The Letters Page literary journal is published by the University of Nottingham School of English, and edited by writer in residence, Professor Jon McGregor. It is interested in exploring what letter writing means to people—and has meant...
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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 Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Commercial Fiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Healing/Health, Historical, Humor, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Love, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Regional, Religious/Spiritual, Serialized Fiction, Translation, War -
Levitate aims to be inclusive, both in terms of the authors and the types of work they accept. They want to create a safe and comfortable place for writers of all backgrounds. They recognize that the writing industry has been predominantly...
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LIT is an alumni and student run tri-annual literary magazine that is published by the New School’s Creative Writing MFA program. LIT wishes to promote innovative writing, art, and translation in the digital literary landscape...
Reading Period: Apr 15 to Jun 15, Sep 15 to Dec 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Literary Forest Poetry Magazine is dedicated to publishing the best in experimental poetry in the most equitable way possible. LFPM strives to expose great literary work and support all of the poets published within.
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Literary Mama celebrates the physical, psychological, intellectual, and spiritual processes of motherhood across race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, age, material resources, or status. The journal publishes six times a year,...
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Founded in 1997, the Long River Review is an annual literary journal of art and literature staffed by undergraduates at the University of Connecticut. Today, Long River Review is dedicated to championing the best work from...
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Lucky Jefferson’s mission is simple: publish social change. They reimagine books by creating interactive and collaborative community experiences that center the writer and artist and cultivate inclusive representation in...
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Luna Luna is an online diary, literary journal, and community dedicated to making space for the light, shadow, and the liminal spaces in between. “Like the moon’s two sides (Luna, by the way, is moon in Italian and Spanish), we...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Magazine1 serves as both a showcase of excellent writing from around the world, and a literary hub for the Sarasota / Saint Pete / Tampa area. The editors want to showcase work that challenges their understanding of what writing is and...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 14 to Nov 14, Feb 14 to May 14Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
The Malahat Review is among Canada’s leading literary journals. Published quarterly, it features contemporary works of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction by emerging and established writers from around the world. TMR is a...
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The Massachusetts Review is an independent quarterly journal of literature, the arts, and public affairs. MR has deep local roots but an international scope, with an emphasis on work that provokes debate, challenges ideology,...
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Men Matters Online Journal (MMOJ) is a literary journal devoted to topics concerning men, masculinity, gender, culture, politics, sexuality, and challenging men’s roles in traditional patriarchal societies. It is...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Apr 30, Jul 1 to Oct 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Metachrosis literary magazine is an online publication that strives to be the place where the foundations of the world are explored and celebrated. Created as part of the Art, Science, and Visual Thinking MFA at Dundee University, this...
Read moreReading Period: Dec 20 to Mar 3Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Metaworker is an online literary magazine where great stories are forged. Their mission is to publish great things to read and the editors are interested in stories, poems, and art that have new, interesting perspectives or...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Magical Realism, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Speculative Poetry, Visual Poetry -
midnight & indigo is a literary magazine dedicated to celebrating the voices of Black women writers worldwide.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Midway Journal accepts submissions of aesthetically ambitious work that occupies the realms between both the traditional and experimental.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Midwest Weird is an audio literary magazine featuring weird fiction and nonfiction by Midwestern writers.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Launched in 2018, Milk Press is the literary and visual art journal of the Poetry Society of New York. Milk Press merges the poetic, visual, and digital art worlds by cultivating, presenting, and publishing multidisciplinary and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 7 to Mar 22, Jun 10 to Aug 1, Sep 3 to Oct 31Genre: Poetry -
Minola Review is an online literary journal founded in 2016 with the aim of giving space for women’s writing. Today, the journal publishes the work of all those who identify as women and non-binary writers, continuing the founding...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Jul 1Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Feminist, LGBTQ Voices -
MORIA is a national online literary magazine with an all-student editorial board, based at Woodbury University in greater Los Angeles. It accepts poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction from emerging and established writers in the...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 30 to Oct 1, Jan 15 to Mar 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
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...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 1 to Jan 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Mulberry Literary is an online literary and art magazine dedicated to showcasing creative work in its every form. It aims to provide a longstanding, international platform that is inclusive to all creative work,...
Read moreReading Period: Jun 1 to Jul 15Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationGenres: 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, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Translation -
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 -
Muzzle aims to bring together the voices of poets from a diverse array of backgrounds, paying special homage to poets from communities that are historically underrepresented in print and online publications.
Reading Period: Jun 15 to Jul 15, Dec 15 to Jan 15Genre: PoetryGenres: Feminist, LGBTQ Voices, Political -
Narrative Northeast is a literary and arts magazine dedicated to diverse voices and visions, to creating a platform for writers who actually have something to say.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
