Loud Coffee Press is a quarterly unpretentious and unapologetic literary journal that focuses on three things the editors love: flash fiction, coffee, and music. They look for writing that hovers in that perfect brew spot of 195 to 205...
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Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Subgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Speculative Fiction -
Founded in 2009, Lowestoft Chronicle is an online literary magazine, published quarterly, accepting flash fiction, short stories, poetry, interviews, and creative non-fiction. Preference is given to humorous submissions with an emphasis on travel...
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The MacGuffin is an international publication based out of Schoolcraft College in Livonia, Michigan. Published three times a year, it strives to usher in the best poetry, fiction, and artwork that they receive to the literary community...
Reading Period: Sep 1 to Jun 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Maine Review is a biannual online literary journal that publishes culturally significant and innovative writing by writers living in Maine, across the country, and around the world. Maine Review Publications is a 501(c)3 non-profit...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Mar 31, May 1 to Jul 31, Sep 1 to Nov 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Translation -
The Malahat Review is among Canada’s leading literary journals. Published quarterly, it features contemporary works of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction by emerging and established writers from around the world. TMR is a...
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Mannequin haus publishes experimental fiction, video art, gif, scanner art, photography, painting, collage, block prints, etchings, scribbles, comics, found art, painting, drawing, design, interviews, reviews + anything submitted with surreal...
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Flash fiction, poetry, short fiction, nonfiction, image. Brevity, lyric, place, experiment.
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Manzano Mountain Review is on hiatus. We may return in 2024.
Reading Period: Feb 1 to Sep 15Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Flash Fiction, Prose Poetry -
MASKS Literary Magazineis a Weisman Award-winning print and online journal based out of the Columbia College Chicago Aesthetics of Research. It provides a space to showcase new and unexpected perspectives. It sponsors contests and...
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The Massachusetts Review is an independent quarterly journal of literature, the arts, and public affairs. MR has deep local roots but an international scope, with an emphasis on work that provokes debate, challenges ideology,...
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Metaworker is an online literary magazine where great stories are forged.
Since starting The Metaworker, the magazine has published poetry, fiction, and nonfiction from a variety of submitters every Monday. Their goal is...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Experimental, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry -
Michigan Quarterly Review seeks, cultivates, and amplifies a wide range of artistic expressions that interrogate the world and expand the imagination.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Apr 1, Aug 1 to Nov 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Cross-genre, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Translation -
Midway Journal accepts submissions of aesthetically ambitious work that occupies the realms between both the traditional and experimental.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Midwest Review looks for well-crafted, thoughtful, and thought-provoking writing and visual art that examines, interprets, and redefines the full spectrum of life, past and present, in the Midwest. The Midwest is the region of the north central...
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Miracle Monocle is an online journal of innovative literary and visual art. Published bi-annually, the journal features poems, short stories, literary nonfiction, and a broad range of experimental works.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Experimental, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry -
Mithila Review is an international speculative arts and culture magazine. It is open to original submissions as well as translations from around the world.
Along with original speculative fiction and poetry, it will host reviews,...
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Mom Egg Review publishes an annual print journal and a quarterly online magazine, MER VOX, featuring sharp, articulate, inventive work by mother writers and by others about mothers and motherhood. MER writers explore diverse...
Read moreReading Period: Apr 15 to Jul 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Prose Poetry -
MORIA is a national online literary magazine with an all-student editorial board, based at Woodbury University in greater Los Angeles. It accepts poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction from emerging and established writers in the...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 15 to Oct 1, Jan 15 to Mar 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
An international art and literature magazine that features witty, irreverant, and moving poetry and fiction from established and up-and-coming authors, as well as interviews with the likes of Billy Collins, Eimear McBride and DBC Pierre.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Subgenres: Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry -
the museum of americana is an online literary review dedicated to fiction, poetry, nonfiction, photography, music, and artwork that revives or repurposes the old, the dying, the forgotten, or the almost entirely unknown...
Read moreReading Period: Apr 1 to Apr 30, Aug 1 to Aug 31, Dec 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Cross-genre, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Humor, LGBTQ Voices, Micro-poetry, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Regional, Translation -
Nat. Brut is a Dallas-based nonprofit organization that produces a biannual art and literary magazine both online and in print. It aims to provide quality, engaging, dynamic, inspiring work from a wide array of genres and mediums in a...
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NELLE proudly publishes the best, most exciting poetry, short fiction, and nonfiction written exclusively by women.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Sep 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry -
Neon is a magazine of slipstream fiction, poetry, and artwork. It publishes creative work that is fantastic or surreal, and which crosses the boundaries between science-fiction, horror, and literary fiction. It is one of the longest-...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Subgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Prose Poetry -
The New Guard is a contest-centered, independent literary review, publishing 35+ emerging writers each year from the US and abroad. We proudly publish in print.
Reading Period: Mar 1 to Jan 11Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The New Verse News covers the news of the day with poems on issues, large and small, international and local. It relies on the submission of poems (especially those of a politically progressive bent) by writers from all over the...
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Newfound publishes pieces that explore how place shapes identity, imagination, and understanding. The journal is published bi-annually online and features fiction, poetry, nonfiction, visual arts, reviews, and more.
Reading Period: May 15 to Aug 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Healing/Health, Historical, Humor, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Love, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Regional, Religious/Spiritual, Serialized Fiction, Translation, War
