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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 Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Writing Disorder is a quarterly literary journal devoted to literature, art and culture. Its mission is to showcase new and emerging writers—particularly those in writing programs—as well as established writers. It features new...
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WUSSY is biannual print magazine dedicated to queer art and pop culture.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: LGBTQ Voices, Regional -
WWPH Writes is looking for poetry and fiction that “celebrates, unsettles, and questions the lives in the DC, Maryland, and Virginia areas (DMV) and in the nation.”
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Yalobusha Review is a journal of new writing, founded in 1995 and operated by the graduate writing program at the University of Mississippi.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry -
Yellow Arrow Journal is a biannual publication of creative nonfiction, poetry, and cover art by writers/artists that identify as women.
Reading Period: Mar 1 to Mar 31, Sep 1 to Sep 30Genre: Poetry, Creative Nonfiction -
Yellow Medicine Review is an international journal of indigenous literature, art, and thought. It includes the work of both renowned and emerging writers, artists, and scholars and is published twice a year in spring and fall.
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Yemassee, the annual print literary journal of the University of South Carolina MFA program, has published fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction since 1993.
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Yes Poetry was founded in February 2010 by Joanna C. Valente.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to May 13Genre: PoetryGenres: Micro-poetry, Prose Poetry -
Young Ravens Literary Review is a biannual online literary journal. It accepts material from both new and established writers and artists.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Aug 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Your Impossible Voice publishes brash and velvety new work from around the world. We’re looking for quality fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translations, and more. We like urgency, innovation, intelligence, and risk. We’re interested in...
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At Zizzle we look for literary flash fiction that will surprise, move, and amuse both young and older imaginative minds. We like fiction that dives deep into meaning and resists banality. We believe the moral, if any, of a great story...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: FictionGenres: Fiction, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction -
The Zodiac Review was launched in 2011 to provide a quality venue for readers and new, emerging, and established writers of "literary/genre" fiction—the merger of literary fiction and (nearly) any genre that joins it. Here new and...
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Zone 3 publishes fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction in a wide variety of aesthetics from both emerging and established writers.
Reading Period: Aug 1 to Apr 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
ZYZZYVA is a San Francisco literary journal publishing fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and visual art by the best writers, poets, translators, and artists working on the West Coast—and beyond. Since the magazine’s inception over thirty...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to May 31, Sep 1 to Nov 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Literary Fiction
