Literary Magazines
Browse the literary magazines listed in NewPages to find short stories and longer fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, essays, literary criticism, book reviews, author interviews, art and photography. The magazine editor's description for each sponsored literary magazine gives you an overview of editorial styles—what writers they have published and what they are looking for (with contact information, subscription rates, submission guidelines, and more).
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The Cincinnati Review
The Cincinnati Review provides a venue for writers of any background, at any point in their literary careers, to showcase their best work.
The Citron Review
The Citron Review is a quarterly publication that publishes flash fiction, micro fiction, flash creative nonfiction, poetry, photography, and art. Think efficiency, brevity, and intimacy. [o]
Foliate Oak
The Foliate Oak Literary Magazine features cutting edge writing and artwork from writers and artists all over the world. [o/p]
Jewish
Fiction .net
Jewish Fiction .net showcases the finest contemporary Jewish-themed fiction from around the world (either written in, or translated into, English). Stories and novel excerpts welcome. [o]
Ragazine.CC
Eclectic content for a global audience, including Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Photography, Art, Music & Reviews. “We take chances.” [o]
2River
View
Since 1996, an online site of poetry, art, and theory, quarterly publishing The 2River View and occasionally publishing individual authors in the 2River Chapbook Series, as well as podcasting 2River authors from the Muddy Bank blog. [o]
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Able
Muse
A semiannual review of poetry prose and art. With featured poet and artist /photographer with interview. Includes poems, fiction, essays and book reviews.
AGNI
A “workshop of literature where wonderful, audacious and strange things come into being.” —Bernhard Schlink, author of The Reader
Alaska
Quarterly Review
One of America's premier literary magazines and a source of powerful, new voices. AQR is "one of the nation's best literary magazines," The Washington Post Book World.
American
Literary Review
American Literary Review has been published since
1990 through the Creative Writing Program of the department
of English at the University of North Texas.
[Read
more about American Literary Review]
American
Poetry Review
The widest range of distinguished poets, exciting new writers, controversial reviews, essays, columns, and interviews.
anderbo.com
"Best New Online Literary Journal 2005" - storySouth Million Writers Award. We publish, and are always looking for, excellent new fiction, 'fact,' poetry & photography. [o]
The
Antioch Review
The Antioch Review is a distinguished, well-established literary journal that publishes lively and cogent essays, fiction, poetry and book reviews.
Apple
Valley Review
The Apple Valley Review is an online literary journal established in 2005 and published in the spring and fall. Each issue features a collection of beautifully crafted poetry, short fiction, and essays. [o]
Arcadia
Magazine
Arcadia wants your best. Fiction, poetry, painting, photograph, stand-up comedy routine, mockumentary, whatever. We want to see it, read it, hear it, and love it.
Arroyo
Literary Review
Each issue reflects the creative diversity found in the San Francisco Bay Area literary scene, while bringing together material from an international array of poets, writers, and artists.
Asymptote
"No other contemporary journal
reaches as far into the wealth of the world's literature, or as deeply into
the life of the word."
—Sidney Wade
[o]
Aufgabe
Publishes emerging and established writers of innovative poetry. Each issue presents a special guest edited section of poetry in translation alongside new American poetry, essays, reviews & talks.
The
Aurorean
Upbeat New England poetry journal. Small Press Review-recommended; profiled in Poet’s Market. Proudly welcomes newer poets alongside the biggest names in the small press.
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The
Baltimore Review
Publishing since 1996, The Baltimore Review is an online and print journal of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry, as well as visual and video arts. [o]
Basalt
Basalt publishes poetry, short fiction, translations, work that crosses genres, and fine art. We are open to all schools and persuasions, but prefer serious content.
Bateau
Letterpress literary magazine publishing poetry, short fiction, playlets, comics, illustration, and mini creative reviews.
Bayou
Magazine
In keeping with the aesthetics and goals of the Creative Writing Workshop at the University of New Orleans, Bayou is especially interested in discovering and showcasing fresh literary voices.
Bellevue
Literary Review
Bellevue Literary Review is a unique literary magazine that examines human existence through the prism of health and healing, illness and disease.
Bellingham
Review
The Bellingham Review publishes “literature of palpable quality.” We showcase works of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction.
Beloit
Poetry Journal
For over 60 years, the Beloit Poetry Journal has been distinguished for the extraordinary range of its poetry and its discovery of strong new poets.
