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Indiana Voice Journal (Defunct)

Posted on August 24, 2014April 25, 2023 by Every Writer
Indiana Voice Journal exists to promote the unheard voices of new writers alongside the more familiar voices of experienced authors.
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Four Winds Literary Magazine (Not publishing)

Posted on August 23, 2014April 24, 2023 by Every Writer
Four Winds Literary Magazine is a Bi-Annual Publication with release dates in December and July, respectively. Currently, we accept submissions year-round. Submissions for our December issue close November 1st, and submissions
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Tethered by Letters

Posted on August 21, 2014October 23, 2017 by Every Writer
Tethered by Letters is a nonprofit literary journal dedicated to cultivating writers of all ages, backgrounds, education, or genres. Our mission is fulfilled through the three avenues for writing success:
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Fantasy Scroll Magazine (Defunct)

Posted on August 11, 2014April 22, 2023 by Every Writer
Fantasy Scroll Mag is a quarterly publication featuring science fiction, fantasy, horror, and paranormal short-fiction. We publish short fiction from our
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Golden Walkman Magazine (Defunct)

Posted on August 7, 2014April 28, 2023 by Every Writer
Golden Walkman Magazine is a literary magazine in the form of a podcast aimed at giving the written word a voice.
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Madcap Review (Defunct)

Posted on August 4, 2014April 29, 2023 by Every Writer
Madcap Review is a semiannual online journal of literature and art. As our name indicates, we embrace the impulsive, the reckless, and the lively, but we also have great respect for form and restraint.
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Decades Review (Defunct)

Posted on July 22, 2014April 22, 2023 by Every Writer
Decades Review is an online literary magazine for humans. We enjoy publishing any genre of poetry, photography, artwork, any genre of flash fiction/non-fiction, and fiction/non-fiction short stories.
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Small Po[r]tions (Defunct)

Posted on July 19, 2014May 5, 2023 by Every Writer
Small Po[r]tions publishes short[er] and experimental work along with multimedia and intermedia writing and art. The journal is published three times yearly in February, June, and October.
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The Common

Posted on July 17, 2014July 17, 2014 by Every Writer
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,
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Wednesday Journal

Posted on July 13, 2014October 23, 2017 by Every Writer
Fifth Wednesday Journal is a nonprofit, independent literary journal published twice a year in print.
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The Austin Review Defunct

Posted on July 7, 2014January 25, 2023 by Every Writer
The Austin Review is an independent, nonprofit literary journal based in Austin, Texas. Three times per year, it publishes a print journal including four pieces of flash nonfiction, four short stories, and one essay or work by a prominent author.
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The Scented Flower

Posted on July 5, 2014October 23, 2017 by Every Writer
The Scented Flower is a literary magazine written for and by people who live in a communitarian setting. However, through excellent writing and story-telling,
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Verse-Virtual

Posted on July 5, 2014July 5, 2014 by Every Writer
Verse-Virtual is an online magazine of eclectic poetry. My name is Firestone Feinberg. I am the sole editor and owner of the journal.
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Provocateur: A Literary Magazine (closed)

Posted on July 1, 2014May 2, 2019 by Every Writer
Provocateur aims to shed light on LGBTQ writers. Although the world is beginning to catch up on equality, not everyone is ready to publish stories or poems about
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New Services from EWR

Posted on June 30, 2014February 25, 2017 by Every Writer
From time to time we like to let editors know what is happening with EWR. We've added some features that will help you get the word out about your publications. In our sidebar, you
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Felled Limbs (Not Publishing)

Posted on June 29, 2014May 2, 2019 by Every Writer
Everyone lacks something. At Felled Limbs, we are not interested in looking for the things that are lost, and we have no desire to replace them.
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Buck off Magazine (Defunct)

Posted on June 27, 2014April 29, 2023 by Every Writer
B.O.M accepts all forms of art whether through photography, painting or writing. We are writers with attitude looking for inspired artist to appear
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Duende (Defunct)

Posted on June 22, 2014April 22, 2023 by Every Writer
Duende is the all-online literary journal of the BFA in Writing program at Goddard College. Duende aspires to represent the true beauty and diversity of the U.S. literary ecosystem. A majority of the work we publish will be from writers
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Ricochet Magazine (Defunct)

Posted on June 22, 2014May 5, 2023 by Every Writer
Ricochet Magazine is a free online publication for aspiring writers and artists. Though we are Australia-based, we showcase the works of new and established writers and artists
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Carolina Quarterly, The

Posted on June 18, 2014December 16, 2023 by Every Writer
The Carolina Quarterly publishes a variety of poetry, fiction, essays, reviews, and artwork three times a year. Approximately 1,000 copies are distributed to readers locally and to individual subscribers,
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The Gettysburg Review

Posted on June 17, 2014August 22, 2017 by Every Writer
The Gettysburg Review is published by Gettysburg College. The Review has been publishing for since. The Gettysburg Review is a quarterly publications
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OVS Magazine (defunct)

Posted on June 16, 2014May 3, 2023 by Every Writer
OVS Magazine was started in 2009 by Stephen and Ivy Page to give new and established artists and poets a place to publish their work in a respectable peer-critiqued
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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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The Madison Review

Posted on May 3, 2014August 19, 2018 by Every Writer
The Madison Review is a literary arts journal published through the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Founded in the early 1970s by students from the university’s creative writing program,
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The Lost Country Defunct

Posted on May 3, 2014January 25, 2023 by Every Writer
The Lost Country is a journal published by The Exiles, a literary club of Fort Worth, Texas, featuring original works of poetry, short fiction, translation, criticism, and book reviews.
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One Throne Magazine (Defunct)

Posted on April 27, 2014May 3, 2023 by Every Writer
Newly founded in 2014 at Dawson City, Yukon, One Throne is an online literary magazine published quarterly. Our goal is to showcase the foremost in writing
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Infinity’s Kitchen (Defunct)

Posted on April 22, 2014April 25, 2023 by Every Writer
Infinity’s Kitchen is an experimental literary journal. It is designed to explore a place for literature in a post-digital setting. We seek work that results from new recipes
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Sensations Magazine (Defunct)

Posted on April 20, 2014May 5, 2023 by Every Writer
For 27 years, Sensations Magazine has been a major player among independent, non-grant-funded publications that arose out of the "desktop publishing revolution" of the late 1980s.
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Hermeneutic Chaos-A Literary Journal Defunct

Posted on April 14, 2014January 25, 2023 by Every Writer
Art is the ultimate paradox of humanity. It constantly seeks to find kinship with the ephemeral quicksand while simultaneously pausing to contemplate over the mismatched heartbeats of each granule. Even more so, literary art, for it becomes the responsibility of 26 meager alphabets to rummage through the uneven contours of the chambers hidden by human em
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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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Whisperings

Posted on April 4, 2014October 23, 2017 by Every Writer
From the Editor Sitting on the veranda, among pines and oaks, looking out at my apple, pear and cherry trees with a hot cup of coffee in my hands I gaze east into the Colorado Desert 4,000 feet below,
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Urban Grapevine Magazine

Posted on April 3, 2014 by Every Writer
We are a literary magazine with a main focus on the minority indie author/writer writing in the Urban Fiction, Hip-Hop Fiction, AA Fiction, AA Contemporary Fiction or Street Lit Fiction genre.
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Indigo Rising Magazine (Defunct)

Posted on March 31, 2014April 25, 2023 by Every Writer
Founded in June 2010, Indigo Rising Magazine is a plane of the diverse. We built this magazine for the odd, the unfiltered abstract, the purified sojourns, the darkness that walks and the endings that rest solitude.
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Literary Magazine Editor’s Roundtable

Posted on March 29, 2014March 29, 2014 by Every Writer
We are going to try something new. Once per month we are going to have open literary editors roundtables/discussions about a top that concerns literary magazines, publishing,
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Synaesthesia Magazine

Posted on March 25, 2014December 7, 2023 by Every Writer
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.
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Barking Sycamores

Posted on March 23, 2014March 23, 2014 by Every Writer
Who We Are The mission of Barking Sycamores is to publish poetry by emerging and established neurodivergent writers (autistic, ADHD, bipolar, synesthesia, etc.).
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Blank Fiction (defunct)

Posted on March 16, 2014April 19, 2023 by Every Writer
Blank Fiction Magazine aims to provide our readers with entertaining, intelligent and thought-provoking genre literature. We publish a quarterly collection of four short stories.
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3Elements Review

Posted on March 13, 2014June 17, 2014 by Every Writer
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.
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Bartleby Snopes (Defunct)

Posted on March 8, 2014April 18, 2023 by Every Writer
Bartleby Snopes is founded on the principle that writers deserve quick responses and personalized feedback. We publish two stories per week and end each month with a Story of the Month contest voted on by the readers. Twice per year we release a print/PDF version
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The Summerset Review

Posted on February 26, 2014June 17, 2014 by Every Writer
The Summerset Review started as an online literary quarterly in 2002, publishing exclusively fiction and nonfiction. With a staff of three volunteers, the magazine faithfully
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The Incubator (defunct)

Posted on February 23, 2014April 23, 2023 by Every Writer
We showcase the best new contemporary short stories by writers living in NI and Ireland. We are looking for interviewers, reviewers and guest bloggers - drop us a line if you are interested in helping out.
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HARK magazine (Defunct)

Posted on February 22, 2014April 24, 2023 by Every Writer
HARK is a UK-based online magazine of poetry and short fiction. We're new on the scene, and are currently accepting submissions for our first issue
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Sketches Magazine (Defunct)

Posted on February 20, 2014May 5, 2023 by Every Writer
Welcome to Sketches Magazine — a new home for writers. Here at Sketches we value the craft of writing and we attempt to show it in the quality pieces we display.
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SOCRATES

Posted on February 17, 2014June 30, 2014 by Every Writer
SOCRATES aspires to be one of Worlds’s leading Journal Publishing innovative, responsive and high quality Research Papers.Socrates is a serious, scholarly publication that is indexed
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Helping you Promote Your Books

Posted on February 16, 2014 by Every Writer

Helping you Promote Your Books

 

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The Masters Review

Posted on February 10, 2014March 24, 2017 by Every Writer
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
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Tiny Tales of Terror, The Magazine Defunct

Posted on February 7, 2014January 25, 2023 by Every Writer
We love what scares you. Because horror is so closely linked to suspense, we also take psychological horror or suspense stories. We love classic horror,
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White Ash Literary Magazine (Defunct)

Posted on February 2, 2014January 25, 2023 by Every Writer
White Ash Literary Magazine is the publisher of a globally distributed semi-annual anthology of whimsical poetry and short fiction by emerging and well-loved writers.
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Dactyl (Defunct)

Posted on January 29, 2014April 22, 2023 by Every Writer
Dactyl is a new print publication. We have just launched our inaugural issue at Summerhall in Edinburgh to much fanfare. We accept poetry, prose, illustration,photography, calligraphy.
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Mount Parable

Posted on January 25, 2014January 25, 2023 by Every Writer
Mount Parable is the product of a person who loves literature and who has been playing the online publishing game for years, perusing websites like this one to see who will publish and who will not.
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