Catamaran Literary Reader is a quarterly literary and visual arts journal. Catamaran features fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and fine art in a full size, full color magazine.
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, Translation -
Founded in 2013, Cleaver is Philadelphia’s international quarterly literary magazine. It publishes contemporary fiction, nonfiction, poetry, author interviews, essays on craft and the writing life, writing tips, and book reviews.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Club Plum publishes creative nonfiction, flash fiction, prose poetry, and art that often straddles realities without losing clarity or emotion. Powerful, single-reality pieces are loved, too.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Founded in 2001, Collision Literary Magazine is a student-run publication that accepts poetry, creative nonfiction prose, literary criticism, art, and photography by undergraduate students. Their goal is to represent a variety of young...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 28 to Jan 27Genre: Poetry, Creative Nonfiction -
Colorado Review’s is committed to publishing contemporary poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. It does not publish genre fiction (unless it is more literary than genre), nor does it subscribe to a particular literary philosophy or...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 1 to Mar 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Conjunctions serves as a “living notebook” of contemporary literature, publishing fiction, poetry, drama, art, and essays that combine visionary imagination with formally innovative execution. Since 1981, Conjunctions has...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Cool Beans Lit publishes stimulating fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry and visual art that all coalesce into stunning issues. The editorial focus is challenging, thoughtful, experimental, and eclectic work from both new and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
cream city review is Milwaukee’s leading and oldest literary journal devoted to pushing the boundaries of writing. Each issue features fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and visual art. Published biannually, cream city review...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 1 to Oct 1, Jan 2 to Mar 2Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: 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 -
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,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
decomp journal 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, art, and creative...
Read moreReading Period: Nov 1 to Dec 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Experimental, Flash Fiction, Humor, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Prose 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...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
The Drift & Dribble Miscellany publishes an eclectic compendium of stories, poems, essays, and dribbles, and especially those works that capture the uniqueness and beauty of inhabiting our complex human world. The society has an...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
The goal of the East on Central Association is to encourage artistic expression of the creative spirit through its journal and activities. The annual journal began with a local focus but now includes work from artists and writers throughout...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Feb 28Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Eastern Iowa Review especially likes lyric essays and prose poetry, but check their guidelines for genres accepted during specific reading periods. They have occasional print issues every few years, usually as a collection of select...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Feb 28Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Ebony Tomatoes Collective is a literary organization for personal and political liberation run by a Black queer collective. Its platform includes up to three print issues annually, a monthly newsletter, and low-cost events and workshops...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, LGBTQ Voices, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Nonfiction, Poetry, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Religious/Spiritual, Speculative Fiction -
The Ekphrastic Review is an online journal devoted entirely to writing inspired by visual art. Its objective is to promote ekphrastic writing, promote art appreciation, and experience how the two strengthen each other and bring...
Read moreReading Period: May 1 to May 31, Aug 1 to Aug 31, Nov 1 to Nov 30, Feb 1 to Feb 28, May 1 to May 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Their only requirement is that a piece has been previously rejected and revised since it was initially sent out. The writers they want to publish have sat with their work; they have considered their rejections and have actively worked on their...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 1 to Mar 15, Aug 1 to Sep 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Magical Realism, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Speculative Poetry -
eMerge Online Literary Magazine seeks avant-garde poetry and short fiction that pushes boundaries. eMerge values works that prompt readers to perceive aspects of humanity in novel and enlightening ways, encouraging a fresh...
Read moreReading Period: Oct 1 to Oct 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Eoagh is dedicated to the idea of reading as a process, the productive chaos of investigative poetic work. It seeks to foreground the writing of queer, trans, feminist, BIPOC, and antiracist authors. It seeks texts that explore the acts...
Read moreReading Period: Apr 17 to May 17Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Erotica, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Healing/Health, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Lyric Essay, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Religious/Spiritual, Serialized Fiction, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Speculative Poetry, Translation -
For 54 years, EVENT has published the very best in contemporary new poetry and prose. It is one of Western Canada’s longest-running literary magazines and welcomes submissions written in English from around the world. Each issue of ...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 1 to Sep 30, Dec 1 to Jan 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Exposition Review is an independent, multi-genre literary journal that publishes narratives by new, emerging, and established writers in the genres of fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry, scripts for stage and screen, experimental,...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 4 to Mar 5, Apr 4 to May 5, Jun 4 to Jul 5, Aug 4 to Sep 5, Sep 15 to Dec 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Farmer-ish publishes personal essays, informational essays, poetry, book reviews, and profiles on topics related to nature, making, the environment, farming, homesteading, animals, health, and family.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Creative Nonfiction -
Fecund highlights exceptional works of new abundance. The magazine is a medium through which writers and visual artists are exquisitely showcased and paid for their work. Fecund publishes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, theory,...
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Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
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Fourth Genre is devoted to publishing notable, innovative work in literary (creative) nonfiction, and the editors are especially looking to provide space to voices less seldom heard from in literary publications. The journal pays a $50...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Mar 15, Sep 1 to Nov 30Genre: Creative Nonfiction
