WWPH Writes is looking for poetry and fiction that celebrate, unsettle, and question our lives in the DC, Maryland, and Virginia area (DMV) and in our nation. We seek work that is lyrical and dynamic, and we believe in cultivating a...
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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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Yalobusha Review is a journal of new writing, founded in 1995 and operated by the graduate writing program at the University of Mississippi.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Subgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry -
Accepted submissions include creative nonfiction, poetry, and cover art by authors that identify as women and must relate to the issue theme and guiding questions, as interpreted by the author. See Submissions Guidelines for more information.
Reading Period: Mar 1 to Mar 31Genre: Poetry, Creative Nonfiction -
Yellow Medicine Review is an international journal of indigenous literature, art, and thought. It includes the work of both renowned and emerging writers, artists, and scholars and is published twice a year in spring and fall.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Prose Poetry -
Yemassee, the annual print literary journal of the University of South Carolina MFA program, has published fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction since 1993.
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Yes Poetry was founded in February 2010 by Joanna C. Valente.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Micro-poetry, Prose Poetry -
Young Ravens Literary Review is a biannual online literary journal. We accept material from both new and established writers and artists. We want to know what haunts, inspires, maddens, and exalts you on our common journey through...
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Your Impossible Voice publishes brash and velvety new work from around the world. We’re looking for quality fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translations, and more. We like urgency, innovation, intelligence, and risk. We’re interested in what...
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At Zizzle we look for literary flash fiction that will surprise, move, and amuse both young and older imaginative minds. We like fiction that dives deep into meaning and resists banality. We believe the moral, if any, of a great story...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: FictionSubgenres: Fiction, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction -
The Zodiac Review was launched in 2011 to provide a quality venue for readers and new, emerging and established writers of "literary/genre" fiction—the merger of literary fiction and (nearly) any genre that joins it. Here new and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: FictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Feminist, Flash Fiction, Humor, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Political, Speculative Fiction -
Zone 3 publishes fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction in a wide variety of aesthetics from both emerging and established writers.
Reading Period: Aug 1 to Apr 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
ZYZZYVA is a San Francisco literary journal publishing fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and visual art by the best writers, poets, translators, and artists working on the West Coast—and beyond. Since the magazine’s inception over thirty years ago,...
Read moreReading Period: Jun 1 to Sep 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Literary Fiction
