WomenArts Quarterly Journal (WAQ), an initiative of Women in the Arts, aspires to nurture, provide support, and challenge women-identified artists of all cultures, ethnicities, backgrounds, and abilities in their role in the...
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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 NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Feminist, Flash Fiction, Humor, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Prose Poetry -
The issues are cohesive; the whole of the magazine is comprehensive.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Open to all literary work. We welcome the oppotunity to expand our community of writers.
Reading Period: Jul 16 to Sep 28Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
We are an annual journal. All submissions are read independently by at least two editors. Crititcal work should have a central New England connection.
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Word For/Word is open to all types of poetry, prose and visual art, but prefers innovative and post-avant work with an astute awareness of the materials, rhythms, trajectories and emerging forms of the contemporary.
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Wordgathering provides a venue for those whose talent in writing poetry converges with an interest in the growing field of disabilities literature. It seeks writing that counters stereotypes of disabilities. In addition to poetry, it...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Healing/Health, LGBTQ Voices, Prose Poetry -
Online journal of literature in translation.
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Each issue of Workers Write! contains stories and poems from a particular workplace.
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World Literature Today is the University of Oklahoma’s bimonthly magazine of international literature and culture, founded in 1927. The editors welcome submissions on contemporary literary and cultural topics addressing any geographic...
Read moreReading Period: Nov 1 to Jan 31, May 1 to Jul 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Literary Fiction, Poetry, Translation -
The Woven Tale Press is a fine arts and literary magazine that welcomes unsolicited submissions. We focus on contributors with a web presence (blog or website). You may send us new or previously published material, as long as you still...
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Established by combat veterans and maintained by a diverse board of veterans, military spouses, and writers compelled by themes of social justice and human resilience, the Wrath-Bearing Tree publishes essays, reviews, fiction, and poetry...
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The Writing Disorder is a quarterly literary journal devoted to literature, art and culture. Our mission is to showcase new and emerging writers—particularly those in writing programs—as well as established writers. We feature new...
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WUSSY is biannual print magazine dedicated to queer art and pop culture.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: LGBTQ Voices, Regional -
WWPH Writes is looking for poetry and fiction that celebrate, unsettle, and question our lives in the DC, Maryland, and Virginia area (DMV) and in our nation. We seek work that is lyrical and dynamic, and we believe in cultivating a...
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Yalobusha Review is a journal of new writing, founded in 1995 and operated by the graduate writing program at the University of Mississippi.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Subgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry -
Accepted submissions include creative nonfiction, poetry, and cover art by authors that identify as women and must relate to the issue theme and guiding questions, as interpreted by the author. See Submissions Guidelines for more information.
Reading Period: Mar 1 to Mar 31Genre: Poetry, Creative Nonfiction -
Yellow Medicine Review is an international journal of indigenous literature, art, and thought. It includes the work of both renowned and emerging writers, artists, and scholars and is published twice a year in spring and fall.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Prose Poetry -
Yemassee, the annual print literary journal of the University of South Carolina MFA program, has published fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction since 1993.
Reading Period: Aug 10 to Dec 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Yes Poetry was founded in February 2010 by Joanna C. Valente.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Micro-poetry, Prose Poetry -
Young Ravens Literary Review is a biannual online literary journal. We accept material from both new and established writers and artists. We want to know what haunts, inspires, maddens, and exalts you on our common journey through...
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Your Impossible Voice publishes brash and velvety new work from around the world. We’re looking for quality fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translations, and more. We like urgency, innovation, intelligence, and risk. We’re interested in what...
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At Zizzle we look for literary flash fiction that will surprise, move, and amuse both young and older imaginative minds. We like fiction that dives deep into meaning and resists banality. We believe the moral, if any, of a great story...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: FictionSubgenres: Fiction, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction -
The Zodiac Review was launched in 2011 to provide a quality venue for readers and new, emerging and established writers of "literary/genre" fiction—the merger of literary fiction and (nearly) any genre that joins it. Here new and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: FictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Feminist, Flash Fiction, Humor, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Political, Speculative Fiction -
Zone 3 publishes fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction in a wide variety of aesthetics from both emerging and established writers.
Reading Period: Aug 1 to Apr 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
ZYZZYVA is a San Francisco literary journal publishing fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and visual art by the best writers, poets, translators, and artists working on the West Coast—and beyond. Since the magazine’s inception over thirty years ago,...
Read moreReading Period: Jun 1 to Sep 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Literary Fiction
