Cool Beans Lit publishes stimulating fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry and visual art that all coalesce into stunning issues. The editorial focus is challenging, thoughtful, experimental, and eclectic work from both new and...
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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 -
Copper Nickel aspires toward diversity and eclecticism, printing work that appeals to the editors regardless of aesthetic affiliation—and they are particularly (though by no means exclusively) interested in work that considers...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 15 to Dec 15, Jan 15 to Mar 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Translation -
Cordella Magazine is a biannual online magazine with an annual print edition, featuring the work of women-identified and nonbinary creatives, published by Cordella Press. They only accept work from women-identifying and nonbinary...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, Healing/Health, Poetry, Political, Prose Poetry -
Cordite Poetry Review is a quarterly Australian journal of poetry and its criticism. International authors are most welcome. Each issue is themed (broadly), so please be sure to look at the submissions page. Cordite Scholarly is a fully...
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An archive in progress, Corporeal aims to facilitate healthy and safe exploration of embodiment related to disability, age, ethnicity, sexuality, gender, and more. It is open to art in any form we can find a way to host.
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The Cortland Review is an online magazine publishing both established and emerging writers from the print and online worlds. Using audio paired with text to complete the link between reader and writer, TCR provides regular and...
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The editors like stories with singular visions and points-of-view. They want the journal to be the home of fiction that challenges the reader even just a little bit, at least to the point of thinking about something in a new or different way....
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counterclaim is committed to producing work that counters normative and traditional forms. See their website for more information on each year’s theme.
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The Courtship of Winds publishes poetry, fiction, plays, essays, photography, art, and short pieces of music. For more on the editorial philosophy behind The Courtship of Winds, read the “Editor’s Desk” page....
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Celebrating forty years of publishing, Crab Creek Review is dedicated to introducing the best writing from the Pacific Northwest and beyond. They publish both national and international writers in the genres of poetry, fiction, and...
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Crashtest is an biannual online magazine founded and run by the creative writing students at the Fine Arts Center, a public arts high school in Greenville, South Carolina, so that students in high schools all over the country will have a...
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Cream City Review is Milwaukee’s leading literary journal devoted to pushing the boundaries of writing. Each issue features fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and visual art. Published biannually, Cream City Review is a...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 1 to Oct 1, Jan 2 to Mar 2Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, Humor, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Love, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Regional, Religious/Spiritual, Visual Poetry, War -
Creation Magazine is an online literary and arts magazine that is published trianually. The journal three reading periods and publish three seasonal issues. During their Spring issue, they publish prose, poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 25 to Dec 1, Feb 22 to May 1, Jun 20 to Aug 5Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Established by Richard Hugo and William Kittredge in 1973, CutBank is Montana’s oldest literary magazine. They are run by the students of the University of Montana Creative Writing MFA program, publishing two annual print issues of fiction...
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Dappled Things is a Catholic literary magazine produced in partnership with the Collegium Institute for Catholic Thought & Culture.
Reading Period: Feb 1 to May 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Dark Matter: Women Witnessing publishes writing in all genres and visual art created in response to an age of massive species loss and ecological collapse.
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The Dark Sire Literary Journal (TDS) is a literary journal that publishes twice-yearly paperback issues (Fall and Spring). They publish gothic, horror, fantasy, and psychological fiction, poetry, and art, especially work that...
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DarkWinter Literary Magazine is an independent online publication which focuses on short fiction and poetry. Whether you’re emerging or established, the editors want your weird, your traditional with a twist, your humour, your dark...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsSubgenres: Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Magical Realism, Prose Poetry -
The Dawn Review publishes poetry, prose, art, and hybrid submissions from emerging and established writers and artists. The editors curate each issue to amplify a diverse range of perspectives and showcase work that transcends genre.
Reading Period: Aug 15 to Oct 31, Apr 5 to Jul 5Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Debut Review’s mission is simple yet profound: to uplift debut authors and provide them with a platform to shine. The editors recognize that the journey of a first-time author can be challenging, which is why they are committed to...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Dec 1, Mar 1 to May 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Criticism, art, literature, reviews, aesthetics, abstraction, meta, classics.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Experimental, Lyric Essay, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry -
Since 1958, december has been committed to distributing the work of emerging writers and artists and celebrating more seasoned voices through a semiannual nonprofit literary magazine featuring fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and...
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Decolonial Passage welcomes writing from all writers engaged in the decolonial project, regardless of the writer’s race, origin, gender, disability, or geographical location. Simultaneously, Decolonial Passage centers African,...
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decomp journal is an online literary magazine that is published three times a year. They are an in-house journal for the Social Justice Institute at the University of British Columbia, and they publish prose, poetry, art, and creative...
Read moreReading Period: Nov 1 to Dec 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Experimental, Flash Fiction, Humor, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Prose Poetry -
Deep South Magazine is committed to being a forum for Southern writers and showcasing Southern literature and accepts submissions of original fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. For fiction, they do themed calls throughout the year. Poetry...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Regional
