The Broken City is a semiannual literary magazine that deals in cutting-edge poetry, prose, illustration, and photography. Submissions from both new and experienced writers are welcomed.
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 -
Cagibi is invested in sharing the universal human experiences to be found in works of prose and poetry set within places unfamiliar to readers; thus, an expressed interest in international—or world—literature and works in translation. ...
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The Calendula Review is a creative journal of Narrative Medicine (NM). NM is an area of practice that supports an interdisciplinary approach to patient care. Narrative medicine emphasizes understanding patients’ and caregivers’ personal...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 15 to Mar 31, Aug 15 to Sep 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Carolina Muse Literary & Arts Magazine is a multimedia arts magazine showcasing primarily young adult creators in the Carolinas. It publishes short stories, scripts, poetry, art and photography, music, and dance in a digital...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 1 to Apr 15, Jun 1 to Aug 15, Oct 1 to Dec 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
carte blanche believes there is more than one way to tell a story. Their mandate is to provide a venue for narrative of all forms. They accept previously unpublished works of fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, translations, comics,...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 1 to Apr 12Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, LGBTQ Voices, Poetry, Translation -
Chaotic Merge is a literary/multimedia magazine that is home to obscure and honest work from the new and rising artists around the world. They believe that if diverse and different stories are put together, there can be a knowledgeable...
Read moreReading Period: Apr 5 to May 10Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Founded in 2013, Cleaver is Philadelphia’s international quarterly literary magazine. It publishes cutting-edge contemporary fiction, nonfiction, poetry, interviews, essays on craft and the writing life, and book reviews.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Colorado Review’s only commitment is to the publication of serious poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. It does not publish genre fiction nor does it subscribe to a particular literary philosophy or school of poetry or fiction. Note that the...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 1 to Mar 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Consequence addresses the human consequences and realities of war and geopolitical violence through literature and art, offering intellectual and emotional access to the experiences of combatants, victims, and witnesses. They provide the...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 15 to Apr 15, Jul 15 to Oct 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Graphic/Illustrated, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Lyric Essay, Translation, War -
The editors like stories with singular visions and points-of-view. They want the journal to be the home of fiction that challenges the reader even just a little bit, at least to the point of thinking about something in a new or different way....
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Fiction -
Cream City Review is Milwaukee’s leading literary journal devoted to pushing the boundaries of writing. Each issue features fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and visual art. Published biannually, Cream City Review is a...
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 -
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 August Drift & Dribble Literary Society 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: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
John Updike once said, “Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.” Driftwood Press is actively searching for artists who care about doing it...
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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: Aug 15 to Oct 15, Jan 15 to Mar 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 -
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: Mar 17 to Apr 17Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Cross-genre, Erotica, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Healing/Health, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Religious/Spiritual, Serialized Fiction, Translation -
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: Sep 15 to Dec 31, Feb 4 to Mar 5, Apr 4 to May 5, Jun 4 to Jul 5, Aug 4 to Sep 5Genre: Poetry, Fiction, 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,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Flora Fiction is dedicated to artists of all types: poets, writers, photographers, and illustrations. The editors are here to provide a platform for emerging creatives to showcase their work. Their literary magazine comes out every...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 28 to Feb 28, Jul 1 to Aug 17, Oct 1 to Oct 30, Dec 1 to Dec 31 -
The Florida Review publishes compelling new poetry, fiction, CNF, and graphic narratives from around the world from established and emerging writers.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, Poetry, Prose Poetry -
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: 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: Sep 1 to Nov 30, Jan 1 to Mar 15Genre: Creative Nonfiction -
The Freshwater Review is a student led yearly publication featuring poetry, visual art, and short fiction from contributers all over the world. Submissions are free and are automatically entered in for the Rose Warner Prize consideration...
Read moreReading Period: Dec 1 to Feb 15Subgenres: Cross-genre, Graphic/Illustrated, Poetry, Short Fiction -
Full Bleed exists to cultivate that fertile ground where the visual and literary arts intersect. The editors are happy to consider criticism, belle-lettres, visual art, illustration, fiction, poetry, and...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 1 to Nov 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
The Furious Gazelle is striving to provide the best collection of original writing and art from across the World Wide Web.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
