Literary Magazines

We seek to publish outstanding literary fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, and to promote the writers we publish, helping authors reach a wider literary audience.

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...