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Vagabonds: Anthology of the Mad Ones

Posted on January 23, 2014October 23, 2017 by Every Writer
Vagabonds is an anthology that is published twice a year. We had the pleasure of releasing the first edition on August 6th, 2012 and is still available for anyone who is interested in a copy.
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Inky Path (Defunct)

Posted on January 9, 2014April 25, 2023 by Every Writer
Inky Path is the first of its kind--a literary magazine dedicated to the promotion and distribution of interactive fiction. Interactive fiction consis
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Water Cooler Convos

Posted on January 6, 2014October 23, 2017 by Every Writer
We call the Water Cooler Convos. It's nerdy. It's artsy. It's bourgie. And it is a place for discussion. It is the mission of Water Cooler Convos
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Manic Fervor Defunct

Posted on January 5, 2014January 25, 2023 by Every Writer
Began in January 2014, Manic Fervor seeks out visceral, beautiful work in the genres of poetry, short fiction, essays, photography, and art. Our aim is to publish an issue for every season
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Neutrons Protons (defunct)

Posted on December 30, 2013April 30, 2023 by Every Writer
Neutrons Protons is a monthly literary project that operates with unfaltering belief in three primary things: the power of true and honest human stories
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Blank Fiction Literary Magazine Defunct

Posted on December 28, 2013April 18, 2023 by Every Writer
Blank Fiction is a new and independent literary magazine aimed at publishing intelligent and thought-provoking genre fiction. Each quarterly issue will call for a different genre
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Buffalo Almanack

Posted on December 26, 2013April 17, 2023 by Every Writer
Buffalo Almanack is an online quarterly journal of fiction and photography. We aim to publish the best of new and veteran artists from within the United...
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The Strip

Posted on December 12, 2013December 5, 2017 by Every Writer
We basically started The Strip because we think McSweeney’s is a big fat sellout and we do not understand how people have perfected an invisibility cloak but the Paris Review
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The Traveling Poet

Posted on December 8, 2013October 23, 2017 by Every Writer
The Traveling Poet is an ezine that publishes poets ages 12-25, art of all mediums, and articles regarding traveling, hitchhiking, poverty, and philosophy. This project's goal
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Spectrum Magazine

Posted on December 5, 2013December 16, 2023 by Every Writer
Spectrum Magazine was launched in 2013 by Mercedes Lucero and founded on the belief that everyone has the ability to bring something lovely
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Get paid to Write for Writing Sense

Posted on December 3, 2013February 25, 2017 by Every Writer
We want to increase the value and quality of our Writing Sense blog. Many of our readers are both great editors and great writers and we are looking to work with you to improve our site. We are now paying $100 for each guest post.
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Atlas and Alice Literary Magazine

Posted on December 2, 2013June 30, 2014 by Every Writer
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.
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Ancient Paths (defunct)

Posted on November 29, 2013April 17, 2023 by Every Writer
Ancient Paths literary magazine publishes poetry, flash fiction, art, and photography with subtle religious themes. The works featured in Ancient Paths explore struggles
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Gold Man Review

Posted on November 23, 2013June 30, 2014 by Every Writer
Gold Man Review, an annual literary magazine produced in Salem, Oregon, under the umbrella of Gold Man Publishing, is aimed at serving our community of authors and artists.
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The Rain, Party, & Disaster Society

Posted on November 14, 2013 by Every Writer
The purpose of The Rain, Party, & Disaster Society is to publish works that voice an unusual, unpopular or incendiary opinion. The RP&D Society strives to give
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Flyleaf Literary Journal (Defunct)

Posted on November 13, 2013April 24, 2023 by Every Writer
Flyleaf is a literary journal unlike any you've ever seen before. Printed on a gatefold sheet, each short story is self-contained with its own original cover art
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Black Wire Literary Magazine (Defunct)

Posted on November 10, 2013April 18, 2023 by Every Writer
Black Wire is a new literary journal dedicated to discovering progressive and cutting edge writing from today's best poets and writers.
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Make Money with your Literary Magazine

Posted on November 5, 2013November 23, 2013 by Every Writer

Make Money with your Literary Magazine

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The Inflectionist

Posted on October 22, 2013October 23, 2017 by Every Writer
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
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China Grove (Defunct)

Posted on October 21, 2013April 21, 2023 by Every Writer
Two doctors in Mississippi bring their love of literature to life in their independent literary journal, “China Grove." The first issue featured an exclusive interview with National Book Award winner
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Every Writer The Magazine Free!

Posted on October 18, 2013January 25, 2023 by Every Writer
We are now publishing Every Writer the Magazine. Each month we plan to send out a new FREE issue to anyone who signs up. The magazine is for ipad, Kindle, iphone, Android
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Midnight Circus (Defunct)

Posted on October 15, 2013April 23, 2023 by Every Writer
Based in Omaha, NE, EAB Publishing is the home of Midnight Circus, a seasonal literary magazine. We publish work that makes us unabashedly cry, laugh-out-loud, dream of a better tomorrow,
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Hello Horror (Not Publishing)

Posted on October 10, 2013January 25, 2023 by Every Writer
HelloHorror is a recently created online literary journal and blog. The primary motivation behind our publication?s existence?
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The Red Line

Posted on October 8, 2013 by Every Writer
The Red Line is a magazine that runs in conjunction with a regular, themed, and free competition.
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Black Herald, The

Posted on October 6, 2013December 16, 2023 by Every Writer
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
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Garden Gnome Publications (Defunct)

