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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: Jan 1 to Aug 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Courtship of Winds publishes poetry, fiction, short dramatic pieces, essays, photography, art, and short pieces of music. For more on the editorial philosophy behind Courtship of Winds, read the “Editor’s Desk” page.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Experimental, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry -
Celebrating forty years of publishing, Crab Creek Review is dedicated to introducing you to the best writing from the Pacific Northwest and beyond. We publish both national and international writers in the genres of poetry, fiction, and...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 15 to Nov 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Crashtest is an biannual online magazine founded and run by the creative writing students at the Fine Arts Center, a public arts high school in Greenville, South Carolina, so that students in high schools all over the country will have a...
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Cream City Review is Milwaukee’s leading literary journal devoted to publishing memorable and energetic pieces that push the boundaries of writing. Continually seeking to explore the relationship between form and content, Cream City...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Apr 1, Aug 1 to Nov 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Creative Nonfiction draws heavily from unsolicited submissions. Its editors believe that providing a platform for emerging writers and helping them find readers is an essential role of literary magazines. A typical issue of CNF ...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Creative Nonfiction -
The Cupboard Pamphlet publishes works of prose and prose collections between 5,000 and 10,000 words. Submissions can be composed of one piece or multiple pieces. We make no demands on content or genre, with the exception of verse poetry, which we...
Read moreReading Period: Apr 1 to Jul 15Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Established by Richard Hugo and William Kittredge in 1973, CutBank is Montana's oldest literary magazine. We are run by the students of the University of Montana Creative Writing MFA program, publishing two annual print issues of fiction,...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 15 to Feb 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Dappled Things is a Catholic literary magazine produced in partnership with the Collegium Institute for Catholic Thought & Culture.
Reading Period: Feb 1 to May 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Dark Matter: Women Witnessing publishes writing and visual art created in response to an age of massive species loss and ecological collapse.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Criticism, art, literature, reviews, aesthetics, abstraction, meta, classics.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Creative NonfictionGenres: Experimental, Lyric Essay, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry -
Since 1958, december has been committed to distributing the work of emerging writers and artists and celebrating more seasoned voices through a semi-annual nonprofit literary magazine featuring fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and visual art...
Reading Period: Oct 1 to May 1Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Decolonial Passage welcomes writing from all writers engaged in the decolonial project, regardless of the writer’s race, origin, gender, disability, or geographical location. Simultaneously, Decolonial Passage centers African,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
decomp journal (ISSN: 1947-0436) is an online literary magazine that is published three times a year. We are an in-house journal for the Social Justice Institute at the University of British Columbia, and we publish prose, poetry, art,...
Read moreReading Period: Nov 1 to Dec 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Find our current theme (CHILDHOOD) guidelines here: https://deepoverstock.com/submission-gui...
Visit our podcast for an idea of what we publish: ...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Deep South Magazine is committed to being a forum for Southern writers and showcasing Southern literature and accepts submissions of original fiction, nonfiction and poetry. For fiction, we are doing themed calls throughout the year....
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Feb 14, Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Regional -
Deep Wild Journal is the home for creative work inspired by journeys to places where there are no roads. We seek work that conjures the experiences, observations, and insights of backcountry journeys. By “backcountry,” we mean away from...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Nov 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Nature/Environmental, Nonfiction, Poetry -
Defunct is a magazine that celebrates what’s over and what isn’t yet.
“We’re mourning. We’re functioning. Let’s show the world what we want & need through what we’ve lost. Punk’s not dead, punk’s not dead. We’re punk. We’re...
Read moreReading Period: Nov 15 to Jan 15, Jul 15 to Sep 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
The Delmarva Review publishes literary short fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry annually in print and electronic editions. Both are available worldwide via online major booksellers. The editors welcome new literary work in English...
Read moreReading Period: Nov 1 to Mar 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Cross-genre, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry -
Delta Poetry Review is an online poetry journal committed to publishing exceptional work by new, emerging, and established writers.
Poetry from and about the American delta region and the South is generally preferred. Submissions...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
Diagram is an electronic journal of text and art. As its name indicates, the editors are interested in representations. In naming. In indicating. In schematics. In the labeling and taxonomy of things. In poems that masquerade as stories...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
We aim to nurture experimentation and cultural inclusion, and promote the importance of eclecticism in the literary and visual arts.
Reading Period: Nov 1 to Feb 28, Jan 1 to Feb 28, Apr 1 to Jun 15, Sep 1 to Nov 30 -
digital vestiges is an online series of fragments and ephemera. Black Sun Lit’s longest running publishing platform, digital vestiges seeks poetry, prose, works in translation, hybrid works, interviews with writers and artists,...
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Diode Poetry Journal is looking for poetry that excites and energizes, that uses language that crackles and sparks. It is looking for poetry from all points on the arc, from formal to experimental.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Creative Nonfiction -
Disclaimer Magazine is a literary and visual arts magazine published by Write253 in Tacoma, WA. Submissions are open year-round to writers and artists ages 15-22 and issues are curated by an all-teen editorial board.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry
