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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 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
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The Rumpus strives to be a platform for marginalized voices and writing that might not find a home elsewhere and to lift up new voices alongside those of more established writers we love.
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Rundelania is the digital literary journal of the Arts and Literature Division, located within the Central Branch of the Rochester Public Library (NY). The journal is dedicated to the publication of original poetry and prose.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Rune Bear is a digital literary magazine devoted to the Strange, Surreal, Supernatural, and Speculative. This includes all horror, science-fiction, slipstream, all-the-punks, fantasy, myth, and strange thoughts, as long as the content is...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 1 to Apr 30Subgenres: Experimental, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Micro-poetry, Speculative Fiction -
The Rupture published its first issue (as the Collagist) in August 2009 under the editorship of founding editor Matt Bell. New issues of the Rupture are published on the 15th of: February, April, June, August, October,...
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Rust and Moth is a literary journal committed to imaginative and engaging poetry. Since 2008, we have dedicated ourselves to discovering new writers and presenting their work alongside evocative graphic design. We believe in the vitality...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 1 to Mar 31, Jun 1 to Jun 30, Sep 1 to Sep 30, Dec 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
Since 2000, the Saint Ann’s Review has published a diversity of work ranging from the experimental to the more traditional. It publishes established authors and new voices.
Reading Period: Sep 1 to Jul 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Cross-genre, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translation -
Salamander specializes in publishing highly accomplished poetry, fiction, and memoirs by writers who deserve a wider audience for their work.
Reading Period: Oct 1 to Apr 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Salmagundi is a quarterly of the Humanities and Social Sciences which is addressed to the “general” reader rather than to the academic specialist. Founded in 1965 and published since 1969 at Skidmore College, the magazine routinely...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Apr 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Translation -
Salt Hill is published by a group of writers affiliated with the Creative Writing Program at Syracuse University.
Reading Period: Dec 1 to Jan 31, Aug 1 to Sep 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Founded in 2008, San Pedro River Review is a biannual journal of poetry and art named after the river that flows north from the mountains of Sonora, Mexico, into Arizona.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Jan 31, Jul 1 to Jul 31Genre: Poetry -
SAND is an international journal publishing risk-taking work from the diverse range of creatives making visual art, poetry, fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, and translations. We look for work that subverts, crosses borders, and...
Read moreReading Period: Jul 20 to Aug 10Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, LGBTQ Voices -
Sand Hills brings together new and established voices from diverse backgrounds. We are looking for works that celebrate different perspectives.
We want writers to submit their truths, their fictions—to share their humanity. We...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 15 to Mar 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry -
Santa Ana River Review is the literary magazine of the University of California, Riverside’s MFA program. Santa Ana River Review accepts fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, visual art, and short dramatic works.
Reading Period: Apr 27 to May 11, Nov 22 to Dec 21Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Santa Barbara Literary Journal considers all kinds of fiction, flash, and poetry, and have a soft spot for fantasy, science fiction, experimental, funny, and quirky work.
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An in-print and online literary journal, SFLR features work by local, national, and international writers and artists. Each issue of SFLR has a suggested theme; the 2022-2023 SFLR theme is "Myth: Invention, Legend, and Lore." SFLR is committed to...
Read moreReading Period: Jun 1 to Nov 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Founded by Jim Krusoe in 1988, Santa Monica Review is a nationally distributed literary arts journal sponsored by Santa Monica College.
The journal is published twice yearly, in Fall and Spring.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Saw Palm is a Florida-themed literary journal produced by the MFA program at the University of South Florida. It publishes poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, comics, art, photography, reviews, and interviews.
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The mission of Scarlet Leaf Review is to promote various genre and provide writers with access to publication.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Scarlet is a bimonthly blog published by Jaded Ibis Press that is dedicated to publishing the work of artists whose pieces give voice to the complexities of multiple identities. In keeping with JIP’s mission to uplift marginalized voices, ...
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The Schuylkill Valley Journal publishes poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, "dispatches", personal reflections, and visual art.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Regional -
Scoundrel Time is a nonprofit online literary journal launched after the 2016 U.S. presidential election. It publishes fiction, essays, poetry, works in translation, humor, music, and visual art that engages with the threats against ...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Scrawl Place is a travel litmag for the guest, the visitor, the traveler, the day-tripper, the out-of-towner, and the in-towners eager to wander. It accepts submissions about “places in the places” where you live or where you’ve visited...
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Scribble is an exciting online venue for exceptional flash and short fiction. This eclectic journal is open to literary fiction and all fiction genres with a literary approach. It accepts unsolicited submissions all year long and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: FictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction -
The Scriblerus seeks writing and art that explore the human experience with honesty and authenticity.
Reading Period: Sep 1 to Apr 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
