BATEAU subscribes to no trend but serves to represent a wide cross-section of contemporary writing. For this reason, readers will most probably love and hate at least something in each issue. To us, this means Bateau is eclectic, open-ended and...
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Reading Period: Feb 1 to May 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Bayou Magazine publishes short fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from established, award-winning authors as well as emerging writers. Bayou is especially interested in discovering and showcasing fresh literary voices. Bayou holds two contests, The...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Jun 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Flash Fiction, Prose Poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Literary Fiction -
Founded in 2007, Beatdom is dedicated to the study of the Beat Generation. We publish one issue annually with a pre-designated topic. All submissions must related this topic to the Beat Generation.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Historical, Narrative Nonfiction -
The Beautiful Losers are the people that live at the margins. The ones that dare to try, to live, to sing. The ones that aren’t afraid of failure, that pursue the beauty of it all. The ones that aren’t rebels, special, normal, alternative, crazy...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Experimental, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry -
bedfellows is a thematic, philadelphia-based literary magazine that seeks to catalog contemporary discussions of desire & intimacy, with a particular focus on underrepresented & marginalized voices. we publish work that we feel subverts...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Cross-genre, Erotica, Experimental, Feminist, LGBT, Humor, Love, Micro-poetry, Prose Poetry, Regional, Pop Culture -
Reading Period: Sep 30 to Mar 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Belle Reve Literary Journal is a southern literary experience. We are an online publication. We release new works weekly. We strive to capture everything that makes the South and its residents unique through the best contemporary literature we...
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Our goal is to make writing affordable and frequent while connecting writing from around the world. The Pages are sold in 10 countries in shops such as Shakespeare & Co. (Paris), Foyles (London) Powell's (Portland, OR) and City Lights (San...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Experimental, Flash Fiction, Political, Prose Poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Literary Fiction -
Bellevue Literary Review is a unique literary magazine that examines human existence through the prism of health and healing, illness and disease. We invite submissions of previously unpublished works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that touch...
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Literature of palpable quality: poems, stories, and essays so beguiling they invite us to touch their essence. The Bellingham Review hungers for a kind of writing that nudges the limits of form, or executes traditional forms exquisitely.
Reading Period: Sep 15 to Dec 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre -
We are always interested in new writers as well as established writers in the field of contemporary fiction.
Reading Period: Aug 1 to Dec 1Genre: Fiction -
Since 1950, the BPJ has been publishing poetry that matters. We are open to a wide range of forms and styles in contemporary poetry. We are always watching for new poets, quickened language, and poems with a fresh purchase on the political or...
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We strive to showcase the richness and diversity of authors from the greater Washington, DC area in every issue, with poets from different backgrounds, races, ethnicities, ages, and sexual orientations represented. We have included Pulitzer Prize...
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Bennington Review is published twice a year in print form, Spring/Summer and Fall/Winter. We aim to stake out a distinctive space for innovative, intelligent, and moving fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, film writing, and cross-genre work. In...
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BFR is an entirely undergraduate student-run publication. We seek out innovative fiction that plays with form and content as well as traditionally constructed stories with fresh voice and original ideas. We run a yearly Sudden Fiction contest for...
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While we accept great poetry of any kind, we are particularly interested in work that complicates prevailing conceptions of race, gender, ecology, and even poetic form itself. Is your work attempting to start a dialogue? To enter into...
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poetry and short fiction of interest to a thinking person
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Subgenres: Cross-genre, Formal, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Translation -
Founded in 2009, Big Lucks publishes earnest, honest poetry and prose through a variety of online mediums.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Although we encourage topics related to the Mississippi River Valley, no direct relationship is required. We are also dedicated to reviewing books from independent, university, and small presses, but not self-published titles.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Poetry (1-2 pages) primarily and some short prose (500 words max) that is beautiful and/or strange. Open to all styles and forms.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Flash Fiction, Micro-poetry, Poetry, Prose Poetry -
The Bitchin’ Kitsch is a zine for artists, poets, prose writers, or anyone else who has something to say. it exists for the purpose of open creativity.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
We are looking for poems that vault us to a new level of understanding an individual's true perception, and not one that falls under the customs of a dictated language which only obeys the known, the understood and the repetitive. Be imaginative...
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If nothing else, our press is about the heart. Each issue should bring about a sense of connection and matters of the shared human experience. We want to foster a love triangle between the reader, the author, and the words. In reading Bitterzoet...
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Black Candies is a literary journal of literary horror and darkness. Here at Black Candies, we’re always striving to create a better platform for women writers, who are often underrepresented in horror, genre, and speculative outlets. We want to...
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Black Denim Lit welcomes thoughtful writers, new and established. We are looking for fiction up to 7,500 words that has unique and lasting artistic merit. We may consider novelettes on a case by case basis. Why "Black Denim"...? In work clothes,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: FictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction