Cream City Review is Milwaukee’s leading literary journal devoted to pushing the boundaries of writing. Each issue features fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, and visual art. Published biannually, Cream City Review is a...
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Reading Period: Jan 1 to Apr 1, Aug 1 to Nov 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: 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 -
The Cupboard Pamphlet publishes works of prose and prose collections between 5,000 and 10,000 words. Submissions can be composed of one piece or multiple pieces. We make no demands on content or genre, with the exception of verse poetry, which we...
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Established by Richard Hugo and William Kittredge in 1973, CutBank is Montana's oldest literary magazine. We 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 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 now an online literary journal that publishes weekly featured creatives (authors, artists, poets), monthly serialized fiction, and twice-yearly paperback issues (Fall and Spring). Publishing gothic...
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The Dawn Review publishes poetry, prose, art, and hybrid submissions from emerging and established writers and artists. The editors want to amplify a diverse range of perspectives and showcase work that transcends genre.
Reading Period: Aug 15 to Oct 31, Dec 15 to Feb 28, May 15 to Jun 30Genre: 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 semi-annual nonprofit literary magazine featuring fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and visual art...
Reading Period: Oct 1 to May 1Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
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 (ISSN: 1947-0436) is an online literary magazine that is published three times a year. We are an in-house journal for the Social Justice Institute at the University of British Columbia, and we publish prose, poetry, art,...
Read moreReading Period: Nov 1 to Dec 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Experimental, Flash Fiction, Humor, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Prose Poetry -
Find our current theme (CHILDHOOD) guidelines here: https://deepoverstock.com/submission-gui...
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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, we are doing themed calls throughout the year....
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Feb 14, Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Regional -
Deep Wild Journal is the home for creative work inspired by journeys to places where there are no roads. We seek work that conjures the experiences, observations, and insights of backcountry journeys. By “backcountry,” we mean away from...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Nov 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Nature/Environmental, Nonfiction, Poetry -
Defunct is a magazine that celebrates what’s over and what isn’t yet.
“We’re mourning. We’re functioning. Let’s show the world what we want & need through what we’ve lost. Punk’s not dead, punk’s not dead. We’re punk. We’re...
Read moreReading Period: Nov 15 to Jan 15, Jul 15 to Sep 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
The Delmarva Review publishes literary short fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry annually in print and electronic editions. Both are available worldwide via online major booksellers. The editors welcome new literary work in English...
Read moreReading Period: Nov 1 to Mar 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry -
Delta Poetry Review is an online poetry journal committed to publishing exceptional work by new, emerging, and established writers.
Poetry from and about the American delta region and the South is generally preferred. Submissions...
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Diagram is an electronic journal of text and art. As its name indicates, the editors are interested in representations. In naming. In indicating. In schematics. In the labeling and taxonomy of things. In poems that masquerade as stories...
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We aim to nurture experimentation and cultural inclusion, and promote the importance of eclecticism in the literary and visual arts.
Reading Period: Nov 1 to Feb 28, Jan 1 to Feb 28, Apr 1 to Jun 15, Sep 1 to Nov 30Subgenres: BIPOC Voices, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry -
digital vestiges is an online series of fragments and ephemera. Black Sun Lit’s longest running publishing platform, digital vestiges seeks poetry, prose, works in translation, hybrid works, interviews with writers and artists,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, TranslationSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Translation -
Diode Poetry Journal is looking for poetry that excites and energizes, that uses language that crackles and sparks. It is looking for poetry from all points on the arc, from formal to experimental.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Creative Nonfiction -
Disclaimer Magazine is a literary and visual arts magazine published by Write253 in Tacoma, WA. Submissions are open year-round to writers and artists ages 15-22 and issues are curated by an all-teen editorial board.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry -
DMQ Review, one of the longest continuously running online journals in the nation, welcomes American and international voices from all cultural identities in the English language, work that reflects the diversity of contemporary poetry and...
Read moreReading Period: Apr 1 to Apr 30Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: PoetrySubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Experimental, LGBTQ Voices, Micro-poetry, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Speculative Poetry -
Now in its twentieth year, Dogwood seeks work that connects directly with readers. Judges for the competition have included former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, NEA Chairman Dana Gioia, and Oprah book club author A. Manette Ansay....
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Doubly Mad takes its title from the poem "Listening" by Robert Bly: "because the world is mad, / the only way through the world is to learn the arts / and double the madness." It is interested not only in emotionally powerful work, but...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 4 to Apr 30Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
