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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: Sep 1 to Feb 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
A national, print literary journal devoted to poetry and poetics.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Experimental, Poetry, Prose Poetry -
Redivider is operated by the MFA and MA students of the Writing, Literature & Publishing Department at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. It is published online three times per year, with fall, spring, and summer blurred genre...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to May 31, Aug 1 to Dec 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
For over 150 years, Reed Magazine has published the work of writers and artists whose voices persist beyond the page. Based in San José, California, Reed is honored to feature the works of new and emerging authors alongside pieces by literary...
Read moreReading Period: Jun 1 to Oct 1, Jun 1 to Nov 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
For over a decade, Relief has helped shape the landscapes of faith and imagination for readers around the world. It features fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, graphic narrative, and reviews by some of today’s finest literary...
Read moreReading Period: Oct 1 to Mar 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
For over two decades, Reunion: The Dallas Review has been dedicated to finding and publishing exceptional examples of short fiction, drama, visual art, poetry, translation work, non-fiction, and interviews. Its mission remains...
Read moreReading Period: Oct 1 to Jan 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Cross-genre -
Revolute is a digital literary magazine founded in 2019 by the Randolph College MFA program. Revolute is committed to publishing the most engaging writing possible and is further committed to publishing emerging writers from...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 15 to Dec 8Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Experimental, Fiction, Literary Fiction, Poetry, Speculative Poetry -
Revue Révolution is a polymath review of poetry & art, fusing Eastern, Western & African cultures, as well as mythology and philosophy. Bilingual in English/French, it publishes poetry, prose, and translations. Based in...
Read moreReading Period: Apr 21 to Sep 22Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Creative Nonfiction, Historical, Lyric Essay, Narrative Nonfiction -
RHINO is a high-quality, perfect-bound annual journal with online content including poems, event updates, and monthly e-zine RHINO Reviews. It invites traditional or experimental work reflecting passion, originality, artistic conviction...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 1 to Jun 30Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Flash Fiction, Poetry, Translation -
Right Hand Pointing publishes short poetry (under 16 lines), flash fiction (under 500 words), and art.
Reading Period: Feb 1 to Mar 15, May 1 to Jun 15, Aug 1 to Sep 15, Nov 1 to Dec 15Subgenres: Flash Fiction, Micro-poetry, Prose Poetry -
Rivanna Review is a print journal published four times a year in Charlottesville, Virginia, on the Rivanna River. The content is general interest—stories, features, and book reviews. Photographs and drawings are black-...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
As a multicultural magazine of poetry, prose and art, River Styx publishes works of both new and established artists significant for their originality, energy and deft of craft. The high quality of its form and content have made it a...
Read moreReading Period: Jun 1 to Nov 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
River Teeth is a biannual print journal publishing the best of creative nonfiction, including narrative reportage, essays, and memoir. We are also home to Beautiful Things, a weekly online magazine of micro-essays.
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Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Dec 1, Jan 1 to Apr 1Genre: Creative Nonfiction -
We publish 3-7 featured pieces every month--focusing primarily on poetry, creative nonfiction, fiction, flash, graphic narrative, and visual poetry.
On occasion, we review small press, literary books or invite authors published with...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Dec 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Rockford Review prefers interior rhyme in poems, as opposed to rhymed endings, and nonviolent, non-vulgar prose.
Reading Period: Jul 15 to Oct 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
RockPaperPoem publishes today's finest poetry from established, emerging and new poets writing in English. We strive to include all cultural identities as we highlight work that expands the boundaries of mainstream poetry, without...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 2 to Feb 15, May 1 to Jun 15, Sep 1 to Oct 15Genre: Poetry -
Room is Canada’s oldest feminist literary journal, and has published fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, art, interviews, and book reviews for forty years. Published quarterly by the West Coast Feminist Literary Magazine Society, also...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
To supply an eclectic, quality, national venue for new and underappreciated writers of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Rougarou, a Journal of Arts and Literature, aims to publish an eclectic, resonant selection of creative writing by emerging and established writers. Founded in 2007 by the faculty and graduate students of the University of Louisiana at...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 1 to Mar 1, Sep 15 to Oct 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Route 7 Review, established in 2013 and published annually by Utah Tech University, welcomes submissions of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and visual arts from artists and writers from anywhere in the world.
Reading Period: Sep 15 to Nov 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Flash Fiction -
The Rumpus strives to be a platform for marginalized voices and writing that might not find a home elsewhere and to lift up new voices alongside those of more established writers we love.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Rundelania is the digital literary journal of the Arts and Literature Division, located within the Central Branch of the Rochester Public Library (NY). The journal is dedicated to the publication of original poetry and prose.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Rune Bear is a digital literary magazine devoted to the Strange, Surreal, Supernatural, and Speculative. This includes all horror, science-fiction, slipstream, all-the-punks, fantasy, myth, and strange thoughts, as long as the content is...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Oct 31Subgenres: Experimental, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Micro-poetry, Speculative Fiction -
Rust & Moth is a literary journal featuring imaginative and engaging poetry. We stand on the side of the marginalized and of voices that have not been traditionally heard, and we value work that errs on the side of immediacy, strong images,...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 1 to Mar 31, Jun 1 to Jun 30, Sep 1 to Sep 30, Dec 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
Salamander specializes in publishing highly accomplished poetry, fiction, and memoirs by writers who deserve a wider audience for their work.
Reading Period: Oct 1 to Apr 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
