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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: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Each issue of 3cents will rotate around a theme and will feature one poem, one short story or flash fiction piece, and one piece of creative nonfiction together as a mini-collection built around that theme. While the authors each receive...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 1 to Oct 1, Nov 1 to Jan 1, Feb 1 to Apr 1, Jun 1 to Aug 1Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
3Elements Literary Review is a quarterly, online literary journal founded in Chicago in 2013, now based in Des Moines, IA. It publishes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, and photography.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Flash Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, Prose Poetry -
YOUR STORY–fact or fiction, memoir or memo, Barbie spin-off, greatest X-tweets, AI Jane Austen etc.
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YOUR POETRY–Nobel prize Dylan verse, Spotify lyrics, Instagram meme, YouTube haiku, Kafka recipe, that kind of thing.
LES BELLES IMAGES–...Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
45th Parallel is an online Oregon-based literary magazine produced by graduate students at Oregon State University.
Reading Period: Sep 23 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
86 Logic is a quarterly magazine representing artists with roots in the hospitality industry. It is made up of a team of veteran bartenders, servers, and hosts who love discovering how art and hospitality intersect. Submissions are open...
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The whole is a part and the part is a whole. The 100-word format forces the writer to question each word, to reckon with Flaubert’s mot juste in a way that even most flash fiction doesn’t. At the same time the brevity of the form allows the...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Experimental, Narrative Nonfiction, Prose Poetry -
128 Lit is a print and online literary magazine based in New York City that has an international focus. This is a re-orienting place that unlearns, confronts, and disrupts euro-centric narratives and aesthetics. 128 Lit is...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Oct 31, May 15 to Jul 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
805 Lit + Art publishes debut and emerging writers, poets, photographers, and artists in our quarterly, online journal.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
To identify new and emerging writers and visual artists who have a particular focus on re-defining the landscape of their artform. Artists of color and those others who are traditionally underrepresented in the field are especially encouraged to...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre -
Abandon Journal exists to showcase writing and artwork that has been created with abandon. The editors are open to hybrid work, genre, visual art, and more. Each issue showcases work that “abandons form,” and every other issue will be a...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 1 to Sep 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Able Muse predominantly publishes metrical poetry complemented by art and photography, fiction and non-fiction including essays, book reviews and interviews with a focus on metrical and formal poetry. We also welcome exceptional free...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Jul 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
About Place Journal is the literary publication of the Black Earth Institute. BEI is dedicated to art serving the causes of spirit, earth, and society. Issues are guest-edited by fellows of the Institute. Themes (titles of issues) are...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 1 to Apr 15, Jun 1 to Aug 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Acentos Review publishes poetry, fiction, memoir, interviews, translations, and artwork by emerging and established Latinx writers, artists, and creatives four times a year. It welcomes submissions in English, Spanish, Spanglish,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Lyric Essay, Magical Realism, Micro-poetry, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Speculative Poetry, Translation, Visual Poetry -
Action, Spectacle is a biannual magazine based in Louisville, Kentucky, and Brooklyn. The magazine exists at the intersection of the socio-political, the cultural, and the arts—a public space for discussion and engagement. It puts a...
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Adanna publishes work about women’s issues or topics. Submissions for artwork, poetry, essay, and short fiction are accepted by both women and men.
Reading Period: Apr 1 to May 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Feminist -
Add to Cart Magazine seeks experimental, avant-garde, and challenging writing and art that pushes well beyond comfortable boundaries, whether they be of form, style, or thought. It is open to “neglected voices and forms.”
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Adroit Journal is looking for work that’s bizarre, authentic, subtle, outrageous, indefinable, raw, paradoxical.
Reading Period: Jun 1 to Apr 10Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
After Dinner Conversation publishes short stories (1,500-7,000 words), of any genre, that ask interesting ethical and/or philosphical questions in a narrative format.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Each year, After Happy Hour publishes two regular online issues (summer and fall/winter) and one themed contest issue, published in print every spring. The journal is open to work from any and all genres, including fiction, CNF, poetry,...
Read moreReading Period: Nov 15 to Jan 15, Mar 1 to Apr 30, Jul 1 to Aug 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
After the Art seeks personal review essays that explore the ways reading can enrich the experience of looking at art. Each essay must be about a piece of art as well as a written text.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Graphic/Illustrated, Nonfiction -
AGNI sees literature and the arts as integral to the broad, engaged conversation that underwrites a vital society. Their poets, storytellers, essayists, translators, and artists lift a mirror to nature and the social world. They seek...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Dec 15, Feb 15 to May 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Airplane Reading is a site that features nonfiction writing about air travel. Beyond throwaway entertainment or mere distraction, it sees airplane reading as a kind of storytelling that can animate, reflect on, and rejuvenate the...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir -
Alaska Quarterly Review (AQR) publishes fiction, short plays, poetry, photo essays, and literary non-fiction in traditional and experimental styles. Although AQR publishes established writers, most of the content comes from...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 25 to Apr 8, Apr 29 to May 13, Jun 10 to Jun 24Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Albion Review is a national literary journal based out of Albion College in Michigan. Published annually since 2004, The Review features works of short fiction, poetry, essays, and visual art. The Review strives to showcase the work...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Nov 18Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Experimental, Formal Poetry, Literary Fiction
