Founded in 2011, Border Crossing is a literary and arts journal published by the Lake Superior State University Creative Writing Program. Uniquely situated on the border of the United States and Canada, we're committed to publishing the best work...
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Reading Period: Sep 15 to Feb 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Bracken publishes fiction, poetry, and art. For fiction, we seek lyrical, character-driven stories inspired by the woods and old-world storytelling. We lean towards literary fiction and magic realism. In poetry, we look for natural-world, and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Subgenres: Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry -
Through essays, poetry, fiction and feature stories our writers provide their unique perspectives on being mothers. We aim to be down-to-earth, literary, commonsensical, funny, poignant, honest, respectful, irreverent, relevant and intelligent....
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Bridge Ink focuses on young adult creative writers, ages 13 to 18. All genres are accepted with a focus on poetry.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Broad Street is an interdisciplinary non-profit magazine featuring the very best that creative non-fiction has to offer in an ever-expanding set of subgenres. We are an intersection where truth-telling prose, poetry, artwork, and interviews with...
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Broad! is an online semiannual that publishes exclusively women (e.g. female-bodied or female-identified) writers, artists and photographers. We welcome both emerging and published writers.
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TBQ publishes literary fiction both in our themed quarterly issues and on our blog. Fiction pieces should have a sensibility that there is an outside world that affects the characters and their surroundings. Please send one piece at a time,...
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The Brown Orient exclusively publishes women and LGBTQ+ writers and artists from local and diasporic South Asia, Southeast Asia, Southwest Asia, and Central Asia.
Reading Period: Jan 15 to Aug 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Founded in 2013 by a handful of Salem State University alumni, Buck Off Magazine accepts all works from all types of writers. We want the interesting, the weird, the horror, experimental, and the romantic. All genres. Including art. We publish...
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Burningword Literary Journal (est. 2001) is a quarterly publication focusing on emerging writers of poetry, short fiction, and short nonfiction. The submission review process is double-blind.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Flash Fiction, Prose Poetry -
CAGIBI is invested in sharing the universal human experiences to be found in works of prose and poetry set within places unfamiliar to readers; thus, our expressed interest in international—or world—literature, and works in translation. CAGIBI is...
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Calamus Journal is a journal of poetry and flash fiction. Calamus is particularly interested in experimental work, as well as work by members of marginalized communities.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Subgenres: Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, LGBTQ, Humor, Micro-poetry, Nature/Environmental, Political, Prose Poetry, War, Pop Culture -
In these times when the Earth and humanity seem so breakable, as if they might break each other, we search for answers in the air. What’s our next move? What did I just see on the news? What does this moment demand of me? Poets interpret their...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Feminist, LGBTQ, Micro-poetry, Poetry, Political, Prose Poetry -
The Carolina Quarterly has been publishing the work of established and emergent writers for 65 years. Works from the past two volumes have recieved Honorable Mentions in Best American Short Stories, Best American Essays, and Best American Non-...
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Carve seeks to publish outstanding literature, and to promote the writers we publish, helping both new, emerging, and established authors reach a wider literary audience. This is achieved through sharing their stories across a variety of...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, LGBTQ, Micro-poetry, Prose Poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Literary Fiction -
Chiron Review presents the widest possible range of contemporary creative writing – fiction and non-fiction, traditional and off-beat, in a perfect-bound, softcover format, including art and photography. We have published many well-known...
Read moreReading Period: Nov 1 to May 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Experimental, Flash Fiction, Formal, LGBTQ, Literary Fiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Translation -
Clade Song is a space dedicated to the literary examination of the animal world and all of its behavioral niches from the bacterial mat to the predation of the auk, all of which impact and interrelate with the humanosphere.
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Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Experimental, Nature/Environmental, Prose Poetry, Translation -
Claudius Speaks is a platform for emerging voices to challenge the mind and move the heart. We seek personal essays, narrative nonfiction, poetry, photography, painting, and illustration. A central aspect of our mission is to shine a light on...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Experimental, Micro-poetry, Prose Poetry, Narrative Nonfiction -
Clockwise Cat is a progressive literary webzine that features verse, reviews, and invective (satire/polemics). Clockwise Cat prefers to receive poems that are in some way akin to the Symbolist, Dadaist, Surrealist, Beat, spoken word, and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Micro-poetry, Political, Prose Poetry, War, Narrative Nonfiction, Pop Culture -
Coal Hill publishes an online, multi-genre literary journal in February, June, and November of each year. Each issue features 8-10 poets, 4-5 prose writers, and 2 in-depth book reviews. At least 30% of the journal is comprised of...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Feminist, Flash Fiction, LGBTQ, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Prose Poetry -
Cobalt is a quarterly literary magazine published online. We also publish an annual print issue, and will be rolling out an all-baseball issue in July 2013. Each issue will feature fiction, non-fiction and poetry of the highest caliber, as well...
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Each issue of COG is a curiously constructed curation offered up by the students of Cogswell College. COG's writers thrill with skillfully wrought and cohesive narratives; insight and intensity; imagery and attitude - alternating nimbly between...
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Cold Creek Review is an online literary journal that explores the depths of troubled emotion. Its mission is to publish contemporary poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and art that awakens the beauty of anguish and suffering, while maintaining...
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Founded in 2001, Collision Literary Magazine is a student-run publication that accepts poetry, creative non-fiction prose, literary criticism, art and photography by undergraduate students. Our goal is to represent a variety of young voices...
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The Common is a print and digital literary journal published biannually, in the fall and spring. Inspired by the role of the town common, a public gathering place for the display and exchange of ideas, The Common seeks to deepen our individual...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 1 to Jun 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction