The museum of americana is an online literary review dedicated to fiction, poetry, nonfiction, photography, music, and artwork that revives or repurposes the old, the dying, the forgotten, or the almost entirely unknown...
Read moreLiterary 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.
-
Reading Period: Apr 1 to Apr 30, Aug 1 to Aug 31, Dec 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Cross-genre, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Humor, LGBTQ Voices, Micro-poetry, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Regional, Translation -
Muzzle aims to bring together the voices of poets from a diverse array of backgrounds, paying special homage to poets from communities that are historically underrepresented in print and online publications.
Reading Period: Jun 15 to Jul 15, Dec 15 to Jan 15Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Feminist, LGBTQ Voices, Political -
Mystery, suspense, and noir fiction with literary flavor.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Commercial Fiction, Cross-genre, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Pop Culture -
Nonprofit Narrative is dedicated to advancing the literary arts in the digital age by supporting the finest writing talent and encouraging readership across communities and generations, in schools, and around the globe. Each year ...
Read moreReading 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.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Feminist, LGBTQ Voices, Nature/Environmental, Speculative Fiction -
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...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Dec 5Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The National Poetry Review is an annual online journal of poetry.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to May 1Genre: Poetry -
Naugatuck River Review is a semi-annual print journal of narrative poetry with a yearly contest issue. We look for narrative poems that are well-crafted and have a strong emotional core.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Feb 1, Jul 1 to Aug 1Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Poetry -
NELLE proudly publishes the best, most exciting poetry, short fiction, and nonfiction written exclusively by women.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Apr 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry -
A wide variety of poetics works here, and you’ll have the most success submitting poems that can do these three things well:
- Feel good leaving the mouth.
- Use original or interesting language skillfully.
- Use visual...
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
Neon Origami wants to publish bold, thought-provoking work from emerging writers working in a variety of genres. The editors’ tastes are broad, and they don’t believe in constraining writers to a certain theme or message. All they care...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The New Absurdist is a space for the creative, the curious, and the unapologetically passionate to engage in educated discourse and promote positive growth in the world. The editors want its name to remind everyone that everyone has...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
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 NonfictionSubgenres: 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, TranslationSubgenres: Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Poetry, Translation -
New Feathers Anthology wants to promote art and artists. They are interested in art from many genres that pushes the envelope a bit. They produce three online issues and a print anthology at the end of the year that collects the works...
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 United States and abroad. They proudly publish in print and have short pieces published online on their BANG! page....
Read moreReading Period: Mar 1 to Jan 11Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: 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...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
New Ohio Review is a national literary journal produced by Ohio University’s Creative Writing Program.
Reading Period: Aug 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 ...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
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 Feb 16, Jul 1 to Aug 16Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
New Square Literary Magazine is the official publication of the Sancho Panza Literary Society, which holds writers residency at Trinity College Dublin each winter and summer. The editors publish fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, as well as...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 1 to Apr 30, Sep 1 to Nov 10Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
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 world....
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
New World Writing Quarterly began life as Mississippi Review Online, a personal website 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 -
All forms of writing are invited: memoirs; drama; graphic artwork (monochrome only); poetry; political and cultural commentary and satire; screenplays; short fiction; travel writing or any other creative prose. The editors have a maximum...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 1 to Oct 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Night Picnic is a literary journal 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.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
