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,...
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Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Humor, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Lyric Essay, Magical Realism, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Regional, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Speculative Poetry, Translation -
Lucky Jefferson’s mission is simple: publish social change. The editors mobilize writers and artists to do good.
An award-winning publisher, it has set its sights on disrupting what books can be, forging a reality in which every...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Feb 28, Apr 1 to May 31, Aug 1 to Sep 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
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...
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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 -
Maudlin House is a new kind of publishing house for the twenty-first century. They want to challenge your perspectives, help you find your inner poet, expand your empathy, and take you to places you’ve never been. They’re devoted to...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Subgenres: Experimental, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Pop Culture -
MER - Mom Egg Review publishes an annual print journal and a quarterly online magazine featuring sharp, articulate, inventive work by mother writers and by others about mothers and motherhood. MER writers explore diverse experiences...
Read moreReading Period: May 1 to Jul 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Prose Poetry -
The Metaworker is an online literary magazine where great stories are forged. Their mission is to publish great things to read and the editors are interested in stories, poems, and art that have new, interesting perspectives or...
Read moreReading Period: Apr 1 to May 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Humor, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Magical Realism, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Speculative Poetry, Visual Poetry -
Metphrastics is an online poetry journal inspired by works in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The editors publish ekphrastic poetry responding to the Met’s permanent collection and special exhibits—all areas, including...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Micro-poetry, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Visual Poetry -
Micromance Magazine is the only lit mag 100% dedicated to flash romance (1,200 words max) and love lit—romance, love stories, women's fiction, and romantic poetry. Micromance Magazine has been serving the writing community since...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Subgenres: Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Love, Micro-poetry, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction, Young Adult -
Midway Journal accepts submissions of aesthetically ambitious work that occupies the realms between both the traditional and experimental. The editors seek to publish a variety of styles and diverse voices, and they are honored...
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Moonday Mag is a quarterly, speculative art, and literary magazine dedicated to celebrating all things fantastic and fantastically strange. Born in the place that rests between here and the uncanny valley, Moonday Mag wonders...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: 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 -
Mulberry Literary is an online literary and art magazine dedicated to showcasing creative work in its every form. It aims to provide a longstanding, international platform that is inclusive to all creative work,...
Read moreReading Period: Jul 1 to Jul 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Historical, Humor, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Lyric Essay, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Translation -
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 editors publish poetry by writers residing in or inspired by the northeastern coastal United States. They publish original poetry in all styles, including but not limited to:
- Free verse
- Formal poetry (...
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
October Hill Magazine believes strongly in the need for a digital platform from which new and aspiring writers can express their creativity. The editors believe in honoring new talent and publishing the very best of new literary and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Subgenres: Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Poetry, Prose Poetry -
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 -
OxMag is a literary & arts magazine run by creative writing MFA students at Miami University. Appearing biannually, our web-based journal that accepts fiction, poetry, new media, and creative nonfiction/essays. Miami University is...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 15 to Mar 15, Sep 15 to Oct 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Pan Haiku Review focuses on Japanese short-form poetry, including haiku, senryu, tanka, haiga and haibun/tanka prose. Typically each issue has a theme. For example, issue six only accepted submissions of haiku. The editor, Alan...
Read moreReading Period: Jul 1 to Jul 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: PoetrySubgenres: Cross-genre, Flash Fiction, Micro-poetry, Poetry, Prose Poetry -
Founded in 1951, the Penn Review is the oldest continuously published and premier literary magazine at the University of Pennsylvania. Devoted to the literary and visual arts, the Penn Review publishes original poetry, fiction,...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 3 to Mar 21, Sep 10 to Nov 7Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The digital archive petrichor publishes a variety of writers in contemporary art and poetics. The editors are particularly interested in strong image and experimental work of a visual nature.
Reading Period: Oct 1 to Dec 1, Apr 1 to Jun 1Genre: Poetry, Translation -
Pictura Journal seeks work that offers a vivid snapshot of its creator’s world—work that complicates the mundane through concrete images and language grounded in a strong sense of place.
Reading Period: Sep 1 to Dec 31, Mar 1 to Jun 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Pinch is a nationally recognized literary journal published by the University of Memphis. The editors publish work that uses form, content, and subtext do dissolve boundaries maintained by traditional publishers. The authors of these...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Lyric Essay, Magical Realism, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Speculative 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 -
Welcome to the PoArtMo Magazine, a new publication that focuses on impactful and inspiring writing. PoArtMo stands for “Positive Actions Rally Thoughts & Momentum,” a concept based on the following tenets: family-...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
