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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 NonfictionSubgenres: Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Poetry
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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...
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The Ear publishes written and visual art that captures the attention and encourages imagination. They love to amplify the voices of people traditionally underrepresented in the publishing industry.
Reading Period: Sep 30 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Feminist, Fiction, LGBTQ Voices, Poetry, Short Fiction -
This magazine is for bilingual (and trilingual) readers and writers. All texts on this site are published with translations — into English if the text is in Russian or Ukrainian, and into Russian or Ukrainian if the text is in English.
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Élan international student literary magazine accepts original fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, screenwriting, and plays from students currently enrolled in grades nine through 12. The editors seek original...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 1 to Oct 1, Jan 1 to Feb 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Young Adult -
eMerge Online Literary Magazine seeks avant-garde poetry and short fiction that pushes boundaries. eMerge value works that prompt readers to perceive aspects of humanity in novel and enlightening ways, encouraging a fresh...
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Emergent Literary is an assemblage of black and brown work. To the editors, Emergent refers to urgency, immediacy, inception and birth, beginning, forefront, and now. It also refers to the philosophy of emergence as interreliant...
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Eunoia Review is a Singapore-based online literary journal committed to sharing the fruits of “beautiful thinking.” Each day, it publishes two new pieces of writing for your reading pleasure. The editor believes that Eunoia Review...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Lyric Essay, Magical Realism, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Speculative Poetry, Translation, Visual Poetry -
The Exacting Clam is a quarterly magazine of arts and ideas, brought to you by Sagging Meniscus Press.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Creative Nonfiction, Experimental, Fiction, Poetry -
At Five South, we amplify diverse voices and narratives that challenge convention and explore the intricacies of the human experience. We seek emotionally resonant, thought-provoking, and innovative submissions, whether they push the boundaries...
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Send 2-227 poems, 2-953 paintings, or a 12-inch sandwich to: fowlpoxpress@planetmail.net. Address to Virgil Kay, Editor, Rooster, and Chicken Coop Habitué.
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Full Bleed exists to cultivate that fertile ground where the visual and literary arts intersect. The editors are happy to consider criticism, belle-lettres, visual art, illustration, fiction, poetry, and...
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Gavialidae is a print literary periodical published annually seeking poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction, and plays.
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For creative nonfiction, Glacial Hills Review wants to see creative personal stories that reflect one’s own personal experiences in such a way that they provoke understanding in discerning readers. We also accept scholarly...
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Glassworks is a publication of Rowan University’s Master of Arts in Writing program. In addition to providing opportunities for graduate students to participate as literary citizens, Glassworks publishes literary work from both...
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The Good Life Review is an online literary journal that provides a beautiful and equitable platform for writers and artists to showcase and share their poetry, prose, and art. We want to foster a positive and inclusive literary community...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Humor, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Magical Realism, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Nonfiction, Poetry, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Regional, Short Fiction, Translation -
The Headlight Review features new creative writing that demonstrates the persistent value of imaginative literature. The editors seek submissions that push the boundaries of form, langauge, plot, character, and prosody, especially from...
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Heart of Flesh is a semiannual literary journal that seeks quality writing and art with Christian themes.
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Hemlock Journal’s focus is on the quality of the submissions regardless of the background of the writers or the poets. The editors believe literature belongs to all and must empower each and everyone.
Reading Period: Jul 1 to Aug 31, Dec 1 to Jan 31, Apr 1 to May 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, Historical, Humor, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Love, Lyric Essay, Magical Realism, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Serialized Fiction, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Speculative Poetry, Translation, Visual Poetry, Young Adult -
Humana Obscura is looking for poetry that is accessible, prose that is poetic, and artwork of the natural world that will wow them. They seek work that is nuanced, raw, and imagistic with strong elements of the natural world or hints to...
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Humphrey Magazine, “a magazine of decadent whimsy” is a biannual theme-focused magazine founded by Humphrey Higgins The Cat. For upcoming themes, check the website. Strong adherence to theme will determine publication. All styles of...
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Hunger Mountain is created by the faculty and students in the Writing Program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. The editors share VCFA’s belief that the arts are central to the human experience and have the ability not only to reflect...
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Ilanot Journal publishes experimental as well as traditional work in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, hybrid literature, interviews, and graphic literature/art. It especially encourages translations.
Each issue is themed and edited by...
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Image fosters contemporary art and writing that grapple with the mystery of being human by curating, cultivating, convening, and celebrating work that explores religious faith and spiritual questions.
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Indelible is a literary journal reaching out to a broader community of writers, both established and emerging. The journal seeks to publish works from distinguished writers and artists with strong voices and literary/artistic convictions...
Read moreReading Period: Dec 7 to Jan 31, Feb 1 to May 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction