Steam Ticket, A Third Coast Review, is published each April. It is the national literary magazine of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. We publish high-quality poetry, fiction, and essays from both experienced and emerging writers....
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: Dec 1 to Mar 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
StepAway Magazine is an online literary magazine publishing the best urban flash fiction and poetry by writers from across the globe. The title of the magazine draws inspiration from Frank O’ Hara’s landmark flâneur poem, “A Step Away...
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Still Point Arts Quarterly has a clear focus on nature, art, and spirit as it explores a unique theme with each issue. The publication has been praised for its rich content and splendid layout and design. Intended for art and literary...
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Stone Canoe showcases the work of a diverse mix of emerging and well-established artists and writers who are current or former residents of Upstate New York. In doing so, the journal supports the YMCA's Downtown Writers Center's ongoing...
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Stone Poetry Quarterly (formerly Stone Poetry Journal) is an online poetry journal that publishes poems ranging from the visceral to the cerebral across a full scope of human experience and awareness. We prefer to publish...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Oct 31, Dec 1 to Jan 31, Mar 1 to Apr 30, Jun 1 to Jul 31Genre: Poetry -
Stoneboat is an online, independent journal of literature and arts dedicated to publishing quality fiction, nonfiction, memoir, poetry, artwork, and graphic literature. It strives to showcase outstanding and diverse work from both...
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The Stonecoast Review is a literary arts journal edited by alumni and students from University of Southern Maine's Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing. It welcomes creative nonfiction, fiction (literary, general, and pop/genre),...
Read moreReading Period: Jul 20 to Oct 1, Feb 1 to Apr 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Storm Cellar curates writing that is surprising, formally and affectively innovative, and represents the highest quality of various literary traditions. Each issue reflects the current tastes of the editorial team. It actively prefers...
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Story is an independent literary journal of narrative fiction and nonfiction aimed to enrich the American literary life through a publication of a diverse and inclusive roster of contemporary voices. Founded in 1931, Story has...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction -
Story Unlikely is an award-winning monthly email publication that features quality fiction and nonfiction that focuses on storytelling.
Reading Period: Jan 2 to Sep 29Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Founded in 1975, StoryQuarterly has been publishing emerging and established writers for over thirty years.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to May 21, Jan 1 to Apr 2, Mar 19 to Jun 4Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
storySouth focuses on writing from and about the American South.
Reading Period: Jun 15 to Jul 15, Dec 15 to Jan 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Streetlight Magazine is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Its mission is to publish exceptional talent, both new and established, from our region and across the country.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The editors of Sublunary Review welcome poetry, short story, and art submissions from all people and places. Send them your most oneiric, moonlit work.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 1Temporarily Closed to Submissions -
“Strong Words for a Polite Nation” subTerrain Magazine was founded in 1988 to publish writers from the other side of the tracks. Each issue features progressive and sometimes controversial writing, alongside timely book reviews and...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 1 to Mar 31, Jul 1 to Jul 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Sugar House Review is an independent, poetry magazine based out of Utah. Its mission is to promote an eclectic range of poets to build nationally connected literary communities and foster the literary arts in Utah.
Reading Period: May 31 to Jun 30, Jan 31 to Jul 31Genre: Poetry -
The Summerset Review is a literary journal released quarterly on the 15th of March, June, September, and December on the Internet, and periodically in print form. Founded in 2002, the journal is exclusively devoted to the review and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Creative Nonfiction, Literary Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Short Fiction -
The Sun is an independent, ad-free magazine that for more than forty years has used words and photographs to evoke the splendor and heartache of being human. Each monthly issue celebrates life, but not in a way that ignores its...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Sundog Lit is committed to publishing pieces that engage with tension, introspection, empathy, considered positionality, thoughtful form play, emotional courage, and musicality.
Reading Period: Mar 1 to May 1, Oct 1 to Dec 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Since launching in January of 2019, Sunspot Literary Journal has amplified diverse multinational voices. New works have been published in their original language side-by-side with English translations. Boundaries that exclude meaningful...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Mar 31, Apr 1 to Jun 30, Jul 1 to Sep 30, Oct 1 to Dec 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Superpresent is a quarterly magazine of the arts. It is available free online and a limited run of print copies for each issue. Superpresent publishes poems, short stories, essays, visual art pieces, experimental art, video art...
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Superstition Review is the online literary magazine produced by creative writing and web design students at Arizona State University. The mission of the journal is to promote contemporary art and literature by providing a free, easy-to-...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Jan 31, Aug 1 to Aug 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
SurVision is an international biannual online poetry magazine founded in Ireland in March 2017 as a platform for new Irish and international Surrealist and Irrealist poetry in English. It has a publishing imprint, SurVision Books.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, TranslationGenres: Experimental, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Translation -
Formerly known as Crazyhorse, swamp pink publishes fiction, poetry, and nonfiction on a semi-monthly basis. Its aim is to publish exceptional work from writers at all stages of their careers. The editors are particularly interested...
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Sweet Tree Review is a quarterly online literary and arts publication obsessed with ineffable connectivity.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
