The Common
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,
Print magazines taking online submissions
Here is our very popular list of magazines that are print magazines taking online submissions. A few years ago this was a very big deal, and it still is. Now most large and even commercial magazines take online submissions. At one time this was not the case.
Either way this list will give you an avenue to publish your writing in a print magazine. Some of our new and emerging magazines are of course much easier to publish your work in than the older more well-established magazines. If you want to see your work in print, this list if for you. We believe it will give you the best chance of seeing this happen.
We have been listing these print magazines taking online submissions for over 10 years. Some of these listings are brand new, others may be out of date. If you see a listing that needs to be updated, please leave us a comment. We do take action.
Good luck publishing your work.
The Conium Review
We still believe in the allure of "new book smell," and we are dedicated to producing high-quality print editions of each issue. The publication itself is print-only, but we augment our traditionalist methods with podcasts, social networking, and online reviews. We seek to revive and redefine small press publishing, supporting independent literature in our community and abroad.
The Crossroads Review
Who We Are Welcome to The Crossroads Review! We are two high school students driven by a shared passion for art, writing,
The Dawn Review
The Dawn Review is a quarterly print and online literary magazine that celebrates diverse voices and perspectives.
The Digital Americana Magazine
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
The Hungry Chimera
The Hungry Chimera is a quarterly literary magazine devoted to short fiction, poetry, and visual art. Our focus is depth and quality. We publish authors and artists with varying levels of experience and hope to both promote
The Inflectionist
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
The Intentional
The Intentional is a print literary and culture magazine that supports emerging writers and prizes approachability. We publish fiction, nonfiction, poetry,
The Iowa Review
The Iowa Review is an American literary magazine that publishes fiction, poetry, essays, and reviews. The magazine--currently in its 42nd year--is published in April, August, and December
The London Magazine
The London Magazine is England?s oldest literary periodical, with a history stretching back to 1732.
The Los Angeles River Review
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.
The Madison Review
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,
The Maine Review
The Maine Review is a quarterly literary magazine publishing short fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and essays. The Review runs contests each year
The Malahat Review
The Malahat Review, established in 1967, is among Canada?s leading literary journals. Published quarterly, it features contemporary Canadian and international works of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction as well as reviews of recently published Canadian poetry, fiction, and literary nonfiction.
The Masters Review
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
The Metric
The METRIC is an online literary publishing project. We aim to promote literary interestingness on the web at a grassroots level. METRIC?s origins are sprung from smaller e-zines.
The Missouri Review
The Missouri Review, founded in 1978, is one of the most highly-regarded literary magazines in the United States and for the past thirty-three years we've upheld a reputation for finding and publishing the best writers first.
The Modern Artist
The Modern Artist
- Website: modernartists.org
- Print magazine: No
- Size: Independent literary magazine
- Location: Not specified
- Submissions: Seeks work that reflects on the artist's identity and creative process, particularly exploring the intersections of art, identity, labor, and technology in today's rapidly changing world. Interested in fresh, unconventional perspectives, especially those underrepresented in the art world.
- Other information: Founded in 2024. Created specifically to address the changing role of human artists in a technology-driven world with the rise of AI-generated art. Aims to provide a platform for artists to shape cultural and philosophical dialogue around the future of art.
- Genres: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Poetry, Visual Art
- Publication frequency: Not specified
- Payment: No
- Founded: 2024
The New Guard
The New Guard is a contest-centered review. We run two contests, The Knightville Poetry Contest and The Machigonne Fiction Contest.
The Ocotillo Review
The Ocotillo Review seeks to publish diverse voices from underserved communities along side established writers of Poetry, Short Fiction, And Narrative Nonfiction. Although we don’t shy away from experimental or unusual approaches to literature,
the other side of hope: journeys in refugee and immigrant literature
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.
The Poet’s Haven
The Poet's Haven publishes online galleries of poetry, stories, and art, currently totaling over 6,000 pages. In print, there is "The Poet's Haven Author Series" chapbooks, "The Poet's Haven Digest"
The Resurrectionist
The Resurrectionist is a biannual poetry journal dedicated to modern formalist poetry. By modern we intend poetry that makes use of contemporary language and grammar, experiments with verse forms or that handles contemporary themes. 'Resurrectionist' (syn. 'Resurrection-man') is a 19th century English term for a body-snatcher whose main purpose was the resale of body parts to anatomy schools and researchers in the medical field. The application of the term for the journal is metaphoric and in direct retort to the openly stated assumption that formal verse (or metrical poetry) is a dead and/or no longer relevant art.
