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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 Apr 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Founded under the name Hill Thoughts in 1941, Hanover College’s literary journal Kennings holds the firm mission to seek out intriguing, moving, and engaging works of poetry, fiction, and art. In recent years Kennings has...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 1 to Feb 9Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Feminist, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, LGBTQ Voices, Poetry, Short Fiction -
The Kenyon Review has been in the heart of literature since 1939 when poet and critic John Crowe Ransom started the journal on the campus of Kenyon College. The Kenyon Review continues to cultivate talent, not only with the...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Sep 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Kestrel publishes fiction, poetry, poetry in translation, and creative nonfiction by established and emerging writers. They also publish reviews, including of “Wrongfully Neglected” work. The editors are especially happy to publish work...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Killer Nashville Magazine seeks to publish both fresh and established voices in any genre that incorporates elements of mystery, thriller, suspense, and/or romance (and we believe all good literary works and art contain those elements to...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Humor, Poetry, Short Fiction -
KUDU is an online biannual literary journal devoted to the creative work of South Africans at any stage of their artistic careers.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Feb 28, Jul 1 to Aug 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Experimental, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Humor, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry -
Kweli is a quarterly literary publication that celebrates cultural kinships and the role of the literary imagination. It seeks literature and poems “full of vitamins,” that sing the truth. High-quality literary work that is beautiful,...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to May 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
La Piccioletta Barca is an arts journal publishing: short stories, poetry, prose, essays, interviews, and translations. They will only be receiving submissions through their Submittable profile. The editors do not discriminate...
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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. Annual contests are conducted in poetry, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, and short fiction.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Lemonwood Quarterly, founded in 2024, is an online literary magazine that exclusively publishes short stories and plays.
At the Lemonwood Quarterly, the editors strive to offer readers exquisite, well-crafted,...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 1 to Apr 15, Jun 1 to Jul 15, Sep 1 to Oct 15, Dec 1 to Jan 15Genre: FictionSubgenres: Literary Fiction, Short Fiction, Translation -
Lenticular is an online journal that publishes essays, interviews, fiction, poetry, art, experimental and hybrid forms. Based in Flatbush, Brooklyn, Lenticular is influenced by the many languages of daily life and all their...
Read moreReading Period: Jul 1 to Aug 13Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political -
The editors are looking for flash fiction inspired by the spontaneous occurrences of everyday life, including what triggers lost memories and imaginations. The style should feel fresh and never overthought but still meticulously edited and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 10 to Feb 14Genre: FictionSubgenres: Flash Fiction -
LETTERS journal is published with the support of the Yale Institute of Sacred Music (ISM), and is edited by students at the ISM and Yale Divinity School. The editors seek to engage creative expression with religion, spirituality, and...
Read moreReading Period: Oct 1 to Dec 1, Feb 1 to Apr 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Creative Nonfiction, Literary Fiction, Poetry, Religious/Spiritual -
Life in Limbo is a magazine dedicated to chronicling the experience of mental illness and trauma, more interested in truth and raw emotion than literary expertise.
Reading Period: Jun 15 to Oct 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Lindenwood Review, an annual online literary journal, publishes fiction (short stories and flash fiction), creative nonfiction (personal essays, lyric essays, and flash nonfiction), and prose poems (block format). A contest for...
Read moreReading Period: Jun 1 to Oct 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Creative Nonfiction, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Lyric Essay, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction -
Lines + Stars began in 2006 as a means of establishing a new creative forum in Washington, D.C., a city that all-too-often coasts on its more mechanistic pursuits. As of 2017, they operate out of Baltimore, Maryland. L+S Press, their...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Apr 1, Jul 1 to Oct 1Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Micro-poetry, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Speculative Poetry, Visual Poetry -
LIT is an alumni and student run tri-annual literary magazine that is published by the New School’s Creative Writing MFA program. LIT wishes to promote innovative writing, art, and translation in the digital literary landscape...
Reading Period: Apr 15 to Jun 15, Sep 15 to Dec 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Lit Shark Magazine is a welcoming and inclusive space to poets, fiction writers, memoirists, essayists, readers, and shark fans alike. Lit Shark serves to entertain and educate its community about creative writing, marine life,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Litbop is a literary journal containing short fiction, poetry, art, and photography. Currently published annually, it presents both new and previously published work.
Reading Period: Oct 13 to Dec 13Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Literary Fantasy Magazine is on a quest to find the best that Fantasy has to offer. The editors want stories that challenge their convictions, paint new horizons, and put them in the shoes of someone in a land far, far away—be they...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Literary Heist gives a voice to transformative writers and aims to democratize the literary and art world. The editors are looking to showcase good work that comes from new and existing writers and artists.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Subgenres: Fiction, Formal Poetry, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Mystery, Nonfiction, Poetry, Short Fiction -
Literary Mama celebrates the physical, psychological, intellectual, and spiritual processes of motherhood across race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, age, material resources, or status. The journal publishes six times a year,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Feminist, Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, LGBTQ Voices, Poetry, Translation -
The Literary Times, is an independent literary arts platform, where the editors welcome multitude of genres. They aim at creating a safe space for creators, writers and artists to share their ideas and expression without any bias or...
Read moreReading Period: Apr 21 to May 18, Jun 5 to Jun 26Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
