Pensive publishes work that deepens the inward life; expresses a range of religious/spiritual/humanist experiences and perspectives; envisions a more just, peaceful, and sustainable world; advances dialogue across difference; and...
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Reading Period: Aug 1 to Nov 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Lyric Essay, Magical Realism, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, Prose Poetry, Religious/Spiritual, Short Fiction, Translation, Visual Poetry -
Peripheries is a nonprofit literary and arts journal established in 2017 that publishes artistic work that is, broadly understood, “peripheral”; work that explores the interstices between discourses, traditions, languages, forms, and...
Read moreReading Period: Dec 1 to Jan 15, Aug 28 to Oct 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, Poetry, Prose Poetry -
The digital archive petrichor publishes a variety of writers in contemporary art and poetics. The editors are particularly interested in strong image and experimental work of a visual nature.
Reading Period: Oct 1 to Dec 1, Apr 1 to Jun 1Genre: Poetry, Translation -
Pleiades: Literature in Context is a literary biannual featuring poetry, fiction, essays, translations, and reviews by authors from around the world. Past contributors include winners of the Nobel, Ruth Lilly, Pulitzer, Bollingen, Prix...
Read moreReading Period: Jun 1 to Jun 30, Dec 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, Humor, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Prose Poetry -
Poet Lore is a biannual print journal of poetry and translation, showcasing the finest established contemporary writers alongside exciting emerging poets.
Reading Period: Apr 1 to May 31, Oct 1 to Nov 30Genre: Poetry, TranslationSubgenres: Poetry, Translation -
Poetries in English Magazine distinguishes itself from other prestigious literary journals by its nonconformist approach to literatures in English. Each fortnight, it publishes a magazine that is unafraid, iconoclastic, but intelligent. It...
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Poetry International is one of the oldest and most respected literary journals dedicated to publishing poetry from around the globe. Each issue of the print journal brings together original poems, portfolios, and translated work in...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Feb 1, Mar 1 to Apr 30, Jun 1 to Sep 1, Sep 1 to Dec 1Genre: Poetry, Translation -
Welcome! You have moored at the Poetry Lighthouse, a creative writing community in love with poetry, stories, and art. Poetry can be the perfect recipe for a broken heart, a furious storm, a chirping robin or a philosophical epiphany,...
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After more than 60 years, Poetry Northwest remains committed to publishing the best in contemporary poetry, especially work willing to take risks. Edited and published on the lip of the Pacific Rim, adjacent to the border with Canada,...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 1 to Mar 31Genre: Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Nonfiction, Poetry -
Established in Vancouver, Canada, on the Remembrance Day of 2012, Poetry Pacific is a literary publication committed to promoting cultural exchange by featuring the very “best” contemporary poetry in English it can find.
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The Poetry Porch is a magazine on the internet for poets, teachers, and their students. First appearing online in 1997, it is only published online. It is interested in original unpublished poems, essays, reviews, memoirs, and fiction,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 5 to Mar 1Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Formal Poetry, Literary Fiction, Lyric Essay, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Translation -
The Poetry Project Newsletter is the Project’s quarterly publication for reviews, essays, interviews, poems, remembrances, and arts criticism. Published continuously since 1972 and freely available online, in bookstores around the U.S....
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Poetry South is an international journal that considers all kinds of poetry. Though they pay particular attention to writers from the American South (born, raised, or living here), the magazine has a tradition of including poets from...
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Poets and Dreamers Fine Arts & Literary Journal, and Poets and Dreamers: Culture, Art, and Conversation (#1 Bestelling New Release in Interviews), the California-based print anthology series and semiannual online publication...
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Post Road seeks to publish up-and-coming writers along with more established names. It publishes a wide range of styles, from realist to experimental and everything in between. Work at Post Road has been reprinted in Harper’s Readings,...
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After 98 years of continuous publication, Prairie Schooner still seeks new work from established, mid-career, and beginning prose writers and poets. At once international and regional, the Schooner is varied in sensibility,...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to May 1Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
The editors aim to publish art and words for the future by artists and writers who believe they’re carrying, on their hunched-over-computer shoulders, a pretty heavy yet very pretty burden—to offer a way into humanity so that...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Humor, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Lyric Essay, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Visual Poetry -
A Public Space seeks work that is brave and unexpected. It is interested in writing that uncovers the extraordinary in the every day, provides a rare glimpse, exposes an unexpected truth, or puts forth a daring hypothesis. There are no...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 15 to Feb 15, May 15 to Jun 15, Sep 15 to Oct 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
The Q&A Queer Zine is a small zine staffed by LGBTQ+ writers and visual artists. The need for community, support, and belonging brought this group together to ask fundamental questions about their place in the writing world and in...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Mar 15, Jul 1 to Sep 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Fiction, Flash Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, LGBTQ Voices, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction -
Quarterly West looks for writing that is, exciting, challenging, risky, unpredictable, and different. Different stomps in. Maybe it seeps in. Sometimes, and in our favorite works, different is always already there and it strikes flint...
Read moreReading Period: Oct 15 to Nov 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Flash Fiction, Prose Poetry -
Réapparition Journal is a literary journal that focuses on the experience of chronic and mental illnesses. Many times, the stigmatization of some of these conditions is what hurts just as much as the situation itself. The ability to...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Healing/Health -
For over a decade, Relief has helped shape the landscapes of faith and imagination for readers around the world. The journal features fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, graphic narrative, and reviews by some of today’s finest literary...
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RHINO is a high-quality, perfect-bound annual journal with online content including poems, event updates, and monthly e-zine RHINO Reviews. It invites traditional or experimental work reflecting passion, originality, artistic...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 1 to Jun 30, Aug 1 to Sep 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Creative Nonfiction, Flash Fiction, Poetry, Translation -
Rialto Books Review is interested in publishing works that builds upon the literary tradition of the Western Canon. The editors prioritize formal verse when it comes to our review of poetry for publication. In fiction, they look for...
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As a multicultural magazine of poetry, prose and art with a 50-year history, River Styx publishes works of both new and established artists significant for their originality, energy, and deft of craft. They publish poetry, short fiction...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
