Orion is a quarterly, ad-free literary magazine focusing on nature, culture, and place. We publish essays, narrative nonfiction, poetry, and short fiction that address environmental and societal issues.
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: Jun 15 to Jun 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Ornery Quarterly is a “non-institutional aggregator of mediocre literature.”
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Experimental, Fiction, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry -
Oroboro is a literary journal published bi-annually by Death Rattle, aimed at publishing and promoting poets, authors, and artists.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Apr 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Other Journal welcomes the submission of critical essays, reviews, creative writing, and visual or performance art that encounter life through the lens of theology and culture; it seeks pieces that consider the interaction of faith...
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the other side of hope: journeys in refugee and immigrant literature is a UK-based literary magazine edited by refugees and immigrants.
Reading Period: Feb 1 to May 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
OtherwiseMag publishes stories that speak the language of lived experience. This may be a biography, a portrait, an event, a situation, a historical moment, or an encounter. They expect stories to achieve depth, have narrative coherence...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Historical, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, LGBTQ Voices, Magical Realism, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Speculative Poetry, Visual Poetry -
Founded in 2009, Otis Nebula is an innovative micro press that showcases incandescent, substantial work that surprises itself. Though open to all forms, sub-forms, and hybrids, the primary focus is on poetry. Each issue features twelve...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Overtime, a series of one-story chapbooks, was created to showcase some of the stories we receive that are a little too long for our Workers Write! series, but are worthy of publication.
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The Oxford American is dedicated to featuring the very best in Southern writing while documenting the complexity and vitality of the American South.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Oxford Magazine, casually known as OxMag, is a literary and arts magazine edited and published by creative writing MFA students at Miami University. Since their premiere in 1984, the magazine has received Pushcart Prizes for...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 15 to Mar 15, Sep 15 to Oct 15Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Oyez Review is the literary magazine of the creative writing program at Roosevelt University in Chicago. It is published annually, edited by a staff of MFA candidates under the direction of a faculty member with professional...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 20 to Mar 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Cross-genre, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry -
Note: In 2023, Oyster River Pages will only accept submissions for its "Soundings" column, which features reviews, interviews, profiles, commentary, or other innovative forms (including multimedia) that seek to highlight or critically...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Creative Nonfiction -
Pacifica Literary Review publishes poetry, fiction, and creative non three times a year. Based in Seattle, it invites writers from all backgrounds, races, orientations, and occupations to send work.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Poetry -
The pacificREVIEW is an annual review of prose, poetry, and artwork on a given theme, published in affiliation with San Diego State University Press. For 2023-24 our editor is the artist Helena Westra.
Reading Period: Aug 1 to Jan 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Comrades, sisters, brothers, and members of the human family, we have long joined the struggle to destroy the imperialist white supremacist capitalist heteropatriarchy. We resist sentimental urges of the national and canonical. We refuse joyless...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Painted Bride Quarterly’s editorial staff is triangulated out of Philadelphia, NYC, and Abu Dhabi, with a community-based process for work. PBQ publishes poems, stories, & non-fiction that represent the individual, with a...
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Palette Poetry endeavors to uplift and engage both emerging and established poets in the literary community. The journal has no particular aesthetic vision but aims to create an empowering space for all voices, especially those that are...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
"I decided some years ago that I wanted to create a space for people taking on the struggle, a venue to give those writers and artists a truly fair shot at publication and the chance to be seen, read, and recognized—no connections, no...
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Pangyrus is a literary magazine that is dedicated to art, ideas, and making culture thrive. Its name is a portmanteau of pangea (the world continent) and gyrus (the folds on the cerebral cortex of the brain). Pangyrus...
Read moreReading Period: Jul 15 to Oct 15, Jan 15 to Apr 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Paper Brigade is the print literary journal of Jewish Book Council. Composed of articles, interviews, fiction, poetry, and artwork, it celebrates the breadth and diversity of today’s Jewish books in the U.S. and abroad. The journal seeks...
Read moreReading Period: Dec 15 to Feb 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Paper Dragon is the Drexel MFA literary magazine committed to publishing poetry, short stories, short screenplays, creative nonfiction, and artwork that resonates with contemporary readers. The editors are committed to showcasing...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 1 to Apr 21Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Papers Publishing believes in putting the writing first. A group of creatives jumpstarted Papers as a way for writers and readers alike to go back to where it all started—the page. Writers come from all backgrounds, and the editors are aiming to...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Parhelion Literary Magazine provides a platform to share and celebrate writing by talented emerging and established writers. Parhelion's mission is to promote writers, connect writers, and educate writers, all while creating a...
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The Paris-American's mission is to unite talented emerging poets and established poets on the same stage, while also serving as a weekly e-zine for new poetry.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
Passager journal publishes two issues per year, featuring poetry and prose by writers over 50—a poetry contest issue and an issue featuring poetry, short fiction and memoir/personal essay. Its mission is to bring attention to the work of...
Read moreReading Period: Jul 15 to Sep 15, Feb 15 to Apr 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
