Pennsylvania Literary Journal is a printed and digital journal that publishes scholarly essays on a range of topics, periods, genres and fields, as well as book reviews, short fiction stories, interviews, photographs, art, and poetry....
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 -
Pensive publishes work that deepens the inward life; expresses a range of religious/spiritual/humanist experiences and perspectives; envisions a more just, peaceful, and sustainable world; advances dialogue across difference; and...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 1 to Nov 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Lyric Essay, Magical Realism, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, Prose Poetry, Religious/Spiritual, Short Fiction, Translation, Visual Poetry -
The digital archive petrichor publishes a variety of writers in contemporary art and poetics. The editors are particularly interested in strong image and experimental work of a visual nature.
Reading Period: Oct 1 to Dec 1, Apr 1 to Jun 1Genre: Poetry, Translation -
Pleiades: Literature in Context is a literary biannual featuring poetry, fiction, essays, translations, and reviews by authors from around the world. Past contributors include winners of the Nobel, Ruth Lilly, Pulitzer, Bollingen, Prix...
Read moreReading Period: Jun 1 to Jun 30, Dec 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, Humor, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Prose Poetry -
Ploughshares’ mission is to champion innovative writing, elevate emerging and established voices, and spark new dialogues in local, national, and global communities. Ploughshares blends the unique editorial perspectives of two...
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Poet Lore is a biannual print journal of poetry and translation, showcasing the finest established contemporary writers alongside exciting emerging poets.
Reading Period: Apr 1 to May 31, Oct 1 to Nov 30Genre: Poetry, TranslationSubgenres: Poetry, Translation -
Poetries in English Magazine distinguishes itself from other prestigious literary journals by its nonconformist approach to literatures in English. Each fortnight, it publishes a magazine that is unafraid, iconoclastic, but intelligent. It...
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Poetry International is one of the oldest and most respected literary journals dedicated to publishing poetry from around the globe. Each issue of the print journal brings together original poems, portfolios, and translated work in...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Feb 1, Feb 1 to Apr 30, Apr 1 to May 31, Jun 1 to Sep 1Genre: Poetry, Translation -
Welcome! You have moored at the Poetry Lighthouse, a creative writing community in love with poetry, stories, and art. Poetry can be the perfect recipe for a broken heart, a furious storm, a chirping robin or a philosophical epiphany,...
Read moreReading Period: Apr 15 to May 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, TranslationSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Fiction, Formal Poetry, LGBTQ Voices, Poetry, Short Fiction, Translation -
Esatblished in 1959, Poetry Northwest is committed to publishing the best in contemporary poetry, especially work willing to take risks. Edited and published in the Pacific Northwest, the magazine retains a strong sense of place while...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 1 to Mar 31Genre: Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Nonfiction, Poetry -
Established in Vancouver, Canada, on the Remembrance Day of 2012, Poetry Pacific is a literary publication committed to promoting cultural exchange by featuring the very “best” contemporary poetry in English it can find.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Translation -
The Poetry Porch is a magazine on the internet for poets, teachers, and their students. First appearing online in 1997, it is only published online. It is interested in original unpublished poems, essays, reviews, memoirs, and fiction,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 5 to Mar 1Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Formal Poetry, Literary Fiction, Lyric Essay, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Translation -
The Poetry Project Newsletter is the Project’s quarterly publication for reviews, essays, interviews, poems, remembrances, and arts criticism. Published continuously since 1972 and freely available online, in bookstores around the U.S....
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Poetry South is an international journal that considers all kinds of poetry. Though they pay particular attention to writers from the American South (born, raised, or living here), the magazine has a tradition of including poets from...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Translation -
Poets and Dreamers Fine Arts & Literary Journal, and Poets and Dreamers: Culture, Art, and Conversation (#1 Bestelling New Release in Interviews), the California-based print anthology series and semiannual online publication...
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Pornstar Martini is, at its heart, a fun, camp, queer, feminist, sultry, sophisticated, crazy quarterly literary publication aimed at showcasing the best boundary-pushing work from emerging writers and artists.
Reading Period: Jul 1 to Sep 18, Nov 1 to Jan 1, Mar 1 to May 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Post Road seeks to publish up-and-coming writers along with more established names. It publishes a wide range of styles, from realist to experimental and everything in between. Work at Post Road has been reprinted in Harper’s Readings,...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 1 to Mar 31, Sep 15 to Nov 14Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
After one hundred years of continuous publication, Prairie Schooner still seeks new work from established, mid-career, and beginning prose writers and poets. At once international and regional, the Schooner is varied in...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Sep 15, Feb 1 to Feb 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry publishes poems on the basis of their artistic excellence, rather than on the basis of the author’s professed creed or because the subject matter is explicitly Catholic. The poems in this journal...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 1 to Oct 1Genre: Poetry, Translation -
The editors aim to publish art and words for the future by artists and writers who believe they’re carrying, on their hunched-over-computer shoulders, a pretty heavy yet very pretty burden—to offer a way into humanity so that...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Humor, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Lyric Essay, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Visual Poetry -
Published by the University of La Verne, Prism Review is an annual journal of contemporary poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction from established and emerging writers. Alongside its literary works, Prism Review also publishes...
Read moreReading Period: Apr 1 to Sep 10, Dec 1 to Feb 10Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Literary Fiction -
A Public Space seeks work that is brave and unexpected. It is interested in writing that uncovers the extraordinary in the every day, provides a rare glimpse, exposes an unexpected truth, or puts forth a daring hypothesis. There are no...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 15 to Feb 15, May 15 to Jun 15, Sep 15 to Oct 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Quarterly West looks for writing that is, exciting, challenging, risky, unpredictable, and different. Different stomps in. Maybe it seeps in. Sometimes, and in one’s favorite works, different is always already there and it strikes flint...
Read moreReading Period: Oct 15 to Nov 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Flash Fiction, Prose Poetry -
Reading into Culture is a quarterly international literary magazine. It publishes essays, poetry, and short fiction exploring the intersections of art, culture, and society from a left-wing perspective.
Reading Period: Apr 1 to Apr 30, Jul 1 to Jul 31, Oct 1 to Oct 31, Jan 1 to Jan 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Réapparition Journal is a literary journal that focuses on the experience of chronic and mental illnesses. Many times, the stigmatization of some of these conditions is what hurts just as much as the situation itself. The ability to...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Healing/Health
