A digital literary journal brought to you by students and faculty in the BA in Liberal Studies Creative Writing Concentration at Antioch University Los Angeles. Two Hawks Quarterly is dedicated to publishing works that spark debate,...
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Reading Period: Oct 1 to Jun 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Flash Fiction -
For over two decades, Two Lines has brought readers the best from translation’s acknowledged masters and world literature’s up-and-comers. Each issue includes writing from around ten different languages and over a dozen countries, plus...
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Two Thirds North is an international annual publication of poetry, short fiction, short non-fiction, graphics, and photography. We seek works with a view to the world, and insight into the details of the human condition and relationships...
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The Typescript is an online journal about art, politics, and culture. It is accepting submissions in a range of categories. The editors are interested in writing about the intersections of culture and politics, both in terms of cultural...
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TYPO is a journal interested in Lettrism, semantics, experimentally constrained writing à la Oulipo, and articles and essays on typography and design.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Nonfiction, Translation, Visual Poetry -
Unbroken is a quarterly online journal that seeks to showcase prose poems and poetic prose, both from established and emerging voices.
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Under a Warm Green Linden is a biannual digital journal featuring original poetry, reviews, and interviews. Each issue is accompanied by a selection of broadsides signed by the authors. The journal is a project of Green Linden Press,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Experimental, LGBTQ Voices, Translation, Visual Poetry -
Unlost is an extension of Unbroken Journal that publishes found poetry in all its forms.
Reading Period: May 1 to Jun 30, Nov 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
Up the Staircase Quarterly publishes unique, eclectic, and quality poetry that is vivid in imagery and idea. It seeks writers going in new directions, originals. It also publishes artwork: paintings, drawings, photography, comics, short...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Mar 15, May 1 to Dec 10Genre: Poetry -
VAINE is an online literary and arts magazine for and by emerging artists and writers.
The focus of its issues is on topical themes. Contributors are also welcome to present work about any relevant current events.
It aims...
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Valiant Scribe focuses on faith and social issues, including topics ranging from violence against women, forced labor, human trafficking, criminal justice, mental health, empowerment impediments, to climate change, poverty, and migration...
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Valley Voices is located in the heartland of the Mississippi Delta. It features fiction, poetry, interviews and criticism from writers and scholars anywhere though we hope to see more creative work about the South.
Reading Period: Feb 1 to Mar 30, Sep 1 to Oct 30Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Regional -
Vallum is interested in original and previously unpublished work. Read a previous issue to get a sense of what we publish. Open to varying styles, whether experimental or traditional—though issues are usually put together with a theme,...
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Valparaiso Poetry Review presents poems, interviews, and essays by new, emerging, or well-known poets. VPR also offers book reviews and essays on various poets.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
Variety Pack tries to live up their namesake! A bedrock of diverse voices, expressing a variety of arts & letters. Open to both genre and literary. Sure there's an aesthetic, but it's a broad atlas rather than a narrow stream!
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...
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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...
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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 -
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...
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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
