The Racket Journal is a weekly online literary journal. The editors want to promote the work of up-and-coming, emerging, established, and never-before-seen writers from around the country.
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 Nonfiction -
Radon Journal is a triannual publisher of prose and poetry relating to science fiction, anarchism, transhumanism, and cyberpunk dystopia. It is a paying market publishing quality literature every January, May, and September. Pay rates...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genres: Political, Speculative Fiction, Speculative Poetry -
Calls (Sub window):
- RADICAL JOY (closes July 31)
- Books on Books | Connections | THE FICTION THAT CHANGED ME (closes July 31)
Calls (Always Open):
- Write Here, Write Now
- Writers on...
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Roanoke Review publishes three to seven featured pieces every month—focusing primarily on poetry, creative nonfiction, fiction, flash, graphic narrative, and visual poetry.
On occasion, they review small press, literary books, or...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Dec 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Rumen is a collaboration between writers, poets, and artists from a variety of demographics and backgrounds. Like the guts of an ungulate, The Rumen is a space for ideas and experiences to digest, ferment, and transform.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
