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Read Harder 2020: An Edition of a Literary Magazine (Digital or Physical)

Emily Polson

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This list of literary magazines for the 2020 Read Harder Challenge is sponsored by TBR: Tailored Book Recommendations .

Literary magazines—also called literary journals or lit mags—play an important role in the literary ecosystem. Many publish emerging writers alongside established ones, offering valuable exposure and prestige to those just starting out. If you look in the back matter of any collection of short stories, poetry, or essays, you’ll often find a list of magazines and journals where many of these works first appeared.

Most literary magazines are available on a subscription basis, but there are other options for getting your hands on a copy. Many offer you the option to purchase a single back issue. Your local library might be a subscriber, so you can also check what literary journals they carry alongside other popular periodicals. To make access even easier, many lit mags are available online for free—either in whole or part—and some are online only.

The following nine recommendations represent the range of literary magazines out there: print and digital, single-genre and multi-genre, long and short, serious and humorous, and more.

Literary Magazines by Genre

Creative nonfiction.

Creative Nonfiction ’s tagline serves as a definition for the genre as a whole: “True stories, well told.” Published four times a year, this lit mag features short and long-form essays, interviews, criticism, and “tiny truths”—micro essays pulled from the #cnftweet hashtag on Twitter. Each issue centers around a common theme, such as sex, home, and risk. Back issues of Creative Nonfiction are sold for $10.00 each.

POETRY Magazine

POETRY magazine, published by the Poetry Foundation, has an illustrious history dating back to 1912. It was the first to publish such notable poems as “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot, “Fever 103” by Sylvia Plath, and “We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks. The magazine carries this legacy into the future, publishing the poets writing today who will be anthologized in the future. Each issue features dozens of poems by new and established poets, along with a selection of art and essays, making it the perfect way to engage with the contemporary poetry scene. The magazine’s entire archive is available online at no cost , so you could read any number of historic issues to complete this Reader Harder task! If you prefer to read in print, you can snag a back issue for $3.75.

One Story is a fiction literary magazine that offers exactly what its name implies: each monthly issue contains one story. Founded in 2002, One Story has published over 200 shorts, many of which have made their way into “best of” anthologies. They also publish teen writers in their One Teen Story version of the magazine, which makes a great entry point into lit mags for younger audiences or YA readers. Back issues of One Story are available for just $2.50.

Classic Literary Magazines

The paris review.

The Paris Review is a quarterly literary magazine founded in 1953 that publishes short fiction, poetry, the occasional essay, art/photography, and interviews with writers. You may be familiar with their archived interview series “ The Art of Fiction ,” which has featured some of the most notable writers of the last century. Back issues are available for $20 a piece, but you can also find quite a bit of Paris Review content on their website . This includes their Poetry Rx column (run by poets Sarah Kay, Kaveh Akbar, and Claire Schwartz), monthly “Feminize Your Canon” column, and nonfiction-centered blog, The Daily .

McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern

When I told my roommate I was writing this article, she said I had to include McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern (founded in 1998). Why? The sheer quirk in the packaging makes this fiction and nonfiction literary journal stand out from the rest. Issue 53 , for example, came packed with 8 balloons featuring short stories from the likes of Lauren Groff, Carmen Maria Machado, and Rebecca Makkai. You must inflate the balloons to read the stories, obviously (just because it’s “literary” doesn’t mean it can’t be fun!). Issue 33 was presented as a full-size newspaper. While these are some of the more out-there examples, each issue has a unique look and offers a breadth of quality writing from voices you know and those you’ll be hearing more about soon.

The Kenyon Review

The Kenyon Review is a highly respected American literary magazine that has been around since 1939. It has a history of publishing influential writers early in their career, including Flannery O’Connor and Robert Lowell. Today, the flagship print magazine comes out six times a year, but the brand has extended to a digital site called KROnline that publishes new content every two weeks and an offshoot review site called KR Reviews that focuses on small and indie press publications. Print and digital back issues of the magazine are available for $5–15, depending on the format.

Free Online Literary Magazines

If you like your fiction with a twist of genre, check out Tor.com. This online literary magazine publishes science fiction and fantasy alongside critical writing and commentary on these genres. Content is published daily rather than in a traditional issue, so you can dip your toes into content on various parts of the site to complete this Read Harder task. Not sure where to dive in? You could always pick up a copy of Worlds Seen in Passing , a 576-page anthology featuring some of the best from Tor.com’s last ten years.

The Rumpus is an online literary magazine featuring a wide range of writing, including essays, poetry, fiction, book reviews, interviews, and comics. Writers you know and love have been regular contributors to the site, including Roxane Gay and Cheryl Strayed , whose book Tiny Beautiful Things came from her “Dear Sugar” Rumpus advice column. The site has several ongoing series focused on highlighting the voices of women and non-binary writers, including their “ Funny Women ” humor series and “ Enough ,” a series dedicated to writing focused on issues of violence and rape culture.

Undergraduate Literary Magazines

Most undergraduate institutions publish some kind of literary journal, including your alma mater (if you have one). How many of us have actually read ours, though? If you breezed past your school’s lit mag, why not track down a copy from one of the years you were in school or pick up a recent issue? This is a great way to support the work of the student editors who curate the magazines and also the emerging talent published in them. Before Angie Thomas published her blockbuster bestseller The Hate U Give , her short stories were featured in my school’s literary magazine, The Brogue . You never know what gems you’ll discover when you peep through the table of contents on back issues of your school’s!

Looking for even more options for literary journals you can try for this Read Harder task? Check out Christina’s “ Literary Magazines 101 ” post or this extensive listing of magazines on Poets & Writers !

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In the world of literature, storytelling is king. Whether it’s a gripping novel, a haunting poem, or a thought-provoking essay, what ultimately draws us in and keeps us hooked is the power of a well-told story. And what better way to explore the vast and diverse landscape of storytelling than through the pages of a literary magazine?

Literary magazines provide a platform for both established and emerging writers to share their stories, their experiences, and their unique perspectives on the world. From the experimental to the traditional, the humorous to the thought-provoking, the stories found in these magazines push boundaries and challenge us to see the world in new ways.

But with so many literary magazines out there, how do you know which ones are worth your time? In this article, we’ll explore some of the best literary magazines available today, each one offering its own unique brand of storytelling magic. Whether you’re a seasoned reader or just starting to dip your toes into the world of literature, these magazines are sure to provide a rich and rewarding reading experience. So settle in, grab a cup of tea, and let’s dive into the world of literary storytelling.

The Paris Review

The Paris Review is a leading literary magazine that has been publishing since 1953. It features interviews with prominent writers, as well as stories, poetry, and essays. It is known for publishing the first works of many now-famous writers, including Jack Kerouac, Philip Roth, and V. S. Naipaul.

Granta is a British literary magazine that has been publishing for over 130 years. It features fiction, non-fiction, and poetry from established and emerging writers from around the world. Granta is known for its themed issues, which explore various topics from a literary perspective.

McSweeney’s

McSweeney’s is an independent publishing house that produces a literary magazine, as well as books and other projects. The magazine features humor, fiction, and non-fiction, and is known for its unique design and typography.

The Los Angeles Review

The Los Angeles Review is a quarterly literary magazine that publishes poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and book reviews. It is known for its commitment to publishing diverse voices, with an emphasis on writers from the West Coast.

BOMB Magazine

BOMB Magazine is a quarterly publication that features interviews with artists, writers, and filmmakers, as well as works of fiction and poetry. It is known for its in-depth interviews with prominent writers and artists.

VQR Online is the online version of the Virginia Quarterly Review, a literary magazine that has been publishing since 1925. The online version features original works of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction, as well as multimedia content, including videos and podcasts.

n+1 is a literary magazine that focuses on contemporary culture and politics. It features fiction, essays, and reviews, as well as translations of works from other languages. n+1 has been praised for its fresh and critical voice.

The White Review

The White Review is a quarterly literary magazine that features fiction, poetry, and essays, as well as interviews with writers and artists. It is known for its commitment to publishing new and experimental works.

Electric Lit

Electric Lit is an online literary magazine that features fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, as well as critical essays and reviews. It is known for its commitment to publishing diverse voices and promoting emerging writers.

Music & Literature

Music & Literature is a biannual literary magazine that features works of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction, as well as interviews with writers, musicians, and artists. It is known for its innovative approach to publishing, which combines literature with music and other art forms.

The Stinging Fly

The Stinging Fly is an Irish literary magazine that features poetry, fiction, and non-fiction, as well as interviews with writers and artists. It is known for its commitment to promoting emerging Irish writers.

Flaneur Magazine

Flaneur Magazine is a biannual publication that explores different neighborhoods around the world through literature and photography. Each issue focuses on a specific neighborhood, providing a unique perspective on the area.

Freeman’s

Freeman’s is a biannual literary magazine that features works of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, as well as interviews with writers and artists. It is known for its themed issues, which explore different topics from a literary perspective.

Guernica Mag

Guernica Mag is an online literary magazine that features fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, as well as interviews with writers and artists. It is known for its commitment to promoting social justice issues through literature.

Visions is an online literary magazine that features original works of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction, as well as artwork and photography. It is known for its commitment to publishing new and experimental works.

ThreePenny Review

ThreePenny Review is a quarterly literary magazine that features fiction, poetry, and essays, as well as book reviews. It is known for its commitment to publishing works from emerging writers, as well as established ones.

American Chordata

American Chordata is a biannual literary magazine that features works of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, as well as artwork and photography. It is known for its commitment to publishing diverse voices and promoting emerging writers.

Zoetrope: All-Story

Zoetrope: All-Story is a quarterly literary magazine that features fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, as well as artwork and photography. It is known for its commitment to publishing works from emerging writers, as well as established ones.

New Criterion

New Criterion is a monthly literary magazine that features literary and cultural criticism, as well as essays and reviews. It is known for its conservative perspective and its commitment to high literary standards.

And that, my dear reader, is the magic of literary magazines. They are portals to other worlds, other stories, other lives. They are the doorways that lead us to new perspectives, and the keys that unlock our imaginations. As a writer and reader, I can attest to the immense value of these magazines in shaping and expanding our literary horizons. So go forth, dear reader, and seek out these literary gems. The world of storytelling is waiting for you, and the possibilities are endless.

The Big List of Literary Magazines

December 16, 2023 by Every Writer

This is our Big List of Literary Magazines, here you’ll find an extensive list of over 500 currently publishing literary magazines, arranged alphabetically from A to Z. This expansive directory includes established publications alongside up-and-coming journals across a diverse range of styles and genres.

From avant-garde poetry zines printed on a shoestring budget to prestigious venues like The New Yorker and Poetry Magazine, our list has a literary home for every writer. You’ll find magazines focused on fiction, nonfiction, poetry, flash fiction, experimental, prose, hybrid works, and more. Some concentrate on publishing new and emerging voices, while others feature luminaries at the heights of the literary world.

We have comprehensively compiled these literary magazines using careful research and curation. However, publications may change status or close from time to time. If you find a magazine on our list that is defunct or no longer accepting submissions, please notify us in the comments section. With the collaborative power of our writing community, we can maintain an up-to-date resource for all writers looking to submit their work.

