Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine’s primary interest is quality. It welcomes submissions in any and all forms, genres, styles, and approaches in written word and image and encourages innovation as well as tradition.
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Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine’s primary interest is quality. It welcomes submissions in any and all forms, genres, styles, and approaches in written word and image and encourages innovation as well as tradition.
SBLAAM...
Read moreSince 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.
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. They publish fiction, nonfiction,...
Read moreBased out of the English department at Washington University in St. Louis, The Spectacle is committed to publishing work from underrepresented voices, including BIPOC, women, people from LGBTQIA+ communities, and people who have...
Read moreSplit Rock Review is a not-for-profit publication run by volunteers that love literature, art, and the wilderness. Their mission is to publish the best literature and art that explore place, environment, and the relationship between...
Read moreSpry 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 moreStar 82 Review is a full-color, online and print magazine. Each issue may feature microfiction and creative nonfiction, erasure texts, narrative art, word and image, and poetry, including haibun and prose. Think of gentle works filled...
Read moreStill 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 moreStoneboat 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 moreThe 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 moreStorm 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...
Read moreStory Unlikely is an award-winning monthly publication that features fiction and nonfiction that focuses on the quality of both the writing and storytelling, not on genre or author pedigree (or lack there of).
“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 moreThe Sun is an independent, ad-free magazine that for more than fifty 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 moreSuperpresent 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 moreSurvive Thrive provides opportunities for sharing art, poetry, essays, and the practice of Medical Humanities and Narrative as Medicine. The editors encourage those in the medical profession to practice Narrative Medicine by submitting...
Read moreThe Swamp Ape is a legend that reflects Florida—its mythology, its weirdness—as well as the human desire to create a narrative around that which they can’t explain. Submissions to the Swamp should defy form to the extent that the piece’s...
Read moreswamp pink publishes fiction, poetry, and nonfiction on a semimonthly basis. Its aim is to publish exceptional work from writers at all stages of their careers. The editors are particularly interested in submissions from writers of color...
Read moreSWING is devoted to excellent poetry, fiction, essays, and comic art in print, and the editors are committed to a design that speaks to the contents within. The look and feel of their issues will always reflect the natural world and...
Read moreSymphonies of Imagination is a print magazine that explores the philosophy of the Anthropocene and is published quarterly. Each issue revolves around a certain topic and invites people from all backgrounds and from all countries to...
Read moreTampa Review is a literary magazine published dedicated to the blending of contemporary literature and visual arts. Each issue features contemporary writing and art from Florida and the world.
SPECIAL EDITION: Because the editor lives near Asheville, NC, she is dedicating the upsoming edition to those affected by Hurricane Helene. She remains open to any themes and genres but is especially interested in work that shows the resilency...
Read moreTemenos Journal seeks to publish the very best new fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and literary essays by established and emerging writers. All manuscripts are given full consideration. The editors suggest writers first familiarize...
Read morePlace. Climate. Justice. Terrain.org is an award-winning literary journal publishing online on a rolling basis: editorials, poetry, essays, fiction, articles, reviews, interviews, artwork, videos, and case studies.
Digital quarterly for new, emerging and established writers and artists. The editors seek good writing above anything else: inspired, unbound, and diverse. Original work only.