Club Plum publishes creative nonfiction, flash fiction, prose poetry, and art that often straddles realities without losing clarity or emotion. Powerful, single-reality pieces are loved, too.
Literary Magazines
Find a home for your poems, stories, essays, and reviews by researching the publications vetted by our editorial staff and listed in the Literary Magazines database. Here you’ll find editorial policies, submission guidelines, and contact information—everything you need to determine which publications match your vision for your writing and your writing life. Use the filters below to find magazines with reading periods that are open now or opening soon (within the next thirty days), accept unsolicited submissions, and match all of your criteria for the perfect publisher of your work.
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Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Concision Poetry Journal publishes experimental poetry and visual art. While formatting is considered, it takes a back seat to experimenting with language and line. Narrative poetry is generally not accepted. The selection process tends...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 15 to Mar 15, Jun 15 to Jul 15, Oct 15 to Nov 15Genre: PoetrySubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Experimental, Feminist, LGBTQ Voices, Micro-poetry, Nature/Environmental, Political -
Crashtest is an biannual online magazine founded and run by the creative writing students at the Fine Arts Center, a public arts high school in Greenville, South Carolina, so that students in high schools all over the country will have a...
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Cream City Review is Milwaukee’s leading literary journal devoted to pushing the boundaries of writing. Each issue features fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and visual art. Published biannually, Cream City Review is a...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 1 to Oct 1, Jan 2 to Mar 2Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, Humor, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Love, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Regional, Religious/Spiritual, Visual Poetry, War -
Creation Magazine is a literary and arts publication released twice a year in print. The spring issue features poetry, prose, fiction, nonfiction, and literary criticism with a focus on women’s perspectives. The fall issue is a general...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 25 to Apr 30, Aug 1 to Nov 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Creative Nonfiction, Feminist, Fiction, Literary Fiction, Poetry -
Dark Matter: Women Witnessing publishes writing in all genres and visual art created in response to an age of massive species loss and ecological collapse.
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Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, TranslationSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Translation
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The Dodge seeks your best work in eco-writing, writing about animals, and translation. They’re excited by a wide range of forms and approaches. Among other things, they’re interested in broadening the scope of stories, poems, and essays...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to May 31, Sep 1 to Nov 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Drunk Monkeys is a literary magazine and film blog founded in 2011 featuring short stories, flash fiction, poetry, film articles, movie reviews, and more.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Feb 28Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Ear publishes written and visual art that captures the attention and encourages imagination. They love to amplify the voices of people traditionally underrepresented in the publishing industry.
Reading Period: Sep 30 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Feminist, Fiction, LGBTQ Voices, Poetry, Short Fiction -
Eastern Iowa Review especially likes lyric essays and prose poetry, but check their guidelines for genres accepted during specific reading periods. They have occasional print issues every few years, usually as a collection of select...
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Eoagh is dedicated to the idea of reading as a process, the productive chaos of investigative poetic work. It seeks to foreground the writing of experimental women, trans, feminist, BIPOC, antiracist, LGBT, and queer authors. It seeks...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 17 to Apr 17Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Cross-genre, Erotica, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Healing/Health, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Religious/Spiritual, Serialized Fiction, Translation -
Since our founding in 2020, Fantastic Other’s mission has been to provide a place to showcase the literary side of all things speculative. The editors welcome poetry, fiction, flash fiction, and art submissions that contain elements of...
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Fecund highlights exceptional works of new abundance. The magazine is a medium through which writers and visual artists are exquisitely showcased and paid for their work. Fecund publishes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, theory,...
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Flora Fiction is dedicated to artists of all types: poets, writers, photographers, and illustrations. The editors are here to provide a platform for emerging creatives to showcase their work. Their literary magazine comes out every...
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Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, LGBTQ Voices, Poetry
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GAS: Poetry, Art, and Music is an online journal that publishes poetry as well as a combination of art, music, and interviews. It’s best to read a few features to get the sense for what is published. They also do occasional interviews,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Feminist, Micro-poetry, Nature/Environmental, Prose Poetry, Visual Poetry -
Gemini Magazine celebrates compelling fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and art. The editors hold three annual contests for flash fiction, poetry, and short stories, each with a $1,000 top prize. Work from Gemini has won...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, Humor, Literary Fiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, War -
The Gravity of the Thing is an independent magazine dedicated to innovative and defamiliarized creative writing. Their ongoing goal is to publish work that defamiliarizes literary forms, writing that estranges to achieve a renewed sense...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 1 to Mar 31, Jun 1 to Jun 30, Sep 1 to Sep 30, Dec 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
The Hamilton Stone Review is part of a movement of small, independent publishers and publications dedicated to distributing high quality fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction.
Reading Period: Mar 15 to Apr 15, Sep 1 to Apr 30, Sep 15 to Oct 15Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Experimental, Feminist, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry -
Hemlock Journal’s focus is on the quality of the submissions regardless of the background of the writers or the poets. The editors believe literature belongs to all and must empower each and everyone.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Mar 15, Nov 1 to Dec 15, Apr 1 to May 15, Jun 1 to Jul 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, Historical, Humor, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Love, Lyric Essay, Magical Realism, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Serialized Fiction, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Speculative Poetry, Translation, Visual Poetry, Young Adult -
Hunger Mountain is created by the faculty and students in the Writing Program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. The editors share VCFA’s belief that the arts are central to the human experience and have the ability not only to reflect...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Nov 30, Feb 1 to Apr 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Chelsea Laine Wells says: “As fiction editor what I'm looking for above all else are affecting moments of beauty and/or discomfort, and if I'm not finding those and being struck by them, then I'm not apt to take the piece. If I do find those...
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Another New Calligraphy’s online journal Impossible Task publishes short works connected in its exploration of conflict, a term open to interpretation though ever present in these increasingly challenging times.
As in ANC’s other...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Healing/Health, Historical, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, LGBTQ Voices, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, Prose Poetry, Speculative Fiction, Translation, War -
indicia seeks to showcase a dynamic collage of passionate and profound voices hungry to produce art and write primarily in the English language. indicia enjoys feeling out the lengths to which language can be stretched, whether ...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to Submissions
