Polaris publishes in the categories of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and visual art. We want to see the best that the undergraduate student has to offer and showcase the unique voice of the developing and emerging writer.
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: Sep 1 to Feb 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Our mission is to create a high-quality literary magazine written, edited, and published by high school students. We strive to build respectful, mutually beneficial, writer-editor relationships that form a community devoted to improving students...
Read moreReading Period: Jul 1 to May 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
We seek stories that challenge, stories that shift our view, ignite our imaginations, spark conversations, and linger with us long after our eyes leave the page. We invite you to explore, expound, and inspire through short plays, fiction, flash...
Read moreReading Period: Jun 15 to Sep 15, Dec 15 to Mar 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Poor Yorick brings back into light the skeletons hidden in our cultural closets. The free, online journal welcomes writing and other creative productions about lost objects and images of material culture: sculptures and paintings in the...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Popshot is an illustrated literary magazine that publishes short stories, flash fiction, and poetry from the literary new blood. The magazine is published bi-annually, releasing a new issue every April and October. Each issue is themed,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Subgenres: Flash Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Prose Poetry -
Our mission is in our name: El Portal is the door. We open our doors to works that move us.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Inspired by the legacy of Katherine Anne Porter, Porter House Review seeks to publish bold and incisive writing that interrogates not only the complexities of the human experience, but also the prevailing social...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Portland Review has been publishing exceptional prose, poetry, and art since 1956. The journal is produced by the graduate students in Portland State University’s English Department, and for over sixty years Portland Review has...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 15 to Dec 15, Jan 15 to Jun 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Posit publishes finely crafted contemporary poetry, very short fiction, hybrid literary forms, and visual art. We consider submissions between September 1st and May 31st. We are looking for innovation, aesthetic vision, and accomplished...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to May 31Subgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Prose Poetry -
Post Road seeks to publish up and coming writers along with more established names. We publish a wide range of styles, from realist to experimental and everything in between.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Apr 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Pour Vida was established in the fall of 2013 by writers and friends, Adam and Danny, during their time in grad school, as a platform to foster a writerly community. The intention with Pour Vida zine is to help foster writers' experiences of...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
After 95 years of continuous publication, Prairie Schooner still seeks new work from established, mid-career, and beginning prose writers and poets.
Reading Period: Sep 1 to May 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
We publish poems on the basis of their artistic excellence, rather than on the basis of the author's professed creed or because the subject matter is explicitly Catholic. The poems in this journal convey God’s presence in any number of ways—by...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 1 to Oct 1Genre: Poetry -
We aim to publish art and words for the future by artists and writers who believe they're carrying, on their hunched-over-computer shoulders, a pretty heavy yet very pretty burden—to offer us all a way into ourselves so that we...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Humor, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Lyric Essay, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Visual Poetry -
Pretty Owl Poetry is a feminist quarterly journal that publishes the visual arts, traditional and nontraditional forms, fiction masquerading as poetry, and work that does not snugly fit into a specific genre, all with a lyrical quality. We’re...
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The magazine’s goal is to publish distinctive work, regardless of theme or style.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31 -
PRISM International is a quarterly magazine whose mandate is to publish the best in contemporary writing and translation from Canada and around the world. Writing from PRISM has been featured in Best American Stories, Best...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Published by the University of La Verne, Prism Review is an annual journal of well-crafted contemporary poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction from established and emerging writers. Alongside its literary works, Prism Review also...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Literary Fiction -
Progenitor Art & Literary Journal showcases student, regional, and national work.
Reading Period: Feb 2 to Feb 19Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Prompt is an online and book arts journal for writing inspired by visual art and visual art inspired by writing. Every six months we showcase an exciting new work from a visual artist or writer on our website. We then invite others to...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Flash Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, Prose Poetry -
Poesis is an independent, international, free-access literary journal. We are an online journal, exclusively. It’s like a desert where you can build your literary home. Because the acceptance rate for almost all literary journals is about...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Oct 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Poetry -
Bringing new poets from obscurity, is why Prospectus exists. We seek the work of previously unpublished yet promising poets. If you are an unpublished or little-published poet (i.e., have not published a collection of 55+ pages) and you...
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Protocols is an online quarterly for Jews to create, express, transform, organize, resist, and rebel as Jews. We come together as writers, artists, thinkers, and activists committed to meaningful practices of radical creativity and...
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A Public Space seeks work that is brave and unexpected. We are interested in writing that uncovers the extraordinary in the everyday, provides a rare glimpse, exposes an unexpected truth, or puts forth a daring hypothesis. There are no boundaries...
Read moreReading Period: Oct 15 to Apr 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
We publish fiction, poetry, music, visual media, and otherwise in English, Català, Castellano, and Deutsch. We frequently publish work—or play—by writers and artists from outside the United States and actively seek more submissions by...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
