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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: Feb 15 to Sep 14Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
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Under a Warm Green Linden is a biannual digital journal featuring original poetry, reviews, and interviews. Each issue is accompanied by a selection of broadsides signed by the authors. The journal is a project of Green Linden Press,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
Under the Gum Tree is a storytelling project, publishing creative nonfiction in the form of a micro-magazine.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Creative Nonfiction -
Underwater New York is a prompt and a platform for new creative work inspired by the waterways that surround New York City and the objects submerged within them. By facilitating opportunities to...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
adventure, alien invasion, alternative history, colonization, cyberpunk, dystopian, first contact, galactic empire, genetic engineering, military, post-apocalyptic, space exploration, space opera, steampunk, and time travel
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction -
Unlost is an extension of Unbroken Journal, founded because we love found poetry in all its forms and we feel it isn't being given nearly enough attention in the literary world.
Reading Period: Nov 1 to Dec 31, May 1 to Jun 30Genre: Poetry -
Action & adventure, alternative history, dark fantasy, dragons & mythical creatures, epic, fairy tales, gaslamp, historical, humorous, military, myths & legends, superhero, and sword & sorcery.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction -
Up the Staircase Quarterly publishes unique, eclectic, and quality poetry that is vivid in imagery and idea. It seeks writers going in new directions, originals. It also publishes artwork: paintings, drawings, photography, comics, short...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Mar 15, May 1 to Jul 1Genre: Poetry -
High-quality literary fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction; no genre work; emerging writers welcome.
Reading Period: Sep 1 to Mar 1Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
