Earth’s Daughters is a feminist literary and arts periodical published in Buffalo, New York. It is believed to be the oldest extant feminist arts periodical, having been published continuously since 1971.
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 31Subgenres: Prose Poetry
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Eastern Iowa Review especially likes lyric essays and prose poetry, but check their guidelines for genres accepted during specific reading periods. They have occasional print issues every few years, usually as a collection of select...
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Eastern Structures picks up where Contemporary Ghazals left off, publishing English-language examples of the Middle Eastern form, but now also Korean sijo and Japanese tanka—the latter rendered exclusively in the five-seven-five...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Formal Poetry -
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.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Each issue of Ecotone brings together the literary and scientific, the personal and biological, the urban and rural.
Reading Period: Aug 29 to Aug 31, Sep 1 to Sep 5, Jan 26 to Jan 31, Feb 1 to Feb 6, Feb 14 to Feb 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Nature/Environmental -
The Ekphrastic Review is an online journal devoted entirely to writing inspired by visual art. Their objective is to promote ekphrastic writing, promote art appreciation, and experience how the two strengthen each other and bring...
Read moreReading Period: Apr 1 to Apr 30, Jul 1 to Jul 31, Oct 1 to Oct 31, Jan 1 to Jan 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
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 -
Recommended Reading, a magazine by Electric Literature, publishes one story a week: a piece of original fiction, or a story chosen by today’s best authors or editors. Each issue includes a personal foreword by that week’s editor...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 7 to Mar 13, Sep 26 to Oct 2Genre: FictionSubgenres: Literary Fiction -
Poetry of pleasure, delight, wonder, and joy!
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
Embark is a literary journal designed for novelists, featuring exclusively the beginnings of as-yet-unpublished novels. It is released twice annually, and each issue features a range of genres, including literary dramas, mysteries,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: FictionSubgenres: Commercial Fiction, Fiction, Historical, Literary Fiction, Speculative Fiction -
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...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Fiction, Lyric Essay, Poetry, Pop Culture, Short Fiction, Visual Poetry -
The editors want to highlight voices that are rich with expression / language that is playful and impactful / and imagery that is evocative and unexpected.
Reading Period: Dec 1 to Dec 30Genre: Poetry -
Eoagh is dedicated to the idea of reading as a process, the productive chaos of investigative poetic work. It seeks to foreground the writing of experimental women, trans, feminist, BIPOC, antiracist, LGBT, and queer authors. It seeks...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 17 to Mar 17Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Cross-genre, Erotica, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Healing/Health, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Religious/Spiritual, Serialized Fiction, Translation -
Epiphany publishes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and art from both established and emerging writers and artists.
Reading Period: Nov 1 to Dec 15, May 8 to Jun 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Equatorial is an international curation of unique, polished poetry. Send us your lush. Your arid. Your centered or spinning.
Reading Period: Feb 1 to May 31, Aug 1 to Nov 30Genre: Poetry -
Poetic discourse idioms. Eratio has a new look and a new policy: Eratio no longer publishes issues. Rather, as works are accepted, so they will appear. New work appears two or three times a week or as accepted.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Fiction, Flash Fiction, LGBTQ Voices, Micro-poetry, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Translation -
escarp explores the potential of super-brief literature.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Flash Fiction, Micro-poetry -
Eucalyptus Lit is a quarterly magazine of poetry, prose, and artwork. They are looking for searing, electric work that plays with language in beautiful ways. Send them your love for words, in whatever form that manifests. They’re a fan...
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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 -
Euphony welcomes submissions of unpublished poetry, fiction, essays, reviews, and creative nonfiction. The writing ranges from University of Chicago students to authors around the country (and internationally), professional to first-time...
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The Evening Universe is an independent, international literary magazine of horror, science fiction, and fantasy. It publishes poetry, fiction, two-sentence stories, and nonfiction.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
For 52 years, EVENT has published the very best in contemporary new poetry and prose. It is one of Western Canada’s longest-running literary magazines and welcomes submissions written in English from around the world. Each issue of ...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 1 to Sep 30, Dec 1 to Jan 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Every Day Fiction is an online magazine that specializes in bringing you fine fiction in bite-sized doses. Every day, they publish a new flash fiction story (1,000 words or fewer), perfect for your coffee break, your commute, or whenever...
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Evocations Review publishes work that addresses feminism, queer topics, pop culture, politics, mindfulness, and environmentalism. Evocations is dedicated to publishing works featuring non-mainstream, non-patriarchal, LGBTQ+, POC...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 1 to May 31, Aug 8 to Oct 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Feminist, Graphic/Illustrated, LGBTQ Voices, Nature/Environmental, Political, Pop Culture