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Slate is 2nd on our list of Top Online Literary Magazines. To be honest we have been reluctant to put Slate on this list. They are not really a literary magazine. They are a general interest magazine, and like The Atlantic or the New Yorker we are not crazy for publications that use poetry and fiction to boost their intellectual content, but spend little time featuring the works. What we mean is we do not like to have to dig for creative content. We believe these magazines The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Playboy, honor creative writing by publishing it, but it is such a small part of what they do it is hard to count them among “literary magazines.”
Slate does publish much more content than creative writing, but they are a daily magazine. At this point monthly they may publish more fiction and poetry than many of the online literary magazines on this list. They have an Alexa ranking of 1,195 and if you want to mail a poem anyone can do so, and it is mailed directly to Robert Pinsky former Poet Laureate. We have to give it to this magazine. They are one of the best and they have been around since 1997. They are making writing and literature better on the web. If they were more focused on writing they would be hands down the best literary publication the web. Right now it is a little difficult to find the poems and fiction they publish. Work has been published from the journal in Best American Poetry.
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