Banshee is a print literary journal published twice a year—in spring and autumn—and features short stories, flash fiction, poetry, and personal essays.
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: Oct 1 to Oct 31, Mar 1 to Mar 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
The Banyan Review is an online, international journal promoting literary and visual art. It publishes two issues annually, and broadside pop-ups throughout the year.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationGenres: Fiction, Nature/Environmental, Nonfiction, Poetry -
The Barely South Review’s name refers to their unique location in the U.S. while highlighting the idiosyncratic blend of voices and histories that commingle there. If not impossible, they find it unwise to assert an exact “here” or “...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Nov 1, Jan 15 to Mar 15, Jun 1 to Jul 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Belle Ombre publishes fiction, poetry, art, and nonfiction, including essays, memoir, reportage, comedy, science, screenplays, scripts, biography, and academic research.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Jan 31, Jul 1 to Jul 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Bellingham Review publishes poetry, fiction, nonfiction, translations, and hybrid work on a now fully digital platform. Established in 1977, Bellingham Review has earned a reputation for publishing both established and emerging...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 15 to Dec 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Better Than Starbucks features outstanding poetry and fiction in many genres and many voices. Poetry includes free verse, haiku, formal poetry, prose poetry, form poetry, experimental poetry, sentimental poetry, and international poetry...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Bi Women Quarterly is a global grassroots publication produced by the Boston Bisexual Women’s Network. It has been in continuous publication since 1983, and is the oldest bisexual + women’s publication in the world, with global content...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Big Other welcomes submissions in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, lyric essay, art, video, short drama, and hybrid work from both established and emerging writers and artists. They are especially interested in experimental and innovative...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Founded in 1974, Black Warrior Review publishes contemporary fiction, poetry, and nonfiction by award-winning writers alongside work by new and emerging voices. Issues also feature art, comics, and a curated chapbook. Each summer reading...
Read moreReading Period: Jun 1 to Oct 1, Dec 1 to Mar 1, Apr 1 to May 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts offers visitors from around the world outstanding fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and reviews, as well as plays, visual art, new media, and video essays, which it presents in inventive...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 15 to May 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Bracken publishes fiction, poetry, and art. It seeks creative work that sets their sense of their nature resonating afresh with all nature. The aesthetic origins of Bracken are in the shadows of the woods.
Reading Period: Oct 1 to Nov 30Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, TranslationGenres: Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry -
Cagibi is invested in sharing the universal human experiences to be found in works of prose and poetry set within places unfamiliar to readers; thus, an expressed interest in international—or world—literature and works in translation. ...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
carte blanche believes there is more than one way to tell a story. Their mandate is to provide a venue for narrative of all forms. They accept previously unpublished works of fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, translations, comics,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 10 to Mar 10Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Carve, named in honor of Raymond Carver, publishes fiction, poetry, and nonfiction that respects the power of language and craft and elicits genuine emotional truths. The editors also strive to foster a sense of camaraderie among all...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Catamaran Literary Reader is a quarterly literary and visual arts journal. Catamaran features fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and fine art in a full size, full color magazine.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Chapter House is an online literary journal promoting the ideals and vision of the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) Low Residency MFA Program. It publishes either Winter/Summer or Fall/Spring.
While Chapter House...
Read moreReading Period: May 1 to Jul 1, Nov 1 to Jan 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationGenres: Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry -
Chicago Quarterly Review is an independent literary magazine honored by Best American Short Stories, the Pushcart Prize, Best American Essays, and O. Henry Prize stories, publishing fiction, poetry, essays and translations by new and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Chiron Review presents the widest possible range of contemporary creative writing—fiction and nonfiction, traditional and off-beat, in a perfect-bound, softcover format, including art and photography. It has published many well-known...
Read moreReading Period: Nov 1 to May 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Tight work which will leave a scar on a reader.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationGenres: Literary Fiction, Poetry -
Since its inception in 2003, the Cincinnati Review has published many promising new and emerging writers as well as Pulitzer Prize winners and Guggenheim and MacArthur fellows.
Reading Period: May 1 to May 31, Sep 1 to Sep 30, Dec 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Founded in 2013, Cleaver is Philadelphia’s international quarterly literary magazine. It publishes cutting-edge contemporary fiction, nonfiction, poetry, interviews, essays on craft and the writing life, and book reviews.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Colorado Review’s only commitment is to the publication of serious poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. It does not publish genre fiction nor do they subscribe to a particular literary philosophy or school of poetry or fiction. It is ...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 1 to Mar 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
The Common is a print and digital literary journal published biannually, in the fall and spring. Inspired by the role of the town common, a public gathering place for the display and exchange of ideas, The Common seeks to deepen...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 1 to Jun 1, Sep 1 to Dec 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Conjunctions serves as a “living notebook” of contemporary literature, publishing fiction, poetry, drama, art, and essays that combine visionary imagination with formally innovative execution. Since 1981, Conjunctions has...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Consequence addresses the human consequences and realities of war and geopolitical violence through literature and art, offering intellectual and emotional access to the experiences of combatants, victims, and witnesses. They provide the...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 15 to Apr 15, Jul 15 to Oct 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
