The Little Journal of Northeast India is interested in the everyday stories of people, places and things based on or inspired from northeast India. Their published poems, flash fiction, photographs, artwork, interviews, and essays...
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Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, Regional -
Founded in 1997, the Long River Review is an annual literary journal of art and literature staffed by undergraduates at the University of Connecticut. Today, Long River Review is dedicated to championing the best work from...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 15 to Dec 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Lotus-eater is an online literary magazine based in Rome.
Its aesthetic is dark, eclectic, and often experimental. The editors are interested in daring, unusual writing, and striking images.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Experimental, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Humor, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Translation -
Loud Coffee Press is a quarterly unpretentious and unapologetic literary journal that focuses on three things the editors love: flash fiction, coffee, and music. They look for writing that hovers in that perfect brew spot of 195 to 205...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Subgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Speculative Fiction -
Founded in 2009, Lowestoft Chronicle is an online literary magazine, published quarterly, accepting flash fiction, short stories, poetry, interviews, and creative nonfiction. Preference is given to humorous submissions with an emphasis...
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Lucky Jefferson’s mission is simple: publish social change. They reimagine books by creating interactive and collaborative community experiences that center the writer and artist and cultivate inclusive representation in...
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The MacGuffin is an international publication based out of Schoolcraft College, a two-year community college in Livonia, Michigan. Published trianually, their staff seeks to feature a diverse array of voices and styles, from...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Jun 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
MacQueen’s Quinterly (also known as MacQ) is a smorgasbord of memorable works of art and literature, in multiple genres and short-forms: prose poetry; flash and microfiction; essays and creative nonfiction; photographs, drawings...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 1 to Feb 17, Jul 1 to Jul 17, Nov 1 to Nov 17Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The editors want writing that is strange, unexpected, hopeful, complex, well-wrought. They want your gut punches, your urban graffiti, your chewed-up paper, your loud-as-a-car-alarm confessions. Send them something no one else would have written...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 18 to Feb 19Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Experimental, Fiction, Flash Fiction, LGBTQ Voices, Poetry -
The Maine Review is a biannual online literary journal that publishes culturally significant and innovative writing by writers living in Maine, across the country, and around the world. Maine Review Publications is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Mar 31, May 1 to Jul 31, Sep 1 to Nov 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Maintenant is an annual journal that features the most significant contemporary dada writing and art from around the world. Maintenant editions aim to bring to light cutting-edge poetry and art that stems from an original spirit...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Mar 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Experimental, Feminist, Poetry, Political, Pop Culture, Visual Poetry, War -
The Malahat Review is among Canada’s leading literary journals. Published quarterly, it features contemporary works of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction by emerging and established writers from around the world. The Malahat...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Jan 31, May 1 to May 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Mannequin haus publishes experimental fiction, video art, gif, scanner art, photography, painting, collage, print, comics, scribbles, found art, interviews and reviews. Anything submitted with surreal, descriptive, textural and original...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Marrow is a literary magazine committed to publishing work that explores dark spaces. The editors are interested in writing that uses compelling language and imagery to remind them what it means to be human, that makes wonderful the...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Creative Nonfiction, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Poetry -
The Massachusetts Review is an independent quarterly journal of literature, the arts, and public affairs. MR has deep local roots but an international scope, with an emphasis on work that provokes debate, challenges ideology,...
Read moreReading Period: Oct 1 to Apr 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Each issue of Menagerie Magazine is a curated exhibit of poems, fictions, and hybrid works that deserve the close attention of a small stage. Like a Joseph Cornell shadow box, the editors bring together a mixture of things found and made...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 1 to May 31, Sep 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Literary Fiction, Lyric Essay, Poetry -
Metachrosis literary magazine is an online publication that strives to be the place where the foundations of the world are explored and celebrated. Created as part of the Art, Science, and Visual Thinking MFA at Dundee University, this...
Read moreReading Period: Dec 20 to Mar 3Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Metaworker is an online literary magazine where great stories are forged. Their mission is to publish great things to read and the editors are interested in stories, poems, and art that have new, interesting perspectives or...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Feb 28, Apr 1 to May 31, Jul 1 to Aug 31, Oct 1 to Nov 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Magical Realism, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Speculative Poetry, Visual Poetry -
Metphrastics is an online poetry journal inspired by works in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The editors publish ekphrastic poetry responding to the Met’s permanent collection and select special exhibits—all areas,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Micro-poetry, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Visual Poetry -
Michigan Quarterly Review seeks, cultivates, and amplifies a wide range of artistic expressions that interrogate the world and expand the imagination.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Apr 1, Aug 1 to Nov 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Cross-genre, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Translation -
Micromance Magazine is the only lit mag 100% dedicated to flash romance (1,200 words max) and love lit—romance, love stories and romantic poetry. Micromance Magazine has been serving the writing community for over a year and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Subgenres: Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Love, Micro-poetry, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction, Young Adult -
The people of Mid-American Review seek to publish works of fine literary art from a diverse body of artists. The magazine is on the lookout for work that has the power to move and astonish while displaying the highest level of craft.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Poetry, Translation -
Midwest Review looks for well-crafted, thoughtful, and thought-provoking writing and visual art that examines, interprets, and redefines the full spectrum of life, past and present, in the Midwest. The Midwest is the region of the north...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 15 to May 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Launched in 2018, Milk Press is the literary and visual art journal of the Poetry Society of New York. Milk Press merges the poetic, visual, and digital art worlds by cultivating, presenting, and publishing multidisciplinary and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 7 to Mar 22, Jun 10 to Aug 1, Sep 3 to Oct 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Cross-genre, Graphic/Illustrated, LGBTQ Voices, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Visual Poetry -
The Modern Artist publishes poetry, fiction, and non-fiction that explores how artists and the meaning of artistry is shaped by the evolving cultural landscape. In light of the complexities of the digital age, we are committed to...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, Political
