Dappled Things is a Catholic literary magazine produced in partnership with the Collegium Institute for Catholic Thought & Culture.
Literary Magazines
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: Feb 1 to May 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Dark Matter: Women Witnessing publishes writing and visual art created in response to an age of massive species loss and ecological collapse.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Dark Sire Literary Journal (TDS) is a literary journal that publishes twice-yearly paperback issues (Fall and Spring). They publish gothic, horror, fantasy, and psychological fiction, poetry, and art, especially work that...
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DarkWinter Literary Magazine is an independent online publication which focuses on short fiction and poetry. Whether you’re emerging or established, the editors want your weird, your traditional with a twist, your humour, your dark...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsSubgenres: Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Magical Realism, Prose Poetry -
The Dawn Review publishes poetry, prose, art, and hybrid submissions from emerging and established writers and artists. The editors curate each issue to amplify a diverse range of perspectives and showcase work that transcends genre.
Reading Period: Aug 15 to Oct 31, Apr 5 to Jul 5Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Criticism, art, literature, reviews, aesthetics, abstraction, meta, classics.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Experimental, Lyric Essay, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry -
Since 1958, december has been committed to distributing the work of emerging writers and artists and celebrating more seasoned voices through a semiannual nonprofit literary magazine featuring fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Nov 1, Jan 1 to May 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Decolonial Passage welcomes writing from all writers engaged in the decolonial project, regardless of the writer’s race, origin, gender, disability, or geographical location. Simultaneously, Decolonial Passage centers African,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
decomp journal is an online literary magazine that is published three times a year. They are an in-house journal for the Social Justice Institute at the University of British Columbia, and they publish prose, poetry, art, and creative...
Read moreReading Period: Nov 1 to Dec 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Experimental, Flash Fiction, Humor, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Prose Poetry -
Deep South Magazine is committed to being a forum for Southern writers and showcasing Southern literature and accepts submissions of original fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. For fiction, they do themed calls throughout the year. Poetry...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Regional -
Deep Wild Journal is the home for creative work inspired by journeys to places where there are no roads. They seek work that conjures the experiences, observations, and insights of backcountry journeys. By “backcountry,” they mean away...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Dec 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Nature/Environmental, Nonfiction, Poetry -
Defunct is a magazine that celebrates what’s over and what isn’t yet.
“We’re mourning. We’re functioning. Let’s show the world what we want & need through what we’ve lost. Punk’s not dead, punk’s not dead. We’re punk. We’re...
Read moreReading Period: Nov 15 to Jan 15, Jul 15 to Sep 15Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
The Delmarva Review publishes exceptional, new poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction annually in print and electronic editions. Submissions have been paused in 2024 to publish an anthology of "The Best of the Delmarva Review" (...
Read moreReading Period: Nov 1 to Mar 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Delta Poetry Review is an online poetry journal committed to publishing exceptional work by new, emerging, and established writers. Each issue features a selected poet with an interview, new poems, and a review of their latest book
... Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
The Deronda Review is mainly a poetry magazine but will consider prose up to 500 words. Longer prose works may occasionally be published on the homepage of the magazine. It seeks poetry of beauty and dignity (wit is also welcome) with a...
Read moreReading Period: May 15 to Jun 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Poetry, Prose Poetry -
Diagram is an electronic journal of text and art. As its name indicates, the editors are interested in representations. In naming. In indicating. In schematics. In the labeling and taxonomy of things. In poems that masquerade as stories...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Diamond Gazette is an international literary magazine for youth. It publishes young writers ages 13 to 22 years of all backgrounds. The Gazette is dedicated to empowering multifaceted young voices and perspectives, and with a...
Read moreReading Period: Apr 15 to Jun 1, Jun 25 to Aug 25, Sep 25 to Nov 30, Dec 20 to Feb 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Black Sun Lit is the publisher of digital vestiges, an online series of fragments and ephemera: poetry, fiction, hybrid works, translation, interviews with writers and artists, and short works of drama.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, TranslationSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Translation -
Diode Poetry Journal is looking for poetry that excites and energizes, that uses language that crackles and sparks. It is looking for poetry from all points on the arc, from formal to experimental.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Creative Nonfiction -
Disclaimer Magazine is a literary and visual arts magazine published by Write253 in Tacoma, Washington. Submissions are open year-round to writers and artists ages fifteen to twenty-two, and issues are curated by an all-teen editorial...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry -
Dishsoap is a nerdy, uncool, earnest magazine that wouldn’t wait three days to call you if it got your number. That’s too bad at math to care about measuring accolades against one another. That doesn’t have a type beyond TNR or maybe...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Poetry -
DMQ Review, one of the longest continuously running online journals in the nation, welcomes American and international voices from all cultural identities in the English language. Their current focus is the prose poem. They also feature...
Read moreReading Period: Apr 1 to Apr 30Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: PoetrySubgenres: BIPOC Voices, LGBTQ Voices, Magical Realism, Prose Poetry, Speculative Poetry -
The Dodge seeks your best work in eco-writing, writing about animals, and translation. They’re excited by a wide range of forms and approaches. Among other things, they’re interested in broadening the scope of stories, poems, and essays...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Now in its 23rd year, Dogwood seeks work that connects directly with readers. Judges for the competition have included former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, NEA Chairman Dana Gioia, and Oprah book club author A. Manette Ansay. Work...
Read moreReading Period: Jul 1 to Sep 5Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Door is a Jar literary magazine is looking for well-crafted poetry, fiction, nonfiction, drama, artwork, and book reviews. The publication steers away from academic writing and publishes short, conversational works that have cadence,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Flash Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, Visual Poetry
