Midwest Weird is an audio literary magazine featuring weird fiction and nonfiction by Midwestern writers.
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 31Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Nat. Brut’s (pronounced “nat broot”) principal mission is to showcase the work of writers and artists who have been historically devalued or pigeonholed by art and literary institutions. The publish work that has been buried, ignored,...
Read moreReading Period: May 1 to May 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
The New Guard is a contest-centered, independent literary review, publishing 35+ emerging writers each volume from the United States and abroad. They proudly publish in print and have short pieces published online on their BANG! page....
Read moreReading Period: Mar 1 to Jan 11Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The New Verse News covers the news of the day with poems on issues, large and small, international and local. It relies on the submission of poems (especially those of a politically progressive bent) by writers from all over the world....
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
Nimrod International Journal’s mission is the discovery of exciting new writing from around the world. The journal publishes two issues a year and hosts two prizes: the Pablo Neruda Award for Poetry and the Katherine Anne Porter Award for...
Read moreReading Period: Nov 1 to Nov 30, Apr 1 to Apr 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Each issue is themed, and NonBinary Review explores the edges of those themes through speculative fiction, poetry, and art. NonBinary Review is looking for works that approach its themes in unexpected but completely fitting ways...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Novel Slices is dedicated solely to novel excerpts. Excerpts should feel like they come from novels that want to be read—they may pop readers into the action and leave them hanging at the end. They do not have to feel “complete...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 26 to Apr 30, Aug 24 to Oct 31Genre: Fiction -
Old Pal is an online magazine based out of Portland, Oregon, since 2018. The magazine has published work that includes experimental writing, the hybrid genre, and critical inquiries from the Portland local community and beyond. It...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 24 to May 20, Sep 22 to Nov 15Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, TranslationGenres: BIPOC Voices, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, Humor, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Lyric Essay, Micro-poetry, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Serialized Fiction, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Speculative Poetry, Translation, Visual Poetry -
Oroboro is a literary journal published biannually by Death Rattle, aimed at publishing and promoting poets, authors, and artists.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Apr 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
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...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Jul 31Genre: 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 -
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...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Papers Publishing believes in putting the writing first. A group of creatives jumpstarted Papers as a way for writers and readers alike to go back to where it all started—the page. Writers come from all backgrounds, and the...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Peach Fuzz is a women-run, 31-spread, old-fashioned nudie magazine printed twice a year in full color. The magazine publishes writing and art of all genres and subject matter, with a focus on expansive and inclusive work about sex and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Pearl Press is an online publication that strives to create a community of diverse voices in writing and photography. They release bimonthly issues revolving around a theme; some past examples include Heirlooms, Cowboys, Notes, Self-...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
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 -
Pensive publishes work that deepens the inward life; expresses a range of religious/spiritual/humanist experiences and perspectives; envisions a more just, peaceful, and sustainable world; advances dialogue across difference; and...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 1 to May 15, Aug 1 to Nov 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationGenres: BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Lyric Essay, Magical Realism, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, Prose Poetry, Religious/Spiritual, Short Fiction, Translation, Visual Poetry -
Pigeon Review publishes new and emerging writers. It likes stories that meander and explore the world, stories that tend to blur the line between fiction and reality. It also accepts art submissions!
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Fiction
