Subgenres: Short Fiction

Alternating Current Press

Alternating Current Press is an indie press dedicated to publishing and promoting incredible literature that challenges readers and has an innate sense of self, timelessness, and atmosphere. The editors love science, history, homebound roots,... Read more

Reading Period: 
Jan 1 to Dec 31
Genres Published: 
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation

Crashtest

Crashtest is an biannual online magazine founded and run by the creative writing students at the Fine Arts Center, a public arts high school in Greenville, South Carolina, so that students in high schools all over the country will have a... Read more

Reading Period: 
Jan 1 to Dec 31
Genres Published: 
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction

Read Furiously

Read Furiously wants to create a new generation of readers—furious readers—who view reading as a necessary part to living in this busy world. They publish original prose, graphic novels, and poetry from a diverse cross section of authors in hopes... Read more

Reading Period: 
Jan 1 to Dec 31
Genres Published: 
Fiction, Creative Nonfiction

Raising Mothers

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  • Radical Joy (closes July 31) 
  • Books on Books; Connections; The Fiction That Changed Me (closes July 31)

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  • Write Here, Write Now  
  • Writers on Writers...
Reading Period: 
Jan 1 to Dec 31
Genres Published: 
Fiction, Creative Nonfiction

WTAW Press

WTAW Press is an independent, nonprofit literary press devoted to discovering and publishing enduring literary works. WTAW publishes a carefully curated list of titles across a range of genres (literary fiction, narrative nonfiction, essay, and... Read more

Reading Periods: 
Dec 1 to Dec 31
Sep 30 to Dec 31
Genres Published: 
Fiction, Creative Nonfiction

Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine

Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine’s primary interest is quality. It welcomes submissions in any and all forms, genres, styles, and approaches in written word and image and encourages innovation as well as tradition. Read more

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Reading Periods: 
Feb 1 to Jun 15
Aug 1 to Dec 15
Genres Published: 
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation

Wising Up Press

Wising Up Press is a press with a clear social mission, fostering an appreciation of the rewards and challenges of pluralism at every level in society, and, most importantly, an interest in the role that art, particularly story, can play in... Read more

Reading Period: 
Jan 1 to Dec 31
Genres Published: 
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction

Autumn House Press

Autumn House Press is a nationally renowned nonprofit publisher based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, whose mission is to publish and promote poetry and other fine literature. The press believes literature is an affirmation of the... Read more

Reading Periods: 
Jan 1 to Feb 28
Mar 1 to Apr 30
May 1 to Jun 30
Aug 15 to Nov 15
Genres Published: 
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction

West Trade Review

West Trade Review strives to put forth the best contemporary poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction (memoir/personal essays) and publishes a mix of established and up-and-coming writers. It is committed to the principles of diversity,... Read more

Reading Periods: 
Apr 1 to Aug 1
Aug 15 to Dec 15
Jan 15 to Mar 15
Genres Published: 
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction

Black Fox Literary Magazine

The aim of Black Fox is to publish both established and new writers. We welcome all fiction, but we especially like fiction from underrepresented genres and styles, including YA. We are also interested in creative nonfiction, poetry,... Read more

Reading Periods: 
Jan 1 to May 31
Jul 1 to Nov 30
Genres Published: 
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction

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