Grain
Grain, the journal of eclectic writing, is a literary quarterly that publishes engaging, eclectic, and challenging writing and art by Canadian and international writers and artists. Grain is published
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Gravel Literary Journal
Gravel Literary Journal is a new online literary journal created by University of Arkansas-Monticello MFA students.
Great Ape
The Great Ape pokes its head through the trees. It’s watching, waiting to see what you’ll do. The Great Ape suffers fools gladly, so be foolish
Griffith REVIEW
Griffith REVIEW celebrates good writing and promotes public debate. It steps back from the issues of the day and gives writers the space to grow on the page. Essays reflect on the underlying significance of events and trends, explain the details that get lost in the news and examine the unintended consequences of public policy. Griffith REVIEW is edited by Julianne Schultz.
Grist: The Journal for Writers
Founded in 2007 by graduate students in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Tennessee, Grist: The Journal for Writers is a resource for the discussion
Heavy Crown Stories
Heavy Crown Stories will publish its first digital issue in the spring of 2026. We are taking submissions now for that debut issue, which will feature short stories and poetry
High Desert Journal
High Desert Journal is a literary and visual art magazine dedicated to further understanding the people, places and issues of the interior West. Its pages help define this region in literary
Home Planet News
Home Planet News was founded by Enid Dame & Donald Lev in 1979. Based in New York City, it appeared three times a year in a 24-page newsprint format
Howl
Howl, founded in 2013, is an online literary arts magazine run and operated by dedicated, passionate, and talented students of Deltona High School
Illuminarium Chronicles
Illuminarium Chronicles is an international literary magazine that was created to be a bridge to freedom of expression and aims to publish creative
Indiana Review
Now in its thirty-eighth year of publication, Indiana Review is a non-profit literary magazine dedicated to showcasing the talents of emerging and established writers.
Inklette Magazine
Inklette is a not-for-profit, online literary magazine helmed by emerging artists and writers from all over. Inklette believes in the ability of art and literature to strike our consciousness
ionosphere
Our literary journal, ionosphere, focuses on the relationship between science, technology, and the human experience. We seek poetry submissions that explore
Ithaca Lit: Lit with Art
IthacaLit is a quarterly online publication of poetry and visual art. Founded by Michele Lesko after she moved to Ithaca, New York. The journal is meant to represent Ithaca, home to Cornell University & Ithaca College as well as the mythical Ithaca and the journey we celebrate in finding a place in ourselves that represents home. We ask that you wander through our site & land where you feel at home then use that place to connect your work first to us & next to our readers. We publish work that brings readers home. We are searching not for distance but for connection through a clear and forthright voice & vision.
Jackdaw Review
Jackdaw Review is an online literary journal dedicated to publishing exceptional poetry from both emerging and established voices
James Dickey Review
Though attempting to maintain an artistic and intellectual connection to the work of James Dickey, the James Dickey Review accepts all manner of poetry, nonfiction, scholarly articles, and book reviews. The journal is published twice yearly, is assigned International Standard
James Gunn’s Ad Astra
The Center for the Study of Science Fiction (CSSF), in association with the University of Kansas, announces the launch of James Gunn's Ad Astra, an online resource for authors, scholars
Journal of Compressed Creative Arts (Matter Press)
Matter Press is a community-based, non-profit 501(c)(3) literary press that publishes an online literary journal (The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts), manages a compressed prose and poetry chapbook contest, and supports a regular reading series. Matter Press offers internships to Rosemont College MFA in Creative Writing & M.A. in Publishing alums and degree-candidates as submission readers, literary editors, and publication designers. Matter Press focuses on supporting emerging and established authors working with condensed forms of fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, and visual arts.
JuxtaProse Literary Magazine
Founded in 2015, JuxtaProse is an Idaho-based literary magazine that publishes fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, art, and photography from around the world.
KaleidoScript Magazine
KaleidoScript Magazine is a captivating literary haven where storytelling takes centre stage. With a mission to inspire, uplift, and connect, each edition unfolds a kaleidoscope
KUDU
KUDU is an online biannual literary journal devoted to the creative work of South Africans. The name KUDU
L’Allure des Mots
Love, desire, sex, hate, death, life, and the search for beauty. These most basic components of the human experience are what unite the works of the talented authors, fashion photographers, and artists we feature.
