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Cactus Heart (Defunct)

Posted on June 9, 2012April 21, 2023 by Every Writer
Issue #1 just published! 108 big full-color e-pages, full of spiny, succulent fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and art. On the search for more literature that thrives, literature that makes us swoon,
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Bolts of Silk (Defunct)

Posted on June 7, 2012April 18, 2023 by Every Writer
The name Bolts of Silk comes from Dark Matter, a vivid poem by the wonderfully talented Rebecca Elson, who died tragically young. Unfortunately copyright permission is beyond the budget I have for this project, but I would definitely recommend looking out for A Responsibility to Awe, the collection that contains this poem. Bolts of silk were traditionally given as prizes in Japanese poetry competitions. Bolts of Silk features poetry from across the world, poetry that has something to say and says it beautifully.
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Coldnoon: A Quarterly of Travel Poetics (Defunct)

Posted on June 5, 2012April 21, 2023 by Every Writer
Coldnoon is a journal of travel poetics that envisions travel not as flux but instead as gaps in travelling itself. ?Coldnoon? means a shadowed instant in time when the inertia of motion
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Lunarionuovo (Defunct)

Posted on June 4, 2012April 29, 2023 by Every Writer
Lunarionuovo is a monthly literary magazine, founded in 1979 by Mario Grasso, sicilian poet, writer and essayist. It publishes poetry, fiction and critical essays, and it contains a special
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Birdfeast (defunct)

Posted on June 2, 2012April 18, 2023 by Every Writer
Birdfeast was imagined and created on Thanksgiving 2011. It runs quarterly with a feast of 10-20 poems each issue. Birdfeast welcomes all forms and styles of poetry, and publishes
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Toe Good Poetry

Posted on June 1, 2012October 23, 2017 by Every Writer
In 2004, several Oregon State underclassmen attended a poetry workshop. They bonded and began meeting to discuss poetry, politics, love, and life in general. They started referring
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Works & Days Quarterly

Posted on May 30, 2012May 5, 2024 by Every Writer
The editors of Works & Days began with a simple concept: that there are too many concepts out there. They wanted a way to present new work in a straightforward manner, without gimmicks
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Spoke Journal

Posted on May 29, 2012December 16, 2023 by Every Writer
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?
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The South Mountain Review

Posted on May 27, 2012July 30, 2013 by Every Writer
The South Mountain Review accepts submissions from writers of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. We will accept no more than 4 poems or 5 pages single-spaced for fiction or nonfiction
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Bohemia Art & Literary Journal (Defunct)

Posted on May 23, 2012April 18, 2023 by Every Writer
Bohemia Waco, Texas bohemia-journal.comMission Our mission is to let people know there are artists in Waco, TX. Our goal is to meet other artists from all over the world. Description
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The Digital Americana Magazine

Posted on May 21, 2012June 27, 2014 by Every Writer
The original tablet literary magazine. The Digital Americana Magazine (DAM) launched as the first literary magazine made exclusively for tablets after having been accepted and made
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Squalorly

Posted on May 20, 2012December 16, 2023 by Every Writer
Squalorly is not your average literary journal. We do not seek scholarly imaginings, or retellings of stories not able to turn heads or change lives. We do not seek stories that don't threaten
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Lillyrock Poetry Journal

Posted on May 17, 2012June 27, 2014 by Every Writer
Beginning September 2012, Lillyrock Poetry Journal will be an online monthly periodical publishing new poetry by new poets.
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Kalyani Magazine (Defunct)

Posted on May 10, 2012April 29, 2023 by Every Writer
Kalyani Magazine is a biannual literary magazine encouraging women of colour to express their views, their experiences, their feelings. Each issue explores a theme that matters to women using diverse writing styles to evoke diverse ideas. Whether you just started writing yesterday, or finished your first book when you were two, your stories deserve to do more than just gather dust on your shelves.
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Enhance Magazine (Defunct)

Posted on May 9, 2012April 22, 2023 by Every Writer
Enhance is an online literary and art magazine that will try to understand the human?s perception of life through literature and art. Enhance is interested in publishing new and emerging artists in all genres.
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The Urban Resistance

Posted on April 30, 2012June 26, 2014 by Every Writer
The Urban Resistance is a new publication open for submissions of poetry, short stories, flash fiction, creative non-fiction, and visual art for our inaugural issue. Our goal is to publish our print edition annually with previews of selected author's work published online monthly. All written and visual artists are welcome to submit and we'd particularly like to see work by previously unpublished authors for our inaugural issue.
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Steel Toe Review

