Right Hand Pointing publishes short poetry (under 16 lines), flash fiction (under 500 words), and art.
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: Feb 1 to Mar 15, May 1 to Jun 15, Aug 1 to Sep 15, Nov 1 to Dec 15Genres: Flash Fiction, Micro-poetry, Prose Poetry -
Rivanna Review is a print journal published four times a year in Charlottesville, Virginia, on the Rivanna River. The content is general interest—stories, features, and book reviews. Photographs and drawings are black-...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
As a multicultural magazine of poetry, prose and art, River Styx publishes works of both new and established artists significant for their originality, energy and deft of craft. The high quality of its form and content have made it a...
Read moreReading Period: Jun 1 to Nov 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
River Teeth is a biannual print journal publishing the best of creative nonfiction, including narrative reportage, essays, and memoir. We are also home to Beautiful Things, a weekly online magazine of micro-essays.
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Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Dec 1, Jan 1 to Apr 1Genre: Creative Nonfiction -
We publish 3-7 featured pieces every month--focusing primarily on poetry, creative nonfiction, fiction, flash, graphic narrative, and visual poetry.
On occasion, we review small press, literary books or invite authors published with...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Dec 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Rockford Review prefers interior rhyme in poems, as opposed to rhymed endings, and nonviolent, non-vulgar prose.
Reading Period: Jul 15 to Oct 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
RockPaperPoem publishes today's finest poetry from established, emerging and new poets writing in English. We strive to include all cultural identities as we highlight work that expands the boundaries of mainstream poetry, without...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 2 to Feb 15, May 1 to Jun 15, Sep 1 to Oct 15Genre: Poetry -
Room is Canada’s oldest feminist literary journal, and has published fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, art, interviews, and book reviews for forty years. Published quarterly by the West Coast Feminist Literary Magazine Society, also...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Rosebud seeks to supply an eclectic, quality, national venue for new and underappreciated writers of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Rougarou, a Journal of Arts and Literature, aims to publish an eclectic, resonant selection of creative writing by emerging and established writers. Founded in 2007 by the faculty and graduate students of the University of Louisiana at...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 1 to Mar 1, Sep 15 to Oct 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Route 7 Review, established in 2013 and published annually by Utah Tech University, welcomes submissions of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and visual arts from artists and writers from anywhere in the world.
Reading Period: Sep 15 to Nov 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Rumpus strives to be a platform for marginalized voices and writing that might not find a home elsewhere and to lift up new voices alongside those of more established writers we love.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Rundelania is the digital literary journal of the Arts and Literature Division, located within the Central Branch of the Rochester Public Library (NY). The journal is dedicated to the publication of original poetry and prose.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
For drama, Rushing Thru the Dark wants to see your most interesting human interactions with strong dialog and scene descriptions for either your one-act play or your short screenplay. As with any story, there needs to be some character...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Aug 31Genre: PoetryGenres: BIPOC Voices, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Historical, LGBTQ Voices -
Rust & Moth is a literary journal featuring imaginative and engaging poetry. We stand on the side of the marginalized and of voices that have not been traditionally heard, and we value work that errs on the side of immediacy, strong images,...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 1 to Mar 31, Jun 1 to Jun 30, Sep 1 to Sep 30, Dec 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
Salamander specializes in publishing highly accomplished poetry, fiction, and memoirs by writers who deserve a wider audience for their work.
Reading Period: Oct 1 to Apr 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Salmagundi is a quarterly of the Humanities and Social Sciences which is addressed to the “general” reader rather than to the academic specialist. Founded in 1965 and published since 1969 at Skidmore College, the magazine routinely...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Apr 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Translation -
Salt Hill is published by a group of writers affiliated with the Creative Writing Program at Syracuse University.
Reading Period: Dec 1 to Jan 31, Aug 1 to Sep 13Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
samfiftyfour is devoted to building a literary community by sharing voices from around the globe. To date, 27 different countries, including writers from all walks of life writing on various topics, have been represented.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Founded in 2008, San Pedro River Review is a biannual journal of poetry and art named after the river that flows north from the mountains of Sonora, Mexico, into Arizona. We seek an economy of language with keen focus on voice and image...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Jan 31, Jul 1 to Jul 31Genre: Poetry -
SAND is an international journal publishing risk-taking work from the diverse range of creatives making visual art, poetry, fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, and translations. We look for work that subverts, crosses borders, and...
Read moreReading Period: Apr 10 to Apr 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationGenres: BIPOC Voices, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, LGBTQ Voices -
Sand Hills brings together new and established voices from diverse backgrounds. We are looking for works that celebrate different perspectives.
We want writers to submit their truths, their fictions—to share their humanity. We...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 15 to Mar 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry -
An in-print and online literary journal, SFLR features work by local, national, and international writers and artists. Each issue of SFLR has a suggested theme; the 2023-2024 SFLR theme is "Lovely, Dark, and Deep:...
Read moreReading Period: Jul 15 to Nov 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Founded by poet and fiction writer Jim Krusoe in 1988, Santa Monica Review is a nationally distributed literary arts journal sponsored by Santa Monica College.
The journal is published twice yearly, in Fall and Spring.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Saw Palm is a Florida-themed literary journal produced by the MFA program at the University of South Florida. It publishes poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, comics, art, photography, reviews, and interviews.
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Read moreReading Period: Jul 1 to Oct 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
