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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: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Translation -
The Adirondack Review is an independent online quarterly of literature and the arts. We publish poetry, fiction, artwork, photography,translations, and book reviews. TAR was established in the spring of 2000, with its first issue appearing that...
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We’re looking for work that’s bizarre, authentic, subtle, outrageous, indefinable, raw, paradoxical. We’ve got our eyes on the horizon. Send us writing that lives just between the land and the sky.
Reading Period: Jun 1 to Apr 1Genre: Poetry -
The After Happy Hour Review is not limited to any particular genre and encourages poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, and visual art. Our headquarters are based in Pittsburgh, but the journal is not exclusive to Pittsburgh-based contributors....
Read moreReading Period: Jun 16 to May 19Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Flash Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, Prose Poetry -
We see literature and the arts as part of a broad, ongoing cultural conversation that every society needs to remain vibrant and alive. We look for the honest voice, the idiosyncratic signature, experimental where necessary but...
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Airplane Reading is a site that features nonfiction writing about air travel.
Beyond throwaway entertainment or mere distraction, we see airplane reading as a kind of storytelling that can animate, reflect on, and rejuvenate the experience...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir -
Alaska Quarterly Review (AQR) publishes fiction, short plays, poetry, photo essays, and literary non-fiction in traditional and experimental styles. Although AQR publishes established writers, most of our content comes from unsolicited...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 15 to May 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Albion Review is a national literary journal based out of Albion College in Michigan. Published annually since 2004, The Review features works of short fiction, poetry, essays, and visual art. The Review strives to showcase the work of...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Nov 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Experimental, Formal, Literary Fiction -
Algebra of Owls publishes poetry from around the world, favouring work that is accessible, resonant and contemporary. There is no preference for style and form. Humour and irony is welcome, linguistic gymnastics and dry academic work is usually...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
Since 2005 Alimentum has been delighting readers with stories, essays, and poems that use food as a kind of muse to inspire memory, ideas, humor, joy, melancholy,...
Read moreReading Period: Oct 1 to Mar 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
All Roads Will Lead You Home is a way to broaden our circle and reaffirm the commitment to community and collaboration with which we began as a collective that includes musicians, poets, and visual artists. We see it as a space for poetry, music...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
all the sins is a quarterly digital magazine that encourages writers and artists to have courage and to sin against staid storytelling. Break rules, push boundaries and tell new stories in new ways. Just tell a good story. It was conceived as a...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, Formal, Graphic/Illustrated, Historical, Humor, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, LGBT, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Regional, Translation, War -
A publication of Prescott College, Alligator Juniper features contemporary poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. We encourage submissions from writers at all levels, especially emerging and early-career writers. AJ has twice won the AWP...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 15 to Oct 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Open to anyone in the Altadena/ Pasadena/Greater Los Angeles area, The Altadena Poetry Journal is published yearly and accepts poetry of all content and form.
Reading Period: Oct 1 to Oct 22Genre: Poetry -
The American Aesthetic is a quarterly journal searching for poetry that conveys in its composition—as well as in the sound, cadence, and possibly even musicality of its words—an expression of honesty and purpose that somehow rings true.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Poetry -
American Chordata is a biannual magazine of bright voices in fiction, nonfiction essay, and poetry, as well as art and photography. We are founded on the belief that a good literary magazine can celebrate sophisticated design and earnest...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The American Journal of Poetry, theamericanjournalofpoetry.com, publishes superlative poetry. No restrictions as to length, form or subject matter. Long poems are especially welcomed, as well as essays on poetry. We publish all poets, from the...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Translation -
Founding Editor: J.P. Dancing Bear, 2004-February 28, 2017
Journal & Poetry Editor as of March 1, 2017: Theresa Senato Edwards
Assistant Poetry Editor as of June 14, 2017: Hannah Craig
Reading Period: Sep 1 to Oct 23Genre: Poetry -
Publishing a broad range of poetry, translations, criticism, reviews, interviews, and columns, The American Poetry Review is dedicated to reaching a worldwide audience with a diverse array of contemporary poetry and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
A quarterly, American Short Fiction (ASF) strives to discover and publish new fiction in which transformations of language, narrative, and character occur swiftly, deftly, and unexpectedly. We are drawn to evocative language, unique subject...
Read moreReading Period: Dec 1 to May 31Genre: Fiction -
Amethyst Arsenic was founded in 2011 to publish the best poetry and art to the widest possible audience. We pay for accepted work and seek to nominate poems for awards. We are open to all forms of poetry from new and established voices. We have a...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
We are looking for creative work, but only good creative work. Give us God, give us god, give us man, give us people & make us laugh. If you can make us cry, do so, if you want to lament loss of pets & family, do not. We enjoy smiling...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
Started in August 2010, Anak Sastra Literary Magazine is a quarterly online publication which hopes to provide a venue for Southeast Asian writers to promote their writings in English. The magazine also encourages expats, tourists and regional...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Still Harbor’s ANCHOR magazine is starting a different kind of conversation about equity, peace, and healing. We are engaging seekers, visionaries, activists, wisdom followers, and people of the heart from all around the world. Through articles,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Creative Nonfiction -
Founded by The New Yorker fiction contributor and Whiting Writers' Award-winner Rick Rofihe, anderbo.com is a Literary Online Journal that publishes short stories, poetry, and nonfiction (a.k.a. “fact”). Named “The Best New Online Journal” by...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir