The Montréal Review features long-form critical essays, book reviews, commentary and interviews, photo essays, short stories and poetry. It is illustrated with contemporary and classic art by Canadian and international artists....
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Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
MORIA is a national online literary magazine with an all-student editorial board, based at Woodbury University in greater Los Angeles. It accepts poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction from emerging and established writers in the...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 30 to Oct 1, Jan 15 to Mar 1Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Moss is a literary journal of writing from the Pacific Northwest. Published annually, Moss is dedicated to exploring the intersection of place and creative expression, while exposing the region’s outstanding writers to a broad...
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Muzzle aims to bring together the voices of poets from a diverse array of backgrounds, paying special homage to poets from communities that are historically underrepresented in print and online publications.
Reading Period: Jun 15 to Jul 15, Dec 15 to Jan 15Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Feminist, LGBTQ Voices, Political -
The New Absurdist is a space for the creative, the curious, and the unapologetically passionate to engage in educated discourse and promote positive growth in the world. The editors want its name to remind everyone that everyone has...
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The New Guard is a contest-centered, independent literary review, publishing 35+ emerging writers each volume from the United States and abroad. They proudly publish in print and have short pieces published online on their BANG! page....
Read moreReading Period: Mar 1 to Jan 11Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The New Verse News covers the news of the day with poems on issues, large and small, international and local. It relies on the submission of poems (especially those of a politically progressive bent) by writers from all over the world....
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Nude Bruce Review strives to publish compelling, high-quality poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, supporting and spotlighting the voices of emerging and established writers of all identities across the globe. To this end, NBR...
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Oddball Magazine is an eclectic online lit magazine with comic strips, music reviews, theater criticism, pop culture poetry, flash fiction, breaking news, tribute pieces, and more.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Humor, Micro-poetry, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry -
The mission of Ofi Press Magazine is to promote superb work from all over the world as well as translated work from Mexican poets.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Translation -
Oregon Humanities is a magazine about the experiences, ideas, and beliefs of Oregonians. In each issue, Oregon writers, artists, and readers explore diverse perspectives and challenging questions relating to the place we live and the...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 7 to Apr 24, Jul 1 to Aug 15, Nov 10 to Dec 15Genre: Creative Nonfiction -
OtherwiseMag publishes stories that speak the language of lived experience. This may be a biography, a portrait, an event, a situation, a historical moment, or an encounter. They expect stories to achieve depth, have narrative coherence...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Historical, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, LGBTQ Voices, Magical Realism, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Speculative Poetry, Visual Poetry -
The pacificREVIEW is an annual review of prose, poetry, and artwork on a given theme, published in affiliation with San Diego State University Press. For 2025–26, their coeditors are Lola Schroeder & Nathan Nguyen. The 2025–26...
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Comrades, sisters, brothers, and members of the human family: Packingtown Review has long joined the struggle to destroy the imperialist white supremacist capitalist heteropatriarchy. They resist sentimental urges of the national and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Graphic/Illustrated, Historical, LGBTQ Voices, Political, Pop Culture, Translation -
Pennsylvania Literary Journal is a printed and digital journal that publishes scholarly essays on a range of topics, periods, genres and fields, as well as book reviews, short fiction stories, interviews, photographs, art, and poetry....
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Pensive publishes work that deepens the inward life; expresses a range of religious/spiritual/humanist experiences and perspectives; envisions a more just, peaceful, and sustainable world; advances dialogue across difference; and...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 1 to Nov 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Lyric Essay, Magical Realism, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, Prose Poetry, Religious/Spiritual, Short Fiction, Translation, Visual Poetry -
The Plentitudes is an international literary journal showcasing captivating fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and flash from diverse voices. The editors believe in the power of writing—in its plentitudes of forms, styles, and modes of...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 1 to Mar 31, May 1 to Jun 30, Aug 1 to Sep 30, Nov 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Commercial Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Healing/Health, Historical, Humor, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Love, Lyric Essay, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Religious/Spiritual, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction -
The Poetry Project Newsletter is the Project’s quarterly publication for reviews, essays, interviews, poems, remembrances, and arts criticism. Published continuously since 1972 and freely available online, in bookstores around the U.S....
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The editors aim to publish art and words for the future by artists and writers who believe they’re carrying, on their hunched-over-computer shoulders, a pretty heavy yet very pretty burden—to offer a way into humanity so that...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Humor, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Lyric Essay, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Visual Poetry -
Radon Journal is a triannual publisher of prose and poetry relating to science fiction, anarchism, transhumanism, and cyberpunk dystopia. It is a paying market publishing quality literature every February, June, and October. Pay rates...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Subgenres: Political, Speculative Fiction, Speculative Poetry -
Rattle is a publication of the Rattle Foundation, and its mission is to promote the practice of poetry.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Experimental, Formal Poetry, Humor, Love, Micro-poetry, Political, Prose Poetry -
Reading into Culture is a quarterly international literary magazine. It publishes essays, poetry, and short fiction exploring the intersections of art, culture, and society from a young, left-wing perspective.
Reading Period: Apr 1 to Apr 30, Jul 1 to Jul 31, Oct 1 to Oct 31, Jan 1 to Jan 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Creative Nonfiction, Feminist, Flash Fiction, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Lyric Essay, Political, Pop Culture -
Recenter Press was founded in June 2017 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and moved home to the Bay Area in May 2023. Works published speak to workers’ rights and experiences, LGBTQ and racial justice, recovery and mysticism, and interdependence...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 15 to Nov 30Genre: PoetrySubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Feminist, Healing/Health, Historical, LGBTQ Voices, Nature/Environmental, Political, Religious/Spiritual, War -
redrosethorns journal is an online literary publication dedicated to work exploring mental health, self-care, gender, and sexuality, in any genre and style.
We are inspired by the feminist consciousness-raising movement, which...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Commercial Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Healing/Health, Historical, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Love, Lyric Essay, Micro-poetry, Mystery, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Speculative Poetry, Visual Poetry -
River Teeth is a biannual print journal publishing the best of creative nonfiction, including narrative reportage, essays, and memoir. They are also home to Beautiful Things, a weekly online magazine of micro essays.
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Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Apr 1, Sep 1 to Dec 1Genre: Creative Nonfiction
