Pictura Journal seeks work that offers a vivid snapshot of its creator’s world—work that complicates the mundane through concrete images and language grounded in a strong sense of place.
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: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Pidgeonholes prefers the weird, in the etymological meaning of the word: that which comes. Literary, speculative, experimental, or absurdly unclassifiable, just make it bold and beautifully written.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Jan 15, Apr 1 to Apr 15, Jul 1 to Jul 15, Oct 1 to Oct 15Subgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Flash Fiction, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Prose Poetry -
Pigeon Review publishes new and emerging writers. It likes stories that meander and explore the world, stories that tend to blur the line between fiction and reality. It also accepts art submissions!
The publication is currently...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Fiction -
Pinch is a nationally recognized literary journal published by the University of Memphis. The editors publish work that uses form, content, and subtext do dissolve boundaries maintained by traditional publishers. The authors of these...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Lyric Essay, Magical Realism, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Speculative Poetry -
Pine Hills Review publishes irreverent, fun, different, and surprising work that tries to do something new. The editors are looking for artful, honest, and compelling work by new and established writers, from fiction, nonfiction, and...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Apr 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Cross-genre, Experimental, Fiction, LGBTQ Voices, Poetry, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry -
Inspired by pineberries and their transformation from the ordinary into something mesmerizing, Pineberry Literary Journal aspires to provide a home for poetry that touches the readers, where ordinary words are versified into noteworthy...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
Pinhole Poetry is a digital poetry journal that loves the upside-down view and the fact that some art can only happen in the dark. They aim to be “the pinprick of light” for your work. Pinhole Poetry will consider and challenge...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Feminist, Formal Poetry, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Speculative Poetry -
Pink Disco is an online arts and literature magazine that publishes works honoring and celebrating sex, sexuality, and the body. They are looking for character-driven stories, poetry with a strong focus on imagery and language, and...
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Pinyon is a national journal of poetry, prose, and art published at Colorado Mesa University that invites submissions from both established and emerging writers.
Reading Period: Aug 1 to Dec 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
pioneertown is an online literary journal publishing both traditional and genre-bending work. Named after an old western movie town in the southern California desert, pioneertown aims to establish a collection of work new and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry -
Pithead Chapel is looking for engaging stories told in honest voices. Most of all, they want to feel something. They want to reach the last word and immediately crave more. They want your work to leave a brilliant bruise.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Featuring poetry that runs the gamut from traditional to experimental, from realist to surrealist, Plainsongs strives to capture the multiplicity of voices, including those of feminist, nonwhite, immigrant, and LGBTQ+ writers, that make...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 15 to May 15, Feb 15 to Jun 15Genre: Poetry -
Plant-Human Quarterly explores the myriad ways writers manifest their relationship to the botanical world—from heavily researched pieces, to keen observation, to less systematic, intuitive ways of knowing and interacting—that attempt to...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Nature/Environmental -
ARTS By The People strives to create an environment that welcomes and encourages writers at all stages of their craft with a particular focus on local voices. Its online journal, Platform Review, is focused on bringing this same tone of...
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Please See Me is an online literary journal that features health-related stories. The mission of the publication is to elevate the voices and stories of vulnerable and underserved populations and those who care for them. At the heart of...
Read moreReading Period: Apr 30 to Jul 31, Sep 15 to Dec 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Pleiades: Literature in Context is a literary biannual featuring poetry, fiction, essays, translations, and reviews by authors from around the world. Past contributors include winners of the Nobel, Ruth Lilly, Pulitzer, Bollingen, Prix...
Read moreReading Period: Jun 1 to Jun 30, Dec 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, Humor, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Prose Poetry -
The Plentitudes is an international literary journal showcasing captivating fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and flash from diverse voices. The editors believe in the power of writing—in its plentitudes of forms, styles, and modes of...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 1 to Mar 31, May 1 to Jun 30, Aug 1 to Sep 30, Nov 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Commercial Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Healing/Health, Historical, Humor, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Love, Lyric Essay, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Religious/Spiritual, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction -
Ploughshares is a journal of new writing, and two out of three issues per year are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles, with each year’s Winter issue staff-edited. 50...
Read moreReading Period: Jun 1 to Jan 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Plume is a magazine dedicated to publishing the very best of contemporary poetry. To that end, the editors are highly selective, offering 12 poems per monthly issue.
Reading Period: Oct 15 to Oct 29, May 15 to May 30Genre: Poetry -
Pocket Samovar is an international literary magazine dedicated to underrepresented post-Soviet writing, art, and diaspora. It originated in 2019 as a group of Jack Kerouac School students influenced—but not determined—by Soviet cultural...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Experimental, Healing/Health, LGBTQ Voices, Lyric Essay, Poetry, Political, Regional, Translation -
Poemeleon: A Journal of Poetry is a sporadically published online literary journal devoted to all kinds of poetry. Its founding principle is change. Each issue focuses on a different kind or aspect of poetry,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry -
Poet Lore is a biannual print journal of poetry and translation, showcasing the finest established contemporary writers alongside exciting emerging poets.
Reading Period: Apr 1 to May 31, Oct 1 to Nov 30Genre: Poetry, TranslationSubgenres: Poetry, Translation -
Poetry embraces the “open-door policy” set forth by founding editor Harriet Monroe. Poetry desires to print, as Monroe put it, “the best English verse which is being written today, regardless of where, by whom, or under what...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 16 to Jun 14Genre: Poetry -
Poetry International is one of the oldest and most respected literary journals dedicated to publishing poetry from around the globe. Each issue of the print journal brings together original poems, portfolios, and translated work in...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Feb 1, Mar 1 to Apr 30, Jun 1 to Sep 1, Sep 1 to Dec 1Genre: Poetry, Translation -
Welcome! You have moored at the Poetry Lighthouse, a creative writing community in love with poetry, stories, and art. Poetry can be the perfect recipe for a broken heart, a furious storm, a chirping robin or a philosophical epiphany,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, TranslationSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Fiction, Formal Poetry, LGBTQ Voices, Poetry, Short Fiction, Translation
