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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: Jun 1 to Apr 10Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Aeolian Harp Series is a special anthology series consisting of 10 folio sections for each poet with up to six pieces by each author, with a personal essay to spotlight each poet.
Reading Period: Jan 15 to Feb 28Genre: Poetry -
After Dinner Conversation publishes short stories (1,500 to 7,000 words), of any genre, that ask interesting ethical and/or philosphical questions in a narrative format.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Each year, After Happy Hour publishes two regular online issues (summer and fall/winter) and one themed contest issue, published in print every spring. The journal is open to work from any and all genres, including fiction, CNF, poetry,...
Read moreReading Period: Nov 15 to Feb 15, Mar 1 to Apr 30, Jul 1 to Aug 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
After the Art seeks personal review essays that explore the ways reading can enrich the experience of looking at art. Each essay must be about a piece of art as well as a written text.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Graphic/Illustrated, Nonfiction -
The Afterpast Review is a feminist youth-led magazine providing a platform for underrepresented voices around the world. Through this outlet, the editors want to provide a space where an individual is able to freely represent themselves...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
AGNI sees literature and the arts as integral to the broad, engaged conversation that underwrites a vital society. Their poets, storytellers, essayists, translators, and artists lift a mirror to nature and the social world. They seek...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Dec 15, Jan 15 to May 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Airplane Reading is a site that features nonfiction writing about air travel. Beyond throwaway entertainment or mere distraction, it sees airplane reading as a kind of storytelling that can animate, reflect on, and rejuvenate the...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir -
Alaska Quarterly Review (AQR) publishes fiction, short plays, poetry, photo essays, and literary non-fiction in traditional and experimental styles. Although AQR publishes established writers, most of the content comes...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 25 to Apr 8, Apr 29 to May 13, Jun 10 to Jun 24Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Albion Review is a national literary journal based out of Albion College in Michigan. Published annually since 2004, the Review features works of short fiction, poetry, essays, and visual art. The Review strives to...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Nov 18Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Experimental, Formal Poetry, Literary Fiction -
Alchemy publishes fresh, engaging textual and visual translations as well as experimental works that challenge the act of translation. Alchemy welcomes translations of poetry, prose, dramatic works/dialogues, letters, reviews, ...
Read moreReading Period: Oct 1 to Dec 15, Apr 1 to Jun 15Genre: Translation -
Allium, A Journal of Poetry & Prose is a multi-genre print and online publication. Allium publishes three issues per year: Spring print, Summer online, and Fall online. Allium publishes diverse creative voices,...
Read moreReading Period: Nov 15 to Jan 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
[Alternate Route] is a place for those who wander the path less beaten, for the modern beatnik. We publish poetry as well as flash fiction and occasional short stories. And don’t forget to send us your beautiful art!
Reading Period: Dec 1 to Jan 31, Mar 1 to Apr 30, Jun 1 to Jul 31, Sep 1 to Oct 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Formal Poetry -
American Chordata is a literary magazine based in Brooklyn, New York and dedicated to publishing great writing alongside art and photography. Their print issue is published every fall and features both emerging and established voices in...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 15 to Mar 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Publishing a broad range of poetry, translations, criticism, reviews, and interviews, The American Poetry Review is dedicated to reaching a worldwide audience with a diverse array of contemporary poetry and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
American Short Fiction’s mission is to be a diverse, inclusive, and discerning publisher of today’s best literary short fiction. ASF promotes the art form of the short story in a nationally distributed triquarterly print...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction -
Amsterdam Review is an online literary magazine publishing poetry (including translations), flash fiction, essays, interviews, reviews, and visual arts. The magazine publishes works by local and international contributors twice a year.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Translation -
Launched in March 2023, Anacapa Review is a new online poetry journal and an extension of Gunpowder Press, an independent poetry publisher founded by David Starkey in 2013. Starkey and coeditor Chryss Yost publish a carefully curated set...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
Started in August 2010, Anak Sastra Literary Magazine is a quarterly online publication which hopes to provide a venue for Southeast Asian writers to promote their writings in English. The magazine also encourages expats, tourists and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Angel Rust publishes exciting, challenging, and edgy work in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
ANGLES publishes creative writing and visual art by college-aged people with distinct perspectives. Edited by students at Saint John Fisher University, ANGLES prioritizes underrepresented voices, isn’t afraid to take risks, and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Flash Fiction, Lyric Essay, Poetry, Prose Poetry -
Anomaly is an international journal of literature and the arts. It provides a platform for works of art that challenge conventions of form and format, of voice and genre. Anomaly is committed to actively seeking out and...
Read moreReading Period: Nov 1 to Mar 1, Jun 1 to Sep 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Another Chicago Magazine seeks work that is urgent and beautiful, that was written with lightning and a sense that tomorrow may never come. The magazine loves work that is personal and political—political in the largest sense, as in...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Aug 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Erotica, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Historical, Humor, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Lyric Essay, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Regional, Serialized Fiction, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Translation, Visual Poetry, War -
Apocalypse Confidential is a web magazine of edgy extrapolations, fringe fascinations, occult obsessions, risky ruminations, and aberrant associations. It is a literary journal obsessed with the underworld, both demonological and...
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Apogee is a journal of literature and art that encourages the thoughtful exploration of identity and its intersections, including but not limited to: race, gender, sexuality, class, and ability. The magazine features fiction, nonfiction...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 1 to Mar 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Fiction, Flash Fiction, LGBTQ Voices, Poetry, Political
