Saw Palm is a Florida-themed literary journal produced by the MFA program at the University of South Florida. It publishes poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, comics, art, photography, reviews, and interviews.
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Reading Period: Jul 1 to Oct 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Scoundrel Time is a nonprofit online literary journal launched after the 2016 U.S. presidential election. It publishes fiction, essays, poetry, works in translation, humor, music, and visual art that engages with the threats against ...
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Sequestrum publishes new, emerging, and internationally-acclaimed writers of short fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and cross-genre. All publications are paired with a unique visual component with the goal of fostering and exposing writers...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Commercial Fiction, Cross-genre, Erotica, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Historical, Humor, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Love, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Nonfiction, Poetry, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Regional, Religious/Spiritual, Serialized Fiction, Translation, War -
Serpentine Literary Magazine looks to celebrate modern womanhood and find the joy in subverting the patriarchy one piece of art at a time.
Reading Period: Mar 11 to Jun 10Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Creative Nonfiction, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, LGBTQ Voices, Poetry, Prose Poetry -
An international, student-run journal published by Ringling College of Art and Design, Shift features fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, graphic texts, or other work in English or translation by emerging and established writers. We...
Read moreReading Period: Nov 1 to Feb 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Small Print Magazine, a resource and showcase for writers and artists, features contemporary fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry thoughtfully presented alongside beautiful photography and artwork from new and established artists....
Read moreReading Period: Oct 1 to Dec 31, Jan 1 to May 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine's primary interest is quality. It welcomes submissions in any and all forms, genres, styles, and approaches in written word and image and encourages innovation as well as tradition.
SBLAAM wants any...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 1 to Jun 15, Aug 1 to Dec 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Humor, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Love, Magical Realism, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, Prose Poetry, Regional, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Speculative Poetry, Translation, Visual Poetry, War, Young Adult -
SOILED is a periodical of architectural stories. Positioned between a literary journal and a design magazine, it is an independent, artist-led project produced by Joseph Altshuler, Hollen Reischer, Matthew Harlan, and Mariel Tishma, and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Since the magazine’s inception in 1980, editors and readers have worked to keep alive the journal’s tradition of publishing both established and emerging writers who uphold the highest standards of innovative prose and poetry.
Reading Period: Sep 1 to Apr 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
SORTES is an ongoing collection of stories, poems, songs, and illustrations. They have neither theme nor scene. Ten authors per issue and four issues per year, they publish both the sufficiently strange and insufficiently boring: swart...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Split Rock Review publishes innovative place-based and environmental poetry, creative nonfiction, graphic narratives, comics, and art. It also hosts an annual poetry chapbook contest and publishes themed anthologies.
Reading Period: Feb 1 to Mar 31, Jun 1 to Aug 31Genre: Poetry, Creative Nonfiction -
Spoonie Magazine publishes art, articles, audio, poetry, prose, video, and hybrid works by disabled, chronically ill, and/or neurodiverse individuals (or their loved ones) on related subject matters weekly in their online magazine. All...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Healing/Health, Humor, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Love, Lyric Essay, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction, Speculative Poetry, Visual Poetry -
Spry is a literary journal that features undiscovered and established writers’ concise, experimental, hybrid, modern, vintage or just plain vulnerable writing. This is a place for people who excel at taking risks, who thrive under...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Star 82 Review is a full-color, online and print magazine. Each issue may feature microfiction and creative nonfiction, erasure texts, narrative art, word + image, and poetry, including haibun and prose. We like gentle works filled with...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Stoneboat is an online, independent journal of literature and arts dedicated to publishing quality fiction, nonfiction, memoir, poetry, artwork, and graphic literature. It strives to showcase outstanding and diverse work from both...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Stonecoast Review is a literary arts journal edited by students and alumni from Stonecoast’s MFA program in Creative Writing. It welcomes writing in the genres of creative nonfiction, fiction, dramatic works, poetry, and experimental...
Read moreReading Period: Jul 20 to Oct 1, Feb 1 to Apr 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Storm Cellar curates writing that is surprising, formally and affectively innovative, and represents the highest quality of various literary traditions. Each issue reflects the current tastes of the editorial team. It actively prefers...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Since launching in January of 2019, Sunspot Literary Journal has amplified diverse multinational voices. New works have been published in their original language side-by-side with English translations. Boundaries that exclude meaningful...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Historical, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Lyric Essay, Micro-poetry, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Translation, Visual Poetry, War -
Superpresent is a quarterly magazine of the arts. It is available free online and a limited run of print copies for each issue. Superpresent publishes poems, short stories, essays, visual art pieces, experimental art, video art...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
An award-winning, place-based literary and technical journal published on a rolling basis and using editorials, poetry, essays, fiction, articles, reviews, interviews, artwork, videos, and case studies to explore place, climate, and justice.
Reading Period: Dec 15 to Apr 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, Healing/Health, Humor, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Translation -
Thimble Literary Magazine is a quarterly online and print journal based on the belief that poetry is like armor.
Reading 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: Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, Poetry -
Tilted House Review is a biannual arts and literary journal made by hand in small batches in the small city of New Orleans. Through this outfit, we strive to cultivate a creative and communal unit from and for the city....
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Mar 15Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Toyon is Humboldt State University English department’s annual literary magazine. Run entirely by students since its first issue in 1954, Toyon showcases the work of established and emerging writers and artists from Humboldt...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Since its conception, TRANSOM has included poems alongside poet interviews that dig deeper into an examination of poetry as it lives, in the world between poets and readers. TRANSOM is a poetry journal that continues in that...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Translation -
Up the Staircase Quarterly publishes unique, eclectic, and quality poetry that is vivid in imagery and idea. It seeks writers going in new directions, originals. It also publishes artwork: paintings, drawings, photography, comics, short...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Mar 15, May 1 to Dec 10Genre: Poetry
