New & Noted Literary & Alternative Magazine Issues
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January 2026 Featured Publications
The 2River View, Winter 2026
Free poetry magazines and chapbooks, featuring Winter 2026 contributors with downloadable print and audio archives. See sponsor blog post here.
Allium, Fall 2025
Allium publishes diverse, taxonomy-resisting poetry and prose across print and online issues from emerging voices. See sponsor blog post here.
bioStories, December 2025
Literary essays portraying the belief that every life can prove instructive, inspiring, or compelling, that every life holds moments of grace. See sponsor blog post here.
Boulevard, Winter 2025
This issue features fiction, nonfiction, and poetry contest winners, a craft interview with Chelsea T. Hicks, and much more! See sponsor blog post here.
Cholla Needles, January 2026
Cholla Needles publishes monthly issues showcasing ten writers in depth, including international voices and translations. See sponsor blog post here.
Cleaver Magazine, Issue 52
Cutting-edge art and literary work from a mix of established and emerging voices, this issue showcasing Visual Poetics Contest Winners. See sponsor blog post here.
The Common, Issue 30
Featuring an interview with Teju Cole and a special portfolio of art and poetry from Ukraine. See sponsor blog post here.
Consequence, Volume 17.2
Consequence editors argue children’s unfiltered perspectives become powerful artistic tools for exploring war’s complex charged consequences. See sponsor blog post here.
Gargoyle Online, #12
Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, audio, video, interviews, and political-cultural commentary from diverse voices. See sponsor blog post here.
HEART, No. 20
This South Carolina–based journal features modern prose poetry, award-winning voices, and heartfelt personal reflections. See sponsor blog post here.
Humana Obscura, Winter 2025
An independent literary magazine publishing emerging, and established writers and artists in the “nature space.” See sponsor blog post here.
Kaleidoscope, Winter/Spring 2026
This final issue reflects on progress, centers forward movement, and celebrates disability narratives that reshape perceptions. See sponsor blog post here.
The Lake, January 2026
Each month, The Lake features new poems, book reviews, and sample poems from recently published collections called ‘One Poem Reviews.’ See sponsor blog post here.
OffCourse Literary Journal, Issue #103
A diverse literary collection exploring surreal imagery, memory, place, identity, and the intersections of the everyday with the mythic and psychological. See sponsor blog post here.
Plume, #173
Featuring diverse voices, translations, prose poems, criticism, interview, book review, and a reflective essay on longing. See sponsor blog post here.
Prime Number Magazine, Issue 281
Prime Number Magazine showcases poetry and prose, contests, guest editors, award winners, and Pushcart nominees. See sponsor blog post here.
River Teeth, Fall 2025
Editor Steven Harvey champions protecting writers’ authentic voices, showing how personal essays discover meaning and resistance amid threats. See sponsor blog post here.
Rogue Agent, Issue 130
Guest Editor Allison Blevins welcomes readers to an issue of works that speak “to the hope you need today.” See blog post here.
Salamander, 60
The new issue features a wide-ranging poetry lineup, award-winning and original fiction, creative nonfiction, and an art portfolio. See sponsor blog post here.
The Shore, Issue 28
The online poetry journal features works exploring the worlds of things and ideas, recognizing the liminality, the shifting of everything. See sponsor blog post here.
Watershed Review, Fall 2025
New fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and visual art illustrating diversity in thought and experience. See sponsor blog post here.
Wordrunner eChapbook, Issue 56, The Alice Project
David Hadbawnik’s ‘Alice Project’ explores 1990s Bay Area art, identity, community amid AIDS, gentrification, crisis. See sponsor blog post here.
More Publication New Issues
AzonaL: Poetry in Translation, 8
BarBar, January 2026
Blank Spaces, December 2025
Brick, 116
Biscuit Hill, Issue 11
Black Bough Poetry, 6
Bulb Culture Collective, January 2026
DMQ Review, Fall 2025
Doek!, December 2025
Dorothy Parker’s Ashes, December 2025
Epiphany, Fall/Winter 2025
Fahmidan Journal, Issue 25
Five Points, 24.2
Frozen Sea, Issue 11
Gay & Lesbian Review, January-February 2026
Inch, Winter 2025
Indiana Review, Winter 2025/26
The Kenyon Review, Fall 2025
Louisiana Literature, 42,2
The Massachusetts Review, Fall 2025
The Massachusetts Review, Winter 2025
Nimrod, Winter 2026
Notre Dame Review, Summer/Fall 2025
Poet Lore, Summer/Fall 2025
Poetry, December 2025
Poetry Northwest, Winter & Spring 2026
Prairie Schooner, Summer 2025
Prairie Schooner, Spring 2025
Pulp Literature, Autumn 2025
Salmagundi, Fall 2025/Winter 2026
Slippery Elm, 2025
World Literature Today, January/February 2026
See December 2025 new issues here.
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