Big
Muddy
Multidisciplinary issues and events, especially but not solely concerning the 10-state area that borders the Mississippi River, from the Canadian border to the Gulf Coast
The Bitter Oleander
The Bitter Oleander endeavors to publish imaginative poetry, short fiction, interviews, essays & translations of living poets from every corner of the world.
Black
Warrior Review
Since 1974, Black Warrior Review has published the freshest voices in literature, from established and emerging talents alike. Each issue includes a poetry chapbook, comics, and full-color art sections.
Bloodroot
Bloodroot is an annual print publication featuring free-spirited emerging and established writers from around the world. We publish poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction.
The
Bloomsbury Review®
The Bloomsbury Review includes reviews, interviews with and profiles of authors; essays; original poetry; and a variety of features covering a broad range of book-related topics.
Booth
“The Booth editors seem to have a knack for attracting and selecting pieces that get right into my marrow, fill my bones full with breathing and want.” –Vouched Books. [o]
Boulevard
Boulevard strives to publish only the finest in fiction, poetry, and non-fiction—the best of prominent and well-known writers alongside new and emerging ones.
The Briar Cliff Review
Founded in 1989, The Briar Cliff Review is an eclectic literary, cultural and art magazine focusing on, but not limited to, Siouxland writers and subjects.
Brick
International perspective. Focuses on the literary non-fiction essay, and also publishes interviews, memoir, letters, poetry, fiction, and other strange and wonderful literary matter.
The Brooklyner
The Brooklyner was founded to exhibit new narrative, from both emerging and established writers. We publish fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, reviews, interviews, sketches and translations. Also, audio and video. We're mediatelling. [o]
Burnside
Review
A truly independent literary journal from Portland, Oregon.
[Read more about Burnside Review]
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Camera
Obscura Journal
An international print journal and Internet haunt showcasing literary fiction and photography.
Canary
Canary is an online literary magazine addressing
the environmental crisis through poetry, essay and short fiction
(to 1500 words) [o]
[Read more
about Canary]
The
Cape Rock
A Gathering of Poets
Our mission is to print the best poetry: any style, format, or subject matter.
The
Carolina Quarterly
The Carolina Quarterly has been habitually nascent since 1948. Edited by graduate students at UNC-Chapel Hill, we welcome work by established writers and the soon-to-be.
Carve
Magazine
Carve Magazine is honest fiction. We publish online the kind of stories that linger long after they are read—stories that are honest, that are willing to reveal the flaws and the beauty hidden in each of us. [o]
Cave
Wall
Cave Wall publishes the best contemporary poetry by emerging and established poets. Each issue features black and white artwork, as well.
Cerise
Press
Cerise Press is an international online journal based in the U.S. and France. Each issue includes poetry, translations, prose, interviews, reviews, photos, and artwork. [o]
Chagrin River Review
Out of Northeast Ohio, Chagrin River Review brings you the latest fiction and poetry from exciting new writers, and new work from writers long established. [o]
The
Chariton Review
The Chariton Review publishes the best in short
fiction, poetry, translations, and essays in two issues each
year.
[Read
more about The Chariton Review]
The
Chattahoochee Review
For over thirty years, The Chattahoochee Review
has published excellent writing from the south and around the
world.
[Read
more about Chattahoochee Review]
Chautauqua
Writing that expresses the values of Chautauqua Institution broadly construed: a sense of inquiry into questions of personal, social, political, spiritual, and aesthetic importance.
Chinese
Literature Today
Featuring the best of modern Chinese literature and groundbreaking critical essays in high-quality translation, Chinese Literature Today grants the world direct access to China.
Cimarron
Review
Since 1967, Cimarron Review has continually published some of the strongest fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, including work by Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winners.
The
Cincinnati Review
The Cincinnati Review provides a venue for writers of any background, at any point in their literary careers, to showcase their best work.
The
Citron Review
The Citron Review is a quarterly publication that publishes flash fiction, micro fiction, flash creative nonfiction, poetry, photography, and art. Think efficiency, brevity, and intimacy. [o]
Clapboard
House
Clapboard House, an online magazine, publishes the finest stories and poetry written by established, emerging, and fledgling writers. [o]
Cleaver Magazine
Cleaver Magazine shares cutting-edge art and literary work from a mix of established and emerging voices. Cleaver publishes poetry, short stories, essays, dramatic monologues, flash prose, and visual art. [o]
Cold
Mountain Review
A forum for well-told stories. We publish the narrative poetry and lyrical prose, and we are interested in the way contemporary literature is testing the boundaries of genre.
