The Phoenix literary journal craves memorable, evocative work.
Created in 1958 in the heart of Western North Carolina and has a long tradition of publishing fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, artwork, and photography.
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: Sep 1 to Dec 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
phren-Z is a quarterly online magazine celebrating the community of Santa Cruz writers.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Pidgeonholes prefers the weird, in the etymological meaning of the word: that which comes. Literary, speculative, experimental, or absurdly unclassifiable, just make it bold and beautifully written.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Jan 15, Apr 1 to Apr 15, Jul 1 to Jul 15, Oct 1 to Oct 15Subgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Flash Fiction, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Prose Poetry -
Pigeon Review publishes new and emerging writers. It likes stories that meander and explore the world. Stories that tend to blur the line between fiction and reality.
It also accepts art submissions!
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction -
The Pinch is a nationally recognized literary journal published by the University of Memphis. Its name is derived from the historic Pinch District in Memphis. By referencing one of Memphis’ first communities, it aims to reflect the heart...
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Named after the Pine Hills neighborhood in Albany, Pine Hills Review (ISSN 2470-8321) is an online literary journal with a national focus that publishes artful, compelling work by new and established writers, from fiction, nonfiction, and...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Apr 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Cross-genre, Experimental, Fiction, LGBTQ Voices, Poetry, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry -
Pinyon is a national journal of poetry, prose, and art published at Colorado Mesa University that invites submissions from both established and emerging writers.
Reading Period: Aug 1 to Dec 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
pioneertown is an online literary journal publishing both traditional and genre-bending work. Named after an old western movie town in the southern California desert, pioneertown aims to establish a collection of work new and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry -
Pithead Chapel is looking for engaging stories told in honest voices. Most of all, we want to feel something. We want to reach the last word and immediately crave more. We want your work to leave a brilliant bruise.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Featuring poetry that runs the gamut from traditional to experimental, from realist to surrealist, Plainsongs strives to capture the multiplicity of voices--including those of feminist, nonwhite, immigrant, and LGBTQ+ writers--that make...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 15 to Dec 15, Feb 15 to Jun 15Genre: Poetry -
Plant-Human Quarterly explores the myriad ways writers manifest their relationship to the botanical world—from heavily researched pieces, to keen observation, to less systematic, intuitive ways of knowing and interacting—that attempt to...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Creative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Poetry -
Platform Review is an online venue that publishes a diverse selection of art and literature four times a year.
ARTS By The People and Platform Review do not promote or accept any racist, hateful, violent, or...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Nov 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Plath Profiles is an interdisciplinary journal that welcomes the submission of scholarly articles, visual poetry, creative writing, art, book reviews, memoir, pedagogy, student research, and other works on or inspired by Sylvia Plath.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Jul 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Please See Me is an online literary journal that features health-related stories. The mission of the publication is to elevate the voices and stories of vulnerable and underserved populations and those who care for them. At the heart of...
Read moreReading Period: Jul 21 to Sep 6Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Pleiades: Literature in Context is a literary biannual featuring poetry, fiction, essays, and reviews by authors from around the world. Past contributors include winners of the Nobel, Ruth Lilly, Pulitzer, Bollingen, Prix de la Liberté,...
Read moreReading Period: Jun 1 to Jun 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, Humor, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Prose Poetry -
The Plentitudes is a quarterly international literary journal showcasing captivating short stories, personal essays, and poetry from diverse voices. We believe in the power of writing—in its plentitudes of forms, styles, and modes of...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Jan 31, Apr 1 to Apr 30, Jul 1 to Jul 31, Oct 1 to Oct 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Commercial Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Formal Poetry, Healing/Health, Historical, Humor, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Love, Lyric Essay, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Religious/Spiritual, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction -
Ploughshares is a journal of new writing, and two out of three issues per year are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles, with each year's Winter issue staff-edited. 50...
Read moreReading Period: Jun 1 to Jan 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Plume is a magazine dedicated to publishing the very best of contemporary poetry. To that end, the editors are highly selective, offering twelve poems per monthly issue.
Reading Period: Feb 1 to Mar 31, Sep 1 to Nov 1Genre: Poetry -
Poemeleon: A Journal of Poetry is a sporadically published online literary journal devoted to all kinds of poetry. Its founding principle is change. Each issue focuses on a different kind or aspect of poetry,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Jul 15Genre: Poetry -
We enjoy poetry from accomplished as well as emerging poets. Each issue has a unique theme and we encourage unique perspectives and interpretations of each theme. We like all forms of poetry, but tend to shy away from sing-songy forced rhyme. We...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 15 to Oct 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Poetry -
Established in 1889, Poet Lore is the oldest continuously published poetry magazine in the United States. Poet Lore publishes semi-annual installments of the finest contemporary poetry both by established writers and those breaking into...
Read moreReading Period: Apr 1 to May 31, Oct 1 to Nov 30Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Poetry, Translation -
Editors are interested in works that have the courage to acknowledge, challenge, and celebrate modern Jewish life beyond distinctions of secular and sacred.
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We like accessible works that find fresh meaning in old traditions that recognize ...Reading Period: Mar 1 to Aug 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Poetry, Religious/Spiritual -
Poetry embraces the “open-door policy” set forth by founding editor, Harriet Monroe. Poetry desires to print, as Monroe put it, “the best English verse which is being written today, regardless of where, by whom, or under what...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
Poetry East, edited by Richard Jones, is committed to an art that is immediate, accessible, and universal. Poetry East is described by Choice as “one of the best current journals of poetry” and ranked by London’s Poetry Review as one of...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry -
Poetry International is a celebration of poetry on a global scale. Each issue is a unique collection of original works, translations, and reviews, with every issue showcasing the contemporary poetry of one nation. Some recent examples...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 1 to Apr 30, Sep 1 to Dec 1Genre: Poetry
