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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 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
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Gavialidae is a print literary periodical published annually seeking poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction, and plays.
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Geist is a magazine of ideas and culture with a strong literary focus and a sense of humour. The Geist tone is intelligent, plain-talking, inclusive and offbeat. Each issue represents a convergence of fiction,...
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Gemini Magazine celebrates compelling fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and art. We hold three annual contests for flash fiction, poetry, and short stories, each with a $1,000 top prize. Work from Gemini has won Best of the...
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 Georgia Review seeks to create a lasting environment for literature by supporting writers at every stage of their careers. Committed to the art of editorial practice, the Review collaborates with authors of essays, stories,...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 15 to May 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Cross-genre -
Gigantic Sequins is print-based and annual. Its black and white journal is known for its quality writing and its unique design/aesthetic. It accepts work from unpublished writers in addition to those who have an already established voice...
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Ginosko: a Greek word meaning to perceive, understand, realize, come to know; knowledge that has an inception, a progress, an attainment. The recognition of truth from experience.
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Girls Right the World is an international literary journal advocating for young, female-identified and gender-expansive writers and artists. This journal values and promotes diversity of culture and expression. The editors are students...
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For creative nonfiction, Glacial Hills Review wants to see creative personal stories that reflect one’s own personal experiences in such a way that they provoke understanding in discerning readers. The editors also accept...
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Glassworks is a publication of Rowan University’s Master of Arts in Writing program. In addition to providing opportunities for graduate students to participate as literary citizens, Glassworks publishes literary work from both...
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Glint Literary Journal celebrates innovation in style and voice. It welcomes submissions in poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction, hybrid genre, book reviews, and visual art from persons of diverse cultures, nationalities, and...
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Global City Review is a literary metropolis of the imagination. Edited and produced by writers, it celebrates the possibilities of the “global city” and other constructions of community while honoring the subversiveness and originality...
Read moreReading Period: Jun 20 to Jul 25Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Gone Lawn likes the magical and shiny things, and unusual and/or innovative works that baffle the fence-setters of our verdant lands and whisk away all of their dreary tools. Gone Lawn is especially partial to odd garden animals...
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Subgenres: Experimental, Flash Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry -
The Good Life Review is an online literary journal that provides a beautiful and equitable platform for writers and artists to showcase and share their poetry, prose, and art. The editors want to foster a positive and inclusive literary...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Humor, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Magical Realism, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Nonfiction, Poetry, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Regional, Short Fiction, Translation -
Good River Review is the literary journal of the Sena Jeter Naslund-Karen Mann Graduate School of Writing at Spalding University. It publishes two issues a year. Good River Review is a home for writing that launches quickly,...
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Grain Magazine, a literary quarterly, publishes engaging, eclectic, and challenging writing and art by Canadian and international writers and artists. Published by the Saskatchewan Writers Guild, Grain has earned national and...
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Grand Little Things caters to formalistic, stylized poetry, but is also welcome to invented/nonce forms as well.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
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 -
Green Blotter is published annually by the Green Blotter Literary Society of Lebanon Valley College in Annville, Pennsylvania, and features poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and art submitted by undergraduate student writers...
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Green Mountains Review is an international journal publishing poems, stories, and creative nonfiction by both well-known authors and promising newcomers. The magazine also features interviews, literary criticism, and book reviews. The...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Mar 1Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Produced by the University of North Carolina at Greensboro Master of Fine Arts program in creative writing, the Greensboro Review publishes fiction and poetry twice a year, each fall and spring. Works from the journal are consistently...
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Strictly literary writing please; flash and poetry. Emerging and established voices are welcome. Sparrow poets address global issues that haunt. Book manuscripts are published sporadically. Grey Sparrow Journal also offers a “National...
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Grist: A Journal of the Literary Arts seeks high quality submissions from both emerging and established writers. It publishes craft essays and interviews as well as fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
Reading Period: May 15 to Aug 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Founded in 1952, Grub Street is Towson University’s literary journal. Produced annually, it publishes works of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and visual art.
Reading Period: Aug 31 to Dec 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Guernica publishes fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. The magazine looks for work that feels global and outward-looking; fearless in its willingness to ask tough questions; original in the ways it enters and illuminates the fray; and,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation