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Literary Magazines
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 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Owen Wister Review is the University of Wyoming’s Arts and Literary Journal produced through the Student Media department. The editorial staff is comprised entirely of undergraduate and graduate students who have nuanced yet supportive tastes...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Apr 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Pegasus is a regional journal that publishes only high school and undergraduate students currently enrolled in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, or South Carolina high schools, colleges, and universities as well as alumni, faculty, and staff of Abraham...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 18 to Feb 28Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Regional -
Pennsylvania Literary Journal (ISSN#: 2151-3066) is a printed peer-reviewed journal that publishes critical essays, book-reviews, short stories, interviews, photographs, art, and poetry.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Phantom Billstickers Cafe Reader is a quarterly literary zine featuring short stories, poems, art and editorial by both New Zealanders and international authors. The stories we publish are heartfelt glimpses into family, community, and the...
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Portland Review has been publishing exceptional prose, poetry, and art since 1956. The journal is produced by the graduate students in Portland State University’s English Department, and for over sixty years Portland Review has...
Read moreReading Period: Jul 1 to Sep 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Potluck is a space to present a diverse and resonant collection of creative media, narrowing gaps between different forms of art, ideas, and people.
In seeking to create a community of artists, writers, and friends, Potluck shares...
Read moreReading Period:Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Cross-genre, Erotica, 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 -
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...
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 -
Raven publishes and promotes work that reflects cultural diversity in the Pacific Northwest and other regions. We seek uncommon poetry, fiction, essays, reviews, b/w art and interviews.
Reading Period: Mar 1 to Apr 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
We obey no genre and take anything from limericks to fantasy to genres yet invented. Our key desires are originality, accessibility and quality. We like work with a point, something to say or some sort of inner majic that gives greater meaning to...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Cross-genre, Erotica, Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, LGBTQ, Graphic/Illustrated, Humor, Formal, Love, Micro-poetry, Nature/Environmental, Political, Prose Poetry, Regional, Serialized Fiction, Religious/Spiritual, War, Narrative Nonfiction, Literary Fiction, Commercial Fiction, Pop Culture -
Red Flag Poetry is a postcard project that aims to deliver poetry to the mailbox of subscribers every month on a postcard. We look for poetry that is creative, original, and well crafted. We want to see poems that criticallly reflect life and...
Read moreReading Period: Oct 1 to Oct 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Formal, Historical, Humor, LGBTQ, Love, Micro-poetry, Nature/Environmental, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Regional, War -
How does one judge authenticity in the literary arts? Intuition. And, if Heidegger was correct in his assumption that language is the house of Being, intuition, not logic, is the impetus of art and authenticity. Before we can come to either, it...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Experimental, Flash Fiction, Humor, Formal, Nature/Environmental, Prose Poetry, Regional, Literary Fiction -
The Saranac Review is committed to dissolving boundaries of all kinds, seeking to publish a diverse array of emerging and established writers from the United States, Canada and the rest of the world. The journal strives to be a textual clearing...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 1 to May 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Saw Palm is a Florida-themed literary journal produced by the MFA program at the University of South Florida. We publish poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, art, photography, reviews, and interviews. Places to Stand in Florida, a special...
Read moreReading Period: Jul 1 to Oct 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Sequestrum publishes new, emerging, and internationally-acclaimed writers of short fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and cross-genre. All publications are paired with a unique visual component with the goal of fostering and exposing our writers to a...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Commercial Fiction, Cross-genre, Erotica, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal, Graphic/Illustrated, Historical, Humor, LGBTQ, Literary Fiction, Love, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Nonfiction, Poetry, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Regional, Religious/Spiritual, Serialized Fiction, Translation, War -
We adore the strange, new, and off-kilter, but above all we want work that speaks to something real. This doesn't mean we only like realistic prose and narrative poetry-far from it. We want you to look beyond the real to the truth buried beneath...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Experimental, Literary Fiction, Regional -
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.
Reading Period: Sep 1 to Apr 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Split Rock Review publishes innovative place-based and environmental poetry, creative nonfiction, graphic narratives, comics, and art. We also host an annual poetry chapbook contest and publish themed anthologies.
We only accept ...
Read moreReading Period: May 1 to Jul 31Genre: Poetry, Creative Nonfiction -
We do not seek scholarly analyses or angst-driven diary entries; nor do we wish to be entertained by martians, demons, ghosts, or fairy godmothers. Those stories have a place, but it’s not here. Move, amaze, horrify and educate us about the...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
steel bellow is a home for poets in & around Buffalo, NY. we seek to publish poetry that recalls the past while responding to the present. poetry that reminds us of who we are and directs where we’re going. poetry of place and of the...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Erotica, Experimental, Feminist, Historical, Humor, LGBTQ, Love, Micro-poetry, Nature/Environmental, Poetry, Political, Prose Poetry, Regional -
We publish interesting fiction, poetry, essays, and multimedia work from all over the world. However, preference is given to writers, artists, and subject matter with some connection to the South. We are particularly interested in work that uses...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
STILL POINT ARTS QUARTERLY has a clear focus on art, artists, and artistry, as it explores issues of expression, imagination, and inspiration. Each issue includes extensive portfolios of contemporary artists as well as articles, essays, fiction,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
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 -
We are looking for original literary work of the highest quality in many styles, surprising and affecting, formally and affectively innovative. We publish both fresh and experienced voices. We welcome submissions by authors from all walks of life...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction