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We're looking for fiction (<7000 words), poetry, critical essays, and translations.
Our name come from something once said by Harold Brodkey: "The reader in his or her life has more access to the real than the author does, which...
Read moreMORIA is a national online literary magazine with an all-student editorial board, based at Woodbury University in greater Los Angeles. We accept poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction from emerging and established writers in the...
Read moreMortar Magazine evolves the idea that writing can and should be incisive, coming in at the edges, doing that elusive something that makes us question motive, genre, meaning, or narrative itself.
While we accept any prose...
Read moreMoss is a venue for showcasing and supporting writers of the Pacific Northwest, with a special focus on emerging talent and a mission of celebrating and preserving the Northwest’s robust literary culture. Moss is published...
Read moreAn international art & 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.
Mount Island is dedicated to supporting rural LGBTQ and POC writers and artists, whether rural by birth or at heart. We seek:
Mystery, Suspense and Noir Fiction with Literary Flavor
Published monthly, our Mystery Magazine presents crime and mystery short stories by some of the world's best established and emerging mystery writers. The original stories we select for each issue run the gamut from cozy to hardboiled...
Read moreNAILED Magazine is designed and curated to publish and promote stories of human struggle and personal experience in an accessible medium. We are most interested in the personal stories of voices that are currently, and have been...
Read moreNat. Brut is a Dallas-based nonprofit organization that produces a biannual art and literary magazine both online and in print. We aim to provide quality, engaging, dynamic, inspiring work from a wide array of genres and mediums in a way...
Read moreNatural Bridge is committed to publishing the best new writing from established as well as emerging writers.
We seek work that is beautiful, shocking, intense and memorable. Darker pieces are generally favoured over humorous ones—as are free verse poems over those that rhyme. Genre work is welcome, experimentation is encouraged. There are no limits on...
Read moreNew England Review publishes quality fiction, poetry, and nonfiction that is both challenging and inviting to the general reader. The selections present a broad spectrum of viewpoints and genres, including traditional and experimental...
Read moreWe host writing contests in fiction and poetry and welcome international submissions. We juxtapose tradition with experiment, the up-and-comer with the established writer, and create a new dialogue.
**The Writer’s Hotel NYC Writer’s...
Read moreOur work explores how place shapes identity, imagination, and understanding. The journal is published bi-annually online and features fiction, poetry, nonfiction, visual arts, reviews, and more. We also publish poetry chapbooks through our Gloria...
Read moreNight Picnic is a bilingual journal of literature and art which publishes work in both English and Russian. We translate our authors' work into Russian. We accept novels, novellas, plays, short and flash stories, fairytales for adults,...
Read moreNo Tokens is a journal celebrating work that is felt in the spine. We are run entirely by women, queer, trans, and non-binary individuals, dedicated to featuring the words and artwork of all voices of the past, present, and future. We are here to...
Read moreNoctua Review is the literary publication of Southern Connecticut State University's (SCSU) English department. We encourage well-crafted poetry and fiction submissions of any style from emerging and established writers.
Each issue is themed, and NonBinary Review explores the edges of those themes. We're looking for works that approach our themes in unexpected but completely fitting ways.
The Nonconformist is a literary magazine dedicated to publishing fiction, poetry, experimental fiction and poetry, book reviews, literary criticism, and various culture-related articles. We believe in reconfiguring the world using pens,...
Read moreThe literary journal Nostos, containing poetry, short fiction, and art usually focused on a theme, is published by Longship Press.
Novel Slices is dedicated solely to novel excerpts. These excerpts should feel like they come from novels that want to be read—they may pop us into the action and leave us hanging at the end. Each issue includes 5 winning...
Read moreOctober Hill Magazine believes strongly in the need for a digital platform from which new and aspiring writers can express their creativity. We simple believe in honoring new talent and publishing the very best of new literary and visual...
Read moreTo promote superb work from all over the world as well as translated work from Mexican poets.
Open Doors Review is a literary magazine based in Italy that publishes literary fiction, poetry, and thought-provoking essays in English or Italian. Whatever your connection to Italy (whether you live here, have Italian ancestry or...
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