The Literary Fantasy Magazine is on a quest to find the best that Fantasy has to offer. The editors want stories that challenge their convictions, paint new horizons, and put them in the shoes of someone in a land far, far away—be they...
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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 Mar 1, Apr 1 to Oct 1, Nov 1 to Apr 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Literary Heist gives a voice to transformative writers and aims to democratize the literary and art world. The editors are looking to showcase good work that comes from new and existing writers and artists.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Subgenres: Fiction, Formal Poetry, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Mystery, Nonfiction, Poetry, Short Fiction -
Literary Mama celebrates the physical, psychological, intellectual, and spiritual processes of motherhood across race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, age, material resources, or status. The journal publishes six times a year,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Feminist, Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, LGBTQ Voices, Poetry, Translation -
The Literary Times, is an independent literary arts platform, where the editors welcome multitude of genres. They aim at creating a safe space for creators, writers and artists to share their ideas and expression without any bias or...
Read moreReading Period: Apr 21 to May 18, Jun 5 to Jun 26Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Literary Veganism is looking for animal or environmentally friendly writing. Authors do not have to be vegan to submit, but many readers are vegan.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Litmosphere—formerly home for Charlotte Lit’s Lit/South Awards winners and finalists—is now an open submission, paying online literary and art journal, published twice a year. Submissions of art, flash (fiction and nonfiction up...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Jan 31, Jul 1 to Jul 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction -
Litro USA is the U.S. edition of Litro, founded in London in 2005. The U.S. organisation was established as a New York–based 501(c)(3) in 2018. It publishes fiction, creative nonfiction, and translation with an...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Literary Fiction, Translation -
The Little Journal of Northeast India is interested in the everyday stories of people, places and things based on or inspired from northeast India. Their published poems, flash fiction, photographs, artwork, interviews, and essays...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, Regional -
Little Patuxent Review is a biannual print journal and online blog featuring writers and artists from the Mid-Atlantic region and beyond.
Reading Period: Aug 1 to Oct 15, Dec 1 to Mar 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction -
The London Magazine is the United Kingdom’s oldest literary magazine, proud to have published some of the biggest names in literature including Angela Carter, Joan Didion, T. S. Eliot, Sylvia Plath, George Orwell, Jean Rhys, and Virginia...
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Founded in 1997, the Long River Review is an annual journal of literature and art staffed by undergraduates at the University of Connecticut. Today, Long River Review is dedicated to championing the best work from emerging...
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Lotus-eater is an online literary magazine based in Rome.
Its aesthetic is dark, eclectic, and often experimental. The editors are interested in daring, unusual writing, and striking images.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Experimental, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Humor, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Translation -
Founded in 2009, Lowestoft Chronicle is an online literary magazine, published quarterly, accepting flash fiction, short stories, poetry, interviews, and creative nonfiction. Preference is given to humorous submissions with an emphasis...
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Lucky Jefferson’s mission is simple: publish social change. We mobilize writers and artists to do good.
An award-winning publisher, we have set our sights on disrupting what books can be, forging a reality in which every writer...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Nov 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Lucky Lizard Journal was founded in order to oppose journals that had strict editorial focuses. Lucky Lizard Journal wants poetry of all types from all sorts of people. There must be good effort put into submissions, and that is...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
Lullwater Review is Emory University’s nationally recognized student-run literary review founded in 1990. Our annual issue is published both online and in print. We are based in Atlanta, Georgia, and are named after the beautiful...
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Luna Luna is a literary journal for lush & unexpected poetics. They publish 13 poets each month, and sometimes they publish special, themed issues. They are edited by Lisa Marie Basile.
We lovingly welcome LGBTQIA, BIPOC, low-...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Feminist, Formal Poetry, LGBTQ Voices, Micro-poetry, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Speculative Poetry, Translation -
Lunch Ticket is the literary magazine of the Creative Writing MFA Program at Antioch University Los Angeles.
Reading Period: Feb 1 to Mar 31, Aug 1 to Sep 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Macabre Magazine is dedicated to publishing high-quality horror fiction and nonfiction that nods to the genre’s iconic roots. The editors’ goal is to provide a platform for works that explore fear in both familiar and innovative ways,...
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Published trianually at Schoolcraft College, The MacGuffin is a print-only lit mag featuring poetry, prose, and fine art from both home and abroad. The magazine aims to highlight writing that takes risk with form and expands genres, along...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Jun 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
MacQueen’s Quinterly is a smorgasbord of memorable works of art and literature, in multiple genres and short forms: prose poetry; flash and microfiction; essays and creative nonfiction; photographs, drawings, and fine art; poetry, both...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 1 to Feb 17, Jun 1 to Jun 17, Oct 21 to Nov 7Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Magazine1 serves as both a showcase of excellent writing from around the world, and a literary hub for the Sarasota / Saint Pete / Tampa area. The editors want to showcase work that challenges their understanding of what writing is and...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 25 to Jan 26Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
We want writing that is strange, unexpected, hopeful, complex, and overripe. We want your medieval gallantry, your blatant propaganda, your chewed-up paper, your wine-drunk confessions. Send us something from the belly of the whale. Make us “...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 15 to Feb 19Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Experimental, Fiction, Flash Fiction, LGBTQ Voices, Poetry -
The Main Street Rag prefers poetry that is alive with the poet’s own experiences, fiction that is character-driven and often quirky. Reviews, interviews should query first, and they are the two items for which they pay in cash.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Maine Review is a biannual online literary journal that publishes culturally significant and innovative writing by writers living in Maine, across the country, and around the world. Maine Review Publications is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Mar 31, May 1 to Jun 30, Sep 1 to Nov 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
