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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 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Narrative Northeast is a literary and arts magazine dedicated to diverse voices and visions, to creating a platform for writers who actually have something to say.
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The Nassau Review welcomes work that is innovative, captivating, well-crafted, and unique work that is traditional as well as pieces that cross boundaries of genre and tradition. New writers and...
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Nat. Brut’s (pr. nat broot) principal mission is to showcase the work of writers and artists who have been historically devalued or pigeonholed by art and literary institutions. We publish work that has been buried, ignored, and...
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The National Poetry Review is an annual online journal of poetry.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to May 1Genre: Poetry -
Naugatuck River Review publishes only narrative poetry, which means the poem is well-crafted, has a strong emotional core, and the narrative is compressed.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Mar 1, Jul 1 to Sep 1Genre: PoetryGenres: Poetry -
NELLE proudly publishes the best, most exciting poetry, short fiction, and nonfiction written exclusively by women.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Sep 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry -
Neologism Poetry Journal was founded in search of new horizons of poetic language, or at minimum ways to feel something new from old words and poetic forms.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
The New Delta Review publishes a wide range of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction, as well as book reviews, interviews, and artwork.
Reading Period: Oct 1 to Nov 15, Jan 15 to Mar 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Flash Fiction -
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...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Nov 1, Mar 1 to May 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationGenres: 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...
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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: PoetryGenres: 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...
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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...
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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, TranslationGenres: 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...
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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, Translation
