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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: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
2River View prefers poems with the following qualities: image, subtlety, and point of view; a surface of worldly exactitude, as well as a depth of semantic ambiguity; and a voice that negotiates with its body of...
Read moreReading Period: Jun 1 to May 8Genre: Poetry -
Each issue of 3cents will rotate around a theme and will feature one poem, one short story or flash fiction piece, and one piece of creative nonfiction together as a mini-collection built around that theme. While the authors each receive...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 1 to Oct 1, Nov 1 to Jan 1, Feb 1 to Apr 1, Jun 1 to Aug 1Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
3Elements Literary Review is a quarterly, online literary journal founded in Chicago in 2013, now based in Des Moines, IA. It publishes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, and photography.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Flash Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, Prose Poetry -
32 Poems publishes inventive language complicated by music, form, and feeling. As a rule it publishes shorter work that can fit on a single page (32 lines or less), but it sometimes makes exceptions to accommodate particularly exciting...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
YOUR STORY, fact or fiction, documentary or essay, memoir or memo, Barbie spin-off, greatest X-tweets, AI Jane Austen etc.
YOUR POETRY, writing with a beat, Dylan verse, Spotify lyrics, Instagram memes, YouTube haiku, Kafka recipes, that...
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45th Parallel is an online Oregon-based literary magazine produced by graduate students at Oregon State University.
Reading Period: Sep 23 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
86 Logic is a quarterly magazine representing artists with roots in the hospitality industry. It is made up of a team of veteran bartenders, servers, and hosts who love discovering how art and hospitality intersect. Submissions are open...
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The whole is a part and the part is a whole. The 100-word format forces the writer to question each word, to reckon with Flaubert’s mot juste in a way that even most flash fiction doesn’t. At the same time the brevity of the form allows the...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Experimental, Narrative Nonfiction, Prose Poetry -
128 Lit is a print and online literary magazine based in New York City that has an international focus. This is a re-orienting place that unlearns, confronts, and disrupts euro-centric narratives and aesthetics. 128 Lit is...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Oct 31, May 15 to Jul 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
805 Lit + Art publishes debut and emerging writers, poets, photographers, and artists in our quarterly, online journal.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Given our anti-capitalist stance, we want the poetry that means the most to you, regardless of marketability or monetary concerns. Anyone can send poems—we’re particularly interested in hearing from poets of traditionally marginalized and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
Flash Fiction, Poetry, Mixed-Genre Works, Art/Text and Artwork. Tastes lean toward surreal, experimental, ambivalent, darkly lyrical and wildly imaginative.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Subgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry -
To identify new and emerging writers and visual artists who have a particular focus on re-defining the landscape of their artform. Artists of color and those others who are traditionally underrepresented in the field are especially encouraged to...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre -
Abandon Journal exists to showcase writing and artwork that has been created with abandon. The editors are open to hybrid work, genre, visual art, and more. Each issue showcases work that “abandons form,” and every other issue will be a...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 1 to Sep 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Able Muse predominantly publishes metrical poetry complemented by art and photography, fiction and non-fiction including essays, book reviews and interviews with a focus on metrical and formal poetry. We also welcome exceptional free...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Jul 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
About Place Journal is the literary publication of the Black Earth Institute. BEI is dedicated to art serving the causes of spirit, earth, and society. Issues are guest-edited by fellows of the Institute. Themes (titles of issues) are...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 1 to Apr 15, Jun 1 to Aug 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Acentos Review publishes poetry, fiction, memoir, interviews, translations, and artwork by emerging and established Latinx writers, artists, and creatives four times a year. It welcomes submissions in English, Spanish, Spanglish,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Lyric Essay, Magical Realism, Micro-poetry, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Speculative Poetry, Translation, Visual Poetry -
Acorn is a biannual journal dedicated to publishing the best of contemporary English-language haiku. In particular, it showcases the individual poem and the ability of haiku to reveal the extraordinary moments found in everyday life.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Feb 28, Jul 1 to Aug 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Micro-poetry -
Action, Spectacle is a biannual magazine based in Louisville, Kentucky, and Brooklyn. The magazine exists at the intersection of the socio-political, the cultural, and the arts—a public space for discussion and engagement. It puts a...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Adanna publishes work about women’s issues or topics. Submissions for artwork, poetry, essay, and short fiction are accepted by both women and men.
Reading Period: Apr 1 to May 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Feminist -
Add to Cart Magazine seeks experimental, avant-garde, and challenging writing and art that pushes well beyond comfortable boundaries, whether they be of form, style, or thought. It is open to “neglected voices and forms.”
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Adroit Journal is looking for work that’s bizarre, authentic, subtle, outrageous, indefinable, raw, paradoxical.
Reading Period: Jun 1 to Apr 10Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Aeolian Harp Series is a special anthology series consisting of ten folio sections for each poet with up to six pieces by each author, with a personal essay to spotlight each poet.
Reading Period: Jan 15 to Feb 28Genre: Poetry -
After Dinner Conversation publishes short stories (1,500-7,000 words), of any genre, that ask interesting ethical and/or philosphical questions in a narrative format.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
