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.
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: 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 fiction...
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Mandala is a word which means 'circle' in Sanskrit. Mandala is a circle which holds the universe. Mandala is a journal of art and literature published each spring by the University of Georgia's Institute for African American Studies. We publish...
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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 -
As a literary journal with an educational twist, Mason’s Road aims to focus each issue on a particular element of the writing craft.
Reading Period: Feb 1 to Apr 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
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, and engages the...
Read moreReading Period: Oct 1 to Apr 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
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, LGBT, 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 Nonfiction -
We are the Metaworker, a literary blog (or lit magazine on the internet) created by millenials, for millenials.
We started out as a group of recent graduates from Chapman University, where we were editors of the on-campus literary magazine...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Experimental, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry -
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 for Issue Nine, forthcoming April 2017.
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...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Mom Egg Review publishes an annual print journal and a quarterly online magazine, MER VOX, featuring sharp, articulate, inventive work by mother writers and by others about mothers and motherhood. MER writers explore diverse...
Read moreReading Period: May 15 to Aug 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Prose Poetry -
Monday Night has been bringing quality new literature to the airwaves since 2001. We seek to publish the best new and emerging writers from around the U.S. and are open to international submissions as well.
Reading Period: Oct 15 to Dec 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
MORIA is a national online literary magazine with an all-student editorial board, based at Woodbury University in greater Los Angeles. We accept poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction from emerging and established writers in the...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 30 to Aug 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
MORTAR MAGAZINE evolves the idea that writing can and should be incisive, coming in at the edges, doing that elusive something that makes us question motive, genre, meaning, or narrative itself.
While we accept any prose or poetry...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Moss is a venue for showcasing and supporting writers of the Pacific Northwest, with a special focus on emerging talent and a mission of celebrating and preserving the Northwest’s robust literary culture. Moss is published online three times...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Mouse Tales Press was started as a place where new writers would feel comfortable submitting their work. However, we also publish work from established writers. We especially enjoy humorous and/or experimental works.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Subgenres: Experimental, Flash Fiction -
Muse /A Journal (myoo-zay) seeks to curate a museum-esque experience by pairing the best in lyric essays, poetry, and experimental cross-genre verse. We seek to publish meaningful poetry that affects the reader in a way which expands our...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 1 to Mar 31Genre: Poetry, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Formal, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Translation -
MUSH/MUM is an online journal of textual assets. There is no type of literary work MUSH/MUM is not willing to accept. MUSH/MUM welcomes and encourages the submission of experimental texts and literary transgression. If it involves an indifference...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction