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Year: 2023

James Dickey Review

James Dickey Review

Posted on April 18, 2023April 20, 2023 by Every Writer
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
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drafthorse

Posted on April 18, 2023April 22, 2023 by Every Writer
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
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Cowboy Jamboree

Posted on April 17, 2023April 21, 2023 by Every Writer
We like old westerns. Hank Williams is one of our favorite writers. Used boots are better than new boots. At Cowboy Jamboree we promote
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Blackbird

Posted on April 17, 2023April 18, 2023 by Every Writer
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.
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Blue Mesa Review

Posted on April 17, 2023April 20, 2023 by Every Writer
Blue Mesa Review is a literary magazine published online bi-annually. It is associated with the University of New Mexico.
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Creation and Criticism

Posted on April 17, 2023April 21, 2023 by Every Writer
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
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Avalon Literary Review

Posted on April 17, 2023December 12, 2023 by Every Writer
The Avalon Literary Review welcomes work from both published and unpublished writers and poets.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.
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After Hours

After Hours

Posted on April 17, 2023April 18, 2023 by Every Writer
After Hours is a semi-annual literary magazine publishing poetry, fiction, art, and photography from Chicago
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BLACKBERRY: a magazine

Posted on April 17, 2023April 18, 2023 by Every Writer
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
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Bookforum Magazine

Posted on April 17, 2023April 18, 2023 by Every Writer
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.
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Bennington Review

Posted on April 17, 2023April 18, 2023 by Every Writer
Bennington Review is a national biannual print journal of innovative, intelligent, and moving poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and film writing, housed at Bennington College.
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Blotterature

Posted on April 17, 2023April 18, 2023 by Every Writer
Blotterature is a brand new journal founded by four writers from Northwest Indiana. We accept a wide variety of prose, poetry, and artwork.
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ARDOR Literary Magazine

Posted on April 17, 2023April 18, 2023 by Every Writer
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.
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body literary magazine

B O D Y

Posted on April 17, 2023April 18, 2023 by Every Writer
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.
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Berkeley Fiction Review

Posted on April 17, 2023April 20, 2023 by Every Writer
Berkeley Fiction Review is an literary journal founded in 1981 and based at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Bayou Magazine

Posted on April 17, 2023April 18, 2023 by Every Writer
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
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Big Muddy: A Journal of the Mississippi River Valley

Posted on April 17, 2023April 18, 2023 by Every Writer
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
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Angie’s DIARY | Online Writing Magazine

Posted on April 17, 2023April 19, 2023 by Every Writer
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
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Big Fiction

Posted on April 17, 2023April 18, 2023 by Every Writer
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.
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Black Warrior Review

Black Warrior Review

Posted on April 17, 2023April 18, 2023 by Every Writer
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.
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Black Scat Review

Posted on April 16, 2023April 18, 2023 by Norman Conquest
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.
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Blue Collar Review

Posted on April 16, 2023April 18, 2023 by Every Writer
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.
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Apple Valley Review

Posted on April 16, 2023March 9, 2024 by Every Writer
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.
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Beloit Fiction Journal

Posted on April 16, 2023April 18, 2023 by Every Writer
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
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American Chordata

Posted on April 16, 2023April 17, 2023 by Every Writer
American Chordata is a biannual magazine of bright voices in fiction, nonfiction essay, and poetry, as well as art and photography.
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Brick, A Literary Journal

Posted on April 16, 2023April 18, 2023 by Every Writer
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.
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atlength

At Length

Posted on April 16, 2023April 18, 2023 by Every Writer
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
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EX/POST MAGAZINE

Posted on April 16, 2023April 22, 2023 by Every Writer
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
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flashfictionline

Flash Fiction Online

Posted on April 15, 2023April 29, 2023 by Every Writer
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.
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Black Denim Lit

Posted on April 10, 2023April 18, 2023 by Every Writer
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
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Lucky Jefferson

Posted on April 6, 2023April 29, 2023 by Every Writer
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.
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Room Magazine

Posted on April 3, 2023May 5, 2023 by Every Writer
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
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Berkeley Poetry Review

Posted on April 3, 2023April 20, 2023 by Every Writer
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
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concho river review

Concho River Review

Posted on April 3, 2023May 9, 2023 by Every Writer
The Concho River Review publishes writers from all over the United States and, occasionally, writers from abroad. We enjoy publishing writers for the first time
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agonia

Agonia

Posted on April 2, 2023April 19, 2023 by Every Writer
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.
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Crab Fat Literary Magazine

Posted on April 2, 2023April 22, 2023 by Every Writer
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
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Riot Material

Posted on April 1, 2023May 5, 2023 by Every Writer
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
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Balloons Lit Journal

BALLOONS Lit. Journal

Posted on April 1, 2023April 30, 2023 by Every Writer
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.
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Utopia Science Fiction

Posted on March 31, 2023April 25, 2023 by Every Writer
Founded July, 2019 we are an up and coming Science Fiction Magazine dedicated to sharing stories which share a common theme - a future we want to believe in. Utopia in itself may be ever-elusive, but there's no reason we shouldn't hope for a brighter future.
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Swamppink formally Crazyhorse

Posted on March 25, 2023March 26, 2023 by Every Writer
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
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Brilliant Flash Fiction

Posted on March 23, 2023April 19, 2023 by Every Writer
Brilliant Flash Fiction delivers vibrant stories from around the world illustrated with dazzling photography. Contributors include established writers and talented newcomers.
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Bacopa Literary Review

Posted on March 5, 2023March 6, 2023 by Every Writer
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.
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Panel

Posted on March 1, 2023May 3, 2023 by Every Writer
Panel Magazine reflects contemporary literature that is being produced in Central and Eastern Europe, and is written in English or translated into English.
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Broad Street Magazine (Defunct)

Posted on February 24, 2023April 19, 2023 by Every Writer
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
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Closed Opened Eye

The Closed Eye Open

Posted on February 22, 2023 by Every Writer
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.
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the other side of hope: journeys in refugee and immigrant literature

Posted on February 13, 2023 by Every Writer
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.
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Apocalypse Confidential

Posted on February 6, 2023 by Every Writer
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
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The Nelligan Review

Posted on February 3, 2023 by Every Writer
The Nelligan Review accepts unsolicited submissions of fiction, essays, reviews, poetry, art, and photography.
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Suspense Magazine >

Posted on January 28, 2023April 18, 2023 by Every Writer
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
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Fears Magazines >

Posted on January 28, 2023December 16, 2023 by Every Writer
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
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