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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: Jan 1 to Mar 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationGenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, Healing/Health, Humor, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Translation -
Digital quarterly for new, emerging and established writers and artists. The editors seek good writing above anything else: inspired, unbound, and diverse. Original work only.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Based at 7,000 feet, Thin Air Magazine has no choice but to invite work that takes us to dizzying heights with its innovation and insight. The editors aspire to foster diversity, authenticity, surprise, and excitement while making the...
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The Tiger Moth Review publishes poetry, prose, art and photography that engage with the themes of nature, culture, the environment and ecology. Send them work that is eco-conscious and critical, work that celebrates the beauty/bounty of...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 1 to Apr 30, Aug 1 to Oct 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationGenres: Fiction, Nature/Environmental, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Translation -
Tilted House Review is a biannual arts and literary journal made by hand in small batches in the small city of New Orleans. Through this outfit, they strive to cultivate a creative and communal unit from and for the city. And while the...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Mar 15Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
TOS is published by Wind & Water Press, and its purpose is to provide a market for literary Christian poetry, with “Christian” defined in the widest sense. Free verse and all forms are welcome. TOS encourages poets to take...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetryGenres: Formal Poetry, Poetry, Prose Poetry -
TINGE Magazine, Temple University’s online literary journal, is published one to two times a year.
Reading Period: Aug 15 to Nov 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Tipton Poetry Journal, located in the heartland of the Midwest, publishes quality poetry from Indiana and around the world.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
Toyon is Humboldt State University English department’s annual literary magazine. Run entirely by students since its first issue in 1954, Toyon showcases the work of established and emerging writers and artists from Humboldt...
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Since its conception, TRANSOM has included poems alongside poet interviews that dig deeper into an examination of poetry as it lives, in the world between poets and readers. TRANSOM is a poetry journal that continues in that...
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The Tusculum Review is a community of professional and undergraduate writers. Student editors develop crucial skills in the art of literary publication. The editors seek and publish thought-provoking writing from a diversity of...
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The Twin Bill is a quarterly online literary baseball publication founded in 2020 at the start of the pandemic. The editors celebrate the rich history of the game while also recognizing its vibrant present through essays, fiction, poetry...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Mainly work by Zambian writers, except for January, when work by African writers living in Africa is also considered.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Jan 31, May 1 to May 31, Jul 1 to Jul 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Up the Staircase Quarterly publishes unique, eclectic, and quality poetry that is vivid in imagery and idea. It seeks writers going in new directions, originals. It also publishes artwork: paintings, drawings, photography, comics, short...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Mar 15, Aug 1 to Dec 10Genre: Poetry -
Valiant Scribe is a platform that focuses on faith and social issues. It covers a wide range of topics, including violence against women, forced labor, human trafficking, criminal justice, mental health, climate change, poverty, and...
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Variety Pack tries to live up their namesake! A bedrock of diverse voices, expressing a variety of arts & letters. Open to both genre and literary. Sure there’s an aesthetic, but it’s a broad atlas rather than a narrow stream!
Reading Period: May 15 to Jul 15, Sep 15 to Nov 15Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationGenres: Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Historical, Humor, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Lyric Essay, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Regional, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Translation, Visual Poetry, War, Young Adult -
The Vassar Review aims to reconsider the traditions that have defined many publications and structures, those that are not open to all, open to interpretation, or open to change, and unfold them into a collaborative journal that believes...
Read moreReading Period: Nov 16 to Jan 22Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
A Velvet Giant is a literary journal for work that exists outside the boundaries of genre.
Reading Period: Mar 15 to May 15Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Black Sun Lit is the publisher of Vestiges, an irregularly printed journal of poetry, prose, essay, translation, art, and ontological inquiry.
Reading Period: Feb 1 to Apr 30, Oct 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, TranslationGenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Literary Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Translation -
TVBR publishes poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, photography, and visual art that memorably express what it means to be human. Its editorial focus is on authentic voices and evocative images. The editors seek work that haunts them.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Voices de la Luna inspires and promotes literature and arts and serves as a platform for all authors and artists to share their work with others. It further uses literature and arts for both educational and healing purposes in the...
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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 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...
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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...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
