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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 Jul 15, Dec 15 to Jan 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Streetlight Magazine is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Its mission is to publish exceptional talent, both new and established, from our region and across the country.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The editors of Sublunary Review welcome poetry, short story, and art submissions from all people and places. Send them your most oneiric, moonlit work.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 1 -
“Strong Words for a Polite Nation.” subTerrain Magazine was founded in 1988 to publish writers from the other side of the tracks. Each issue features progressive and sometimes controversial writing, alongside timely book reviews and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Feb 15, Mar 1 to May 15, Aug 1 to Sep 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Sugar House Review is an independent, poetry magazine based out of Utah. Its mission is to promote an eclectic range of poets to build nationally connected literary communities and foster the literary arts in Utah.
Reading Period: May 31 to Jun 30, Jan 31 to Jul 31, Aug 31 to Sep 30Genre: Poetry -
SVR accepts submissions from first-time contributors and published authors/artists alike. They invite submissions of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and comic/graphic storytelling. They also invite arts submissions in all genres,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Mar 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Summerset Review is a literary journal released quarterly on the 15th of March, June, September, and December on the internet, and periodically in print form. Founded in 2002, the journal is exclusively devoted to the review and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Creative Nonfiction, Literary Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Short Fiction -
The Sun is an independent, ad-free magazine that for more than fifty years has used words and photographs to evoke the splendor and heartache of being human. Each monthly issue celebrates life, but not in a way that ignores its...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Sundog Lit is committed to publishing pieces that engage with tension, introspection, empathy, considered positionality, thoughtful form play, emotional courage, and musicality.
Reading Period: Mar 1 to May 1, Oct 1 to Dec 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Since launching in January of 2019, Sunspot Literary Journal has amplified diverse multinational voices. New works have been published in their original language side-by-side with English translations. Boundaries that exclude meaningful...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Mar 31, Apr 1 to Jun 30, Jul 1 to Sep 30, Oct 1 to Dec 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Superpresent is a quarterly magazine of the arts. It is available free online and a limited run of print copies for each issue. Superpresent publishes poems, short stories, essays, visual art pieces, experimental art, video art...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Mar 1, Apr 1 to Jun 1, Jul 1 to Sep 1, Oct 1 to Dec 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
SurVision is an international biannual online poetry magazine founded in Ireland in March 2017 as a platform for new Irish and international Surrealist and Irrealist poetry in English. It has a publishing imprint, SurVision Books.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, TranslationGenres: Experimental, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Translation -
The Swamp Ape is a legend that reflects Florida—its mythology, its weirdness—as well as the human desire to create a narrative around that which they can’t explain. Submissions to the Swamp should defy form to the extent that the piece’s...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 1 to Aug 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
swamp pink publishes fiction, poetry, and nonfiction on a semimonthly basis. Its aim is to publish exceptional work from writers at all stages of their careers. The editors are particularly interested in submissions from writers of color...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Dec 31, Jan 1 to Jan 31, Feb 1 to May 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Sweet Tree Review is an online literary and arts publication obsessed with ineffable connectivity.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
swifts & slows features poetry, poetic collaborations, visual poetry, flash fiction, experimental and translations with a lookout for work that pushes the gamut of possibilities.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, TranslationGenres: Experimental, Prose Poetry, Visual Poetry -
SWING is devoted to excellent poetry, fiction, essays, and comic art in print, and the editors are committed to a design that speaks to the contents within. The look and feel of their issues will always reflect the natural world and...
Read moreReading Period: Jun 6 to Oct 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Founded and edited by a diverse, award-winning team of female poets, SWWIM Every Day publishes poems every weekday by cis/trans women, nonbinary, intersex, and other gender-expansive writers of all ages, races, ethnicities, cultures,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
Tab Journal is an international poetry journal of poems, translations, and critical and creative essays about poetry; book reviews are written by staff. The tagline “space before text” announces that design of text and space creates a ...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry -
Peace, love, Taco Bell. Living mas. The literary magazine outside the bun.
Reading Period: Jun 1 to Sep 5Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Tahoma Literary Review is based in the Pacific Northwest but is international in scope. TLR offers both professional payment and exposure to its contributors by using a substantial portion of its total income to support its...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 15 to Mar 31, Aug 1 to Oct 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Taj Mahal Review publishes poets and writers in English from all over the world. The critical articles, essays, and poems it publishes should exhibit postmodern trends, without obscurity, artificiality, and violation of laws of criticism...
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Talking River Review, Lewis-Clark State College’s literary journal, seeks examples of literary excellence and originality. Send us your poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction manuscripts.
Reading Period: Aug 1 to Apr 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Talking Writing was cofounded by Martha Nichols and Elizabeth Langosy in 2010 as an online magazine about writers and writing. TW, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, has since grown far beyond its Boston roots, with a podcast,...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to May 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Creative Nonfiction -
Talon Review is a journal where honest writing and emerging voices find their way. Founded in Jacksonville, Florida as a literary journal for the University of North Florida, Talon Review has grown as a home where tales of...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 5 to Mar 8, Aug 16 to Nov 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Cross-genre, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
