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.
Literary Magazines
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: 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 stories...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Southeast Review is a nationally acclaimed literary magazine, first established in 1979 as Sundog, that gives voice to underrepresented and emerging writers on the same stage as well-established ones. We publish fiction, nonfiction, poetry, book...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Fiction, Flash Fiction, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Lyric Essay, Magical Realism, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Speculative Poetry, Translation, Visual Poetry -
Southword is an international literary journal featuring poetry, literary fiction, essays, and interviews. The Spring Issue consists of work drawn from our writing competitions and specially commissioned work. The Autumn Issue consists...
Read moreReading Period: Dec 1 to Mar 31Subgenres: Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry -
Based out of the English, Creative Writing, and Visual Art departments at Washington University in St. Louis, The Spectacle is committed to publishing work from under-represented voices, including BIPOC, women, people from LGBTQIA+...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Feb 5, Sep 1 to Oct 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
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 -
Still Point Arts Quarterly has a clear focus on nature, art, and spirit as it explores a unique theme with each issue. The publication has been praised for its rich content and splendid layout and design. Intended for art and literary...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
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 alumni and students from University of Southern Maine's Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing. It welcomes creative nonfiction, fiction (literary, general, and pop/genre),...
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...
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The editors of Sublunary Review welcome poetry, short story, and art submissions from all people and places. Send them your most oneiric, moonlit work.
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“Strong Words for a Polite Nation” subTerrain Magazine was founded in 1988 to publish writers from the other side of the tracks. Each issue features progressive and sometimes controversial writing, alongside timely book reviews and...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 1 to Mar 31, Jul 1 to Jul 31Genre: 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 -
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 Mar 31, Apr 1 to Jun 30, Jul 1 to Sep 30, Oct 1 to Dec 15Genre: 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 -
Superstition Review is the online literary magazine produced by creative writing and web design students at Arizona State University. The mission of the journal is to promote contemporary art and literature by providing a free, easy-to-...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Jan 31, Aug 1 to Aug 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Prose Poetry -
SurVision is an international biannual online poetry magazine founded in Ireland in March 2017 as a platform for new Irish and international Surrealist and Irrealist poetry in English. It has a publishing imprint, SurVision Books.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, TranslationSubgenres: Experimental, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Translation -
Formerly known as Crazyhorse, swamp pink publishes fiction, poetry, and nonfiction on a semi-monthly basis. Its aim is to publish exceptional work from writers at all stages of their careers. The editors are particularly interested...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to May 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Prose Poetry, Translation -
swifts & slows features poetry and poetic collaborations with focus on experimental poetry, prose poetry and visual poetry with a lookout for work that pushes the gamut of possibilities.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, TranslationSubgenres: Experimental, Prose Poetry, Visual Poetry -
Founded and edited by a diverse, award-winning team of female poets, SWWIM Every Day publishes poems every weekday by cis/trans women, nonbinary, intersex, and other gender-expansive writers of all ages, races, ethnicities, cultures,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
Tab Journal is an international poetry journal of poems, translations, and critical and creative essays about poetry; book reviews are written by staff. The tagline "space before text" announces that design of text and space creates a ...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: PoetrySubgenres: Formal Poetry, Micro-poetry, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Speculative Poetry, Visual Poetry -
Talking River Review, Lewis-Clark State College’s literary journal, seeks examples of literary excellence and originality. Send us your poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction manuscripts.
Reading Period: Aug 1 to Apr 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Flash Fiction, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Lyric Essay, Prose Poetry
