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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: Jun 15 to Aug 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Historical, Humor, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Lyric Essay, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Regional, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Translation, Visual Poetry, War, Young Adult -
The Vassar Review aims to reconsider the traditions that have defined many publications and structures, those that are not open to all, open to interpretation, or open to change, and unfold them into a collaborative journal that believes...
Read moreReading Period: Nov 20 to Jan 18Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
A Velvet Giant is a literary journal for work that exists outside the boundaries of genre.
Reading Period: Apr 10 to Jul 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Verdad is an online, twice-yearly literary and fine arts journal that showcases the best unpublished poetry, short stories, non-fiction and visual art that comes our way. We also offer a wide range of interviews featuring contemporary...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre -
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, TranslationSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Literary Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Translation -
VIA: Voices In Italian Americana is seeking critical and creative works that reflect on two sides of identity: experience and tradition. Experience explores what it means to be between two cultures, two ways of life, two habits, two...
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TVBR publishes poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, photography, and visual art that memorably express what it means to be human. Its editorial focus is on authentic voices and evocative images. The editors seek work that haunts them.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
VQR seeks work that is conscious of language without being self-conscious, that pulls readers in with drama and emotional risk, rather than holding them at arm's length with gimmickry and tricks. The editors value writing that uses...
Read moreReading Period: Jul 1 to Jul 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Visions International publishes well-crafted original poetry as well as translations from modern poets, everywhere. The editors favor poetry that is “not obscure yet avoids the trite”
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: 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...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 1 to Jan 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
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 -
Voices de la Luna inspires and promotes literature and arts and serves as a platform for all authors and artists to share their work with others. It further uses literature and arts for both educational and healing purposes in the...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Feminist, Fiction, Formal Poetry, LGBTQ Voices, Lyric Essay, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Visual Poetry -
W-Poesis is an independent, international, free-access, online literary journal. The editors prefer expressive poems that give us a feeling and affect the soul.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: 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 -
warning lines publishes work exclusively by queer and/or neurodivergent creators.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
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.
Reading Period: Sep 5 to Sep 19, Nov 28 to Dec 12Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Waterwheel Review publishes three pieces of writing on the first of each month, and we don't label by genre. We celebrate un-name-able written art and surround it with other art forms: photographs, painting, film, music, and more. Each issue is a...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
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 NonfictionSubgenres: 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. The editors believe that American voices are, at their cores, both...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Apr 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
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 NonfictionSubgenres: Nature/Environmental, Regional
