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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 31Genre: FictionGenres: Cross-genre, Feminist, Flash Fiction, Humor, Pop Culture -
Jet Fuel Review is a student-run and faculty-advised literary magazine geared towards publishing a diverse array of writing voices and styles. Jet Fuel Review is, above all, looking for quality writing. Take care in sending us...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 15 to Oct 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
JMWW is a weekly online literary journal accepting fiction, nonfiction, poetry, book reviews, interviews, and essays.
Reading Period: Mar 1 to Apr 30, Jul 1 to Aug 31, Nov 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Fiction, shorts, very short-shorts, humor, and mildy humorous non-fiction essay-like things.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
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 NonfictionGenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Humor, Translation -
Established in 1972, The Journal is the nationally distributed, prize-winning literary journal of The Ohio State University. We publish the highest quality fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and reviews by both emerging and established authors.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Matter Press is a community-based, non-profit 501(c)(3) literary press that publishes an online literary journal (The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts), manages an annual short fiction and poetry chapbook contest, and supports a regular...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 15 to Dec 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry -
The first online literary journal to publish expressive writing, freewriting, non-fiction, personal essay, memoir, reflective essay, poetry, prose, contemplative discourse, and creative non-fiction—all that originates from a writing prompt.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Creative NonfictionGenres: BIPOC Voices, Healing/Health, LGBTQ Voices, Nonfiction, Prose Poetry -
We mean to publish poets who do not have access to traditional opportunities, usually because they are not in situations where there are many readings and public events, or in academic settings.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
The juke joint has always been a place beyond the margin, somewhere along the line. Barrelhouses of the South, juke joints served as a place for sharecroppers & slaves to socialize & celebrate counterculture in a society marred by slavery...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Apr 15, May 1 to Aug 15, Sep 1 to Dec 15Genre: PoetryGenres: Feminist, LGBTQ Voices, Poetry, Political, Regional -
We seek poetry that deepens our understanding and brings us back to ourselves.
Reading Period: May 1 to May 14Genre: Poetry -
Juxta Press began by publishing limited edition artist's books from leading contemporary artists like Jimmie Durham, Ilya & Emilia Kabakov, and Mariko Mori. While we do now publish literary books, the visual arts remain close to our hearts....
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JuxtaProse is an online literary journal that publishes fiction, nonfiction and poetry from around the world. Our contributors have included Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, and Man Booker Prize winners, and other acclaimed authors from...
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Kaleidoscoped Mag is a literary arts magazine formed by MFA students at UC San Diego. It is especially interested in literary and visual art that makes use of cross-genre, hybrid, experimental, unusual, or fragmented forms.
Reading Period: Apr 1 to Jun 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Kalopsia is a literary and arts journal run by high school and college students from all over the world who aim to promote art and writing among (seemingly) ordinary people. We strongly encourage submissions from students, emerging writers...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Founded in 1994, Kansas City Voices is a magazine that highlights regional talent and welcomes creative work from around the globe.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Mar 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Keepthings is a digital storytelling project that collects stories of the physical items people hang onto in order to remember loved ones who've died. Essentially, they're love stories told through objects. Though small in size—600...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Creative NonfictionGenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Narrative Nonfiction -
Attention to craft is crucial but we are open to all forms/genres of poetry and prose that is believable and thought-provoking, that makes new the expected conventions. We have published work from the U.S., Canada, Ireland, France, Haiti, etc....
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Twelve poems each month—Kissing Dynamite curates compact issues that honor the thematic threads presented by contributing poets. Our goal is to present multiple facets of a theme/topic/issue to break the narrative of "the single story...
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 7Genre: Poetry -
Kithe (kai-the) is an old Scottish word that means to make or become known. Kithe is a hybrid literary and art journal. It features art and writing that holds the undiscovered and engages in kithing the reader or viewer.
Reading Period: Jan 15 to Dec 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Cross-genre, Graphic/Illustrated, LGBTQ Voices, Nonfiction -
Kweli celebrates cultural kinships and the role of the literary imagination. In our shared space, you will come to know the lived experience of people of color. Our memories are wrapped inside the music of the Muscogee, the blues songs...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to May 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
La Piccioletta Barca aims to collect and publish high quality art, regardless of the medium. We do not discriminate between new and established authors, and accept anything from classical to experimental art, as long as it is of a high...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Fiction that falls in the cracks between genres.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31 -
Lake Effect seeks to publish literary fiction and nonfiction and poetry of the highest quality by established and new and emerging writers from across the country and, in translation, from around the world, and to give that work an...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Lascaux Review provides a showcase for emerging and established writers and artists. Annual contests are conducted in flash fiction, short fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