Colorado
Review
Colorado Review publishes contemporary short fiction, poetry, and nonfiction (memoir, personal essays) by both new and established writers.
Columbia
Poetry Review
Since 1988, Columbia Poetry Review (a student-edited journal) has published poetry with an eclectic mix from the established and distinguished to the emerging and exciting.
The Common
The Common publishes fiction, essays, poetry, documentary vignettes, and images that invoke a modern sense of place.
Court
Green
Poetry journal published annually in association with the English Department at Columbia College Chicago. Each issue features a dossier on a special topic or theme.
Crazyhorse
Crazyhorse publishes the entire spectrum of today's fiction, essays, and poetry—from the mainstream to the avant-garde, from the established to the undiscovered writer.
Creative
Nonfiction
Creative Nonfiction is the first and the largest journal devoted exclusively to literary nonfiction.
Cutthroat
We publish high-quality poetry and short fiction from well-known as well as previously unpublished authors.
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Digital
Americana
We publish Americana—stories, poetry, & prose that possess a modern American quality. Our acclaimed interactive-magazine is made for the iPad, iPhone, and in print. [e-pub]
The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review
The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review is an online and print literary and arts journal housed at The Johns Hopkins University, M.A. in Writing Program. [o]
Drunken Boat
Drunken Boat, an award-winning international online journal of the arts, publishes the best of traditional forms of representation alongside web art, hypertext, multimedia, audio, and video. [o]
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Epiphany
Epiphany is committed to publishing literary work in which form is as valued as content. We are especially open to writers whose explorations of new territory may not yet have found validation elsewhere.
Exit
7
Exit 7 is produced annually by West Kentucky Community and Technical College and seeks to publish outstanding work from both established and emerging writers.
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Fairy
Tale Review
Fairy Tale Review is an annual literary journal dedicated to publishing new fairy-tale fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and translations of fairy tales into English.
Feile-Festa
Feile-Festa is an online, literary arts journal that features poets and writers from all the regions of the United States, as well as Australia, Canada, Ireland, Italy and Scotland. This multicultural journal includes photographs that evoke life primarily in New York City and sometimes Ireland and Italy. [o]
The
Fertile Source
Fertile Source is a literary ezine devoted to fertility, infertility, and adoption-related topics. We accept fiction, non-fiction, poetry, artwork, photos, and reviews of fertility-related publications. [o]
The
Fiddleback
The Fiddleback is an independent, online arts & literature magazine that features literature, music, and art. Our guiding principle is cross-pollination. [o]
Fiddleblack
Fiddleblack is a
small press & journal of literature. We like self and place, antipastoralism
and concept horror. [o]
[Read
more about Fiddleblack]
The
Fiddlehead
The Fiddlehead, Atlantic Canada's international
literary journal, is entertainment for the thoughtful with its
mix of poetry and stories by established and new writers.
[Read
more about The Fiddlehead]
FIELD
For 40 years FIELD has been celebrated as one of the most stimulating journals of contemporary poetry and poetics in the nation.
The
First Line
The First Line is unaffiliated, unfunded, unassuming, and far from uninspiring. It is a writer’s journal for readers.
Fjords
Review
Fjords is an arts and literary review for the 21st century reader. The twice yearly magazine features gallery curated visual art, poetry, short stories and other literature alongside translations, interviews, book and art reviews.
The
Florida Review
The Florida Review publishes innovative fiction, nonfiction, poetry, reviews, and graphic narrative by established and emerging writers. Spring Editors' Prize awards $1000 in each genre.
Foliate Oak
The Foliate Oak Literary Magazine features cutting edge writing and artwork from writers and artists all over the world. [o/p]
Fourteen Hills
Fourteen Hills is a biannual journal publishing the highest quality experimental, progressive, and traditional fiction, poetry, literary nonfiction, short plays, and visual art.
Fourth
Genre
Devoted to publishing notable, innovative work in creative nonfiction, including personal essays and memoirs, interviews, roundtable discussions, photo essays, and book reviews.
