John Updike once said, "Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better." At Driftwood Press, we are actively searching for artists who care about doing it...
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Connect your poems, stories, essays, and reviews to the right audiences by researching over twelve hundred literary magazines in our database. Here, you’ll find editorial policies, submission guidelines, contact information—everything you need to direct your work to the publications most amenable to your vision.
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Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Subgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Graphic/Illustrated, Prose Poetry, Literary Fiction -
We are looking for original, unpublished fiction and poetry with strong character arcs and immersive description. Build worlds and break hearts. For essays, we’re looking for factual, but not academic–keep the people in your story front and...
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Dying Dahlia Review is an online literary journal featuring previously unpublished poetry and flash fiction by women writers. We are looking for work that is brief, but powerful. Make us cry. Make us gasp. Make us shout. Make us feel something...
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to represent a feminist point of view in poetry or short prose -- to publish established and new writers, women & men.
Reading Period: Feb 15 to Jun 15Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Prose Poetry -
Easy Street provides writers a venue to showcase their work, to discuss the publishing industry, and to share viewpoints on diverse aspects of contemporary life and culture.
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Publishes short stories, flash fiction, poetry, and photography / digital art that promote the uniquely positive and edifying.
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Ekphrastic writing. All of the poetry and prose we publish in inspired by visual art.
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Eleven Eleven is a biannual journal of literature and art based at California College of the Arts. The aim of the publication is to provide a forum for risk and experimentation and to serve as an exchange between writers and artists.
Reading Period: Sep 1 to Mar 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Embers Igniting does three things: 1. Publishes real, relevant, radical writing and art for the glory of Christ. 2. Provides resources and topics of discussion for writers and artists. 3. Engages in the community of creators, both locally and...
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We emphasize the community of Creative Nonfiction Writers, and the bonds that hold us together as we explore the time and space surrounding our pasts, presents, and futures.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Experimental, Narrative Nonfiction, Prose Poetry -
We are a journal of print poetry and prose dedicated to emerging writers and their words now in our 4th year of publication. We aim to publish writers who are currently emerging on the literary scene. We recognize how hard it can be to get that...
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Emrys Journal seeks work from both emerging and established writers--send us something we didn't know we were looking for. We accept print submissions through Submittable every August 1-November 1. We accept web submissions year-round; send your...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Flash Fiction, Humor, Narrative Nonfiction, Prose Poetry -
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 -
Eratio publishes poetry in the postmodern idioms with an emphasis on the intransitive. Eratio publishes a pdf version of every issue. Eratio Editions, an e-chap publisher, is reading for poetry, innovative narrative prose and recollection, and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Experimental, Micro-poetry, Prose Poetry, Translation -
Fiction: We’re looking for compelling characters, plots that surprise us, narratives that move us, stories that have something new to say.
Poetry: We love poems that are lyrical without being overwrought,...
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FACT-SIMILE publishes handmade books, trading cards, and a free, large-format annual magazine. We are driven by the unification of form and content. Through the physical performance of the text, we strive to expand the definition of and bringing...
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fields magazine is a print publication designed to spotlight writers, musicians, poets, painters, illustrators, and creative types of all stripes, with an emphasis on the up and coming and the unsung. We are interested in the everyday people who...
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FWJ publishes established and emerging writers. FWJ is an independent not-for-profit literary magazine based in Lisle, Illinois. Now in its tenth year, FWJ publishes interesting and challenging literature for a diverse reading public across the...
Read moreReading Period: May 15 to Jul 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Prose Poetry -
FishFood Magazine is dedicated to all forms of creative expression and talent.
FishFood Magazine encourages self-expression from daily life through art. Art tends to serve as a coping mechanism from regular shenanigans and obstacles, and...
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Established in 2011, our goal will always be to give light to the voices that are normally hidden from the literary magazine scene. We're mostly dedicated works of art that step way from the norm; that jump into the strange, unique, and...
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Fjords publishes a number of styles, approaches, and voices.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Flexible Persona is an international magazine of writing that produces biannual print issues. We read for engaging, character-driven fiction in which something happens. Show us the story. We are open to all genres.
We also read for...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Subgenres: Experimental, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry -
Flock publishes slippery, softly experimental work in biannual issues. The journal releases a general issue in the spring and a theme issue in the fall.
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Without restricting ourselves to a particular genre, media, or theme, we aim to publish interesting, quality works, and every issue has a unique flavour.
Each of our two General Editors takes ownership of at least one issue per year,...
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We aim to be pluralists in our exploration of things neo-modern. This is not a movement nor is it a pretense to a clear aesthetic criteria as much as a zeitgeist and a de-personalization of the arts. We are like the orphaned children of deposed...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Flash Fiction, Prose Poetry