The Cortland Review is an online magazine publishing both established and emerging writers from the print and online worlds. Using audio paired with text to complete the link between reader and writer, TCR provides regular and...
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Reading Period: Sep 15 to Nov 15Genre: Poetry -
counterclaim is committed to producing work that counters normative and traditional forms. see our website for more information on each year’s theme.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Aug 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Courtship of Winds publishes poetry, fiction, short dramatic pieces, essays, photography, art, and short pieces of music. For more on the editorial philosophy behind Courtship of Winds, read the “Editor’s Desk” page.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Experimental, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry -
Celebrating forty years of publishing, Crab Creek Review is dedicated to introducing you to the best writing from the Pacific Northwest and beyond. We publish both national and international writers in the genres of poetry, fiction, and...
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Crashtest is an biannual online magazine founded and run by the creative writing students at the Fine Arts Center, a public arts high school in Greenville, South Carolina, so that students in high schools all over the country will have a...
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Cream City Review is Milwaukee’s leading literary journal devoted to pushing the boundaries of writing. Each issue features fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, and visual art. Published biannually, Cream City Review is a...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Apr 1, Aug 1 to Nov 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, Humor, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Love, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Regional, Religious/Spiritual, Visual Poetry, War -
Creation Magazine is an online literary and arts magazine that is published trianually. The journal three reading periods and publish three seasonal issues. During their Spring Issue, they publish prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction and...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 25 to Dec 1, Jan 20 to Apr 25, Jun 20 to Aug 5Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
The Cupboard Pamphlet publishes works of prose and prose collections between 5,000 and 10,000 words. Submissions can be composed of one piece or multiple pieces. The editors make no demands on content or genre, with the exception of verse poetry...
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Established by Richard Hugo and William Kittredge in 1973, CutBank is Montana's oldest literary magazine. We are run by the students of the University of Montana Creative Writing MFA program, publishing two annual print issues of fiction,...
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Dappled Things is a Catholic literary magazine produced in partnership with the Collegium Institute for Catholic Thought & Culture.
Reading Period: Feb 1 to May 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Dark Matter: Women Witnessing publishes writing and visual art created in response to an age of massive species loss and ecological collapse.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Dark Onus Lit is focused on “dark-themed” work, as in writing and artwork that is in some way thematically or visually dark in its telling or presentation. The editors are keen on serious, challenging, experimental works, including...
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The Dark Sire Literary Journal (TDS) is a literary journal that publishes twice-yearly paperback issues (Fall and Spring). Publishing gothic, horror, fantasy, and psychological fiction, poetry, and art, especially work that has had a...
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The Dawn Review publishes poetry, prose, art, and hybrid submissions from emerging and established writers and artists. The editors curate each issue to amplify a diverse range of perspectives and showcase work that transcends genre.
Reading Period: Aug 15 to Oct 31, Dec 15 to Feb 28, May 15 to Jun 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Criticism, art, literature, reviews, aesthetics, abstraction, meta, classics.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Creative NonfictionGenres: Experimental, Lyric Essay, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry -
Since 1958, december has been committed to distributing the work of emerging writers and artists and celebrating more seasoned voices through a semi-annual nonprofit literary magazine featuring fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and...
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Decolonial Passage welcomes writing from all writers engaged in the decolonial project, regardless of the writer’s race, origin, gender, disability, or geographical location. Simultaneously, Decolonial Passage centers African,...
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decomp journal (ISSN: 1947-0436) is an online literary magazine that is published three times a year. They are an in-house journal for the Social Justice Institute at the University of British Columbia, and they publish prose, poetry,...
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Deep South Magazine is committed to being a forum for Southern writers and showcasing Southern literature and accepts submissions of original fiction, nonfiction and poetry. For fiction, we are doing themed calls throughout the year....
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Regional -
Deep Wild Journal is the home for creative work inspired by journeys to places where there are no roads. We seek work that conjures the experiences, observations, and insights of backcountry journeys. By “backcountry,” we mean away from...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Dec 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Nature/Environmental, Nonfiction, Poetry -
Defunct is a magazine that celebrates what’s over and what isn’t yet.
“We’re mourning. We’re functioning. Let’s show the world what we want & need through what we’ve lost. Punk’s not dead, punk’s not dead. We’re punk. We’re...
Read moreReading Period: Nov 15 to Jan 15, Jul 15 to Sep 15Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
The Delmarva Review publishes literary short fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry annually in print and electronic editions. Both are available worldwide via online major booksellers. The editors welcome new literary work in English...
Read moreReading Period: Nov 1 to Mar 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Cross-genre, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry -
Delta Poetry Review is an online poetry journal committed to publishing exceptional work by new, emerging, and established writers.
Poetry from and about the American delta region and the South is encouraged, but all topics are...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
Diagram is an electronic journal of text and art. As its name indicates, the editors are interested in representations. In naming. In indicating. In schematics. In the labeling and taxonomy of things. In poems that masquerade as stories...
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Black Sun Lit is the publisher of digital vestiges, an online series of fragments and ephemera: poetry, fiction, hybrid works, translation, interviews with writers and artists, and short works of drama.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Translation
