Fiction Magazines

Here is our listings of over 600 magazines taking fiction submissions. We have been listing fiction magazines for over 10 years. Some of these listings are older, and we are doing our very best to bring you up to date listings. Our site has over 10,000 pages! 

 

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Magazines Taking Fiction Submissions

96th of October

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The name of this journal, 96th of October, is derived from a character in the Pogo comic strip who wishes to extend the sway of Halloween to where it displaces Christmas. Giving October 96 days effectively annexes December and the first week of January.
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Adroit Journal

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The Adroit Journal has been the subject of a fair amount of napkin scribbling since November 2010, when Founder/Editor-in-Chief Peter LaBerge decided that the world needed a literary magazine run entirely by high school and college students that helped the world in more ways than one. The Adroit Journal, bright with enthusiasm, was born. And that enthusiasm remains bright, with over forty students from Boston to Bangalore collaborating on this unique publication. Yet Adroit's uniqueness does not stop there.
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After Dinner Conversation

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After Dinner Conversation

  • Website: https://www.afterdinnerconversation.com/
  • Print magazine: Yes
  • Size: Independent nonprofit publisher
  • Location: Tempe, AZ, US
  • Submissions: Seeks philosophical and ethical short story fiction (1,500-7,000 words) that prompts discussion. Looking for stories addressing universal issues where "two reasonable people could reasonably disagree about what a good (or just) person should do."
  • Other information: Founded in 2019. Editor: Kolby Granville. Monthly print and digital publication. Wide distribution through 22,000 digital libraries, Apple Books, and Amazon. Rated "Most Popular Fiction Magazine 2024" and "Top 10 LitMag of 2023, 2024" by Chill Subs.
  • Genres: Fiction with philosophical/ethical themes
  • Publication frequency: Monthly
  • Payment: $75 per accepted story
  • Founded: 2019
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agonia

Agonia

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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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and/or

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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
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Apocalypse Confidential

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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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ARDOR Literary Magazine

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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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Arkana

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Arkana

  • Website: https://arkanamag.org/
  • Print magazine: No (Online only)
  • Size: University-affiliated literary journal
  • Location: Conway, AR, US
  • Submissions: Seeks work that "asks questions, explores mystery, and works to make visible the marginalized, the overlooked, and those whose voices have been silenced." Especially interested in work from Delta region, BIPOC, immigrant, LGBTQ+, women, disabled, and neurodivergent writers.
  • Other information: Founded in 2016. Graduate-run journal of the University of Central Arkansas. Staff and editors are students in the Arkansas Writers' MFA Program. Nominates writers for Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Features audio recordings of published pieces.
  • Genres: Fiction, Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, Scripts, Translation, Artwork, Illustrated Narrative
  • Publication frequency: Not specified
  • Payment: $50 Editors' Choice Awards in each genre
  • Founded: 2016
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atlength

At Length

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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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Avalon Literary Review

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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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Bacopa Literary Review

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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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Belfry Literary Journal

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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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Belladonna’s Garden

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Belladonna's Garden

  • Website: https://www.belladonnasgardenlit.com/
  • Print magazine: No (online only, with hopes of expanding to print)
  • Submissions: Seeks emotionally honest, bold writing that stirs something deep. Welcomes cozy horror, romance, magical realism, hopeful and strange stories. Loves lyrical prose, image-rich poetry, hybrid forms, and experimental structure. Especially drawn to work exploring identity, grief, transformation, historical stories, faith, folklore, dreams, silence, and survival.
  • Other information: Small, independent literary magazine founded by Shari Wilder, rooted in "the strange and the lyrical." Believes in slow publishing, careful curation, and gentle fiction that makes space for softness and beauty. The name reflects their ethos: "beauty with bite, softness with poison, language that heals, but also haunts." Welcomes emerging and underrepresented writers alongside established voices.
  • Genres: Poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, magical realism, cozy horror, romance
  • Publication frequency: Quarterly (four issues per year)
  • Founded: 2025
  • Editors: Shari Wilder (founder and editor)
  • Contact: belladonnasgardenlit@gmail.com
  • Social media: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/bdg.lit/
  • Submission guidelines:
    • Poetry: Up to 3 poems
    • Fiction and creative nonfiction: Under 5,000 words
    • Multiple submissions: May submit three poems at once OR one piece in two categories (e.g., one poem and one short story)
    • Simultaneous submissions welcome (notify immediately if accepted elsewhere)
    • Only unpublished work accepted
    • Include short third-person bio with submission
    • Submission period: July 15 - August 31, 2025
  • Compensation: No payment mentioned
  • Inaugural issue: October 2025
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Black Denim Lit

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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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