The mission of Ofi Press Magazine is to promote superb work from all over the world as well as translated work from Mexican poets.
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, Translation -
Old Pal is an online magazine based out of Portland, Oregon, since 2018. The magazine has published work that includes experimental writing, the hybrid genre, and critical inquiries from the Portland local community and beyond. It...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 24 to May 20, Sep 22 to Nov 15Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, TranslationSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, Humor, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Lyric Essay, Micro-poetry, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Serialized Fiction, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Speculative Poetry, Translation, Visual Poetry -
One publishes the best poetry from the highly celebrated (Pulitzer Prize & Macarthur Genius winners, National Book Award finalists) to the unknown. International (Ireland, Scotland, Lebanon, Nigeria, Ghana, India, etc.) but in the...
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One Forty Fiction always welcomes submissions from master craftspeople, journeymen, dilettantes, and amateurs—just make sure it’s a good story that has no more than 140 characters (spaces and punctuation included).
Stories have...
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One Wild Ride is a limited-run online literary journal with creative nonfiction, fiction, and hybrid short stories about caring for people’s aging parents and those who raised them.
Reading Period: Oct 1 to Oct 31Genre: Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Short Fiction -
Open Arts Forum features contemporary original poetry, fiction, art, music, photography, and multimedia.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Open Doors Review is a literary magazine based in Italy that publishes literary fiction, poetry, and thought-provoking essays in English or Italian. Whatever your connection to Italy (whether you live here, have Italian ancestry or...
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Founded in 2015, The Opiate is a quarterly literary magazine dedicated to publishing envelope-pushing work. It accepts both print and online submissions.
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Orca publishes short stories, flash fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. They dedicate one issue per year (June) to literary-speculative work. They are open to almost any topic, as long as it’s written in a literary style. They are committed...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Fiction, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Speculative Fiction -
Inspired by the small plot of apple trees near Cambridge, England where writers have gathered for years with their books and pens, the Orchards Poetry Journal is released biannually, in print and online. In each issue, the editors choose...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 15 to Jun 15, Sep 15 to Nov 15Genre: Poetry -
Oregon Humanities is a magazine about the experiences, ideas, and beliefs of Oregonians. In each issue, Oregon writers, artists, and readers explore diverse perspectives and challenging questions relating to the place we live and the...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 7 to Apr 24, Jul 1 to Aug 15, Nov 15 to Dec 20Genre: Creative Nonfiction -
Orion is a quarterly, ad-free literary magazine focusing on nature, culture, and place. It publishes essays, narrative nonfiction, poetry, and short fiction that address environmental and societal issues.
Reading Period: Jun 15 to Jun 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Oroboro is a literary journal published biannually by Death Rattle, aimed at publishing and promoting poets, authors, and artists.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Apr 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Other Journal welcomes the submission of critical essays, reviews, creative writing, and visual or performance art that encounter life through the lens of theology and culture; it seeks pieces that consider the interaction of faith...
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the other side of hope: journeys in refugee and immigrant literature is a UK-based literary magazine edited by refugees and immigrants.
Reading Period: Jan 15 to Apr 15, Jun 15 to Aug 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
OtherwiseMag publishes stories that speak the language of lived experience. This may be a biography, a portrait, an event, a situation, a historical moment, or an encounter. They expect stories to achieve depth, have narrative coherence...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Historical, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, LGBTQ Voices, Magical Realism, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Speculative Poetry, Visual Poetry -
Founded in 2009, Otis Nebula is an innovative micro press that showcases incandescent, substantial work that surprises itself. Though open to all forms, sub-forms, and hybrids, the primary focus is on poetry. Each issue features twelve...
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Overtime, a series of one-story chapbooks, was created to showcase some of the stories they receive that are a little too long for their Workers Write! series but are worthy of publication.
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The Oxford American is dedicated to featuring the very best in Southern writing while documenting the complexity and vitality of the American South.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Oxford Magazine, casually known as OxMag, is a literary and arts magazine edited and published by creative writing MFA students at Miami University. Since their premiere in 1984, the magazine has received Pushcart Prizes for...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 15 to Mar 15, Sep 15 to Oct 15Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Oxford Poetry is the oldest dedicated poetry magazine in the U.K., and one of the oldest in the world. Previous editors have included Kingsley Amis, W. H. Auden, Vera Brittain, Cecil Day-Lewis, Geoffrey Hill, Aldous Huxley, Louis...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 1 to Apr 30, Sep 1 to Nov 30Genre: Poetry, Translation -
The Oyez Review is the literary magazine of the creative writing program at Roosevelt University in Chicago. It is published annually, edited by a staff of MFA candidates under the direction of a faculty member with professional...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 14 to Dec 21Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry -
ORP publishes voices that speak to what it means to be alive in this world. The editors look for language and stories and images that move us out of themselves and into other spaces, as well as writers and artists who bring balance and...
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Pacifica Literary Review publishes poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction three times a year. Based in Seattle, it invites writers from all backgrounds, races, orientations, and occupations to send work.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Poetry -
The pacificREVIEW is an annual review of prose, poetry, and artwork on a given theme, published in affiliation with San Diego State University Press. For 2024-25, their co-editors are Robert Lang and Rema Shbaita.
Reading Period: Aug 1 to Mar 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
