# 100 literary magazines open to submissions year-round

> 100 literary magazines that read submissions all year, grouped by what they publish, each checked on its own page, with fees, pay and simultaneous rules.

Canonical: https://www.usemissa.com/guides/literary-magazines-open-year-round
Last updated: 2026-10-29

By Adedayo Agarau, Founder, Missa.

## Short answer

These 100 literary magazines read general submissions in every month, so you can send work as soon as it’s ready. We checked each one on its own submission page on 29 October 2026. They’re grouped by what they publish, with the magazines whose work has been honored most often first in each group.

- Each magazine says on its own page that it reads all year; we left out ones open all year only for reviews or art.
- 27 pay writers, 22 say it’s free to send, and 53 welcome simultaneous submissions.
- They include magazines based in Canada, the UK, India, Singapore, Italy, the Philippines, Australia and Nigeria.

## Where to send work in any month

Most literary magazines read for a few weeks or months at a time, then close. These 100 don’t. They read general submissions all year, so you can send a poem or a story the week you finish it.

They’re grouped by what they publish, starting with magazines that take every genre and pay. Poetry, fiction, nonfiction and translation come next, then horror, speculative and humor, magazines based outside the US, and magazines for one community or subject. Within each group, the magazines whose work has been honored most often come first.

Every magazine here says on its own submission page that it reads all year. We read those pages on 29 October 2026. Click a name to see the magazine on Missa, with its full guidelines and a link to submit.

> [!NOTE]
> Magazines change their rules. Read the current guidelines before you send anything.

Some still pause for a few weeks to put an issue together, or close for the month once they hit a cap. We kept those, because their main submission route stays open across the year. We left out magazines that are open all year only for reviews, art or paid feedback.

## Open to every genre, and they pay

These take poetry, fiction and nonfiction, and their pages say they pay writers.

**[Narrative](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/narrative)**, US
A nonprofit online magazine. Work it publishes has been honored more often than work from any other magazine here.
Poetry, fiction and nonfiction. Pays contributors. Simultaneous submissions welcome.

**[The Missouri Review](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/the-missouri-review)**, Columbia, Missouri, US
Publishing since 1978, and its contests take entries all year too.
Poetry, fiction, nonfiction and translation. Pays contributors. Simultaneous submissions welcome.

**[New Orleans Review](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/new-orleans-review)**, New Orleans, US
A long-running university journal that takes work from writers anywhere.
Poetry, fiction, nonfiction and art. Free to submit. Pays contributors. Simultaneous submissions welcome.

**[Four Way Review](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/four-way-review)**, US
The online journal of Four Way Books, a poetry and fiction press in New York.
Poetry, fiction, nonfiction and translation. US$3 reading fee. Pays contributors. Simultaneous submissions welcome.

**[Storm Cellar](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/storm-cellar)**
Free for the first 200 submissions each month, and every contributor gets a small payment.
Poetry, fiction, nonfiction and translation. Free to submit. Pays contributors. Simultaneous submissions welcome.

**[Lascaux Review](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/lascaux-review)**
Publishes pieces on a rolling basis as they’re accepted, rather than waiting for an issue.
Poetry, fiction and nonfiction. Free to submit. Pays contributors. Simultaneous submissions welcome.

**[The Ex-Puritan](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/the-ex-puritan)**, Toronto, Canada
A quarterly that takes work from anywhere in the world.
Poetry, fiction, nonfiction and translation. Pays from US$50 a poem. Simultaneous submissions welcome.

**[Fahmidan Journal](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/fahmidan-journal)**, UK
A journal for writers whose voices are too often left out.
Poetry, fiction and nonfiction. Pays US$35 a piece. Simultaneous submissions welcome.

**[Gavialidae](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/gavialidae)**
A print annual for poetry, fiction, nonfiction and plays, and one of the best payers on this list.
Poetry, fiction, nonfiction and translation. Pays US$150 a poem. Simultaneous submissions welcome.