2 river review 2river review is an online literary journal based in Santa Rosa, California that publishes poetry and visual art. The journal was founded in 1996.
34thParallel Magazine At 34thParallel Magazine what we’re about is giving you the rock-star treatment—sorry no sex and drugs!!
3Elements Review 3Elements Review was founded to spark imagination, to provide a unique creative challenge, and at the very least, to allow writers and artists a bit of fun with our three element prompts.
7th-Circle Pyrite The 7th Circle of Hell as represented in Dante's Inferno is reserved for those who have committed acts of violence. In the world we live in—where violence runs rampant
96th of October The name of this journal, 96th of October, is derived from a character in the Pogo comic strip who wishes to extend the sway of Halloween to where it displaces Christmas. Giving October 96 days effectively annexes December and the first week of January.
A Quiet Courage A Quiet Courage is an online literary journal specializing in tiny words. We publish compelling, poignant, memorable,
A Velvet Giant A VELVET GIANT is a genreless online literary journal, meaning that we do not categorize the work we receive by genre.
A3 Review The A3 Review is a literary magazine that behaves like a map, made by the folks who make Writing Maps.
Aberration Labyrinth This magazine is about expressing yourself. We do not restrict our publication to the confines of traditional poetry. If you write about drunken nights out, remembered or imagined, we want
Adelaide Literary Magazine We publish literary fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, and promote the writers we publish, helping both new, emerging, and established authors reach a wider literary audience.
Adroit Journal The Adroit Journal has been the subject of a fair amount of napkin scribbling since November 2010, when Founder/Editor-in-Chief Peter LaBerge decided that the world needed a literary magazine run entirely by high school and college students that helped the world in more ways than one. The Adroit Journal, bright with enthusiasm, was born. And ...
After Dinner Conversation After Dinner Conversation is an independent, nonprofit literary magazine with a focus on curating short fiction stories that explore philosophical and ethical
After Hours After Hours is a semi-annual literary magazine publishing poetry, fiction, art, and photography from Chicago
Agonia www.agonia.net is an international interactive website for writing and literature, formed by numerous cultural communities and languages. It is a platform where writers around the world publish their works, engage in providing constructive feedback critique oriented towards honing skills in the writing process.
Alarmist The Alarmist is a fresh, new, dark, funny and twisted printed literary magazine published biannually.
Alaska Quarterly Review Alaska Quarterly Review is one of America?s premier literary magazines and a source of powerful, new voices. AQR publishes short stories, short novellas, novel excerpts,
Ambit Magazine Ambit is a surreptitious peek inside a private world. Without it such vital sparks of inspiration could well be lost for ever.? ? Ralph Steadman Ambit is a 96-page quarterly literary and artwork
American Aesthetic, The To better understand the objectives of The American Aesthetic, one must first understand what prompted the creation of this poetry journal in the first place.
American Chordata American Chordata is a biannual magazine of bright voices in fiction, nonfiction essay, and poetry, as well as art and photography.
American Poetry Review American Poetry Review is a prestigious literary magazine founded in 1972. Published 6 times per year, APR focuses exclusively on publishing acclaimed contemporary poetry from the US and around the world, as well as poetry-related articles, interviews, essays and reviews.
Angie’s DIARY | Online Writing Magazine Angie?s DIARY is a contemporary, online magazine and community for writers, readers and editors. Free Submission of stories, essays, articles, poems and excerpts. Massive exposure
Anotherealm: Magazine of Speculative Fiction > A Free Monthly Magazine Featuring Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror.
Antigonish Review, The The Antigonish Review is a creative literary quarterly that publishes poetry, fiction, critical articles, and reviews. Our ideal reader has extensive interests and seeks the creative. Major accomplishments of TAR include giving
Apalachee Review (links to site) Apalachee Review
Apocalypse Confidential Established in 2021, APOCALYPSE CONFIDENTIAL is a web magazine of edgy extrapolations, fringe fascinations, occult obsessions, risky ruminations, and aberrant associations. We are a literary journal obsessed with the underworld
Apple Valley Review The Apple Valley Review, a semiannual online literary journal, was founded in 2005 by its current editor, Leah Browning. It is published in the spring and fall of the year.
ARDOR Literary Magazine ARDOR Literary Magazine was founded in September 2012 as a non-profit electronic literary magazine. It is published online three times annually (January, May, September). ARDOR accepts fiction, nonfiction, short-short and poetry submissions through its online submission manager and is committed to paying every writer published in ARDOR Literary Magazine.
ART TIMES Literary Journal and Resource for the Fine and Performing Arts ART TIMES Literary Journal and Resource for the Fine and Performing Arts
ARTWIFE ARTWIFE exists to serve as an oasis of art and beauty. We have deep reverence for human expression and we demand attention to craft
At Length At Length is a venue for ambitious, in-depth writing, music, photography, and art that are open to possibilities shorter forms preclude. As a print-friendly online magazine, we create ways for readers, listeners, and viewers
Atlas and Alice Literary Magazine Our Name: A&A takes its name from the ATLAS and ALICE experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. These experiments look to explain some of the most fundamental characteristics of the universe.
Avalon Literary Review The Avalon Literary Review welcomes work from both published and unpublished writers and poets. We accept submissions of poetry, short fiction and personal essays. The author's voice and point of view should be unique and clear. We seek pieces which spring from the author's life and experiences. Submissions which explore both the sweet and bitter ...
B O D Y B O D Y is an international online literary journal. We publish the highest quality poetry and prose from emerging and established writers, both original work and translations.
Bacopa Literary Review Bacopa Literary Review is an annual international print journal published by the Writers Alliance of Gainesville. We are seeking submissions in six categories this year: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Humor, Formal Poetry, Free Verse Poetry, and Visual Poetry.
Bad Version, The Launched in November 2011, The Bad Version is a new take on the literary-cultural magazine. Its name comes from the collaborative art of screenwriting, where the first attempt at a scene,
BALLOONS Lit. Journal First established in 2014, BALLOONS Lit. Journal (BLJ) is a young-reader-oriented literary journal that is freely accessible to all by online reading with a fully edited ready-to-print pdf version downloadable for every issue.
Baltimore Review The mission of The Baltimore Review is to showcase Baltimore as a literary hub of diverse writing and promote the work of emerging and established writers.
Baltimore Review The mission of The Baltimore Review is to showcase Baltimore as a literary hub of diverse writing and promote the work of emerging and established writers. The Baltimore Review was founded by Barbara Westwood Diehl in 1996
Barking Sycamores Who We Are The mission of Barking Sycamores is to publish poetry by emerging and established neurodivergent writers (autistic, ADHD, bipolar, synesthesia, etc.).
Bayou Magazine Bayou Magazine is a biannual literary magazine with national circulation published by the Creative Writing Workshop at the University of New Orleans. Each issue contains short fiction, non-fiction and poetry
Belfry Literary Journal Belfry Literary Journal is now accepting submissions for their first ever print publication, as well as for their online supplement as well! The reading period is open from May 1 to July 31, with publication set for January of 2024.
Bellevue Literary Review Bellevue Literary Review is a unique literary magazine that examines human existence through the prism of health and healing, illness and disease. In these universal
Beloit Fiction Journal The Beloit Fiction Journal publishes the best in contemporary short fiction. Traditional and experimental narratives find a home in our pages. We publish new writers
Bennington Review Bennington Review is a national biannual print journal of innovative, intelligent, and moving poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and film writing, housed at Bennington College.
Berkeley Fiction Review Berkeley Fiction Review is an literary journal founded in 1981 and based at the University of California, Berkeley.
Berkeley Poetry Review The Berkeley Poetry Review (BPR) is a journal published annually at the University of California, Berkeley. Founded in 1974, it has featured the work of new as well as established poets and writers
Bewildering Stories > Bewildering Stories — known informally as “BwS” — is a weekly electronic publication featuring speculative fiction as well as non-fiction, namely poetry, articles, essays, reviews, and art.
Big Fiction Big Fiction celebrates the soul of the long story: generous, transportive, and a little wild. We're an independent journal publishing ambitious and delicious fiction twice a year, in hand-designed letterpress issues.
Big Muddy: A Journal of the Mississippi River Valley 8.5 x 5.5 perfectbound, color-cover, semi-annual publication that explores multidisciplinary issues and events concerning the 10-state area that borders the Mississippi River, from the United States/Canadian
Black Denim Lit Black Denim Lit welcomes thoughtful writers, new and established. We are open to Genre fiction but favor "General", "Sci-Fi" and "Fantasy"... It's possible that we might also publish: Action/adventure, Western Mystery, Crime, Suspense or Thriller ...b
Black Fox Literary Magazine, The The Black Fox Literary Magazine is an online quarterly publication featuring quality fiction of all styles and genres. Our Spring issue is published in March, the summer issue is published in June, the fall issue is published in September and the winter issue is published in December.
Black Herald, The The Black Herald is an internationally-minded bilingual magazine (French-English) published in Paris. Co-edited by Blandine Longre and Paul Stubbs, the magazine’s only aim
Black Scat Review Black Scat Review, a magazine of sublime art & literature, is published irregularly and features innovative fiction, art, erotica, photography, interviews, and excerpts from forthcoming Black Scat Books.
Black Warrior Review Since 1974, Black Warrior Review has published the freshest voices in literature, from established and emerging talents alike. Each issue presents high quality poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, including a chapbook by a nationally recognized poet.
BLACKBERRY: a magazine BLACKBERRY: a magazine aims to be a premier literary magazine featuring black women writers and artists. Its goal is to expose readers to the diversity of the black woman?s experience and strengthen the black female voice in both
Blackbird Poetry: send up to six poems at a time. Single-space, please; set your poem as you want it to appear on the printed page.
Blast Furnace Blast Furnace is an independent literary publisher based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, still often referred to as the steel city. Blast furnaces were utilized for smelting
Bleeding Lion: A Journal of Contemporary Arts & Letters The Bleeding Lion is a journal of contemporary arts and letters with a special focus on anatomy, cross-cultural, visual arts & diverse pieces. We especially
Bloodletter Magazine Bloodletter is a feminist horror magazine showcasing personal and analytical perspectives on the horrific by women, trans, and non-binary writers.
Blotter Magazine, The The Blotter Magazine exists to nurture underground, outsider literature and art and to provide it to a wide audience. We believe that the economic viability of good art
Blotterature Blotterature is a brand new journal founded by four writers from Northwest Indiana. We accept a wide variety of prose, poetry, and artwork.
Blue Collar Review Blue Collar Review (Journal of Progressive Working Class Literature), published quarterly, contains poetry, short stories, and illustrations "reflecting the working class experience--a broad range from the personal to the societal.
Blue Mesa Review Blue Mesa Review is a literary magazine published online bi-annually. It is associated with the University of New Mexico.
Blue Mountain Review, The The Blue Mountain Review stands as a distinguished literary journal launched in 2015 seeking to platform impactful stories told across
Blue Villa Mag Blue Villa is more than just an online publication; it's a sanctuary for the arts, a digital canvas where creativity thrives, and individual stories unfold in a tapestry of human experiences. Our mission is crystal clear:
Bombay Review, The The Bombay Review is a bi-monthly literary magazine publishing short fiction and poetry. The issues are online, and at the end of the year, the best of the published pieces
Bookforum Magazine Since 1994, Bookforum has showcased daring writing about the important ideas of our time, with incisive essays on politics, pop culture, fiction, and the arts.
Boston Accent Lit Based in Boston, MA and founded in February 2016 by Sarah A. O'Brien, Boston Accent Lit aims to showcase work that is daring and innovative, as well as providing a platform for underrepresented
Brain, Child: The Magazine for Thinking Mothers Brain, Child treats motherhood as a subject worthy of literature. And in the best tradition of literature, it celebrates the diversity of mothers and their styles. Our essays and features address
Brick, A Literary Journal Brick is an international literary magazine based in Toronto, Canada, and edited by Michael Ondaatje, Michael Redhill, Linda Spalding, Michael Helm, Rebecca Silver Slayter, and Esta Spalding.
Bricolage Magazine Bricolage is a new arts and culture magazine based in India. We seek original, exciting works of art, literature and photograph for publication.
Brilliant Flash Fiction Brilliant Flash Fiction delivers vibrant stories from around the world illustrated with dazzling photography. Contributors include established writers and talented newcomers.
Broad River Review The Broad River Review is published every spring by the Department of English Language and Literature at Gardner-Webb University.
Brownies’ Book, The An interactive quarterly multi-cultural literary children's magazine. The magazine was created to help black children have positive images whilst living with a racially hostile environment. It was designed for all children,
Café Review, The The Café Review is a quarterly print volunteer publication based in Portland, Maine that has been publishing art, poetry and poetry book reviews for over 25 years. We forever search for new, strong voices in poetry and art, both in Maine and beyond Maine's borders.
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Cardiff Review, The The Cardiff Review is a digital and print literary magazine that publishes contemporary graduate writing. The magazine was launched to give talented students a platform
Carolina Quarterly, The The Carolina Quarterly publishes a variety of poetry, fiction, essays, reviews, and artwork three times a year. Approximately 1,000 copies are distributed to readers locally and to individual subscribers,
Carve Magazine (11th) Est. in 2000, Carve magazine, named in honor of Raymond Carver, is a literary magazine publishing new short stories every quarter. Our stories are free to read online
Cease, Cows At Cease, Cows we want to explore the contemporary, the strange, the big questions. We want to feel cultural pulses, expose mental arteries, bathe in both the sanguine and sanguinary. We want to publish prose and poems with fire and truth. Humans may be animals,
Celestial Blood Literary Magazine Celestial Blood Literary Magazine was founded on April 20th, 2019 by four aspiring, young writers. We have all heard that poetry is the lifeblood of poets.
Cemetery Dance > Cemetery Dance is the World Fantasy Award-winning magazine of horror, dark mystery, and suspense. Each issue is packed with 100 to 140 pages of short stories, articles, columns, interviews, news, and reviews!
CHA: An Asian Literary Journal CHA: An Asian Literary Journal is the first and currently only Hong Kong-based online literary quarterly journal dedicated to publishing creative works ! from and about
Chamber Magazine, The All rights remain with the author. There is no submission fee or submission period. The Chamber accepts submissions 24/7/365.
Christmas Spirits Sharing ghost stories in the chilly darkness by firelight is a celebrated holiday tradition that's ready for a resurrection. Christmas Spirits
Cleaver Magazine Cleave is a Janus verb, meaning both to stick tight and to fall away. A cleaver is the most broad-edged and brutally efficient kitchen knife, designed to be swung like a hammer for the most effective channel of force.
Clementine (Unbound) Clementine (Unbound) publishes a small selection of poetry each month online. Print copies can be viewed or purchased from Issuu.com.
CLOCKHOUSE Clockhouse accepts works of poetry, fiction, memoir, creative nonfiction, and dramatic works for stage or screen. We encourage submissions from both
Coffin Bell Coffin Bell is a quarterly online journal of dark literature seeking poetry, flash fiction, short stories, and creative nonfiction exploring dark themes.
Compose: A Journal of Simply Good Writing Compose: A Journal of Simply Good Writing is a biannual, online publication that features work by both established and emerging writers
CONSEQUENCE magazine CONSEQUENCE is a new literary magazine focusing on the culture of war in the twenty-first century. We believe that literature and art can advance the discourse a
Contrary Magazine Contrary is a quarterly literary journal that publishes fiction, poetry, commentary, and especially work that dances contrarily across those categories. We also publish book reviews.
Cosmic Horror Monthly > A monthly tome of tales, Lovecraftian, cosmic, and weird. Bold new horror delivered to your inbox or your mailbox. Horror: Short Stories
Cowboy Jamboree We like old westerns. Hank Williams is one of our favorite writers. Used boots are better than new boots. At Cowboy Jamboree we promote
Crab Fat Literary Magazine Crab Fat is interested in honesty, no matter how brutal it is. Don’t be afraid to use real language. Crab Fat is not interested in robotic academic language
Creation and Criticism Creation and Criticism (CC), which is a quarterly international peer-reviewed refereed English e-journal, aims at providing an opportunity to the researchers and scholars for sharing their creative and critical
Creative Nonfiction Creative Nonfiction is the voice of the genre. Published since 1994 as a journal, in 2010 CNF adopted a larger magazine format that combines new creative nonfiction about a variety of topics with columns and features about the art, business and craft of the genre. Recent issues have included interviews with or new work by ...
Cumberland River Review The Cumberland River Review is an annual publication of new poetry, fiction, essays, and art. The journal is produced by the department of English at Trevecca Nazarene University, in
CutBank We?re proud of CutBank?s thirty-nine years as Montana?s foremost literary magazine, founded in 1973 by the Creative Writing program at the University of Montana and helmed initially by favorite literary son William Kittredge.
Dappled Things Dappled Things is a Catholic literary magazine, and this raises the question of what Catholic literature is in the first place.
Dark Onus Lit Dark Onus Lit is a Philadelphia-based, volunteer-run, experimental micro-zine which publishes digital Issues of dark-themed artwork,
Del Sol Review Del Sol Review is now accepting submissions for the Spring 2017 editions in general fiction, science fiction and fantasy, and poetry
Delmarva Review Delmarva Review is an independent, nonprofit literary journal publishing short fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and short book reviews in print and digital editions annually.
Denali Magazine (page links to site) DENALI Literary Arts Journal is a student run publication of Lane Community College in Eugene, Oregon. We publish once annually during the spring. Denali accepts original submissions of art,
Dime Show Review Dime Show Review is born from a dream. Yes, an in-the-bed, under-the-covers dream. I saw a circus poster in a reference from the Library of Congress dating from the 1880’s
drafthorse drafthorse is a biannual online publication of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, visual narrative, and other media art where work, occupation, labor?or lack of the same?is in some way
Dreamers Creative Writing Dreamers is dedicated to all the different ways to write creatively from writing for writing’s sake, to using creative writing in academic research, to writing as therapy.
Driftwood Press Driftwood Press is an online literary journal that publishes fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, and visual art. We seek boundary-pushing, experimental
Drunk Monkeys Drunk Monkeys is an online publication which features an eclectic mix of content, from original poetry and fiction to cultural and political essays, film and television reviews, and humor pieces.
DUMAS de Demain: The French Literary Magazine At Dumas de Demain, we publish both online and print copies of French language stories, poems, fiction by young, emerging writers. We also celebrate and welcome French spoken word created by young artists
Eastern Iowa Review Most journals and reviews want a story; we want magic in the language & fire in the flow, a show to impress over drama to incite. Well, a story is fine IF it's embedded
Eclectica Magazine One of the earliest and therefore longest surviving ezines: considering pieces of fiction, poetry, essays, creative nonfiction, drama, book and movie reviews, travel writing, interviews and humor/satire
El Portal Eastern New Mexico University’s literary magazine, El Portal, offers a venue for the work of writers, artists and photographers.
Elan Literary Magazine The ?lan literary magazine is a publication of the Creative Writing program at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts in Jacksonville, Fl. Its creation in 1986 was fueled by a passion for the written word that inspired students
Elegant Literature Elegant Literature is a short fiction magazine and contest exclusive to new writers. We pay professional rates and help unpublished writers get their work into the world. We believe in helping aspiring writers break into the competitive fiction industry.
Embark: A Literary Journal for Novelists Embark is a literary journal designed for novelists and featuring exclusively novel beginnings—those crucial first pages that must engage the reader’s attention and often receive more polishing than any
Empty Mirror Empty Mirror was established in 2000 as a source of books and information on the Beat Generation and small-press poetry. Over time we broadened its scope.
Encephalon Journal New Latin for “the brain,” Encephalon is a youth-led art and literary journal. We are devoted to honoring the voice, craft, and originality of aspiring writers,
Epiphany, a literary Journal Epiphany is committed to publishing literary work in which form is as valued as content. We look for writing, wherever it may fall on the spectrum from experimental to traditional, that is thoroughly realized not only in its vision but also in its commitment to artistry. We are especially open to writers whose explorations of ...
Eratio (links to site) Eratio publishes poetry in the postmodern idioms with an emphasis on the intransitive. Each issue also comes as a PDF do! cument
Eratio Poetry Journal E·ratio is reading for issue 19, the spring 2014 issue. Please send cover letter, bio and poems together in one attachment. When saving your document,
Escape into Life (links to site) Literary writing webzine features Outsider Art and poetry submissions, along with a collection of literary essays and podcast feeds
Eucalyptus Lit Eucalyptus Lit is a quarterly magazine of poetry, prose, and artwork. We are looking for searing, electric work
Eunoia Review Eunoia Review is an online literary journal committed to sharing the fruits of 'beautiful thinking'. Each day, we publish one new piece of writing for your reading pleasure. We believe that Eunoia Review can and should be a home for all sorts of writing, and we welcome submissions from writers of all ages and backgrounds.
EWR: Short Stories We are a "new" publication. EWR: Short Stories started publishing in the fall. The publication is on Every Writer's Resource.com a site that has been publishing for 6 years. It is one of the largest writer's websites in the world. It has over 1.5 million unique visits per year. EWR: Short Stories tries to publish ...
EX/POST MAGAZINE We are a nonprofit literary and arts magazine dedicated to the frontier of experimentation. Here at EX/POST, we aren't interested in reactive action so much as perceptive thought
Exposition Review Exposition Review is an annual, independent literary journal dedicated to publishing narratives by new, emerging, and established writers in multiple genres and forms.
F(r)iction F(r)iction is a triannual publication that boasts work from both industry legends and emerging writers. We accept short fiction, creative nonfiction, flash fiction, comics, and poetry submissions all year round, and also host contests featuring guest judges
FANGORIA Magazine > FANGORIA Magazine has a 40+ year legacy of bringing fans the best horror coverage out there, and it all started in the summer of 1979 when issue #1 first appeared on newsstands. The publication has evolved over four decades and over 350 issues, but the original spirit remains. Horror: No unsolicited.
Fears Magazines > Fears Magazine - The best in Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Genre News and entertainment. Featuring movie interviews, news, dvd & film reviews, book reviews, and music reviews
Fiction International Fiction International is the only literary journal in the United States emphasizing formal innovation and progressive politics. It features a wide variety of fiction, nonfiction, indeterminate
Fictive Dream Fictive Dream, established in May 2016, is an English language online literary magazine dedicated to the short story. It is a well-respected outlet for short story writers from all over the world including the UK,
filling station filling Station seeks experimental fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and art. Anything suprising, unpredictable, innovative, or unique. We accept pieces that experiment with form or content, or both.
Fjords Review Fjords is an arts and literary review for the 21st century reader. The twice yearly magazine features new visual art, poetry, and short stories alongside translations and reviews.
Flash Fiction Online Flash Fiction Online is a monthly, online magazine publishing literary/mainstream/genre fiction. We pay professional rates and are SFWA affiliated. Both original and reprints are considered.
Flint Hills Review Flint Hills Review is an annual publication with a national circulation. We publish work with a particular interest in region, including regions of place, regions of ethnicity,
