Earth’s Daughters is a feminist literary and arts periodical published in Buffalo, New York. It is believed to be the oldest extant feminist arts periodical, having been published continuously since 1971.
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: Jan 1 to Dec 31Subgenres: Prose Poetry -
Rolling submissions. We especially like lyric essays and prose poetry, but check our guidelines for genres accepted during specific reading periods.
Occasional themed issues. Occasional print issues (every few years, usually as a...
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Eastern Structures picks up where Contemporary Ghazals left off, publishing English-language examples of the Middle Eastern form, but now also Korean sijo and Japanese forms such as haiku and tanka—rendered exclusively in the 5-...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Formal Poetry -
Each issue of Ecotone brings together the literary and scientific, the personal and biological, the urban and rural.
Reading Period: Aug 25 to Aug 31, Sep 1 to Sep 8, Jan 25 to Jan 31, Feb 1 to Feb 8Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Nature/Environmental -
The Ekphrastic Review is an online journal devoted entirely to writing inspired by visual art. Their objective is to promote ekphrastic writing, promote art appreciation, and experience how the two strengthen each other and bring...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 1 to Mar 31, Jun 1 to Jun 30, Sep 1 to Sep 30, Dec 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Élan international student literary magazine accepts original fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, screenwriting, and plays from students currently enrolled in grades 9 through 12. The editors seek original,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Young Adult -
Recommended Reading, a magazine by Electric Literature, publishes one story a week: a piece of original fiction, or a story chosen by today’s best authors or editors. Each issue includes a personal foreword by that week’s editor or...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 7 to Mar 13, Sep 26 to Oct 2Genre: FictionSubgenres: Literary Fiction -
Embark is a literary journal designed for novelists, featuring exclusively the beginnings of as-yet-unpublished novels. It is released twice annually, and each issue features a range of genres, including literary dramas, mysteries,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: FictionSubgenres: Commercial Fiction, Fiction, Historical, Literary Fiction, Speculative Fiction -
Emergent Literary is an assemblage of black and brown work. To the editors, Emergent refers to urgency, immediacy, inception and birth, beginning, forefront, and now. It also refers to the philosophy of emergence as interreliant entities...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Fiction, Lyric Essay, Poetry, Pop Culture, Short Fiction, Visual Poetry -
Since 2007, Enchanted Conversation: A Fairy Tale Magazine has offered fairy tale lovers a space to publish their own tales, read the classics again, and enjoy classic fairy tale art.
Reading Period: Dec 1 to Jan 2, May 1 to Jun 2Genre: Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Fiction, Nonfiction -
Eoagh is dedicated to the idea of reading as a process, the productive chaos of investigative poetic work. It seeks to foreground the writing of experimental women, trans, feminist, BIPOC, anti-racist, LGBT, and queer authors. It seeks...
Read moreReading Period: Apr 1 to May 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Cross-genre, Erotica, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Healing/Health, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Religious/Spiritual, Serialized Fiction, Translation -
Epiphany publishes fiction, nonfiction, poetry and art from both established and emerging writers and artists.
Reading Period: Nov 1 to Jan 1, May 8 to Jun 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Graphic/Illustrated -
Equatorial seeks unique, polished poetry by undergraduates that dives into the intangible and that maps the physical.
Reading Period: Mar 1 to May 30, Sep 1 to Nov 30Genre: Poetry -
Poetic discourse idioms. Eratio has a new look and a new policy: Eratio no longer publishes issues. Rather, as works are accepted, so they will appear. New work appears two or three times a week or as accepted.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Fiction, Flash Fiction, LGBTQ Voices, Micro-poetry, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Translation -
escarp explores the potential of super-brief literature
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Flash Fiction, Micro-poetry -
Eunoia Review is a Singapore-based online literary journal committed to sharing the fruits of ‘beautiful thinking’. Each day, it publishes two new pieces of writing for your reading pleasure. The editor believes that Eunoia Review...
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Euphony welcomes submissions of unpublished poetry, fiction, essays, reviews, creative non-fiction, and plays. The writing ranges from University of Chicago students as well as authors around the country (and internationally),...
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Emphasizing its belief in the equality of both men and women, Evening Street Review publishes two issues (or more) a year. It is open to poetry, fiction, and non-fiction, and looks for writing that has both clarity and depth. The...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Poetry -
The Evening Universe is an independent, international literary magazine of horror, science fiction, and fantasy. It publishes poetry, fiction, two-sentence stories, and non-fiction.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
For 52 years, EVENT has published the very best in contemporary new poetry and prose. It is one of Western Canada’s longest-running literary magazines and welcomes submissions written in English from around the world. Each issue of ...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 1 to Sep 30, Dec 1 to Jan 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Every Day Fiction is an online magazine that specializes in bringing you fine fiction in bite-sized doses. Every day, we publish a new flash fiction story (1000 words or fewer), perfect for your coffee break, your commute, or whenever...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction -
Evocations Review publishes work that addresses feminism, queer topics, pop-culture, politics, mindfulness, and environmentalism. Evocations is dedicated to publishing works featuring non-mainstream, non-patriarchal, LGBTQ+, PoC...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 1 to May 31, Aug 8 to Oct 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Feminist, Graphic/Illustrated, LGBTQ Voices, Nature/Environmental, Political, Pop Culture -
The Ex-Puritan is an online, quarterly publication based in Toronto, Ontario committed to publishing the best in all forms of literary storytelling. We embrace work wherever it lands on the conceptual spectrum, so long as it is original...
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The Exacting Clam is a quarterly magazine of arts and ideas, brought to you by Sagging Meniscus Press.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Creative Nonfiction, Experimental, Fiction, Poetry -
Exit 13 Magazine is a travelogue in poetry, a reflection of the world and a chronicle of the people and places encountered along the way. Since 1988, the emphasis has been on geography and the fertile ground of the imagination.
Reading Period: Jun 1 to Jan 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Nature/Environmental, Poetry, Regional
