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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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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, Translation -
The Dillydoun Review is an online literary magazine that publishes monthly issues of prose and poetry. All varieties are welcome for consideration including but not limited to: short stories, flash fiction, poetry, prose poetry, essay,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
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 NonfictionGenres: Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry -
Disquiet Arts is a POC-led magazine, focusing on gothic literature and erotica. It seeks poetry, flash fiction, photography, and art from authors and artists in all stages of their careers, especially those from the BIPOC and LGBTQ+...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genres: BIPOC Voices, Erotica, Feminist, Flash Fiction, LGBTQ Voices, 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: Aug 15 to Dec 12Genre: 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....
Read moreReading Period: Jul 1 to Sep 5Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
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...
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Dream Noir is a vortex for all the appreciation art has to offer. This platform was founded in 2018 to promote artistic expression. Enhancing the creativity of artists of all types, especially, marginalized voices.
Reading Period: Aug 24 to Nov 6Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Dreamers Magazine is published tri-annually and sent to hundreds of subscribers across North America and Europe.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Fiction, Flash Fiction, Healing/Health, Literary Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry -
John Updike once said, "Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better." At Driftwood Press, we are actively searching for artists who care about doing it...
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Drunk Monkeys is a literary magazine and film blog founded in 2011 featuring short stories, flash fiction, poetry, film articles, movie reviews, and more.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Feb 28Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Dryland is an independent print literary journal born in South Central Los Angeles in 2015. It aims to publish the best in Black and Brown (POC) poetry, fiction, and non-fiction from around the world, established, emerging, and never-...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 31 to May 4Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Northern Michigan’s premier independent literary journal, Dunes Review publishes two volumes of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction per year. Work originally published in Dunes Review has appeared in The Pushcart Prize: Best...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 10 to Sep 10Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Earth’s Daughters is a feminist literary and arts periodical published in Buffalo, New York. It is believed to be the oldest extant feminist arts periodical, having been published continuously since 1971.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genres: Prose Poetry -
Lyric essays. Some hybrid/experimental. Some creative nonfiction.
Prose poetry.
Occasional themed issues, usually in the summer.
Various reading periods; check website and Duotrope.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Eastern Structures picks up where Contemporary Ghazals left off, publishing English-language examples of the Middle Eastern form, but now also Korean sijo and Japanese forms such as haiku and tanka—rendered exclusively in the 5-...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetryGenres: Formal Poetry -
Each issue of Ecotone brings together the literary and scientific, the personal and biological, the urban and rural. Much of the writing we publish addresses the idea of place—overlapping habitats both real and aesthetic. It aims to...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 15 to Aug 25, Aug 26 to Sep 2, Jan 16 to Jan 25, Jan 26 to Feb 3Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Nature/Environmental -
The Ekphrastic Review is an online journal devoted entirely to writing inspired by visual art. Their objective is to promote ekphrastic writing, promote art appreciation, and experience how the two strengthen each other and bring...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Sep 30, Dec 1 to Dec 31, Mar 1 to Mar 31, Jun 1 to Jun 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Élan international student literary magazine accepts original fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, screenwriting, and plays from students currently enrolled in grades 9 through 12. The editors seek original,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Young Adult -
Recommended Reading, a magazine by Electric Literature, publishes one story a week: a piece of original fiction, or a story chosen by today’s best authors or editors. Each issue includes a personal foreword by that week’s editor or...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 7 to Mar 13, Sep 26 to Oct 2Genre: FictionGenres: Literary Fiction -
Embark is a literary journal designed for novelists and featuring exclusively the beginnings of as-yet-unpublished novels. It is released twice annually, and each issue features a range of genres, including literary dramas, mysteries,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction -
Emergent Literary is an assemblage of black and brown work. To the editors, Emergent refers to urgency, immediacy, inception and birth, beginning, forefront, and now. It also refers to the philosophy of emergence as interreliant entities...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Since 2007, Enchanted Conversation: A Fairy Tale Magazine has offered fairy tale lovers a space to publish their own tales, read the classics again, and enjoy classic fairy tale art.
Reading Period: Dec 1 to Jan 2, May 1 to Jun 2Genre: Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Fiction, Nonfiction
