THEMA is a theme-generated journal of short stories, poetry, art and photography. Each issue is a stand-alone anthology based on a unique theme.
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 -
Digital quarterly for new, emerging and established writers and artists. We seek good writing above anything else: inspired, unbound and diverse. Original work only.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Thimble Literary Magazine is a quarterly online and print journal based on the belief that poetry is like armor.
Reading Period: Feb 1 to Mar 31, May 1 to Jun 30, Aug 1 to Sep 30, Nov 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, Poetry -
Based at 7,000 feet we have no choice but to invite work that takes us to dizzying heights with its innovation and insight. We aspire to foster diversity, authenticity, surprise, and excitement while making the literary world accessible to...
Read moreReading Period: Apr 1 to Oct 15Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Poetry attentive to form; short fiction with a lasting impact; criticism of poetry and prose; nonfiction with a focus on the natural world.
Reading Period: Mar 1 to Jun 30, Sep 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Third Coast is one of the nation’s premier literary magazines—and one of only a handful of nationally distributed literary magazines to regularly include four genres. Third Coast consistently publishes often award-winning...
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Located on the Pacific Ocean in the artists’ colony of Laguna Beach, California, Third Street Review lives on the edge, both literally and figuratively. California has always been synonymous with exploration and innovation and, in...
Read moreReading Period: Nov 1 to Nov 30, Feb 1 to Feb 28Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Thirteen Bridges Review is the literary arts journal produced by the Department of English and Philosophy at Auburn University at Montgomery. The journal's mission is to present original and groundbreaking literary works by new and...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Nov 2Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Threepenny Review is an arts magazine that combines literature, the visual and performing arts, memoir, and essay, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. It has been published since 1980. Every issue contains essays, stories, poems, and...
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Thrush Poetry Journal is an all-inclusive journal that publishes diverse voices. Issues appear six times a year, in the months of January, March, May, July, September, and November.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
The Tiger Moth Review publishes poetry, prose, art and photography that engage with the themes of nature, culture, the environment and ecology. Send us work that is eco-conscious and critical, work that celebrates the beauty/ bounty of...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 1 to Apr 30, Aug 1 to Oct 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationGenres: Fiction, Nature/Environmental, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Translation -
Tikkun especially likes stories, poems, and non-fiction pieces that deal with the spiritual, progressive, regenerative, and transformative elements of life. They’re also highly drawn to works about religion, Israel/Palestine, Middle East...
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Tilted House Review is a biannual arts and literary journal made by hand in small batches in the small city of New Orleans. Through this outfit, we strive to cultivate a creative and communal unit from and for the city....
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Mar 15Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
TOS is published by Wind & Water Press, and its purpose is to provide a market for literary Christian poetry, with "Christian" defined in the widest sense. Free verse and all forms are welcome. TOS encourages poets to take...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetryGenres: Formal Poetry, Poetry, Prose Poetry -
TINGE Magazine, Temple University’s online literary journal, is published one to two times a year.
Reading Period: Aug 15 to Nov 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
tinywords is an international, daily magazine of haiku and micropoetry. Its goal is to publish excellent poetry whose ambitions and effects far outstrip its small size. Founded in 2000, it now produces two issues per year, each of which...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 1 to Feb 28, Aug 1 to Aug 31Genre: Poetry -
Tipton Poetry Journal, located in the heartland of the Midwest, publishes quality poetry from Indiana and around the world.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
Toasted Cheese welcomes submissions from emerging and established authors. The editors are actively searching for minority voices. Their emphasis is on submission quality, not a list of previous publications.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Tofu Ink Arts Press, a not for profit celebratory venture aims at publishing poems and other arts of un-humdrum’d inclusive rhizomatic errant possibilities.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetryGenres: BIPOC Voices, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Formal Poetry, LGBTQ Voices, Poetry -
Topical Poetry is an all-inclusive webzine, publishing diverse poems on current events. It combines the power of poetry and the dynamism of modern societies. In this ever-changing world, the life of topical news is short but the impact...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
Torch Literary Arts is a nonprofit organization established to support and promote the work of African American women. We publish contemporary poetry, prose, and short stories by experienced and emerging writers alike. Our signature...
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Toyon is Humboldt State University English department’s annual literary magazine. Run entirely by students since its first issue in 1954, Toyon showcases the work of established and emerging writers and artists from Humboldt...
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Trafika Europe showcases current fiction and poetry in English and English translation from across the Council of Europe countries, with our online quarterly digest, and Trafika Europe Radio -- Europe's literary radio station, free...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genres: Translation -
Transformations is an online magazine of narrative essays focused on life-changing experiences and events. These essays are typically deeply personal and situated in a larger societal context. This narrative project is a publishing...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Creative Nonfiction -
Transition is a unique forum for the freshest, most compelling, most curious ideas about race. Since its founding in Uganda in 1961, the magazine has kept apace of the rapid transformation of the black world and has remained a leading...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