Posted on April 29, 2012July 30, 2013 by Every Writer
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,
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The Golden Key

Posted on April 26, 2012July 30, 2013 by Every Writer
The Golden Key is a bi-annual journal of speculative and literary writing inspired by the Grimm Brothers' fairy tale of the same name. The Grimms chose ?The Golden Key? to end
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The Los Angeles River Review

Posted on April 25, 2012October 23, 2017 by Every Writer
The Los Angeles River Review is a new and independent poetry journal based in Hollywood, CA. Publishing semiannually in print, the review aims to bring forward-thinking and refined poetry to readers throughout the United States.
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Tugboat Magazine

Posted on April 17, 2012October 23, 2017 by Every Writer
Tugboat Magazine is always on the lookout for unpublished, original submissions in the following categories: fiction (no longer than 3000 words); poetry (not more than 100 words); essays
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69 Flavors of Paranoia

Posted on April 16, 2012May 22, 2019 by Every Writer
69 Flavors of Paranoia is an online horror and slip-stream fiction publication which is served in the form of a menu, with a different flavor for each. We publish only the
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Shadows Express (Defunct)

Posted on April 6, 2012May 5, 2023 by Every Writer
Illuminating undiscovered voices, Shadows Express is dedicated to presenting emerging writers to discerning readers. We strive to bring quality to the reader: fiction both engaging and entertaining; poetry that speaks to the heart; and helpful, inspiring non-fiction.
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Fifth Wednesday Journal (Defunct)

Posted on April 4, 2012April 22, 2023 by Every Writer
Fifth Wednesday Journal is an independent print literary magazine founded in 2007. It is published biannually. Using guest editors for fiction and poetry with each issue FWJ publishes many
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The Manila Envelope

Posted on April 3, 2012 by Every Writer
At The Manila Envelope, we are proud to support creative work of the art and writing community and are committed to publishing great work that shows the promise of gifted, emerging writers and artists.
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SPILT Magazine

Posted on April 2, 2012December 16, 2023 by Every Writer
SPILT Magazine is a unique approach to visual and literary arts, embodying the principles of equality, compassion, and expression. We are aiming to provide a bi-annual in-print visual a
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Chagrin River Review (Defunct)

Posted on April 1, 2012April 21, 2023 by Every Writer
Chagrin River Review is named after the Chagrin River, which flows into Lake Erie in the Northeast corner of Ohio. Not only do we publish work with Ohio connections, but any poetry and stories
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Wordsmiths

Posted on March 31, 2012June 8, 2014 by Every Writer
A collection of poetry and prose. We showcase both contemporary and fixed form.
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The Writer’s Literary Muse

Posted on March 26, 2012June 26, 2014 by Every Writer
We seek poetry of all genres, fiction, photography, cartoons, art work and articles. We are not yet a paying market. We do not publish offensive language, hate speech, vulgarity or profanity. We are open to religious works, nature, philosophical, strong imagery etc...We publish established and new writer\'s and artists. We respond quickly usually within a week and almost always include a comment.
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Sphere Literary Magazine

Posted on March 25, 2012June 26, 2014 by Every Writer
Sphere is an international journal of student writing. It is edited by students at Fairleigh Dickinson University and contributed to by students around the world. As of May 2008, with the support
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Generations Literary Journal (Defunct)

Posted on March 21, 2012April 28, 2023 by Every Writer
RATIONS Literary Magazine publishes the original works and ideas of both emerging and established artists in an effort to encourage conversations across the generational gaps. The
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Talking Writing

Posted on March 19, 2012December 16, 2023 by Every Writer
Talking Writing is an online literary magazine that supports writers and those interested in literature by encouraging creative discussion of the writing process. Each issue of Talking Writing
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The Golden Triangle

Posted on March 14, 2012October 23, 2017 by Every Writer
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.
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Alarmist

Posted on March 13, 2012December 16, 2023 by Every Writer
The Alarmist is a fresh, new, dark, funny and twisted printed literary magazine published biannually.
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egg (Defunct)

Posted on March 12, 2012April 22, 2023 by Every Writer
egg is an online poetry magazine delivered via email, one poem per week. Read it right then or save it for your train ride, your after dinner snack, or your Monday morning ritual. No rush?you?ve got the whole week. Why egg? Find out more at eggpoetry.com.
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Bad Version, The

