Literary Magazines - The Big List of Literary Magazines

BALLOONS Lit. Journal

Posted on April 1, 2023April 30, 2023 by Every Writer

First established in 2014, BALLOONS Lit. Journal (BLJ) is a young-reader-oriented literary journal that is freely accessible to all by online reading with a fully edited ready-to-print pdf version downloadable for every issue.

Utopia Science Fiction

Posted on March 31, 2023April 25, 2023 by Every Writer

Founded July, 2019 we are an up and coming Science Fiction Magazine dedicated to sharing stories which share a common theme - a future we want to believe in. Utopia in itself may be ever-elusive, but there's no reason we shouldn't hope for a brighter future.

Swamppink formally Crazyhorse

Posted on March 25, 2023March 26, 2023 by Every Writer

Recent poems from Crazyhorse were selected for reprint in The Best American Poetry 2008 and 2007 and The Pushcart Prize anthology, recent fiction in The Best American Short Stories 2008. Richard Jackson's poem

Brilliant Flash Fiction

Posted on March 23, 2023April 19, 2023 by Every Writer

Brilliant Flash Fiction delivers vibrant stories from around the world illustrated with dazzling photography. Contributors include established writers and talented newcomers.

Bacopa Literary Review

Posted on March 5, 2023March 6, 2023 by Every Writer

Bacopa Literary Review is an annual international print journal published by the Writers Alliance of Gainesville. We are seeking submissions in six categories this year: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Humor, Formal Poetry, Free Verse Poetry, and Visual Poetry.

Panel

Posted on March 1, 2023May 3, 2023 by Every Writer

Panel Magazine reflects contemporary literature that is being produced in Central and Eastern Europe, and is written in English or translated into English.

Broad Street Magazine (Defunct)

Posted on February 24, 2023April 19, 2023 by Every Writer

Broad Street is a nonprofit magazine based in Richmond, VA. We publish semi-anually, and aim to create a space to be enjoyed equally by longtime fans of creative nonfiction and those

The Closed Eye Open

Posted on February 22, 2023 by Every Writer

The Closed Eye Open is an art & literature website that was started as an exploration of consciousness. Our main goal is to feature a wide range of art forms that connect in some way with this pursuit.

the other side of hope: journeys in refugee and immigrant literature

Posted on February 13, 2023 by Every Writer

We admire, respect, and are friends with writers and poets from all walks of life. However, the other side of hope exists to serve, bring together, and celebrate the refugee and immigrant communities worldwide.

Apocalypse Confidential

Posted on February 6, 2023 by Every Writer

Established in 2021, APOCALYPSE CONFIDENTIAL is a web magazine of edgy extrapolations, fringe fascinations, occult obsessions, risky ruminations, and aberrant associations. We are a literary journal obsessed with the underworld

The Nelligan Review

Posted on February 3, 2023 by Every Writer

The Nelligan Review accepts unsolicited submissions of fiction, essays, reviews, poetry, art, and photography.

Suspense Magazine >

Posted on January 28, 2023April 18, 2023 by Every Writer

Suspense Publishing continues to expand its reputation and influence in the publishing industry, offering some of the best titles in the suspense, thriller, mystery, and horror genres

Fears Magazines >

Posted on January 28, 2023December 16, 2023 by Every Writer

Fears Magazine - The best in Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Genre News and entertainment. Featuring movie interviews, news, dvd & film reviews, book reviews, and music reviews

Cemetery Dance >

Posted on January 28, 2023April 18, 2023 by Every Writer

Cemetery Dance is the World Fantasy Award-winning magazine of horror, dark mystery, and suspense. Each issue is packed with 100 to 140 pages of short stories, articles, columns, interviews, news, and reviews!

Bewildering Stories >

Posted on January 28, 2023April 18, 2023 by Every Writer

Bewildering Stories — known informally as “BwS” — is a weekly electronic publication featuring speculative fiction as well as non-fiction, namely poetry, articles, essays, reviews, and art.

Anotherealm: Magazine of Speculative Fiction >

Posted on January 28, 2023April 18, 2023 by Every Writer

A Free Monthly Magazine Featuring Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror.

