Permafrost, the farthest north literary journal for writing and the arts, publishes original work in all genres, including fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and hybrid. They publish two issues annually, one print and one online....
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Find a home for your poems, stories, essays, and reviews by researching the publications vetted by our editorial staff and listed in the Literary Magazines database. Here you’ll find editorial policies, submission guidelines, and contact information—everything you need to determine which publications match your vision for your writing and your writing life. Use the filters below to find magazines with reading periods that are open now or opening soon (within the next thirty days), accept unsolicited submissions, and match all of your criteria for the perfect publisher of your work.
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Reading Period: Aug 15 to Feb 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The digital archive petrichor publishes a variety of writers in contemporary art and poetics. We are particularly interested in strong image and experimental work of a visual nature.
Reading Period: Oct 1 to Dec 1, Apr 1 to Jun 1Genre: Poetry, Translation -
Phoebe prides itself on supporting up-and-coming writers, whose style, form, voice, and subject matter demonstrate a vigorous appeal to the senses, intellect, and emotions of our readers. It chooses writers because they believe their...
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Pidgeonholes prefers the weird, in the etymological meaning of the word: that which comes. Literary, speculative, experimental, or absurdly unclassifiable, just make it bold and beautifully written.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Jan 15, Apr 1 to Apr 15, Jul 1 to Jul 15, Oct 1 to Oct 15Subgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Flash Fiction, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Prose Poetry -
Pigeon Review publishes new and emerging writers. It likes stories that meander and explore the world, stories that tend to blur the line between fiction and reality. It also accepts art submissions!
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Fiction -
Established in 2014 in association with The College of Saint Rose as part of its M.F.A. in creative writing program, Pine Hills Review was founded by Daniel Nester and Sarah Sherman. Since the closure of The College of Saint Rose in June...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Apr 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Cross-genre, Experimental, Fiction, LGBTQ Voices, Poetry, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry -
Pink Disco is an online arts and literature magazine that publishes works honoring and celebrating sex, sexuality, and the body. They are looking for character-driven stories, poetry with a strong focus on imagery and language, and...
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pioneertown is an online literary journal publishing both traditional and genre-bending work. Named after an old western movie town in the southern California desert, pioneertown aims to establish a collection of work new and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry -
Pithead Chapel is looking for engaging stories told in honest voices. Most of all, they want to feel something. They want to reach the last word and immediately crave more. They want your work to leave a brilliant bruise.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Pleiades: Literature in Context is a literary biannual featuring poetry, fiction, essays, translations, and reviews by authors from around the world. Past contributors include winners of the Nobel, Ruth Lilly, Pulitzer, Bollingen, Prix...
Read moreReading Period: Jun 1 to Jun 30, Dec 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, Humor, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Prose Poetry -
The Plentitudes is a quarterly international literary journal showcasing captivating prose and poetry from diverse voices. They believe in the power of writing—in its plentitude of forms, styles, and modes of exploration—to move the...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 1 to Mar 31, May 1 to Jun 30, Aug 1 to Sep 30, Nov 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Commercial Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Formal Poetry, Healing/Health, Historical, Humor, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Love, Lyric Essay, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Religious/Spiritual, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction -
Pocket Samovar is an international literary magazine dedicated to underrepresented post-Soviet writing, art, and diaspora. It originated in 2019 as a group of Jack Kerouac School students influenced—but not determined—by Soviet cultural...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Experimental, Healing/Health, LGBTQ Voices, Lyric Essay, Poetry, Political, Regional, Translation -
Poemeleon: A Journal of Poetry is a sporadically published online literary journal devoted to all kinds of poetry. Its founding principle is change. Each issue focuses on a different kind or aspect of poetry,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry -
Points in Case is a daily literary humor publication featuring enlightening and irreverent comedy from seasoned writers and fresh voices.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Experimental, Humor -
Posit publishes carefully curated, finely crafted contemporary poetry, very short fiction, hybrid literary forms, and visual art. We are looking for innovation, aesthetic vision, thoughtfulness, depth, and accomplished craftsmanship. Our...
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Post Road seeks to publish up-and-coming writers along with more established names. It publishes a wide range of styles, from realist to experimental and everything in between.
Reading Period: Sep 15 to Nov 14, Feb 1 to Mar 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
The editors aim to publish art and words for the future by artists and writers who believe they’re carrying, on their hunched-over-computer shoulders, a pretty heavy yet very pretty burden—to offer a way into humanity so that...
Read moreReading Period: Nov 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Humor, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Lyric Essay, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Visual Poetry -
Prompt is an online and book arts journal for writing inspired by visual art and visual art inspired by writing. Every six months the magazine showcases an exciting new work from a visual artist or writer on their website. The editors...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Flash Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, Prose Poetry -
A Public Space seeks work that is brave and unexpected. It is interested in writing that uncovers the extraordinary in the every day, provides a rare glimpse, exposes an unexpected truth, or puts forth a daring hypothesis. There are no...
Read moreReading Period: May 1 to May 31, Sep 15 to Oct 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Punt Volat publishes fiction, poetry, music, visual media, and otherwise in English, Català, Castellano, and Deutsch. It frequently publishes work by writers and artists from outside the United States and actively seeks more submissions...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 1 to May 31, Sep 1 to Oct 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Quarterly West looks for writing that is, exciting, challenging, risky, unpredictable, and different. Different stomps in. Maybe it seeps in. Sometimes, and in our favorite works, different is always already there and it strikes flint...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 15 to Mar 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Flash Fiction, Prose Poetry -
Calls (Sub window):
- RADICAL JOY (closes July 31)
- Books on Books | Connections | THE FICTION THAT CHANGED ME (closes July 31)
Calls (Always Open):
- Write Here, Write Now
- Writers on...
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Rattle is a publication of the Rattle Foundation, and its mission is to promote the practice of poetry.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Experimental, Formal Poetry, Humor, Love, Micro-poetry, Political, Prose Poetry -
Rat’s Ass Review is an online poetry journal whose editorial fancies are no more arbitrary than any other; they are simply more openly so.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Feb 1, Jul 1 to Aug 1Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Experimental, Formal Poetry, Micro-poetry, Poetry, Prose Poetry -
Red Flag Poetry is a postcard project that aims to deliver poetry to the mailbox of subscribers every month on a postcard. It looks for poetry that is creative, original, and well-crafted. It wants to see poems that critically reflect...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry
