Beltway Poetry (formerly Beltway Poetry Quarterly) is an award-winning online literary journal that showcases poetry from all over the world. It also features translations and reviews. During the first 20 years of its existence, it...
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Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, TranslationSubgenres: Poetry -
Bi Women Quarterly is a global grassroots publication produced by the Boston Bisexual Women’s Network. It has been in continuous publication since 1983, and is the oldest bisexual and women’s publication in the world, with global content...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, Healing/Health, Humor, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, LGBTQ Voices, Love, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction, Visual Poetry -
Bicoastal Review is a quarterly journal of poetry, nonfiction, interviews, reviews, and art that sparks cross-genre conversations. The editors welcome submissions from around the world. They have a special interest in literature, art,...
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Big Other welcomes submissions in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, lyric essay, art, video, short drama, and hybrid work from both established and emerging writers and artists. They are especially interested in experimental and innovative...
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Founded in 1974, Black Warrior Review publishes contemporary fiction, poetry, and nonfiction by award-winning writers alongside work by new and emerging voices. Issues also feature art, comics, and a curated chapbook. Each summer reading...
Read moreReading Period: Dec 15 to Mar 1, Jun 1 to Sep 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts offers visitors from around the world outstanding fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and reviews, as well as plays, visual art, new media, and video essays, which it presents in inventive...
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The Blue Bell Review exists to empower students aged six through sixteen across the globe by providing a platform where their creativity, ideas, and voices can be heard and celebrated.
The editors believe that every young person...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Creative Nonfiction, Experimental, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Poetry -
Blue Crystal Literary Magazine is where words find their wings and imagination takes flight. Born from a deep reverence for storytelling and the quiet magic of the written word, the magazine serves as a sanctuary for...
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Blue Villa is an exclusively online art publication with a mission to keep art alive. Their dedicated editors curate top-notch content, offer editing services, and welcome your art, stories, and life experiences. Share your love, travel...
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Boston Review is a web and print magazine of ideas, politics, and culture—independent and nonprofit, committed to the power of collective reasoning and imagination to create a more just world.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Feminist, Fiction, LGBTQ Voices, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, Translation -
Bracken is an online journal inspired by the wood and its shadows. We publish poetry and art that will root, tender and tough, in us, drawing us deeper into our shared human experience. Bracken is green and lush, coarse and delicate...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 1 to Apr 30, Oct 1 to Nov 30Genre: Poetry, TranslationSubgenres: Formal Poetry, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Translation, Visual Poetry -
The Broken City is a semiannual literary magazine that deals in cutting-edge poetry, prose, illustration, and photography. Submissions from both new and experienced writers are welcomed.
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Cabbage Patch is a little internet corner for strange and honest things: poetry, essays, fiction, fragments, strange hybrid things, photos, images. Reprints welcome.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Experimental -
Cagibi is invested in sharing the universal human experiences to be found in works of prose and poetry set within places unfamiliar to readers; thus, an expressed interest in international—or world—literature and works in translation. ...
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CALYX Journal publishes fine art and literature, art, and book reviews by developing and emerging women and nonbinary authors and artists. CALYX is committed to publishing authors from diverse backgrounds. CALYX Journal...
Read moreReading Period: Oct 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Feminist, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Poetry, Short Fiction -
Catamaran Literary Reader is a quarterly literary and visual arts journal. Catamaran features fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and fine art in a full size, full color magazine.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Chapter House Journal is an online literary journal dedicated to empowering and uplifting Indigenous and other marginalized stories, values, cultures, and art. The editors publish writers and artists whose...
Read moreReading Period: May 1 to Jun 30, Nov 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry -
The Chicago Quarterly Review is an independent literary magazine honored by Best American Short Stories, the Pushcart Prize, Best American Essays, the O. Henry Prize stories, and the PEN/Dau Short Story Prize, publishing fiction, poetry...
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Chiron Review presents the widest possible range of contemporary creative writing—fiction and nonfiction, traditional and off-beat, in a perfect-bound, softcover format, including art and photography. It has published many well-known...
Read moreReading Period: Nov 1 to Jan 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Experimental, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Translation -
Tight work which will leave a scar on a reader.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Poetry -
Since its inception in 2003, the Cincinnati Review has published many promising new and emerging writers as well as Pulitzer Prize winners and Guggenheim and MacArthur fellows.
Reading Period: May 1 to May 31, Sep 1 to Sep 30, Dec 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Clackamas Literary Review (CLR) is an award-winning national literary arts magazine that has been publishing innovative poetry, prose, and possibility texts from authors around the globe since 1997. In 2018, the CLR...
Read moreReading Period: Jun 1 to Sep 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Flash Fiction, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Poetry, Short Fiction, Translation -
Founded in 2013, Cleaver is Philadelphia’s international quarterly literary magazine. It publishes cutting-edge contemporary fiction, nonfiction, poetry, interviews, essays on craft and the writing life, and book reviews.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Colorado Review’s is committed to publishing contemporary poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. It does not publish genre fiction (unless it is more literary than genre), nor does it subscribe to a particular literary philosophy or...
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The Common is a print and digital literary journal published biannually, in the fall and spring. Inspired by the role of the town common, a public gathering place for the display and exchange of ideas, The Common seeks to deepen...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 1 to Jun 1, Sep 1 to Dec 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
