Camas aims to cultivate fresh ideas and perspectives while remaining rooted in the landscapes and traditions of art and literature in the American West. Founded by Environmental Studies graduate students at the University of Montana in...
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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: Aug 1 to Oct 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Nature/Environmental -
Canary is a magazine of poetry, fiction, and essays, which address the environmental crisis with its heartbreaking loss of habitat and species. The magazine is based on the premise that the literary arts can provide an understanding that...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 1 to Feb 28, May 1 to May 31, Aug 1 to Aug 31, Nov 1 to Nov 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Nature/Environmental -
At 50 years, The Cape Rock is one of the oldest literary journals in the nation.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry -
Carcinogenic Poetry accepts a variety of types and styles of poetry. CP endeavors to present as many voices from the literary independent and underground, both new and established.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
The Cardiff Review publishes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, criticism and interviews. Whenever possible, reading and publication precedence is given students currently on a related postgraduate course (i.e. Creative Writing, English...
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The Carolina Quarterly has been publishing the work of established and emergent writers for 65 years. Works from the past two volumes have recieved Honorable Mentions in Best American Short Stories, Best American Essays, and Best...
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Carte Blanche is the online venue for narratives of all forms. Published three times annually, it accepts unsolicited, previously unpublished works of poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, translation, comics, photography, and audio...
Read moreReading Period: Nov 1 to Mar 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Graphic/Illustrated, Translation -
Carve, named in honor of Raymond Carver, publishes fiction, poetry, and nonfiction that respects the power of language and craft and elicits genuine emotional truths. The editors also strive to foster a sense of camaraderie among all...
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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.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Nature/Environmental -
Catholics, many of whom are new to poetry.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Poetry, Religious/Spiritual -
At Cease, Cows we want to explore the contemporary, the strange, the big questions. We want to feel cultural pulses, expose mental arteries, bathe in both the sanguine and sanguinary. We want to publish prose with fire and truth. Humans...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Jan 21, Mar 1 to Mar 7, May 1 to May 15Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsSubgenres: Flash Fiction -
The purpose of The Champagne Room, beyond creating a physical space for collecting and sharing writing that the editors believe in, is to generate, collaborate, and commune. The editors remain devoted to making this literary space...
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Change Seven is an online literary journal. We seek to publish the best available fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, visual art, book reviews, and more from both established and emerging talents.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Jan 31, Jun 1 to Jun 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Chaotic Merge is a literary/multi-media magazine that is home to obscure and honest work from the new and rising artists around the world. If we put all our diverse and different stories, we can create a knowledgeable and authentic...
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Chapter House is an online literary journal promoting the ideals and vision of the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) Low Residency MFA Program. It publishes either Winter/Summer or Fall/Spring.
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Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Nov 11Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry -
The Charles Carter is an online literary magazine composed of submissions from writers from many places and backgrounds. Every submission is read all the way through in a workshop setting, and it is their aim to provide authors with...
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The editors actively solicit writing that expresses the values of Chautauqua Institution broadly construed: a sense of inquiry into questions of personal, social, political, spiritual, and aesthetic importance, regardless of genre.
Reading Period: Feb 15 to Mar 15, Sep 1 to Sep 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Cherry Tree's aesthetic champions image-rich, sonically adventurous poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction which showcase whimsy alongside wit, risk, and urgency. The Literary Shade section features work that responds to and challenges...
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We seek storytellers—not just for fiction, but in all the genres we publish. We love clarity in art, but that doesn’t necessarily mean simplicity. Tell us a story. It could be a story in a poem, an essay, an image, but it is still a story. You...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry -
Independent literary magazine honored by Best American Short Stories, Pushcart Prize, Best American Essays, and O. Henry Prize stories, publishing fiction, poetry and essays by new and established writers.
Reading Period: Jan 6 to Jun 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Translation -
The Chicago Review of Books is dedicated to making the literary conversation more inclusive. It publishes reviews, interviews, essays, and features.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Creative Nonfiction -
Chiron Review presents the widest possible range of contemporary creative writing—fiction and non-fiction, traditional and off-beat, in a perfect-bound, softcover format, including art and photography. It has published many well-known...
Read moreReading Period: Nov 1 to May 1Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Experimental, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Translation -
Tight work which will leave a scar on a reader.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Literary Fiction, Poetry -
Since 1908, the Home Forum has been a section of the Christian Science Monitor dedicated to nonfiction and poetry. The object of the Monitor is (in the words of its founder, Mary Baker Eddy) “to injure no man, but to bless all...
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One of the oldest quarterlies in the nation, Cimarron Review publishes work by writers at all stages of their careers, including Pulitzer and O. Henry prize winners, writers appearing in the Best American Series and the Pushcart...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Subgenres: Literary Fiction
