Jersey Devil Press is an online literary journal, born on the toll roads and raised in the diners of the great Garden State. Their focus is speculative-tinged fiction and poetry.
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 31Genres: Cross-genre, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Humor, Poetry, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction -
JONAHmagazine is comprised of stories. Stories of journeys, in space, in time, in the heart, or in the mind. Beginnings, endings, triumphs and frustrations, odysseys of the spirit. Poetry, prose, true stories, memoir. Tales humorous or...
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“The juke joint has always been a place beyond the margin, somewhere along the line. Barrelhouses of the South, juke joints served as a place for sharecroppers & slaves to socialize & celebrate counterculture in a society marred by...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Apr 15, May 1 to Jul 15, Sep 1 to Dec 15Genre: PoetryGenres: BIPOC Voices, Feminist, LGBTQ Voices, Poetry, Political, Prose Poetry, Regional, Visual Poetry -
JuxtaProse is an online literary journal that publishes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from around the world. Its contributors have included Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, and Man Booker Prize winners, and other acclaimed authors...
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Kaleidoscoped Mag is a literary arts magazine formed by MFA students at UC San Diego. It is especially interested in literary and visual art that makes use of cross-genre, hybrid, experimental, unusual, or fragmented forms.
Reading Period: Apr 1 to Jul 1Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
KayTell Ink is an exciting new literary magazine dedicated to providing artists and writers with a platform to showcase their passions and gain valuable publishing experience. Founded by visionary entrepreneur Kayla Tellington, their...
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Founded under the name Hill Thoughts in 1941, Hanover College’s literary journal Kennings holds the firm mission to seek out intriguing, moving, and engaging works of poetry, fiction, and art. In recent years Kennings has...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 1 to Feb 14Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Killer Nashville Magazine seeks to publish both fresh and established voices in any genre that incorporates elements of mystery, thriller, suspense, and/or romance (and we believe all good literary works and art contain those elements to...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Humor, Poetry, Short Fiction -
Kitchen Table Quarterly amplifies work that lays history bare—cultural history, political history, geographical, personal—and explores how they weave together to create the way people live. The editors are looking for work that spills...
Read moreReading Period: Oct 1 to Nov 1, Mar 1 to Apr 1, Jul 1 to Aug 1Genre: Poetry, Creative NonfictionGenres: Creative Nonfiction, Poetry -
La Mosca is the literary and arts magazine of Northeastern Illinois University. They are looking for poetry, creative nonfiction, visual art, short fiction, and hybrid work that either makes them think, feel, laugh, experiments with form...
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La Piccioletta Barca is an arts journal publishing: short stories, poetry, prose, essays, interviews, and translations. They will only be receiving submissions through their Submittable profile. The editors do not discriminate...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Themed issues with suggested prompts, but open to off-topic submissions of strong, personal, timely, or narrative poetry. Find the latest prompt on Last Stanza Poetry’s Facebook page. There's no reading fee. Prize of $100 for one...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetryGenres: BIPOC Voices, Experimental, Feminist, LGBTQ Voices, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Translation, Visual Poetry -
Lenticular is an online journal that publishes essays, interviews, fiction, poetry, art, experimental and hybrid forms. Based in Flatbush, Brooklyn, Lenticular is influenced by the many languages of daily life and all their...
Read moreReading Period: May 1 to May 15Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationGenres: BIPOC Voices, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political -
LETTERS journal is a semiannual review of literature and the arts. The editors seek to engage creative expression with religion, spirituality, and belief, and connect the life of faith to contemporary art practice.
Reading Period: Oct 15 to Dec 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
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...
Read moreReading Period: Nov 1 to Feb 28Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Lines + Stars began in 2006 as a means of establishing a new creative forum in Washington, D.C., a city that all-too-often coasts on its more mechanistic pursuits. As of 2017, they operate out of Baltimore, Maryland. L+S Press, their...
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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.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
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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Literary Veganism is looking for animal or environmentally friendly writing. Authors do not have to be vegan to submit, but many readers are vegan.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry -
Litmosphere—formerly home for Charlotte Lit’s Lit/South Awards winners and finalists—is now an open submission, paying online literary and art journal, published twice a year. Submissions of art, flash (fiction and nonfiction up...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Jan 31, Jul 1 to Jul 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Little Journal of Northeast India is interested in the everyday stories of people, places and things based on or inspired from northeast India. Their published poems, flash fiction, photographs, artwork, interviews, and essays...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, Regional -
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...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 15 to Dec 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Lotus-eater is an online literary magazine based in Rome.
Its aesthetic is dark, eclectic, and often experimental. The editors are interested in daring, unusual writing, and striking images.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Experimental, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Humor, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Translation -
Loud Coffee Press is a quarterly unpretentious and unapologetic literary journal that focuses on three things the editors love: flash fiction, coffee, and music. They look for writing that hovers in that perfect brew spot of 195 to 205...
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