Valley Voices is located in the heartland of the Mississippi Delta. It features fiction, poetry, interviews and criticism from writers and scholars anywhere though we hope to see more creative work about the South.
Literary Magazines
Connect your poems, stories, essays, and reviews to the right audiences by researching over twelve hundred literary magazines in our database. Here, you’ll find editorial policies, submission guidelines, contact information—everything you need to direct your work to the publications most amenable to your vision.
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Reading Period: Sep 1 to Jun 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Vallum is interested in original and previously unpublished work. Ideal submissions are well-crafted, fresh, and edgy. Open to most styles, whether experimental or traditional—though issues are usually put together with an underlying theme in...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
Valparaiso Poetry Review presents poems, interviews, and essays by new, emerging, or well-known poets. VPR also offers book reviews and essays on various poets.Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry
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The third edition of the Vassar Review will explore the unlikely negotiations of space within and without the queered body. We are interested in works that reconfigure experiences of becoming: their shifting textures, opacities,...
Read moreReading Period: Nov 15 to Jan 19Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
A Velvet Giant is a collective space for work that exists outside the boundaries of genre. We recognize that it can feel impossible to talk about writing without categorizing it. When we say genreless, we don’t mean apolitical. Writing...
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Verdad is an online, twice-yearly literary and fine arts journal that showcases the best unpublished poetry, short stories, non-fiction and visual art that comes our way. We also offer a wide range of interviews featuring contemporary writers and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Cross-genre -
Versal, the literary & arts journal out of Amsterdam, seeks work that is urgent, involved, and unexpected. A publication celebrating translocal intersections and cross-cultural dialogue, Versal is internationally renowned for the quality of...
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To publish excellent original poetry of many kinds. To provide and encourage a warm communal environment where persons feel comfortable. To foster interaction among contributors. PLEASE NOTE: I respond to submissions very quickly -- often within...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
Vestal Review is the oldest magazine dedicated exclusively to flash fiction. It has been published continuously since March 2000. Vestal Review is a semi-annual perfect-bound print magazine with a Web presence. A good flash, replete with a...
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Black Sun Lit is the publisher of Vestiges, an irregularly printed journal of prose, poetry, essay, translation, and art that envelops a specific idea or theme unique to each issue.
Reading Period: Oct 1 to Dec 31Genres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Literary Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Translation -
VEXT: Vision, Voice, and Text is a place where online artists from all disciplines are welcome to showcase their work. VEXT has no manifesto, no political pretensions, and no editorial restrictions. Our editors, however, have a...
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TVBR publishes poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, photography, and visual art that memorably express what it means to be human. Our editorial focus is on authentic voices and evocative images. We seek work that haunts us. The...
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Poetry and Prose that leave us excited and wanting more.
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Virga is rain that takes some cloud down with it–precipitation with parachute.
Virga is also a poetry journal. Here, we hope to publish poems that take some of the sky down to the page.
Our tastes are eclectic, but we would like to...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetryGenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, LGBTQ, Poetry, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry -
Welcome to the home of the Virginia Normal, an international literary journal edited by the students and faculty of Virginia State University.
We publish two issues each spring: a print issue featuring literary work submitted from...
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VQR seeks work that is conscious of language without being self-conscious, that pulls readers in with drama and emotional risk, rather than holding them at arm's length with gimmickry and tricks. We value writing that uses intensely focused...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to May 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
We publish well crafted original poetry as well as translations from modern poets, everywhere. We favor poetry that is NOT OBSCURE yet avoids the trite.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetryGenres: Translation -
Our primary mission in creating Visions With Voices is to promote Spoken Word as a legitimate genre with standards that differentiate excellent work. We are creating here a venue which will give the artist a sense of accomplishment...
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Visitants pop up throughout literature as ghosts, as fits of madness, and as omens. In nature, a visitant takes on a different meaning: a migratory bird that has come to a place temporarily; a cicada that rises from the soil every 17 years. Here...
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Vita Brevis publishes poetry (especially from unpublished or emerging poets), charges no reading fees, accepts unsolicited pieces, keeps poetry submissions open year-round, and tends to favor short, structured poems over long,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
Our intention is to publish writing that pushes against convention, which challenges, subverts, or skillfully manipulates tradition, and serves to advance the understanding of human culture and experience via interesting metaphors, exciting...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, LGBTQ, Nonfiction, Poetry -
VoiceCatcher is an online journal that supports, inspires, and empowers female-identified writers and artists in the greater Portland, OR and Vancouver, WA areas.
Send us work that moves us. Work that pushes the envelope. We seek...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 1 to Apr 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Voicemail Poems is an online magazine that highlights the intimate and raw voices of new and established writers of all styles.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
vox poetica is an online literary salon dedicated to bringing poetry into the everyday.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
The editors encourage interested authors to read previous issues of Waccamaw before submitting. At Waccamaw we are many, evolving. We crave work that is honest and impacts us, invites us into a space of vulnerability. We value sincerity...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 15 to Feb 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
