Now in its 23rd year, Dogwood seeks work that connects directly with readers. Judges for the competition have included former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, NEA Chairman Dana Gioia, and Oprah book club author A. Manette Ansay. Work...
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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: Jul 1 to Sep 5Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Door is a Jar literary magazine is looking for well-crafted poetry, fiction, nonfiction, drama, artwork, and book reviews. The publication steers away from academic writing and publishes short, conversational works that have cadence,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Flash Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, Visual Poetry -
Doubly Mad takes its title from the poem “Listening” by Robert Bly: “because the world is mad, / the only way through the world is to learn the arts / and double the madness.” It is interested not only in emotionally powerful work, but...
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Dream Noir is a magazine for all the appreciation art has to offer. This platform was founded in 2018 to promote artistic expression, enhancing the creativity of artists of all types, especially, marginalized voices.
Reading Period: Aug 1 to Oct 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Dreamers Magazine is published triannually and sent to hundreds of subscribers across North America and Europe.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Fiction, Flash Fiction, Healing/Health, Literary Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry -
John Updike once said, “Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.” Driftwood Press is actively searching for artists who care about doing it...
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Drunk Monkeys is a literary magazine and film blog founded in 2011 featuring short stories, flash fiction, poetry, film articles, movie reviews, and more.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Feb 28Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Northern Michigan’s premier independent literary journal, Dunes Review publishes two volumes of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction per year. Work originally published in Dunes Review has appeared in The Pushcart Prize: Best of...
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The Ear publishes written and visual art that captures the attention and encourages imagination. They love to amplify the voices of people traditionally underrepresented in the publishing industry.
Reading Period: Sep 30 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Feminist, Fiction, LGBTQ Voices, Poetry, Short Fiction -
Earth’s Daughters is a feminist literary and arts periodical published in Buffalo, New York. It is believed to be the oldest extant feminist arts periodical, having been published continuously since 1971.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genres: Prose Poetry -
Eastern Iowa Review especially likes lyric essays and prose poetry, but check their guidelines for genres accepted during specific reading periods. They have occasional print issues every few years, usually as a collection of select...
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This magazine is for bilingual (and trilingual) readers and writers. All texts on this site are published with translations—into English if the text is in Russian or Ukrainian, and into Russian or Ukrainian if the text is in English.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Each issue of Ecotone brings together the literary and scientific, the personal and biological, the urban and rural.
Reading Period: Aug 29 to Aug 31, Sep 1 to Sep 5, Jan 26 to Jan 31, Feb 1 to Feb 6, Feb 14 to Feb 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Nature/Environmental -
The Ekphrastic Review is an online journal devoted entirely to writing inspired by visual art. Their objective is to promote ekphrastic writing, promote art appreciation, and experience how the two strengthen each other and bring...
Read moreReading Period: Apr 1 to Apr 30, Jul 1 to Jul 31, Oct 1 to Oct 31, Jan 1 to Jan 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Élan international student literary magazine accepts original fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, screenwriting, and plays from students currently enrolled in grades nine through 12. The editors seek original...
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Recommended Reading, a magazine by Electric Literature, publishes one story a week: a piece of original fiction, or a story chosen by today’s best authors or editors. Each issue includes a personal foreword by that week’s editor...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 7 to Mar 13, Sep 26 to Oct 2Genre: FictionGenres: Literary Fiction -
Embark is a literary journal designed for novelists, featuring exclusively the beginnings of as-yet-unpublished novels. It is released twice annually, and each issue features a range of genres, including literary dramas, mysteries,...
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eMerge Online Literary Magazine seeks avant-garde poetry and short fiction that pushes boundaries. eMerge value works that prompt readers to perceive aspects of humanity in novel and enlightening ways, encouraging a fresh...
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Emergent Literary is an assemblage of black and brown work. To the editors, Emergent refers to urgency, immediacy, inception and birth, beginning, forefront, and now. It also refers to the philosophy of emergence as interreliant...
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Eoagh is dedicated to the idea of reading as a process, the productive chaos of investigative poetic work. It seeks to foreground the writing of experimental women, trans, feminist, BIPOC, antiracist, LGBT, and queer authors. It seeks...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 17 to Mar 17Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationGenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Cross-genre, Erotica, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Healing/Health, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Religious/Spiritual, Serialized Fiction, Translation -
Epiphany publishes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and art from both established and emerging writers and artists.
Reading Period: Nov 1 to Dec 15, May 8 to Jun 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Poetic discourse idioms. Eratio has a new look and a new policy: Eratio no longer publishes issues. Rather, as works are accepted, so they will appear. New work appears two or three times a week or as accepted.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationGenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Fiction, Flash Fiction, LGBTQ Voices, Micro-poetry, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Translation -
escarp explores the potential of super-brief literature.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Flash Fiction, Micro-poetry -
Eucalyptus Lit is a quarterly magazine of poetry, prose, and artwork. They are looking for searing, electric work that plays with language in beautiful ways. Send them your love for words, in whatever form that manifests. They’re a fan...
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Eunoia Review is a Singapore-based online literary journal committed to sharing the fruits of “beautiful thinking.” Each day, it publishes two new pieces of writing for your reading pleasure. The editor believes that Eunoia Review...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationGenres: BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Lyric Essay, Magical Realism, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Speculative Poetry, Translation, Visual Poetry
