The MacGuffin is an international publication based out of Schoolcraft College, a two-year community college in Livonia, Michigan. Published trianually, their staff seeks to feature a diverse array of voices and styles, from...
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Reading Period: Sep 1 to Jun 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
MacQueen’s Quinterly (also known as MacQ) is a smorgasbord of memorable works of art and literature, in multiple genres and short-forms: prose poetry; flash and microfiction; essays and creative nonfiction; photographs, drawings...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 20 to Mar 26, Jul 7 to Jul 16, Nov 7 to Nov 16Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Maine Review is a biannual online literary journal that publishes culturally significant and innovative writing by writers living in Maine, across the country, and around the world. Maine Review Publications is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Mar 31, May 1 to Jul 31, Sep 1 to Nov 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Malahat Review is among Canada’s leading literary journals. Published quarterly, it features contemporary works of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction by emerging and established writers from around the world. TMR is a...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Mannequin haus publishes experimental fiction, video art, gif, scanner art, photography, painting, collage, print, comics, scribbles, found art, interviews and reviews. Anything submitted with surreal, descriptive, textural and original...
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The Mantelpiece is a monthly literary journal, featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, travel writing, book reviews, light verse, and poetry.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
MASKS Literary Magazine is a Weisman Award-winning print and online journal based out of the Columbia College Chicago Aesthetics of Research. It provides a space to showcase new and unexpected perspectives. It sponsors contests and...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 15 to Mar 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Massachusetts Review is an independent quarterly journal of literature, the arts, and public affairs. MR has deep local roots but an international scope, with an emphasis on work that provokes debate, challenges ideology,...
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The Masters Review publishes new and emerging writers and is open to any writer who does not have a novel under contract with a major press. Stories are published online and in print.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Maudlin House is a new kind of publishing house for the twenty-first century. They want to challenge your perspectives, help you find your inner poet, expand your empathy, and take you to places you’ve never been. They’re devoted to...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genres: Experimental, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Pop Culture -
Memorious publishes poetry and fiction by emerging and established writers. The magazine also collaborates with the Chicago Organization Singers On New Ground for an annual art song contest, in which a guest composer selects a poem to...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 1 to Jun 1Genres: Literary Fiction -
Each issue of Menagerie Magazine is a curated exhibit of poems, fictions, and hybrid works that deserve the close attention of a small stage. Like a Joseph Cornell shadow box, the editors bring together a mixture of things found and made...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 1 to May 31, Sep 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Literary Fiction, Lyric Essay, Poetry -
MER - Mom Egg Review publishes an annual print journal and a quarterly online magazine featuring sharp, articulate, inventive work by mother writers and by others about mothers and motherhood. MER writers explore diverse experiences...
Read moreReading Period: Apr 22 to Jul 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Founded in 1998, Meridian has featured the works of numerous Pulitzer Prize winners, National Book Award winners, and established writers. However, as a magazine edited by young writers, we value nothing more than showcasing tomorrow’s...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 15 to Jan 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Literary Fiction -
The Metaworker is an online literary magazine where great stories are forged. Their mission is to publish great things to read and the editors are interested in stories, poems, and art that have new, interesting perspectives or...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Magical Realism, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Speculative Poetry, Visual Poetry -
midnight & indigo is a literary magazine dedicated to celebrating the voices of Black women writers worldwide. In addition to our tri-annual anthologies and a literary journal, we publish works online, facilitate...
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Midway Journal accepts submissions of aesthetically ambitious work that occupies the realms between both the traditional and experimental.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Midwest Review looks for well-crafted, thoughtful, and thought-provoking writing and visual art that examines, interprets, and redefines the full spectrum of life, past and present, in the Midwest. The Midwest is the region of the north...
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Midwest Weird is an audio literary magazine featuring weird fiction and nonfiction by Midwestern writers.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Miracle Monocle is an online journal of innovative literary and visual art. Published biannually, the journal features poems, short stories, literary nonfiction, reviews and interviews, and a broad range of experimental works.
Reading Period: Aug 1 to Aug 31, Jan 1 to Jan 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationGenres: Experimental, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry -
Mithila Review is an international speculative arts and culture magazine. It is open to original submissions as well as translations from around the world. Along with original speculative fiction and poetry, it will host reviews,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Momentist is looking for fiction (under 7,000 words), poetry, critical essays, and translations.
The journal name comes from something once said by Harold Brodkey: “The reader in his or her life has more access to the real...
Read moreReading Period: Jul 5 to Aug 23Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Experimental, Literary Fiction, Translation -
MORIA is a national online literary magazine with an all-student editorial board, based at Woodbury University in greater Los Angeles. It accepts poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction from emerging and established writers in the...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 30 to Oct 1, Jan 15 to Mar 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Moss is a literary journal of writing from the Pacific Northwest. Published annually, Moss is dedicated to exploring the intersection of place and creative expression, while exposing the region’s outstanding writers to a broad...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 1 to Jan 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
An international art and literature magazine that features witty, irreverant, and moving poetry and fiction from established and up-and-coming authors, as well as interviews with the likes of Billy Collins, Eimear McBride, and DBC Pierre.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenres: Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry
