This special anthology consists of ten folio sections for each poet with up to six pieces by each author, with a personal essay to spotlight each poet.
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 Feb 1Genre: Poetry -
After Dinner Conversation publishes short stories (1,500-8,000 words), of any genre, that ask interesting ethical and/or philosphical questions in a narrative format. Basically, we are looking for The Trolley Problem ...
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After Happy Hour isn't limited to any particular genre. In fact, we're not big fans of the whole idea of genre. Whether you write sci-fi poetry, graphic memoirs, historical flash fiction, or straight up literary--if it has strong...
Read moreReading Period: Oct 1 to Feb 28Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
After the Art seeks personal review essays that explore the ways reading can enrich the experience of looking at art. Each essay must be about a piece of art as well as a written text.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Creative NonfictionGenres: Graphic/Illustrated, Nonfiction -
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 of...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Creative NonfictionGenres: 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...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Nov 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Experimental, Formal Poetry, Literary Fiction -
Alchemy is committed to publishing quality, contemporary translations of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction creative writing. We publish creative translations and adaptations. It is our belief that translation can teach us new things about writing...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Experimental, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translation -
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 -
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 NonfictionGenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Historical, Humor, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, LGBTQ Voices, 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: PoetryGenres: Poetry -
American Chordata is a literary and arts magazine based out of Brooklyn, NY. We’re interested in making space for hybrid work, lyric essays, prose poems, longform pieces, and poem sequences, as well as work that falls into the...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 15 to Apr 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Translation -
The American Journal of Poetry publishes superlative poetry. No restrictions as to length, form or subject matter. Long poems are especially welcomed, as well as essays on poetry, visual poetry, experimental, etc. We publish all poets,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetryGenres: Translation -
American Poetry Journal publishes poetry from diverse backgrounds and orientations, from new and established voices. We publish poetry that is committed, distinct and moving.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetryGenres: Prose 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 -
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 -
Anastamos is a modern literary journal with an interdisciplinary focus. We publish diverse perspectives on the human experience, weaving together creative, scientific, philosophical, historical, and social perspectives on common shifting...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, 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...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Autobiography/Memoir -
andreview is an artist-run publication that nurtures the work of local and international writers and artists. For each issue, we showcase historical and contemporary trends in thought and art-making. As readers, researchers, artists, and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry -
Ang(st) focuses on feminist bodies and physical experiences. It is a space for marginalized voices and identities: bodies that are considered outside the realm of ‘normal’ and ‘able’. They publish BIPOC, LGBTQ+, differently abled, and...
Read moreReading Period: Apr 1 to Mar 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
