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The 'Sealand Literary Supplement to Life' is the umbrella name for a series of periodically published books and booklets dedicated to contemporary literature. We cater to the needs
Growing List of Nonfiction Literary Magazines
Here is our Growing List of Nonfiction Literary Magazines, we have over 300 in this category, and we have been collecting these listings for over 10 years. Unlike other “lists” on the web, created by new to the scene “experts,” we have been creating listings since 1999. Though many of our ideas have been copied countless times, we want to bring you an original complete listing of nonfiction magazines unsurpassed by any other site, searchable, and with detailed submissions information from the editor’s of these publications.
Creative Literary Fiction has become even more popular over the last 10 years than it was in the past. Collections like Best American Essay (a wonderful publication) highlight exemplary writing in this category. We are working hard to bring you the best and biggest selection of magazines publishing Creative Nonfiction, Literary Nonfiction and Nonfiction.
This category is a general warehouse of all types of nonfiction magazines. Please check the guidelines of each magazine before submitting your work. These listing were all submitted by the editors. They will give you unique insight into what the publication is looking for in their call for submissions.
We are dedicated to helping find markets for you nonfiction.
If you need to contact us about our listings. The best way to reach up is through our Talk to the Editor‘s page. You can always email us with bigger concerns as well.
Nonfiction Magazines
- ZYZZYVA
- Your Impossible Voice
- Writing Disorder, The
- Wilde Magazine
- Whisperings
- Wednesday Journal
- Water Cooler Convos
- Voicings Literary Magazine
- Versal
- Vending Machine Press
- Vallum: Contemporary Poetry
- Valiant Scribe Literary Journal
- Vagabonds: Anthology of the Mad Ones
- Urban Grapevine Magazine
- Uno Kudo
- Typehouse Literary Magazine
- TSR: The Southampton Review
- TreeHouse
- Trainless Magazine
- Trafika Europe
- Thought Notebook
- The Write Room
- The Wordsmith Journal Magazine
- The Wise Owl
- The Whitefish Review
- The Vehicle
- The Tiny Journal
- The Summerset Review
- The Subtopian Magazine
- The Speculative Edge
- The Southeast Review
- The South Mountain Review
- The Slag Review
- The Screech Owl
- The Rocky Mountain Review
- The Renaissance
- The Plume
- The Pinch
- The Paris-American
- The Paragon Journal
- The Ocotillo Review
- The Modern Artist
- The Missing Slate
- The Masters Review
- The Malahat Review
- The Maine Review
- The Lune Quarterly
- The Los Angeles Review of Los Angeles
- The Longbox Project
- The London Magazine
- The Lark
- The Intentional
- The Inflectionist
- The Indianola Review
- The Hunger
- The Hour of Lead
- The Hedgehog Review
- The Golden Triangle
- The Gettysburg Review
- The Four Cornered Universe
- The Florida Review
- The Dawn Review
- The Cumberland River Review
- The Cossack Review
- The Common
- The Columbia Review
- The Closed Eye Open
- The Citron Review
- Tattoo Highway (Publishing Paused)
- Synaesthesia Magazine
- Swamppink formally Crazyhorse
- Swamp Biscuits & Tea
- Surrealist Star Clustered Illuminations
- Subnivean
- Studies Weekly/American Legacy Publishing
- STRIKE Magazine
- Streetlight Magazine
- Still Point Arts Quarterly
- Steel Toe Review
- Spoke Journal
- Spectrum Magazine
- Spark: A Creative Anthology
- Spadina Literary Review
- So to Speak: a feminist journal of language and arts
- Slightly Foxed
- Silver Apples Magazine
- Sequestrum
- Scarlet Leaf Review
- Ruminate
- Rowayat
- RipRap Journal
- Psychopomp Magazine
- Protean Magazine
- Prism Review
- Power Cut
- Ploughshares
- Pithead Chapel
- Pictura Journal
- Panel
- Painted Bride Quarterly
- Oxford American
- New Plains Review
- New Millennium Writings
- New Feathers Anthology
- Narrative Magazine
- n+1
- Mud Season Review
- Moss
- Mojo
- Modern Literature
- Michigan Quarterly Review
- Manzano Mountain Review
- Lunaris Review
- Little Patuxent Review
- Literary Yard
- Life in Limbo
- Journal of Compressed Creative Arts (Matter Press)
- James Dickey Review
- Ithaca Lit: Lit with Art
- ionosphere
- Inklette Magazine
- Indiana Review
- Howl
- High Desert Journal
- Grist: The Journal for Writers
- Gravel Literary Journal
- Grain
- Gone Lawn
