Hektoen International publishes literary and visual works that explore the intersection of culture and health.
Literary Magazines
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 Helix publishes all genres with an interest in topics relevant to a college-aged audience.
Reading Period: May 1 to Nov 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Hermine is an annual, print-only journal of short fiction. The National Magazine Awards recently recognized Mehdi M. Kashani with a nomination in the fiction category for his story “While Tehran Was Silent” in Issue One. Issue Two...
Read moreReading Period: May 1 to May 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Fiction -
Telling your story is a revolutionary act. Unless she did something very incredible (or very, very bad) most women don’t get named in history. HerStry wants to rewrite the narrative and put women’s stories front and center.
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Hidden Peak Review is a magazine of poetry and fiction based in Colorado that showcases gut-punch free verse and eye-opening prose from across the U.S. and abroad. A literary magazine at the confluence of Charles Simic and Ray Bradbury,...
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If not quite an “experimental” magazine, we do lean towards work that subverts or plays with conventions of form and tone. Highly stylized or genre-inflected work is welcome, but so is more conventionally realist work.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Hippocampus Magazine is an exclusively online publication set out to entertain, educate, and engage writers and readers of creative nonfiction. Each issue (6x year) features memoir excerpts, essays, flash CNF, reviews, interviews, and...
Read moreReading Period: Oct 15 to Jan 15, Mar 1 to May 31Genre: Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction -
The Hole in the Head Review is a vibrant online journal of poetry and art that is attracting an international audience and submissions from new and established poets. One reader described us this way: “I found it terrifically gratifying...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 14 to Jun 30Genre: Poetry -
Published five times a year, The Hollins Critic has been a leading American literary journal since 1964. Each issue includes an essay on the work of a contemporary poet, fiction writer, or dramatist, an artist's cover portrait of the...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 15 to Dec 1Genre: Poetry -
Home Planet News began publishing in 1968. It is looking for good writing in any genre. It accepts writing in English and Spanish, prose and poetry, with or without translations.
Reading Period: May 1 to Oct 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Hoot is a magazine on postcards. It publishes stand-alone pieces of writing under 150 words, with art to match. The idea is that current, quality literature should be shareable and accessible and that there is no reason why people can't...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Poetry that is accessible, prose that is poetic, and artwork of the natural world that will wow us. We’re looking for work that is nuanced, raw, and imagistic with strong elements of the natural world or hints to the...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Hunger Mountain is created by the faculty and students in the Writing Program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. The editors share VCFA’s belief that the arts are central to the human experience and have the ability not only to reflect...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Nov 30, Feb 1 to Apr 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Chelsea Laine Wells says: “As fiction editor what I'm looking for above all else are affecting moments of beauty and/or discomfort, and if I'm not finding those and being struck by them, then I'm not apt to take the piece. If I do find those...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to May 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Hyphen is a news and culture magazine, media outlet and community partner, that illuminates Asian America through hard-hitting investigative features on the cultural and political trends shaping the fastest-growing ethnic population in...
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I-70 Review prefers writing grounded in fresh language, imagery, and metaphor. The editors prefer free-verse with sound and rhythm of language. The magazine seeks individual voices with a good lyric voice or a strong narrative.
Reading Period: Jul 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Flash Fiction -
The mission of Idaho Review is to publish strong, evocative work that belongs to the collective, vast community of writers. It is open to a wide range of literary works.
Reading Period: Sep 15 to Nov 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Poetry, Translation -
IHRAF Writes publishes ever-expanding original works of poetry, translations, fiction, and creative non-fiction from lesser-known and up-and-coming writers who seek to bring attention to urgent social justice issues around the world....
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IHRAF Translates is an initiative of IHRAF Literary that publishes translated voices from around the world to expand their reach and our understanding.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Translation -
Ilanot Journal publishes experimental as well as traditional work in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and hybrid literature, interviews, and graphic literature/art. It especially encourages translations.
Each issue is themed and...
Read moreReading Period: Jun 1 to Jul 31, Dec 1 to Jan 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Over the past 30 years, Illuminations Magazine has always maintained a mission to publish new writers alongside some of the world’s finest, believing that a harmonious blend of the two will lend a fresh voice to the world of contemporary...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Image fosters contemporary art and writing that grapple with the mystery of being human by curating, cultivating, convening, and celebrating work that explores religious faith and spiritual questions.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
We are looking for fun and upbeat short stories, creative non-fiction, poetry and artwork. Send up to 5 poems or 15 pages of prose. We are an online only publication.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Graphic/Illustrated -
Impossible Archetype is an international online journal of LGBTQ+ poetry. We welcome work from LGBTQ+ poets of all genders.
Excellent poetry by LGBTQ+ folk. All styles and forms welcome, from page poetry, to experimental poetry,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Mar 1, Jun 1 to Aug 1Genre: PoetrySubgenres: LGBTQ Voices, Poetry -
Another New Calligraphy’s online journal Impossible Task publishes short works connected in its exploration of conflict, a term open to interpretation though ever present in these increasingly challenging times.
As in ANC’s other...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Healing/Health, Historical, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, LGBTQ Voices, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, Prose Poetry, Speculative Fiction, Translation, War