The Screech Owl
We are the voice of Lilith, a site and magazine devoted to the best contemporary poetry, prose, short stories and articles.
The Slag Review
The Slag Review is a small, confused group of creators invested in the process of expression through art, fully understanding that it may be a long and dangerous one. In this way,
The Sonder Review
The Sonder Review is a tri-annual publication of both art and short fiction that strives to question, redefine, and challenge conventional viewpoints; to usurp the definition of reality and truth.
The South Mountain Review
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
The Southeast Review
The Southeast Review, established in 1979 as Sundog, is a national literary magazine housed in the English department at Florida State University and is edited and managed by its graduate students and a faculty consulting editor.
The Speculative Edge
At The Speculative Edge, our mission is - in a word - balance. We want to bring you fiction that is both exciting and enlightening, poetry that is imaginative and accessible, reviews of both
The Tenement Block Review
The Tenement Block Review is a perfect-bound, monthly poetry journal based in the UK which will publish poetry from around the world.
The Threepenny Review
The Threepenny Review
- Website: www.threepennyreview.com
- Founded: 1980
- Format: Print journal (circulation 10,000)
- Accepts submissions: Yes (January 1 - April 15 only)
- Size: Independent literary magazine
- Location: Berkeley, California, USA
- Languages: English
- Genres: Fiction, Memoirs, Poetry, Essays, Criticism
- Notes: Quarterly publication (March, June, September, December). Founded by Wendy Lesser, who continues as editor. Pays $400 per story/article, $200 per poem/Table Talk piece. Does not accept simultaneous submissions. Length limits: articles 1200-2500 words, Table Talk 1000 words, stories/memoirs 4000 words, poetry 100 lines.
- Awards: Works frequently selected for Best American Poetry, Best American Travel Writing, Best American Essays, and O. Henry Prize Stories anthologies.
The Vestal Review
Vestal Review is the oldest magazine dedicated exclusively to flash fiction. It has been published continuously since March 2000. Vestal Review is a semi-annual perfect-bound print magazine
The Whitefish Review
Whitefish Review is a nationally-acclaimed, non-profit journal publishing the distinctive literature, art, and photography of mountain culture. Author Doug Peacock
the Wildwood Reader
New polished works by new and emerging writers. Since we seldom hire an editor, we request that all stories be properly formatted, spell and grammar checked and lastly properly identified
The Wolfian
The Wolfian is an independent voice for liberalism & social democracy, and at the same time we are keen to promote non-political content in the form of art, poetry, non-fiction
Think Journal (links to site)
Think Journal is a quarterly review of poetry, short stories, novel excerpts, and essays. Submissions are welcome from rational thinkers who believe that words have
Thought Notebook
Thought Collection Publishing has developed Thought Notebook, a bi-annual Literary & Visual Art Journal, providing a global platform of thought for emerging and known literary and visual artists.
Thumbnail Magazine
Thumbnail Magazine is a collection of fine literary flash fiction and visual art from established and emerging writers and artists.
Timber Journal
Timber is run by students in the Masters of Fine Arts program at the University of Colorado, Boulder. We publish work online as well as in an annual print anthology.
Too Obscene – Nostrovia! Poetry
"Too Obscene" is a one issue zine published through Nostrovia! Poetry. The zine features poetry and flash fiction that was rejected by other presses
Trafika Europe
Trafika Europe showcases current fiction and poetry in English and English translation from across the 47 Council of Europe countries
TSR: The Southampton Review
Our goal in putting The Southampton Review together is to create a literary journal that readers will keep for a very long time
Turbulence
Turbulence is a quarterly printed poetry magazine based in the UK which publishes poetry from around the world. The only payment we can make is in contributor copies. These are hard copies in the EU and electronic copies outside the EU.
Vagabonds: Anthology of the Mad Ones
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.
Vending Machine Press
Vending Machine Press is a new and independent literary magazine aimed at giving writers an avenue for their writing to reach
Versal
We've been around for ten years, and are run out of the Netherlands (though our editors lurk everywhere). We have an integrated art team and designer
Voices Israel
Voices Israel is an annual of international poetry published by the Voices Israel Group of Poets in Israel. Volume 35, Voices Israel 2009, is due out in May 2009 (Helen
Whisperings
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,
Wilde Magazine
The nature of queer life, as well as an artistic life, is one centered around community. It's essential in our creative abilities and our rise against adversity. This struggle has been documented
Words in Stereo
Words in Stereo is a forthcoming series of humorous literature and clever ideas delivered to the reader in lovingly hand-bound print editions.