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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: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Flash Fiction, Magical Realism, Micro-poetry, Poetry, Short Fiction -
Wyldcraft is a grassroots, female-run literary magazine. The editors think of themselves as foragers, going out into the wild to find and elevate emerging literary voices. They’re committed to lowering the traditional barriers of entry...
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Yalobusha Review is a journal of new writing, founded in 1995 and operated by the graduate writing program at the University of Mississippi.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Subgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry -
Yellow Arrow Journal is a biannual publication of creative nonfiction, poetry, and cover art by writers/artists who identify as women.
Reading Period: Feb 1 to Feb 28, Aug 1 to Aug 31Genre: Poetry, Creative Nonfiction -
Yellow Medicine Review is an international journal of indigenous literature, art, and thought. It includes the work of both renowned and emerging writers, artists, and scholars and is published twice a year in spring and fall.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Prose Poetry -
Young Ravens Literary Review is a biannual online literary journal. It accepts material from both new and established writers and artists.
Reading Period: Feb 1 to Jun 15, Sep 10 to Dec 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Your Impossible Voice publishes brash and velvety new work from around the globe, including fiction, poetry, nonfiction, translations, literary reviews, essays, excerpts, art, and interviews.
- We are most interested in voice-...
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Zaum is a student-run print and web literary magazine out of the English Department at Sonoma State University, publishing dynamic and innovative works by emerging student writers from across the country and beyond. To submit, you must...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Oct 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Zhagaram Literary Magazine, founded in Bengaluru, is a publication aimed at publishing culturally-rooted literature and art. Zhagaram seeks mythologies, unwritten histories, and generational curses whispered in between the lines...
Read moreReading Period: May 31 to Aug 31, Nov 1 to Jan 31Genre: Poetry -
Zone 3 publishes fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction in a wide variety of aesthetics from both emerging and established writers.
Reading Period: Aug 1 to Apr 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
ZYZZYVA is an award-winning independent San Francisco literary journal publishing fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and vart by the best writers, poets, translators, and artists from the Bay Area, California, the West Coast—and beyond. 2025...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to May 31, Sep 1 to Nov 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Literary Fiction -
antiphony press is a home for the best in experimental poetry-broadly defined. Reviews. Book series launches summer 2024.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Experimental