- Gold Man Review
- Glassworks Magazine
- Ginosko Literary Journal
- FULL FORCE Fiction
- Folly
- Flint Hills Review
- filling station
- Fiction International
- Fahmidan Journal
- Every Pigeon
- Eudaimonia Review
- Encephalon Journal
- Empty Mirror
- Elan Literary Magazine
- El Portal
- Echoes from the Goatshed
- Eastern Iowa Review
- DUMAS de Demain: The French Literary Magazine
- Dappled Things
- Culterate
- Creative Nonfiction
- Creation and Criticism
- Crab Fat Literary Magazine
- Cowboy Jamboree
- CONSEQUENCE magazine
- Club Plum Literary Journal
- CLOCKHOUSE
- Clementine (Unbound)
- Cleaver Magazine
- Cimarron Review
- Chestnut Review
- CHA: An Asian Literary Journal
- Bricolage Magazine
- Brain, Child: The Magazine for Thinking Mothers
- Blue Mesa Review
- Blue Crystal Literary Magazine
- Blue Collar Review
- Blotterature
- Bleeding Lion: A Journal of Contemporary Arts & Letters
- BLACKBERRY: a magazine
- Black Herald, The
- Black Fox Literary Magazine, The
- Beloit Fiction Journal
- Bayou Magazine
- Baltimore Review
- Baltimore Review
- Bad Version, The
- Bacopa Literary Review
- Atlas and Alice Literary Magazine
- At Length
- Arkana
- Apple Valley Review
- Antioch Review
- Antigonish Review, The
- American Aesthetic, The
- After Hours
- Adroit Journal
- Adelaide Literary Magazine
- A Velvet Giant
- A Quiet Courage
- 3Elements Review
- ‘Sea Change’ (Closed)
We very much hope you find a place to publish your work. Good luck.
3Elements Review
3Elements Review was founded to spark imagination, to provide a unique creative challenge, and at the very least, to allow writers and artists a bit of fun with our three element prompts.
A Quiet Courage
A Quiet Courage is an online literary journal specializing in tiny words. We publish compelling, poignant, memorable,
A Velvet Giant
A VELVET GIANT is a genreless online literary journal, meaning that we do not categorize the work we receive by genre.
Adelaide Literary Magazine
We publish literary fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, and promote the writers we publish, helping both new, emerging, and established authors reach a wider literary audience.
Adroit Journal
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.
After Hours
After Hours is a semi-annual literary magazine publishing poetry, fiction, art, and photography from Chicago
American Aesthetic, The
To better understand the objectives of The American Aesthetic, one must first understand what prompted the creation of this poetry journal in the first place.
Antigonish Review, The
The Antigonish Review is a creative literary quarterly that publishes poetry, fiction, critical articles, and reviews. Our ideal reader has extensive interests and seeks the creative. Major accomplishments of TAR include giving
Antioch Review
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.
Apple Valley Review
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.
Arkana
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
At Length
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
Atlas and Alice Literary Magazine
Our Name: A&A takes its name from the ATLAS and ALICE experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. These experiments look to explain some of the most fundamental characteristics of the universe.
Bacopa Literary Review
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.
Bad Version, The
Launched in November 2011, The Bad Version is a new take on the literary-cultural magazine. Its name comes from the collaborative art of screenwriting, where the first attempt at a scene,
Baltimore Review
The mission of The Baltimore Review is to showcase Baltimore as a literary hub of diverse writing and promote the work of emerging and established writers.
Baltimore Review
The mission of The Baltimore Review is to showcase Baltimore as a literary hub of diverse writing and promote the work of emerging and established writers. The Baltimore Review was founded by Barbara Westwood Diehl in 1996
Bayou Magazine
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
Beloit Fiction Journal
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
Black Fox Literary Magazine, The
The Black Fox Literary Magazine is an online quarterly publication featuring quality fiction of all styles and genres. Our Spring issue is published in March, the summer issue is published in June, the fall issue is published in September and the winter issue is published in December.
Black Herald, The
The Black Herald is an internationally-minded bilingual magazine (French-English) published in Paris. Co-edited by Blandine Longre and Paul Stubbs, the magazine’s only aim
BLACKBERRY: a magazine
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
Bleeding Lion: A Journal of Contemporary Arts & Letters
The Bleeding Lion is a journal of contemporary arts and letters with a special focus on anatomy, cross-cultural, visual arts & diverse pieces. We especially
Blotterature
Blotterature is a brand new journal founded by four writers from Northwest Indiana. We accept a wide variety of prose, poetry, and artwork.
Blue Collar Review
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.
Blue Crystal Literary Magazine
Blue Crystal Literary Magazine emerged from the vision of emerging literary enthusiasts seeking to celebrate creativity, imagination
Blue Mesa Review
Blue Mesa Review is a literary magazine published online bi-annually. It is associated with the University of New Mexico.
Brain, Child: The Magazine for Thinking Mothers
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
Bricolage Magazine
Bricolage is a new arts and culture magazine based in India. We seek original, exciting works of art, literature and photograph for publication.
CHA: An Asian Literary Journal
CHA: An Asian Literary Journal is the first and currently only Hong Kong-based online literary quarterly journal dedicated to publishing creative works ! from and about
Chestnut Review
Chestnut Review
- Website: chestnutreview.com
- Accepts unagented submissions: Yes
- Size: Independent literary magazine
- Location: Not specified
- Submissions: Features poetry, short fiction, flash fiction, art, and photography from around the world. Writer-centered, selective publication with online quarterly and annual print publication. Responds to all submissions within 30 days.
- Other information: Founded in 2019. Pays artists and staff. Publishes 4 online issues per year and 1 print issue. ISSN: 2688-0350. Named after the stubborn chestnut trees that continue to send up shoots despite blight, symbolizing the persistence of artists.
- Genres: Art, Fiction, Nonfiction, Photography, Poetry
Cimarron Review
Cimarron Review
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- Website: cimarronreview.com
- Print magazine: Yes
- Size: Literary quarterly published by Oklahoma State University
- Location: Stillwater, OK, US
- Submissions: Publishes work with a wide-ranging aesthetic: bold and ruminative, sensitive and shocking, imaginative and truth-telling. Seeks the finest stories, poems, and essays from working writers across the country and around the world.
- Other information: Founded in 1967. One of the oldest quarterlies in the nation. Publishes writers at all stages of their careers, including Pulitzer and O. Henry prize winners. Member of the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP).
- Genres: Art, Fiction, Nonfiction, Photography, Poetry, University Published
- Publication frequency: 4 issues per year
- Payment: Contributor copies
Cleaver Magazine
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.
Clementine (Unbound)
Clementine (Unbound) publishes a small selection of poetry each month online. Print copies can be viewed or purchased from Issuu.com.
CLOCKHOUSE
Clockhouse accepts works of poetry, fiction, memoir, creative nonfiction, and dramatic works for stage or screen. We encourage submissions from both
Club Plum Literary Journal
Club Plum Literary Journal
- Website: www.clubplumliteraryjournal.com
- Print magazine: No (Online only)
- Size: Independent literary journal
- Location: Not specified
- Submissions: Publishes creative nonfiction, flash fiction, prose poetry and art by emerging and established authors whose absorbing tales and imagery unravels in voices either understated or lyrical but always powerful.
- Other information: Founded in 2019. Editor: Thea Swanson. Provides a focused reading experience without ads or distractions. Describes itself as "a safe place" that excludes sexist, homophobic, or racist content.
- Genres: Art, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
- Publication frequency: 4 issues per year
- Payment: No
- Founded: 2019
CONSEQUENCE magazine
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
Cowboy Jamboree
We like old westerns. Hank Williams is one of our favorite writers. Used boots are better than new boots. At Cowboy Jamboree we promote
Crab Fat Literary Magazine
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
Creation and Criticism
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
Creative Nonfiction
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.
Culterate
Culterate is an online literary magazine led by a team of youth from all over the world. We're committed to discussing society,
Dappled Things
Dappled Things is a Catholic literary magazine, and this raises the question of what Catholic literature is in the first place.
DUMAS de Demain: The French Literary Magazine
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
Eastern Iowa Review
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
Echoes from the Goatshed
Goatshed Press invites student contributions for a new literary journal titled Echoes from the Goatshed, an anthology for the new generation
El Portal
Eastern New Mexico University’s literary magazine, El Portal, offers a venue for the work of writers, artists and photographers.
Elan Literary Magazine
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
Empty Mirror
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.