Aura Literary Arts Review is an award-winning creative literary magazine that is published through the Student Media division of the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The publication is led and run by UAB students from various...
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Find a home for your poems, stories, essays, and reviews by researching the publications vetted by our editorial staff and listed in the Literary Magazines database. Here you’ll find editorial policies, submission guidelines, and contact information—everything you need to determine which publications match your vision for your writing and your writing life. Use the filters below to find magazines with reading periods that are open now or opening soon (within the next thirty days), accept unsolicited submissions, and match all of your criteria for the perfect publisher of your work.
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Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Bi Women Quarterly is a global grassroots publication produced by the Boston Bisexual Women’s Network. It has been in continuous publication since 1983, and is the oldest bisexual + women’s publication in the world, with global content...
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The aim of Black Fox is to publish both established and new writers. We welcome all fiction, but we especially like fiction from underrepresented genres and styles, including YA. We are also interested in creative nonfiction, poetry,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to May 31, Jul 1 to Nov 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The editors like stories with singular visions and points-of-view. They want the journal to be the home of fiction that challenges the reader even just a little bit, at least to the point of thinking about something in a new or different way....
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Fiction -
Drunk Monkeys is a literary magazine and film blog founded in 2011 featuring short stories, flash fiction, poetry, film articles, movie reviews, and more.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Feb 28Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Embark is a literary journal designed for novelists, featuring exclusively the beginnings of as-yet-unpublished novels. It is released twice annually, and each issue features a range of genres, including literary dramas, mysteries,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: FictionSubgenres: Commercial Fiction, Fiction, Historical, Literary Fiction, Speculative Fiction -
Since 2007, the Fairy Tale Magazine has offered fairy tale lovers a space to publish their own tales, read the classics again, and enjoy classic fairy tale art. Please visit their site to learn about their submissions guidelines...
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The Fiction Desk publishes a range of short stories from new and emerging authors, with a focus on strong plots and characters. It is based in the United Kingdom but accepts submissions from authors around the world.
Reading Period: Oct 1 to Jan 31, Mar 1 to May 31, Jul 1 to Sep 30Genre: FictionSubgenres: Commercial Fiction, Cross-genre, Fiction, Literary Fiction, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction -
At Five South, the editors amplify diverse voices and narratives that challenge convention and explore the intricacies of the human experience. They seek emotionally resonant, thought-provoking, and innovative submissions, whether they...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Jan 31, Feb 1 to Feb 28, Apr 1 to Apr 30, Jun 1 to Jun 30, Jul 1 to Jul 31, Oct 1 to Oct 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
FLARE Magazine publishes stories, hybrids, essays, art, and poetry about chronic illnesses, disabilities, and mental health, written by those who experience at least one of these. FLARE hopes to spread awareness about these...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Jan 15, Feb 1 to Feb 8, Apr 1 to Apr 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Flora Fiction is dedicated to artists of all types: poets, writers, photographers, and illustrations. The editors are here to provide a platform for emerging creatives to showcase their work. Their literary magazine comes out every...
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Haunted Waters Press is an independent publisher located in the shadows of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia along the banks of the Shenandoah River. The press accepts works from new, emerging, and established writers. From the Depths...
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Gargoyle Magazine has always been a scallywag magazine, a maverick magazine, a bit too academic for the underground and way too underground for the academics. They are a writer’s magazine in that we are read by other writers and have...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 10 to Jan 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Hidden Peak Review is a magazine of poetry, short fiction and flash fiction based in Colorado that showcases gut-punch free verse and eye-opening prose from across the United States and abroad. A literary magazine at the confluence of...
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Invisible City publishes fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. They seek work that encourages them to see the world from new perspectives and different angles, ones that they may not have previously considered or imagined.
Reading Period: Mar 13 to Apr 13, Sep 16 to Oct 16Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Lascaux Review seeks accessible fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction of literary quality. Annual contests are conducted in poetry, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, and short fiction.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Letters Page literary journal is published by the University of Nottingham School of English, and edited by writer in residence, Professor Jon McGregor. It is interested in exploring what letter writing means to people—and has meant...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Commercial Fiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Healing/Health, Historical, Humor, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Love, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Regional, Religious/Spiritual, Serialized Fiction, Translation, War -
The Literary Wire is a digital-first publisher dedicated to innovative storytelling across literary forms. Through its Journalistic Poetry Project, it explores the intersection of journalism and verse. The publication welcomes poetry,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Commercial Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Historical, Literary Fiction, Love, Lyric Essay, Magical Realism, Micro-poetry, Mystery, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Serialized Fiction, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Speculative Poetry, Translation, War, Young Adult -
Litro USA fosters a national community for innovative writing and creative works. They connect cultures, encourage dialogues via technology and arts, and ensure literature’s prominence in popular culture by backing writers and artists...
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Founded in 2009, Lowestoft Chronicle is an online literary magazine, published quarterly, accepting flash fiction, short stories, poetry, interviews, and creative nonfiction. Preference is given to humorous submissions with an emphasis...
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The MacGuffin is an international publication based out of Schoolcraft College, a two-year community college in Livonia, Michigan. Published trianually, their staff seeks to feature a diverse array of voices and styles, from...
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Mystery, suspense, and noir fiction with literary flavor.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Commercial Fiction, Cross-genre, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Pop Culture -
The Nassau Review welcomes work that is innovative, captivating, well-crafted, and unique work that is traditional as well as pieces that cross boundaries of genre and tradition. New writers and...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Dec 5Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Otis Nebula seeks to remedy what the internet has wrought upon common social spaces, to be as close to a campfire as you can get on a screen. They like poems with a pulse and stories with legs. Please keep it short (under 1000 words...
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Pennsylvania Literary Journal is a printed and digital journal that publishes scholarly essays on a range of different topics, periods, genres and fields, as well as book reviews, short fiction stories, interviews, photographs, art, and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
