Skip to content

Literary Magazines

The Big List of Literary Magazines

Menu
  • Home
  • Reading
    • Blog
    • On Writing
    • Interviews
    • Famous Authors
    • Stories
    • Poetry
  • Writing
    • Writing Tips
    • Writing Inspiration
    • Playground
    • Writing Prompts
  • Publishing
    • Publishing Tips
    • Literary Magazines
    • Book Publishers
  • Promotions
    • Book Promotions
    • Promoting Tips
    • Classifieds
    • Newsletter
  • Submit
Menu

Year: 2023

F(r)iction

Posted on April 21, 2023April 22, 2023 by Every Writer
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
Read more

Fictive Dream

Posted on April 21, 2023April 22, 2023 by Every Writer
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,
Read more

Lotus-eater

Posted on April 20, 2023April 29, 2023 by Every Writer
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
Read more

Moss

Posted on April 20, 2023April 23, 2023 by Every Writer
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
Read more

Dreamers Creative Writing

Posted on April 20, 2023April 22, 2023 by Every Writer
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.
Read more

Eastern Iowa Review

Posted on April 20, 2023April 22, 2023 by Every Writer
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
Read more

Lunaris Review

Posted on April 20, 2023April 29, 2023 by Every Writer
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
Read more

Eunoia Review

Posted on April 20, 2023April 22, 2023 by Every Writer
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.
Read more

Mojo

Posted on April 20, 2023April 21, 2023 by Every Writer
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
Read more

Cleaver Magazine

Posted on April 20, 2023April 21, 2023 by Karen Rile
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.
Read more

DUMAS de Demain: The French Literary Magazine

Posted on April 20, 2023April 22, 2023 by Every Writer
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
Read more

Grist: The Journal for Writers

Posted on April 20, 2023April 24, 2023 by Every Writer
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
Read more

Elan Literary Magazine

Posted on April 20, 2023April 22, 2023 by Every Writer
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
Read more

The Missouri Review

Posted on April 20, 2023April 21, 2023 by Every Writer
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.
Read more

Epiphany, a literary Journal

Posted on April 20, 2023April 22, 2023 by Every Writer
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 new territory may not yet have found validation elsewhere.
Read more

Alaska Quarterly Review

Posted on April 20, 2023February 15, 2025 by Every Writer
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,
Read more
cumberland river review

Cumberland River Review

Posted on April 20, 2023April 22, 2023 by Every Writer
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
Read more

Embark: A Literary Journal for Novelists

Posted on April 19, 2023April 22, 2023 by Every Writer
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
Read more

MUSE INDIA, the literary eJournal

Posted on April 19, 2023April 29, 2023 by Every Writer
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.
Read more

Gravel Literary Journal

Posted on April 19, 2023December 16, 2023 by Every Writer
Gravel Literary Journal is a new online literary journal created by University of Arkansas-Monticello MFA students.
Read more

Nat. Brut

Posted on April 19, 2023April 29, 2023 by Every Writer
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
Read more

Eratio Poetry Journal

Posted on April 19, 2023April 22, 2023 by Every Writer
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,
Read more

The Citron Review

Posted on April 19, 2023April 21, 2023 by Every Writer
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.
Read more

Dappled Things

Posted on April 19, 2023April 22, 2023 by Every Writer
Dappled Things is a Catholic literary magazine, and this raises the question of what Catholic literature is in the first place.
Read more

Blast Furnace

Posted on April 19, 2023April 22, 2023 by Every Writer
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
Read more

Contrary Magazine

Posted on April 19, 2023April 21, 2023 by Every Writer
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.
Read more

Bombay Review, The

Posted on April 19, 2023December 16, 2023 by Every Writer
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
Read more

Howl

Posted on April 19, 2023April 24, 2023 by Every Writer
Howl, founded in 2013, is an online literary arts magazine run and operated by dedicated, passionate, and talented students of Deltona High School
Read more

Inklette Magazine

Posted on April 19, 2023April 25, 2023 by Every Writer
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
Read more

The Pinch

Posted on April 19, 2023April 21, 2023 by Every Writer
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,
Read more

Clementine (Unbound)

Posted on April 19, 2023April 29, 2023 by Every Writer
Clementine (Unbound) publishes a small selection of poetry each month online. Print copies can be viewed or purchased from Issuu.com.
Read more

Modern Literature

Posted on April 19, 2023April 29, 2023 by Every Writer
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.
Read more

Timber Journal

Posted on April 19, 2023April 21, 2023 by Every Writer
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.
Read more
Fiction International

Fiction International

Posted on April 19, 2023April 22, 2023 by Every Writer
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
Read more

Creative Nonfiction

Posted on April 19, 2023April 21, 2023 by Every Writer
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 Susan Cheever, Dave Eggers, Phillip Lopate, Lauren Slater, Ruth Reichl and other well-known writers, as well as several never-before-published writers.
Read more

Elegant Literature

Posted on April 19, 2023April 22, 2023 by Every Writer
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.
Read more

Carve Magazine (11th)

Posted on April 19, 2023April 19, 2023 by Every Writer
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
Read more
Empty Mirror

Empty Mirror

Posted on April 19, 2023April 22, 2023 by Every Writer
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.
Read more
Antioch Review

Antioch Review

Posted on April 19, 2023April 20, 2023 by Every Writer
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.
Read more

Compose: A Journal of Simply Good Writing

Posted on April 18, 2023April 21, 2023 by Every Writer
Compose: A Journal of Simply Good Writing is a biannual, online publication that features work by both established and emerging writers
Read more

Cease, Cows

Posted on April 18, 2023April 19, 2023 by Every Writer
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,
Read more

Broad River Review

Posted on April 18, 2023April 19, 2023 by Every Writer
The Broad River Review is published every spring by the Department of English Language and Literature at Gardner-Webb University.
Read more

Vallum: Contemporary Poetry

Posted on April 18, 2023April 23, 2023 by Every Writer
Founded in 2000 and based in Montreal, Vallum magazine is published biannually. Valllum provides a forum for emerging artists to interact with more established figures while giving them exposure and the confidence
Read more
Clockhouse

CLOCKHOUSE

Posted on April 18, 2023April 19, 2023 by Every Writer
Clockhouse accepts works of poetry, fiction, memoir, creative nonfiction, and dramatic works for stage or screen. We encourage submissions from both
Read more

Exposition Review

Posted on April 18, 2023April 21, 2023 by Every Writer
Exposition Review is an annual, independent literary journal dedicated to publishing narratives by new, emerging, and established writers in multiple genres and forms.
Read more

CONSEQUENCE magazine

Posted on April 18, 2023April 21, 2023 by Every Writer
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
Read more

Coffin Bell

Posted on April 18, 2023April 21, 2023 by Every Writer
Coffin Bell is a quarterly online journal of dark literature seeking poetry, flash fiction, short stories, and creative nonfiction exploring dark themes.
Read more

The Southeast Review

Posted on April 18, 2023April 21, 2023 by Every Writer
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.
Read more
brainchild

Brain, Child: The Magazine for Thinking Mothers

Posted on April 18, 2023December 12, 2023 by Every Writer
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
Read more

Boston Accent Lit

Posted on April 18, 2023April 18, 2023 by Every Writer
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
Read more
  • Previous
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • Next

Sign up get free ebooks!

When you sign up you get 2 free horror ebooks and digital copies of our magazine for free!



Our Big List

For a comprehensive listing of our magazines visit our Big List.

To Editors and Publishers

If you have a partial unclickable listing, please submit your full listing here.

Categories

  • Art Magazines: taking art submissions (82)
  • Audio Fiction (4)
  • Audio Poetry (7)
  • Best American Poetry (10)
  • Best American Short Story (13)
  • Book Reviews (13)
  • Call for Submissions (6)
  • Canada (2)
  • Christian Magazines (1)
  • Contests (15)
  • creative nonfiction (9)
  • Crime Fiction Magazines (5)
  • Defunct (347)
  • Essays (45)
  • EWR (3)
  • Experimental (3)
  • Fantasy (7)
  • Fiction Magazines (423)
  • Fiction Only (11)
  • Flash Fiction Magazines (25)
  • GLBT (3)
  • Grammar Help (2)
  • Growing List of Nonfiction Literary Magazines (196)
  • Historic Articles by Authors (2)
  • Horror Magazines (25)
  • Interviews (10)
  • Literary magazine in Print (207)
  • Literary Magazines A to Z (485)
  • Literary magazines that Pay (22)
  • Memoir Magazines (1)
  • Mystery Magazines (2)
  • New and Interesting (409)
  • News (8)
  • No E Submissions (6)
  • Not Publishing (1)
  • Online Literary Magazine (315)
  • Online Submissions (462)
  • Photography Magazine (2)
  • Playground (2)
  • Poetry Magazines (414)
  • Print magazines taking online submissions (152)
  • Promoting Your Writing (2)
  • Publishing Paused (1)
  • Publishing Your Writing (2)
  • Romance Magazines (7)
  • Science Fiction (17)
  • Speculative Fiction (9)
  • Teaching Writing (2)
  • Teen (1)
  • University Press (57)
  • Writing Programs (2)

Note to editors

To our editors,

If you need to update your listing, please simply submit a new submission but select UPDATE.

Richard

Literary Magazines: Our Mission

Our Mission: To List Every Literary Magazine

Submit your Magazine Here. 

For Writers: We strive to catalog every active literary magazine to help you find the perfect home for your work. Our comprehensive directory makes discovering publication opportunities easy, accessible, and safe.

How We Achieve This:

  • We maintain a growing database of 1000+ literary markets
  • We continually add new publications as they emerge
  • We regularly update listings with current information
  • Every listing includes concise submission guidelines directly from editors

Quality Assurance: We help you evaluate publications through:

  1. Community ratings — Quick, 1-click star reviews from fellow writers
  2. Expert assessments — Detailed reviews from the Every Writer editorial team

For Editors & Publishers: Submit your magazine here to be included in our comprehensive directory.

Questions? Contact us anytime.

Copy our badge for your site!

logo

or this one

AD




Key

> Links to site
X Defunct/not publishing

© 2025 Literary Magazines | Powered by Minimalist Blog WordPress Theme