Grain Magazine, a literary quarterly, publishes engaging, eclectic, and challenging writing and art by Canadian and international writers and artists. Published by the Saskatchewan Writers Guild, Grain has earned national and...
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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: Sep 15 to Jun 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Grand Little Things caters to formalistic, stylized poetry, but is also welcome to invented/nonce forms as well. Heck, as long as there is a strong sense of versification (i.e., does the poem sing? Is the imagery vivid and does it serve ...
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UAM MFA students solicit intriguing writing, art, book reviews, and photography from emerging and established authors.
Reading Period: Aug 1 to Apr 20Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Gravity of the Thing is an independent magazine dedicated to innovative and defamiliarized creative writing. Our ongoing goal is to publish work that defamiliarizes literary forms, writing that stranges to achieve a renewed sense of...
Read moreReading Period: Jun 1 to Jul 31, Sep 1 to Oct 31, Dec 1 to Jan 31, Mar 1 to Aug 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Great Lakes Review publishes fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry from Toronto, Chicago, Cleveland, Milwaukee, Buffalo, Hamilton and the rest of the Great Lakes region.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Mar 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry -
GRR is dedicated to publishing the best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and translation. We've published some of the finest writers in the country and abroad, including Ted Kooser, Robert Bly, Philip Levine, and Linda Pastan.
Run by the...
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Our goals are to provide a much-needed platform for undergraduate creative writers and artists and to foster outstanding undergraduate work in each of the genres we publish.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Green Mountains Review is an international journal publishing poems, stories, and creative nonfiction by both well-known authors and promising newcomers. The magazine also features interviews, literary criticism, and book reviews. The...
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Produced by the University of North Carolina at Greensboro Master of Fine Arts program in creative writing, The Greensboro Review publishes fiction and poetry twice a year, each fall and spring. Works from the journal are consistently cited and...
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Strictly literary writing please; flash and poetry. Emerging and established voices are welcome. Sparrow poets address global issues that haunt us all. Book manuscripts are published sporadically. Grey Sparrow Journal also offers a "...
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Grist: A Journal of the Literary Arts seeks high quality submissions from both emerging and established writers. It publishes craft essays and interviews as well as fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
Reading Period: May 15 to Aug 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Founded in 1952, Grub Street is Towson University’s literary journal. Produced annually, we publish works of fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, and visual art.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Aug 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Guernica embraces its range of coverage and confluence of approaches—and our intersection of art beside politics and international affairs has become our hallmark. Our one criterion: writing of the highest quality.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Translation -
Gulf Coast publishes fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and critical art writing as well as reviews and interviews by both emerging and established writers. Each issue features two full-color art sections.
Reading Period: Sep 1 to Mar 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Translation -
Gulf Stream Magazine, started in 1989, is a national literary magazine published by The Creative Writing Program at Florida International University. It is a bi-annual online journal dedicated to publishing great fiction, nonfiction, poetry and...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Mar 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Flash Fiction, Micro-poetry -
GUTS publishes literary essays and reviews, long-form journalism, interviews, fiction, and new media that further feminist correspondence, criticism, and community in Canada. We also accept shorter (500-1500 words) submissions to our...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Mar 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Gutter is an award-winning, high quality, printed journal for fiction and poetry from writers born or living in Scotland. The editors believe there is a need for an energetic, ambitious magazine dedicated exclusively to the best in new Scottish...
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Gyroscope Review publishes fine contemporary poetry in a variety of forms and themes. We welcome both new and established writers. Founded by Constance Brewer and Kathleen Cassen Mickelson. Editor: Constance Brewer.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Poetry -
We publish American Haiku in English. We require the syllabic pattern 5/7/5. More about this can be found on our website.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
Haikuniverse publishes a haiku every day. You can read the daily 'haiku' on our website, Facebook page, Twitter, or receive it via a daily haiku email. Submit using form on website. Haikuniverse is edited by Poetry Super Highway's Rick Lupert....
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Micro-poetry -
Halcyon Days is a publication that “promotes the peaceful things in life. Themes will focus on comfortable circumstances, fun, good things, times of plenty, prosperity, and content that quiets you down.”
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Mar 15, Apr 1 to Jun 15, Jul 1 to Sep 15, Oct 1 to Dec 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Half Mystic Journal, established in 2015, is an independent, internationally-acclaimed literary journal dedicated to the celebration of music in all its forms.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Cross-genre, Experimental, Fiction, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Lyric Essay, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction -
The Hamilton Stone Review is part of a movement of small, independent publishers and publications dedicated to distributing high quality fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction.
Reading Period: Feb 15 to Mar 15, Aug 15 to Sep 15Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Experimental, Feminist, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry -
Hanging Loose is celebrating 50 years of publishing new writers and older writers whose work deserves a larger audience. The first issue of Hanging Loose Magazine was published in 1966, and in 1968 it introduced a regular section devoted to work...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir -
Harvard Review is a major literary journal that publishes short fiction, poetry, essays, and book reviews. Writers at all stages of their careers are invited to apply; however, we can only publish a very small fraction of the material we...
Read moreReading Period: Nov 1 to Jun 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
