Redivider is operated by the MFA and MA students of the Writing, Literature & Publishing Department at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. It is published online three times per year, with fall, spring, and summer blurred genre...
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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: May 1 to Jun 1, Aug 1 to Dec 1, Jan 1 to May 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
redrosethorns journal is a literary online publication that publishes work around mental health, self-care, gender, and sexuality in any genre and style. This journal publication is inspired by the feminist consciousness-raising movement...
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For over 150 years, Reed Magazine has published the work of writers and artists whose voices persist beyond the page. Based in San José, California, Reed is honored to feature the works of new and emerging authors alongside...
Read moreReading Period: Jun 1 to Oct 1, Jun 1 to Nov 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
For over a decade, Relief has helped shape the landscapes of faith and imagination for readers around the world. The journal features fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, graphic narrative, and reviews by some of today’s finest literary...
Read moreReading Period: Oct 1 to Mar 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
For over two decades, Reunion: The Dallas Review has been dedicated to finding and publishing exceptional examples of short fiction, drama, visual art, poetry, translation work, nonfiction, and interviews. Its mission remains cultivating...
Read moreReading Period: Oct 1 to Jan 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Cross-genre -
Revolute is a digital literary magazine founded in 2019 by the Randolph College MFA program. Revolute is committed to publishing the most engaging writing possible and is further committed to publishing emerging writers from...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 15 to Nov 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Experimental, Fiction, Literary Fiction, Poetry, Speculative Poetry -
RHINO is a high-quality, perfect-bound annual journal with online content including poems, event updates, and monthly e-zine RHINO Reviews. It invites traditional or experimental work reflecting passion, originality, artistic...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 1 to Jun 30, Aug 1 to Sep 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Creative Nonfiction, Flash Fiction, Poetry, Translation -
Rialto Books Review is interested in publishing works that builds upon the literary tradition of the Western Canon. The editors prioritize formal verse when it comes to our review of poetry for publication. In fiction, they look for...
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Right Hand Pointing publishes short poetry (under sixteen lines), flash fiction (under 500 words), and art.
Reading Period: Feb 1 to Mar 15, May 1 to Jun 15, Aug 1 to Sep 15, Nov 1 to Dec 15Subgenres: Flash Fiction, Micro-poetry, Prose Poetry -
As a multicultural magazine of poetry, prose and art with a 50-year history, River Styx publishes works of both new and established artists significant for their originality, energy, and deft of craft. They publish poetry, short fiction...
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Roanoke Review publishes three to seven featured pieces every month—focusing primarily on poetry, creative nonfiction, fiction, flash, graphic narrative, and visual poetry.
On occasion, they review small press, literary books, or...
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Rockford Review prefers interior rhyme in poems, as opposed to rhymed endings, and nonviolent, non-vulgar prose. Write about topics that have meaning.
Reading Period: Jul 15 to Oct 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Room is Canada’s oldest feminist literary journal, and has published fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, art, interviews, and book reviews for 40 years. Published quarterly by the West Coast Feminist Literary Magazine Society, also...
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ROOM: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action embodies a psychoanalytic understanding of how change happens and has become a powerful tool for personal, cultural, and political discourse. ROOM’s submission process parallels the process...
Read moreReading Period: Jun 1 to Sep 3, Oct 3 to Jan 5, Feb 7 to May 5Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Creative Nonfiction, Feminist, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political -
Rosebud seeks to supply an eclectic, quality, national venue for new and underappreciated writers of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Rougarou, a Journal of Arts and Literature, aims to publish an eclectic, resonant selection of creative writing by emerging and established writers. Founded in 2007 by the faculty and graduate students of the University of Louisiana at...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 15 to Apr 1Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The editors seek work of all genres by writers from the LGBTQIA community. They don’t define or gatekeep what it means to be a queer writer: if you think your work belongs here, then it belongs here. They like work that defies genre and love to...
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Route 7 Review, established in 2013 and published annually by Utah Tech University, welcomes submissions of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and visual arts from artists and writers from anywhere in the world.
Reading Period: Sep 20 to Nov 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Rumen is a collaboration between writers, poets, and artists from a variety of demographics and backgrounds. Like the guts of an ungulate, The Rumen is a space for ideas and experiences to digest, ferment, and transform.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Rumpus strives to be a platform for marginalized voices and writing that might not find a home elsewhere and to lift up new voices alongside those of more established writers they love. The editors publish original fiction, essays,...
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Rundelania is the digital literary journal of the Arts and Literature Division, located within the Central Branch of the Rochester Public Library (NY). The journal is dedicated to the publication of original poetry and prose.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Salamander specializes in publishing highly accomplished poetry, fiction, and memoirs by writers who deserve a wider audience for their work.
Reading Period: Oct 1 to Apr 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Salmagundi is a quarterly of the Humanities and Social Sciences which is addressed to the “general” reader rather than to the academic specialist. Founded in 1965 and published since 1969 at Skidmore College, the magazine routinely...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Apr 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Translation -
Salt Hill is published by a group of writers affiliated with the Creative Writing Program at Syracuse University.
Reading Period: Dec 1 to Jan 31, Jul 1 to Aug 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Same Faces Collective is open to all genres but is especially interested in hybrid/experimental fiction and nonfiction.
Reading Period: Aug 1 to Oct 1, Feb 1 to Apr 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
