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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 NonfictionGenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry -
aaduna seeks to identify new and emerging writers and visual artists who have a particular focus on redefining the landscape of their artform. Artists of color and those others who are traditionally underrepresented in the field are...
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Abandon Journal exists to showcase writing and artwork that has been created with abandon. The editors are open to hybrid work, genre, visual art, and more. Each issue showcases work that “abandons form,” and every other issue will be a...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 1 to Sep 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Able Muse predominantly publishes metrical poetry complemented by art and photography, fiction and nonfiction including essays, book reviews and interviews with a focus on metrical and formal poetry. They also welcome exceptional free...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Jul 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
About Place Journal is the literary publication of the Black Earth Institute. BEI is dedicated to art serving the causes of spirit, earth, and society. Issues are guest-edited by fellows of the Institute. Themes (titles of issues) are...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Mar 10, Jun 1 to Aug 10Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Acentos Review publishes poetry, fiction, memoir, interviews, translations, and artwork by emerging and established Latinx writers, artists, and creatives four times a year. It welcomes submissions in English, Spanish, Spanglish,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationGenres: Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Lyric Essay, Magical Realism, Micro-poetry, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Speculative Poetry, Translation, Visual Poetry -
The Acorn Review literary journal is a publication of Grossmont College in El Cajon, California. The journal publishes the fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, drama, and artwork of residents of San Diego County. In particular, the...
Read moreReading Period: Jul 30 to Jan 17Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Acorn is a biannual journal dedicated to publishing the best of contemporary English-language haiku. In particular, it showcases the individual poem and the ability of haiku to reveal the extraordinary moments found in everyday life.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Feb 28, Jul 1 to Aug 31Genre: PoetryGenres: Micro-poetry -
Action, Spectacle is a biannual magazine based in Louisville, Kentucky, and Brooklyn. The magazine exists at the intersection of the socio-political, the cultural, and the arts—a public space for discussion and engagement. It puts a...
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Active Voice Magazine is a youth literary activism publication that aims to publish work addressing the pertinent social justice and political issues defining our time—and, in the process, inspire young people to fight for change.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Adanna publishes work about women’s issues or topics. Submissions for artwork, poetry, essay, and short fiction are accepted by both women and men. Their news feed is a new focus that looks for timely book reviews, interviews, and...
Read moreReading Period: Apr 1 to May 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Feminist -
Add to Cart Magazine seeks experimental, avant-garde, and challenging writing and art that pushes well beyond comfortable boundaries, whether they be of form, style, or thought. It is open to “neglected voices and forms.”
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
addanomadd is a collective interested in the exercise of post-human, nomadic writing. The name intends to infer what by nature reflects a circularity: the transhuman pace through this time and space as fugitives in search of...
Read moreReading Period: May 24 to Jun 24, Jul 25 to Sep 15, Sep 1 to Dec 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationGenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Translation -
The Adroit Journal is looking for work that’s bizarre, authentic, subtle, outrageous, indefinable, raw, paradoxical. We've got our eyes on the horizon. Send us work that lives between the land and the sky.
Reading Period: Mar 15 to May 1, Sep 15 to Nov 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
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 -
After Happy Hour has two open calls from 11/1/24-1/31/25:
- 4th Annual Contest: "Food" is the theme, entry is $10
- Online issue: Reprints from defunct markets only (free submissions)
See the website for...
Read moreReading Period: Nov 1 to Jan 31, 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 NonfictionGenres: 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...
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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 NonfictionGenres: 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 NonfictionGenres: 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 -
A literary magazine dedicated to all things strange and beautiful.
Think: secrets in exchange for stories, children born as bears, houses coming to life at night, singing love songs to the earth, praying to Birds...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 23 to Nov 11, Sep 30 to Apr 14Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Historical, Humor, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Lyric Essay, Magical Realism, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Speculative Poetry, Visual Poetry, Young Adult