Life in Limbo
Life in Limbo is a publication devoted to documenting personal experiences with mental illness and trauma, valuing authenticity and emotional
Lifelines: Dartmouth Medical School Literary Journal
Lifelines is a journal published by Darmouth Medical School and publishes original and unpublished short stories, non-fiction, poetry, and artwork for our 2011 issue. We are a literary and art
Lilomul
Lilomul
- Website: https://lilomuljournal.wixsite.com/home
- Print magazine: No (online publication with monthly updates)
- Submissions: Seeks experimental poetry, lyric essays, fragmented fiction, diaristic work, photo essays, and hybrid forms. Prioritizes work addressing transformation, decay, displacement, intimacy, silence, and rebirth. Especially welcomes voices from marginalized communities—queer, trans, neurodivergent, disabled, working-class creators and survivors of abuse. Looking for emotionally urgent work that resists traditional categorization.
- Other information: Literary and art journal founded on principles of radical softness and created for those who feel disjointed from traditional literary spaces. No payment offered. Response time is approximately 14 days.
- Genres: Experimental Poetry, Lyric Essays, Fragmented Fiction, Photo Essays, Hybrid Forms
- Publication frequency: Website is updated monthly; themed issues published periodically
- Founded: 2025
- Editors: Tendai Nombulelo Mushaike
- Contact: lilomuljournal@gmail.com
Lines + Stars
Lines + Stars began as a means of establishing a new creative forum in Washington, D.C., a city that all-too-often coasts solely on its more mechanistic pursuits. While many of our contributors hail from the D.C. area, we've also expanded our writer-base to include national and international voices.
LIT eZINE
LIT eZINE is a literary e-magazine that publishes poetry, stories and articles twice a year. A creative effort of Manic Sylph Writes
Litbreak Magazine
Litbreak is an online literary journal that is published by Jason Chambers and edited by Dennis Haritou. Our signature photography is by Jason Rice.
Literary Heist
Literary Heist is a quarterly magazine that wants to democratize the literary and art world. It is looking to showcase good work that comes from new and existing writers and artists.
Literary Yard
The Literary Yard invites stories, articles on literature, literary criticism, opinion articles on literature
Litro Magazine
LitroUSA is as a 501(c)(3) non-profit, fosters a national community for innovative writing and creative works. We connect cultures, encourage dialogues via technology and arts, and ensure literature’s prominence in popular culture by backing writers and artists.
Little Leaf Literary Journal
Little Leaf Literary Journal is a new online literary journal, founded in 2024. We publish prose, poetry, and pieces that cross the boundaries of both genres.
Lotus-eater
Lotus-eater is a literary magazine based in Rome. We are looking for daring, unusual, and inspiring writing. Our ambition is two-fold: to publish high-quality poetry and prose in the English language
Lotus-eater Magazine
Lotus-eater is an online literary magazine based in Rome. Our aesthetic is dark, eclectic, often experimental
Lucky Jefferson
Lucky Jefferson is an award-winning literary journal that generates interactive conversations around poetry and art by reforming the way journals are produced and shared with readers. Lucky Jefferson is proud to feature poets who have never been published, marginalized perspectives, and those who sought to pursue poetry later in life.
Lucky Lizard Journal
Lucky Lizard Journal was founded in 2023 with the purpose of being a competitive, egalitarian poetry journal that allows
Lunaris Review
Art is escapist, and that is its splendour. If the freedom of mind and soul is valued and we remain devout seekers of freedom; it then becomes our duty to escape through
Man in the Street Magazine Defunct
Man in the Street is an independent, online magazine launched in 2017. The publication was founded in the interest and exaltation of “common people."
Manzano Mountain Review
Manzano Mountain Review is an online literary journal based in New Mexico and loosely affiliated with the University of New Mexico-Valencia. MMR was founded in 2017 and publishes issues in November and sometimes May.
Meat for Tea: The Valley Review
Meat for Tea: The Valley Review was founded by Alexandra Wagman and Elizabeth MacDuffie. We are a non academic affiliated publication committed to featuring and publishing the works of artists and writers in the Pioneer River Valley and beyond.
Michigan Quarterly Review
MQR is an eclectic, interdisciplinary journal of arts and culture that seeks to combine the best of poetry,
Midwest Review
The Midwest Review is an annual literary and arts magazine published in Madison Wisconsin, featuring the Midwest in work by writers, photographers and artists
Mississippi Review
Mississippi Review
- Website: https://www.mississippi-review.com/
- Print magazine: Yes (two issues per year)
- Submissions: Seeks Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry. Submissions for issue 53.3 open May 15-June 30, with particular interest in nature-themed pieces. Annual contest awards prizes in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry. Submissions preferred through Submittable, though mail submissions are accepted with $3.00 fee per submission.
- Other information: Founded by Gordon Weaver in 1972 at the University of Southern Mississippi. Frederick Barthelme took over as editor in 1977. Housed in the University of Southern Mississippi's Center for Writers. Contest winners and finalists make up the summer issue. All contest submitters receive a copy of the summer issue.
- Genres: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
- Publication frequency: Biannual (Winter and Summer issues)
- Founded: 1972
- Editors: Not specified in provided information
- Contact: Address for mail submissions: Mississippi Review, 118 College Drive #5144, Hattiesburg, Mississippi 39406-0001
- Social media: Not specified in provided information
- Contest information: Mississippi Review Prize opens in August annually. Awards $1,000 prizes in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry.
Modern Literature
Modern Literature (www.modernliterature.org) is an online literary journal that has an ambitious aim of blooming into an international literary hub for established, emerging and new literary talent.
Mojo
Mojo is the graduate-run online literary journal from Wichita State University?s MFA program. We publish in the Fall and Spring. All selected work is considered for inclusion in our annual
Moonday Mag
Established in 2023 and inspired by the founder’s dream journal, Moonday Mag is a quarterly art and literary magazine
MoonLit Getaway
MoonLit Getaway
- Website: https://www.moonlitgetaway.com/
- Print magazine: Yes (Annual anthology "Harvest Moon" published each fall; online content updated every two weeks)
- Submissions: Seeks artwork, fiction, and poetry that enraptures readers with excitement, wonder, and intrigue. All genres accepted. Accepts submissions from new, emerging, and established creators worldwide. Currently free to submit. Simultaneous and previously published submissions accepted (though previously published works only considered for online publication, not anthology).
- Other information: Multi-genre literary journal founded by Brandon Nadeau. Publishes online content every two weeks with annual print anthology. First issue of "Harvest Moon" scheduled for release September 23, 2025. Does not accept AI-generated content.
- Genres: All genres of fiction, poetry, and artwork
- Publication frequency: Online content published biweekly; print anthology annually in fall
- Founded: 2025 (appears to be recently established)
- Editors: Brandon Nadeau (Executive Editor), Alex E. Harrison (Fiction Editor), Olive Scott (Poetry Editor), Jacinta Manna (Associate Poetry Editor), Jace DeAngelo (Content Editor)
- Contact: Not specified in provided information
- Social media: Not specifically listed, but mentions to follow their social media for updates
- Submission guidelines:
- Artwork: Any medium, 300 dpi resolution, .jpg/.jpeg/.png format (max 10MB), include title, medium, dimensions, and 150-word artist statement
- Fiction: One story up to 2500 words, .docx or PDF format, Times New Roman font, double-spaced
- Poetry: Up to 8 poems in a single document, .docx or PDF format
Moss
The Pacific Northwest is home to a thriving, vibrant literary culture. Following in a long tradition of finely crafted regional writing that is at once lyrical and gritty
Mud Season Review
Mud Season Review is an international literary journal run by members of the Burlington Writers Workshop, a free writing workshop based in Vermont
MUSE INDIA, the literary eJournal
Muse India is devoted to Indian literature and showcases Indian Writing in English as well as translations from all Indian language literatures. Each Issue focuses on one of the Indian language literature.