The Tusculum Review is a community of professional and undergraduate writers. Student editors develop crucial skills in the art of literary publication. The editors seek and publish thought-provoking writing from a diversity of...
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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 -
The Twin Bill is a quarterly online literary baseball publication founded in 2020 at the start of the pandemic. We celebrate the rich history of the game while also recognizing its vibrant present through essays, fiction, poetry,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 10 to Dec 15Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
A digital literary journal brought to you by writers in the BA in Liberal Studies Creative Writing Concentration at Antioch University Los Angeles. Two Hawks Quarterly is dedicated to sparking debate and discussion by exposing the world...
Read moreReading Period: Nov 1 to Jul 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Cross-genre, Flash Fiction -
For over two decades, Two Lines has brought readers the best from translation’s acknowledged masters and world literature’s up-and-comers. Each issue includes writing from around ten different languages and over a dozen countries, plus...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Translation -
Two Thirds North is an international annual publication of poetry, short fiction, short non-fiction, graphics and photography. We seek works with a view to the world, insight into the details of the human condition and relationships in...
Read moreReading Period: Jun 1 to Sep 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Translation -
Twyckenham Notes is an independent online literary magazine based out of South Bend, Indiana. Founded in early 2017 by Editor-in-Chief Austin Veldman, TN publishes unsolicited and solicited poetry and artwork quarterly (March,...
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TXTOBJX (txtobjx.com) is an experimental literary site that publishes text objects—fragmentary, abbreviated, emergent writing that falls somewhere between prose and poetry. A text object might take the shape of a microfable, a prose...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Experimental -
Unbroken is a quarterly online journal that seeks to showcase prose poems and poetic prose, both from established and emerging voices.
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Reading Period: Feb 15 to Sep 14Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
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Under a Warm Green Linden is a biannual digital journal featuring original poetry, reviews, and interviews. Each issue is accompanied by a selection of broadsides signed by the authors. The journal is a project of Green Linden Press,...
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Under the Gum Tree is a storytelling project, publishing creative nonfiction in the form of a micro-magazine.
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Underwater New York is a prompt and a platform for new creative work inspired by the waterways that surround New York City and the objects submerged within them.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Unlost is an extension of Unbroken Journal that publishes found poetry in all its forms.
Reading Period: May 1 to Jun 30, Nov 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
Action & adventure, alternative history, dark fantasy, dragons & mythical creatures, epic, fairy tales, gaslamp, historical, humorous, military, myths & legends, superhero, and sword & sorcery.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Fiction -
Up the Staircase Quarterly publishes unique, eclectic, and quality poetry that is vivid in imagery and idea. It seeks writers going in new directions, originals. It also publishes artwork: paintings, drawings, photography, comics, short...
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upstreet is an independently owned and published, nationally distributed magazine. It was founded in 2005 by Vivian Dorsel, formerly Managing Editor of The Berkshire Review for eight years, who selected the members of the...
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VAINE is an online literary and arts magazine for and by emerging artists and writers.
The focus of our issues are on topical themes. Contributors are also welcome to present work about any relevant current events.
We aim...
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Valiant Scribe focuses on faith and social issues, including topics ranging from violence against women, forced labor, human trafficking, criminal justice, mental health, empowerment impediments, to climate change, poverty, and migration...
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Valley Voices is located in the heartland of the Mississippi Delta. It features fiction, poetry, interviews and criticism from writers and scholars anywhere though we hope to see more creative work about the South.
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Vallum is interested in original and previously unpublished work. Ideal submissions are well-crafted, fresh, and edgy. Open to most styles, whether experimental or traditional—though issues are usually put together with an underlying...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to May 15Genre: Poetry -
Valparaiso Poetry Review presents poems, interviews, and essays by new, emerging, or well-known poets. VPR also offers book reviews and essays on various poets.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
We at Variety Pack try to live up to our namesake! A bedrock of diverse voices, expressing a variety of arts & letters. We are open to both genre and literary. We have an aesthetic, but it's a broad atlas rather than a narrow stream...
Reading Period: Dec 15 to Jan 15, Apr 15 to Jun 15, Sep 15 to Oct 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Historical, Humor, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Lyric Essay, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Regional, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Translation, Visual Poetry, War, Young Adult -
The Vassar Review is an international, multidisciplinary literary arts journal that fosters working relationships between faculty, students, and published artists in order to engage its annual theme with care and reflective insight.
Reading Period: Nov 17 to Jan 26Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
A Velvet Giant is a collective space for work that exists outside the boundaries of genre. We recognize that it can feel impossible to talk about writing without categorizing it. When we say genreless, we don’t mean apolitical. Writing...
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Verdad is an online, twice-yearly literary and fine arts journal that showcases the best unpublished poetry, short stories, non-fiction and visual art that comes our way. We also offer a wide range of interviews featuring contemporary...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Cross-genre
