Vestal Review is the longest-running flash fiction magazine on the planet, published continuously since March 2000. It’s an online magazine coming out twice a year, and it’s eclectic, so a lot of different approaches work, provided they...
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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: Feb 1 to May 31, Aug 1 to Nov 30Genre: FictionGenres: Flash Fiction -
Black Sun Lit is the publisher of Vestiges, an irregularly printed journal of prose, poetry, essay, translation, and art that envelops a specific idea or theme unique to each issue.
Reading Period: Feb 1 to Apr 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, TranslationGenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Literary Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Translation -
TVBR publishes poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, photography, and visual art that memorably express what it means to be human. Our editorial focus is on authentic voices and evocative images. We seek work that haunts us. The...
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Virginia Normal is the international literary journal edited by the students and faculty of Virginia State University. The magazine publishes two issues each spring: a print issue featuring literary work submitted from across the world...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
We publish well crafted original poetry as well as translations from modern poets, everywhere. We favor poetry that is NOT OBSCURE yet avoids the trite.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetryGenres: Translation -
A visitant is a visitor from another realm—a specter, a psychopomp, or a transitory creature, like a pilgrim or bird. Visitants pop up throughout literature as ghosts, as fits of madness, and as omens. In nature, a visitant takes on a different...
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Vita Brevis publishes poetry (especially from unpublished or emerging poets), charges no reading fees, accepts unsolicited pieces, keeps poetry submissions open year-round, and tends to favor short, structured poems over long,...
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Our intention is to publish writing that pushes against convention, which challenges, subverts, or skillfully manipulates tradition, and serves to advance the understanding of human culture and experience via interesting metaphors, exciting...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, LGBTQ Voices, Nonfiction, Poetry -
VoiceCatcher is an online journal that supports, inspires, and empowers female-identified writers and artists in the greater Portland, OR and Vancouver, WA areas.
Reading Period: Mar 1 to Apr 21Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Voicemail Poems is an online magazine that highlights the intimate and raw voices of new and established writers of all styles.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
Waccamaw is a graduate student and faculty collaboration featuring contemporary poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. The magazine is published online once a year, in the fall, by The Athenaeum Press at Coastal Carolina University....
Reading Period: Aug 1 to Sep 8Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
War, Literature, & the Arts publishes short fiction, poetry, personal essay/memoir, visuals, book reviews and scholarly essays for a general audience. From the Iliad to The Hurt Locker to The Things They Carried...
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warning lines publishes work exclusively from queer and/or neurodivergent creators.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: BIPOC Voices, LGBTQ Voices -
Washington Square Review is an innovative, nationally-distributed literary journal publishing a dynamica and diverse array of new fiction, poetry, and translations, as well as insightful interviews with distinguished authors. It is...
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The Watershed Journal is always looking for storytellers in our region of the Pennsylvania Wilds to submit poetry, short stories, personal essays, local journalism, and storytelling photography or imagery. A diversity of life happens...
Read moreReading Period: Jun 6 to Jun 20Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
We hope authors will take advantage of our refusal to define what we publish, and send us un-name-able bits and pieces. A fiction that has no shape but feels complete and leaves a hole in your stomach; a nonfiction layered in obvious lies; a...
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The Wax Paper is a broadsheet publication open to all forms of written word, imagery, and collected conversation.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Commercial Fiction, Experimental, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Historical, Humor, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Love, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Regional, Translation, Young Adult -
Waxing & Waning is a literary journal that seeks what’s on the fringe.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Waxwing is a literary journal promoting the tremendous cultural diversity of contemporary American literature, alongside international voices in translation. We believe that American voices are, at their cores, both multicultural and...
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Since 2012, The Wayfarer has been offering literature, interviews, and art with the intention to inspire its readers, enrich their lives, and highlight the power of agency and change-making that each individual holds.
Reading Period: Sep 1 to Jan 31, Feb 1 to Jul 1Genre: Poetry, Creative Nonfiction -
The Wayne Literary Review is a yearly literary journal published in Detroit, MI, by Wayne State Press. We publish writing that inspires, experiments, and pushes language in new and interesting directions. We are edited by Wayne State...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 15 to Feb 20Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Weber invites submissions in the genres of personal narrative, critical commentary, fiction, creative non-fiction, and poetry that offer insight into the environment and culture (both broadly defined) of the contemporary western United...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Nature/Environmental, Regional -
Welter is an annual print literary magazine—originated in 1965—now produced by the MFA program at the University of Baltimore. Additional content is published online. As our name implies, we are looking for work that is provocative, exciting,...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 4 to Mar 2Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
West Branch is a a thrice-yearly magazine of poetry, fiction, essays, and reviews based at Bucknell University.
Reading Period: Aug 1 to Apr 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Translation -
West Trade Review strives to put forth the best contemporary poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction (memoir/personal essays) and publishes a mix of established and up and coming writers. We are committed to the principles of diversity...
Read moreReading Period: Apr 1 to Aug 1, Aug 15 to Dec 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