Posted on October 2, 2013April 28, 2023 by Every Writer
Garden Gnome Publications publishes flash fiction and short stories in the speculative fiction genres. Every month we sponsor the Flim-Flam games, a contest with prizes
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Really System (Defunct)

Posted on September 29, 2013May 5, 2023 by Every Writer
Really System, a new journal of poetry and extensible poetics, will publish its first issue in January 2014. We seek new, interesting writing that exhibits a keen awareness of the forms
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The Inflectionist Review

Posted on September 28, 2013 by Every Writer
The Inflectionist Review is a small press publishing stark and distinctive contemporary poetry that fosters dialog between the reader and writer, between words and their meanings, between ambiguity and concept.
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The Hour of Lead

Posted on September 22, 2013October 23, 2017 by Every Writer
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
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Stupid Bird

Posted on September 15, 2013December 16, 2023 by itsstupidbird
Short stories: We accept original, unpublished stories that are humorous yet relatable. The stories need to be self-contained and have a long life.
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Ijagun Poetry Journal (Defunct)

Posted on September 10, 2013April 25, 2023 by Every Writer
Ijagun is a poetry journal committed to publishing new and emerging poets. We don’t want to hear from our master “griots” alone; we want to hear from those mastering their art too.
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Surrealist Star Clustered Illuminations

Posted on September 7, 2013 by Every Writer
Surrealist Star Clustered Illuminations. An online literary magazine featuring contemporary Surrealist Fiction / Poetry / Art
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Bricolage Magazine

Posted on September 5, 2013January 25, 2023 by Every Writer
Bricolage is a new arts and culture magazine based in India. We seek original, exciting works of art, literature and photograph for publication.
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Contraposition (Defunct

Posted on September 1, 2013April 21, 2023 by Every Writer
Contraposition is a digital literary magazine. Its quarterly releases are available for the public to view as well as download. The aim of this magazine is to help foster the regrowth of poetry in the digital age.
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Hirschworth (Defunct)

Posted on August 31, 2013April 24, 2023 by Every Writer
Hirschworth is a daily zine for readers, writers, artists, and all manner of foodies. We publish poetry, fiction, essays, visual art, recipes, send-ups, and the like. We aim to provide high-quality content from a breadth of sources.
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Sassafras Literary Magazine (Defunct)

Posted on August 25, 2013May 5, 2023 by Every Writer
Sassafras Literary Magazine is that one peculiar friend. This littlest litmag in the world
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Literary Magazine Editor Round Table

Posted on August 24, 2013August 24, 2013 by Every Writer

Literary Magazine Editor Round Table

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New Madrid: A Journal of Contemporary Literature (defunct)

Posted on August 22, 2013April 30, 2023 by Every Writer
New Madrid is the national journal of the low-residency MFA program at Murray State University. It takes its name from the New Madrid seismic zone, which falls within the central Mississippi Valley and extends through western Kentucky.
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Poetica Victorian: A Journal of Classical (Defunct)

Posted on August 20, 2013May 3, 2023 by Every Writer
Poetica Victorian is a journal of classical style poetry where form is used to create great works with powerful direction. Like the works of Tennyson, Bronte, Browning, Kipling, Frost and all the greatest poets of these styles our poetry
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Feature your listing

Posted on August 17, 2013August 21, 2013 by Every Writer

We now feature magazines! You can now have your listing …

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Tin House Defunct

Posted on August 17, 2013January 25, 2023 by Every Writer
Tin House Magazine is one of America's leading literary magazines. Tin House publishes both fiction and poetry. First published in 1999 and quickly began setting standards for literary magazines.
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Episodic Magazine (Defunct)

Posted on August 16, 2013April 22, 2023 by Every Writer
Episodic is an adjective, defined as "divided into separate or tenuously related parts or sections; loosely connected."
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Black Heart Magazine (Defunct)

Posted on August 15, 2013April 21, 2023 by Every Writer
Black Heart Magazine is an independent online literary magazine, transmitting our tenacious texts around the world at the speed of wifi.
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STRIKE Magazine

Posted on August 13, 2013 by Every Writer
STRIKE Magazine is a completely independent, community supported, working class political art and culture magazine in South Texas.
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Museum of Things I Want to Forget (Defunct)

Posted on August 12, 2013April 29, 2023 by Every Writer
Nietzsche said, 'Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.' Yet, the tension remains: between the desire to forget, and the instinct that you cannot,
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The Montucky Review

Posted on August 11, 2013August 11, 2013 by Every Writer
The Montucky Review is a web based poetry publication that seeks well crafted wordplay from both established and novice writers alike.
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TreeHouse

Posted on August 4, 2013August 4, 2013 by Every Writer
TreeHouse is a place where artists can come to celebrate all forms of art. TreeHouse hosts blog posts, works of fiction
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Literary Magazines on Twitter

Posted on August 4, 2013June 30, 2014 by Every Writer
In the interest of being able to find each other, and to have people follow you, please list your Twitter below. We want to follow you. You can follow us at @everywriter. We use Twitter a lot.
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The Verse: A Poetry Journal

Posted on July 25, 2013June 30, 2014 by Every Writer
Any form on unpublished poetry, meaning anything that has never been posted on a site, appeared in an anthology or another publication.
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Driftless Review (Defunct)

Posted on July 14, 2013April 22, 2023 by Every Writer
The Driftless Review is published by Platteville Poets, Writers and Editors, LLC, an organization dedicated to showcasing
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