New & Noted Literary & Alternative Magazine Issues
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December 2025 Featured Publications
AGNI, 102
This issue features works addressing crisis and authenticity, false narratives, and themes of complicity and the search for genuine refuge. See sponsor blog post here.
Bennington Review, Issue 14
This issue celebrates the power of language in the face of NEA’s politicized defunding of literature and the arts. See sponsor blog post here.
Blink-Ink, #62
A micro fiction journal issue themed “Museums,” celebrating preservation, imagination, and marvels in petite format. See sponsor blog post here.
Colorado Review, Fall/Winter 2025
Essays and stories, and poems that explore knowing and unknowing, grief, desire, and intuition, seeking light amid darkness. See sponsor blog post here.
The Greensboro Review, Fall 2025
This issue presents inventive fiction and poetry exploring love, belief, identity, loss, and transformation themes. See sponsor blog post here.
Jewish Fiction, 41
Jewish Fiction 41 features stories originally written in Ladino, Hebrew, and English and two stories set on Chanukah. See sponsor blog post here.
Libre, Issue Four, ‘Surrealism Tomorrow’ with Pratt Institute
Issue Four with Pratt Institute to present trauma-informed art, promoting Libre’s mission of bold, community-driven explorations of illness. See sponsored blog post here.
The Malahat Review, 232
Featuring the winner of the 2025 Far Horizons Award for Short Fiction as well as new poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and reviews. See sponsor blog post here.
The Midwest Quarterly, Fall 2025
This “Journal of Contemporary Thought” brings literature related to current issue to the conversation with articles, essays, and poetry. See blog post here.
The Missouri Review, Fall 2025
This issue is themed “Under the Influence” with works exploring our relationship with various types of influences. See sponsor blog post here.
New England Review, 46.3-4
NER’s double issue blends emerging and established voices, global translations, and vibrant art in a richly expansive volume. See sponsor blog post here.
Sky Island Journal, Fall 2025
The 33rd issue of this award-winning journal features works from both new and established writers in an open-access, online format. See sponsor blog post here.
Southern Humanities Review, 58.4
Featuring reflective nonfiction, global fiction, poetry , and evocative nineteenth-century French cover art. See sponsor blog post here.
Valley Voices, Fall 2025
Special features include “Photographing Nature” and “African American Tanka” along with new essay, criticism, and poetry. See sponsor blog post here.
West Trade Review, Winter 2025
Poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and visual poetics exploring intimacy, identity, memory, and hope in this online exclusive issue. See sponsor blog post here.
More Publication New Issues
Black Warrior Review, Fall/Winter 2025
Bomb, Winter 2026
Event, 54.2
The Fool’s World, 1.2
KUDU, Issue 3
The Louisville Review, Fall 2025
Musicworks, Fall 2025
One Story, 332
Poetry, January/February 2026
Pulp Fiction, 48
Raleigh Review, Fall 2025
Rattle, 90
Room, 48.3
Salt Hill, 54
The Sewanee Review, Fall 2025
World Literature Today, November/December 2025
See November 2025 new issues here.
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