Midway Journal accepts submissions of aesthetically ambitious work that occupies the realms between both the traditional and 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: 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...
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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 1 to Aug 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Prose Poetry -
We're looking for fiction (<7000 words), poetry, critical essays, and translations.
Our name come from something once said by Harold Brodkey: "The reader in his or her life has more access to the real than the author does, which...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 1 to Apr 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Experimental, Literary Fiction, Translation -
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 delighted to receive international submissions as well. The majority of our...
Read moreReading Period: May 15 to Jul 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: Aug 1 to Oct 1Genre: 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...
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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...
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Mount Island is dedicated to supporting rural LGBTQ and POC writers and artists, whether rural by birth or at heart. We seek:
- Prose and poems that buck the standard. Any genre, whether traditional or invented.
- Art...
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Cross-genre, Experimental, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, Historical, Humor, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Speculative 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, 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...
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NANO Fiction accepts submissions of flash fiction of 300 words or fewer.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: FictionSubgenres: Experimental, Flash Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, Literary Fiction -
The Nasiona is a volunteer-led nonfiction storytelling organization that amplifies the marginalized, undervalued, overlooked, silenced, and forgotten, as well as stories that glimpse into foreign, at times extraordinary, worlds.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Creative Nonfiction -
Nat. Brut is a Dallas-based nonprofit organization that produces a biannual art and literary magazine both online and in print. We aim to provide quality, engaging, dynamic, inspiring work from a wide array of genres and mediums in a way...
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Natural Bridge is committed to publishing the best new writing from established as well as emerging writers.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
NELLE proudly publishes the best, most exciting poetry, short fiction, and nonfiction written exclusively by women.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Sep 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry -
We seek work that is beautiful, shocking, intense and memorable. Darker pieces are generally favoured over humorous ones—as are free verse poems over those that rhyme. Genre work is welcome, experimentation is encouraged. There are no limits on...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Subgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Prose Poetry -
The New Delta Review publishes a wide range of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction, as well as book reviews, interviews, and artwork.
Reading Period: Aug 1 to May 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Flash Fiction -
The New Engagement endeavors a novel approach to discovering, introducing, and showcasing writers, artists, and filmmakers who are underrepresented (POC, LGBTQ) while encouraging and supporting their social-consciousness. Our $5 reading...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Experimental, Feminist, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Political -
We host writing contests in fiction and poetry and welcome international submissions. We juxtapose tradition with experiment, the up-and-comer with the established writer, and create a new dialogue.
**The Writer’s Hotel NYC Writer’s...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 1 to Jan 11Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
NMW's mission is to "promote vibrant imagery, word-craft and pure story-telling talent” by emerging writers. We have launched careers by awarding more than $300,000 to promote writers of fiction, poetry, nonfiction and short-short fiction....
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Experimental, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Pop Culture -
New Texas seeks to feature the voices of those questing, questioning, and envisioning the possibilities of and coming from Texas in fiction, poetry, critical and creative non-fiction, photography and multi-media.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to May 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Our work explores how place shapes identity, imagination, and understanding. The journal is published bi-annually online and features fiction, poetry, nonfiction, visual arts, reviews, and more. We also publish poetry chapbooks through our Gloria...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 15 to May 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Healing/Health, 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
