A literary journal published biannually by Death Rattle, aimed at publishing and promoting poets, authors, and artists. The editors publish new work from both established and emerging writers.
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Reading Period: Jan 1 to Apr 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
the other side of hope: journeys in refugee and immigrant literature is a United Kingdom-based literary magazine edited by refugees and immigrants.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Apr 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
OtherwiseMag publishes stories that speak the language of lived experience. This may be a biography, a portrait, an event, a situation, a historical moment, or an encounter. They expect stories to achieve depth, have narrative coherence...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Historical, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, LGBTQ Voices, Magical Realism, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Speculative Poetry, Visual Poetry -
Otis Nebula seeks to remedy what the internet has wrought upon common social spaces, to be as close to a campfire as you can get on a screen. They like poems with a pulse and stories with legs. Please keep it short (under 1000 words...
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Overtime, a series of one-story chapbooks, was created to showcase some of the stories they receive that are a little too long for their Workers Write! series but are worthy of publication.
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The Oxford American is dedicated to featuring the very best in Southern writing while documenting the complexity and vitality of the American South.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Oxford Magazine, casually known as OxMag, is a literary and arts magazine edited and published by creative writing MFA students at Miami University. Since their premiere in 1984, the magazine has received Pushcart Prizes for...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 15 to Mar 15, Sep 15 to Oct 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Oxford Poetry is the oldest dedicated poetry magazine in the U.K., and one of the oldest in the world. Previous editors have included Kingsley Amis, W. H. Auden, Vera Brittain, Cecil Day-Lewis, Geoffrey Hill, Aldous Huxley, Louis...
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The Oyez Review is the literary magazine of the creative writing program at Roosevelt University in Chicago. It is published annually, edited by a staff of MFA candidates under the direction of a faculty member with professional...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 14 to Mar 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry -
ORP publishes voices that speak to what it means to be alive in this world. The editors look for language and stories and images that move us out of themselves and into other spaces, as well as writers and artists who bring balance and...
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Pacifica Literary Review publishes poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction three times a year. Based in Seattle, it invites writers from all backgrounds, races, orientations, and occupations to send work.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Poetry -
The pacificREVIEW is an annual review of prose, poetry, and artwork on a given theme, published in affiliation with San Diego State University Press. For 2025-26, their co-editors are Lola Schroeder & Nathan Nguyen. The 2025-26...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 1 to Mar 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Comrades, sisters, brothers, and members of the human family: Packingtown Review has long joined the struggle to destroy the imperialist white supremacist capitalist heteropatriarchy. They resist sentimental urges of the national and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Graphic/Illustrated, Historical, LGBTQ Voices, Political, Pop Culture, Translation -
Painted Bride Quarterly’s editorial staff is triangulated out of Philadelphia, NYC, and Abu Dhabi, with a community-based process for work. PBQ publishes poems, stories, and nonfiction that represent the individual, with a...
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Palette Poetry endeavors to uplift and engage both emerging and established poets in the literary community. The journal has no particular aesthetic vision but aims to create an empowering space for all voices, especially those that are...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
“I decided some years ago that I wanted to create a space for people taking on the struggle, a venue to give those writers and artists a truly fair shot at publication and the chance to be seen, read, and recognized—no connections, no...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Humor, Literary Fiction, Lyric Essay, Magical Realism, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Speculative Poetry, Translation, Visual Poetry, War -
The Pan Haiku Review focuses on Japanese short-form poetry, including haiku, senryu, tanka, haiga and haibun/tanka prose. Typically each issue has a theme. For example, issue four is only accepting submissions of haibun and tanka prose....
Read moreReading Period: May 3 to May 11Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Cross-genre, Flash Fiction, Micro-poetry, Poetry, Prose Poetry -
Pangyrus is a literary magazine that is dedicated to art, ideas, and making culture thrive. Its name is a portmanteau of pangea (the world continent) and gyrus (the folds on the cerebral cortex of the brain). Pangyrus...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 15 to Nov 15, Feb 15 to May 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Paper Brigade is the print literary journal of Jewish Book Council. Composed of articles, interviews, fiction, poetry, and artwork, it celebrates the breadth and diversity of today’s Jewish books in the U.S. and abroad. The journal seeks...
Read moreReading Period: Dec 15 to Feb 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Paper Dragon is the Drexel MFA literary magazine committed to publishing poetry, short stories, creative nonfiction, and artwork that resonates with contemporary readers. The editors are committed to showcasing exciting and inclusive...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 1 to Apr 30, Jul 1 to Oct 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Papers Publishing believes in putting the writing first. A group of creatives jumpstarted Papers as a way for writers and readers alike to go back to where it all started—the page. Writers come from all backgrounds, and the...
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The Paris-American’s mission is to unite talented emerging poets and established poets on the same stage, while also serving as a weekly e-zine for new poetry.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
Passager journal publishes two issues per year, featuring poetry and prose by writers over fifty—a poetry contest issue and an issue featuring poetry, short fiction, and memoir/personal essay. Its mission is to bring attention to the...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 15 to Apr 30, Jul 15 to Sep 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Passages North publishes diverse, literary fiction, poetry, nonfiction, short-shorts, and hybrid work by emerging as well as established writers. The journal is open to submissions of poetry, short-shorts, nonfiction, and hybrid work...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Apr 15, Jan 1 to Feb 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, LGBTQ Voices, Short Fiction -
Passionfruit is an online journal for work that engages with love in the broadest possible sense: writing which seeks love out or runs screaming from it; which delights in, is bored of, resents, yearns for, abhors, or denies love.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
