Moss is a literary journal of writing from the Pacific Northwest. Published annually, Moss is dedicated to exploring the intersection of place and creative expression, while exposing the region’s outstanding writers to a broad...
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Reading Period: Aug 1 to Jan 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Moxy is a literary magazine that focuses on creative nonfiction—work with a nonfiction subject matter, written with the imaginative verve and stylistic skill of the best fiction. It publishes criticism, essays, travel writing, memoir,...
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The museum of americana is an online literary review dedicated to fiction, poetry, nonfiction, photography, music, and artwork that revives or repurposes the old, the dying, the forgotten, or the almost entirely unknown...
Read moreReading Period: Apr 1 to Apr 30, Aug 1 to Aug 31, Dec 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Nassau Review welcomes work that is innovative, captivating, well-crafted, and unique work that is traditional as well as pieces that cross boundaries of genre and tradition. New writers and...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Dec 5Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The mission of New Letters magazine is to discover, publish and promote the best and most exciting literary writing, wherever it might be found. It publishes and serves readers and writers worldwide. In recent years, New Letters...
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One Wild Ride is a limited-run online literary journal with creative nonfiction, fiction, and hybrid short stories about caring for people’s aging parents and those who raised them.
Reading Period: Oct 1 to Oct 31Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Open Doors Review is a literary magazine based in Italy that publishes literary fiction, poetry, and thought-provoking essays in English or Italian. Whatever your connection to Italy (whether you live here, have Italian ancestry or...
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The Other Journal welcomes the submission of critical essays, reviews, creative writing, and visual or performance art that encounter life through the lens of theology and culture; it seeks pieces that consider the interaction of faith...
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Founded in 2009, Otis Nebula is an innovative micro press that showcases incandescent, substantial work that surprises itself. Though open to all forms, sub-forms, and hybrids, the primary focus is on poetry. Each issue features twelve...
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The pacificREVIEW is an annual review of prose, poetry, and artwork on a given theme, published in affiliation with San Diego State University Press. For 2024-25, their co-editors are Robert Lang and Rema Shbaita.
Reading Period: Aug 1 to Mar 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
“I decided some years ago that I wanted to create a space for people taking on the struggle, a venue to give those writers and artists a truly fair shot at publication and the chance to be seen, read, and recognized—no connections, no...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationGenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Humor, Literary Fiction, Lyric Essay, Magical Realism, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Speculative Poetry, Translation, Visual Poetry, War -
Founded in 1951, the Penn Review is the oldest continuously published and premier literary magazine at the University of Pennsylvania. Devoted to the literary and visual arts, the Penn Review publishes original poetry, fiction,...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 9 to Mar 17, Sep 10 to Nov 8Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Pennsylvania Literary Journal is a printed and digital journal that publishes scholarly essays on a range of different topics, periods, genres and fields, as well as book reviews, short fiction stories, interviews, photographs, art, and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Phoebe prides itself on supporting up-and-coming writers, whose style, form, voice, and subject matter demonstrate a vigorous appeal to the senses, intellect, and emotions of our readers. It chooses writers because they believe their...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 15 to Oct 15, Jan 15 to Mar 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Established in 2014 in association with The College of Saint Rose as part of its M.F.A. in creative writing program, Pine Hills Review was founded by Daniel Nester and Sarah Sherman. Since the closure of The College of Saint Rose in June...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Apr 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
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 -
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: May 15 to Aug 15, Nov 15 to Mar 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Plentitudes is a quarterly international literary journal showcasing captivating prose and poetry from diverse voices. They believe in the power of writing—in its plentitude of forms, styles, and modes of exploration—to move the...
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 NonfictionGenres: Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Commercial Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Formal Poetry, Healing/Health, Historical, Humor, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Love, Lyric Essay, 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 -
The Poetry Porch is a magazine on the internet for poets, teachers, and their students. First appearing online in 1997, it is only published online. It is interested in original unpublished poems, essays, reviews, memoirs, and fiction,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Feb 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Ponder Review seeks stories that challenge, stories that shift their view, ignite their imaginations, spark conversations, and linger with them long after their eyes leave the page. They invite you to explore, expound, and inspire...
Read moreReading Period: Jun 15 to Sep 15, Dec 15 to Mar 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Post Road seeks to publish up-and-coming writers along with more established names. It publishes a wide range of styles, from realist to experimental and everything in between.
Reading Period: Sep 15 to Nov 14, Feb 1 to Mar 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
PRISM International is a quarterly magazine whose mandate is to publish the best in contemporary writing and translation from Canada and around the world. Writing from PRISM has been featured in Best American Stories, Best...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Calls (Sub window):
- RADICAL JOY (closes July 31)
- Books on Books | Connections | THE FICTION THAT CHANGED ME (closes July 31)
Calls (Always Open):
- Write Here, Write Now
- Writers on...
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Red Flag Poetry is a postcard project that aims to deliver poetry to the mailbox of subscribers every month on a postcard. It looks for poetry that is creative, original, and well-crafted. It wants to see poems that critically reflect...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry
