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Literary Magazines
Connect your poems, stories, essays, and reviews to the right audiences by researching over twelve hundred literary magazines in our database. Here, you’ll find editorial policies, submission guidelines, contact information—everything you need to direct your work to the publications most amenable to your vision.
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Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
Poetry: We like poems that are comprehensible to most readers. We like to give each poem its own page, which also means the poem should be substantial enough to look good on a page.
Short fiction: 600-3,000 words.
Memoir: An...
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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. We look for tight, pithy Flash...
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We aim for content that reminds us that our lenses matter—they focus, distort, clarify, conceal. We are committed to publishing work from under-represented voices, including people of color, women, people from LGBTQIA+ communities, and people who...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 15 to Feb 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Feminist, LGBTQ, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Prose Poetry -
Seeking micro stories and poetry from the speculative realm. Send prose or poetry at 66 words. No more, no less.
Multiple and simultaneous submissions are welcome, but please let me know ASAP if you accept publication elsewhere....
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Subgenres: Commercial Fiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, LGBTQ, Micro-poetry, Poetry, Pop Culture -
Speculative City is a bi-annual magazine featuring literary 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...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Poetry, Speculative Fiction -
A “speculative essay” concerns itself with the figurative over the literal, ambiguity over knowing, meditation over reportage. Thus we propose the lens of speculative nonfiction. With this journal we hope to begin a new dialogue about this...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Experimental, Nonfiction -
Spilled Milk Magazine is an online literary magazine for fiction and nonfiction, poetry, art and photography. We are eager to publish work that surprises us—that disregards boundaries and borders. Spilled Milk strives to be a home from unheard...
Read moreReading Period: May 1 to Jul 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry -
Split Lip Magazine is voice-driven literary magazine with a pop culture twist. We publish online monthly and in print annually.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Pop Culture -
Split Rock Review publishes innovative place-based and environmental poetry, creative nonfiction, graphic narratives, comics, and art. We also host an annual poetry chapbook contest and publish themed anthologies.
We only accept ...
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Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
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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 pressure—for...
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We do not seek scholarly analyses or angst-driven diary entries; nor do we wish to be entertained by martians, demons, ghosts, or fairy godmothers. Those stories have a place, but it’s not here. Move, amaze, horrify and educate us about the...
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Stand was founded in 1952 with £5 of Jon Silkin’s redundancy money. The magazine's title expressed its aim, to stand against injustice and oppression; to make a stand for the role that the arts, poetry and fiction in particular, could play (should... Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31
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Star 82 Review is a full-color, online and print magazine. We are especially open to writers who make art and artists who write but are interested excellent work, whatever it may be. Each issue features microfiction and creative nonfiction,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Flash Fiction, Prose Poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Literary Fiction -
Star*Line is a journal of speculative poetry, including not only science fiction, but fantasy, horror, and what lies between these genres. We also publish relevant articles and SF poetry book reviews.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
Steam Ticket, A Third Coast Review, is published each April. It is the national literary magazine of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. We aspire to publish high-quality poetry, fiction, and essays from both experienced and emerging writers...
Reading Period: Dec 1 to Mar 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
We publish interesting fiction, poetry, essays, and multimedia work from all over the world. However, preference is given to writers, artists, and subject matter with some connection to the South. We are particularly interested in work that uses...
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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 from Them...
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STILL POINT ARTS QUARTERLY has a clear focus on nature, art, and spirit as it explores a unique theme with each issue. The publication has been praised for its rich content and splendid layout and design. It is, quite simply, a beautiful...
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The Stillwater Review was founded back in 2010 at Sussex County Community College by poet and now retired professor Priscilla Orr and is made possible through the support of the Betty June Silconas Poetry Center. The journal maintains a...
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Stone Canoe showcases the work of a diverse mix of emerging and well-established artists and writers who are current or former residents of Upstate New York. In doing so, the journal supports the YMCA's Downtown Writers Center's ongoing...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 15 to Jul 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Stoneboat is an online, independent journal of literature and arts dedicated to publishing quality fiction, nonfiction, memoir, poetry, artwork, and graphic literature. We strive to showcase outstanding and diverse work from both emerging and...
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The Stonecoast Review is a literary arts journal edited by students and alumni from Stonecoast’s MFA program in Creative Writing. We welcome writing in the genres of creative nonfiction, fiction, dramatic works, poetry, and experimental. The...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 4 to Apr 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
We’ll look at any genre. We like serious, comic, lighthearted, dark, emotional, and acerbic. The important factor for us is that the work use story, characters, emotions, and other fundamental elements of storytelling to think, to ask questions,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Flash Fiction, Formal, Humor, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction
