RipRap Journal
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).
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
- Dominique
- 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.
Rowayat
Rowayat is a literary journal emerging from Egypt. We feature writers living in Egypt, or have lived in Egypt in the past.
Ruminate
RUMINATE is a quarterly magazine of short stories, poetry, creative nonfiction, and visual art that resonate with the complexity and truth of the Christian faith. Each
Scarlet Leaf Review
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
Sequestrum
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
Silver Apples Magazine
Silver Apples Magazine is a new Irish e-zine founded by friends and long-time collaborators Alex Dunne and Gráinne O’Brien
Slightly Foxed
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
So to Speak: a feminist journal of language and arts
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
Spadina Literary Review
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.
Spark: A Creative Anthology
Our goal was to establish a high-quality, paying market where emerging authors and gain professional experience being published alongside known and respected writers.
Spectrum Magazine
Spectrum Magazine was launched in 2013 by Mercedes Lucero and founded on the belief that everyone has the ability to bring something lovely
Spoke Journal
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?
Steel Toe Review
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,
Still Point Arts Quarterly
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.
Streetlight Magazine
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
STRIKE Magazine
STRIKE Magazine is a completely independent, community supported, working class political art and culture magazine in South Texas.
Studies Weekly/American Legacy Publishing
While Studies Weekly has grown and changed, the principles that guided Paul Thompson in the creation of the first Studies Weekly publication still guide us today. American Legacy Publishing, owned and operated by Paul's daughter and son-in-law, now produces each Studies Weekly publication with the same care and attention that has always characterized the Studies Weekly family of periodicals. At American Legacy Publishing, we know how dedicated teachers and administrators are to the education of America's kids. Trust us to be just as dedicated as you are, and know that we pledge to continue to make Studies Weekly the comprehensive social studies and science solution for your classroom.
Subnivean
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.
Surrealist Star Clustered Illuminations
Surrealist Star Clustered Illuminations. An online literary magazine featuring contemporary Surrealist Fiction / Poetry / Art
Swamp Biscuits & Tea
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
Swamppink formally Crazyhorse
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
Synaesthesia Magazine
We are a literary and arts magazine run by two passionate editors. Our magazine aims to engage writers and artists in an exploration of the senses, publishing photography, artwork, poetry and short stories.
Tattoo Highway (Publishing Paused)
Tattoo Highway is an online journal of poetry, literary fiction and nonfiction, original graphics and photography. Most issues have a theme, which may be interpreted literally or (very) loosely. 2017: "Down the Rabbit Hole."
The Citron Review
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.
The Closed Eye Open
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.
The Columbia Review
The Columbia Review is the oldest college literary magazine in the nation, publishing its first issue in 1815.
The Common
Finding the extraordinary in the common has long been the mission of literature. Inspired by this mission and the role of the town common, a public gathering place for the display and exchange of ideas,
The Cossack Review
Since 2012, TCR has published meaningful works of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as literature in translation from around the world. We print writers
The Cumberland River Review
The Cumberland River Review is a quarterly online publication of new poetry, fiction, essays, and art. The journal is produced by the department of English at Trevecca Nazarene University, in Nashville, Tennessee, and welcomes submissions from both national and international writers and artists.
The Dawn Review
The Dawn Review is a quarterly print and online literary magazine that celebrates diverse voices and perspectives.
The Florida Review
Welcome Welcome to The Florida Review, the literary journal published twice yearly by the University of Central Florida. Our artistic mission is to publish the best poetry
The Four Cornered Universe
The Four Cornered Universe is an online journal which is dedicated to publishing high-quality fiction, poetry, and nonfiction essays. We publish 2-5 new pieces on Mondays. Submissions are considered on a rolling basis, and you should expect to hear back from us within a month. We accept previously unpublished authors as well as established ones. At this time, we do not provide financial compensation for accepted pieces. We simply provide authors with a place to showcase their talents and promote their writing.
The Gettysburg Review
The Gettysburg Review is published by Gettysburg College. The Review has been publishing for since. The Gettysburg Review is a quarterly publications
The Golden Triangle
The Golden Triangle publishes fiction, poetry, and non-fiction. At The Golden Triangle we are attempting to keep the writing life alive in a world that is severely lacking. You can expect to find fresh, risk-taking, original poetry, fiction, and non-fiction coupled with intelligent design.
The Hedgehog Review
The Hedgehog Review delivers insightful, accessible writing by scholars and cultural critics focused on the most important questions of our day: What does it mean to be human? How do we live with our deepest differences? When does a community become a good community? The transformations taking place in our world are rapid, far-reaching, and challenging. The Hedgehog Review provides resources for navigating these changes. ISSN: 1527-9677 UPC/Bipad: 74470 27522 Frequency: 3 times per year (Spring, Summer, and Fall) Pages per issue: 120 (varies) Cover price: $12.00 Subscription price: $25.00 one year (3 issues) $45.00 two years (6 issues)
The Hour of Lead
The Hour of Lead is an online poetry magazine which aims to publish new issues on a quarterly basis – in reality we’ll publish every time we have sufficient good work to justify an issue, that’s the beauty
The Hunger
The Hunger is a journal of visceral writing that publishes fiction, poetry, nonfiction, hybrid work, and visual art in three issues yearly, appearing in the Winter, Spring, and Fall.
The Indianola Review
The Indianola Review, based out of the Midwest, is a new quarterly literary journal featuring the best short fiction and poetry we can possibly get our hands on.
The Inflectionist
The Inflectionist® is a publication for the literary, musical, for the arty, the linguistic and expressive, containing interesting and up to date articles written on the subjects of Language
The Intentional
The Intentional is a print literary and culture magazine that supports emerging writers and prizes approachability. We publish fiction, nonfiction, poetry,
The Lark
The Lark is an online, quarterly arts and literary magazine that pays its contributors. The Lark firmly believes that the ubiquity of the internet is not a reason to accept diminished quality in publications,
The London Magazine
The London Magazine is England?s oldest literary periodical, with a history stretching back to 1732.
The Longbox Project
The Longbox Project is a literary journal for comic geeks. Believing that most collectors have memories associated with nearly every comic book in their collection, we accept works of creative non-fiction that rely on comics as both inspiration, and point of departure.
The Los Angeles Review of Los Angeles
We know we're rude. We know we're immature. Hey, it's 2012, folks! We live in Los Angeles! Fuck. See, some nice Midwesterners still don't quite know what that means. The Republic died
The Lune Quarterly
The Lune Quarterly is a reflective space in which to witness feats of identity, place and feeling. We share work that stems from a sense of wonder, delight
The Maine Review
The Maine Review is a quarterly literary magazine publishing short fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and essays. The Review runs contests each year
The Malahat Review
The Malahat Review, established in 1967, is among Canada?s leading literary journals. Published quarterly, it features contemporary Canadian and international works of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction as well as reviews of recently published Canadian poetry, fiction, and literary nonfiction.
The Masters Review
Each year The Masters Review publishes a ten-story collection showcasing the best in graduate-level creative writing. Our editors and judges select the ten best stories written by students in MA, MFA, and PhD creative writing programs
The Missing Slate
The Missing Slate originated in Pakistan as a vehicle to promote original and innovative work from writers and artists of any age, from any country. The magazine aims to provide a platform
The Modern Artist
The Modern Artist
- Website: modernartists.org
- Print magazine: No
- Size: Independent literary magazine
- Location: Not specified
- Submissions: Seeks work that reflects on the artist's identity and creative process, particularly exploring the intersections of art, identity, labor, and technology in today's rapidly changing world. Interested in fresh, unconventional perspectives, especially those underrepresented in the art world.
- Other information: Founded in 2024. Created specifically to address the changing role of human artists in a technology-driven world with the rise of AI-generated art. Aims to provide a platform for artists to shape cultural and philosophical dialogue around the future of art.
- Genres: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Poetry, Visual Art
- Publication frequency: Not specified
- Payment: No
- Founded: 2024