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New & Noted Literary & Alternative Magazine Issues

NewPages receives many wonderful literary and alternative magazines each month to share with our readers. You can read more about some of these by clicking on the link to their sponsor information or blog post. If you are a publication looking to be listed here, please visit our FAQ page.

The 2River View, Fall 2025
2River celebrates 30 years of publishing contemporary poetry online with this newest issue. See sponsor blog post here.

Baltimore Review, 2025, Annual Print Issue
This annual print compilation features poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, including short-form contest winners. See sponsor blog post here.

Blink-Ink, #61
Stories of ‘approximately 50 words’ on the theme of “Phones” – past, preset, and future. See sponsor blog post here.

Chestnut Review, Summer 2025
Providing “a literary home to stubborn artists and writers,” readers can enjoy interviews, poetry, prose, and artwork online. See sponsor blog post here.

The Fiddlehead, Summer 2024
This creative nonfiction issue features a contest-winning essay on loss and grief, with a wide variety of other forms and writers. See sponsor blog post here.

The MacGuffin, August 2025
Celebrating forty volumes in print, this issue features an art portfolio by Sculptor Pascal Piermé. See sponsor blog post here.

The Malahat Review, Summer 2025
The 2025 Long Poem Prize winning works open this new issue filled with contemporary poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and reviews. See sponsor blog post here.

The Main Street Rag, Summer 2025
Opening with an interview with poet and playwright Chuck Joy, this issue includes new prose, poetry, and book reviews. See sponsor blog post here.

The Missouri Review, Summer 2025
This summer issue focuses on how location and setting matter in literature, featuring new fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. See sponsor blog post here.

Palooka, Issue 15
This issue celebrates 15 years of publishing ‘daring’ fiction, poetry, nonfiction, graphics, art, and photography. See blog post here.

Tint Journal, Fall 2025
Themed “Patchwork,” poetry and prose written exclusively by non-native English writers with artwork by international artists. See sponsor blog post here.

More Publication New Issues

3:AM Magazine, September 2025
3Elements Review, Summer 2025
7th-Circle Pyrite, August 2025
10 By 10 Flash, September 2025
32 Poems, Summer 2025
45th Parallel, 2025
50-Word Stories, September 2025
100 Word Story, September 2025
101 Words, September 2025
149 Review, Summer 2025
Abandoned Mine, June 2025
Abstract Magazine TV, September 2025
Abyss & Apex, Issue 95
Academy of the Heart and Mind, September 2025
The Account, Spring 2025
The Acentos Review, August 2025
Acorn, Fall 2025
Adi Magazine, September 2025
Adolescent Voices, Summer 2025
The Adroit Journal, August 2025
After Happy Hour, Summer 2025
After Hours, Summer 2025
Afternoon Visitor, Summer 2025
Agnes and True, September 2025
The Alchemy Spoon, 16
Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, September/October 2025
The Allegheny Review, 2024-2025
Allegory, Spring-Summer 2025
Allegro Poetry, 35
ALOCASIA, 14
[Alternate Route], Summer 2025
Always Crashing, September 2025
Arc Poetry, Summer 2025
Arkansas Review, August 2025
Bomb, Fall 2025
Free Inquiry, October/November 2025
Harvard Review, 63
The Kenyon Review, Summer 2025
Mid-American Review, 43.2
One Story, 328
Rain Taxi, Fall 2025
Salt Hill, 53
Translation Review, August 2025
Twin Flame Literary, August 2025


See August 2025 new issues here.


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