**[Inscape Journal](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/inscape-journal)**
A university journal that pays for each piece it takes.
Poetry, fiction and nonfiction. Pays US$20 a piece. Simultaneous submissions welcome.

**[Markaz Review](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/markaz-review)**
Writing about the greater Middle East and its diasporas.
Poetry, fiction, nonfiction and translation. Pays contributors. Simultaneous submissions welcome.

**[Pacifica Literary Review](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/pacifica-literary-review)**, Seattle, US
Open all year apart from short breaks while an issue is made.
Poetry, fiction and nonfiction. Pays US$25 a piece. Simultaneous submissions welcome.

**[Poetries in English Magazine](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/poetries-in-english-magazine)**
Writing in the many kinds of English spoken around the world.
Poetry, fiction, nonfiction and translation. Pays contributors. Simultaneous submissions welcome.

**[Rough Cut Press](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/rough-cut-press)**
Queer writing in every genre, with no fee and an honorarium for each writer.
Poetry, fiction and nonfiction. Free to submit. Pays an honorarium.

**[Sequestrum](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/sequestrum)**
An online journal that pays and reads all year through its own submission system.
Poetry, fiction, nonfiction and translation. Pays US$20.

## Poetry

**[Rattle](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/rattle)**, US
A poetry magazine that never charges you to submit. It takes translations too, and pays for every poem.
Poetry. Free to submit. Pays contributors. Simultaneous submissions welcome.

**[Modern Haiku](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/modern-haiku)**, US
The oldest haiku journal outside Japan. You can send haiku and senryu at any time.
Poetry. Free to submit. Doesn’t pay. No simultaneous submissions.

**[Tipton Poetry Journal](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/tipton-poetry-journal)**, Indiana, US
Poems from Indiana and around the world, read all year.
Poetry. Free to submit. Doesn’t pay. Simultaneous submissions welcome.

**[Frontier Poetry](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/frontier-poetry)**, US
Its New Voices category is always open, always free, and pays for each poem.
Poetry. Free to submit. Pays US$50 a poem. Simultaneous submissions welcome.

**[South Florida Poetry Journal](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/soflopojo-south-florida-poetry-journal)**, Florida, US
Poetry first, with fiction and nonfiction too, published four times a year.
Poetry, fiction and nonfiction. Free to submit. Doesn’t pay. Simultaneous submissions welcome.

**[Poetry Online](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/poetry-online)**
A poetry journal that pays for each poem.
Poetry. Pays US$60 a poem. Simultaneous submissions welcome.

**[Bristlecone](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/bristlecone)**, Mountain West, US
Poems by people who live in, or write about, the Mountain West.
Poetry. Simultaneous submissions welcome.

**[Lavender Review](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/lavender-review)**
Poetry and art by and about lesbians, twice a year, with no fee.
Poetry. Free to submit.

**[Milk Press](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/milk-press)**, New York, US
The literary and visual art journal of the Poetry Society of New York.
Poetry. Simultaneous submissions welcome.

**[digital vestiges](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/digital-vestiges)**
A small press’s online home for short, fleeting poems.
Poetry.

**[Metphrastics](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/metphrastics)**
Poems written in response to works in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Poetry.

**[Poetry Pacific](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/poetry-pacific)**, Vancouver, Canada
Poetry and translation for one issue a year.
Poetry and translation.

**[swifts & slows: a quarterly of crisscrossings](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/swifts-slows-a-quarterly-of-crisscrossings)**
Poetry, collaborations and visual poetry.
Poetry and translation.

**[SWWIM Every Day](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/swwim-every-day)**, US
A poem every weekday by a woman or nonbinary poet.
Poetry.

**[Tofu Ink Arts Press](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/tofu-ink-arts-press)**
A not-for-profit poetry press.
Poetry.

**[Wolf Twin Review](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/wolf-twin-review)**
Haiku, tanka and other short nature poems.
Poetry.

## Fiction and flash

**[Story](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/story)**, US
An independent journal of narrative writing that reads manuscripts in every month.
Fiction. Pays contributors. Simultaneous submissions welcome.

**[CRAFT](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/craft)**, US
A home for fiction and creative nonfiction, with categories open all year. Fourteen of its pieces have been picked for anthologies.
Fiction and nonfiction. Free to submit. Pays contributors.

**[Afreada](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/afreada)**
A magazine for African fiction that pays well for each story.
Fiction. Pays £100 a story. Simultaneous submissions welcome.

**[Cafe Irreal](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/cafe-irreal)**
A quarterly of strange, dreamlike fiction that usually replies within two months.
Fiction. Pays 1¢ a word. No simultaneous submissions.

**[Embark](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/embark-a-literary-journal-for-novelists)**
Publishes the opening pages of novels that haven’t come out yet.
Fiction. Free to submit. Doesn’t pay.

**[Fractured Literary](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/fractured-literary)**
Micro and flash fiction only, with no fees.
Fiction. Pays US$50 a micro. Simultaneous submissions welcome.

**[Uncharted Mag](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/uncharted-mag)**
New fiction every week through a category that’s always open, always free and always paid.
Fiction. Free to submit. Pays contributors.

**[Valparaiso Fiction Review](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/valparaiso-fiction-review)**, Indiana, US
Fiction only, read on a rolling basis.
Fiction. Simultaneous submissions welcome.

## Essays, interviews and nonfiction

**[Caught by the River](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/caught-by-the-river)**, UK
Writing about nature, music and place. The editors say they read everything they’re sent.
Poetry, nonfiction and art.

**[True Story](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/true-story)**, US
Each issue is a single essay. Pitches are welcome all year.
Nonfiction. US$3 reading fee. Pays contributors.

**[Africa in Dialogue](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/africa-in-dialogue)**
Long interviews with African writers and artists.
Nonfiction. Doesn’t pay. Simultaneous submissions welcome.

## Translation

**[Asymptote](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/asymptote)**
A journal of world literature in translation, with its regular sections open on a rolling basis.
Translation. Free to submit.

**[tr. review of translations](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/tr-review-of-translations)**
An international journal of literature in translation.
Translation.

## Horror, speculative, humor and the natural world

**[Emerald City Ghosts](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/emerald-city-ghosts)**
Horror and the paranormal, in poems and stories. General submissions never close.
Poetry and fiction. Free to submit. Doesn’t pay. Simultaneous submissions welcome.

**[Points in Case](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/points-in-case)**, US
A daily humor site that pays for the pieces it takes.
Fiction and nonfiction. Free to submit. Pays US$35 a piece. Simultaneous submissions welcome.

**[Appalachia](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/appalachia)**, Boston, US
Writing about mountains and wild places, from one of the oldest outdoor clubs in the US.
Poetry, fiction and nonfiction. Mostly unpaid. Simultaneous submissions welcome.

**[Radon Journal](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/radon-journal)**
Science fiction, cyberpunk and speculative writing, in poems and prose.
Poetry and fiction. Pays US$25 a poem. Simultaneous submissions welcome.

**[Moonday Mag](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/moonday-mag)**
Speculative and strange writing. It closes each month once it hits a cap, then opens again.
Poetry, fiction, nonfiction and translation. Simultaneous submissions welcome.

**[Gaslamp Pulp](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/gaslamp-pulp)**
Pulp, fantasy and adventure, in prose, poetry and art.
Poetry, fiction and art.

**[Macabre Magazine](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/macabre-magazine)**
Horror in fiction, poetry and nonfiction, plus art and short film.
Poetry, fiction and nonfiction.

**[Marrow Magazine](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/marrow-magazine)**
Writing that goes into dark places.
Poetry, fiction and nonfiction.

**[Plant-Human Quarterly](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/plant-human-quarterly)**
Poetry and nonfiction about people and plants.
Poetry and nonfiction.

## Based outside the US

**[Eunoia Review](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/eunoia-review)**, Singapore
Publishes new pieces every day.
Poetry, fiction, nonfiction and translation. Doesn’t pay. No simultaneous submissions.

**[Inframince Journal](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/inframince-journal)**, Philippines
General submissions are always open.
Poetry, fiction and art. Doesn’t pay. Simultaneous submissions welcome.

**[Superlative](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/superlative-the-literary-journal)**, UK
A journal for new story writers and poets that replies to everyone who submits.
Poetry and fiction. Doesn’t pay. Simultaneous submissions welcome.

**[The World’s Best Magazine](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/world-s-best-magazine)**, Australia
A print and online magazine that takes work from anyone, anywhere.
Poetry, fiction and nonfiction. Free to submit. Doesn’t pay.

**[Bangalore Review](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/bangalore-review)**, Bangalore, India
Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art and translation.
Poetry, fiction, nonfiction, translation and art. Simultaneous submissions welcome.

**[Lotus-eater](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/lotus-eater)**, Rome, Italy
An online magazine for work written in English.
Poetry, fiction and nonfiction. No simultaneous submissions.

**[Nantygreens](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/nantygreens)**, Nigeria
A magazine of literature, art and culture.
Poetry, fiction and nonfiction. Simultaneous submissions welcome.

**[Spellbinder Magazine](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/spellbinder-magazine)**, Durham, England
A print and digital quarterly started by students.
Poetry, fiction and nonfiction. Simultaneous submissions welcome.

**[Wildness](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/wildness)**, UK
Two issues a year.
Poetry, fiction and nonfiction. Simultaneous submissions welcome.

**[The Bombay Review](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/the-bombay-review)**, India
An international magazine with a rolling submission cycle.
Poetry, fiction, nonfiction and art.

## For one community or subject

**[Collateral](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/collateral)**
Writing about how war and military service shape people’s lives.
Poetry, fiction and nonfiction. Simultaneous submissions welcome.

**[Passionfruit Review](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/passionfruit-review)**
Writing about love in every sense. It’s always free and always open.
Poetry, fiction and nonfiction. Free to submit.

**[Réapparition Journal](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/r-apparition-journal)**
Writing about living with chronic and mental illness.
Poetry, fiction, nonfiction and translation. Simultaneous submissions welcome.

**[Moko](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/moko)**
Work shaped by Caribbean heritage or experience.
Poetry, fiction, nonfiction and translation.

**[Sinister Wisdom](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/sinister-wisdom)**, US
A lesbian literary and art journal, publishing since 1976.
Poetry, fiction, nonfiction and translation.

## More magazines open to every genre

Most of these don’t say on their pages whether they charge or pay, so check before you send.

**[Cleaver](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/cleaver)**, Philadelphia, US
A quarterly that reads on a rolling basis. Four of its pieces have been picked for anthologies.
Poetry, fiction and nonfiction.

**[Apple Valley Review](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/apple-valley-review)**
A twice-yearly online journal that never charges a fee.
Poetry, fiction, nonfiction and translation. Free to submit. Doesn’t pay. Simultaneous submissions welcome.

**[Sky Island Journal](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/sky-island-journal)**
A free-to-read quarterly that publishes new writers next to established ones.
Poetry, fiction, nonfiction and translation. US$4.99 reading fee. Doesn’t pay. Simultaneous submissions welcome.

**[Catamaran Literary Reader](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/catamaran-literary-reader)**, California, US
A quarterly of writing and art with a West Coast focus.
Poetry, fiction, nonfiction and translation. Pays in copies. Simultaneous submissions welcome.

**[Free State Review](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/free-state-review)**
Stories, poems and one-minute plays. It’s always open.
Poetry, fiction, nonfiction and translation. US$3.50 reading fee. Pays in copies. Simultaneous submissions welcome.