Baltimore Review

Posted on January 25, 2023January 25, 2023 by Every Writer

The mission of The Baltimore Review is to showcase Baltimore as a literary hub of diverse writing and promote the work of emerging and established writers. The Baltimore Review was founded by Barbara Westwood Diehl in 1996

The Pine Cone Review

Posted on January 25, 2023 by Every Writer

We are looking for well-crafted honest works of written and visual art. Editing is considered to be an invaluable aspect of the creative process. We can often see shimmers of a great idea in the unpolished drafts.

FANGORIA Magazine >

Posted on January 25, 2023April 18, 2023 by Every Writer

FANGORIA Magazine has a 40+ year legacy of bringing fans the best horror coverage out there, and it all started in the summer of 1979 when issue #1 first appeared on newsstands. The publication has evolved over four decades and over 350 issues, but the original spirit remains. Horror: No unsolicited.

Cosmic Horror Monthly >

Posted on January 25, 2023January 25, 2023 by Every Writer

A monthly tome of tales, Lovecraftian, cosmic, and weird. Bold new horror delivered to your inbox or your mailbox. Horror: Short Stories

Rue Morgue Magazine >

Posted on January 25, 2023 by Every Writer

Rue Morgue Magazine issued bimonthly and distributed worldwide. Published since 1997. Horror: Fiction Horror: Fiction

Nightmare >

Posted on January 25, 2023January 25, 2023 by Every Writer

Nightmare is a horror and dark fantasy magazine. In Nightmare’s pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales to visceral psychological horror. Horror: Flashfiction, Short Stories, Poetry

Tangled Web Magazine

Posted on January 20, 2023January 23, 2023 by Every Writer

Tangled Web Magazine is a speculative fiction and Tartan Noir magazine featuring dark, twisty stories that explore the tangled web of our lives. We love stories with a sense of intrigue, stories that make us feel, that challenge us, Submission Guidelines Genre: Fiction, Speculative

Nighthawk Literature

Posted on January 16, 2023January 16, 2023 by Every Writer

Sometimes, our most vulnerable and bizarre ideas surface during the night, while the hours run over our eyes and leap into the morning. Nighthawk Literature is here to discover the vulnerable, the bizarre, and the unusual.

ARTWIFE

Posted on January 15, 2023 by Every Writer

ARTWIFE exists to serve as an oasis of art and beauty. We have deep reverence for human expression and we demand attention to craft

Kathai Literary Journal

Posted on January 15, 2023 by Every Writer

The Kathai Literary Journal was started by Sanjana Senthil in 2022. It aims to curate art and writing from all young creators

Wordrunner eChapbooks

Posted on January 12, 2023 by Every Writer

Wordrunner eChapbooks is a hybrid online literary journal and chapbook series with a focus on short fiction. We also publish creative nonfiction and poetry in our annual themed anthologies. Previously we have published collections by memoirists and poets and may do

Call for submissions

Posted on January 10, 2023January 10, 2023 by Every Writer

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The Kleksograph

Posted on January 9, 2023 by Every Writer

An international Review of arts and the subconscious. Surely every work of art is informed by the subconscious? True, but most artists would contend that their work is mainly the result of conscious, rational decisions

Sunspot Literary Journal

Posted on January 6, 2023 by Every Writer

Sunspot Literary Journal speaks truth to power by drawing on the power of every human being. The publication is dedicated to diverse voices in fiction, poetry, nonfiction, scripts, screenplays, photography, and art from around the world. Since launching in January of 2019, Sunspot has amplified multinational voices from around the world. New works have been published in their original language side-by-side with English translations.

Bare Fiction Magazine (Defunct)

Posted on April 9, 2022April 18, 2023 by richard

Bare Fiction was set up to promote new writing in all forms through performance, digital representation and publication. We offer a platform for new creative writing across poetry, fiction and plays

96th of October

Posted on February 5, 2022 by Every Writer

The name of this journal, 96th of October, is derived from a character in the Pogo comic strip who wishes to extend the sway of Halloween to where it displaces Christmas. Giving October 96 days effectively annexes December and the first week of January.

Subnivean

Posted on January 28, 2022April 20, 2023 by Every Writer

Subnivean, SUNY Oswego’s literary publication, was established in 2020. In 2021, it was recognized for its excellence as one of just four national Firecracker Awards finalists in the category of “Magazines: Best Debut” by the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses.

The Wise Owl

Posted on January 21, 2022January 28, 2023 by Every Writer

The Wise Owl is a literary & arts e-magazine (Monthly) founded in November 2021. We feature established poets, writers as well as artists in our magazine and also provide a free platform to showcase writings (poetry, short stories, critique,

The Search for the Best New Literary Magazines!

