Twelve poems each month—Kissing Dynamite curates compact issues that honor the thematic threads presented by contributing poets. Their goal is to present multiple facets of a theme/topic/issue to break the narrative of "the single story...
Literary Magazines
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: Jan 1 to Dec 7Genre: Poetry -
Kweli is a quarterly literary publication that celebrates cultural kinships and the role of the literary imagination. It seeks high-quality literary work that is beautiful, sustaining, and profound, and its mission is to nurture emerging...
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La Piccioletta Barca is an arts journal publishing: short stories, poetry, prose, essays, interviews, and translations. They will only be receiving submissions through their...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Fiction that falls in the cracks between genres.
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Lake Effect seeks to publish literary fiction and nonfiction and poetry of the highest quality by established and new and emerging writers from across the country and, in translation, from around the world, and to give that work an...
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The Lakeshore Review (ISSN 2694-1635) is a journal of arts and letters that celebrates the culture and the creators adjacent to the Great Lakes, as well as its full range of written and visual art. Within its home territory, the editors...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Mar 31, May 1 to Jul 31, Sep 1 to Nov 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Lascaux Review seeks accessible fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction of literary quality, as well as essays on the craft and business of writing. Annual contests are conducted in poetry, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, and...
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In the words of a great professor: “Poetry should be a movie you can taste and smell.” Last Leaves Magazine wants images and emotion. It wants poetry that sticks with its editors and makes them think and feel. They don’t care if this is...
Read moreReading Period: Dec 1 to Jan 31, Jun 1 to Jul 31Genre: Poetry, TranslationSubgenres: Graphic/Illustrated -
Themed issues with suggested prompts, but open to off-topic submissions of strong, personal, humorous, timely, or narrative poetry. Find the latest prompt on Last Stanza Poetry Association's Facebook page. No reading fee. Prize...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Experimental, Feminist, LGBTQ Voices, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Translation, Visual Poetry -
The Laurel Review prints poetry, short fiction, essays and reviews. Aesthetic schools don't matter to us; what matters is that the poem or story or essay presents a real investigation of the art and what it is to be human.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Lavender Review is an international, biannual (June & December) e-zine dedicated to poetry and art by, about, and for lesbians, including whatever LGBTQ might appeal to a lesbian readership.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: LGBTQ Voices -
Letters Journal is a semi-annual review of literature and the arts. The editors seek to engage creative expression with religion, spirituality, and belief, and connect the life of faith to contemporary art practice.
Reading Period: Jan 25 to Apr 25Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Literary Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Religious/Spiritual -
The Letters Page literary journal is published by the University of Nottingham School of English, and edited by writer in residence, Professor Jon McGregor. It is interested in exploring what letter writing means to people—and has meant...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Commercial Fiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Healing/Health, Historical, Humor, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Love, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Regional, Religious/Spiritual, Serialized Fiction, Translation, War -
Levitate Magazine strives to assemble a collection of literature and art designed and written with purpose and demonstrating passion for the work. The editors are open to unconventional work, while still appreciating the traditional....
Read moreReading Period: Nov 1 to Feb 28Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Cross-genre, Feminist, Flash Fiction, LGBTQ Voices, Prose Poetry -
Life and Legends, primarily a poetry journal in English also publishes other forms of literature such as prose, translation, non-fiction, video, and sound of literary interest from across the world. Its focus is to share diversity in...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 1 to May 15Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Experimental, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Prose Poetry, Translation -
Based out of Baltimore, LIGEIA is a literary magazine publishing unconventional voices. LIGEIA publishes poetry, short fiction, nonfiction, artwork, and interviews in online biannual issues. We embrace works of the modern gothic—absurd, grotesque...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 1 to Mar 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Creative Nonfiction -
The Light Ekphrastic seeks artists and writers interested in collaboration resulting in the creation of new works inspired by the old. Those chosen will be paired with another artist (a poet with a painter, for instance), and each will...
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Lily Poetry Review publishes poetry, flash fiction, visual poetry, book reviews and art for each issue. It aims to support poetry, poets, and literary citizenship. The editors seek well-written work that appeals to a large audience, and...
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Lines + Stars began in 2006 as a means of establishing a new creative forum in Washington, DC — a city that all-too-often coasts on its more mechanistic pursuits. As of 2017, we operate out of Baltimore, Maryland. L+S Press, our chapbook...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Formal Poetry, Love, Micro-poetry, Nature/Environmental, Prose Poetry, Regional, Religious/Spiritual, War -
LIT is a biannual literary magazine published by the New School Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program, which promotes innovative writing and art via print and digital publishing.
Reading Period: Apr 15 to Jun 15, Sep 15 to Dec 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Litbop is a literary journal containing short fiction, poetry, art, and photography. Currently published annually, it presents both new and previously published work.
Reading Period: Aug 15 to Oct 15Temporarily Closed to Submissions -
Literary Forest Poetry Magazine is dedicated to publishing the best in experimental poetry in the most equitable way possible. LFPM strives to expose great literary work and support all of the poets published within.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Experimental, Feminist, LGBTQ Voices, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Speculative Poetry, Translation -
Literary Heist wants to democratize the literary and art world. Literary Heist isn’t centered around making a profit. Instead it is looking to showcase good work that comes from new and existing writers and artists. It exchanges...
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Literary Mama celebrates the physical, psychological, intellectual, and spiritual processes of motherhood across race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, age, material resources, or status. The journal publishes six times a year,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Feminist, Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, LGBTQ Voices, Poetry, Translation -
Literary Veganism is looking for animal or environmentally friendly writing. Authors do not have to be vegan to submit, but many readers are vegan-like.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry
