publishes art, flash and experimental fiction, hybrid texts, literary nonfiction, poetry,...
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Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine is a literary journal dedicated to promoting the theory and practice of narrative medicine, an interdisciplinary field that enhances healthcare through the effective communication, empathy and...
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Inverted Syntax seeks to publish unorthodox approaches to form and aesthetics. Editors prefer work that is nongenre, those that straddle multiple categories. Send memorable, haunting approaches to art and language that turn readers...
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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 16, Sep 16 to Oct 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 1, Jan 1 to Jan 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Iron City Magazine is an online and print journal devoted entirely to writing and art from the prison world.
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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...
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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...
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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 a major portion of the issue...
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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 31Subgenres: Cross-genre, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Humor, Poetry, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction -
Jet Fuel Review is a student-run, faculty-advised, online literary magazine. Believing in the power of language, the editors seeks to provide a platform for quality writing and artwork that pushes boundaries, surpasses expectations, and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 15 to Mar 15, Aug 15 to Oct 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Prose Poetry -
JMWW is a weekly online literary journal accepting fiction, nonfiction, poetry, book reviews, interviews, and essays.
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Johnny America publishes fiction, shorts, very short shorts, humor, and mildly humorous non-fiction essay-like things.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Fiction, Flash Fiction, Humor, Literary Fiction, Short Fiction -
“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 NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Humor, Translation
