Apogee is a journal of literature and art that encourages the thoughtful exploration of identity and its intersections, including but not limited to: race, gender, sexuality, class, and ability. The magazine features fiction, nonfiction...
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Reading Period: Feb 1 to Mar 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Fiction, Flash Fiction, LGBTQ Voices, Poetry, Political
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Appalachia welcomes narrative, historical, and science essays on the following topics: mountain, wilderness, and backcountry adventure; technical climbing; canoeing and kayaking; nature and climate change; and land ethics. The magazine...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental -
The Apple Valley Review is an online literary journal. It is published twice annually, once in spring and once in fall. Each issue features a collection of poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction. The goal of the journal is to...
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Apricity is an international multimedia arts magazine and is the University of Texas at Austin’s official literary and arts magazine. It accepts literary, visual, and performing artworks for online publication and select the finest to...
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Established in 2015, Apricity Press was created to fill an immense void in the publishing world. While there are a myriad of presses, literary journals, and magazines, many lack the ability to publish multi-genre works, especially dance...
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Arboreal Literary Magazine came about when two friends sought to create something of value, something for pure enjoyment, something to encourage creativity.
Arboreal is a publication committed to artistic growth and a “big...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 1 to Apr 15, Jun 1 to Jul 15, Sep 1 to Oct 15, Dec 1 to Jan 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Arc features poetry and poetry criticism from emerging and established writers in Canada and beyond. It is interested in brave new voices and poetry that is woozy, cunning, shearing, and wildlike, as well as prose that offers new...
Read moreReading Period: Apr 1 to Jul 31, Sep 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Translation -
The Chicago Review of Books presents Arcturus, an online literary magazine of new perspectives in fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and hybrid genres.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Arkana is the journal of mysteries and marginalized voices. It seeks and fosters a sense of shared wonder by publishing inclusive art that asks questions, explores mystery, and works to make visible the marginalized, the overlooked, and...
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The Arkansas International seeks to put U.S. writing in conversation with writing from around the world. It seeks out not only work in English by U.S. writers but also translations from other languages and original work in English by...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 20 to Apr 20, Jun 15 to Aug 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Published three times a year, Arkansas Review is a journal of Delta studies. All materials must evoke or respond to the natural and/or cultural experience of the seven state Mississippi River Delta (Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky,...
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ArLiJo features work by a variety of authors/poets/artists from around the globe whose work provokes readers to contemplate issues. Works include poetry, fiction, nonfiction, photography, and artwork.
Following the lead of Gival...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 30 to Apr 30Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Poetry, Short Fiction, Translation -
Arts & Letters is a literary magazine based at Georgia College. It’s open to both formal and experimental works, with the emphasis resting on craft.
Reading Period: Aug 1 to Sep 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Flash Fiction -
As Surely As the Sun is a new Christian literary journal that seeks to illuminate Christ’s presence in the world through poetry, prose, and art. Their mission is to answer the calling presented in Hosea 6:3, to provide space for writers...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Creative Nonfiction, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Poetry, Religious/Spiritual -
At Assignment Literary Magazine, the editors believe in the joy of creating and sharing art. The editorial team is passionate about curating a platform that both celebrates and elevates literature and the diverse individuals who produce...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 1 to Sep 30, Feb 1 to Mar 31, Jul 2 to Jul 10Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Assisi’s mission is, first and foremost, to publish works of literature and art that are thoughtful, engaging, and well-written/composed. It looks for work that examines the human condition, that helps the reader view things from a...
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Asymptote welcomes submissions of translated poetry, fiction, nonfiction and drama; certain types of original English-language nonfiction, including literary and critical writing; interviews as well as visual art. An annual English-...
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At Length has been publishing long-form writing—poetry, fiction, essays, and more—for over twenty years. Throughout its existence, At Length has offered a venue for in-depth writing that’s open to possibilities that shorter...
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Atlantic Northeast is a magazine dedicated to exploring and celebrating the best writers, writing, artists, and art of the Northeastern United States and Canada. It looks to highlight the shared culture and history of the region through...
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The aim of Atticus Review is to provoke and encourage conversation through the publishing of art and literature from underrepresented artists and writers. It seeks to give visibility to its contributors by promoting, nurturing, and...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Nov 15, Dec 15 to Mar 15, Apr 15 to Jul 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Aura Literary Arts Review is an award-winning creative literary magazine that is published through the Student Media division of the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The publication is led and run by UAB students from various...
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The Aurora Journal publishes surrealistic poetry and prose that is ethereal, dreamy, and explores the dangerous limits of surrealism. Regardless of age, experience, or any other defining factor, the journal considers all writers. The...
Read moreReading Period: Dec 20 to Jan 25, Feb 20 to Mar 25, Sep 20 to Nov 15Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Flash Fiction, Prose Poetry, Young Adult -
The AutoEthnographer (ISSN: 2833-1400) is an award-winning, nonprofit, open-access, peer-reviewed literary and arts magazine dedicated to presenting the creative side of autoethnography, a qualitative research method that unites...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Erotica, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Healing/Health, Historical, Humor, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, LGBTQ Voices, Love, Lyric Essay, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Regional, Religious/Spiritual, Serialized Fiction, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Translation, Visual Poetry, War, Young Adult -
A poem each day.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
The Avenue Journal is a print, Mid-Atlantic-based literary journal open to all things literary. It is committed to the quirky, dark, artistic, and disenfranchised.
Reading Period: Jun 1 to Sep 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction