Literary Magazines

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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

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

Authorist

Authorist is a monthly, indie publication of the strange, philosophical, and slightly off beat, written by and for people with imaginations and a sense of adventure.

Bluebird Magazine

Bluebird Magazine is an online literary magazine that prides itself on supporting new artists, and helping them find the readers that will be interested in their writings.

‘Sea Change’ (Closed)

The ‘Sealand Literary Supplement to Life’ is the umbrella name for a series of periodically published books and booklets dedicated to contemporary literature. We cater to the needs

(b)OINK

(b)OINK, We publish first-rate, experimental, edgy, dark and fun fiction, poetry, CNF and a monthly column called VOICES.

(em): A Review of Text and Image (Closed)

(?m): A Review of Text and Image is a digital literary magazine. We publish for e-readers, ios/android tablets, and traditional computers. We’re open to all kinds of work.

2 Elizabeths

2 Elizabeths is a short fiction, flash fiction, and poetry publication, focused on creating value and visibility for writers. We are committed to reading every single submission we receive.

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.

521magazine (Defunct)

Five 2 One thrives to help make a name for the unknown the best way we can. We love poetry and short stories. We consider ourselves experts of the strange. That’s what we do best.

69 Flavors of Paranoia

69 Flavors of Paranoia is an online horror and slip-stream fiction publication which is served in the form of a menu, with a different flavor for each. We publish only the

971 MENU

971 MENU is a purely online not-for-profit venture. We publish whenever we have enough work to justify an issue. That means five pieces. The minimum time between issues is thirty days, and attempts are made to coincide with the first of the month. We publish fiction and nonfiction of any length and sometimes accidentally other stuff. 971 MENU began in September 2006 as a publisher of fiction under 1000 words. We are pleased with our work, and we are quite pleased with the high-quality work we have been fortunate enough to publish, but we no longer limit ourselves in terms of length. However, your chance of seeing a thirty-page epic here is fairly slim. We still put out the short stuff, and some that’s a little bit longer.

A Little Poetry

A Little Poetry presents contemporary poetry by poets around the world–from famous faces to burgeoning beginners. Check out the journal / e-zine contents page for links to the current issue

A Quiet Courage

A Quiet Courage is an online literary journal specializing in tiny words. We publish compelling, poignant, memorable,

A Trunk of Delirium (Defunct)

About the Press Le Pink Elephant Press was founded in 2003 in Kent, Ohio after the deconstruction of Hart’s Compass. Le Pink Elephant Press’ founder and editor in chief is Suzanne

A Velvet Giant

A VELVET GIANT is a genreless online literary journal, meaning that we do not categorize the work we receive by genre.

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

Abramelin

Abramelin has been publishing high quality poetry since the summer of 2006. We took 2010 off. Now we have returned with a new format! Instead of yearly or biannual issues, I will be doing monthly updates, often with featured poets. We are switching our focus to just poetry. I will consider a short story, but no more essays. So to all of our old friends, welcome back. And here’s hoping to meet lots of new friends as we set out on our second life.

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.

Aegir Magazine

Are you underwhelmed with life, overwhelmed by snakes, and think happiness can only be achieved through naps?

AEROGRAM (Defunct?)

Poetry, that time-traveling hobo with a room at the Ritz, doggedly knocks on your window like a scheming friend at midnight. A poem can whisk you away; to a Harlem basement in 1961, to an

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.

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,

Alligator Juniper

The Alligator Juniper tree is in the juniper family with bark in a checkered pattern, resembling an alligator’s skin. While the tree is native to the southwest, the alligator is native to swampland and tropics.

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 Chordata

American Chordata is a biannual magazine of bright voices in fiction, nonfiction essay, and poetry, as well as art and photography.

American Letters & Commentary

American Letters & Commentary, Inc, is an independent not-for-profit corporation 501(c)(3). For over twenty years AL&C has been dedicated to publishing a literary annual promoting innovative and ?difficult? writing. AL&C inaugurated a book imprint in 2009.

Ancient Paths

Ancient Paths literary magazine publishes poetry, flash fiction, art, and photography with subtle religious themes. The works featured in Ancient Paths explore struggles

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and/or, a print journal for creative experimental writing and/or innovative graphic art, seeks submissions from writers and/or other sorts of artists whose work openly challenges the boundaries

AndWeWereHungry

AndWeWereHungry is an online arts and literary magazine currently in development. We exist to celebrate the short story while also showcasing a mix of prose

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

Anobium (Defunct)

No longer publishing

Antioch Review

The Antioch Review is one of the best literary magazines in the country. We rate the Antioch Review as number 25 of our Top 50 Literary Magazines list.

Antiphon poetry magazine

We provide a showcase for the best in British and international contemporary poetry. We publish around 30 poets each issue, and many take up the option of recording their work for our blog.

Apalachee Review (links to site)

Apalachee Review

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.

Apropos Literary Journal

Apropos Literary Journal this literary journal is no longer publishing.

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.

Armchair/Shotgun

At Armchair/Shotgun, we do not care about your bio. We read all submissions anonymously, and conceal even

Arroyo Literary Review

Arroyo Literary Review is a print-based publication produced annually by students and alumni of California State University, East Bay.

ART TIMES Literary Journal and Resource for the Fine and Performing Arts

Artifact Nouveau

Artifact Nouveau is a magazine of works by students, faculty, alumni, and employees of San Joaquin Delta College published by the SJDC Writers’ Guild.

Asinine Poetry

Asinine Poetry is the journal of asinine poetry, a monthly publication of poetry and prose that attempts to be kinda funny.

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.

autolycus

“autolycus” is an utterly independent literary journal, created by Genie Cartier and Emilio Aldrich. We aim to publish talented unknown writers, and sell the journal online and by consignment at places such as City Lights and the Beat Museum.

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 of life, with a touch of humor, are a good fit for our Review. While we appreciate the genres of fantasy, science fiction and horror, our magazine is not the forum for such work.

AWESOME Online Magazine

A brand new and alternative mag packed with features, competitions and much more.

B O D Yxxxx

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, and named after a genus

Badlands Literary Journal

Badlands is the official publication of the Creative Writing Program of the California State University Palm Desert Campus. Our journal aims

BALLOONS Lit. Journal

BALLOONS Lit. Journal Website: http://www.balloons-lit-journal.com/ From the Editor 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. BLJ is independent and biannual publishing quality poetry, fiction and art/photography primarily for readers […]

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.

Bare Fiction Magazine

Bare Fiction was set up to promote new writing in all forms through performance, digital representation and publication. We offer a platform for new creative writing across poetry, fiction and plays

Barge Journal

Barge Journal reads unsolicited submissions year round. Submit through our submissions manager on the website. We seek experimental fiction and poetry as well as (emphasis on the creative part) creative non-fiction — though we prefer non-genre, non-classifiable work above all. Long story short, this isn’t the place to submit your literary fiction or formal poetry.

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.).

Bartleby Snopes

Bartleby Snopes is founded on the principle that writers deserve quick responses and personalized feedback. We publish two stories per week and end each month with a Story of the Month contest voted on by the readers. Twice per year we release a print/PDF version

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 from established, award-winning authors as well as emerging writers. In keeping with the aesthetics and goals of the Creative Writing Workshop, Bayou is especially interested in discovering and showcasing fresh literary voices. The journal awards yearly contests in both fiction and poetry. And in one issue every year, Bayou features the winning one-act play and short story from the annual Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival Competitions. We are a member of the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses, and annually nominate several published works for the Pushcart Prize, O. Henry Award and Best American Essays. Supported by the University of New Orleans English Department and the UNO Foundation, Bayou is a non-profit journal for the arts.

Beaks of Eagles: A Journal About Men’s Nature

Beaks of Eagles: a journal about man’s need and nature “…an it is good for him to know that his needs and nature are no more changed in ten thousand years that the beaks of eagles.” Robinson Jeffers, 1937 accepting short stories, essays, poems, interviews that relate to men’s needs and nature.

Bedlam

BEDLAM is an independent online arts journal showcasing the work of writers, artists, and musicians from all over the world. The journal is dedicated to promoting work that is passionate, daring, and inspiring.

Behind Closed Doors

Everyone out there has a story. Some people choose to keep it to themselves, while others dream of telling it. Behind closed doors?it?s just a little harder to hear. At Behind Closed Doors, we are giving artists and writers the opportunity to tell their story.

Belle Reve Literary Journal

Belle Reve Literary Journal is a weekly updated online literary experience. We strive to capture everything that makes the South

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

Below the Fold Magazine

Below the Fold Magazine is a humor site written by women publishing short, satirical fiction. Written by women for women? Maybe. But we hope certain men and some children will also benefit substantially from reading our pieces.

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.

Beorh Weekly

Beorh Weekly Website https://beorhweekly.wordpress.com/ From the Editor Beorh Weekly publishes literature of the weird, odd, uncanny, strange, macabre, grotesque, and fantastic. Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, and Prose Poetry is considered. Beorh Weekly Publishes 50 (Or More) Stories Every Year… And Pays You For Your Work With Exposure! How Do Ya Beat Them Apples? Send for consideration […]

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

Best Poem: A Poetry Journal

To qualify for publication, the poet must fit one of the following criteria: a) the poem has been rejected elsewhere for publication but still the poet feels strongly about its merit, or b) the poem hasn’t been submitted but is the poet’s current darling, favorite or breakthrough poem. Long poems and sequences are accepted and encouraged. For more information, please see guidelines.

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

Big Pond Rumours, The Literary E-Zine

Great news! Big Pond Rumours has been re-launched. There are two issues a year (Summer and Winter) with a contest and Guest Judges for Poetry and Fiction

Birdfeast

Birdfeast was imagined and created on Thanksgiving 2011. It runs quarterly with a feast of 10-20 poems each issue. Birdfeast welcomes all forms and styles of poetry, and publishes

black clock

Singular, idiosyncratic and a little mysterious, Black Clock is one of America’s leading literary journals. Since its inception in 2004, the publication has featured work (by Don DeLillo, Richard

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 Heart Magazine

Black Heart Magazine is an independent online literary magazine, transmitting our tenacious texts around the world at the speed of wifi.

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.

Black Wire Literary Magazine

Black Wire is a new literary journal dedicated to discovering progressive and cutting edge writing from today’s best poets and writers.

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. (If submitting online, put all poems into one document, as the submissions software will not allow you to submit individual poems separately.) Fiction: Double-space, please. We primarily look for short stories, but novel excerpts are acceptable if self-contained. Nonfiction: Double-space, please. We primarily look for personal essays, but memoir excerpts are acceptable if self-contained. Unsolicited book reviews and criticism are not considered. Gallery: Plays are accepted. We do not accept unsolicited visual art work, but if you produce video essays, please query us about your work.

Blank Fiction

Blank Fiction Magazine aims to provide our readers with entertaining, intelligent and thought-provoking genre literature. We publish a quarterly collection of four short stories.

Blank Fiction Literary Magazine

Blank Fiction is a new and independent literary magazine aimed at publishing intelligent and thought-provoking genre fiction. Each quarterly issue will call for a different genre

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

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 Island Review

THE BLUE ISLAND REVIEW is a journal produced by writers living in Lawrence, Kansas. The members of the Blue Island Poetry Group hold these tenets: that poetry is the art of making all suffer; that hypergraphia is a disorder that should be incubated; that the experience of poetry is to induce emotion through image, sound, and association; that narrative is prose, and should remain such in its multiple nefarious forms; that economy of words is most powerful; that love as it is known is a most brutal form of chemical warfare, and that to inflict poetry on the unsuspecting, both in print and in voice, is the highest calling of very sexy people. To that end, we solicit contributions from writers living in (or connected to) northeast Kansas in the hopes that their work reaches more lovers of poetry than it otherwise might.

Blue Lyra Review

We want poetry, essays, fiction, translations, and art. We accept submissions through Submittable from Jan 01 – Oct 15th only. We only consider unpublished work which means no online reprints from magazine,

Blue Mesa Review

Blue Mesa Review is a literary magazine published online bi-annually. It is associated with the University of New Mexico.

Blue Monday Review

Blue Monday Review strives to publish prose, poetry, and visual art that celebrates the literary genius of the late Kurt Vonnegut. Vonnegut was a man who knew how

Bohemia Art & Literary Journal

Bohemia Waco, Texas bohemia-journal.comMission Our mission is to let people know there are artists in Waco, TX. Our goal is to meet other artists from all over the world. Description

Bolts of Silk

The name Bolts of Silk comes from Dark Matter, a vivid poem by the wonderfully talented Rebecca Elson, who died tragically young. Unfortunately copyright permission is beyond the budget I have for this project, but I would definitely recommend looking out for A Responsibility to Awe, the collection that contains this poem. Bolts of silk were traditionally given as prizes in Japanese poetry competitions. Bolts of Silk features poetry from across the world, poetry that has something to say and says it beautifully.

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.

Bop Dead City

Bop Dead City is a biannual, independently published literary magazine. We are seeking new writers who have a great story to tell. Sound craftsmanship couldn?t hurt either. We are currently looking for stories and poems for our first issue, which will be published sometime in October.

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 Magazine Information about your publication Bricolage is a new arts and culture magazine based in India. We seek original, exciting works of art, literature and photograph for publication. What type of submissions are you looking for? We invite submissions of prose (fiction and non-fiction), poetry, artwork and photographs for the next issue of Bricolage […]

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.

Broad Street Magazine

Broad Street is a nonprofit magazine based in Richmond, VA. We publish semi-anually, and aim to create a space to be enjoyed equally by longtime fans of creative nonfiction and those

Broad! (A Gentlelady’s Magazine)

Broad! is a online literary semiannual that publishes exclusively women writers and artists. (?Women? meaning female-bodied or female-identified individuals, by the way.) Women writers are

Buck off Magazine

B.O.M accepts all forms of art whether through photography, painting or writing. We are writers with attitude looking for inspired artist to appear

Buffalo Almanack

Buffalo Almanack is an online quarterly journal of fiction and photography. We aim to publish the best of new and veteran artists from within the United…

Bursting Plethora

Bursting Plethora is a muli-media magazine dedicated to literature and the arts.We provide new and emerging artists with an opportunity to express themselves on a global level. We provide

By&By Poetry

“By and by” evokes the humid warmth of Southern hymns, the comfort of a grandmother or grandfather, the all-encompassing belief in the future. A term that once

Cactus Heart

Issue #1 just published! 108 big full-color e-pages, full of spiny, succulent fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and art. On the search for more literature that thrives, literature that makes us swoon,

Camroc Press Review

Current acceptance rate is less than five percent. Each piece submitted should not be over 500 words. If poetry, not over five per submission. Include a short, third person bio that tells us

Carbon Culture Review

Carbon Culture Review advocates a creative, thoughtful and visually appealing dialogue about our complex relationship to technology. We strive to promote the work of those who employ technology and utilize

Cardinal Sins

Cardinal Sins is Saginaw Valley State University’s arts and writing magazine. We are run by the students and faculty of SVSU. Although regular submissions for Cardinal Sins are only open to SVSU students, faculty, and alumni, our annual contest is open to everyone!

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,

Cecile’s Writers Magazine

Cecile’s Writers Magazine is a literary eZine that publishes writing by intercultural writers:
– Authors for whom English is their native language but currently reside in a non-English

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.

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

Chagrin River Review

Chagrin River Review is named after the Chagrin River, which flows into Lake Erie in the Northeast corner of Ohio. Not only do we publish work with Ohio connections, but any poetry and stories

Chautauqua

The editors actively solicit writing that expresses the values of Chautauqua Institution broadly construed: a sense of inquiry into questions of personal, social, political, spiritual, and aesthetic importance, regardless of genre. We consider the work of any writer, whether or not affiliated with Chautauqua Institution, except for members of the Board of the Chautauqua Writers? Center unless solicited for special issues. The qualities we seek include a mastery of craft, attention to vivid and accurate language, a true lyric ?ear,? an original and compelling vision, and strong narrative instinct. Above all, we value work that is intensely personal, yet somehow implicitly comments on larger public concerns?work that answers every reader?s most urgent question: Why are you telling me this?

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