Floyd County Moonshine A bi-annual publication, Floyd County Moonshine has been in production over five years, publishing a variety of home-grown Appalachian writers in addition to writers from across the country.
Foreword Reviews Foreword Reviews is committed to shining a light on great stories from independent storytellers, writing objective, honest reviews of their books, and connecting them with readers who sh
Fourteen Hills Since its inception in 1994, Fourteen Hills has held an impressive reputation among international literary magazines for publishing the highest-quality innovative poetry,
Foxes Dancing Around Welcome to Foxes Dancing Around! Here, we want to give a welcoming environment to writers of all kinds, especially writers who have never
Fruitslice Fruitslice is a quarterly publication available both in print and e-book format. We are set to launch Winter 2023. Each issue is curated around a theme. For our first release, we are focusing on “Firsts”.
Ginosko Literary Journal Accepting short fiction & poetry, creative nonfiction, interviews, social justice concerns, spiritual insights for Ginosko Literary Journal. Editorial lead time 1-2 months; accept simultaneous
Gold Man Review Gold Man Review, an annual literary magazine produced in Salem, Oregon, under the umbrella of Gold Man Publishing, is aimed at serving our community of authors and artists.
Gone Lawn "Gone Lawn seeks to explore and advance the growth of a new literary intention befitting our new century. In particular we seek innovative, nontraditional and daring works, both narrative and poetic,
Gore Noir Magazine Gore Noir Magazine covers Horror art, horror models, tattoos, photography, special effects, celebrities, music, etc.
Grain Grain, the journal of eclectic writing, is a literary quarterly that publishes engaging, eclectic, and challenging writing and art by Canadian and international writers and artists. Grain is published
Gravel Literary Journal Gravel Literary Journal is a new online literary journal created by University of Arkansas-Monticello MFA students.
Great Ape The Great Ape pokes its head through the trees. It’s watching, waiting to see what you’ll do. The Great Ape suffers fools gladly, so be foolish
Griffith REVIEW Griffith REVIEW celebrates good writing and promotes public debate. It steps back from the issues of the day and gives writers the space to grow on the page. Essays reflect on the underlying significance of events and trends, explain the details that get lost in the news and examine the unintended consequences of public policy. ...
Grist: The Journal for Writers Founded in 2007 by graduate students in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Tennessee, Grist: The Journal for Writers is a resource for the discussion
Hakkyu Hakkyu, a name derived from the Japanese word meaning "to spread," embodies our mission to amplify the voices of the young and emerging writers
High Desert Journal High Desert Journal is a literary and visual art magazine dedicated to further understanding the people, places and issues of the interior West. Its pages help define this region in literary
Home Planet News Home Planet News was founded by Enid Dame & Donald Lev in 1979. Based in New York City, it appeared three times a year in a 24-page newsprint format
Howl Howl, founded in 2013, is an online literary arts magazine run and operated by dedicated, passionate, and talented students of Deltona High School
Illuminarium Chronicles Illuminarium Chronicles is an international literary magazine that was created to be a bridge to freedom of expression and aims to publish creative
Indiana Review Now in its thirty-eighth year of publication, Indiana Review is a non-profit literary magazine dedicated to showcasing the talents of emerging and established writers.
Inklette Magazine Inklette is a not-for-profit, online literary magazine helmed by emerging artists and writers from all over. Inklette believes in the ability of art and literature to strike our consciousness
ionosphere Our literary journal, ionosphere, focuses on the relationship between science, technology, and the human experience. We seek poetry submissions that explore
James Dickey Review Though attempting to maintain an artistic and intellectual connection to the work of James Dickey, the James Dickey Review accepts all manner of poetry, nonfiction, scholarly articles, and book reviews. The journal is published twice yearly, is assigned International Standard
James Gunn’s Ad Astra The Center for the Study of Science Fiction (CSSF), in association with the University of Kansas, announces the launch of James Gunn's Ad Astra, an online resource for authors, scholars
Journal of Compressed Creative Arts (Matter Press) Matter Press is a community-based, non-profit 501(c)(3) literary press that publishes an online literary journal (The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts), manages a compressed prose and poetry chapbook contest, and supports a regular reading series. Matter Press offers internships to Rosemont College MFA in Creative Writing & M.A. in Publishing alums and degree-candidates as submission ...
JuxtaProse Literary Magazine Founded in 2015, JuxtaProse is an Idaho-based literary magazine that publishes fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, art, and photography from around the world.
KaleidoScript Magazine KaleidoScript Magazine is a captivating literary haven where storytelling takes centre stage. With a mission to inspire, uplift, and connect, each edition unfolds a kaleidoscope
Kathai Literary Journal The Kathai Literary Journal was started by Sanjana Senthil in 2022. It aims to curate art and writing from all young creators
Lifelines: Dartmouth Medical School Literary Journal Lifelines is a journal published by Darmouth Medical School and publishes original and unpublished short stories, non-fiction, poetry, and artwork for our 2011 issue. We are a literary and art
Lines + Stars Lines + Stars began as a means of establishing a new creative forum in Washington, D.C., a city that all-too-often coasts solely on its more mechanistic pursuits. While many of our contributors hail from the D.C. area, we've also expanded our writer-base to include national and international voices.
Litbreak Magazine Litbreak is an online literary journal that is published by Jason Chambers and edited by Dennis Haritou. Our signature photography is by Jason Rice.
Literary Heist Literary Heist is a quarterly magazine that wants to democratize the literary and art world. It is looking to showcase good work that comes from new and existing writers and artists.
Literary Yard The Literary Yard invites stories, articles on literature, literary criticism, opinion articles on literature
Litro Magazine LitroUSA is as a 501(c)(3) non-profit, fosters a national community for innovative writing and creative works. We connect cultures, encourage dialogues via technology and arts, and ensure literature’s prominence in popular culture by backing writers and artists.
Little Patuxent Review Little Patuxent Review (LPR) is a biannual print journal with an associated blog that features writers and artists from the Mid-Atlantic region and beyond. It was founded in 2006 by a group of local writers
Lotus-eater Lotus-eater is a literary magazine based in Rome. We are looking for daring, unusual, and inspiring writing. Our ambition is two-fold: to publish high-quality poetry and prose in the English language
Lucky Jefferson Lucky Jefferson is an award-winning literary journal that generates interactive conversations around poetry and art by reforming the way journals are produced and shared with readers. Lucky Jefferson is proud to feature poets who have never been published, marginalized perspectives, and those who sought to pursue poetry later in life.
Lucky Lizard Journal Lucky Lizard Journal was founded in 2023 with the purpose of being a competitive, egalitarian poetry journal that allows
Lunaris Review Art is escapist, and that is its splendour. If the freedom of mind and soul is valued and we remain devout seekers of freedom; it then becomes our duty to escape through
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Manzano Mountain Review Manzano Mountain Review is an online literary journal based in New Mexico and loosely affiliated with the University of New Mexico-Valencia. MMR was founded in 2017 and publishes issues in November and sometimes May.
Meat for Tea: The Valley Review Meat for Tea: The Valley Review was founded by Alexandra Wagman and Elizabeth MacDuffie. We are a non academic affiliated publication committed to featuring and publishing the works of artists and writers in the Pioneer River Valley and beyond.
Michigan Quarterly Review MQR is an eclectic, interdisciplinary journal of arts and culture that seeks to combine the best of poetry,
Midwest Review The Midwest Review is an annual literary and arts magazine published in Madison Wisconsin, featuring the Midwest in work by writers, photographers and artists
Modern Literature Modern Literature (www.modernliterature.org) is an online literary journal that has an ambitious aim of blooming into an international literary hub for established, emerging and new literary talent.
Mojo Mojo is the graduate-run online literary journal from Wichita State University?s MFA program. We publish in the Fall and Spring. All selected work is considered for inclusion in our annual
Moonday Mag Established in 2023 and inspired by the founder’s dream journal, Moonday Mag is a quarterly art and literary magazine
Moss The Pacific Northwest is home to a thriving, vibrant literary culture. Following in a long tradition of finely crafted regional writing that is at once lyrical and gritty
Mud Season Review Mud Season Review is an international literary journal run by members of the Burlington Writers Workshop, a free writing workshop based in Vermont
MUSE INDIA, the literary eJournal Muse India is devoted to Indian literature and showcases Indian Writing in English as well as translations from all Indian language literatures. Each Issue focuses on one of the Indian language literature.
n+1 Writers interested in contributing to n+1 should note that we come out only three times each year, and that most if not all of the slots available for a given issue will have been filled by the editors many months before publication. That said, if you would like to brave the odds, the best submissions ...
Narrative Magazine Edited by Carol Edgarian and Tom Jenks two well-established editors, the publication is making a real run at being a “big time” literary magazine on the web
Nat. Brut Nat. Brut is an online multimedia art and literary magazine released free to the world twice a year. We aim to provide quality, engaging, dynamic, inspiring
New Feathers Anthology We believe art is a means of exploration and understanding, a way to play, to discover, and to communicate ideas
New Millennium Writings New Millennium Writings is an award-winning literary journal founded in 1996 in Knoxville., TN, by prize-winning journalist Don Williams.
New Plains Review New Plains Review provides an outlet for the creative and intellectual efforts of the academic community. Dedicated to fostering and maintaining the written word, New Plains Review gives a collective presentation
Nighthawk Literature Sometimes, our most vulnerable and bizarre ideas surface during the night, while the hours run over our eyes and leap into the morning. Nighthawk Literature is here to discover the vulnerable, the bizarre, and the unusual.
October Hill Magazine October Hill Magazine set sail on its maiden voyage as a non-profit magazine in the Spring of 2017 in New York City. The magazine grew out of the Literary Lights Writer’s Group,
Otis Nebula Otis Nebula is a digital literary magazine currently in its tenth year. It publishes incandescent, substantial work that operates on its own terms. The focus is on poetry, though the editors are always on the lookout for brazen short fiction, crispy creative non-fiction, rocking reviews
Oxford American The Oxford American is a national magazine dedicated to featuring the very best in Southern writing while documenting the complexity and vitality of the American South. Billed as "The
Painted Bride Quarterly Painted Bride Quarterly, established in Philadelphia in 1973, is one of the country’s longest running literary magazines. PBQ is a community-based, independent, non-profit literary magazine published quarterly online and annually in print, making it accessible to a broad and diverse audience.
Panel Panel Magazine reflects contemporary literature that is being produced in Central and Eastern Europe, and is written in English or translated into English.
Papercuts Papercuts is the bi-annual literary magazine of Desi Writers Lounge – an online workshop for writers of South Asian
Pictura Journal Pictura Journal began in a dim midwestern kitchen during tornado season. A handful of storms and years and missteps later,
Pithead Chapel Pithead Chapel is a small, independent and volunteer-run journal out of Michigan?s Upper Peninsula. At present, we?re only a monthly electronic journal; however, that could change over time to include printed issues.
Please See Me Please See Me, an online literary journal dedicated to highlighting creative writing and artistic expression through photography and digital media by patients
Ploughshares Ploughshares has published quality literature since 1971. Our award-winning literary journal is published four times a year; our lively literary blog publishes new writing daily. Since 1989, we have been based at Emerson College in downtown Boston
Plume Publishing the best national and international poetry: recent authors include Alicia Ostriker, Amy Gerstler, Stuart Dybek, Carl Dennis, Denise Duhamel, Terese Svoboda, G.C. Waldrep,
Polyphony H.S. polyphony-11cover2Website http://www.polyphonyhs.com From the Editor We are an international student-run literary magazine for high school writers and editors. We have an editorial panel of some 150 high school students
Pomegranate London The Pomegranate London is a biannual printed art and literary magazine featuring short stories, poems and essays on artists. Founded in July 2020, The Pomegranate London seeks to publish and promote innovative, fresh and experimental new work from established and emerging writers and artists from the UK and internationally. The magazine may also
Popshot Magazine Popshot is an illustrated literary magazine that publishes short stories, flash fiction, and poetry from the literary new blood. The magazine is published bi-annually, releasing a new issue every April and October.
Posit Posit is an online journal which publishes four issues per year of poetry, prose, and visual art. We feature a dynamic, accomplished, sophisticated work that may be eclectic in style
Postcard Poems and Prose Who are we: Postcard Poems and Prose Imagine a painter, photographer, novelist, and poet all running willy-nilly and meeting full-speed. That collision is Postcard Poems and Prose .
Power Cut Delve into the seedy badlands of 20th century pop culture with the devil’s music, books, and films. Power Cut is an innovative new bi-annual literary magazine
Prism Review We hope to read your very best - and more than that we're excited to read it, and we want more, we hope for more, we quietly plead for/demand more
Protean Magazine Protean Magazine is a non-profit leftist publication that produces an annual print magazine and publishes online content year-round.
Psychopomp Magazine The Psychopomp Magazine staff is committed to publishing original fiction that dares to redefine traditional storytelling and genre borders. While we like stories
Radar Poetry Radar Poetry is an electronic journal published quarterly in January, April, July, and October. We publish poems from both established and emerging writers and welcome international submissions.
Rattle Rattle’s mission is to promote the practice of poetry. We feel that poetry lost its way in the 20th century, becoming so obscure and esoteric that mainstream readers have forgotten how moving language alone can be
Riot Material Riot Material is a new online cultural and literary magazine. We are a Los Angeles-based, but we are global in our vision and expect to highlight the best of the written word from around the world
RipRap Journal Welcome to RipRap, a literary journal designed and produced annually by students in the Master of Fine Arts, Creative Writing program at California State University Long Beach (CSULB).
RockPaperPoem RockPaperPoem presents a uniquely blended mix of poetry. We're grounded in imagery, emotion and humanity, but we also showcase varied
Room Magazine Canada's oldest literary journal by and about women. Room is a space where women can speak, connect, and showcase their creativity. Each quarter we publish
Rowayat Rowayat is a literary journal emerging from Egypt. We feature writers living in Egypt, or have lived in Egypt in the past.
Ruminate RUMINATE is a quarterly magazine of short stories, poetry, creative nonfiction, and visual art that resonate with the complexity and truth of the Christian faith. Each
Saw Palm: Florida Literature and Art Published by the students of the MFA Creative Writing Program at the University of South Florida, Saw Palm captures the unique experience of Florida life
Scarlet Leaf Review Mission: to find a niche in the rich literary world and once we have done that to let the writers and artists, either old or young, have their say; to promote various
Segullah "Segullah is a literary journal and blog designed to encourage literary and artistic talent, provoke thought and promote greater understanding and faith
Sequestrum Founded by graduates of Iowa's major creative writing programs—Iowa State University and the prestigious University of Iowa—Sequestrum has faithfully published award-winning writers and new voices alike for our 1,000+ monthly readership
SFL Style magazine SFL Style Magazine is the lifestyle magazine for South Florida visitors as well as local growing population. We deliver the latest local trends in fashion, beauty, art, travel, real estate
Silver Apples Magazine Silver Apples Magazine is a new Irish e-zine founded by friends and long-time collaborators Alex Dunne and Gráinne O’Brien
Sixth Finch We are committed to bringing the best in contemporary art and poetry to our readers at no cost. Poems from Sixth Finch have appeared in The Best American Poetry and The Pushcart Prize.
Sky Island Journal Sky Island Journal is an independent, free-access, online literary journal with an international reach; we are dedicated to discovering, curating, and publishing the finest original poetry, flash fiction, and creative nonfiction. Your best writing deserves an
Slightly Foxed In case you haven't come across it, Slightly Foxed is a rather different kind of book review ? more like a bookish friend, really, than a literary periodical. Companionable and unstuffy, each
Small World City Small World City is a Dhaka, Bangladesh-based online literary magazine looking for speculative stories—in the very different forms they take. We are looking
So to Speak: a feminist journal of language and arts We are a literary journal that seeks submissions from diverse perspectives and backgrounds that focus on intersectional feminism.We look for work that addresses issues
SoFloPoJo- South Florida Poertry Journal We publish quarterly - poetry from all over the world- living in or writing about Florida is NOT a requirement. We want lyrical, mystical, magical, whimsical, finely crafted poems, pantoums and villanelles, prose-poems, "voices from the fierce, intangible world".
SORTES SORTES is a spinning collection of stories, poems, songs, and illustrations to help while away the wintery June nights. It’s an oddball grabbag wunderkammer mixtape offering distraction a
Soundings East Soundings East is the literary journal of Salem State University, published annually with support from the Center for Creative and Performing Arts
Southern Writers Magazine We promote and highlight authors and their books. Since inception we have promoted over 850 authors. We let writers and readers come behind the scenes of successful
Spadina Literary Review Spadina Literary Review is an online literary magazine based in Toronto, Canada, with an international readership. The magazine was launched in 2011 and after a few years of irregular appearances is now publishing every two months.
Spark: A Creative Anthology Our goal was to establish a high-quality, paying market where emerging authors and gain professional experience being published alongside known and respected writers.
Spectrum Magazine Spectrum Magazine was launched in 2013 by Mercedes Lucero and founded on the belief that everyone has the ability to bring something lovely
Speculative 66 Born September 6th, 2016, Speculative 66 is a (mostly) monthly journal of 66-word stories and poems from the speculative realm. We feature science fiction
Spoke Journal Spoke is a literary, art, and audio publication cultivating an outlet for original and finely crafted ideas. Art originates in process, the interaction between ideas and environment. What is this environment, this place? What is its art, its identity?
Spray Paint Magazine Spray Paint Magazine is an independent online literary magazine aiming at giving artists a voice. It was established in early 2022
Spry Literary Journal We envision Spry as a literary journal that features undiscovered and established writers' concise, experimental, hybrid, modern, vintage or just plain vulnerable writing. We see this as a place
Stanza Cannon As a free-to-submit, free-to-listen literary quarterly dedicated solely to audio submissions, Stanza Cannon enhances humanity’s age-old tradition of oral poetry
Steel Toe Review STR has been around for about a year and a half. We publish an issue online about every other month. We recently printed an anthology featuring the best pieces from our first year online,
Still Point Arts Quarterly Still Point Arts Quarterly is a truly beautiful and engaging art and literary journal. It was founded in 2011 by Shanti Arts, a press based in Brunswick, Maine, that also publishes books and is dedicated to honoring the timeless connections among nature, art, and spirit.
Stinkwaves Magazine looking for YA/middle-grade fiction, poetry, illustrations
Stone Highway Review I get excited by writing that tries new things. When a writer can make that comparison that I wish I had come up with first. When the poem isn't trying too hard and somehow makes me feel. When a piece is so lovely and gosh darn sensitive to human nature that I can't help but ...
Story Story is a tri-annual print publication devoted to the complex and diverse world of narrative with a focus on fiction and nonfiction. Formerly a publication of York College, Story has reorganized as a non-profit, independent arts organization based in Columbus, Ohio.
Story Club Magazine Story Club Magazine is a literary journal for literary performance. We publish visceral nonfiction that has first been performed in front of a live audience
Story Monsters Ink Story Monsters Ink, a literary resource for teachers, librarians, and parents, is an award-winning magazine that covers the latest news on debut books and products, celebrity and independent author profiles
StoSo Press Welcome to StoSo Press, where the realms of imagination come to life. Founded in 2023 as a passion project by writer and artist Gabriel De Leon who has
Straight Forward: A Poetry Journal Poetry: There are no restrictions on length or form, but we are looking for poetry that is clear and honest. We will consider previously published writing as along as the earlier publication information is provided at the time of submission. Essays and Blogs: In addition to poetry we will also consider guest blog entries and ...
Streetcake We publish experimental poetry and short fiction every 3 months. We like work with an experimental bent and do not generally publish more traditional forms.
Streetlight Magazine Streetlight is an online, non-profit magazine dedicated to publishing new and noteworthy works of poetry, fiction, non-fiction and art. The magazine began life as an annual print publication featuring works from central Virginia
STRIKE Magazine STRIKE Magazine is a completely independent, community supported, working class political art and culture magazine in South Texas.
Subnivean Subnivean, SUNY Oswego’s literary publication, was established in 2020. In 2021, it was recognized for its excellence as one of just four national Firecracker Awards finalists in the category of “Magazines: Best Debut” by the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses.
Sunspot Literary Journal Sunspot Literary Journal speaks truth to power by drawing on the power of every human being. The publication is dedicated to diverse voices in fiction, poetry, nonfiction, scripts, screenplays, photography, and art from around the world. Since launching in January of 2019, Sunspot has amplified multinational voices from around the world. New works have been ...
Surrealist Star Clustered Illuminations Surrealist Star Clustered Illuminations. An online literary magazine featuring contemporary Surrealist Fiction / Poetry / Art
Suspense Magazine > Suspense Publishing continues to expand its reputation and influence in the publishing industry, offering some of the best titles in the suspense, thriller, mystery, and horror genres
Swamp Biscuits & Tea Swamp Biscuits and Tea is a quarterly journal of highly imaginative short fiction. Though magic realism is our primary focus, our journal strives to coalesce an interesting variety of styles
Swamppink formally Crazyhorse Recent poems from Crazyhorse were selected for reprint in The Best American Poetry 2008 and 2007 and The Pushcart Prize anthology, recent fiction in The Best American Short Stories 2008. Richard Jackson's poem
Synaesthesia Magazine We are a literary and arts magazine run by two passionate editors. Our magazine aims to engage writers and artists in an exploration of the senses, publishing photography, artwork, poetry and short stories.
Syzygy Poetry Journal Syzygy Poetry is about but not quite limited to (1.) Heavenly bodies, or Astronomy. an alignment of three celestial objects,as the sun, the earth, and either the moon
Talking Writing Talking Writing is an online literary magazine that supports writers and those interested in literature by encouraging creative discussion of the writing process. Each issue of Talking Writing
Tallow Eider Quarterly Tallow Eider Quarterly is based out of Olympia, WA and showcases the most innovative art and writing available. We welcome poetry, art and fiction submissions year-round.
Tangled Web Magazine Tangled Web Magazine is a speculative fiction and Tartan Noir magazine featuring dark, twisty stories that explore the tangled web of our lives. We love stories with a sense of intrigue, stories that make us feel, that challenge us, Submission Guidelines Genre: Fiction, Speculative
Tattoo Highway (Publishing Paused) Tattoo Highway is an online journal of poetry, literary fiction and nonfiction, original graphics and photography. Most issues have a theme, which may be interpreted literally or (very) loosely. 2017: "Down the Rabbit Hole."
Tethered by Letters Tethered by Letters is a nonprofit literary journal dedicated to cultivating writers of all ages, backgrounds, education, or genres. Our mission is fulfilled through the three avenues for writing success:
The Anti-Misogyny Club The Anti-Misogyny Club Website https://www.theantimisogynyclub.com From the Editors The Anti-Misogyny has just launched as an online gallery of feminist art and writing, and this summer, will launch a bi-monthly journal of the same. Our mission is to use art and writing to resist misogyny, because we’re tired of the misogyny our culture is drenched in: tired of rape being ...
The Cincinnati Review The Cincinnati Review draws together within its pages the finest creative and critical work from across the country. We provide a venue for writers of any background, at any point in their literary
The Citron Review The Citron Review is an online literary journal created and edited by alumni of the esteemed Antioch University Los Angeles M.F.A. Program. We seek submissions of resonant beauty in the form of micro-fiction, flash fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction. Submissions are accepted on a rolling basis.
The Closed Eye Open The Closed Eye Open is an art & literature website that was started as an exploration of consciousness. Our main goal is to feature a wide range of art forms that connect in some way with this pursuit.
The College Review The College Review is an online publication that focuses on bringing new and fresh writers into the spotlight, with a special emphasis on those currently in college or recently graduated. Established in March of 2013,
The Columbia Review The Columbia Review is the oldest college literary magazine in the nation, publishing its first issue in 1815.
The Common Finding the extraordinary in the common has long been the mission of literature. Inspired by this mission and the role of the town common, a public gathering place for the display and exchange of ideas,
The Commonline Journal The Commonline Journal publishes accessible literature, critisism and art apropos the common line. Originally titled the "The Commonline Project," The Commonline Journal was
The Conium Review We still believe in the allure of "new book smell," and we are dedicated to producing high-quality print editions of each issue. The publication itself is print-only, but we augment our traditionalist methods with podcasts, social networking, and online reviews. We seek to revive and redefine small press publishing, supporting independent literature in ...
The Cossack Review Since 2012, TCR has published meaningful works of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as literature in translation from around the world. We print writers
The Creativity Webzine We are seeking new talent and new authors. "The Creativity Webzine" is a new journal that focuses on all things original.
The Cumberland River Review The Cumberland River Review is a quarterly online publication of new poetry, fiction, essays, and art. The journal is produced by the department of English at Trevecca Nazarene University, in Nashville, Tennessee, and welcomes submissions from both national and international writers and artists.
The Curie Review The Curie Review is a literary magazine that is passionate about empowering the next generation of future leaders in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics).
The Dawn Review The Dawn Review is a quarterly print and online literary magazine that celebrates diverse voices and perspectives.
The Death Cross Monk This is a multi-media art journal. We accept audio, visual, poetry, prose, and film submissions. Our first online issue features a range of established artists and also new and emerging artists. All ranges of artists are encouraged to apply.
The Digital Americana Magazine The original tablet literary magazine. The Digital Americana Magazine (DAM) launched as the first literary magazine made exclusively for tablets after having been accepted and made
The Drum Literary Magazine The Drum is a non-profit online magazine dedicated to literature in audio form. We publish short fiction and essays from emerging and established writers who value the power of writing out loud.
The Ekphrastic Review The Ekphrastic Review is an online journal devoted entirely to writing inspired by visual art. Our objective is to promote ekphrastic writing, promote art
The Ellis Review The Ellis Review was established as a platform through which emerging writers may have their voices magnified. Inspired by our namesake Ellis Island, we specialize in pulling forth gems from frigid ocean waters; once a week, every week
The English Chicago Review Founded in 2012, The English Chicago Review is a quarterly small-press poetry journal based in the north of England.
the evermore review the evermore review is seeking submissions for its first issue. This journal is the Editor-in-Chief's master's thesis, which she will defend in early December 2022. the evermore review is an online short fiction journal seeking submissions containing the essence of Taylor Swift's album "evermore."
The Fat City Review The Fat City Review is an online magazine that publishes fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and visual art.
The Fiction Desk Based in the UK, The Fiction Desk publishes a quarterly anthology of new short fiction from around the world.
The FictionWeek Literary Review The FictionWeek Literary Review is published online twice a year, spring! and fall by FictionWeek.com. We are now accepting submissions for the Spring 2010 Issue. The FictionWeek Literary Review is a venue for innovative fiction and poetry. We intend to primarily publish writing that breaks new ground by finding new ways to tell a story. ...
The FictionWeek Literary Review The FictionWeek Literary Review has been publishing fiction and poetry twice a year since 2009. We are looking for only the finest literature, and we publish only a few stories and poems each issue.
The Florida Review Welcome Welcome to The Florida Review, the literary journal published twice yearly by the University of Central Florida. Our artistic mission is to publish the best poetry
The Found Poetry Review The Found Poetry Review is a quarterly online poetry journal celebrating the poetry in the existing and the everyday. We publish found poetry, centos, erasure poems and other forms that incorporate elements of existing texts. We also publish photography that captures the visual poetry found in people and places.
The Four Cornered Universe The Four Cornered Universe is an online journal which is dedicated to publishing high-quality fiction, poetry, and nonfiction essays. We publish 2-5 new pieces on Mondays. Submissions are considered on a rolling basis, and you should expect to hear back from us within a month. We accept previously unpublished authors as well as established ones. ...
The Future Fire Online magazine of socio-political speculative fiction: Feminist SF; Queer SF; Eco SF.
The Gettysburg Review The Gettysburg Review is published by Gettysburg College. The Review has been publishing for since. The Gettysburg Review is a quarterly publications
The Globe Review This literary journal strives to create an accepting and diverse community of writers based on the core values of tolerance and creativity.
The Golden Key The Golden Key is a bi-annual journal of speculative and literary writing inspired by the Grimm Brothers' fairy tale of the same name. The Grimms chose ?The Golden Key? to end
The Golden Triangle The Golden Triangle publishes fiction, poetry, and non-fiction. At The Golden Triangle we are attempting to keep the writing life alive in a world that is severely lacking. You can expect to find fresh, risk-taking, original poetry, fiction, and non-fiction coupled with intelligent design.
The Healing Muse The Healing Muse is the annual journal of literary and visual art published by SUNY Upstate Medical University's Center for Bioethics & Humanities
The Hour of Lead The Hour of Lead is an online poetry magazine which aims to publish new issues on a quarterly basis – in reality we’ll publish every time we have sufficient good work to justify an issue, that’s the beauty
The Hunger The Hunger is a journal of visceral writing that publishes fiction, poetry, nonfiction, hybrid work, and visual art in three issues yearly, appearing in the Winter, Spring, and Fall.
The Hungry Chimera The Hungry Chimera is a quarterly literary magazine devoted to short fiction, poetry, and visual art. Our focus is depth and quality. We publish authors and artists with varying levels of experience and hope to both promote
The Ibis Head Review The Ibis Head Review is a quarterly literary webzine. The publication is dedicated to the idea that poetry is a necessary aspect of the human experience & it should be appreciated by people of all backgrounds
The Ideate Review Founded by writer Jimin Lee in the winter of 2017 during her sophomore year, The Ideate Review is a literary magazine that accepts works by emerging writers and artists above the age of 14 from across the globe.
The Incandescent Review The Incandescent Review is a non-profit, teen-run literary magazine with a team hailing from around the globe: from New Delhi to Shanghai, from Nairobi to San Francisco.
The Indianola Review The Indianola Review, based out of the Midwest, is a new quarterly literary journal featuring the best short fiction and poetry we can possibly get our hands on.
The Inflectionist The Inflectionist® is a publication for the literary, musical, for the arty, the linguistic and expressive, containing interesting and up to date articles written on the subjects of Language
The Inflectionist Review The Inflectionist Review is a small press publishing stark and distinctive contemporary poetry that fosters dialog between the reader and writer, between words and their meanings, between ambiguity and concept.
The Intentional The Intentional is a print literary and culture magazine that supports emerging writers and prizes approachability. We publish fiction, nonfiction, poetry,
The Iowa Review The Iowa Review is an American literary magazine that publishes fiction, poetry, essays, and reviews. The magazine--currently in its 42nd year--is published in April, August, and December
The Kleksograph An international Review of arts and the subconscious. Surely every work of art is informed by the subconscious? True, but most artists would contend that their work is mainly the result of conscious, rational decisions
The Lake "All of writing is a huge lake. There are great rivers that feed the lake, like Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky. And then there are mere trickles, like Jean Rhys.
The Lark The Lark is an online, quarterly arts and literary magazine that pays its contributors. The Lark firmly believes that the ubiquity of the internet is not a reason to accept diminished quality in publications,
The Literary Bohemian The Literary Bohemian , the hippest online destination for travel-inspired poetry, ?postcard? prose and snappy reviews. Updated with (almost) monthly issues, the site is bursting with intriguing content and boasts design to die for with retro luggage labels, compasses and yellowing
The Literary Yard The Literary Yard invites stories, articles on literature, literary criticism, opinion articles on literature and literary trends and much more. Send your best write-ups in a .doc, .docx, or .rtf file. If you?re sending poems,
The London Magazine The London Magazine is England?s oldest literary periodical, with a history stretching back to 1732.
The Longbox Project The Longbox Project is a literary journal for comic geeks. Believing that most collectors have memories associated with nearly every comic book in their collection, we accept works of creative non-fiction that rely on comics as both inspiration, and point of departure.
The Los Angeles Review of Los Angeles We know we're rude. We know we're immature. Hey, it's 2012, folks! We live in Los Angeles! Fuck. See, some nice Midwesterners still don't quite know what that means. The Republic died
The Los Angeles River Review The Los Angeles River Review is a new and independent poetry journal based in Hollywood, CA. Publishing semiannually in print, the review aims to bring forward-thinking and refined poetry to readers throughout the United States.
The Lune Quarterly The Lune Quarterly is a reflective space in which to witness feats of identity, place and feeling. We share work that stems from a sense of wonder, delight
The Madison Review The Madison Review is a literary arts journal published through the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Founded in the early 1970s by students from the university’s creative writing program,
The Maine Review The Maine Review is a quarterly literary magazine publishing short fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and essays. The Review runs contests each year
The Malahat Review The Malahat Review, established in 1967, is among Canada?s leading literary journals. Published quarterly, it features contemporary Canadian and international works of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction as well as reviews of recently published Canadian poetry, fiction, and literary nonfiction.
The Manila Envelope At The Manila Envelope, we are proud to support creative work of the art and writing community and are committed to publishing great work that shows the promise of gifted, emerging writers and artists.
The Masters Review Each year The Masters Review publishes a ten-story collection showcasing the best in graduate-level creative writing. Our editors and judges select the ten best stories written by students in MA, MFA, and PhD creative writing programs
The Matador Review The Matador Review is an online literature and art quarterly based in Chicago, Illinois.
The Metric The METRIC is an online literary publishing project. We aim to promote literary interestingness on the web at a grassroots level. METRIC?s origins are sprung from smaller e-zines.
The Missing Slate The Missing Slate originated in Pakistan as a vehicle to promote original and innovative work from writers and artists of any age, from any country. The magazine aims to provide a platform
The Missouri Review The Missouri Review, founded in 1978, is one of the most highly-regarded literary magazines in the United States and for the past thirty-three years we've upheld a reputation for finding and publishing the best writers first.
The Monarch Review The Monarch Review is a publication dedicated to sustaining a literary tradition both curious and amenable to the necessary adaptations of creative lives lived in a world of increasingly rapid technological advancement. Only within an understanding of tradition as existing in a state of perpetual change can it be sustained.
The Montucky Review The Montucky Review is a web based poetry publication that seeks well crafted wordplay from both established and novice writers alike.
The Nelligan Review The Nelligan Review accepts unsolicited submissions of fiction, essays, reviews, poetry, art, and photography.
The New Guard The New Guard is a contest-centered review. We run two contests, The Knightville Poetry Contest and The Machigonne Fiction Contest.
The Nottingham Review The Nottingham Review is a new British digital literary journal, looking to publish great flash fiction (50-1000 words) and short stories (1000-3000 words).
the other side of hope: journeys in refugee and immigrant literature We admire, respect, and are friends with writers and poets from all walks of life. However, the other side of hope exists to serve, bring together, and celebrate the refugee and immigrant communities worldwide.
The Paragon Journal The Paragon Journal is an online literary magazine that focuses on sharpening the creative writing skills of people of any age. We are based in Pennsylvania, United States, but are looking for submissions from all over the globe.
The Paris-American The Paris-American was founded in New York by poet C. L. O'Dell in 2012. Since its launch, the ezine has featured many award-winning authors such as Matthew Dickman, Chloe Honum, Carl
The Pasticheur: Literature, Art, & Ideas This is a pastiche: a little bit of art, photographic art, poetry, short filmography, prose, and non-fiction writing.
The Petigru Review The Petigru Review, an online literary journal sponsored by the South Carolina Writers Association, is open for submissions. We accept high quality and engaging fiction, nonfiction, poetry and flash, as well as craft essays and reviews for our website. We look forward to reading your work!
The Pinch The Pinch is a journal of fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and visual art committed to presenting its readers with exciting works from both new and established writers. Founded in 1980,
The Pine Cone Review We are looking for well-crafted honest works of written and visual art. Editing is considered to be an invaluable aspect of the creative process. We can often see shimmers of a great idea in the unpolished drafts.
The Plume The Plume is an online literary, arts, news and commentary magazine dedicated to publishing the best work from the international under-twenty-five demographic. First launched in January
The Poet’s Haven The Poet's Haven publishes online galleries of poetry, stories, and art, currently totaling over 6,000 pages. In print, there is "The Poet's Haven Author Series" chapbooks, "The Poet's Haven Digest"
The Rag The Rag is an electronic literary magazine that focuses on grittier forms of contemporary short fiction. We publish in ePub, Kindle, and PDF formats, aiming for the e-reader/tablet market.
The Rain, Party, & Disaster Society The purpose of The Rain, Party, & Disaster Society is to publish works that voice an unusual, unpopular or incendiary opinion. The RP&D Society strives to give
The Red Line The Red Line is a magazine that runs in conjunction with a regular, themed, and free competition.
The Red Line Magazine The Red Line is an online magazine publishing English Language short stories from international writers. We aim to introduce
The Reject Pile Have you had a humor piece rejected by McSweeney's, The New Yorker et al.? For every piece big humor sites publish, many are rejected
The Renaissance The Renaissance was an artistic revival during the 14th through the 16th century that revolutionized the art world. As our namesake
The Resurrectionist The Resurrectionist is a biannual poetry journal dedicated to modern formalist poetry. By modern we intend poetry that makes use of contemporary language and grammar, experiments with verse forms or that handles contemporary themes. 'Resurrectionist' (syn. 'Resurrection-man') is a 19th century English term for a body-snatcher whose main purpose was the resale of body ...
The Review of Arts, Literature, Philosophy and the Humanities (RALPH) We have been online since 1995, and come out once a month. We publish at least a dozen book reviews, articles, readings, and poems in each issue.We are very interested in new poetry
The Rocky Mountain Review The Rocky Mountain Review is an online publication featuring the best in American adventure and travel writing. We publish non-fiction, fiction and photographic submissions on a range
The Sacred Cow The Sacred Cow is a literary magazine in digital format. The name might suggest that our mission is to annoy people, poking holes in their cherished beliefs.
The Scented Flower The Scented Flower is a literary magazine written for and by people who live in a communitarian setting. However, through excellent writing and story-telling,
The Screech Owl We are the voice of Lilith, a site and magazine devoted to the best contemporary poetry, prose, short stories and articles.
The Shangri-La Shack The Shangri-La Shack Literary Arts Journal is a bi-annual print and online journal that provides a stage for undiscovered talents and esteemed artists whose work exemplifies Shangri-La
The Slag Review The Slag Review is a small, confused group of creators invested in the process of expression through art, fully understanding that it may be a long and dangerous one. In this way,
The Sonder Review The Sonder Review is a tri-annual publication of both art and short fiction that strives to question, redefine, and challenge conventional viewpoints; to usurp the definition of reality and truth.
The South Mountain Review The South Mountain Review accepts submissions from writers of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. We will accept no more than 4 poems or 5 pages single-spaced for fiction or nonfiction
The Southeast Review The Southeast Review, established in 1979 as Sundog, is a national literary magazine housed in the English department at Florida State University and is edited and managed by its graduate students and a faculty consulting editor.
The Speculative Edge At The Speculative Edge, our mission is - in a word - balance. We want to bring you fiction that is both exciting and enlightening, poetry that is imaginative and accessible, reviews of both
The Start Literary Journal The Start Literary Journal is a new young adult literary journal that is looking for submissions for its first issue. While we hope to publish writers at all stages of their publishing journey, our goal is to give writers their start by publishing new and unpublished writers (including high school students!)
The Stinging Fly The Stinging Fly was established in 1997 to seek out, publish and promote the very best new Irish and international writing. We have a particular interest in encouraging new writers, and in promoting the short story form. The main objective in setting up the magazine was to work towards bringing out a well-designed publication that ...
The Subtopian Magazine subtopia n (Social Science / Human Geography) Britsuburban development that encroaches on rural areas yet appears to offer the attractions of country life to suburban
The Summerset Review The Summerset Review started as an online literary quarterly in 2002, publishing exclusively fiction and nonfiction. With a staff of three volunteers, the magazine faithfully
The Tenement Block Review The Tenement Block Review is a perfect-bound, monthly poetry journal based in the UK which will publish poetry from around the world.
The Tiny Journal Created in 2018, The Tiny Journal is a semi-annual online literary journal that publishes beautiful and short nonfiction, fiction, and poetry 1000 words or less.
The Tishman Review The Tishman Review is an online quarterly literary journal devoted to publishing great poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction. We pay our contributors between 10$ and 75$. A small fee, but with continued support and growth we hope to increase annually
The Town Square a Literary Magazine A service-disabled, veteran-founded, non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, The Town Square a Literary Magazine works to provide a platform for
THE TRANSNATIONAL The Transnational is a bilingual magazine (English/German) which publishes poetry and essays from authors from all around the world. We read new texts year-round (poetry, diary extracts,
The Traveling Poet The Traveling Poet is an ezine that publishes poets ages 12-25, art of all mediums, and articles regarding traveling, hitchhiking, poverty, and philosophy. This project's goal
The Turnip Truck(s) As a transdisciplinary forum for discourse, The Turnip Truck(s) is an evolving graphic landscape for writers, poets, essayists, artists,
The Vehicle The Vehicle is a biannual literary magazine produced by the students of Eastern Illinois University. Since 1959, The Vehicle has been publishing poetr
The Vestal Review Vestal Review is the oldest magazine dedicated exclusively to flash fiction. It has been published continuously since March 2000. Vestal Review is a semi-annual perfect-bound print magazine
The Washington Pastime n 2010 a study from Central Connecticut State University found that the Washington DC area was the most well-read urban city in the United States.
The Whitefish Review Whitefish Review is a nationally-acclaimed, non-profit journal publishing the distinctive literature, art, and photography of mountain culture. Author Doug Peacock
The Whole Mitten An eZine with a twist: publications will always be in a PDF file, so that while it may be an online magazine, it can be downloaded, shared, and it will have a similar feel to a print mag.
the Wildwood Reader New polished works by new and emerging writers. Since we seldom hire an editor, we request that all stories be properly formatted, spell and grammar checked and lastly properly identified
The Winter Anthology "A collection of contemporary literature informed by history and older art, 21st century science and philosophy, and the ending of print culture. An elegiac perspective, uninterested in banality,
The Wise Owl The Wise Owl is a literary & arts e-magazine (Monthly) founded in November 2021. We feature established poets, writers as well as artists in our magazine and also provide a free platform to showcase writings (poetry, short stories, critique,
The Wordsmith Journal Magazine The Wordsmith Journal Magazine is a monthly online magazine that was birthed in October 2011 and provides a unique and necessary product for discerning readers.
The Woven Tale Press The Woven Tale Press, a fine arts and literary magazine, monthly exhibits the literary, artful, and innovative. The WTP mission is to grow Web traffic to noteworthy writers, photographers and artists,
The Write Room The Write Room is an online literary magazine that publishes quality works of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. We are also interested in reviews, interviews and articles of interest to writers, as
The Zodiac Review The Zodiac Review is a quarterly literary magazine for discerning readers and writers of fine short fiction. Here you will find stories of flash fiction and short story length, each selected quarterly from submissions that cross the old lines separating literary fiction from genre fiction. And here you will find prose poetry, another form of ...
Think Journal (links to site) Think Journal is a quarterly review of poetry, short stories, novel excerpts, and essays. Submissions are welcome from rational thinkers who believe that words have
THRUSH Poetry Journal Why the name THRUSH? Thrushes are a species of bird, the songs of some considered to be among the most beautiful in the world. We love that and that is how we feel about poems. Why is THRUSH only poetry? We love fiction, and read it often. We feel there are many beautiful journals we ...
Thumbnail Magazine Thumbnail Magazine is a collection of fine literary flash fiction and visual art from established and emerging writers and artists.
Timber Journal Timber is run by students in the Masters of Fine Arts program at the University of Colorado, Boulder. We publish work online as well as in an annual print anthology.
Tipsy Lit Tipsy Lit is a poetry magazine that encourages writers to dig into “the deeper” and leave the bullshit at the door. We don’t want the warm and fuzzies.
Toasted Cheese Toasted Cheese publishes poetry, flash, fiction, creative nonfiction, and reviews. Our focus is on quality of work, therefore the number of pieces published in each issue
Toe Good Poetry In 2004, several Oregon State underclassmen attended a poetry workshop. They bonded and began meeting to discuss poetry, politics, love, and life in general. They started referring
Too Obscene – Nostrovia! Poetry "Too Obscene" is a one issue zine published through Nostrovia! Poetry. The zine features poetry and flash fiction that was rejected by other presses
Trafika Europe Trafika Europe showcases current fiction and poetry in English and English translation from across the 47 Council of Europe countries
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TreeHouse TreeHouse is a place where artists can come to celebrate all forms of art. TreeHouse hosts blog posts, works of fiction
TSR: The Southampton Review Our goal in putting The Southampton Review together is to create a literary journal that readers will keep for a very long time
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Turbulence Turbulence is a quarterly printed poetry magazine based in the UK which publishes poetry from around the world. The only payment we can make is in contributor copies. These are hard copies in the EU and electronic copies outside the EU.
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Unbroken At Unbroken, we love poetic prose and the prose poem. Because a haibun is a prose poem with a haiku at the end, we also love the haibun.
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2022 Literary Magazine Rankings

[Note: The 2023 Rankings are now available here .]

It’s that time of year again. Here are links to the Literary Magazine Rankings for Fiction, Poetry, and Nonfiction. As explained in more detail below, these rankings are based solely on the number of Pushcart Prizes and Pushcart Special Mentions the magazines have received over the past ten-year period . They are intended as a guide for determining where writers might submit their work for publication.

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2022 Literary Magazine Ranking for Fiction

2022 Literary Magazine Ranking for Poetry

2022 Literary Magazine Ranking for Nonfiction

Rationale . When I first started submitting my short stories to literary magazines, I didn’t know what I was doing. I knew that some magazines were more prestigious than others, but I didn’t have a way of evaluating prestige. I subscribed to several (and still do) but choosing where to submit my work was still hit-or-miss. I didn’t invent the method of tiering submissions, but when I learned of it, I thought it made great sense for me.

Tiering is an aid to simultaneous submissions that groups the best magazines together in the top tier, somewhat less prestigious magazines in the next tier, and so on. It is advisable to submit work to the top tier first, or at any rate within the same tier, so that an acceptance by one, which requires withdrawal from the others, won’t be painful. (If you get an acceptance from a bottom-tier magazine while you’re still waiting to hear from a top-tier magazine, that could lead to a difficult withdrawal. Withdrawal is ethically required, but what if the top-tier magazine was about to accept the piece?) So, I decided to rank literary magazines—first in fiction, because that’s what I was writing, but I later added poetry and nonfiction rankings because many people requested that—to help me decide where to submit. In theory, I would aim toward the top of the list and work my way down until someone finally accepted my work.

Methodology. To create the rankings, I considered looking at the various annual anthologies (Best American Short Stories, O. Henry, and Pushcart) to see what the editors of those volumes considered the best magazines to be. Ultimately, for several reasons, I settled on using only the annual Pushcart Prize anthology. For one thing, it excluded the “slicks”—magazines like The New Yorker , Atlantic Monthly , and Harpers —whose prestige is well-known. Those markets are really in a category by themselves, and writers should definitely submit to them if they deem their work suitable for publication in these elite magazines. For another, consideration for inclusion in the Pushcart Prize anthology seemed somewhat more democratic, or at least transparent, than the other options. Although there are Editors-at-Large who nominate for the anthology, every magazine has the opportunity to do so as well, so the Pushcart editors see thousands of entries and can pick from work that has appeared in hundreds of different journals, both in print and online. Finally, when I began ranking poetry and nonfiction magazines, too, it was fortuitous that the Pushcart Prize anthology includes those genres. Otherwise, I’d have had to look at separate volumes for each genre and I still preferred the relative fairness of the Pushcart approach.

Calculations . I decided from the beginning to use a ten-year rolling formula to determine the rankings. It seemed to me that reputations aren’t won or lost in one year, and that the best magazines, the markets where I’d really like to be published, are the ones that have been around awhile and really established themselves. So, I created a formula that used a fixed-point value for each Pushcart Prize won in each of the ten years and a smaller number of points for each special mention (those are the stories listed at the back of the book as also being worthy of note). The formula adds up all the points and ranks the magazines based on the total. (The total number of points is shown in the far-right column of the ranking.) Several years ago, I adjusted the formula so that prizes and special mentions earned in the last five years are weighted more heavily than those from the first five years of the period. The intention of this adjustment was to recognize the fact that in the digital age, magazines may emerge and be deserving of accolades more quickly than was the case in the past. So, a Pushcart Prize won today gets more points than one earned five years ago. Note, too, that the rankings are as objective as I can make them. The editors of the nominating journals and of the Pushcart Press are exercising their judgment, of course, but I’m just going by the numbers. My rankings don’t take into account how much the magazines pay, or whether they charge for submissions, or how long it takes them to respond. Different writers feel differently about those factors, and so I don’t want to impose my judgment in place of theirs.

