It's all about getting your story out there looking good!! Your reality (aka creative non-fiction) & fiction, straight-out journalism, essay, screenplay. Your poetry (aka writing that isn't prose) plus hip-hop and greatest hits. Your art,...
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Connect your poems, stories, essays, and reviews to the right audiences by researching over twelve hundred literary magazines in our database. Here, you’ll find editorial policies, submission guidelines, contact information—everything you need to direct your work to the publications most amenable to your vision.
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Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The whole is a part and the part is a whole. The 100-word format forces the writer to question each word, to reckon with Flaubert’s mot juste in a way that even most flash fiction doesn’t. At the same time the brevity of the form allows the...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: FictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Experimental, Prose Poetry, Narrative Nonfiction -
The 3288 Review specifically focuses on writers and artists from (or associated with) West Michigan. This doesn’t mean we don’t accept submissions from the world at large; we consider submissions from anyone, and from anywhere.
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Flash Fiction, Poetry, Mixed-Genre Works, Art/Text and Artwork. Tastes lean toward surreal, experimental, ambivalent, darkly lyrical and wildly imaginative. The magazine was a weekly publication from May 2010 to Feb 2013. Check out our archives...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Subgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Flash Fiction, Prose Poetry, Literary Fiction -
The A3 Review is a literary magazine that behaves like a map, made by the folks who make Writing Maps. Prose and poetry pieces are written with a 150-word limit in response to a themed monthly writing contest. Twelve winners are published in the...
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AADOREE is a journal edited by JD Scott & Alia Tsang. We aim to publish those voices who push boundaries of linguistic creativity, lyricism, textuality & form. Our only allegiance is to writing that challenges everything we've ever known...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, LGBT, Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry -
The Acentos Review publishes poetry, fiction, memoir, interviews, translations and artwork by emerging and established Latin@ writers four times a year. We welcome submissions in English, Spanish, Spanglish, Portuguese, and indigenous languages....
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Cross-genre, Experimental -
We’re looking for work that’s bizarre, authentic, subtle, outrageous, indefinable, raw, paradoxical. We’ve got our eyes on the horizon. Send us writing that lives just between the land and the sky.
Reading Period: Jun 1 to Apr 1Genre: Poetry -
The Albion Review is a national literary journal based out of Albion College in Michigan. Published annually since 2004, The Review features works of short fiction, poetry, essays, and visual art. The Review strives to showcase the work of...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Nov 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Experimental, Formal, Literary Fiction -
all the sins is a quarterly digital magazine that encourages writers and artists to have courage and to sin against staid storytelling. Break rules, push boundaries and tell new stories in new ways. Just tell a good story. It was conceived as a...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, Formal, Graphic/Illustrated, Historical, Humor, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, LGBT, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Regional, Translation, War -
Anomaly (formerly known as Drunken Boat) is an international journal of literature and the arts. We provide a platform for works of art that challenge conventions of form and format, of voice and genre. Anomaly is committed to actively seeking...
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All fiction genres are acceptable to us, but we prefer literary minded stories that are dark and psychological, firmly grounded in the surreal, and that make a statement in the abstract. We publish Flash Fiction of 500 words or fewer.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: FictionSubgenres: Experimental, Flash Fiction -
Apogee is a literary journal specializing in art and literature that engage with issues of identity politics: race, gender, sexuality, class, and hyphenated identities. We currently produce a biannual issue featuring fiction, nonfiction...
Read moreReading Period: Jun 1 to Jul 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, LGBT, Political -
The Apple Valley Review is an online literary journal. It is published twice annually, once in spring and once in fall. Each issue features a collection of poetry, short fiction, and essays. Our goal is to support and promote both emerging and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, LGBT, Humor, Prose Poetry, Regional, Literary Fiction, Translation -
apt is a literary journal featuring challenging writing that combines the cerebral and the visceral. We publish an annual print issue focused on longform work, and our website is updated frequently with short fiction, poetry, and essays...
Reading Period: Mar 1 to Sep 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
We have no restrictions on the content we publish, except that we’re passionate about publishing new perspectives — new ideas, new voices, new worlds, new challenges, new ways of seeing, etc.— a theme that can take an infinite...
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Arkana is the journal of mysteries and marginalized voices. We seek and foster a sense of shared wonder by privileging art that asks questions, explores mystery, and works to discover and uncover the overlooked, the misunderstood, and the silent...
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The Asian American Literary Review is a space for those who consider the designation "Asian American" a fruitful starting point for artistic vision and community. In showcasing the work of established and emerging writers, the journal...
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Assisi offers an eclectic mix of essays (both academic and personal), fiction and poetry. We also publish photographs, drawings and other art works. Depending upon when you submit your work, it may take up to eight months for us to respond.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
We welcome submissions of translated poetry, fiction, nonfiction and drama; certain types of original English-language nonfiction, including literary and critical writing; interviews as well as visual art.
Our annual English-language...
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Atticus Review is a weekly online journal that publishes stories, poems, mixed media, and other genre-busting words of wisdom and interactive whimsy. We are focused on creating an immersive reading experience and geared to rise above the noise of...
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We are looking for non-fiction writing and photo essays about travel, broadly conceived. We are especially interested in pieces by writers and artists who are aware of the complicated space that writing about travel occupies. We do not shy away...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Cross-genre, Experimental, Narrative Nonfiction -
We love work that is linguistically, intellectually, and emotionally demanding of the reader. We want literary fiction that grows in complexity upon each visitation; we enjoy ornate, cerebral, and voluptuous prose executed with thematic intent....
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Historical, Literary Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, Prose Poetry, Serialized Fiction -
Bacopa is an annual international print journal published by the Writers Alliance of Gainesville. We respond to unusual perspectives, passionate voices, inventive and compelling work. Surprise us with your ingenuity.
Reading Period: Apr 1 to May 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
A Bad Penny Review publishes poetry and prose--with a particular interest in forms that exist somewhere between: the visual, the conceptual, the haptic, new media, intermedia, the varying forms and non-forms of the innovative/experimental/...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 1 to Oct 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Graphic/Illustrated