Posted on March 11, 2012December 16, 2023 by Every Writer
Launched in November 2011, The Bad Version is a new take on the literary-cultural magazine. Its name comes from the collaborative art of screenwriting, where the first attempt at a scene,
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Quartier Rouge Revue

Posted on March 8, 2012June 26, 2014 by Every Writer
What should I send you?: 1-2 video recordings of 1-2 poems, as well as the poem itself in a .doc/.pdf/.rtf document. The poetry must be your own, read by you, and sent via a
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Little Fiction (Defunct)

Posted on March 7, 2012April 29, 2023 by Every Writer
At Little Fiction we like to think of the short story as the mp3 of the literary world. And we believe it can do for emerging and indie authors what the digital single did for bands of the same kind. Little Fiction publishes each short story on its own, complete with an original cover design. The stories are made available as free downloads in multiple formats: namely iPhone, iPad, and most Kindle / Kobo style eReaders
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Fortunates (Defunct)

Posted on March 5, 2012April 24, 2023 by Every Writer
Fortunates is a collection of short poems to be read one after the other in a random order. Some prophetic or proverbial, spanning tragic to irreverent, and all independently brilliant and
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AEROGRAM (Defunct)

Posted on March 4, 2012April 21, 2023 by Every Writer
Poetry, that time-traveling hobo with a room at the Ritz, doggedly knocks on your window like a scheming friend at midnight. A poem can whisk you away; to a Harlem basement in 1961, to an
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The Cincinnati Review

Posted on February 29, 2012July 11, 2017 by Every Writer
The Cincinnati Review draws together within its pages the finest creative and critical work from across the country. We provide a venue for writers of any background, at any point in their literary
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Writer’s Ink

Posted on February 27, 2012May 17, 2019 by Every Writer
Writer's Ink accepts accepts any form of English Language creative writing be it prose, poetry, screenplay, etc. Established in 2008, Writer's Ink has published a total of six volumes,
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RECEPTACLE Magazine

Posted on February 26, 2012June 26, 2014 by Every Writer
We are mainly online, but are available in print at select locations in London and Long Beach, CA.
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Garbanzo Literary Journal (Defunct)

Posted on February 21, 2012April 24, 2023 by Every Writer
Seraphemera Books & Music offers you... A bean. The garbanzo bean...found throughout the world in nearly every culture's cooking, and a staple of the vegan diet...is an amazingly diverse
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eFiction Magazine

Posted on February 19, 2012June 26, 2014 by Every Writer
eFiction is not a literary journal. It is a fiction magazine that presents guilty pleasure fiction of all genres. It was started by Doug Lance from his dorm room in 2009. It has since exploded in
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Frostwriting (Defunct)

Posted on February 16, 2012February 19, 2016 by Every Writer
Our editors live in Budapest, New York, Liverpool, Sweden, and Dubai. We try to select quality writing of which we thankfully receive more and more as time goes on. Our mission is to encourage people who are serious about writing.
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Zcomposition

Posted on February 14, 2012May 5, 2024 by Every Writer
Z-composition is a bi-monthly literary e-zine with a yearly print anthology slated to launch in 2012; October. New and established writers are welcome; we accept new and experienced writers
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Scarlet Literary Magazine (Defunct)

Posted on February 13, 2012May 5, 2023 by Every Writer
Dark romantic magazine publishing poetry, prose, short stories, art & photography. Each issue is \'themed\' and we prefer work that is written with that in mind.
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Lightning’d Press (Defunct)

Posted on February 12, 2012April 29, 2023 by Every Writer
Our goal is to publish poems online that we feel speak to the ideas of Apocalypticism as described by Peter O'Leary in his essay "Apocalypticism: A Way Forward for Poetry", published by The Chicago Review.
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Slice of Life (Defunct)

Posted on February 11, 2012May 5, 2023 by Every Writer
Slice of Life is a new online journal for flash prose. We are connected to the online writing workshop, Diving Deeper, but you don?t have to be a member to submit your work. We are looking
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Octavius (Defunct)

Posted on February 9, 2012May 1, 2023 by Every Writer
Octavius is a new literary magazine for students in Scotland which aims to bridge the gap between being an unpublished student and submitting to professional magazines and journals.
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