**[Coal City Review](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/coal-city-review)**, Kansas, US
Poems and short stories, welcome throughout the year.
Poetry and fiction.

**[Western Humanities Review](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/western-humanities-review)**, Salt Lake City, US
A university journal open to poetry, fiction, nonfiction, hybrid work and audio or visual pieces.
Poetry, fiction, nonfiction and art. Pays in copies.

**[Home Planet News](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/home-planet-news)**, New York, US
A New York paper that takes poems and stories in any style.
Poetry, fiction, nonfiction and translation. Free to submit. Doesn’t pay. Simultaneous submissions welcome.

**[Courtship of Winds](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/courtship-of-winds)**
Takes plays alongside poems, stories and essays, for two issues a year.
Poetry, fiction and nonfiction. Doesn’t pay. Simultaneous submissions welcome.

**[Sortes](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/sortes)**
Ten writers an issue, four issues a year.
Poetry, fiction, nonfiction and translation. Free to submit. Simultaneous submissions welcome.

**[Action, Spectacle](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/action-spectacle)**, Louisville and Brooklyn, US
Writing where politics and art meet.
Poetry, fiction, nonfiction and translation. Simultaneous submissions welcome.

**[Cimarron Review](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/cimarron-review)**, Oklahoma, US
One of the oldest quarterlies in the US, taking poetry, fiction, nonfiction and art.
Poetry, fiction and nonfiction. Simultaneous submissions welcome.

**[Contrary](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/contrary)**
Takes work all year and publishes four seasonal issues.
Poetry, fiction and nonfiction. Simultaneous submissions welcome.

**[Ginosko Literary Journal](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/ginosko-literary-journal)**
Publishing since 2002.
Poetry, fiction and nonfiction. Simultaneous submissions welcome.

**[Lit Shark Magazine](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/lit-shark-magazine)**
A welcoming journal for new writers that’s always open and always free.
Poetry, fiction, nonfiction and translation. Free to submit.

**[Los Angeles Review](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/los-angeles-review)**, Los Angeles, US
Now online only.
Poetry, fiction, nonfiction and translation. Simultaneous submissions welcome.

**[Tusculum Review](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/tusculum-review)**, Tennessee, US
A print annual.
Poetry, fiction, nonfiction and translation. Simultaneous submissions welcome.

**[Waxing & Waning: A Literary Journal](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/waxing-waning-a-literary-journal)**
One online issue and one print issue a year.
Poetry, fiction, nonfiction and translation. Simultaneous submissions welcome.

**[WordSwell Journal](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/wordswell-journal)**
Personal essays, stories, poems and videopoetry.
Poetry, fiction, nonfiction and translation. Simultaneous submissions welcome.

**[Blue Earth Review](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/blue-earth-review)**, Minnesota, US
A university magazine that reads every genre all year.
Poetry, fiction and nonfiction.

**[Calliope](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/calliope)**
Poetry and nonfiction are always open. Fiction opens now and then.
Poetry, fiction and nonfiction.

**[The Esthetic Apostle](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/the-esthetic-apostle)**
Accepted pieces run in the very next issue.
Poetry, fiction and nonfiction.

**[Eucalyptus Lit](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/eucalyptus-lit)**
A quarterly of poetry, prose and art.
Poetry, fiction, nonfiction and translation.

**[Good Company Lit](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/good-company-lit)**
Reads fiction, essays and poetry all through the year.
Poetry, fiction and nonfiction.

**[Gramercy Review](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/gramercy-review)**
A quarterly online magazine.
Poetry, fiction and nonfiction.

**[Hidden Peak Review](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/hidden-peak-review)**, Colorado, US
Takes work from writers anywhere.
Poetry and fiction.

**[January House Literary Journal](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/january-house-literary-journal)**
Work read all year for a quarterly print issue.
Poetry, fiction, nonfiction and translation.

**[Map Literary](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/map-literary)**
No house style, and work is read all year.
Poetry, fiction and nonfiction.

