Flare is an international literary journal founded by a dedicated group of writers, photographers, and artists to explore the complexity of the human experience. They hope that their journal is able to empower through that mission.
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 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Commercial Fiction, Cross-genre, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, Historical, Humor, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Nonfiction, Poetry, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Regional, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult -
Flora Fiction is dedicated to artists of all types: poets, writers, photographers, and illustrations. We're here to provide a platform for emerging creatives to showcase their work. Our literary magazine comes out every quarter. We are...
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The Florida Review publishes exciting new work from around the world from writers both emerging and well-known. It is not Florida-exclusive, though it strives to continue offering a home for many Florida writers.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Graphic/Illustrated -
Based out of Iowa State University, Flyway: Journal of Writing and Environment is an online journal publishing poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and visual art that explores the many complicated facets of the word environment–at once rural,...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Oct 15, Feb 1 to Mar 17Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Nature/Environmental -
Foglifter is a biannual compendium of the most dynamic, urgent queer writing today. It’s a space where queer writers celebrate, mourn, rage, and embrace.
Reading Period: Mar 1 to May 1, Sep 1 to Nov 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationGenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Political -
Folder presents the work of one poet monthly.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
Folio is a journal of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. The journal looks for work that ignites and endures, is artful and natural, daring and elegant.
Reading Period: Sep 19 to Dec 3Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Four Way Review accepts poetry and fiction from both established and emerging authors. We accept unsolicited submissions year-round through our submissions manager. We look for work that demonstrates fine attention to craft while...
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Since its inception in 1994, Fourteen Hills: The SFSU Review has contributed to a vibrant literary tradition on the West Coast centered in the San Francisco Bay Area. Its commitment to presenting a diversity of experimental and...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 15 to Jun 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Flash Fiction -
The Fourth River is the literary journal of Chatham University’s MFA Program, printed annually. The journal welcomes submissions of creative writing that explore the relationship between humans and their environments, both natural and...
Read moreReading Period: Jul 1 to Sep 1, Nov 15 to Jan 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Free State Review is published four times every three years.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry -
FreezeRay is a quarterly literary journal dedicated to the poetry of pop culture. It seeks to explore the relationships between the pop culture that people consume (comic books, movies, television, music, video games, etc.) and...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 8 to Apr 11Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: PoetryGenres: Poetry, Pop Culture -
Fresh Words is a new international literary magazine that aims at being a storehouse of the best contemporary literature. It will publish 12 times a year. It will be available in print as well as ebook format.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Haunted Waters Press is an independent publisher located in the shadows of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia along the banks of the Shenandoah River. It publishes works from new, emerging, and established writers. From the Depths, an...
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Frontier Poetry is looking for poetry that pushes language forward, for poets and poems that strive to place themselves at the edge of what language can do.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
Full Bleed exists to cultivate that fertile ground where the visual and literary arts intersect. The editors are happy to consider criticism, belle-lettres, visual art, illustration, fiction, poetry, and...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Jan 15, Jan 16 to Apr 7Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
The Furious Gazelle is striving to provide the best collection of original writing and art from across the World Wide Web.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Ganga Review is a contemporary journal of international writings for liberation. From page to page, you’ll find the writings of saints, wanderers, prison inmates, award-winning authors, as well as new writers. Such are the mystics of our...
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The Garfield Lake Review prides itself in accepting a wide selection of fiction, poetry, and visual arts from the Olivet community and beyond.
Reading Period: Sep 4 to Oct 8Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Gargoyle Magazine has always been a scallywag magazine, a maverick magazine, a bit too academic for the underground and way too underground for the academics. We are a writer's magazine in that we are read by other writers and have never...
Read moreReading Period: Jul 1 to Aug 1Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
We want art that guts us with surgical precision. Make everything useful.
Reading Period: Nov 1 to Feb 1, May 1 to Aug 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
A Gathering of the Tribes Magazine Online publishes original works by traditionally under-represented writers, showcasing emerging and established revolutionary voices of our time.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
A Gathering of the Tribes publishes works by traditionally underrepresented authors of diversity and excellence.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Geist is the Canadian magazine of ideas and culture—every issue brings together a sumptuous mix of fact and fiction, photography and comics, poetry, essays and reviews, and the weird and wonderful from the world of words. The Geist...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Gemini Magazine celebrates compelling fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and art. It holds three annual contests for flash fiction, poetry, and short stories, each with a $1,000 top prize. Work from Gemini has won Best of the Net and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
