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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: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Red Branch Review is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and literary and visual art annual based in Knoxville, Tennessee. Red Branch seeks to bring to readers the kaleidoscope of human experience and was founded in response to the...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 15 to May 1Subgenres: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Poetry -
Red Wheelbarrow (since 2000), formerly Bottomfish, believes that everything that crosses the transom merits deep attention. It believes that beauty and meaning will inhabit wildly varied and unexpected tones and styles.
Reading Period: Sep 1 to Feb 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
For over a decade, Relief has helped shape the landscapes of faith and imagination for readers around the world. It features fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, graphic narrative, and reviews by some of today’s finest literary...
Read moreReading Period: Oct 1 to Mar 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Revolute is a digital literary magazine founded in 2019 by the Randolph College MFA program. Revolute is committed to publishing the most engaging writing possible and is further committed to publishing emerging writers from...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 15 to Dec 8Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Experimental, Fiction, Literary Fiction, Poetry, Speculative Poetry -
Rivanna Review is a print journal published four times a year in Charlottesville, Virginia, on the Rivanna River. The content is general interest: stories, essays, art, and book reviews. Photographs and drawings are...
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Roanoke Review publishes three to seven featured pieces every month—focusing primarily on poetry, creative nonfiction, fiction, flash, graphic narrative, and visual poetry.
On occasion, they review small press, literary books, or...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Dec 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Rumen is a collaboration between writers, poets, and artists from a variety of demographics and backgrounds. Like the guts of an ungulate, The Rumen is a space for ideas and experiences to digest, ferment, and transform.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Rumpus strives to be a platform for marginalized voices and writing that might not find a home elsewhere and to lift up new voices alongside those of more established writers they love.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Rundelania is the digital literary journal of the Arts and Literature Division, located within the Central Branch of the Rochester Public Library (NY). The journal is dedicated to the publication of original poetry and prose.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