Posted on November 17, 2021November 17, 2021 by Every Writer

This is the search for the best new literary magazines. What does "new" mean? We are looking for literary magazines that are less than 2 years old, founded in 2020 0r 2021. This list will be for 2022.

Lantern Review: A Journal of Asian American Poetry (Defunct)

Posted on October 22, 2021April 29, 2023 by Every Writer

Lantern Review aims to serve the literary community by providing a virtual space in which to promote and discuss the work of contemporary Asian American poets and artists. We seek to publish expertly crafted work in a variety of forms and aesthetics, including traditional and experimental pieces,

The Found Poetry Review

Posted on April 3, 2021November 17, 2021 by Every Writer

The Found Poetry Review is a quarterly online poetry journal celebrating the poetry in the existing and the everyday. We publish found poetry, centos, erasure poems and other forms that incorporate elements of existing texts. We also publish photography that captures the visual poetry found in people and places.

The Incandescent Review

Posted on October 19, 2020 by Every Writer

The Incandescent Review is a non-profit, teen-run literary magazine with a team hailing from around the globe: from New Delhi to Shanghai, from Nairobi to San Francisco.

forthelove magazine

Posted on October 3, 2020April 24, 2023 by Every Writer

We are a young magazine just starting out in 2020. Our focus is promoting LGBT+ writers and editors and creating a platform for their stories. forthlove is staffed by members of the LGBT+ community, all of whom have a passion for writing and the community.

The Start Literary Journal

Posted on September 9, 2020 by Every Writer

The Start Literary Journal is a new young adult literary journal that is looking for submissions for its first issue. While we hope to publish writers at all stages of their publishing journey, our goal is to give writers their start by publishing new and unpublished writers (including high school students!)

Still Point Arts Quarterly

Posted on June 24, 2020 by Every Writer

Still Point Arts Quarterly is a truly beautiful and engaging art and literary journal. It was founded in 2011 by Shanti Arts, a press based in Brunswick, Maine, that also publishes books and is dedicated to honoring the timeless connections among nature, art, and spirit.

The Petigru Review

Posted on April 16, 2020 by Every Writer

The Petigru Review, an online literary journal sponsored by the South Carolina Writers Association, is open for submissions. We accept high quality and engaging fiction, nonfiction, poetry and flash, as well as craft essays and reviews for our website. We look forward to reading your work!

Story

Posted on March 10, 2020 by Every Writer

Story is a tri-annual print publication devoted to the complex and diverse world of narrative with a focus on fiction and nonfiction. Formerly a publication of York College, Story has reorganized as a non-profit, independent arts organization based in Columbus, Ohio.

Ornery Quarterly (Defunct)

Posted on March 3, 2020May 3, 2023 by Every Writer

Ornery Quarterly began in the early twenty-tens in Chicago somewhere in-between the lake and a grocery store. We have been a non-institutional aggregate of mediocre literature ever since. The founding editors—one with a penchant for honest short fiction and the other an appetite for subversive poetry—

Adelaide Literary Magazine

Posted on July 9, 2019July 9, 2019 by Every Writer

We publish literary fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, and promote the writers we publish, helping both new, emerging, and established authors reach a wider literary audience.

Silent Auctions

Posted on July 3, 2019August 15, 2019 by Every Writer

Silent Auctions is an online magazine with an emphasis on atmosphere, authenticity, and experimentation. We celebrate and encourage unconventional prose, fiction, and poetry. We publish cartoons and comics because we believe they deserve a more respected role in the literary

Brownies’ Book, The

Posted on June 20, 2019December 16, 2023 by Every Writer

An interactive quarterly multi-cultural literary children's magazine. The magazine was created to help black children have positive images whilst living with a racially hostile environment. It was designed for all children,

Manzano Mountain Review

Posted on June 11, 2019April 20, 2023 by Every Writer

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.

American Aesthetic, The

Posted on May 22, 2019December 16, 2023 by Every Writer

To better understand the objectives of The American Aesthetic, one must first understand what prompted the creation of this poetry journal in the first place.

Clarkesworld Magazine (links to site)

Posted on May 22, 2019May 22, 2019 by Every Writer

Clarkesworld is a free monthly online science fiction and fantasy magazine. Original fiction published in Clarkesworld i! s also collected in an annual print