The Sierra Nevada Review publishes poetry, fiction, and nonfiction that leans toward the unconventional, surprising, and risky. We appreciate experiments in form and content and prefer works whose meanings deepen on repeated readings.
Literary Magazines
Connect your poems, stories, essays, and reviews to the right audiences by researching over twelve hundred literary magazines in our database. Here, you’ll find editorial policies, submission guidelines, contact information—everything you need to direct your work to the publications most amenable to your vision.
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Reading Period: Sep 1 to Feb 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Sigh Press publishes work by writers of English (and visual artists who speak any language) in Tuscany. Each issue is uniquely curated and creatively adheres to a theme set for that issue. We publish approximately 4-6 writers and one visual...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Flash Fiction -
Taking its as its thematic metaphor the ancient Silk Road, a conduit between East and West and highway of intense cultural exchange, publishes fine fiction, nonfiction, interviews, poetry, and images that capture the intensity, fluidity and...
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Sincerely Magazine is focused on art and creative writing from artists who are starting out their careers, or are looking to advance in their field.
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Sinister Wisdom is a multicultural lesbian literary & art journal that publishes four issues each year. Publishing since 1976, Sinister Wisdom works to create a multicultural, multi-class lesbian space. Sinister Wisdom...
Read moreReading Period: Dec 20 to Jan 21Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: LGBTQ -
We seek pieces with a point of view that might not be easily published elsewhere (hence Sisyphus with his rock and his hill). While we aren’t trying to convert opposing points of view, we do hope to offer important contributions that will further...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Poetry, Political -
Our writers take us to the places and events that changed what they believe in, changed how they see their place in the world, and changed them. Through their storytelling, they change us. We want powerful nonfiction prose written by women about...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Creative NonfictionGenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Narrative Nonfiction -
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry
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Sky Island Journal is an independent, international, free-access literary journal; we are dedicated to discovering and publishing the finest original poetry, flash fiction, and creative nonfiction. We publish accomplished, well-established...
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We adore the strange, new, and off-kilter, but above all we want work that speaks to something real. This doesn't mean we only like realistic prose and narrative poetry-far from it. We want you to look beyond the real to the truth buried beneath...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Experimental, Literary Fiction, Regional -
Slant publishes well-crafted work (formal or free verse) from all parts of the U.S. and beyond. While open to experimentation, its editorial readers generally prefer plainsong: concrete, resonant, accessible poems written by humans for other...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 15 to Nov 15Genre: PoetryGenres: Experimental, Formal -
Sleet publishes writers in all phases of their careers. We are always looking for love (!) and beauty in its various forms.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Cross-genre, Flash Fiction, Micro-poetry, Prose Poetry, Translation -
Slice, a New York-based nonprofit magazine, was founded by two book editors who wanted to give emerging writers the chance to break into the publishing world. To do that, we invited everyone into the same space. On the page and off the page, at...
Read moreReading Period: Apr 1 to Jun 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Narrative Nonfiction, Literary Fiction -
Poetry with a strong voice gets attention.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
Intellectual, but approachable.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
We publish work that minimizes, blurs, or exaggerates distinctions between genres and offer a shared space for experimental creative fiction and nonfiction, lyrical fiction, experimental poetry, and multimedia pieces. Small Po[r]tions issues have...
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Small Print Magazine, a resource and showcase for writers and artists, features contemporary fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry thoughtfully presented alongside beautiful photography and artwork from new and established artists. You’ll also...
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Smartish Pace publishes new poems and translations. Published in Baltimore, our fifteen staff members live in Albuquerque, Baltimore, Chicago, Cincinnati, France, Nashville, New York City, Raleigh, Virgin Islands and Washington, DC. Smartish Pace...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
The SLQ aesthetic remains an ever-changing, ever-elusive set of principles, but it most likely has to do with these kinds of things: *language that surprises *narratives that strive toward something other than a final punch line or twist *pieces...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: FictionGenres: Flash Fiction -
We're an eclectic magazine, having quality as our only criterion. We esp. encourage submissions from seniors. We also publish art & photography.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
We are focused on art and healing. The work itself doesn't have to talk about healing but our hope is that those who read the journal will feel hopeful. We have a theme for each issue and just with "healing" there doesn't have to be a direct...
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So to Speak, founded in 1993 by an editorial collective of women MFA candidates at George Mason University. So to Speak has served as a space for feminist writing and art for nearly twelve years. So to Speak publishes poetry, fiction, nonfiction...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 7 to Oct 20Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
SOILED is an architectural periodical. It investigates latent issues in the built environment and the politics of space. SOILED operates at the interstices of architecture, urbanism, and the pedosphere, providing a venue for dialogue and...
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Sojourners magazine sits at the intersection of faith, politics, and culture. Our call to prophetic interrogation means we seek the truth as informed by our biblical roots. Sojourners' three key commitments are racial and social justice...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetryGenres: Feminist, Nature/Environmental, Poetry, Political, Religious/Spiritual, War -
With each issue our cover art will change. We want your prose, poetry, and art to respond to, reflect on, or reimagine this picture.
Reading Period: Jul 31 to Oct 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
