Stepping Stones Lit Magazine is a student-run publication dedicated to uplifting emerging and established voices from around the world. Originally launched for the Webb Schools community, it now welcomes...
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Reading Period: Mar 18 to May 18, Sep 1 to Nov 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry -
The Stonecoast Review is a literary arts journal edited by alumni and students from University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing. It welcomes creative nonfiction, fiction (literary, general, and pop/genre),...
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Storm Cellar curates writing that is surprising, formally and affectively innovative, and represents the highest quality of various literary traditions. Each issue reflects the current tastes of the editorial team. It actively prefers...
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The editors of Sublunary Review welcome poetry, short story, and art submissions from all people and places. Send them your most oneiric, moonlit work.
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The Summerset Review is a literary journal released quarterly on the 15th of March, June, September, and December on the internet, and periodically in print form. Founded in 2002, the journal is exclusively devoted to the review and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Creative Nonfiction, Literary Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Short Fiction -
The Sun is an independent, ad-free magazine that for more than fifty years has used words and photographs to evoke the splendor and heartache of being human. Each monthly issue celebrates life, but not in a way that ignores its...
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Since launching in January of 2019, Sunspot Literary Journal has amplified diverse multinational voices. New works have been published in their original language side-by-side with English translations. Boundaries that exclude meaningful...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Mar 31, Apr 1 to Jun 30, Jul 1 to Sep 30, Oct 1 to Dec 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Historical, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Lyric Essay, Micro-poetry, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Translation, Visual Poetry, War -
Superlative publishes quality, innovative work by emerging short story writers and poets in order to promote new, developing authors and the art of the short story and poetry to readers worldwide. Superlative’s main aim is to nurture...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Subgenres: Experimental, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Poetry -
Superpresent is a quarterly magazine of the arts. It is available free online and a limited run of print copies for each issue. Superpresent publishes poems, short stories, essays, visual art pieces, experimental art, video art...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Mar 1, Apr 1 to Jun 1, Jul 1 to Sep 1, Oct 1 to Dec 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Survive Thrive provides opportunities for sharing art, poetry, essays, and the practice of Medical Humanities and Narrative as Medicine. The editors encourage those in the medical profession to practice Narrative Medicine by submitting...
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The Swamp Ape is a legend that reflects Florida—its mythology, its weirdness—as well as the human desire to create a narrative around that which they can’t explain. Submissions to the Swamp should defy form to the extent that the piece’s...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 1 to Aug 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Founded and edited by a diverse, award-winning team of female poets, SWWIM Every Day publishes poems every weekday by cis/trans women, nonbinary, intersex, and other gender-expansive writers of all ages, races, ethnicities, cultures,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
Symphonies of Imagination is a print magazine that explores the philosophy of the Anthropocene and is published quarterly. Each issue revolves around a certain topic and invites people from all backgrounds and from all countries to...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Speculative Fiction, Speculative Poetry -
Tabula Rasa Review is filled with poetry and prose that show just how much can be done with a blank piece of paper. Its authors have formed dimension, and feeling in black and white text. They’ve created relationships, climaxes, and...
Read moreReading Period: May 30 to Sep 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Talon Review is a journal where honest writing and emerging voices find their way. Founded in Jacksonville, Florida as a literary journal for the University of North Florida, Talon Review has grown as a home where tales of...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 5 to Mar 8, Aug 16 to Nov 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry -
Tampa Review is a literary magazine published dedicated to the blending of contemporary literature and visual arts. Each issue features contemporary writing and art from Florida and the world.
Reading Period: Sep 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
SPECIAL EDITION: Because the editor lives near Asheville, NC, she is dedicating the upsoming edition to those affected by Hurricane Helene. She remains open to any themes and genres but is especially interested in work that shows the resilency...
Read moreReading Period: Apr 1 to Sep 1, Oct 1 to Mar 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Digital literary quarterly for new, emerging and established writers and artists. The editors seek good writing above anything else: inspired, unbound, and diverse. Original work only.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Thimble Literary Magazine is a quarterly online and print journal based on the belief that poetry is like armor.
Reading Period: Feb 1 to Mar 31, May 1 to Jun 30, Aug 1 to Sep 30, Nov 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, Poetry -
Based at 7,000 feet, Thin Air Magazine has no choice but to invite work that takes us to dizzying heights with its innovation and insight. The editors aspire to foster diversity, authenticity, surprise, and excitement while making the...
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Three Panels Press is a vibrant literary magazine that carves a unique niche at the intersection of art history and ekphrastic poetry. The publication is a celebration of creativity, offering a platform where the visual and the verbal...
Read moreReading Period: Jul 13 to Aug 23Genre: PoetrySubgenres: BIPOC Voices, LGBTQ Voices, Poetry, Prose Poetry -
The Tiger Moth Review publishes poetry, prose, art and photography that engage with the themes of nature, culture, the environment and ecology. Send them work that is eco-conscious and critical, work that celebrates the beauty/bounty of...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 1 to Apr 30, Aug 1 to Oct 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Fiction, Nature/Environmental, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Translation -
Share poetry that resists the "regime of common sense." (Anthony Reed)
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Jan 31, Jun 1 to Jul 31, Oct 1 to Nov 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
TOS is published by Wind & Water Press, and its purpose is to provide a market for literary Christian poetry, with “Christian” defined in the widest sense. Free verse and all forms are welcome. TOS encourages poets to take...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Formal Poetry, Poetry, Prose Poetry -
Tofu Ink Arts Press, a not-for-profit celebratory venture, aims at publishing poems and other arts of un-humdrum’d inclusive rhizomatic errant possibilities.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Formal Poetry, LGBTQ Voices, Poetry
