We believe that creative and critical work should be presented in a magazine in a variegated yet coherent and balanced way. We seek writihg that both stimulates our minds and touches our hearts.
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: Oct 2 to Apr 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Bourbon Penn is a print and online magazine featuring stories of imagination and the odd.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: FictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental -
Interested in work that moves us. Transport us someplace new through lyric, narrative, image, and voice. Surprise us. Surprise yourself.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
Bracken publishes fiction, poetry, and art. For fiction, we seek lyrical, character-driven stories inspired by the woods and old-world storytelling. We lean towards literary fiction and magic realism. In poetry, we look for natural-world, and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Subgenres: Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry -
Breadcrumbs Mag is an exercise in motivation and shared inspiration, a chance to create when otherwise your professional life might not give you reason to, an outlet to plant the seeds of an idea and watch where they can go — through your own...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre -
Breakwater Review seeks to promote literature that doesn’t stand still. A Breakwater is “a barrier built out into a body of water to protect a coast or harbor from the force of waves.” But as a literary journal, we’re more interested in the waves...
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Breathe Free Press is an online magazine of resistance and awareness, dedicated to literary essayism testing patterns of perception attentive to language and cultural associations: Essays that subvert imposed constraints of genre conventions....
Read moreReading Period: Jun 1 to Dec 31Genre: Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Nonfiction -
Brevity publishes well-known and emerging writers working in the extremely brief (750 words or less) essay form. We have featured work from two Pulitzer prize finalists, many NEA fellows, Pushcart winners, Best...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Apr 1Genre: Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Experimental, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction -
Brick is an international literary magazine based in Toronto, Canada, and edited by Michael Redhill, Linda Spalding, Michael Helm, Rebecca Silver Slayter, Laurie D Graham, and Martha Sharpe. Published twice a year, the magazine is a beautifully...
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Bridge Eight Literary Magazine publishes work that is fiercely human in that it speaks to the heart of who we are as a collective. We publish pieces online that explore the deeper parts of our natures and have had the privilege to...
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Bridge Ink focuses on young adult creative writers, ages 13 to 18. All genres are accepted with a focus on poetry.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Welcome to Bridge: The Bluffton University Literary Journal. We are committed to young writers- so committed in fact, that we only publish work by writers age 14-24. We are looking for writing that demonstrates virtuosity and wonder, ...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, Historical, Humor, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, LGBTQ, Literary Fiction, Love, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Regional, Religious/Spiritual, War -
We’re a collection of independent writers and visual artists looking to explore the (seemingly empty) space between ourselves and the other, whether it be another person, the natural world or maybe even another plane of existence.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Erotica, Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, Poetry, Serialized Fiction -
We seek out voices that are fresh and surprising, welcoming submissions of 1,000 words or less on a year-round basis. Our writing contests offer cash prizes with no entry fee four times a year.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: FictionSubgenres: Flash Fiction -
We publish fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. We also encourage visual artists to submit for possible cover art. In addition, we sponsor two contests, the Rash Awards, with $500 first prizes in fiction and poetry.
Reading Period: Aug 15 to Nov 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Broad Street is an interdisciplinary non-profit magazine featuring the very best that creative non-fiction has to offer in an ever-expanding set of subgenres. We are an intersection where truth-telling prose, poetry, artwork, and interviews with...
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Broadsided Press publishes original, high-quality collaborations between writers and visual artists (if selected for publication, a visual artist will respond to your writing) and gets them onto streets around the world. Broadsided modernizes the...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 15 to May 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Flash Fiction -
Founded in October 2000 and currently published 10 times annually, the Brooklyn Rail provides an independent forum for arts, culture, and politics throughout New York City and far beyond. Our journal, in addition to featuring local...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Experimental, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, Pop Culture, Translation -
The Brown Orient exclusively publishes women and LGBTQ+ writers and artists from local and diasporic South Asia, Southeast Asia, Southwest Asia, and Central Asia.
Reading Period: Jan 15 to Aug 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Brush Talks publishes compelling nonfiction, along with photographs and occasional poetry, about China. This can take many forms: general essays, travel essays, profiles, memoir, and narrative nonfiction. We seek submissions about places...
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Bryant Literary Review is an international magazine of poetry and fiction published annually in May. Since our first issue in 2000, we have actively sought to expand our audience. We provide writing that is sophisticated, informed, and...
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Burningword Literary Journal is a quarterly international publication of poetry, short fiction, short nonfiction, and photography. Burningword has been published continuously since June 2000.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry -
We publish poetry, one interview, two pieces of fiction, poetry reviews and artwork.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
Cadaverous Magazine is an online supernatural horror literary magazine. We accept submissions from writers and artists of all ages from all across the globe. Our haunted home features poetry, prose, fiction, flash fiction, art, and photography...
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We publish a kind of fantastic fiction infrequently published in English. This fiction, which we would describe as irreal, rejects the tendency to portray people and places realistically and the need for a full resolution to the story; instead,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction
