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Reading Period: Feb 1 to Jun 15, Aug 1 to Dec 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Humor, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Love, Magical Realism, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, Prose Poetry, Regional, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Speculative Poetry, Translation, Visual Poetry, War, Young Adult -
SoFloPoJo considers all genres of poetry. The editors especially like surrealistic fairy tales, magic realism, haunting prose poems, lyrical vignettes, and crafted narratives. They do not shy away from truth-telling but appreciate the...
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Sojourners magazine sits at the intersection of faith, politics, and culture. Sojourners’ three key commitments are racial and social justice, life and peace, and environmental stewardship. They are an ecumenical Christian...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Feminist, Nature/Environmental, Poetry, Political, Religious/Spiritual, War -
Solstice is committed to publishing works by diverse authors, and writers on the margins. It is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. It publishes poetry, poetry in translation, fiction, nonfiction, and graphic literature, as well as photography. It is...
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Solum Journal is a Christian literary journal featuring poetry, short stories, and homilies.
Reading Period: Sep 16 to Oct 31Subgenres: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Religious/Spiritual -
Songs of Eretz publishes quality poetry of any genre and length congruent with its quarterly themes, including traditional poems, form poems, prose poems, and narrative poems. It also considers extraordinarily good poems that are not...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 1 to Feb 15, May 1 to May 15, Aug 1 to Aug 15, Nov 1 to Nov 15Genre: Poetry -
Since the magazine’s inception in 1980, editors and readers have worked to keep alive the journal’s tradition of publishing both established and emerging writers who uphold the highest standards of innovative prose and poetry.
Reading Period: Sep 1 to Apr 1Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Sontag Mag is a literary magazine appearing triannually and devoted to fostering a community of poets and translators and promoting works exceptional in craft.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Jan 31, May 1 to May 31, Sep 1 to Sep 30Genre: Poetry, TranslationSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Experimental, Feminist, Nature/Environmental, Poetry, Political, Prose Poetry, Translation, Visual Poetry -
SORTES is an ongoing collection of stories, poems, songs, and illustrations. They have neither theme nor scene. Ten authors per issue and four issues per year, they publish both the sufficiently strange and insufficiently boring: swart stories,...
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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 1Genre: 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 15 to Oct 15, Jan 15 to Mar 14Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Fiction, Literary Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translation -
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 -
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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We aim for content that reminds us that our lenses matter—they focus, distort, clarify, conceal. Based out of the English department at Washington University in St. Louis, The Spectacle is committed to publishing work from...
Read moreReading Period: Oct 15 to Nov 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...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 2 to Oct 20Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Spellbinder is a quarterly literary and art magazine publishing both print and digital issues. Founded in 2020 by students in Durham, England, it has grown into an international collective of editors and contributors. The magazine...
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...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
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. We publish literature and art that explore place, environment, and the relationship between humans and the natural world....
Read moreReading Period: Oct 1 to Oct 31, Jan 1 to Jan 31Genre: 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...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
