The juke joint has always been a place beyond the margin, somewhere along the line. Barrelhouses of the South, juke joints served as a place for sharecroppers & slaves to socialize & celebrate counterculture in a society marred by slavery...
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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 Apr 15, May 1 to Aug 15, Sep 1 to Dec 15Genre: PoetryGenres: Feminist, LGBTQ Voices, Poetry, Political, Regional -
Juniper seeks poetry that deepens understanding and brings the reader back to themselves.
Reading Period: Sep 1 to Sep 14, Jan 1 to Jan 14, May 1 to May 14Genre: Poetry -
JuxtaProse is an online literary journal that publishes fiction, nonfiction and poetry from around the world. Our contributors have included Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, and Man Booker Prize winners, and other acclaimed authors from...
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Kaleidoscoped Mag is a literary arts magazine formed by MFA students at UC San Diego. It is especially interested in literary and visual art that makes use of cross-genre, hybrid, experimental, unusual, or fragmented forms.
Reading Period: Apr 1 to Jul 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Kalopsia is a literary and arts journal run by high school and college students from all over the world who aim to promote art and writing among (seemingly) ordinary people. We strongly encourage submissions from students, emerging writers...
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Founded in 1994, Kansas City Voices is a magazine that highlights regional talent and welcomes creative work from around the globe.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Mar 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Keepthings is a digital storytelling project that collects stories of the physical items people hang onto in order to remember loved ones who've died. Essentially, they're love stories told through objects. Though small in size—600...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Creative NonfictionGenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Narrative Nonfiction -
Attention to craft is crucial but we are open to all forms/genres of poetry and prose that is believable and thought-provoking, that makes new the expected conventions. We have published work from the U.S., Canada, Ireland, France, Haiti, etc....
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Twelve poems each month—Kissing Dynamite curates compact issues that honor the thematic threads presented by contributing poets. Our goal is to present multiple facets of a theme/topic/issue to break the narrative of "the single story...
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 7Genre: Poetry -
Kithe (kai-the) is an old Scottish word that means to make or become known. Kithe is a hybrid literary and art journal. It features art and writing that holds the undiscovered and engages in kithing the reader or viewer.
Reading Period: Jan 15 to Dec 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Cross-genre, Graphic/Illustrated, LGBTQ Voices, Nonfiction -
Kweli celebrates cultural kinships and the role of the literary imagination. In our shared space, you will come to know the lived experience of people of color. Our memories are wrapped inside the music of the Muscogee, the blues songs...
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La Piccioletta Barca aims to collect and publish high quality art, regardless of the medium. We do not discriminate between new and established authors, and accept anything from classical to experimental art, as long as it is of a high...
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Fiction that falls in the cracks between genres.
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Lake Effect seeks to publish literary fiction and nonfiction and poetry of the highest quality by established and new and emerging writers from across the country and, in translation, from around the world, and to give that work an...
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The Lascaux Review seeks accessible fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction of literary quality, as well as essays on the craft and business of writing. Annual contests are conducted in poetry, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, and...
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In the words of a great professor: “Poetry should be a movie you can taste and smell.” We want images and emotion. We want poetry that sticks with us and makes us think and feel. We don’t care if this is your first poem or if you’ve been...
Read moreReading Period: Dec 1 to Jan 31, Jun 1 to Jul 31Genre: PoetryGenres: Graphic/Illustrated -
Themed issues with suggested prompts, but open to off-topic submissions of strong, personal, humorous, timely, or narrative poetry. Find the latest prompt on Last Stanza Poetry Association's Facebook page. No reading fee. Prize...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetryGenres: BIPOC Voices, Experimental, Feminist, LGBTQ Voices, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Translation, Visual Poetry -
The Laurel Review prints poetry, short fiction, essays and reviews. Aesthetic schools don't matter to us; what matters is that the poem or story or essay presents a real investigation of the art and what it is to be human.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Lavender Review is an international, biannual (June & December) e-zine dedicated to poetry and art by, about, and for lesbians, including whatever LGBTQ might appeal to a lesbian readership.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetryGenres: LGBTQ Voices -
Letters Journal is a semi-annual review of literature and the arts. The editors seek to engage creative expression with religion, spirituality, and belief, and connect the life of faith to contemporary art practice.
Reading Period: Jan 25 to Apr 25Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Literary Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Religious/Spiritual -
The Letters Page literary journal is published by the University of Nottingham School of English, and edited by writer in residence, Professor Jon McGregor. We’re interested in exploring what letter writing means to people - and has...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Commercial Fiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Healing/Health, Historical, Humor, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Love, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Regional, Religious/Spiritual, Serialized Fiction, Translation, War -
We strive to assemble a collection of literature and art designed and written with purpose and demonstrating passion for the work. We are open to unconventional work, while still appreciating the traditional. We are committed to publishing...
Read moreReading Period: Nov 1 to Feb 28Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Life and Legends, primarily a poetry journal in English also publishes other forms of literature such as prose, translation, non-fiction, video and sound of literary interest from across the world. Our focus is to share diversity in...
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Based out of Baltimore, Ligeia is a literary magazine seeking voices beyond the conventional; grimy and proud of it, we live to discover overlooked curiosities.
Ligeia publishes poetry, short fiction, nonfiction, artwork...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 15 to Mar 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Light Ekphrastic seeks artists and writers interested in collaboration resulting in the creation of new works inspired by the old. Those chosen will be paired with another artist (a poet with a painter, for instance), and each will...
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