Blood and Thunder: Musings on the Art of Medicine is the student-run literary journal of the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine. We publish health care-related short stories, poems, and artwork annually.
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Reading Period: Feb 1 to May 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Healing/Health -
Cordella seeks to record and share the creative voices of women from all walks of life, exploring the ways that our spirit and sense of self is engaged with our physical place and daily experiences. We honor the diversity of women's spirituality...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, Healing/Health, Poetry, Political, Prose Poetry -
Creative Nonfiction draws heavily from unsolicited submissions. Our editors believe that providing a platform for emerging writers and helping them find readers is an essential role of literary magazines, and it’s been our privilege to work with...
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WE publish writing and visual art created in response to an age of massive species loss and ecological collapse. It is a home for dreams, visions, and communications with the nonhuman world, especially those with messages for how...
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The Deadly Writers Patrol seeks writing by veterans & others affected by war that addresses the challenges of understanding, witnessing, & homecoming. We believe writing can be a mirror reflecting the deepest corners of our...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Healing/Health, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Poetry, War -
We’re looking for writing submissions of short stories, poems, personal essays or excerpts (that stand alone) from any genre. We’re willing to consider any form of writing that is well-written and from the heart. We especially love writing that...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Fiction, Flash Fiction, Healing/Health, Literary Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry -
Publishes short stories, flash fiction, poetry, and photography / digital art that promote the uniquely positive and edifying.
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EOAGH is dedicated to the idea of reading as a process, the productive chaos of investigative poetic work. We seek to foreground the writing of experimental women, trans, feminist, transfeminist, POC, anti-racist, and LGBT/queer authors. We seek...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Cross-genre, Erotica, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal, Graphic/Illustrated, Healing/Health, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, LGBTQ, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Religious/Spiritual, Serialized Fiction, Translation -
The Letters Page literary journal is published by the University of Nottingham School of English, and edited by writer in residence, Professor Jon McGregor. We’re interested in exploring what letter writing means to people - and has meant since...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Commercial Fiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, Formal, Graphic/Illustrated, Healing/Health, Historical, Humor, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, LGBTQ, Literary Fiction, Love, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Regional, Religious/Spiritual, Serialized Fiction, Translation, War -
Newfound is a nonprofit publisher based in Austin, Texas. Work published explores how place shapes identity, imagination, and understanding. The journal is published bi-annually online and annually in print and features fiction, poetry,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, LGBTQ, Graphic/Illustrated, Healing/Health, Historical, Humor, Formal, Love, Micro-poetry, Nature/Environmental, Political, Prose Poetry, Regional, Serialized Fiction, Religious/Spiritual, War, Narrative Nonfiction, Literary Fiction, Pop Culture, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, Translation -
Oracle Fine Arts Review is published annually by the University of South Alabama. It features fiction, nonfiction, poetry, painting, photography, drawing, sculpture, illustration, glass, printmaking, and ceramics.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Pour Vida was established in the fall of 2013 by writers and friends, Adam and Danny, during their time in grad school, as a platform to foster a writerly community. The intention with Pour Vida zine is to help foster writers' experiences of...
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We look for a story to tell us something universal about the human condition. Just because our theme is "recovery" doesn't mean that all of what we publish is about successful recovery. Often it's not the recovery story that says the most about...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Our primary aim as an online literary journal is accessibility and experimentalism: we want work that yields truth, in its many forms, and speaks on behalf of the experience of the body politic. We want the random, the real, the raw, the honest....
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, Healing/Health, Historical, Humor, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, LGBTQ, Literary Fiction, Love, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Regional, Translation, War -
The Stonecoast Review is a literary arts journal edited by students and alumni from Stonecoast’s MFA program in Creative Writing. We welcome writing in the genres of creative nonfiction, fiction, dramatic works and poetry. The editorial staff of...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 7 to Oct 29Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Sun is an independent, ad-free magazine that for more than forty years has used words and photographs to evoke the splendor and heartache of being human. Each monthly issue celebrates life, but not in a way that ignores its...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Founded by Catherine Esposito Prescott and Jen Karetnick, SWWIM Every Day publishes one poem every weekday from women and women-identifying/femme-presenting writers of all ages, races, ethnicities, cultures, orientations, expressions and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Feminist, Formal, Healing/Health, LGBTQ, Micro-poetry, Nature/Environmental, Poetry, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry -
A 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 the nexus between our built and natural...
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Thought Notebook journal is based on a true story, humanity’s story. This journal is a part of the Human Thought Project, allowing us to delve into the minds of humanity and learn more about who we are by documenting into the notebook,...
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We especially like stories, poems, and non-fiction pieces that deal with the spiritual, progressive, regenerative, and transformative elements of life. We’re also highly drawn to works about religion, Israel/Palestine, the Mideast conflicts, and...
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Touch: The Journal of Healing promotes poetry and prose from around the world that speaks of the physical, the emotional, and the universal, spiritual touch of humanity.
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Published monthly by the editors of Creative Nonfiction magazine, each issue of True Story showcases one exceptional essay by one exceptional writer. From issue to issue, this new mini-magazine features the widest possible variety of voices and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Creative Nonfiction -
Visitants pop up throughout literature as ghosts, as fits of madness, and as omens. In nature, a visitant takes on a different meaning: a migratory bird that has come to a place temporarily; a cicada that rises from the soil every 17 years. Here...
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A wayfarer is a wanderer whose ability to re-imagine the possible provides the compass bearings for those on their way. The Wayfarer’s mission is to chart the way for change by building and empowering a community of contemplative voices...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Creative Nonfiction