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
- Vita Poetica Journal
- 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
- Novus Literary Journal
- New Plains Review
- New Millennium Writings
- New Feathers Anthology
- Narrative Magazine
- n+1
- Mud Season Review
- Moss
- Mojo
- Modern Literature
- Mississippi Review
- Michigan Quarterly Review
- Manzano Mountain Review
- Lunaris Review
- Little Patuxent Review
- Literary Yard
- Lilomul
- 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
- Good Company Lit
- 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.
The Masters Review
The Missing Slate
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
The Ocotillo Review
The Paragon Journal
The Paris-American
The Pinch
The Plume
The Renaissance
The Rocky Mountain Review
The Screech Owl
The Slag Review
The South Mountain Review
The Southeast Review
The Speculative Edge
The Subtopian Magazine
The Summerset Review
The Tiny Journal
The Vehicle
The Whitefish Review
The Wise Owl
The Wordsmith Journal Magazine
The Write Room
Thought Notebook
Trafika Europe
Trainless Magazine
TreeHouse
TSR: The Southampton Review
Typehouse Literary Magazine
Uno Kudo
Urban Grapevine Magazine
Vagabonds: Anthology of the Mad Ones
Valiant Scribe Literary Journal
Vallum: Contemporary Poetry
Vending Machine Press
Versal
Vita Poetica Journal
Vita Poetica Journal
- Website: https://www.vitapoetica.org/store/p/fifth-anniversary-issue-all-formats
- Print magazine: No (online quarterly publication)
- Submissions: Accepts creative work explored through a spiritual lens, including fiction, multimedia, reviews, interviews, and contemplative practices. Currently closed for poetry, creative nonfiction, and visual arts (reopening March 1, 2025). Looking for work engaging with religious faith or broader inquiry into meaning and human experience. Appreciates work that is open and thoughtful rather than didactic. Seeks diversity in experiences, backgrounds, spiritual perspectives, genres, and art disciplines. Welcomes cross-genre, cross-discipline, or multimedia experimentation. Does not accept previously published work, including web-published or self-published material. Simultaneous submissions welcome with notification.
- Other information: Asks for first-time publication rights; all rights revert to author/artist after publication. Response time up to 3 months for creative submissions, about 1 month for queries/pitches. Uses Submittable for fiction and multimedia submissions. Reviews and interviews require queries via email. No payment offered. Run by a nonprofit organization with a small team of volunteers.
- Genres: Fiction, Poetry (temporarily closed), Creative Nonfiction (temporarily closed), Visual Arts (temporarily closed), Multimedia, Reviews, Interviews, Contemplative Practices
- Publication frequency: Quarterly
- Founded: 2020
- Editors: Caroline Langston, J. Morris, Julie Wan
- Contact: Submissions via Submittable