Havik: The Las Positas College Journal of Arts, Literature, and Academic Writing, founded in 1978, has served as a student-led publication for the past four decades. Our journal was established by David A. Wright, an English Department...
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Reading Period: Feb 1 to Feb 28Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Poetry, short stories and personal essays from diverse perspectives. We often feature work from Hawaii and the Pacific region, but we are interested in great writing from anywhere in the world.
Reading Period: Aug 1 to Feb 28Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Fiction, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Regional -
Hayden’s Ferry Review is a semi-annual journal of literature and art out of Arizona State University. Our mission is to identify and support emerging writers and visual artists whose work we feel is of significant cultural merit. HFR...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 1 to May 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Translation -
We want to read your work. Inspire us. Make us laugh, cry, smile. That’s why we’re here. We want to support writers, engage readers, and create space for great art to be realized.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Headmaster, the biannual art magazine for man-lovers, is published twice a year in an edition of 1,000. All work in Headmaster is assigned by the editors. While primarily a visual magazine, each issue of Headmaster features the work of 1-3...
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We are accepting submissions for our forthcoming Food Issue through April 15! Non-food-related submissions are still welcome and will be considered for future issues.
At Headway Quarterly, we believe that writing is recursive and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental -
We publish fiction, poetry, essays and visual art that explore the connections between medicine and healing, science and art.
Reading Period: Sep 1 to Apr 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Prose poetry speaking life and heart into ordinary thoughts, lines to fleeting moments. Annual cash award offered each edition. Visit website for details and featured writers.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Prose Poetry -
Heart of Flesh is a biannual, online literary journal that seeks quality writing and art with a Christian element. We are not a typical “Christian fiction” journal. We believe God’s truth as written in the Bible can be found in both the...
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Hektoen International publishes literary and visual works that explore the intersection of culture and health. We welcome pieces that incorporate art, history, literature, or ethics in relation to health and medicine. We also welcome...
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The Helix publishes all genres with an interest in topics relevant to a college-aged audience.
Reading Period: May 1 to Aug 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Theme: GREEN. Deadline: 10th February 2020. Here Comes Everyone (HCE) is a literary magazine of poetry, fiction, articles & artwork based around topical & interesting themes. We aim to provide innovative content & an...
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Hermine is an annual, print-only journal of short fiction. The National Magazine Awards recently recognized Mehdi M. Kashani with a nomination in the fiction category for his story “While Tehran Was Silent” in Issue One. Issue Two...
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TELLING YOUR STORY IS A REVOLUTIONARY ACT.
Unless she did something very incredible (or very, very bad) most women don’t get named in history. HerStry wants to rewrite the narrative and put women’s stories front and center.
Since...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Creative Nonfiction -
Hidden Peak Press is an independent publisher of poetry and fiction based in Colorado that showcases gut-punch free verse and eye-opening prose from across the U.S. and abroad. A literary press at the confluence of Charles Simic and Ray...
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High Desert Journal is an online literary and visual art magazine dedicated to further understanding the people, places and issues of the interior West. Its pages help define this region in literary and artistic terms, and represent a...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 15 to Apr 15, Aug 15 to Nov 15Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
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.
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 NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Narrative Nonfiction, 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,...
Read moreReading Period: May 1 to Oct 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Feminist, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Prose Poetry, Translation -
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...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to May 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
