Limestone, a literary journal housed at the University of Kentucky, publishes original art, poetry, and prose from established and emerging writers.
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: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Our mission is to publish unique fiction that's on the cusp: neither here nor there, unbound by convention or genre expectations.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: FictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental -
Lines + Stars began as a means of establishing a new creative forum in Washington, D.C., a city that all-too-often coasts solely on its more mechanistic pursuits. While many of our contributors hail from the D.C. area, we've also expanded our...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Subgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Formal Poetry, Love, Micro-poetry, Nature/Environmental, Prose Poetry, Regional, Religious/Spiritual, War -
Lipstickparty Magazine is a general interest magazine with a strong focus on creative writing. We cover topics from beauty & style to art & lit, and everything in between. Want to help us make a better magazine with better...
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LIT is a biannual literary magazine published by The New School Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program, which promotes innovative writing and art via print and digital publishing.
Reading Period: Sep 1 to May 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Caffeinating minds for twenty one years. Stimulating careers for writers; great literature for readers. First ten years gave away 30,000 copies free in New York coffeehouses. Now free online to all.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Experimental, Flash Fiction, Prose Poetry, Literary Fiction -
Lotus-eater is an online literary magazine based in Rome.
Our aesthetic is dark, eclectic, often experimental. We 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 we love: flash fiction, coffee, and music. We look for writing that hovers in that perfect brew spot of 195 to 205 degrees...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Subgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Speculative Fiction -
Readers can expect literature that highlights refreshing contemporary perspectives and promotes cultural diversity while fostering inclusive creativity.
Lucky Jefferson isn't your typical literary journal—we generate...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Experimental, Flash Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, Micro-poetry, Poetry -
LUMINA Journal is the annual print publication of the Sarah Lawrence College graduate writing program. We seek new, exciting, and rule-breaking work from writers both established and emerging. This year, our theme is Resistance.
Reading Period: Jun 26 to Nov 5Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Graphic/Illustrated, Literary Fiction -
Madcap Review is a semiannual online journal of art and literature. As our name indicates, we embrace the impulsive, the reckless, and the lively, but we also have great respect for form and restraint. Founded in 2014 by a group of...
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All written pieces should be submitted in Times New Roman 12 pt font, double spaced. Literary files are accepted in PDF, DOC, or Dox format. Visual art files are accepted as a JPEG or PDF. Please read our current issue prior to submitting in...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 14 to Mar 4Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Experimental, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry -
We focus on experimental writing, and surrealism.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Experimental, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry -
Please visit the MTLS website for details on our editorial focus.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Fiction, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translation -
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,...
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We call ourselves an “alternative” magazine; that is to say: our purpose is to promote work that is thought-provoking and unconventional. We want the controversial and the radical, the unhinged and the bizarre; we want the obsessive, the...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Commercial Fiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, Historical, Humor, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Love, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Regional, Religious/Spiritual, Serialized Fiction, Translation, War -
Maudlin House is a literary experience that curates the best in experimental lit by both emerging, and established authors. We encourage you to write weird, life's too short not to. Belong to where you don’t belong. Stay up all night and drip...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Subgenres: Experimental, Flash Fiction, Micro-poetry, Literary Fiction, Pop Culture -
Menacing Hedge is a quarterly journal of poetry, fiction and artwork, that is committed to fostering access to emerging and experimental poetry and prose. Ongoing publication is scheduled for the first weeks of July, October, January, and April...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Subgenres: Experimental, Prose Poetry, Literary Fiction -
We’re a undergrad magazine centered at Merrimack College. We only publish students, whether they’re undergrad, grad, or doctoral. Send us art, and insight. We want to see your best work. We don’t have one single genre that we publish, if the...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Apr 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Historical, Humor, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Love, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Regional, Religious/Spiritual, Serialized Fiction, Translation, War -
We are the Metaworker, an online literary magazine where great stories are forged.
We started out as a group of recent graduates from Chapman University, where we were editors of the on-campus literary magazine, the Calliope...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Experimental, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry -
We love literature. We love reading it, we love writing it, and we love talking about it. We also love delving into the "deep shelf" material of favorite authors and discovering exciting new voices. At the Midnight Oil, we seek to...
Read moreReading Period: May 15 to Sep 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Midway Journal accepts submissions of aesthetically ambitious work that occupies the realms between both the traditional and experimental.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to May 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Established in 1974, we are the oldest surviving literary publication at New York University. If you are a poet, proser, prose-poet, painter, sculptor, photographer, digital illustrator—otherwise an experimenter of combining word and visual art—...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, Poetry, Political, Prose Poetry -
Miracle Monocle, the University of Louisville’s online literary journal, is now accepting submissions.
Reading Period: Jan 2 to Mar 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Experimental, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry -
Mithila Review is an international speculative arts and culture magazine. We are open to original submissions as well as translations from around the world.
Along with original speculative fiction and poetry, we will host reviews...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
