Waccamaw is a graduate student and faculty collaboration featuring contemporary poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. The magazine is published online once a year, in the fall, by the Athenaeum Press at Coastal Carolina University....
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: Aug 1 to Sep 8Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
warning lines is an indie literary journal publishing fiction, nonfiction, and poetry with themes of Otherness, rebellion, Satanism, monstrosity, and other irreverences by queer, trans, and other marginalized creators.
Reading Period: Jul 1 to Jul 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Watershed Journal is always looking for storytellers in our region of the Pennsylvania Wilds to submit poetry, short stories, personal essays, local journalism, and storytelling photography or imagery.
Reading Period: Sep 5 to Sep 19, Nov 28 to Dec 12Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Wax Paper is a broadsheet publication open to all forms of written word, imagery, and collected conversation.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationGenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Commercial Fiction, Experimental, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Historical, Humor, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Love, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Regional, Translation, Young Adult -
The moon is dynamic, always moving forward, night after night, revitalizing life as it shifts through its phases, a vital piece of this evermoving universe. Work submitted here should represent this. It should move the editors. It should move...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Waxwing is a literary journal promoting the tremendous cultural diversity of contemporary American literature, alongside international voices in translation. The editors believe that American voices are, at their cores, both...
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At Wayfarer Books, the editors believe poetry is the language of the earth. They believe words, shaped like rivers through wild places, can change the shape of the world. They publish poets and writers and renegades who stand outside of...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Jan 31, Feb 1 to Jul 1Genre: Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
At Kennesaw State, Waymark is the English department’s undergraduate literary magazine. The publication is run by undergraduate students and welcomes submissions online from any undergraduate in the United States and its territories.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Waymark publishes short fiction, narrative nonfiction, poetry, and art from undergraduate students across North America. The Fall 2024 issue is themed “Campaign,” and Waymark is looking for works that convey the idea of an epic...
Read moreReading Period: Jul 1 to Dec 3Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Wayne Literary Review is a yearly literary journal published in Detroit, Michigan, by Wayne State Press. They publish writing that inspires, experiments, and pushes language in new and interesting directions. They are edited by Wayne...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 15 to Feb 20Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
WayWords is a quarterly literary journal that welcomes work from writers around the world in all stages of their writing career. Each issue invites writers to explore a different theme. Editors want to see fresh, inspiring pieces that...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Feb 20, Apr 1 to May 20, Jul 1 to Aug 20, Oct 1 to Nov 20Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Weber invites submissions in the genres of personal narrative, critical commentary, fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry that offer insight into the environment and culture (both broadly defined) of the contemporary western United...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Nature/Environmental, Regional -
Welter is an annual print literary magazine—originated in 1965—now produced by the MFA program at the University of Baltimore. Additional content is published online. As their name implies, they are looking for work that is provocative,...
Read moreReading Period: Oct 23 to Nov 6Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
West Branch is a a thrice-yearly magazine of poetry, fiction, essays, and reviews based at Bucknell University.
Reading Period: Aug 1 to Apr 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Translation -
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 moreReading Period: Apr 1 to Aug 1, Aug 15 to Dec 15, Jan 15 to Mar 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Westchester Review publishes quarterly, and welcomes submissions from a diverse range of established and emerging writers, especially those whose voices and perspectives have been historically underrepresented in the literary...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 15 to Jun 15, Oct 15 to Dec 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Whale Road Review publishes poetry, flash fiction, and micro essays that don’t demand too much time up front, but somehow leave readers changed.
Reading Period: Jun 1 to Jun 15, Dec 1 to Dec 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Whimperbang invites the submission of serious, directed artistic expressions that reflect or comment upon today’s world.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Cross-genre -
Whitefish Review is a nationally acclaimed journal that celebrates wild rivers, mountains, and the wide-open spaces of Montana and beyond to help create a more sustainable world through the power of art and literature. Whitefish...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Mar 31, Jul 1 to Sep 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
An online literary and poetry journal since 2007, Why Vandalism? features poetry and prose, new writing, speculative fiction, fantasy, science fiction, horror, experimental and sound art, curated from international contributors.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Wild Garlic is a triannual online literary journal produced by the Brooklyn Women’s Writing Group. It publishes women-identified writers from all over. It features courageous, wild writing of all genres. It fosters the full range of voices...
Read moreReading Period: Oct 1 to Nov 1, Jun 1 to Jul 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
The Wilderness House Literary Review is a publication devoted to excellence in literature and the arts.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Wildness is an online literary journal that publishes contemporary fiction, poetry, and narrative nonfiction. Founded in 2015, each thoughtfully compiled issue strives to unearth new work from both established and up-and-coming writers...
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Since 1977, Willow Springs has published the finest in contemporary fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, as well as interviews with notable authors including Marilynne Robinson, Stuart Dybek, Aimee Bender, Robert Wrigley, Joyce Carol Oates,...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to May 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
wind-up mice wants to publish distinct voices, unforgettable imagery, your experiments. They love blending forms until they are unrecognizable. They seek the intimate, the mystical within mundanity. Give them your thoughts on the evening...
Read moreReading Period: Jun 15 to Aug 15Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