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Thank you!! Love your rankings each year. Such a helpful tool when deciding where to submit.

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Thank you so much for this. It is an incredible piece of work.

It popped into my mind today… I wish I had some sort of ranking of journals based on whether they submit to and/or win Pushcart. Then, hey presto! One google search and I find exactly that! Thanks for saving me all the work of doing this myself. Brilliant!

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Best Short Fiction Literary Magazines in 2024

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Adelaide Literary Magazine

Print & Online magazine for Short Fiction ,

Founded by Stevan V. Nikolic and Adelaide Franco Nikolic in 2015, the magazine’s aim is to publish quality poetry, fiction, nonfiction, artwork, and photography, as well as interviews, articles, and book reviews, written in English and Portuguese.

Submission guidelines →

🌍 Territory: United States

💰 Submission fee: $0

⏱️ Frequency: 12 times a year

🧑‍💻 Online submissions: Yes

Invisible City

Online magazine for Short Fiction ,

Invisible City is an online publication of the MFA in Writing Program at the University of San Francisco that publishes in the fall and spring. We seek work that encourages us to see the world from new perspectives and different angles, ones that we may not have previously considered or imagined.

⏱️ Frequency: 2 times a year

F(r)iction is a triannual publication that boasts work from both industry legends and emerging writers. Each issue is carefully curated to evaluate an important cultural topic from vastly different perspectives. We accept short fiction, creative nonfiction, flash fiction, comics, and poetry submissions all year round, and also host contests featuring guest judges and cash prizes twice a year (each spring and fall). Every piece published in F(r)iction is also accompanied by custom artwork, making our journal a visual odyssey from cover to cover!

💰 Submission fee: $3

⏱️ Frequency: 3 times a year

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Grub Street

Founded in 1952, Grub Street is Towson University's student-run literary magazine that is published annually. We accept work from anyone and especially look to promote voices from new writers. We feature poetry, fiction, nonfiction, visual art, essays, and plays in our print and online editions.

⏱️ Frequency: 1 times a year

Clarkesworld

Clarkesworld is a monthly science fiction and fantasy magazine first published in October 2006. Each issue contains interviews, thought-provoking articles, two reprints, and at least four or five works of original fiction. Our fiction is also available in ebook editions/subscriptions, audio podcasts, print issues, and in our annual print/ebook anthologies.

🌍 Territory: USA

Ginosko Literary Journal

Ginosko: A Greek word meaning the recognition of truth from experience.

Southern Humanities Review

Print magazine for Short Fiction ,

Southern Humanities Review publishes fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. $1,000 and publication in SHR will be awarded annually to one poem of witness by an American poet. Full guidelines on our website.

⏱️ Frequency: 4 times a year

Elegant Literature

Elegant Literature is a monthly eZine that features new talent only. Each issue is filled with short fiction of all genres, handcrafted stories by new brilliant writers from around the globe. We pay all our published, aspiring writers professional rates & each issue one writer is awarded $3,000.

🌍 Territory: Worldwide

Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine

For over sixty years, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine has been one of the foremost publishers of mystery, crime, and suspense short stories, offering mystery fiction of the broadest range and the highest quality.

⏱️ Frequency: 6 times a year

PROMPTED is a celebration of the power of inspiration, and the places our imagination can take us with the slightest nudge. Each story is inspired by a one-sentence prompt, and written in a single week.

💰 Submission fee: $5

Asimov's Science Fiction

From its earliest days in 1977 under the editorial direction of Isaac Asimov, Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine has maintained the tradition of publishing the best stories, unsurpassed in modern science fiction, from award-winning authors and first-time writers alike.

Seaside Gothic

Seaside Gothic is a quarterly literary magazine from the edge of the sea where the frontier of civilisation meets the wild of the water.

🌍 Territory: United Kingdom

Beneath Ceaseless Skies

Beneath Ceaseless Skies publishes “literary adventure fantasy”: stories with a secondary-world setting and some fantasy feel, but written with a literary approach.

⏱️ Frequency: 24 times a year

Hayden's Ferry Review

Hayden’s Ferry Review looks for well-crafted work that takes risks, challenges readers, and engages us emotionally and artistically. A small portion of our publication is solicited from established authors, while the majority of our contributors are chosen from the thousands of manuscripts we receive each year.

The Raven Review

Based in Central Texas, The Raven Review is a literary magazine that publishes poetry and short fiction that explores the human experience through dark, atmospheric writing. Since 2019, the magazine has been publishing both seasoned and newbie writers with the explicit goal of helping them gain exposure.

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The halls of literary success are paved with authors who got their start appearing in literary magazines — such as Zora Neale Hurston, Truman Capote, William Faulkner, Edith Wharton, Ursula Le Guin, J.D. Salinger, George Saunders, Alice Munro, Flannery O’Connor, and many more.

For centuries, literary magazines have highlighted works that would otherwise struggle to reach readers. Poetry, short stories, essays are all forms of writing that own very tiny shares in the publishing landscape — except in the world of literary magazines, where they reign supreme.

If you’re an aspiring author, submitting to literary magazines is a great way to get your foot into the door of the publishing industry, as it allows you to build up your credentials and reach readers. That being said, having your work appear in a literary magazine isn’t as easy as hitting “submit.” While they can act as a stepping stone for writers who wish to go on to have a career in publishing, you shouldn’t view literary magazines as simply a means to an end — if only because doing so will very likely reduce your chances of ever actually being featured in one of them.

And on that note, let’s get started with our first tip for getting your work featured in some of the best literary magazines out there.

Tips for submitting to literary magazines

Ensure you’re submitting to the right places.

When you think of literary magazines, your mind might automatically go to The New Yorker . Or it might go to independent webzines that specialize in very niche genres. Maybe you think of university-funded quarterlies like The New England Review . All this is to say that the range of lit mags out there is broad and the kinds of things they publish also ranges — from short lit fic to flash space operas, and everything in between.

So before you decide to submit your short stories or poetry to a magazine, make sure you do your due diligence and research what kinds of things they publish, and where your work is really a match.

Don’t submit to tons of publications all at one

“Cast a wide net” shouldn’t be your mantra when it comes to submitting to lit mags. As mentioned, all magazines have their own styles. So spending your time ensuring your submissions are targeted at the right places is much more valuable than sending your writing to as many different publications as possible. Editors can usually scout fairly quickly the pieces that have been submitted en masse, without any regard for their specific publication.

Instead, make a list of the magazines you want to submit to and group them into tiers. Tier One can be your top five magazines, Tier Two your next five favorite, and so on. This is not only a good way to make sure you’re giving each submission care and attention, it’s also a good way to make sure you don’t get the same piece of writing accepted by two different magazines, forcing you to pull your submission from one of them.

When it comes to making your list, don’t only consider what magazines have prestige, huge audiences, or hefty cash payouts. The best magazines to submit to are the ones that you actually enjoy reading. Because chances are those are the magazines that are going to be most interested in the kind of things you’re writing.

Keep your cover letter short and to-the-point

Editors are not won over by cover letters. If you’ve written a great story and have publishing credentials to boot, sure, your cover letter might help win them over. But if your submission isn’t strong, your cover letter is going to mean nil. So let your cover letter mention the important bits, make sure it provides any specific information that’s requested in the submission guidelines, and let your entry do the heavy lifting.

Typically, a cover letter will mention a couple of the previous places you’ve been published as well as any other relevant experience you might have. You can also add a personal touch by mentioning a previous story or issue you particularly enjoyed.

What your letter shouldn’t mention is every place you’ve been published (up to 5 will suffice). It shouldn’t summarize your entry, your life story, or your “writing journey,” and any previous experience you mention should be related in some way to writing, publishing, or your entry.

Thoroughly edit your story — and follow submission guidelines!

An editor is probably not going to banish an otherwise very strong entry to the slush pile because of a misplaced typo. That being said, they have lots of reading to do, and while most editors won’t consciously read an entry looking for reasons not to like it, at the end of the day they can only accept so many pieces. So if you make their jobs easier by giving them a reason to pass on your piece, they’re going to take it. If it’s not adequately proofread, there’s only so long someone can continue reading even the strongest writing before the spelling errors convince them to stop.

Another quick way to convince an editor to pass on your entry is to not follow the submission guidelines. If the guidelines ask you to include specific information or to format your story in a certain way, follow those instructions to a tee. If the guide doesn’t tell you how to format your story, go classic: Arial or Times New Roman 12-point font, double-spaced. To ensure your submissions look professional, you can always copy and paste them into our free formatting tool, the Reedsy Book Editor !

Editors do want to like your submission

The publishing world is competitive, so it’s natural for authors to stress about all the little details of submitting to a literary magazine — whether to add page numbers to their document, who to address in their cover letter, whether they’ll stand a chance as a brand new author, etc. And while we did just mention that editors generally won’t put up a fight if you give them a reason to pass on your entry, they also won’t toss aside a submission they love just because the full package isn’t 100% perfect.

Remember, editors are looking for quality art they feel is going to resonate with their readers. If you can provide them with that, they’re going to be on your side.

Don’t just do it for the money or prestige

If you’re submitting to lit mags with the hopes of raking in the cash, you are more than likely going to be disappointed. Sure, there are some big-time magazines out there that offer larger paycheques to their writers and widespread readership, but many of them don’t accept unsolicited submissions — or come with extremely steep competition.

Most literary magazines are run on very tiny budgets that can’t afford to pay the writers they feature. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t submit to them. The exposure and credibility an emerging writer can gain from having their work featured across a number of smaller, indie publications are still very valuable and shouldn’t be overlooked.

Have fun — and be proud of what you publish!

Yes, having your work appear in literary magazines can help build up your publishing resume. But if you’re not writing and publishing work you feel really proud of, what’s the point? Readers don’t need more stories that make it into magazines because they follow the right trends or say the right things, we want literature that the author clearly loved writing.

So, as we mentioned earlier, don’t just submit a piece because you think it’s going to get you somewhere. Submit something because you think it’s strong, unique, and worthwhile. Write and submit work you can proudly stand by!

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11 Indie Literary Magazines You Should Be Reading

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Steven watson, founder of stack, recommends print lit mags.

Independent magazines are notorious outsiders. Generally made with lots of passion and not much cash, they’re gloriously uncommercial artefacts of our current age of creative independence, in which virtually anyone with an internet connection and an Adobe Creative Cloud license can publish their own professional quality print magazine. Of course the fact that pretty much anyone can now be their own editor-in-chief and creative director means that lots of the work committed to print isn’t all that good, but there are some extraordinary gems out there waiting to be found, and that’s what we spend our days doing.

Stack searches out the best independent magazines and delivers them to thousands of readers around the world every month—you never know what you’re going to get next, but you do know it will be a beautiful, intelligent print magazine you probably wouldn’t otherwise have come across. We pride ourselves on delivering a wide range of magazines covering all sorts of subjects, but for the following list we’ve focused on the literary magazines we’re currently enjoying the most.

The White Review

One of London’s most revered independent literary magazines, The White Review mixes outstanding fiction, essays and poetry with beautiful art and photography all wrapped up in a lovely, thick print edition. Launched in 2011, its founding aim was to provide “a space for a new generation to express itself unconstrained by form, subject or genre”, and today it publishes in monthly online editions, but it’s the roughly triannual print version that we love. The current issue looks at first glance like a sort of bookish fashion magazine, with its cover featuring a photograph by artist Elad Lassry, but the content inside ranges far and wide, covering subjects including migration and asylum, LGBTQ+ spaces, race and disability. Essential and important, but with a fantastic lightness of touch, a new issue of The White Review is always eagerly anticipated in the Stack office.

Freeman’s looks like a book but it self-defines as a magazine. “I think a magazine is tracking and engaging with culture,” explains editor John Freeman, who used to head up Granta . “It has an ongoingness, whereas an anthology freezes a moment, perhaps, and puts it in two covers.” The fifth issue is about power: it’s topical, but in a pleasurably sideways way. One of the most beautiful things here is a poem by Julia Alvarez that reimagines Penelope, happy alone, disappointed when Odysseus finally comes home: “He’s back, disguised as an old man/ to test my virtue… I would be rid of him.”

The plaything of one extraordinary tinkerer, science-fiction magazine Visions is a testament to the power of passion. Creative technologist and sci-fi fan Mathieu Triay began the project by making Marvin Visions, the typeface that he uses for titles throughout the magazine and its website. Licensing the typeface online generated enough money to pay for printing the first issue, and he uses the magazine as a platform for both new and established science-fiction writers. In the latest issue, for example, multi-award winning author Robert Silverberg’s story “Caliban” is set in an alarmingly lithe, glistening future, as seen through the eyes of a man who has become the only relic of our messy, hairy times. Silverberg locates his smooth sexualization a hundred-odd years into the future, but in “Hyperbeauty,” the non-fiction essay that follows it, master’s student Raquel Hollman seems to respond to Silverberg by showing how our world is already uncomfortably sexualized and dominated by ideals of “perfect beauty.”

American Chordata

One of the defining characteristics of New York-based American Chordata is that it looks really good. Mixing short stories and poetry with photography, the pictures aren’t specially commissioned. Instead, art director Bobby Doherty mines the internet for art all year long, and then sets his favorites next to the text in a strange, non-illustrative way, almost like collage. In the most recent issue—AC’s ninth—Tatu Gustafsson’s grainy CCTV images of a lonely figure standing by the sides of roads are dropped throughout Angela Woodward’s disturbing short story “Decoy Animals,” the writing and images each intensifying the other. [Editor’s note: Erin Bartnett, associate editor at Recommended Reading, is also the fiction editor at American Chordata.]

The Stinging Fly

An Irish literary magazine of new writing, The Stinging Fly has excellent pedigree—Sally Rooney is a contributing editor, and on these pages there’s an echo of her attention to the minute detail of how we see ourselves and are seen by others. The current issue is fronted by a brilliantly fleshy artwork by Irish Japanese painter Shane Berkery, which sets the tone for the intimate and personal reflections that run through the fiction and poetry inside.

Founded by Francis Ford Coppola in 1997, Zoetrope was originally conceived as a way to inspire independent movie-making, by providing a space for writers to publish their short fiction and plays. The magazine’s role-call of contributors is ludicrously star-spangled—the rotating guest-designer spot has been filled by Bowie and Lynch, to name only Davids. But what makes this magazine remarkable is how lightly it wears its famous names. Virtually unknown here in the U.K., and boasting just a thousand or so Instagram followers, you get the feeling the only thing its editors really care about is the quality of the fiction.

This London-based journal of sexuality and erotics was started in 2018 by the Feeld dating app, and it’s run today by editor Maria Dimitrova, who works with editorial independence to assemble an inventive series of poems and short stories that explore the frontiers of sexual life. Of course any literary magazine stands or falls on the strength of its writing, and Mal brings together some exceptional talent: the latest issue includes an original piece by cult author Chris Kraus and a short story by Luke Brown that was commended in the Best Original Fiction category at this year’s Stack Awards.

Worms is a literary magazine about style: writing style, but also sartorial. We are all worms, Clem Macleod explains in her editor’s letter, and “in the end, we’re going to be eaten by them. As a Worm, you will fertilise your mind with glorious words.” Using clothes as a way of worming your way into a writer’s work is a contentious business. Traditionally understood to be something frivolous women like, clothes are depicted here to be so much more interesting. Author Natasha Stagg is interviewed, and the first question she is asked is whether everyday dressing is a sort of curation of self. This idea—that dressing up can be a way of slipping out of your identity and trying on another—is most fully realized in a feature towards the middle, where Clem goes to visit a box of the late punk writer Kathy Acker’s clothes, and tries some on. Acker is the cover star, and the whole issue is a homage to her. The clothes are “unwashed, crumpled” and “musky”; a mass of Vivienne Westwood, Commes Des Garcons and Betsey Johnson. Trying on your dead hero’s outfits is thrillingly intimate. As readers, we feel that we should like to do this intimate thing, too.

The Lifted Brow

“A quarterly attack journal from Australia and the world,” The Lifted Brow is based in Melbourne and sets out to showcase the most inventive and accomplished experimental storytelling. The result includes fiction and non-fiction, poetry and comics, and frequently gives a voice to groups that aren’t commonly heard. Last year’s 40th edition, for example, was re-branded Blak Brow , and was created entirely by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, born out of the conviction that “blak” women’s writing can “transcend off the pages and topple the patriarchy.”

Somesuch Stories

The fourth issue of this U.K. literary journal is themed “redemption,” a word editor Suze Olbrich defines as borderline archaic. But the idea of absolution still sticks its pins into us. In a largely secular world, we share what Olbrich calls a “gnarly yearning for liberation from guilt; for forgiveness—for salvation.” It’s a great theme, and while the stories on these pages are uneven, when they’re good, they’re very very good. Like Luke Turner’s beautiful, ambivalent essay on cruising, looking back on encounters he is now old enough to recognize as abusive. And Kieran Yates’ fan fiction about women of color in popular culture; from Padma Patil, to Ursula from The Little Mermaid .

Mekong Review

Launched in 2015 at the Kampot Writers and Readers Festival in Cambodia, the Mekong Review was created as a platform for the literary scene in Southeast Asia. Over the years its influence has spread, and today it publishes essays, interviews, poetry and fiction drawn from across Asia and Australasia. It’s proud to claim no political allegiance, and the current issue includes thoughtful and critical reviews and essays inspired by the protests in Hong Kong, as well as politically-inflected commentary from Thailand, Malaysia, China, Myanmar and beyond.

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30 Literary Magazines Accepting Hybrid/Cross-Genre submissions

These magazines publish cross-genre/hybrid/experimental writing, in some way. Most of these journals also publish other genres. Most, but not all, of them are open for submissions now. Some of these are paying markets. They are listed here in no particular order.

Dream Pop Journal They welcome submissions from marginalized voices, and are especially interested in publishing work from emerging writers working in experimental, non-narrative forms. “Please send us your strange utterings, hybrid works, collaborative pieces, visual poetry, collages, and linguistic inventions. We hope that you will challenge the limits of what literature can be and that you will share your results with us.” They publish poetry, a speculative diary, visual art, as well as visual poetry & erasure. They are open year-round. Details here .

Wandering Wave Press: An Anthology of Unconventional Stories This is a fiction anthology. “We’re looking for genre authors who cross boundaries. Authors whose stories twist the tropes to showcase in a cross-genre anthology of stories that entertain, but read fresh and new. Send us the story that you can’t classify: a story that can’t be pigeon-holed into a single subgenre, or that pushes against your genre’s boundaries. We want to showcase authors who write uncommon fiction.” Some examples are: witches in space, romances that flip gender roles, alternate histories set in the near-future, and fairy tales that start after the ‘happily ever after’. Send stories of 1,000-10,000 words. Pay is $25, and the deadline is 1 December 2022. Details here .

Straylight They publish poetry, fiction, art in both print and online formats. For the online edition, fiction can be flash to novella length, and poetry can be prose-poetry, or a mix of visual art and poetry. Also, “Straylight Online does not mirror the content of the print edition. … We still look for stories and poems with a strong sense of place and moments that are character-centered rather than those that rely on plot turns and literary tricks. However, we welcome submissions that cross genre boundaries as well as those that explore the way that visual art, music, and literature combine to produce new manifestations of story and verse.” The magazine is published by University of Wisconsin-Parkside. Details here .

Chestnut Review This is a print and an online magazine. “We are drawn to beautiful language, resonant images, and we crave narrative.” They have fee-free submissions of poetry, flash, and art; also, “If you have work that doesn’t fit neatly into the below categories, that doesn’t mean we won’t want to see it. Choose the most appropriate and include a note—we’ll figure it out.” Contributors are paid $120. They read throughout the year, with cut-off dates for issues; deadline for the Winter issue is 30 September 2022. Details here .

The Disappointed Housewife They want “fiction, essays, and poetry – along with unclassifiable writings, photos, and drawings – that stretch genre definitions, break the rules, challenge readers, and bend their brains, all while maintaining the highest levels of style and substance. … We’re looking for stories that strike us as different, always with that idiosyncratic touch. Iconoclastic. Kind of bent. Humorous.” And, “There’s so much that can be done in terms of the way readers “read” literature now. Words on a page, sure. But you could construct a short story entirely in tweets or phone texts. Or handwrite poetry on 3 x 5 index cards and photograph them (please write legibly). A photo slide show with enigmatic captions. A facsimile of someone’s job application. The menu of a hip restaurant that’s on the forefront of insect haute cuisine. A story made up of urls that readers click on to go on a virtual journey. … writers who can think of unorthodox and offbeat ways to tell their stories will be highly appreciated here at The Disappointed Housewife.” Send up to 1,500 of prose, or up to 3 poems; and for “items that are harder to categorize (lists, faux official documents, parodic advertising, humorous-text tattoos …), we’ll know the right length when we see it.” Details here .

Sepia Journal They accept fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, and cross-genre submissions. Send up to 8,000 words for prose, or up to 5 poems. They also run Staccato , where they publish music and film. They are open year-round. Details here .

Kaleidotrope This is a speculative fiction (250-10,000 words) and poetry magazine. “Kaleidotrope publishes predominantly speculative fiction and poetry—science fiction, fantasy, and horror, but also compelling work that blurs the lines between these and falls outside of neat genre categories. Man does not live on space ships, elves, and ghostly ax murderers alone, after all.” They suggest writers look through the archives to familiarize themselves with the zine to get a sense of what they’re looking for. Pay is $0.01/word for fiction, and $5 per poem. Details here .

Afternoon Visitor This is an online quarterly publication of poetry, hybrid text, visual poetry, and visual art, and they’re interested in giving space to trans + queer writers in each issue. For hybrid text, send a lyric essay, cross-genre of up to 3,000 words, or up to three short pieces with the total word count up to 5,000 words; for visual poetry, send up to 8 pages. Details here .

Doubleback Review They republish work that was previously published in a now defunct literary journal – you can read about them here . Send poetry (up to 5 poems), prose (up to 4,000 words), art, and multi-genre/hybrid work. Details here .

LIT Magazine This magazine is published by The New School MFA in Creative Writing program. They publish hybrid works of up to 20 pages – “Hybrid prose works generally experiment with non-traditional stylistic forms. This category is not just for works that defy casual interpretation, but also works that include elements generally reserved for non-prose writing. …we are interested in hybrid prose that is aware of the tension between fiction and non-fiction, and wants to exploit, reify, and expand those terms, but not be contained by them. If it’s too prose-y to be a poem, but not clearly a short story or an essay, it might belong here.” They also accept fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translations, book reviews, and art. Their reading periods are January-May and September-December. Details here .

elsewhere “elsewhere cares only about the line / no line. We want short prose works (flash fiction, prose poetry, nonfiction) that cross, blur, and/or mutilate genre. We publish only six writers quarterly. Give us your homeless, your animals, your lunch money: we’re hungry.” Submit up to 3 pieces of unlineated work, less than 1,000 words each. They accept fee-free as well as tip-jar submissions. Details here .

Pine Hills Review They publish fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and visual art. Hybrid and experimental works are especially encouraged. Send up to 3,000 words for prose, or up to 6 poems. Details here .

Bennington Review This magazine is associated with Bennington College. They publish fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, film writing, and cross-genre work. “In the spirit of poet Dean Young’s dictum that poets should be “making birds, not birdcages,” we are particularly taken with writing that is simultaneously graceful and reckless.” Send up to 30 pages of fiction or creative nonfiction, or 3-5 poems. Pay is $120-250 for prose, and $25 per poem. The deadline is 9 January 2023. Details here .

Diode They welcome all types of poetry (including, but not limited to, narrative experimental, visual, found and erasure poetry). Send 3-5 poems. They also accept poetry in translation, and collaborative poems. They accept submissions of book reviews, interviews, and essays on poetics, as well, and are open year-round. Details here .

Bending Genres This magazine publishes flash fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry, and they like work in all categories that blends genres. Send up to 1,000 words for fiction, up to 1,500 words for nonfiction, up to 3 poems. Details here .

The Offing The Offing publishes cross-genre work, fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translations, and art. One of the departments is Enumerate – “Enumerate is our department of cataloging, of naming, of listing. It features work that is hybrid — cross-genre, and work in all genres (fiction, CNF, flash, poetry) — as long as it uses the form of a list (which you may interpret widely). Any length, any subject, any medium (i.e. text, video, photo, music, etc.). The lists should add up to some kind of literary foray, exploration, meditation, commentary, collage.” Not all sections are open for submissions, but many are. The magazine pays $25-100. Details here .

Heavy Feather Review They have a print issue, open periodically, and submissions for the online magazine are open year-round. They publish poems, short stories, flash fictions, nonfictions, hybrid works, visual art, etc. Also, “For us, “online feature” is a loose term/form, and the topics and form are open to interpretation. The final product can be a traditional essay, poem, short story, list, definition, collage, or whatever you can think up”. They have various sections, too – some of these are: “The Future – “ Posing utopic, apocalyptic, dystopic, or superhero solutions to “The Future.” Writers depict futuristic alternative worlds in politics, environment, gender, religion, sexuality, or ethnography’; Haunted Passages – An ominous wind circles you in the middle of an isolated woods. Your friends wander into an empty factory, under the cover of dusk, never to be seen again. These are “Haunted Passages,” new features of unearthly delights; #NoMorePresidents – … HFR has reaffirmed its mission to elevate … marginalized groups by initiating a new blog feature, #NoMorePresidents, an online space for these communities to publish new writing.” Details here and here.

Scrawl Place This is a journal of place and they publish CNF, fiction, poetry, and hybrids. This is “part visitor’s guide, part literary journal. The audience for this online publication is the guest, the visitor, the traveler, the day-tripper, the out-of-towner, and the in-towners eager to wander. I’m looking for submissions about “places in the places” where you live or where you’ve visited. My only fixed criteria is that your submission be about or connected to or associated with a specific, physical place that someone could visit. The more specific the place, the better. How that manifests in terms of content, style and form is up to you.” They pay $35, and also accept reprints. Details here .

Foglifter This is a journal for LGBTQ+ contributors. They want fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and hybrid works; for hybrid submissions, send work up to 20 pages. They are especially interested in cross-genre, intersectional, marginal, and transgressive work. They also have a Writers In Need fund to support sliding scale payments for their contributors who opt into the fund. Details here .

The Gravity of the Thing They publish prose – fiction (including micros) and creative nonfiction, including genre-bending works, poetry, including prose poems and multimedia works, and work for Baring the Device column (about defamiliarized writing). Their reading periods are March, June, September, and December. Details here .

The Spectacle This magazine, published by Washington University in St. Louis, is open for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. According to their Twitter bio, they are “looking for writing that crosses genre, discipline, and sensibility.” Pay is $50 and the deadline is 1 October 2022. Details here .

Border Crossing They want micro and flash fiction, and poetry. “We’re especially interested in writing that crosses boundaries in genre or geography, and voices that aren’t often heard in mainstream publications.” Their next submissions period is 15 October 2022 till 1 January 2023. The magazine is associated with Lake Superior State University. Details here .

No Niin No Niin publishes writing (various genres, including manifestos, letters, reviews, interviews, and hybrids), video, photography, podcasts, comics, and memes. They pay €50–300. Details here .

Half Mystic Journal: Presto Half Mystic a publishing project dedicated to the celebration of music in all its forms, and you can read about that here . The journal publishes poetry, prose, creative nonfiction, translations, and experimental work. They want work on the presto theme for their next issue. “We’re looking for vanishing points, beat drops, bar hops, glow stick raves, impulsive haircuts, disco ball suncatchers, man-made magick, glitter in the shadows, blurred vision, sleight of hand, immaterialism, songs half-lucid and bewitched by the myth of movement. Presto is a musical direction indicating that an artist play a piece at a rapid tempo, and also an English adverb meaning “suddenly, as if by magic.” … We ask that each piece pertains in some way to music and the presto theme.” Apart from the journal, they also have other opportunities listed. Details here .

Air/Light Magazine This literary magazine wants “new and innovative works of literary arts”. They publish cross-genre work (original work that blurs the lines of genre and form, whether text only or incorporating images and other multimedia elements), fiction, nonfiction (including collaborative essays), poetry, visual art, music, video, as well as digital, multimedia, and interactive works. Length guidelines are up to 4,000 words for prose, and up to 10 pages for poetry. Pay is $50 for poetry, $100 for responses and department pieces, $200 for fiction, essays/nonfiction, visual art, music, and multimedia. They are scheduled to reopen for submissions on 15 November 2022. Details here .

Deep Overstock: Hacking They’re reading submissions on the ‘Hacking’ theme. The magazine publishes “fiction, poetry, comics, art, images, medical reports, plays, essays, philosophies, sculptures, sounds, mushroom dataset analyses, magic spells, fairy tales, folklore, riddles, jokes, horoscopes, death-predictions, and more. Surprise us!” They have a strong commitment and focus on those in the book industry, but they do accept work from writers and artists who work in any field; you can read about that here . They’re reading on the current theme until 30 November 2022. They read throughout the year, with cut-off dates for issues. Details here .

ctrl + v This is an online journal that explores the intersection of poetry and collage. Send “all forms of collage—digital, scissor-and-glue, mixed media, fabric, sound”. Submissions are open year-round. Details here .

Ghost Proposal They publish poetry, essays, images, multimedia, hybrid, cross-, multi-, and post-genre work. “We are interested in work that does not sit comfortably inside genre labels—–work that bends or pushes against traditional limitations; that mixes, blends, and steps outside of the normal bounds.” Watch for their next reading period. Details here and here .

EastOver Press: Cutleaf Cutleaf is currently open for nonfiction submissions, both in standard and hybrid forms. “Cutleaf is interested in essays of many forms but we prefer a narrative and literary approach to the essay. We do not limit our point of view to the merely factual, but welcome new approaches such as speculative nonfiction, essays based in metaphor, essays in verse, and other re-imaginings of the format. We welcome work about literature, travel, music, food, visual art, and film. We welcome humor. We invite collaborative work. We are not interested in polemics, position statements, or editorials.” They generally publish work from 1,500 to 6,000 words, and pay $100-400. The deadline is 30 November 2022. Fiction and poetry were closed at the time of writing. Details here and here .

Bio: S. Kalekar is the pseudonym of a regular contributor to this magazine. She can be reached here .

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A how-to guide for beginning the lit mag grind.

Sometimes I forget the ways that immersing myself in “creative writer” activities over the years has become a type of second nature—one that might not be as intuitive to everyone else. In the past year, some of my university students expressed interest in learning more about publishing speculative short work—as well as peers in a local sci-fi/fantasy writers’ group I’m a member of. It’s made me realize, oh , I actually have a lot of experience in these realms, and quite a bit I could say.

I don’t mean to suggest I’m an expert at speculative-specific magazines (I’m not), but I have been submitting to lit mags for quite awhile in multiple genres—and I’ve also edited for magazines—so I have some perspective into this process from multiple sides.

So, if this sounds like something you’ve like to learn about, please stick around, because we’re about to dive in the mess of submitting to magazines and journals from start to finish from the perspective of yours truly.

My caveat is always that I started out as a poet, and I started sending out work around 15-20 years ago when I was still doing my undergraduate studies. At that time—in the late aughts—we were still in the era of a certain skepticism toward publishing on the internet (I know how silly this sounds now, but there were people who told me publishing in online journals would tarnish whatever future “career” I imagined for myself with the fervor of a vice principal ranting about “permanent records”).

Submittable (known then as “Submishmash”) wouldn’t come around until 2010, and the few other online submission management systems that existed weren’t localized (one called “Submission Manager” required you to create a new login for each individual magazine that used it) or didn’t have great UX.

For the most part, my early days sending out subs in the 2000s was on that threshold between the end of self-addressed stamped envelopes and the early messiness of emailing a Word document to a random Gmail account. These days, magazine submissions are almost entirely online and using database technologies that have had over a decade to polish themselves up. The days of snail mail and spam folder accidents are (mostly) over. If you submit a piece now, most likely you’ll immediately see an intuitive user interface where your submissions are being tracked.

That being said, I’ve been changing over the past decade too within the technologies of myself. I expanded beyond poetry and published my first short story in 2014, and in the past few years have even tried to become more acquainted with genre fiction markets (e.g.: science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazines), which have their own unique discourse and history. While I’m not here today to try to track the various lineages of the little magazines that came out of MFA programs, small presses, art scenes, pulps, penny dreadfuls, dime novels, et cetera, I am here to point out that the magazines that publish stories (and essays, and poems…) can have very different expectations and unspoken rules.

As far as I know, not many people have tried to explain these various cross-genre etiquettes in one place or how to go through the submission process from A to Z. The aim of this post is to try to create something out of literary citizenship, but also a document I can pass on to peers and students in the future.

How to Find Magazines to Submit To (As of February 2023)

The first step is, of course, making sure you have a polished short story, novella, poem, essay…. I’ll leave you all to your own individual soul searchings for how to make that happen. The bad news is that figuring out how to send work to lit mags can be as vague and meandering as trying to know when a piece is “done”), but the good news is, well, maybe sending writing out will give you a dopamine boost?

I also want to clarify that for our purposes, all the different terms used for periodicals, such as “magazine,” “mag,” “zine,” “pro zine,” “semi-pro zine,” “journal,” “market,” “review,”… are roughly all the same concept. These are publications that publish (generally short) fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.

And while I realize the binary of “literary fiction” and “genre fiction” isn’t helpful either (especially for those of us who revel in moving through the borderlands), I’m going to try to break this down in a way for writers to find their people (although there is crossover, so I still encourage reading everything below).

Resources for Literary Writers

Duotrope : Duotrope is a robust database of literary magazines. It includes genre markets in it (including ways to search for genres and subgenres to help filter results) but overall probably skews more literary (poetry and fiction) in its data. It also has a submission tracker (Duosama) and started building an agent database to find agents in. Once upon a time it was a free tool, but now it costs a nominal monthly fee, but I believe they should still have a free trial.

I personally like their “ Theme & Deadline Calendar ” (I always check the “Include unthemed deadlines” button to maximize results) when I’m looking for magazines that will be closing soon.

Yes, some magazines have “themes” for individual issues such as “queer love stories” or “death” or “ghosts.” It’s up to you to decide how useful themes are to you and if your work speaks to them.

Their magazine reports section can be enlightening too with categories like “Top 100 Most Challenging” and “Top 100 Fastest to Respond.”

Heavy Feather Review’s “Where to Submit” : An online magazine called Entropy used to tackle this, but Entropy shut down somewhat recently and Heavy Feather Review took over. It’s an on-going list of places to submit that is updated on a monthly/quarterly basis. It tends to skew literary/indie/small press. Sections include Presses, Chapbooks, Journals + Anthologies, and Fellowships + Other Opportunities.

The Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) maintains its own “Calls for Submissions” page. Theoretically, these publications are all probably active members of CLMP, so the data might skew in that direction.

Submittable ’s “ Discovery ” page: — Most non-genre magazines use Submittable as an app to submit stories, poems, and essays to. It’s free to make an account but some magazines charge nominal fees to submit. I believe you have to be logged in to view the “Discovery” page, but it includes a bunch of upcoming deadlines for magazines that use the Submittable platform. Once again, this tends to skew literary (I’ve noticed a lot of genre magazines tend to use a separate platform called Moksha).

Resources for Speculative/Genre Writers

Submission Grinder (The Grinder) : a free resource that one can use to keep track of current submissions and look for markets to submit to. It’s also a great discovery tool to find magazines. IMO, Submission Grinder skews much more ‘genre fiction’ and is not as robust as Duotrope, but it is good to find genre-specific places to submit to (or keep track of your submissions). Both Duotrope and The Grinder have their own ways of showing data that might have a learning curve, but it can be helpful if you’re trying to gauge response rates.

SFWA ’s “ Market Report” : The Sci-Fi & Fantasy Writers Association does a monthly round-up of genre fiction markets that are open, opening, or closing. Incredibly useful for checking submission deadlines, especially from “pro” or “semi-pro” zines.

The Splintered Mind’s “Top Science Fiction and Fantasy Markets” Annual Blog Posts : this person does an annual round-up of which magazines have stories that receive the most award nominations/winners (they list their methodology too). Like literary fiction, the genre fiction world has its most prestigious “pro zine” markets and the small start-up magazines that anyone could start up in their apartment. My understanding is that much of the prestige of an emerging genre fiction writer comes winning big awards like the Nebula, Hugo, or World Fantasy Award—and these awards often go to stories published in “pro” or “semi-pro” markets. Although subjective, if you’re a fledgling genre fiction writer and trying to start with the “best” “pro” markets, this data could be invaluable.

Sci Fi Awards Database : Similar to the above point, this database keeps track of all the major genre fiction awards and who won what and where they were published. IMO, it’s a good resource for research/discovery purposes and trying to figure out where the top talent places their work.

The Internet Speculative Fiction Database : Another database of individual spec stories and where they’ve been published. Could be a useful research tool to find authors who write similar work to you and see where they’ve published. Hey, even I have an entry !

Codex Writers : A community for emerging genre fiction writers. They have a few rules on if you qualify or not, but once you’re in there’s individual threads in their forums for about any genre market you could imagine with useful intel inside.

In General…

Beyond using your research skills, there is much to be said about being an active member of a community. Journals come and go. “Hot” new publications of the moment quietly disappear. Underdogs end up staying around for Simpsons -esque runs. It’s not a science. It’s important to be engaging with other writers you admire and take cues from where they’re placing their own work. Your community will ground you even as the world of magazines and publishing continuously changes.

Magazines often are the laboratories where people test out new work before they go on to publish collections of stories or poems (this is another great tip: read the acknowledgements/notes/copyright sections in story collections from your favorite authors to see where they placed work). Actually reading them and investing time in them is an important to the culture of these magazines too. Which brings us to etiquette…

When You’re Ready to Submit Your Work (A Few Notes on Etiquette)

Perhaps I should have started here because I do believe some care has to go into the submission process. The place I come before you now is not necessarily as a fellow writer, but more-so as someone who has edited for five or six journals. That very incendiary, schoolmarm side of myself who has witnessed or been subjected to all the bad writer behaviors stands before you with ruler in hand.

So yes, I will be wagging my finger a little bit, which no one loves, but if you read any section of this post, please read this one. These aren’t necessarily points that anyone ever sat me down and told me about. I had to figure them out through my own trials and errors, and through my own failures I’m here to give you a few shortcuts.

Remember that completing polished, revised work is the most important step. Publishing should be one end to a writing process. You should not be rushing to publication before the work is ready.

Please actually read the magazine and have some legitimate investment in it. Read sample work online. If no sample work exists because the magazine is print-only, buy a sample issue. Support the magazine, even if they reject you. Magazines don’t just exist to give you a platform. They need support too.

Of course writers and editors exist in a symbiotic relationship and one could not exist without the other, but nothing annoys me more than people who talk about journals in the language of conquest (to be honest, I even personally feel an aversion to the capitalist language of the term “market,” but am using it because it has its place certain contexts).

Yes, we all have our “white whale” publication we’d love to see our work in, but I’ve seen people who submit out of what comes across to me as an addictive action. Your relationship to magazines should not be with the ardor of someone standing at the front of a bodega line running through scratch-offs with a quarter.

This is all a nice way of saying “don’t be that careless, spamming, 100-simultaenous-submissions” submitter.

Always, always , always read the submission guidelines on the magazine’s website. Sometimes called “writer guidelines” or something similar. Sometimes you’ll have to hunt around on a website to find the link to this page (some magazines include the link in the footer at the bottom of the page instead of at the top).

Submission guidelines have all the rules. If they ask for a maximum of 7,500 words, don’t send a 10,000-word story. If they say that zombies are a hard sell, don’t send your story with zombies. You are not above the rules.

Do not submit to a magazine when it’s not open. Do not email a story to a magazine when it’s closed. This is a huge no-no. In fact, don’t email a story when they don’t accept submissions by email in the first place. This will only make the editors hate you.

Follow notes about formatting your story/manuscript closely (e.g.: title, where to put page numbers…), especially when listed in the aforementioned guidelines. A lot of lit fic/MFA mags don’t care, but I’ve noticed a lot of genre fiction magazines prefer something called SHUNN format . You don’t want to receive a rejection simply because you couldn’t follow formatting rules, so please set up your document the way they ask, even if it takes you a few extra minutes of fussing in Word.

In my personal opinion, don’t overdo cover letters . They’re not replacements for the creative writing itself . You don’t have to go overboard demonstrating that you love/have read pieces recently in the magazine. It’s a nice bonus point, but no beautiful cover letter ever convinced me to accept mediocre work in all my years as an editor. Just give them the basics, as long as it’s following submission guidelines.

That being said, it can be nice to find the masthead (current editors) on the website and start your cover letter with [Dear Insert Editor(s) Name(s) Here]. If you don’t know, just put “Dear Editor/s,”… It shows a little extra care & that you actually know who is behind the magazine.

Also, you don’t need to go overboard with explaining the work. The work should speak for itself. Unless you’re doing something innovative, complicated, or that requires a nota bene, just stick to the basics.

It’s usually recommended to include your author bio somewhere in the cover letter (see my next point).

Create a short writer bio for yourself because you’ll most likely be pasting this in a cover letter for every submission you send out.

If you don’t feel like you have a lot of accomplishments, just use what you have. For a long time my bio was something as simple as “JD Scott is a writer who lives in Brooklyn, NY.” You don’t have to over-compensate or have a long bio. Trust for your work to speak for itself.

That being said, if you begin dabbling with different genres or start building up publications, you might start building multiple bios for yourself that you should keep on file somewhere (on the cloud) for easy access.

My personal philosophy is that the long bio is great for flexing your accolades on your author website or when submitting a cover letter, but when it comes to publication (or doing a public reading), a shorter, humbler bio suffices. Once again, let the work speak for itself.

“Simultaneous submissions” means you’re allowed to submit the same story (or poem or essay) to multiple ( different ) magazines at the same time.

Most MFA/lit fic magazines allow this.

Most genre fiction markets usually do not . I believe the reason for this is because science fiction and fantasy magazines generally have a very quick turnaround when compared to their lit fic/MFA counterparts.

“Multiple submissions” means you’re allowed to submit more than one piece to the same magazine at the same time (e.g.: I’m sending a poem and a short story to The New Yorker so they’re both being reviewed at the same time).

Generally this is not allowed. The general etiquette is that you submit one piece at a time and wait until you get a response until you submit another piece.

Also, if the magazine tells you they have a cool-off/wait period (e.g.: “don’t send us another story for 6 months”, please listen ).

Below is an example cover letter. To be honest, I’m not always this ‘high effort’ with my cover letters. I can be a hypocrite too. Sometimes I’m reckless and don’t follow my own advice. There have been times when I’ve pasted nothing but my basic bio in a cover letter box before and had work accepted. I’m, of course, not saying this to highlight my own negligence , but to remind you all that a pretty cover letter is not a substitute for the work itself, so please moderate how much time and energy you put into one.

A Cover Letter Example

Dear Editors,

I am submitting three poems for your consideration:

1) “Polar Premium Seltzer (Raspberry Lime)” 2) “Polar Premium Seltzer (Clementine)” 3) “Polar Premium Seltzer (Blueberry)”

This is a simultaneous submission, but I will notify you if one or more of the poems are accepted elsewhere and withdraw them immediately. Thank you for your consideration.

Best, JD Scott

JD Scott is the author of the story collection Moonflower, Nightshade, All the Hours of the Day (&NOW Books, 2020) and the poetry collection Mask for Mask (New Rivers Press, 2021). Scott’s writing has appeared in Best Experimental Writing, Best New Poets, Denver Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, Indiana Review , Hayden’s Ferry Review , and elsewhere.

When You’ve Clicked That Submit Button (Now What?)

Congratulations!

Why are you congratulating me? , you might ask. I haven’t accomplished anything yet!

Oh, but you have! You’ve written something. You’ve revised and edited it. You’ve researched publications to submit it to, and you’ve taken a lot of care crafting that cover letter and bio. Now the waiting game begins.

However, I have a few more thoughts and considerations for what you should do while you’re waiting to hear back.

If you take one item and one item only from this list, please let it be this one. Keep your own independent spreadsheet (e.g.: Google Sheet) or use a submission tracker (e.g.: Duotrope or The Grinder) and IMMEDIATELY fill it out as soon as you submit a piece of writing.

This is especially useful if you’re submitting across multiple platforms such as Submittable, Moskha, and Gmail.

I prefer a spreadsheet. My spreadsheet has a row for "Date Sent," "Publication," "Title(s) of Work Sent," "Response Type," "Response Date," "Response Time," and "Notes."

Response Time is a formula that calculates how many dates between “Date Sent” and “Response Date.”

“Response Type” includes entries such as In-Progress, Withdrawn, Rejected, Accepted…

“What is the magazine is taking forever to respond? Should I query the editor?” : In general, I never query with an editor as a follow-up asking about where my work is in the queue, unless I seriously think my work fell through the cracks.

Editors are humans like you, and you may not know what they’re going through. Remember to practice empathy when reaching out to one.

Generally editors/readers are just slow and behind and following up with them stresses them out and doesn’t earn you any favors.

It’s easier just to withdraw if they’re taking too long and you’re feeling salty about it.

“What if I simultaneously submitted and the work gets accepted?”: First, make sure the piece is 100% accepted (some magazines will partially-accept on the condition you do edits first). It should have a green “accepted” button in Submittable or they might send a contract over for you to sign. After that is done, withdraw from the other magazines immediately! Always, always withdraw your simultaneous submissions!

“What if I submitted a batch of, say, three poems to a magazine and they accepted one but not the other two?” : This is only really common with magazines that allow you to send 3-5 poems or 2-3 flash fiction pieces as a single submission.

This is based on the assumption that you’re allowed to simultaneously submit and did. I’m going to go with my fake cover letter above.

I sent three “Polar Seltzer” poems to Journal A, Journal B, and Journal C. Journal A accepted “Polar Premium Seltzer (Raspberry Lime)” but not the other two. I would then email (or comment in Submittable) a message to Journal B and Journal C saying ‘…“Polar Premium Seltzer (Raspberry Lime)” was accepted by another magazine, but “Polar Premium Seltzer (Clementine)” and “Polar Premium Seltzer (Blueberry)” are still available.’

That way, you don’t need to withdraw your entire submission, you have done your due diligence, and you have demonstrated to Journal B and Journal C that there is interest in your own work.

What Do I Do When I Hear Back? (The Final Stage!)

For most of us, “hearing back” means receiving that rejection. I started writing this talking about what becomes a writer’s second nature, and second nature to me is seeing that rejection response, archiving the email, updating my spreadsheet, and making peace and moving on with my life.

However, what’s true is that takes time to grow into for a lot of us. This write-up exists as a practical how-to, but I also want to acknowledge that for some us, bearing our soul in creative writing and having that work rejected can feel very personal, emotional, and demoralizing.

So if that sounds like you, make sure you have ways to cope and care for yourself (and celebrate those rejections too, if you can muster it). I accrued hundreds of rejections between 2006 and 2012 before my work finally started finding homes. That’s over five years of failing and flailing.

A few final tips:

Update your spreadsheet/Duotrope/Submission Grinder entry immediately. Part of submitting short-form work means maintaining good data about your submissions to save you embarrassment of something like a double-acceptance.

If this was a simultaneous submission and you received an acceptance, withdraw the other submissions immediately.

Unless the response was an ACCEPTANCE or something that might contingently result in an ACCEPTANCE (e.g.: “We liked your story, but we’d like you to do a re-write before we move forward with a formal acceptance…”)—DO NOT RESPOND.

DO NOT CLAP BACK. DO NOT HIT THE REPLY BUTTON AND TELL THE EDITOR HOW WRONG THEY ARE AND HOW MUCH THEY SUCK.

AND FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, DON’T SCREENCAP THE RESPONSE EMAIL AND SHARE THE REJECTION LETTER ON TWITTER.

This seems to have become “a thing” in the past 5 years or so, especially that final part about sharing rejections on Twitter or ‘mocking bad editor responses.’

Yes, the people in your inner circle on Twitter will console you and tell you how awful the editor is and how absolutely amazing and perfect and gorgeous you are and how you’ve never done anything wrong in your entire life. The rest of us are rolling our eyes and cringing.

Remember how I said it’s important to find your people and foster community and all that? Yeah, crying and complaining about rejections should happen in private in the group chat or over the phone with your friends. It shouldn’t be done in public and on main social media accounts. Other editors see this and make a mental note—and not in a good way.

Support networks and friends are also good to navigate the mucky middle grounds such as re-writes, extreme edits, or those more complicated moments I can’t delve into here because this is already a very, very long article. While mostly your rejections will be rejections and your acceptances will be as-is acceptances, there are a lot of in-betweens.

If you end up with an acceptance, relish in it. Tell the editors how excited and honored you are. Send them all the materials they request in a timely manner (headshot, updated bio, returned signed contract…). Celebrate your own writing and share it when it comes out (I would practice a little self-restraint about sharing the good news on social media until you’ve signed a contract though). Be a literary citizen and continue to support their magazine even when the afterglow of being published fades.

And then? When it’s all over? You start again. You write a new story, a new poem, a new essay. You workshop it, you revise it, you edit it, you proofread it, and when it feels ready to go out (that gut-belly-Ouija-planchette-feeling inside of you), you do this process all over again.

And that’s how you submit to literary magazines.

Break a leg, y’all. ⭐️

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