**[Star 82 Review](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/star-82-review)**
Microfiction, erasures and art that tells a story.
Poetry, fiction, nonfiction and translation.

**[Subnivean](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/subnivean)**
An online journal for stories and poems, with general submissions open all year.
Poetry and fiction.

**[Sweet Tree Review](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/sweet-tree-review)**
An online literary and arts journal.
Poetry, fiction and nonfiction.

**[Writing Disorder](https://www.usemissa.com/journal/writing-disorder)**
A quarterly for new and emerging writers.
Poetry, fiction, nonfiction and translation.

## Who pays, and who charges

27 of the 100 pay their writers, from copies or an honorarium up to US$150 a poem at Gavialidae. Afreada pays £100 a story, and Frontier Poetry, Poetry Online and The Ex-Puritan pay US$50 or more a poem.

22 say it’s free to send work. A few charge a reading fee of US$3 to US$5, among them Four Way Review, True Story, Free State Review and Sky Island Journal. Many don’t say either way on their main guidelines page, so check before you assume a magazine is free or unpaid.

53 welcome simultaneous submissions, so you can send the same piece to several at once. Only four say no: Modern Haiku, Cafe Irreal, Eunoia Review and Lotus-eater. If a piece is taken somewhere, withdraw it everywhere else that day.

## How to use a magazine that’s always open

Always open still has a rhythm. Some read for the next issue first, some close for a few weeks to catch up, and some cap submissions each month. If a magazine names a date for its next issue, sending before it can mean your piece is read sooner.

Year-round isn’t the same as fast. A magazine that reads all year can still take six months to reply, so look at the response time on each magazine’s page.

Keep a record of where each piece went, the date, and whether the magazine allows simultaneous submissions. Our [guide to submission trackers](https://www.usemissa.com/guides/submission-tracker) shows a few ways to do it, and our [guide to submission fees](https://www.usemissa.com/guides/literary-magazine-submission-fees) explains what you might pay.

Want more? Browse [magazines with rolling submissions](https://www.usemissa.com/discover/rolling-submissions), [poetry calls](https://www.usemissa.com/discover/poetry), [fiction calls](https://www.usemissa.com/discover/fiction), [flash fiction calls](https://www.usemissa.com/discover/flash-fiction) and [creative nonfiction calls](https://www.usemissa.com/discover/creative-nonfiction) on Missa, or [every open call](https://www.usemissa.com/opportunities). To see how magazines compare on prizes, look at [Missa’s magazine rankings](https://www.usemissa.com/rankings/magazines).

## Frequently asked questions

### What does it mean when a literary magazine is open year-round?

It reads general submissions in every month, not just during set reading periods. Some still pause briefly while they put an issue together, or close for the month once they reach a cap.

### Which literary magazines accept submissions all year?

The 100 here say on their own submission pages that they do, among them Narrative, The Missouri Review, Story, Rattle and New Orleans Review. Check each magazine’s current guidelines before you send.

### Are year-round magazines less selective?

Not necessarily. Work from Narrative, The Missouri Review, CRAFT and others on this list has won prizes and been picked for anthologies. Being open all year tells you when a magazine reads, not how much it takes.

### Do year-round literary magazines charge submission fees?

Few say they do. 22 of the 100 say it’s free to send, and a few charge about US$3 to US$5. Many don’t mention a fee on their main guidelines page, so check before you send.

### How did Missa choose these magazines?

We started with every magazine in Missa listed as reading all year, plus every magazine in our rankings. Then we read each one’s own submission page, more than 900 in all, and kept only those that say they read all year. Within each group, magazines are ordered by how often their work has won prizes or anthology places, using the [method behind Missa’s rankings](https://www.usemissa.com/rankings/methodology).

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- [Literary magazine submission fees: when it’s worth paying](https://www.usemissa.com/guides/literary-magazine-submission-fees)
- [How to keep a submission tracker and find literary magazines](https://www.usemissa.com/guides/submission-tracker)