The Momentist is looking for fiction (<7000 words), poetry, critical essays, and translations.
The journal name comes from something once said by Harold Brodkey: "The reader in his or her life has more access to the real than...
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Reading Period: Jul 5 to Aug 23Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Experimental, Literary Fiction, Translation -
Monkeybicycle is an online literary journal which is updated almost daily. The magazine was also a print journal for a time, publishing nine issues in total over several years. Many of these issues—which feature amazing writing from...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Humor, Narrative Nonfiction -
The Montreal Review features long-form critical essays, book reviews, commentary and interviews, photo essays, short stories and poetry. It is illustrated with contemporary and classic art by Canadian and international artists....
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MORIA is a national online literary magazine with an all-student editorial board, based at Woodbury University in greater Los Angeles. It accepts poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction from emerging and established writers in the...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 30 to Oct 1, Jan 15 to Mar 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Moss is a literary journal of writing from the Pacific Northwest. Published annually, Moss is dedicated to exploring the intersection of place and creative expression, while exposing the region’s outstanding writers to a broad...
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An international art and literature magazine that features witty, irreverant, and moving poetry and fiction from established and up-and-coming authors, as well as interviews with the likes of Billy Collins, Eimear McBride and DBC Pierre.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenres: Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry -
Mount Hope publishes new and emerging writers alongside established writers. The editors enjoy finding new, diverse writers they can introduce to publication.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Moxy is a literary magazine that focuses on creative nonfiction—work with a nonfiction subject matter, written with the imaginative verve and stylistic skill of the best fiction. It publishes criticism, essays, travel writing, memoir,...
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Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood is a website that started in 2000. It is a collection of nonfiction stories, essays, reportage, and vignettes, all of which are set in New York City. Readers can search stories on the site by...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Creative NonfictionGenres: Nonfiction -
The MSU Roadrunner Review is a student-curated literary journal out of the Creative Writing program at the Metropolitan State University of Denver. The editors welcome quality prose, poetry, and visual art.
Reading Period: Sep 1 to Nov 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Mud Season Review is an international literary journal run by members of the Burlington Writers Workshop. The journal publishes online six times annually: one story, one portfolio of poems, one essay or piece of narrative nonfiction, and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The poem is the thing at Mudlark and the essay about it. As our full name suggests, we will consider accomplished work that locates itself anywhere on the spectrum of contemporary practice. We want poems, of course, but we want essays,...
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Mulberry Literary is an online literary and art magazine dedicated to showcasing creative work in its every form. It aims to provide a longstanding, international platform that is inclusive to all creative work,...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Nov 1, Mar 1 to May 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationGenres: BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Historical, Humor, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Lyric Essay, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Translation -
the museum of americana is an online literary review dedicated to fiction, poetry, nonfiction, photography, music, and artwork that revives or repurposes the old, the dying, the forgotten, or the almost entirely unknown...
Read moreReading Period: Apr 1 to Apr 30, Aug 1 to Aug 31, Dec 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Muzzle aims to bring together the voices of poets from a diverse array of backgrounds, paying special homage to poets from communities that are historically underrepresented in print and online publications.
Reading Period: Jun 15 to Jul 15, Dec 15 to Jan 15Genre: PoetryGenres: Feminist, LGBTQ Voices, Political -
Mystery, suspense, and noir fiction with literary flavor.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Published monthly, Mystery Magazine presents crime and mystery short stories by some of the world's best established and emerging mystery writers.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: FictionGenres: Cross-genre, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction -
Nonprofit Narrative is dedicated to advancing the literary arts in the digital age by supporting the finest writing talent and encouraging readership across communities and generations, in schools, and around the globe. Each year ...
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Narrative Northeast is a literary and arts magazine dedicated to diverse voices and visions, to creating a platform for writers who actually have something to say.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Nassau Review welcomes work that is innovative, captivating, well-crafted, and unique work that is traditional as well as pieces that cross boundaries of genre and tradition. New writers and...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Dec 5Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Nat. Brut’s (pr. nat broot) principal mission is to showcase the work of writers and artists who have been historically devalued or pigeonholed by art and literary institutions. We publish work that has been buried, ignored, and...
Read moreReading Period: May 1 to May 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
The National Poetry Review is an annual online journal of poetry.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to May 1Genre: Poetry -
Naugatuck River Review publishes only narrative poetry, which means the poem is well-crafted, has a strong emotional core, and the narrative is compressed.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Mar 1, Jul 1 to Sep 1Genre: PoetryGenres: Poetry -
NELLE proudly publishes the best, most exciting poetry, short fiction, and nonfiction written exclusively by women.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Sep 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry -
A wide variety of poetics works here, and you’ll have the most success submitting poems that can do these three things well:
- Feel good leaving the mouth;
- Use original or interesting language skillfully; and
- Use...
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry
