New England Review publishes quality fiction, poetry, and nonfiction that is both challenging and inviting to the general reader. The selections present a broad spectrum of viewpoints and genres, including traditional and experimental...
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Reading Period: Sep 1 to Nov 1, Mar 1 to May 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Poetry, Translation -
We want to promote art and artists. We are interested in art from many genres that pushes the envelope a bit. We produce three online issues and a print anthology at the end of the year that collects the works from the previous year. All...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 1 to Mar 1, Jun 1 to Jul 1, Oct 1 to Nov 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
The New Guard is a contest-centered, independent literary review, publishing 35+ emerging writers each volume from the US and abroad. We proudly publish in print and have short pieces published online on our BANG! page. Currently our...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 1 to Jan 11Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The mission of New Letters magazine is to discover, publish and promote the best and most exciting literary writing, wherever it might be found. It publishes and serves readers and writers worldwide. In recent years, New Letters...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
New Note Poetry believes poetry is the jazz of the written word. Expect wild, untamed, idiosyncratic, bold, and even a little shocking from our magazine. We aim to do for poetry what Blue Note did for jazz: present new, genre-breaking artists...
Read moreReading Period: Nov 1 to Nov 30, Feb 1 to Feb 28, May 1 to May 31, Aug 1 to Aug 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Experimental, Poetry -
New Ohio Review is a national literary journal produced by Ohio University’s Creative Writing Program.
Reading Period: Sep 15 to Nov 15, Jan 15 to Apr 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
New Orleans Review is a journal of contemporary literature and culture, publishing new poetry, fiction, nonfiction, art, photography, film and book reviews. Work published in the New Orleans Review has been reprinted in the ...
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New Plains Review provides an outlet for the creative and intellectual efforts of the academic community. Dedicated to fostering and maintaining the written word, New Plains Review gives a collective presentation of a wide range...
Read moreReading Period: Nov 1 to Jan 16, Jul 1 to Aug 16Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
New South seeks to publish high-quality work, regardless of genre, form, or regional ties. The editors want what’s new, what’s fresh, and what’s different, whether it comes from the southern United States, the south of India, or the...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Mar 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
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...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
New World Writing began life as Mississippi Review Online, a personal Web site that the editor (who was then also editor of Mississippi Review, the print magazine) put online in 1995.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Jan 14, Apr 1 to Apr 14, Jul 1 to Jul 14, Oct 1 to Oct 14Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
New Writing Scotland publishes works by writers resident in Scotland or Scots by birth, upbringing or inclination. All forms of writing are invited: autobiography and memoirs; creative responses to events and experiences; drama; graphic...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 1 to Oct 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Newfound publishes pieces that explore how place shapes identity, imagination, and understanding. The journal is published bi-annually online and features fiction, poetry, nonfiction, visual arts, reviews, and more.
Reading Period: May 15 to Aug 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Healing/Health, Historical, Humor, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Love, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Regional, Religious/Spiritual, Serialized Fiction, Translation, War -
Night Picnic is a journal of literature and art that publishes novels, novellas, plays, short and flash stories, fairytales for adults, poetry, interviews, essays (including popular science essays), letters to the editors, and artwork...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Nightingale & Sparrow is a literary magazine and small press featuring poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction, and photography. The magazine aims to soar through written and visual arts. The editors want to publish work that...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 2 to Mar 21, Jun 1 to Jun 21Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry’s mission is the discovery, development, and promotion of new writing. Its spring issue is thematic and dedicated to work by writers from one region of the world or a particular subject. It...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Oct 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, LGBTQ Voices, Prose Poetry, Speculative Fiction -
Ninth Letter is a collaborative arts and literary project produced by the Creative Writing Program and School of Art & Design at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Edited and designed by faculty and students as part of the...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Feb 28Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
No, Dear features poems by New York City writers. The small selection of poems creates a dialogue around a different theme (Debris / Violence / Water) for each issue.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Feb 15, Jul 1 to Aug 15Genre: Poetry -
Noctua Review is the literary publication of Southern Connecticut State University's (SCSU) English department. We encourage well-crafted poetry and fiction submissions of any style from emerging and established writers.
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Each issue is themed, and NonBinary Review explores the edges of those themes through speculative fiction, poetry, and art. NonBinary Review is looking for works that approach its themes in unexpected but completely fitting ways...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
The Nonconformist is a literary magazine dedicated to publishing fiction, poetry, experimental fiction and poetry, book reviews, literary criticism, and various culture-related articles. We believe in reconfiguring the world using pens,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
The Normal School is now an online journal featuring nonfiction, fiction, poetry, criticism, journalism, author interviews, and multi-media texts. The biannual print magazine finished in spring 2019, ending its eleven-year run.
Reading Period: Sep 1 to Dec 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Founded in Boston in 1815, the North American Review is the oldest literary magazines in the United States. Contributors include important nineteenth-century American writers and thinkers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harriet Beecher...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
A cross between a scholarly journal and a literary magazine, NCLR publishes creative writing by and interviews with North Carolina writers and essays about NC writers, literature, and literary history and culture.
Reading Period: Jan 15 to Mar 1, Mar 15 to Apr 30, Sep 15 to Oct 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Regional -
North of Oxford is an international journal of poetry, book reviews, commentary and essays.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry
