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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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Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Creative Nonfiction -
Live Mag! began as a vehicle for presenting live poetry. It has evolved from that original mission of showcasing poets in a live performance. In addition to hosting numerous performance events each year, the issues are now in print and online....
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to May 30Genre: Poetry -
The London Magazine is England’s oldest literary periodical, with a history stretching back to 1732. Today–reinvigorated for a new century–the Magazine’s essence remains unchanged: it is a home for the best writing and an indispensable...
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The Los Angeles Review, an annual print and online literary journal established in 2003, is the voice of Los Angeles, and the voice of the nation.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Jun 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Lotus-eater is an online literary magazine based in Rome.
Its aesthetic is dark, eclectic, and often experimental. The editors are interested in daring, unusual writing, and striking images.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Experimental, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Humor, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Translation -
Loud Coffee Press is a quarterly unpretentious and unapologetic literary journal that focuses on three things we love: flash fiction, coffee, and music. We look for writing that hovers in that perfect brew spot of 195 to 205 degrees...
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The goal of the magazine continues to be to import the best writing to local readers, to juxtapose the work of established writers with new writers, and to export the best local writers to a national readership. Each poem and story submitted to...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 29 to Feb 5Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Cross-genre -
Founded in 2009, Lowestoft Chronicle is an online literary magazine, published quarterly, accepting flash fiction, short stories, poetry, interviews, and creative non-fiction. Preference is given to humorous submissions with an emphasis on travel...
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Lucky Jefferson’s mission is simple: we publish social change.
We reimagine books by creating interactive and collaborative community experiences that center the writer and artist and cultivate inclusion and representation...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
Lullwater Review is Emory University’s nationally recognized student-run literary review founded in 1990. It prints two issues per year—one in the fall and one in the spring.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Luna Luna is an online diary, literary journal, and community dedicated to making space for the light, shadow, and the liminal spaces in between. “Like the moon’s two sides (Luna, by the way, is moon in Italian and Spanish), we...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Lunch Ticket is the literary magazine of the Creative Writing MFA Program at Antioch University Los Angeles
Reading Period: Feb 1 to Mar 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The MacGuffin is an international publication based out of Schoolcraft College in Livonia, Michigan. Published three times a year, it strives to usher in the best poetry, fiction, and artwork that they receive to the literary community...
Reading Period: Sep 1 to Jun 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
We prefer poetry that is alive with the poet’s own experiences, fiction that is character-driven and often quirky. Reviews, interviews should query first.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Send us writing that you’re excited about. Send us work that took courage to begin and tenacity to complete. Send us your proudest personal essay, your classic short story, your reboot of the villanelle, or your weirdest experimental text. Send...
Read moreReading Period: May 1 to Jul 31, Sep 1 to Nov 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Malahat Review is among Canada’s leading literary journals. Published quarterly, it features contemporary works of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction by emerging and established writers from around the world. TMR is a...
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Mannequin Haus is a collective of artists interested in surrealism, the avant-garde, and experimental artwork (poetry, fiction, plays & Ephemera).
Reading Period: Nov 25 to Jan 25, Feb 25 to May 25Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Experimental, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry -
Flash fiction, poetry, short fiction, nonfiction, image. Brevity, lyric, place, experiment.
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Manzano Mountain Review is on hiatus and closed for submissions through 2022. Submissions will reopen...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 1 to Sep 15Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Flash Fiction, Prose Poetry -
Map Literary is dedicated to celebrating quality works of new literature. Rather than aligning with any one aesthetic, we aspire to promote the finest provocative writing of our time, publishing semiannual issues of original fiction,...
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Mascara Literary Review is an online journal particularly interested in the work of contemporary Asian, Australian, and Indigenous writers. It publishes poetry, short fiction, and essays from and about Asia.
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The Massachusetts Review is an independent quarterly journal of literature, the arts, and public affairs. MR has deep local roots but an international scope, with an emphasis on work that provokes debate, challenges ideology,...
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The Masters Review publishes new and emerging writers and is open to any writer who does not have a novel under contract with a major press. Stories are published online and in print.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Matter is a monthly online journal of political poetry and commentary established with the intention of breaking down structural antimonies between labor and capital, and aesthetics and politics. In this “post-everything” (including...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Maudlin House is a literary experience that curates the best in experimental lit by both emerging, and established authors.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genres: Experimental, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Pop Culture -
The Meadow is the annual print and online literary journal of Truckee Meadows Community College in Reno, Nevada.
Reading Period: Sep 1 to Feb 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
