Each issue of 3cents will rotate around a theme and will feature one poem, one short story or flash fiction piece, and one piece of creative nonfiction together as a mini collection built around that theme. While the authors each receive...
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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 Oct 1, Nov 1 to Jan 1, Feb 1 to Apr 1, Jun 1 to Aug 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
3Elements Literary Review is a quarterly, online literary journal founded in Chicago in 2013, now based in Des Moines, Iowa. It publishes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, and photography.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Flash Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, Prose Poetry -
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
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45th Parallel is an online Oregon-based literary magazine produced by graduate students at Oregon State University.
Reading Period: Aug 15 to Dec 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
86 Logic is a quarterly magazine representing artists with roots in the hospitality industry. It is made up of a team of veteran bartenders, servers, and hosts who love discovering how art and hospitality intersect. Submissions are open...
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The whole is a part and the part is a whole. The 100-word format forces the writer to question each word, to reckon with Flaubert’s mot juste in a way that even most flash fiction doesn’t. At the same time the brevity of the form allows the...
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Cofounded by Andrew Felsher and Yehui Zhao, 128 LIT is a reorienting place that confronts normative Eurocentric narratives and aesthetics. They’re committed to publishing bold and fearless poetry, translation, fiction, essays, hybrid...
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805 Lit + Art publishes debut and emerging writers, poets, photographers, and artists in their quarterly, online journal.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
#Ranger Magazine is dedicated to experimental art, poetry, music, and film. Their motto is “Art that’s not vanilla.” So-called “market forces” do not matter here. Thus, #Ranger is a subterranean thought experiment. They seek to...
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Flash fiction, poetry, mixed genre works, art/text and artwork. Tastes lean toward surreal, experimental, ambivalent, darkly lyrical, and wildly imaginative.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry -
aaduna seeks to identify new and emerging writers and visual artists who have a particular focus on redefining the landscape of their artform. Artists of color and those others who are traditionally underrepresented in the field are...
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Abandon Journal exists to showcase writing and artwork that has been created with abandon. The editors are open to hybrid work, genre, visual art, and more. Each issue showcases work that “abandons form,” and every other issue will be a...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 1 to Sep 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Able Muse predominantly publishes metrical poetry complemented by art and photography, fiction and nonfiction including essays, book reviews and interviews with a focus on metrical and formal poetry. They also welcome exceptional free...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Jul 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
About Place Journal is the literary publication of the Black Earth Institute. BEI is dedicated to art serving the causes of spirit, earth, and society. Issues are guest-edited by fellows of the Institute. Themes (titles of issues) are...
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The Acentos Review publishes poetry, fiction, memoir, interviews, translations, and artwork by emerging and established Latinx writers, artists, and creatives four times a year. It welcomes submissions in English, Spanish, Spanglish,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationGenres: Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Lyric Essay, Magical Realism, Micro-poetry, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Speculative Poetry, Translation, Visual Poetry -
The Acorn Review literary journal is a publication of Grossmont College in El Cajon, California. The journal publishes the fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, drama, and artwork of residents of San Diego County. In particular, the...
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Action, Spectacle is a biannual magazine based in Louisville, Kentucky, and Brooklyn. The magazine exists at the intersection of the socio-political, the cultural, and the arts—a public space for discussion and engagement. It puts a...
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Active Voice Magazine is a youth literary activism publication that aims to publish work addressing the pertinent social justice and political issues defining our time—and, in the process, inspire young people to fight for change.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Adanna publishes work about women’s issues or topics. Submissions for artwork, poetry, essay, and short fiction are accepted by both women and men. Their news feed is a new focus that looks for timely book reviews, interviews, and...
Read moreReading Period: Apr 1 to May 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Feminist -
Add to Cart Magazine seeks experimental, avant-garde, and challenging writing and art that pushes well beyond comfortable boundaries, whether they be of form, style, or thought. It is open to “neglected voices and forms.”
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
addanomadd is a collective interested in the exercise of post-human, nomadic writing. The name intends to infer what by nature reflects a circularity: the transhuman pace through this time and space as fugitives in search of...
Read moreReading Period: May 24 to Jun 24, Jul 25 to Sep 15, Sep 1 to Dec 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationGenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Translation -
The Adroit Journal is looking for work that’s bizarre, authentic, subtle, outrageous, indefinable, raw, paradoxical. The editors have their eyes on the horizon. Send them work that lives between the land and the sky.
Reading Period: Mar 15 to May 1, Sep 15 to Nov 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
After Dinner Conversation publishes short stories (1,500 to 7,000 words), of any genre, that ask interesting ethical and/or philosphical questions in a narrative format.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
After Happy Hour has two open calls from 11/1/24-1/31/25:
- 4th Annual Contest: “Food” is the theme, entry is $10
- Online issue: reprints from defunct markets only (free submissions)
See the website for...
Read moreReading Period: Nov 1 to Jan 31, Mar 1 to Apr 30, Jul 1 to Aug 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Afterpast Review is a feminist youth-led magazine providing a platform for underrepresented voices around the world. Through this outlet, the editors want to provide a space where an individual is able to freely represent themselves...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
