Five on the Fifth publishes five short stories on the fifth of every month. General fiction, flash fiction, horror, fantasy, and science fiction are accepted.
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 -
We seek work that is original, imaginative, and informed by craft. Generally prose pieces usually run no longer than 7,500 words, and we invite poetry in both closed and open forms.
Reading Period: Sep 1 to Dec 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Flash Fiction -
Five South is a twice-yearly literary journal with a focus on the story found within poetry or fiction. We like good stories.
Reading Period: Apr 21 to Jul 21Subgenres: BIPOC Voices, Cross-genre, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Humor, LGBTQ Voices, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Young Adult -
Each Monday, The Five-Two website debuts the text and companion spoken-word YouTube video of a poem on the subject of crime, which is open to interpretation. Annual ebooks reprint each year's worth of poems (52). 30-day April blog tour...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
Fjords publishes a number of styles, approaches, and voices.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Flare is an international literary journal founded by a dedicated group of young writers, photographers, and artists to explore the complexity of the human experience. Our mission is to encourage artists and writers of all backgrounds to...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Commercial Fiction, Cross-genre, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, Historical, Humor, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Nonfiction, Poetry, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Regional, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult -
Please see our complete editorial statement here: http://www.flatbushreview.com/editorial-.... We welcome all arts and approaches, and strive to be as inclusive and diverse in...
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Floor Plan is committed to providing an arrangement of rooms that pulls readers back into the work that, like anything of quality, requires more than a second glance.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Flora Fiction is dedicated to artists of all types: poets, writers, photographers, and illustrations. We're here to provide a platform for emerging creatives to showcase their work. Our literary magazine comes out every quarter. We are...
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We are looking for innovative, luxuriant, insightful human stories—and for things that might surprise us. We like writing that takes risks, affects us deeply, and yet also meets the highest standards of beautiful language and appropriate syntax...
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Graphic/Illustrated -
Based out of Iowa State University, Flyway: Journal of Writing and Environment is an online journal publishing poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and visual art that explores the many complicated facets of the word environment – at once rural...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 15 to Feb 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Nature/Environmental -
Foglifter is a biannual compendium of the most dynamic, urgent queer writing today. It’s a space where queer writers celebrate, mourn, rage, and embrace.
Reading Period: Mar 1 to May 1, Sep 1 to Nov 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Political -
Folder presents the work of one poet monthly.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
Folio is a journal of poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction. We look for work that ignites and endures, is artful and natural, daring and elegant.
Reading Period: Oct 1 to Dec 3Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Foreign is a literary journal that seeks to read and publish fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry, related—somehow—to life away from home. This can be life in a foreign land, where different languages, cultures and needs are ripe...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Dec 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Forge Literary Magazine was founded by volunteers from the Fiction Forge, an international online writers’ forum, which counts amongst its members and alumni winners of numerous literary awards, including the Commonwealth Short Story...
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We aim to be pluralists in our exploration of things neo-modern. This is not a movement nor is it a pretense to a clear aesthetic criteria as much as a zeitgeist and a de-personalization of the arts. We are like the orphaned children of deposed...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Flash Fiction, Prose Poetry -
Four Way Review accepts poetry and fiction from both established and emerging authors. We accept unsolicited submissions year-round through our submissions manager. We look for work that demonstrates fine attention to craft while...
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Since its inception in 1994, Fourteen Hills: The SFSU Review has contributed to a vibrant literary tradition on the West Coast centered in the San Francisco Bay Area. Its commitment to presenting a diversity of experimental and...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 15 to Jun 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Flash Fiction -
Fourth Genre is devoted to publishing notable, innovative work in literary (creative) nonfiction, and are especially looking to provide space to voices less seldom heard from in literary publications.
Reading Period: Sep 1 to Nov 30Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Experimental, Graphic/Illustrated, Humor, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental -
Frak\ture is both a biannual poetry lit mag and a mag of lit poetry. Frak\ture posts poetry with a social bent. We look for works that highlight cracks in society’s masonry, the glitch in the Matrix, the secret plans...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
Totally Limited Omniscience
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry -
Free Verse is a bi-annual electronic journal that focuses on publishing the finest free verse being written today. Free Verse is looking for eclectic, sophisticated, accomplished poetry possessed by a sense of poetic...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Apr 1Genre: Poetry -
Freeze Frame Fiction is a quarterly flash fiction publication. The idea: any genre, no content restrictions—just good flash fiction. We pay authors semi-pro rates to publish online and in illustrated ebooks, with an annual print volume in the...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: FictionSubgenres: Flash Fiction -
Where poetry and pop culture collide. We ask that your poems have a pop culture focus (i.e. movies, TV, video games, comic books, music, etc).
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Poetry, Pop Culture
