SORTES is an ongoing collection of stories, poems, songs, and illustrations. They have neither theme nor scene. 10 authors per issue and four issues per year, they publish both the sufficiently strange and insufficiently boring: swart...
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Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Soundings East, the literary journal of Salem State University, has published quality fiction, poetry, and nonfiction for 40 years. The magazine is published annually with support from the Center for Creative and Performing Arts. Edited...
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The goal of the editors in putting TSR together is to create a literary journal filled with debut, emerging, and established authors; a literary journal that is inclusive of marginalized voices; a literary journal in which their readers...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 7 to Mar 15, Sep 10 to Oct 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Southeast Review is a nationally acclaimed literary magazine, first established in 1979 as Sundog, that gives voice to underrepresented and emerging writers on the same stage as well-established ones. They publish fiction, nonfiction,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to May 31, Jul 1 to Dec 1Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Fiction, Flash Fiction, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Lyric Essay, Magical Realism, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Speculative Poetry, Translation, Visual Poetry, Young Adult -
Southern Humanities Review publishes fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Translations in all genres have also appeared in the journal. The journal recently established the Auburn Witness Poetry Prize Honoring Jake Adam York, poet...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 1 to Oct 15, Jan 15 to Mar 14Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Fiction, Literary Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translation -
Southern Indiana Review presents a cross-section of emerging and established artists and writers whose work is both regional and national in scope and degree of recognition.
Reading Period: Sep 15 to Dec 15, Feb 15 to May 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
SPR reads submissions year-round and annually sponsors the Guy Owen Prize Contest. The result is a semiannual literary publication showcasing poems by leading poets as well as those writers the editors think will become leading poets....
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Established in 1951, the Southern Quill is the literary publication of Utah Tech University. It accepts poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and visual art from anyone living in the United States.
Reading Period: Oct 12 to Mar 14Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Southern Review is one of the nation’s premier literary journals. Hailed by Time as “superior to any other journal in the English language,” they have made literary history since their 1935 founding. The Southern Review...
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Southland Alibi is published by the Writers’ Program at UCLA Extension. The editors seek high-quality, original creative work that represents diverse viewpoints and experiences from emerging creatives, as well as established writers and...
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Celebrating over 100 years of publication and located on the campus of Southern Methodist University, the Southwest Review is the third oldest, continuously published literary quarterly in the United States. Selections from the ...
Read moreReading Period: Dec 1 to Dec 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
The summer issue is composed of prizewinning entries from the Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Competition, Southword Editor’s Poetry Award, Seán O’Faoláin International Short Story Competition, and Subscriber Poetry & Flash Fiction...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Jan 31, Feb 1 to Feb 28Subgenres: Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry -
Spank the Carp publishes unique, thought-provoking fiction and poetry that isn’t obscure or pretentious. Its goal is to invite readers to wade into the stream, not make them afraid of water for fear it’s too cold. They look for tight,...
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Based out of the English department at Washington University in St. Louis, The Spectacle is committed to publishing work from underrepresented voices, including BIPOC, women, people from LGBTQIA+ communities, and people who have...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 15 to Oct 15, Jan 15 to Feb 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Speculative City is a literary magazine featuring works that explore themes, characters, and landscapes exclusive to urban environments and that highlight voices often unheard. Each magazine issue is relevant to the magazine mission and...
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Spellbinder is a quarterly nonprofit literary and art magazine that publishes both print and digital issues. Founded by writers in the U.K. during the pandemic, it now has an international team of editors. The editors welcome submissions...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Poetry, Short Fiction -
The Spit Bucket is a zine celebrating the wonderful responses made by artists to the sport of boxing. They welcome submissions from prose writers, poets and visual artists of all forms. See website for issue-specific submission deadlines...
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Split Lip Magazine is a voice-driven literary magazine with a pop culture twist. They publish online monthly and in print annually.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Jun 30, Aug 1 to Dec 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Pop Culture -
Split Rock Review is a not-for-profit publication run by volunteers that love literature, art, and the wilderness. Their mission is to publish the best literature and art that explore place, environment, and the relationship between...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Jan 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Spry is a literary journal that features undiscovered and established writers’ concise, experimental, hybrid, modern, vintage or just plain vulnerable writing. This is a place for people who excel at taking risks, who thrive under...
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Dedicated to audio submissions, Stanza Cannon continues humanity’s age-old tradition of oral poetry by extending the voice’s incredible range with the infinite reach of the internet. The editors are fans of open mics and poetry slams and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
Star 82 Review is a full-color, online and print magazine. Each issue may feature microfiction and creative nonfiction, erasure texts, narrative art, word and image, and poetry, including haibun and prose. Think of gentle works filled...
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Star*Line is a journal of speculative poetry, including not only science fiction, but fantasy, horror, and what lies between these genres. It also publishes relevant articles and science fiction poetry book reviews.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Translation -
Steam Ticket, A Third Coast Review, is published each April. It is the national literary magazine of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. They publish high-quality poetry, fiction, and essays from both experienced and emerging writers...
Reading Period: Dec 1 to Mar 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
StepAway Magazine is an online literary magazine publishing the best urban flash fiction and poetry by writers from across the globe. The title of the magazine draws inspiration from Frank O’ Hara’s landmark flâneur poem, “A Step Away...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
