Canary is a magazine of poetry, fiction, and essays, which address the environmental crisis with its heartbreaking loss of habitat and species. The magazine is based on the premise that the literary arts can provide an understanding that...
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Reading Period: Feb 1 to Feb 28, May 1 to May 31, Aug 1 to Aug 31, Nov 1 to Nov 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Nature/Environmental -
Carolina Muse Literary & Arts Magazine is a multimedia arts magazine showcasing primarily young adult creators in the Carolinas. It publishes short stories, scripts, poetry, art and photography, music, and dance in a digital...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 1 to Apr 15, Jun 1 to Aug 15, Oct 1 to Dec 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Catamaran Literary Reader is a quarterly literary and visual arts journal. Catamaran features fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and fine art in a full size, full color magazine.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Chapter House Journal is an online literary journal dedicated to empowering and uplifting Indigenous and other marginalized stories, values, cultures, and art. The editors publish writers and artists whose...
Read moreReading Period: May 1 to Jun 30, Nov 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry -
Chestnut Review is an international magazine and chapbook press that craves narrative work in all genres. Their sixty-plus staff members collaborate to produce quarterly issues while privileging paying artists and compensating readers...
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The Chicago Quarterly Review is an independent literary magazine honored by Best American Short Stories, the Pushcart Prize, Best American Essays, the O. Henry Prize stories, and the PEN/Dau Short Story Prize, publishing fiction, poetry...
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The Chicago Review of Books is dedicated to making the literary conversation more inclusive. It publishes reviews, interviews, essays, and features.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Creative Nonfiction -
Chiron Review presents the widest possible range of contemporary creative writing—fiction and nonfiction, traditional and off-beat, in a perfect-bound, softcover format, including art and photography. It has published many well-known...
Read moreReading Period: Nov 1 to Jan 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Experimental, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Translation -
Tight work which will leave a scar on a reader.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Poetry -
Since 1908, the Home Forum has been a section of the Christian Science Monitor dedicated to nonfiction and poetry. The object of the Monitor is (in the words of its founder, Mary Baker Eddy) “to injure no man, but to bless all...
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One of the oldest quarterlies in the nation, Cimarron Review publishes work by writers at all stages of their careers, including Pulitzer and O. Henry prize winners, writers appearing in the Best American Series and the Pushcart...
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Since its inception in 2003, the Cincinnati Review has published many promising new and emerging writers as well as Pulitzer Prize winners and Guggenheim and MacArthur fellows.
Reading Period: May 1 to May 31, Sep 1 to Sep 30, Dec 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
The Citron Review is a journal of brief literature seeking to publish short forms that shimmer. They love to discover fresh poetry, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, and micros of all sorts. They also nominate published work for...
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Clackamas Literary Review (CLR) is an award-winning national literary arts magazine that has been publishing innovative poetry, prose, and possibility texts from authors around the globe since 1997. In 2018, the CLR...
Read moreReading Period: Jun 1 to Sep 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Flash Fiction, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Poetry, Short Fiction, Translation -
Claudine is a monthly literary magazine. Each issue highlights fiction and creative nonfiction micros, a micro by a new writer, and a prose chapbook review (or two).
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The editors value writers and their work, and are proud to...Reading Period: Jan 1 to Nov 30Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Founded in 2013, Cleaver is Philadelphia’s international quarterly literary magazine. It publishes cutting-edge contemporary fiction, nonfiction, poetry, interviews, essays on craft and the writing life, and book reviews.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
The name for Clover + Bee was inspired by Emily Dickinson’s poem, To Make a Prairie … (“To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee ...”) Its mission is to provide a space for emerging and established creators to showcase...
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Club Plum publishes creative nonfiction, flash fiction, prose poetry, and art that often straddles realities without losing clarity or emotion. Powerful, single-reality pieces are loved, too.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Collateral is an online literary arts journal publishing work concerned with the impact of violent conflict and military service beyond the combat zone. The team is an all-volunteer masthead of women and nonbinary folks...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, War -
Founded in 2001, Collision Literary Magazine is a student-run publication that accepts poetry, creative nonfiction prose, literary criticism, art, and photography by undergraduate students. Their goal is to represent a variety of young...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 28 to Jan 27Genre: Poetry, Creative Nonfiction -
Colorado Review’s only commitment is to the publication of serious poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. It does not publish genre fiction nor does it subscribe to a particular literary philosophy or school of poetry or fiction. Note that the...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 1 to Mar 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Columbia Journal publishes in print and online, seeking to showcase the best poetry, nonfiction, fiction, translation, and visual art on both platforms. The print edition, published each spring, is a combination of solicited work and the...
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The Common is a print and digital literary journal published biannually, in the fall and spring. Inspired by the role of the town common, a public gathering place for the display and exchange of ideas, The Common seeks to deepen...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 1 to Jun 1, Sep 1 to Dec 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
confluence is a venue for emerging and innovative Japanese short-form poets to showcase a representative sample of their work and receive readership and recognition. The editors feature between one to two poet fellows per issue and...
Read moreReading Period: Jul 6 to Aug 17Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Creative Nonfiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Micro-poetry, Poetry, Prose Poetry -
Conjunctions serves as a “living notebook” of contemporary literature, publishing fiction, poetry, drama, art, and essays that combine visionary imagination with formally innovative execution. Since 1981, Conjunctions has...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
