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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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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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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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Purple Stallion Review

Posted on May 5, 2025May 5, 2025 by Every Writer
  • Website: https://www.purplestallionreview.org
  • Print magazine: Yes (annual publication)
  • Submissions: Accepts poetry submissions of all kinds. Poems should be the author's original work (no AI-generated content). Poets may submit up to 5 poems at a time for consideration, once per issue.
  • Other information: The 2025 issue is scheduled for publication in January 2026. Contributors receive a free copy of the magazine but no monetary payment. Supporters can donate through Patreon (patreon.com/PurpleStallionReview); Gold donors receive a free copy, while Platinum donors receive a copy and editorial feedback on one poem. Response time is 3-6 months.
  • Genres: Poetry only (with flexibility on form)
  • Publication frequency: Annual
  • Founded: 2025
  • Editor: Cecelia Verdum
  • Contact: Email: purplestallionreveiw@gmail.com
  • Social Media: Twitter/X: https://x.com/PurpleStallionR
  • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/purplestallionreview
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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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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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RazberryJuice

Posted on November 11, 2012October 23, 2017 by Every Writer
Razberry Juice is the online magazine and resource for the technology savvy woman who could programme the DVD player, who manages to put flatpack furniture together and who now
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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SCREAM

Posted on June 1, 2017October 13, 2021 by Every Writer
SCREAM is Britain's all new premier Horror Magazine. SCREAM is your best source for horror movies, news, reviews, previews, celebrity interviews, books, games, film festival reports, comics and pretty much everything else you can think of in the world of horror.
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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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Sequestrum

Sequestrum

Posted on April 21, 2023April 30, 2023 by Every Writer
Founded by graduates of Iowa's major creative writing programs—Iowa State University and the prestigious University of Iowa—Sequestrum has faithfully published award-winning writers and new voices alike for our 1,000+ monthly readership
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Seven Story Magazine

Posted on December 5, 2024 by Every Writer
Seven Story Magazine is one of two subsidiary magazines under Seven Story Publishing, an online publishing company dedicated to promoting and supporting authors
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Sign up with EWR!

Posted on May 12, 2013May 12, 2013 by Every Writer
Ok, we've been putting in some late hours lately. This is so that we could bring all of you some new features! We have something for everyone, so please read this carefully.
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Silent Auctions

Posted on July 3, 2019August 15, 2019 by Every Writer
Silent Auctions is an online magazine with an emphasis on atmosphere, authenticity, and experimentation. We celebrate and encourage unconventional prose, fiction, and poetry. We publish cartoons and comics because we believe they deserve a more respected role in the literary
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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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Sixth Finch

Posted on November 7, 2011December 16, 2023 by Every Writer
We are committed to bringing the best in contemporary art and poetry to our readers at no cost. Poems from Sixth Finch have appeared in The Best American Poetry and The Pushcart Prize.
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Sky Island Journal

Sky Island Journal

Posted on April 27, 2023April 30, 2023 by Every Writer
Sky Island Journal is an independent, free-access, online literary journal with an international reach; we are dedicated to discovering, curating, and publishing the finest original poetry, flash fiction, and creative nonfiction. Your best writing deserves an
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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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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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So to Speak

So to Speak: a feminist journal of language and arts

Posted on May 1, 2023May 5, 2023 by Every Writer
We are a literary journal that seeks submissions from diverse perspectives and backgrounds that focus on intersectional feminism.We look for work that addresses issues
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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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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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Southern Writers Magazine

Posted on September 19, 2015July 5, 2017 by Every Writer
We promote and highlight authors and their books. Since inception we have promoted over 850 authors. We let writers and readers come behind the scenes of successful
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Spadina Literary Review

Posted on November 26, 2017November 26, 2017 by Every Writer
Spadina Literary Review is an online literary magazine based in Toronto, Canada, with an international readership. The magazine was launched in 2011 and after a few years of irregular appearances is now publishing every two months.
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Spark: A Creative Anthology

Posted on December 27, 2012December 16, 2023 by Brian Lewis
Our goal was to establish a high-quality, paying market where emerging authors and gain professional experience being published alongside known and respected writers.
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Spectrum Magazine

Posted on December 5, 2013December 16, 2023 by Every Writer
Spectrum Magazine was launched in 2013 by Mercedes Lucero and founded on the belief that everyone has the ability to bring something lovely
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Speculative 66

Posted on April 10, 2017November 12, 2017 by Every Writer
Born September 6th, 2016, Speculative 66 is a (mostly) monthly journal of 66-word stories and poems from the speculative realm. We feature science fiction
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Spoke Journal

Posted on May 29, 2012December 16, 2023 by Every Writer
Spoke is a literary, art, and audio publication cultivating an outlet for original and finely crafted ideas. Art originates in process, the interaction between ideas and environment. What is this environment, this place? What is its art, its identity?
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Spray Paint Magazine

Posted on May 3, 2024April 27, 2025 by richard
Spray Paint Magazine is an independent online literary magazine aiming at giving artists a voice. It was established in early 2022
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Spry Literary Journal

Posted on September 9, 2012December 16, 2023 by Every Writer
We envision Spry as a literary journal that features undiscovered and established writers' concise, experimental, hybrid, modern, vintage or just plain vulnerable writing. We see this as a place
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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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Steel Toe Review

Posted on April 29, 2012July 30, 2013 by Every Writer
STR has been around for about a year and a half. We publish an issue online about every other month. We recently printed an anthology featuring the best pieces from our first year online,
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Still Point Arts Quarterly

Posted on June 24, 2020 by Every Writer
Still Point Arts Quarterly is a truly beautiful and engaging art and literary journal. It was founded in 2011 by Shanti Arts, a press based in Brunswick, Maine, that also publishes books and is dedicated to honoring the timeless connections among nature, art, and spirit.
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Stinkwaves Magazine

Posted on April 5, 2014November 12, 2017 by stinkwavesmagazine@hotmail.com
looking for YA/middle-grade fiction, poetry, illustrations
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Story

Posted on March 10, 2020 by Every Writer
Story is a tri-annual print publication devoted to the complex and diverse world of narrative with a focus on fiction and nonfiction. Formerly a publication of York College, Story has reorganized as a non-profit, independent arts organization based in Columbus, Ohio.
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Story Club Magazine

Posted on June 3, 2014October 23, 2017 by Every Writer
Story Club Magazine is a literary journal for literary performance. We publish visceral nonfiction that has first been performed in front of a live audience
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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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Streetcake

Posted on May 7, 2019 by Every Writer
We publish experimental poetry and short fiction every 3 months. We like work with an experimental bent and do not generally publish more traditional forms.
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Streetlight Magazine

Posted on March 29, 2013 by Every Writer
Streetlight is an online, non-profit magazine dedicated to publishing new and noteworthy works of poetry, fiction, non-fiction and art. The magazine began life as an annual print publication featuring works from central Virginia
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STRIKE Magazine

Posted on August 13, 2013 by Every Writer
STRIKE Magazine is a completely independent, community supported, working class political art and culture magazine in South Texas.
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Subnivean

Posted on January 28, 2022April 20, 2023 by Every Writer
Subnivean, SUNY Oswego’s literary publication, was established in 2020. In 2021, it was recognized for its excellence as one of just four national Firecracker Awards finalists in the category of “Magazines: Best Debut” by the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses.
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Surrealist Star Clustered Illuminations

Posted on September 7, 2013 by Every Writer
Surrealist Star Clustered Illuminations. An online literary magazine featuring contemporary Surrealist Fiction / Poetry / Art
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Swamp Biscuits & Tea

Posted on August 25, 2012June 1, 2014 by Henry Sane
Swamp Biscuits and Tea is a quarterly journal of highly imaginative short fiction. Though magic realism is our primary focus, our journal strives to coalesce an interesting variety of styles
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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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