Pleiades: Literature in Context is a literary biannual featuring poetry, fiction, essays, translations, and reviews by authors from around the world. Past contributors include winners of the Nobel, Ruth Lilly, Pulitzer, Bollingen, Prix...
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Reading Period: Jun 1 to Jun 30, Dec 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, Humor, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Prose Poetry -
The Plentitudes is an international literary journal showcasing captivating fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and flash from diverse voices. The editors believe in the power of writing—in its plentitudes of forms, styles, and modes of...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 1 to Mar 31, May 1 to Jun 30, Aug 1 to Sep 30, Nov 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Commercial Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Healing/Health, Historical, Humor, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Love, Lyric Essay, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Religious/Spiritual, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction -
Ploughshares blends the unique editorial perspectives of two guest-edited issues with two staff-edited issues each year, showcasing a variety of established and emerging writers across each issue. Ploughshares aims to serve the...
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Poetries in English Magazine distinguishes itself from other prestigious literary journals by its nonconformist approach to literatures in English. Each fortnight, it publishes a magazine that is unafraid, iconoclastic, but intelligent. It...
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Esatblished in 1959, Poetry Northwest is committed to publishing the best in contemporary poetry, especially work willing to take risks. Edited and published in the Pacific Northwest, the magazine retains a strong sense of place while...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 1 to Mar 31Genre: Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Nonfiction, Poetry -
The Poetry Porch is a magazine on the internet for poets, teachers, and their students. First appearing online in 1997, it is only published online. It is interested in original unpublished poems, essays, reviews, memoirs, and fiction,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 5 to Mar 1Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Formal Poetry, Literary Fiction, Lyric Essay, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Translation -
The Poetry Project Newsletter is the Project’s quarterly publication for reviews, essays, interviews, poems, remembrances, and arts criticism. Published continuously since 1972 and freely available online, in bookstores around the U.S....
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Poets and Dreamers Fine Arts & Literary Journal, and Poets and Dreamers: Culture, Art, and Conversation (#1 Bestelling New Release in Interviews), the California-based print anthology series and semiannual online publication...
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Points in Case is a daily literary humor publication featuring enlightening and irreverent comedy from seasoned writers and fresh voices.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Experimental, Humor -
Polaris publishes in the categories of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and visual art. The editors want to see the best that undergraduate students have to offer and showcase the unique voice of developing and emerging writers.
Reading Period: Sep 1 to Feb 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Ponder Review seeks stories that challenge, stories that shift their view, ignite their imaginations, spark conversations, and linger with them long after their eyes leave the page. They invite you to explore, expound, and inspire...
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At Porchlight, the mission is simple but powerful: To champion the evolving voice of Southern literary fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction by lifting up writers and connecting them with a wider audience. The editors are here to...
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Post Road seeks to publish up-and-coming writers along with more established names. It publishes a wide range of styles, from realist to experimental and everything in between. Work at Post Road has been reprinted in Harper’s Readings,...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 15 to Nov 14, Feb 1 to Mar 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
From the shadow of our nation’s Capitol, Potomac Review looks out across its lush Potomac River basin, collecting and absorbing the world’s literary diversity. Embracing D.C.’s values of international inclusion, PR seeks work...
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Prairie Margins is a national undergraduate literary journal based out of Bowling Green State University. The journal aims to publish emerging undergraduate writers and artists.
Reading Period: Aug 1 to Apr 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
After 98 years of continuous publication, Prairie Schooner still seeks new work from established, mid-career, and beginning prose writers and poets. At once international and regional, the Schooner is varied in sensibility,...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to May 1Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
The editors aim to publish art and words for the future by artists and writers who believe they’re carrying, on their hunched-over-computer shoulders, a pretty heavy yet very pretty burden—to offer a way into humanity so that...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Humor, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Lyric Essay, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Visual Poetry -
Prime Number Magazine’s goal is to publish distinctive works of poetry, short fiction, and flash nonfiction regardless of theme or style. As of January 2023, Prime Number Magazine began publishing every four months, with guest...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Feb 28, May 1 to Jun 30, Sep 1 to Oct 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Flash Fiction, LGBTQ Voices, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction -
Published by the University of La Verne, Prism Review is an annual journal of contemporary poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction from established and emerging writers. Alongside its literary works, Prism Review also publishes...
Read moreReading Period: Apr 1 to Sep 10, Dec 1 to Feb 10Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Literary Fiction -
Progenitor Art & Literary Journal showcases student, regional, and national work.
Reading Period: Feb 2 to Feb 16Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
A Public Space seeks work that is brave and unexpected. It is interested in writing that uncovers the extraordinary in the every day, provides a rare glimpse, exposes an unexpected truth, or puts forth a daring hypothesis. There are no...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 15 to Feb 15, May 15 to Jun 15, Sep 15 to Oct 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
The Q&A Queer Zine is a small zine staffed by LGBTQ+ writers and visual artists. The need for community, support, and belonging brought this group together to ask fundamental questions about their place in the writing world and in...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Mar 15, Jul 1 to Sep 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Fiction, Flash Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, LGBTQ Voices, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction -
Quail Bell is a multimedia arts, humor, and investigative journalism outlet for real and unreal stories. Rooted in oral history and folklore, we have a special love for the imaginary, nostalgic, and otherworldly, while connecting to urgent social...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction -
Quarter After Eight is an annual literary journal devoted to the exploration of innovative writing, produced by Ohio University’s creative writing graduate students. The journal celebrates work that directly challenges the conventions of...
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Quarterly West looks for writing that is, exciting, challenging, risky, unpredictable, and different. Different stomps in. Maybe it seeps in. Sometimes, and in our favorite works, different is always already there and it strikes flint...
Read moreReading Period: Oct 15 to Nov 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Flash Fiction, Prose Poetry
