Southeast Review is a nationally acclaimed literary magazine, first established in 1979 as Sundog, that gives voice to underrepresented and emerging writers on the same stage as well-established ones. They publish fiction, nonfiction,...
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Reading Period: Jan 1 to Jun 1, Aug 1 to Jan 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationGenres: Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Fiction, Flash Fiction, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Lyric Essay, Magical Realism, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Speculative Poetry, Translation, Visual Poetry, Young Adult
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Our summer issue is composed of prizewinning entries from our Gregory O'Donoghue International Poetry Competition, Southword Editor's Poetry Award, Seán O'Faoláin International Short Story Competition, and Subscriber Poetry & Flash Fiction...
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Based out of the English department at Washington University in St. Louis, The Spectacle is committed to publishing work from underrepresented voices, including BIPOC, women, people from LGBTQIA+ communities, and people who have...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 15 to Oct 15, Jan 15 to Feb 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Split Rock Review is a not-for-profit publication run by volunteers that love literature, art, and the wilderness. Our mission is to publish the best literature and art that explore place, environment, and the relationship between humans...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Jan 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Spry is a literary journal that features undiscovered and established writers’ concise, experimental, hybrid, modern, vintage or just plain vulnerable writing. This is a place for people who excel at taking risks, who thrive under...
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Star 82 Review is a full-color, online and print magazine. Each issue may feature microfiction and creative nonfiction, erasure texts, narrative art, word and image, and poetry, including haibun and prose. Think of gentle works filled...
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Still Point Arts Quarterly has a clear focus on nature, art, and spirit as it explores a unique theme with each issue. The publication has been praised for its rich content and splendid layout and design. Intended for art and literary...
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Stoneboat is an online, independent journal of literature and arts dedicated to publishing quality fiction, nonfiction, memoir, poetry, artwork, and graphic literature. It strives to showcase outstanding and diverse work from both...
Read moreReading Period: Jun 15 to Sep 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Stonecoast Review is a literary arts journal edited by alumni and students from University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing. It welcomes creative nonfiction, fiction (literary, general, and pop/genre),...
Read moreReading Period: Jul 20 to Oct 1, Feb 1 to Apr 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Storm Cellar curates writing that is surprising, formally and affectively innovative, and represents the highest quality of various literary traditions. Each issue reflects the current tastes of the editorial team. It actively prefers...
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The editors of Sublunary Review welcome poetry, short story, and art submissions from all people and places. Send them your most oneiric, moonlit work.
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“Strong Words for a Polite Nation.” subTerrain Magazine was founded in 1988 to publish writers from the other side of the tracks. Each issue features progressive and sometimes controversial writing, alongside timely book reviews and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Feb 15, Mar 1 to May 15, Aug 1 to Sep 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Sun is an independent, ad-free magazine that for more than fifty years has used words and photographs to evoke the splendor and heartache of being human. Each monthly issue celebrates life, but not in a way that ignores its...
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Since launching in January of 2019, Sunspot Literary Journal has amplified diverse multinational voices. New works have been published in their original language side-by-side with English translations. Boundaries that exclude meaningful...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Mar 31, Apr 1 to Jun 30, Jul 1 to Sep 30, Oct 1 to Dec 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Superpresent is a quarterly magazine of the arts. It is available free online and a limited run of print copies for each issue. Superpresent publishes poems, short stories, essays, visual art pieces, experimental art, video art...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Mar 1, Apr 1 to Jun 1, Jul 1 to Sep 1, Oct 1 to Dec 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
SurVision is an international biannual online poetry magazine founded in Ireland in March 2017 as a platform for new Irish and international Surrealist and Irrealist poetry in English. It has a publishing imprint, SurVision Books.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, TranslationGenres: Experimental, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Translation -
The Swamp Ape is a legend that reflects Florida—its mythology, its weirdness—as well as the human desire to create a narrative around that which they can’t explain. Submissions to the Swamp should defy form to the extent that the piece’s...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 1 to Aug 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
swamp pink publishes fiction, poetry, and nonfiction on a semimonthly basis. Its aim is to publish exceptional work from writers at all stages of their careers. The editors are particularly interested in submissions from writers of color...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Dec 31, Jan 1 to Jan 31, Feb 1 to May 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
swifts & slows features poetry, poetic collaborations, visual poetry, flash fiction, experimental and translations with a lookout for work that pushes the gamut of possibilities.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, TranslationGenres: Experimental, Prose Poetry, Visual Poetry -
SWING is devoted to excellent poetry, fiction, essays, and comic art in print, and the editors are committed to a design that speaks to the contents within. The look and feel of their issues will always reflect the natural world and...
Read moreReading Period: Jun 6 to Oct 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Founded and edited by a diverse, award-winning team of female poets, SWWIM Every Day publishes poems every weekday by cis/trans women, nonbinary, intersex, and other gender-expansive writers of all ages, races, ethnicities, cultures,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
Tab Journal is an international poetry journal of poems, translations, and critical and creative essays about poetry; book reviews are written by staff. The tagline “space before text” announces that design of text and space creates a ...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry -
Talking River Review, Lewis-Clark State College’s literary journal, seeks examples of literary excellence and originality. Send us your poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction manuscripts.
Reading Period: Aug 1 to Apr 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Tampa Review is a literary magazine published dedicated to the blending of contemporary literature and visual arts. Each issue features contemporary writing and art from Florida and the world.
Reading Period: Sep 1 to Jan 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Temenos Journal seeks to publish the very best new fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and literary essays by established and emerging writers. All manuscripts are given full consideration. The editors suggest writers first familiarize...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Feb 28Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
