The Poetry Porch is a magazine on the internet for poets, teachers, and their students. First appearing online in 1997, it is only published online. It is interested in original unpublished poems, essays, reviews, memoirs, and fiction,...
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Reading Period: Jan 1 to Feb 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Formal Poetry, Literary Fiction, Lyric Essay, Prose Poetry
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Ponder Review seeks stories that challenge, stories that shift their view, ignite their imaginations, spark conversations, and linger with them long after their eyes leave the page. They invite you to explore, expound, and inspire...
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Popshot is an illustrated literary magazine that publishes short stories, flash fiction, and poetry from the literary new blood. The magazine is published biannually, releasing a new issue every April and October. Each issue is themed,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Subgenres: Flash Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Prose Poetry -
Posit publishes carefully curated, finely crafted contemporary poetry, very short fiction, hybrid literary forms, and visual art. We are looking for innovation, aesthetic vision, thoughtfulness, depth, and accomplished craftsmanship. Our...
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Post Road seeks to publish up-and-coming writers along with more established names. It publishes a wide range of styles, from realist to experimental and everything in between.
Reading Period: Sep 15 to Nov 14, Feb 1 to Mar 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
The editors aim to publish art and words for the future by artists and writers who believe they’re carrying, on their hunched-over-computer shoulders, a pretty heavy yet very pretty burden—to offer a way into humanity so that...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Humor, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Lyric Essay, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Visual Poetry -
PRISM International is a quarterly magazine whose mandate is to publish the best in contemporary writing and translation from Canada and around the world. Writing from PRISM has been featured in Best American Stories, Best...
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Published by the University of La Verne, Prism Review is an annual journal of contemporary poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction from established and emerging writers. Alongside its literary works, Prism Review also publishes...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Literary Fiction -
Protean Magazine is a nonprofit leftist publication that produces an annual print magazine and publishes online content year-round. Each print edition contains approximately 100 full-color, ad-free pages, with vivid illustrations and...
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A Public Space seeks work that is brave and unexpected. It is interested in writing that uncovers the extraordinary in the every day, provides a rare glimpse, exposes an unexpected truth, or puts forth a daring hypothesis. There are no...
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Calls (Always Open):
- Write Here, Write Now
- Writers on Writers
- Books on Books (Adult & Kid Lit)
- General Fiction & Essay
- Comics
- Book Excerpts
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The Red Branch Review is an annual literary and visual art journal based in southern Appalachia. They seek to bring to readers the kaleidoscope of human experience and was founded in response to the increasing liminality of the...
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Red Wheelbarrow (since 2000), formerly Bottomfish, believes that everything that crosses the transom merits deep attention. It believes that beauty and meaning will inhabit wildly varied and unexpected tones and styles.
Reading Period: Sep 1 to Feb 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
For over a decade, Relief has helped shape the landscapes of faith and imagination for readers around the world. It features fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, graphic narrative, and reviews by some of today’s finest literary...
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Revolute is a digital literary magazine founded in 2019 by the Randolph College MFA program. Revolute is committed to publishing the most engaging writing possible and is further committed to publishing emerging writers from...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 15 to Dec 8Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Experimental, Fiction, Literary Fiction, Poetry, Speculative Poetry -
Rivanna Review is a print journal published four times a year in Charlottesville, Virginia, on the Rivanna River. The content is general interest: stories, essays, art, and book reviews. Photographs and drawings are...
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Roanoke Review publishes three to seven featured pieces every month—focusing primarily on poetry, creative nonfiction, fiction, flash, graphic narrative, and visual poetry.
On occasion, they review small press, literary books, or...
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The Rumen is a collaboration between writers, poets, and artists from a variety of demographics and backgrounds. Like the guts of an ungulate, The Rumen is a space for ideas and experiences to digest, ferment, and transform.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Rumpus strives to be a platform for marginalized voices and writing that might not find a home elsewhere and to lift up new voices alongside those of more established writers they love.
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Rundelania is the digital literary journal of the Arts and Literature Division, located within the Central Branch of the Rochester Public Library (NY). The journal is dedicated to the publication of original poetry and prose.
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Same Faces Collective is open to all genres but is especially interested in hybrid/experimental fiction and nonfiction.
Reading Period: Apr 15 to Jun 15, Aug 1 to Oct 1, Dec 15 to Feb 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
An in-print and online literary journal, SFLR features work by local, national, and international writers and artists. Each issue of SFLR has a suggested theme; the 2024-25 SFLR theme is “Bloodlines: Lineage,...
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Saw Palm is a Florida-themed literary journal produced by the MFA program at the University of South Florida. It publishes poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, comics, art, photography, reviews, and interviews.
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Scoundrel Time is a nonprofit online literary journal publishing fiction, essays, poetry, translated works, graphic memoir and fiction, humor, and visual art that addresses threats to people, cultures, and landscapes posed by the current...
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Sensitive Skin Magazine publishes work by emerging and established artists, writers and musicians.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Experimental, Literary Fiction, Serialized Fiction