Frostwriting
Frostwriting, an online journal, encourages developing writers trying to put broadly cross-cultural experiences into words. Should these words in any way involve Sweden, all the better. [o]
Fugue
Fugue is a journal of new literature edited by graduate students within the University of Idaho’s English and Creative Writing Programs.
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Gargoyle
Gargoyle Magazine has always been a scallywag magazine, a maverick magazine, a bit too academic for the underground and way too underground for the academics.
Georgetown
Review
We publish fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction by both new and established writers. $1,000 contest prize awarded each fall.
The
Georgia Review
Each issue of The Georgia Review features
some 200 pages of fiction, poetry, essays, and
reviews—as well as a visual art portfolio, usually in color.
The
Gettysburg Review
The Gettysburg Review publishes poetry, prose, and visual art by established and emerging talents in issues that are as handsome as they are stimulating.
Glimmer
Train Stories
Quarterly literary magazine. 260 pages of short stories by new and established writers from around the world. No advertising. A feast of fiction.
Grain
Magazine
Grain Magazine, a literary quarterly, publishes engaging, eclectic, and challenging writing and art by Canadian and international writers and artists.
Green
Mountains Review
Green Mountains Review publishes poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, literary essays, interviews, and book reviews. We print work by both well-known writers and promising newcomers.
The
Greensboro Review
We publish fiction and poetry twice a year, each fall and spring. Work from the journal is consistently cited in collections honoring the finest new writing.
Grist
The University of Tennessee’s new journal publishes literary fiction, poetry, interviews, and essays on craft.
Gulf
Coast
Committed to publishing top-quality fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction from both established and emerging writers. Includes full-color art, interviews, and book reviews.
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Hampden-Sydney
Poetry Review
One of the longest-running poetry journals in the country. “I like the look of it, the feel of it—the taste of it.” —William Stafford
Hanging
Loose
Hanging Loose magazine, first published in 1966, has consistently published fresh, lively writing by new and older authors who deserve a wider audience.
Hayden’s
Ferry Review
Hayden’s Ferry Review showcases the voices of emerging and established talents in creative writing and visual art from the national and international community
High
Desert Journal
HDJ is a literary and visual arts magazine dedicated to further understanding the people, places and issues of the interior West.
Hiram
Poetry Review
The Hiram Poetry Review has been publishing witty, distinctive and heroic poetry since 1966.
Hotel
Amerika
An exciting venue for both well-known and emerging writers. We strive to house in our pages the most unique and provocative poetry, fiction and nonfiction available.
The
Hudson Review
Since 1948, focusing on how literature bears on the intellectual life of the time. Publishes undiscovered writers. Poetry, fiction, critical essays, book reviews, arts chronicles.
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Indiana
Review
Now in its 36th year of publication, Indiana Review is a non-profit literary magazine dedicated to showcasing the talents of emerging and established writers.
The
Iowa Review
Dedicated to publishing the finest contemporary fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction.
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Jewish
Fiction .net
Jewish Fiction .net showcases the finest contemporary Jewish-themed fiction from around the world (either written in, or translated into, English). Stories and novel excerpts welcome. [o]
Juked
Independent literary journal that publishes fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and photography. Our online edition is updated once or twice a week, and our print publication comes out annually. In publication since 1999. [o/p]
The
Kenyon Review
The Kenyon Review features the best new writing by established and emerging authors.
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The Labletter
The Labletter is an annual magazine of art and literature
that has its roots in the Oregon Lab, the name given to a group
of artists and their annual gathering
[Read
more about The Labletter]
The
Ledge Magazine
An independent publication featuring cutting-edge contemporary poetry and fiction by both established and emerging poets and writers.
The Literary
Bohemian
The Literary Bohemian is the final online destination for first-class, travel-inspired writing that transports the reader, non-stop, to Elsewhere. [o]
Literary
Juice
Literary Juice is produced from 100% pure originality.
We feature works of fiction and poetry that are clever, bold,
and even weird! [o]
[Read
more about Literary Juice]
Literary
Laundry
Literary Laundry is an online journal that publishes
two issues per year. We publish poetry, prose-fiction, and one-act
drama. [o]
[Read
more about Literary Laundry]
The
Louisville Review
Since 1976, The Louisville Review has published the best of contemporary writing in fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, drama, and writing by children (K-12).
[Read more about The Louisville Review]
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