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...
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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: 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
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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 -
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...
Read moreReading 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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Based out of Baltimore, LIGEIA is a literary magazine publishing unconventional voices. LIGEIA publishes poetry, short fiction, nonfiction, artwork, and interviews in online biannual issues. They embrace works of the modern...
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The Light Ekphrastic seeks artists and writers interested in collaboration resulting in the creation of new works inspired by the old. Those chosen will be paired with another artist (a poet with a painter, for instance), and each will...
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The Lindenwood Review, an annual online literary journal, publishes fiction (short stories and flash fiction), creative nonfiction (personal essays, lyric essays, and flash nonfiction), and prose poems (paragraph format; no line breaks...
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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 -
Litbop is a literary journal containing short fiction, poetry, art, and photography. Currently published annually, it presents both new and previously published work.
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Literary Heist gives a voice to transformative writers and aims to democratize the literary and art world. We are looking to showcase good work that comes from new and existing writers and artists.
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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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The Literary Times is an independent literary arts platform where the editors welcome multitude of genres. They aim at creating a safe space for creators, writers and artists to share their ideas and expression without any bias or...
Read moreReading Period: Nov 4 to Dec 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Literary Fiction -
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 -
Litro USA fosters a national community for innovative writing and creative works. They connect cultures, encourage dialogues via technology and arts, and ensure literature’s prominence in popular culture by backing writers and artists...
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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 -
Little Patuxent Review is a biannual print journal and online blog featuring writers and artists from the Mid-Atlantic region and beyond.
Reading Period: Aug 1 to Oct 24, Dec 1 to Mar 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction -
The London Magazine is the UK’s oldest literary magazine, proud to have published some of the biggest names in literature including Angela Carter, Joan Didion, T. S. Eliot, Sylvia Plath, George Orwell, Jean Rhys, and Virginia Woolf. We are...
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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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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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The goal of the magazine continues to be to import the best writing to local readers, to juxtapose the work of established writers with new writers, and to export the best local writers to a national readership. Each poem and story submitted to...
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Founded in 2009, Lowestoft Chronicle is an online literary magazine, published quarterly, accepting flash fiction, short stories, poetry, interviews, and creative nonfiction. Preference is given to humorous submissions with an emphasis...
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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...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
