Lyric essays. Some hybrid/experimental.
Literary Magazines
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: Oct 1 to Mar 31Genre: Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Experimental, Nature/Environmental
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Easy Street provides writers a venue to showcase their work, to discuss the publishing industry, and to share viewpoints on diverse aspects of contemporary life and culture.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Economy is a bi-monthly literary journal that publishes a single poet, prose writer, and visual artist per issue.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Experimental, Formal -
Publishes short stories, flash fiction, poetry, and photography / digital art that promote the uniquely positive and edifying.
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Eleven Eleven is a biannual journal of literature and art based at California College of the Arts. The aim of the publication is to provide a forum for risk and experimentation and to serve as an exchange between writers and artists.
Reading Period: Sep 1 to Mar 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
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Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
Embers Igniting does three things: 1. Publishes real, relevant, radical writing and art for the glory of Christ. 2. Provides resources and topics of discussion for writers and artists. 3. Engages in the community of creators, both locally and...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 14 to Oct 14Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
We emphasize the community of Creative Nonfiction Writers, and the bonds that hold us together as we explore the time and space surrounding our pasts, presents, and futures.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Experimental, Narrative Nonfiction, Prose Poetry -
We are a journal of print poetry and prose dedicated to emerging writers and their words now in our 4th year of publication. We aim to publish writers who are currently emerging on the literary scene. We recognize how hard it can be to get that...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 1 to Oct 1Subgenres: Experimental, Flash Fiction, Prose Poetry -
Eoagh is dedicated to the idea of reading as a process, the productive chaos of investigative poetic work. We seek to foreground the writing of experimental women, trans, feminist, transfeminist, POC, anti-racist, and LGBT/queer authors. We seek...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Cross-genre, Erotica, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal, Graphic/Illustrated, Healing/Health, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, LGBTQ, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Religious/Spiritual, Serialized Fiction, Translation -
Eratio publishes poetry in the postmodern idioms with an emphasis on the intransitive. Eratio publishes a pdf version of every issue. Eratio Editions, an e-chap publisher, is reading for poetry, innovative narrative prose and recollection, and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Experimental, Micro-poetry, Prose Poetry, Translation -
Experimementos is designed to create a place for writers to send things that aren’t easily understood--writing full of universal vagaries and experimentation. Publication works differently than other magazines: by submitting, if your work is...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Subgenres: Experimental, Flash Fiction, Micro-poetry -
Exposition Review is an independent, multi-genre literary journal that publishes narratives by new, emerging, and established writers in the genres of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, stage & screen, experimental, art & photography,...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 15 to Dec 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
FACT-SIMILE publishes handmade books, trading cards, and a free, large-format annual magazine. We are driven by the unification of form and content. Through the physical performance of the text, we strive to expand the definition of and bringing...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to May 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
We publish poems, stories, and essays with a fairy-tale feel — mainstream to experimental, genre to literary, realist to fabulist.
Reading Period: Feb 15 to Jun 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Experimental, Literary Fiction, Nature/Environmental, Translation -
FishFood Magazine is dedicated to all forms of creative expression and talent.
FishFood Magazine encourages self-expression from daily life through art. Art tends to serve as a coping mechanism from regular shenanigans and obstacles, and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Established in 2011, our goal will always be to give light to the voices that are normally hidden from the literary magazine scene. We're mostly dedicated works of art that step way from the norm; that jump into the strange, unique, and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Fjords publishes a number of styles, approaches, and voices.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Flight Journal, the brainchild of Spread the Word’s Flight Associates scheme, is an online journal of bold, short fiction. Each year, three different editors come together to select content for the year’s publication. The publication is digital-...
Read moreReading Period: Oct 1 to Oct 31Genre: FictionSubgenres: Commercial Fiction, Experimental, Flash Fiction -
Flock publishes slippery, softly experimental work in biannual issues. The journal releases a general issue in the spring and a theme issue in the fall.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Foglifter is a queer journal and press, but more than that. We want powerful writing, intersectional writing, that queers our perspectives; writing that explores the sometimes abject, sometimes shameful, but always honest and revelatory...
Read moreReading Period: May 15 to Jul 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, LGBTQ, Literary Fiction, Political -
UAM undergraduates solicit enticing writing from emerging and established authors, art and photography, and graphic literature.
Reading Period: Aug 1 to Apr 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, Humor, LGBTQ, Micro-poetry, Nonfiction, Prose Poetry -
Foundlings Magazine presents a stimulating hash of poetry and images. While we accept all types, styles, and subgenres of poetry, each magazine contains and places some emphasis on "found" poetry and images.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Experimental, Flash Fiction, Micro-poetry, Poetry, Prose Poetry -
We look for the best quality manuscripts.
Reading Period: Sep 1 to Jun 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Flash Fiction -
Fourth Genre is devoted to publishing notable, innovative work in literary (creative) nonfiction, and are especially looking to provide space to voices less seldom heard from in literary publications. We think of the genre as flexible, fluid, and...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 30 to Nov 30Genre: Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Experimental, Graphic/Illustrated, Humor, Nature/Environmental, Narrative Nonfiction