We especially like stories, poems, and non-fiction pieces that deal with the spiritual, progressive, regenerative, and transformative elements of life. We’re also highly drawn to works about religion, Israel/Palestine, the Mideast conflicts, and...
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Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Tin House is a haven for authors at the peak of their powers and also a jumping-off point for unpublished writers and anyone taking risks, pushing form and language. We're a magazine not identified with any one region but international, drawing...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 4 to May 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Literary Fiction -
We do not have any specific aesthetic criteria, except to say that we seek pieces of exceptional literary quality, not genre work.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Mar 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
We believe in supporting the creative endeavors of the writers of the world. We believe literature serves an existential function and its value to humanity is beyond measure. Therefore, we will always remain open to the possibility that an...
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Touch: The Journal of Healing promotes poetry and prose from around the world that speaks of the physical, the emotional, and the universal, spiritual touch of humanity.
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Toyon publishes distinguished literary and art work, with particular interest in promoting environmental and social justice.
We seek diverse voices from around the world and welcome submissions in all languages.
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Turk’s Head Review features distinctive writing, art, & media.
Reading Period: Aug 1 to Sep 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
We want writing that takes risks while still paying attention to craft. We are happy to see prose poems, stories that burst into poems, poems that burst into stories, etc. Mixing genres doesn’t scare us. Of course boring, self-involved, over-...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, LGBTQ, Prose Poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Literary Fiction -
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Versal, the literary & arts journal out of Amsterdam, seeks work that is urgent, involved, and unexpected. A publication celebrating translocal intersections and cross-cultural dialogue, Versal is internationally renowned for the quality of...
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Poetry and Prose that leave us excited and wanting more.
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Visitants pop up throughout literature as ghosts, as fits of madness, and as omens. In nature, a visitant takes on a different meaning: a migratory bird that has come to a place temporarily; a cicada that rises from the soil every 17 years. Here...
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We publish short fiction, poetry, personal essay/memoir, visuals, book reviews and scholarly essays for a general audience. From the Iliad to The Hurt Locker to The Things They Carried, war and art have reflected one another. It is this...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Flash Fiction, Prose Poetry, War, Narrative Nonfiction, Literary Fiction -
Waxing & Waning is a literary journal that seeks what’s on the fringe. Whatever is deep and true. The moon represents this idea: what is dark, what is brooding, what is wild. We want to feed the beast in you, the one buried beneath layers of...
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A wayfarer is a wanderer whose ability to re-imagine the possible provides the compass bearings for those on their way. The Wayfarer’s mission is to chart the way for change by building and empowering a community of contemplative voices...
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The Wayne Literary Review is a yearly literary journal published in Detroit, MI, by Wayne State Press. We publish writing that inspires, experiments, and pushes language in new and interesting directions. We are edited by Wayne State University...
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Weave is a literary organization and print publication located in Pittsburgh, PA. We seek to create a space for a cross-section of writers and artists to meet on the page, on the stage, and in workshop. We celebrate diversity in both the creator...
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weirderary is an online literary magazine dedicated to high quality creative work. We publish writing, comics, art, and hybrid pieces, favoring fresh and uncommon forms, subjects, and points of view. Over here, “weird” is a compliment, not a...
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West Trade Review strives to put forth the best contemporary poetry, fiction, artwork, and photography and publishes a mix of established and up and coming writers. Our mission is to perpetuate the work of artists both well known and yet-to-be-...
Read moreReading Period: Apr 1 to Jan 1Subgenres: Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, LGBTQ, Literary Fiction, Nature/Environmental, Poetry, Political -
Whale Road Review will publish poetry, flash fiction, and micro essays that don’t demand too much time up front, but somehow leave readers changed. We hope readers of all sorts will enjoy these short pieces in stolen moments—waiting in line,...
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Whiskey Island is a nonprofit literary journal that has been published by Cleveland State University for over thirty years. We welcome poetry and fiction submissions. We look to publish exciting new voices as well as established authors...
Reading Period: Aug 15 to May 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, LGBTQ, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Prose Poetry -
Our main aim is to publish work by those who have come to view mere existence as brutally painful while purely hilarious. Though we hope this is a driving force behind much of the work found herein, we realize there are some good writers out...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Subgenres: Cross-genre, Flash Fiction, Humor, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Prose Poetry -
The Wilderness House Literary Review is a publication devoted to excellence in literature and the arts.
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Since 1977 Willow Springs has published the finest in contemporary fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, as well as interviews with notable authors including Marilynne Robinson, Stuart Dybek, Aimee Bender, Robert Wrigley, Joyce Carol Oates, Yusef...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to May 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction