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Year: 2023

RockPaperPoem

Posted on December 20, 2023December 20, 2023 by Every Writer
RockPaperPoem presents a uniquely blended mix of poetry. We're grounded in imagery, emotion and humanity, but we also showcase varied
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The Big List of literary magazines

The Big List of Literary Magazines A Comprehensive List (500+)

Posted on December 16, 2023April 30, 2025 by Every Writer
Discover 500+ literary magazines accepting submissions. Find the perfect journal for your writing with our comprehensive list, updated regularly. Explore top literary magazines for fiction, poetry, essays, and more.
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Blue Mountain Review, The

Posted on December 16, 2023December 16, 2023 by Every Writer
The Blue Mountain Review stands as a distinguished literary journal launched in 2015 seeking to platform impactful stories told across
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Witcraft

Posted on December 4, 2023 by Every Writer
Witcraft provides a home for skillfully written stories that are brief, humorous and engaging, with the emphasis on wit, word play, absurdity and inspired nonsense.
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Protean Magazine

Posted on November 30, 2023December 1, 2023 by Every Writer
Protean Magazine is a non-profit leftist publication that produces an annual print magazine and publishes online content year-round.
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Litro Magazine

Posted on November 28, 2023November 28, 2023 by Every Writer
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.
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Small World City

Posted on November 27, 2023 by Every Writer
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
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Christmas Spirits

Posted on November 26, 2023November 26, 2023 by Every Writer
Sharing ghost stories in the chilly darkness by firelight is a celebrated holiday tradition that's ready for a resurrection. Christmas Spirits
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Power Cut

Posted on November 24, 2023 by Every Writer
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
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The Lake

Posted on November 18, 2023November 18, 2023 by Every Writer
"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.
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Home Planet News

Posted on November 16, 2023 by Every Writer
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
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The Dawn Review

Posted on November 11, 2023 by Every Writer
The Dawn Review is a quarterly print and online literary magazine that celebrates diverse voices and perspectives.
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Dark Onus Lit

Posted on November 10, 2023 by Every Writer
Dark Onus Lit is a Philadelphia-based, volunteer-run, experimental micro-zine which publishes digital Issues of dark-themed artwork,
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Illuminarium Chronicles

Posted on November 9, 2023 by Every Writer
Illuminarium Chronicles is an international literary magazine that was created to be a bridge to freedom of expression and aims to publish creative
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Stanza Cannon

Posted on November 7, 2023November 7, 2023 by Every Writer
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
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Ripple Lit

Posted on November 6, 2023 by Every Writer
Ripple Lit is an online literary magazine creating conversation around the environment. In each issue we publish artistic responses to climate change
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The Ekphrastic Review

Posted on November 5, 2023December 16, 2023 by Every Writer
The Ekphrastic Review is an online journal devoted entirely to writing inspired by visual art. Our objective is to promote ekphrastic writing, promote art
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StoSo Press

Posted on November 4, 2023 by Every Writer
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
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Foxes Dancing Around

Posted on October 29, 2023 by Every Writer
Welcome to Foxes Dancing Around! Here, we want to give a welcoming environment to writers of all kinds, especially writers who have never
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2 river review

Posted on October 27, 2023October 27, 2023 by Every Writer
2river review is an online literary journal based in Santa Rosa, California that publishes poetry and visual art. The journal was founded in 1996.
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Blue Villa Mag

Posted on October 25, 2023October 27, 2023 by Every Writer
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:
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Driftwood Press

Posted on October 23, 2023 by Every Writer
Driftwood Press is an online literary journal that publishes fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, and visual art. We seek boundary-pushing, experimental
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The FictionWeek Literary Review

Posted on October 21, 2023 by Every Writer
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.
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Ploughshares

Posted on October 21, 2023October 21, 2023 by Every Writer
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
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American Poetry Review

Posted on October 19, 2023October 19, 2023 by Every Writer
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.
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7th-Circle Pyrite

Posted on October 18, 2023October 18, 2023 by Every Writer
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
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The Curie Review

Posted on October 13, 2023 by Every Writer
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).
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Fruitslice

Posted on October 8, 2023 by Every Writer
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”.
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Belfry Literary Journal

Posted on May 26, 2023 by Every Writer
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.
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Rattle

Posted on May 11, 2023May 12, 2023 by Every Writer
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
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Soundings East

Posted on May 5, 2023May 9, 2023 by Every Writer
Soundings East is the literary journal of Salem State University, published annually with support from the Center for Creative and Performing Arts
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RipRap Journal

Posted on May 4, 2023May 5, 2023 by Every Writer
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).
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Psychopomp Magazine

Posted on May 3, 2023May 4, 2023 by Every Writer
The Psychopomp Magazine staff is committed to publishing original fiction that dares to redefine traditional storytelling and genre borders. While we like stories
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Radar Poetry

Posted on May 3, 2023May 4, 2023 by Every Writer
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.
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Rowayat

Posted on May 3, 2023May 5, 2023 by Every Writer
Rowayat is a literary journal emerging from Egypt. We feature writers living in Egypt, or have lived in Egypt in the past.
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Oxford American

Posted on May 3, 2023May 3, 2023 by Every Writer
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
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Otis Nebula

Posted on May 2, 2023May 3, 2023 by Every Writer
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
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Saw Palm: Florida Literature and Art

Posted on May 2, 2023May 5, 2023 by Every Writer
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
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Pithead Chapel

Posted on May 2, 2023May 3, 2023 by Every Writer
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.
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SORTES

Posted on May 2, 2023May 3, 2023 by Every Writer
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
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Prism Review

Posted on May 2, 2023May 4, 2023 by Every Writer
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
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Slightly Foxed

Posted on May 2, 2023May 5, 2023 by Every Writer
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
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Papercuts

Posted on May 2, 2023December 16, 2023 by Omer Wahaj
Papercuts is the bi-annual literary magazine of Desi Writers Lounge – an online workshop for writers of South Asian
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Please See Me

Posted on May 2, 2023May 3, 2023 by Every Writer
Please See Me, an online literary journal dedicated to highlighting creative writing and artistic expression through photography and digital media by patients
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The Vestal Review

The Vestal Review

Posted on May 2, 2023May 9, 2023 by Every Writer
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
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Ruminate

Posted on May 2, 2023May 5, 2023 by Every Writer
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
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Silver Apples Magazine

Posted on May 1, 2023May 5, 2023 by Every Writer
Silver Apples Magazine is a new Irish e-zine founded by friends and long-time collaborators Alex Dunne and Gráinne O’Brien
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Segullah

Posted on May 1, 2023May 5, 2023 by Every Writer
"Segullah is a literary journal and blog designed to encourage literary and artistic talent, provoke thought and promote greater understanding and faith
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SoFloPoJo- South Florida Poertry Journal

Posted on May 1, 2023May 5, 2023 by Every Writer
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".
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Scarlet Leaf Review

Posted on May 1, 2023May 5, 2023 by Every Writer
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
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