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.
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: 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: Sep 1 to Dec 20Genre: Creative 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: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: 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. Issues also include an artist's cover portrait...
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: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Hoot is a magazine on postcards. We publish stand-alone pieces of writing under 150 words, with art to match. The idea is that current, quality literature should be shareable, accessible, and that there is no reason why you can't read an...
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While we are open to style, we’re looking for work that is nuanced, raw, and imagistic with strong elements of the natural world or the human-nature relationship. We tend to favor work that is unexpected, real, evocative, yet subtle, with a...
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Hunger Mountain is both a print and online journal of the arts. We publish fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, visual art, young adult and children’s writing, and literary odds and ends. Our print issue comes out annually in the early spring,...
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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...
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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 the...
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We prefer writing grounded in fresh language, imagery, and metaphor. We prefer free-verse with sound and rhythm of language. We seek individual voice with good lyric or a strong narrative. For fiction, we like shot pieces that surprise. We reject...
Read moreReading Period: Jul 1 to Dec 31Genres: Flash Fiction -
We are open to a wide range of literary work. No genre fiction please.
Reading Period: Sep 15 to Mar 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Poetry, Translation -
We publish original works from lesser known and up-and-coming writers who seek to bring attention to urgent social justice issues around the world. We base our work on the values of beauty, sincerity...
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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.
Reading Period: Jun 1 to Jul 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
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 poetry...
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Image is a unique forum for the best writing and artwork that are informed by, or grapple with, religious faith.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Religious/Spiritual -
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 NonfictionGenres: 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...
Read moreReading Period: Jun 1 to Aug 1Genre: PoetryGenres: LGBTQ Voices, Poetry -
Another New Calligraphy's online journal 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 endeavors, Impossible...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: 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 -
Impostor: A Poetry Journal was created for writers who may feel intimidated by the established literary world or who feel as if their credentials—or lack thereof—don't fall in line with what's expected. Impostor desires diverse...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Jan 31, Apr 1 to Apr 30, Jun 1 to Jun 30, Sep 1 to Sep 30Genre: Poetry -
Poetry, art, and photography from minimalist to avant-garde—open to innovative, imagistic, philosophical, experimental creations.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetryGenres: Experimental -
Indelible is a literary journal reaching out to a broader community of writers, both established and emerging. The journal seeks to publish works from distinguished writers and artists with strong voices and literary/artistic convictions...
Read moreReading Period: Jul 21 to Dec 20Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Indiana Review is a nonprofit literary magazine dedicated to showcasing the talents of emerging and established writers. Its mission is to offer the highest quality writing within a wide aesthetic.
Reading Period: Feb 1 to Mar 31, Sep 1 to Oct 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Indicia seeks to showcase a dynamic collage of passionate and profound voices hungry to produce art and write primarily in the English language. indicia enjoys feeling out the lengths to which language can be stretched, whether to convey a...
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Inklette is a not-for-profit, online literary magazine helmed by high-school and college students from all over. Inklette believes in the ability of art and literature to strike our consciousness in inexplicable ways. We believe that a...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
