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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Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Founded in 2015, The Opiate is a quarterly literary magazine dedicated to publishing envelope-pushing work. It accepts both print and online submissions.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Orca publishes short stories, flash fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. They dedicate one issue per year (June) to literary-speculative work. They are open to almost any topic, as long as it’s written in a literary style. They are committed...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Fiction, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Speculative Fiction -
Inspired by the small plot of apple trees near Cambridge, England where writers have gathered for years with their books and pens, the Orchards Poetry Journal is released biannually, in print and online. In each issue, the editors choose...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 15 to Jun 15, Sep 15 to Nov 15Genre: Poetry -
Oregon Humanities is a magazine about the experiences, ideas, and beliefs of Oregonians. In each issue, Oregon writers, artists, and readers explore diverse perspectives and challenging questions relating to the place we live and the...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 7 to Apr 24, Jul 1 to Aug 15, Nov 15 to Dec 20Genre: Creative Nonfiction -
Orion is a quarterly, ad-free literary magazine focusing on nature, culture, and place. We publish essays, narrative nonfiction, poetry, and short fiction that address environmental and societal issues.
Reading Period: Jun 15 to Jun 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Oroboro is a literary journal published biannually by Death Rattle, aimed at publishing and promoting poets, authors, and artists.
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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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the other side of hope: journeys in refugee and immigrant literature is a UK-based literary magazine edited by refugees and immigrants.
Reading Period: Jan 15 to Apr 15, Jun 15 to Aug 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
OtherwiseMag publishes stories that speak the language of lived experience. This may be a biography, a portrait, an event, a situation, a historical moment, or an encounter. They expect stories to achieve depth, have narrative coherence...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Historical, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, LGBTQ Voices, Magical Realism, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Speculative Poetry, Visual Poetry -
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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Overtime, a series of one-story chapbooks, was created to showcase some of the stories they receive that are a little too long for their Workers Write! series but are worthy of publication.
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The Oxford American is dedicated to featuring the very best in Southern writing while documenting the complexity and vitality of the American South.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Oxford Magazine, casually known as OxMag, is a literary and arts magazine edited and published by creative writing MFA students at Miami University. Since their premiere in 1984, the magazine has received Pushcart Prizes for...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 15 to Mar 15, Sep 15 to Oct 15Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Oxford Poetry is the oldest dedicated poetry magazine in the U.K., and one of the oldest in the world. Previous editors have included Kingsley Amis, W. H. Auden, Vera Brittain, Cecil Day-Lewis, Geoffrey Hill, Aldous Huxley, Louis...
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The Oyez Review is the literary magazine of the creative writing program at Roosevelt University in Chicago. It is published annually, edited by a staff of MFA candidates under the direction of a faculty member with professional...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 14 to Nov 21Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Cross-genre, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry -
ORP publishes voices that speak to what it means to be alive in this world. We look for language and stories and images that move us out of ourselves and into other spaces, as well as writers and artists who bring balance and diversity...
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Pacifica Literary Review publishes poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction three times a year. Based in Seattle, it invites writers from all backgrounds, races, orientations, and occupations to send work.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Poetry -
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 -
Comrades, sisters, brothers, and members of the human family: Packingtown Review has long joined the struggle to destroy the imperialist white supremacist capitalist heteropatriarchy. They resist sentimental urges of the national and...
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Painted Bride Quarterly’s editorial staff is triangulated out of Philadelphia, NYC, and Abu Dhabi, with a community-based process for work. PBQ publishes poems, stories, and nonfiction that represent the individual, with a...
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Palette Poetry endeavors to uplift and engage both emerging and established poets in the literary community. The journal has no particular aesthetic vision but aims to create an empowering space for all voices, especially those that are...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
“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 -
The Pan Haiku Review focuses on Japanese short-form poetry, including haiku, senryu, tanka, haiga and haibun/tanka prose. Typically each issue has a theme. For example, issue four is only accepting submissions of haibun and tanka prose....
Read moreReading Period: Oct 1 to Oct 31Genre: PoetryGenres: Cross-genre, Flash Fiction, Micro-poetry, Poetry, Prose Poetry -
Pangyrus is a literary magazine that is dedicated to art, ideas, and making culture thrive. Its name is a portmanteau of pangea (the world continent) and gyrus (the folds on the cerebral cortex of the brain). Pangyrus...
Read moreReading Period: Jul 15 to Oct 15, Jan 15 to Apr 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
