Little Patuxent Review is a biannual print journal and online blog featuring writers and artists from the Mid-Atlantic region and beyond.
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: Dec 1 to Mar 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Narrative Nonfiction, Literary Fiction -
Imagine a place so far away that it might only exist in your imagination. That’s where you’ll find us, in the last place on earth. Welcome to Longshot Island. We are looking for Magical Realism, Slipstream and Experimental Fiction at this time....
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Literary Fiction, Nonfiction -
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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Lumen is a project for (and by!) cis women, trans women, and nonbinary people. We are interested in poetry, fiction, personal essays, and interviews that examine how we move through the world, both as complex individuals and as members of larger...
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LUMINA Journal is the annual print publication of the Sarah Lawrence College graduate writing program. We seek new, exciting, and rule-breaking work from writers both established and emerging. This year, our theme is Resistance.
Reading Period: Jun 26 to Nov 5Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Graphic/Illustrated, Literary Fiction -
We are the quiet conversations, the confession, the uncomfortable, the indulgent and the beautiful. We publish diverse voices, we are invested in intersectional feminism, and we are are confident in our ability to make conversation happen. We...
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The MacGuffin is an international publication based out of Schoolcraft College in Livonia, MI. Published three times a year, we strive to usher in the best poetry, fiction, and artwork that we receive to the literary community.
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Madcap Review is a semiannual online journal of art and literature. As our name indicates, we embrace the impulsive, the reckless, and the lively, but we also have great respect for form and restraint. Founded in 2014 by a group of fiction...
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Mandala is a word which means 'circle' in Sanskrit. Mandala is a circle which holds the universe. Mandala is a journal of art and literature published each spring by the University of Georgia's Institute for African American Studies. We publish...
Read moreReading Period: Oct 7 to Feb 7Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
All written pieces should be submitted in Times New Roman 12 pt font, double spaced. Literary files are accepted in PDF, DOC, or Dox format. Visual art files are accepted as a JPEG or PDF. Please read our current issue prior to submitting in...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 14 to Mar 4Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Experimental, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry -
We focus on experimental writing, and surrealism.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Experimental, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry -
Each issue focuses on a different part of the Asia-Pacific region, including the Americas. From time to time, we also publish thematic issues, such as ENDURING WAR or ON FREEDOM. American authors and translators were published most recently in...
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Please visit the MTLS website for details on our editorial focus.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Fiction, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translation -
As a literary journal with an educational twist, Mason’s Road aims to focus each issue on a particular element of the writing craft.
Reading Period: Feb 1 to Apr 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
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, and engages the...
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We call ourselves an "alternative" magazine; that is to say: our purpose is to promote work that is thought-provoking and unconventional. We want the controversial and the radical, the unhinged and the bizarre; we want the obsessive, the...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Commercial Fiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, Historical, Humor, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, LGBTQ, Literary Fiction, Love, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Regional, Religious/Spiritual, Serialized Fiction, Translation, War -
Maudlin House is a literary experience that curates the best in experimental lit by both emerging, and established authors. We encourage you to write weird, life's too short not to. Belong to where you don’t belong. Stay up all night and drip...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Subgenres: Experimental, Flash Fiction, Micro-poetry, Literary Fiction, Pop Culture -
We publish poetry and fiction by emerging and established writers. We also collaborate with the Chicago Organization SIngers On New Ground for an annual art song contest, in which a guest composer
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selects a poem to set. The winning work is...Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Subgenres: Literary Fiction -
Menacing Hedge is a quarterly journal of poetry, fiction and artwork, that is committed to fostering access to emerging and experimental poetry and prose. Ongoing publication is scheduled for the first weeks of July, October, January, and April...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Subgenres: Experimental, Prose Poetry, Literary Fiction -
Founded in 1998, Meridian has featured the works of numerous Pulitzer Prize Winners, National Book Award Winners, and established writers. However, as a magazine edited by young writers, we value nothing more than showcasing tomorrow's talent,...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 15 to Apr 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Literary Fiction -
We're a undergrad magazine centered at Merrimack College. We only publish students, whether they're undergrad, grad, or doctoral. Send us art, and insight. We want to see your best work. We don't have one single genre that we publish, if the...
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We are the Metaworker, a literary blog (or lit magazine on the internet) created by millenials, for millenials.
We started out as a group of recent graduates from Chapman University, where we were editors of the on-campus literary magazine...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Experimental, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry -
Midway Journal accepts submissions of aesthetically ambitious work that occupies the realms between both the traditional and experimental.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to May 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
We look 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 United States...
Read moreReading Period: Apr 15 to Dec 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Midwestern Gothic (ISSN 2159-8827) is a bi-annual print literary journal out of Chicago, Illinois, dedicated to featuring work about or inspired by the Midwest, by writers who live or have lived here. Midwestern Gothic aims to collect the very...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction