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Poetry, art, collage, mixed media, and photography from minimalist to avant-garde—open to innovative, imagistic, philosophical, experimental creations.
indicia seeks to showcase a dynamic collage of passionate and profound voices hungry to produce art and write primarily in the English language. indicia enjoys feeling out the lengths to which language can be stretched, whether ...
Ink & Ember is a quarterly, independent, interactive literary magazine. Created by published poet and content creator Cecilia Parker (@thejournalingrat, amongst other monikers), this magazine seeks to uplift and provide a space both...
The best food writing is not just about what’s on the plate, but is, like all literature, also interested in language, psychology, and the most pressing issues of the day. The Inquisitive Eater: New School Food provides a forum for...
Inscape aims to curate pieces that are both...
Founded in 1944 by poet Wilber Stevens, Interim is edited by Claudia Keelan and Andrew Nicholson. It is an international literary journal that publishes art, flash and experimental fiction, hybrid texts, literary nonfiction, poetry,...
The Iowa Review selects most of their content from the several thousand unsolicited manuscripts that arrive each year from throughout the country and abroad. They take their mission to be nudging along American literature, to be local...
At January House , the editors believe in the transformative power of language and image. Their purpose is to create a space where poetry, prose, and visual art can challenge, inspire, and connect—across boundaries of form, genre, and...
Jelly Bucket features established and new writers and artists. We are committed to publishing writers from, and writing about, marginalized and underrepresented communities. The special section will comprise a major portion of the issue...
Johnny America publishes fiction, shorts, very short shorts, humor, and mildly humorous nonfiction essay-like things.
Canada
JONAHmagazine is comprised of stories. Stories of journeys, in space, in time, in the heart, or in the mind. Beginnings, endings, triumphs and frustrations, odysseys of the spirit. Poetry, prose, true stories, memoir. Tales humorous or...
Founded under the name Hill Thoughts in 1941, Hanover College’s literary journal Kennings holds the firm mission to seek out intriguing, moving, and engaging works of poetry, fiction, and art. In recent years Kennings has...
Kestrel publishes fiction, poetry, poetry in translation, and creative nonfiction by established and emerging writers. They also publish reviews, including of “Wrongfully Neglected” work. The editors are especially happy to publish work...
Killer Nashville Magazine seeks to publish both fresh and established voices in any genre that incorporates elements of mystery, thriller, suspense, and/or romance (and we believe all good literary works and art contain those elements to...
Kweli is a quarterly literary publication that celebrates cultural kinships and the role of the literary imagination. It seeks literature and poems “full of vitamins,” that sing the truth. High-quality literary work that is beautiful,...
United Kingdom
La Piccioletta Barca is an arts journal publishing: short stories, poetry, prose, essays, interviews, and translations with an ethos to move beyond the myth of the artist as sole creator. They will only be receiving submissions through...
We print poetry and visual art. Prose poems and very poetic prose are welcome. There is no required theme, however recurring themes of published work include explorations of identity, culture, heritage, traditions, family, personal experiences,...
Fiction that falls in the cracks between genres.
Lake Effect seeks to publish literary fiction and nonfiction and poetry of the highest quality by established and new and emerging writers from across the country and, in translation, from around the world, and to give that work an...
The Lascaux Review seeks accessible fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction of literary quality. Annual contests are conducted in poetry, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, and short fiction.
NY
In the words of a great professor: “Poetry should be a movie you can taste and smell.” Last Leaves Magazine wants images and emotion. It wants poetry that sticks with its editors and makes them think and feel. They don’t care if this is...
Lavender Review is an international, biannual (June & December) e-zine dedicated to poetry and art by, about, and for lesbians, including whatever LGBTQ might appeal to a lesbian readership.
Lily Poetry Review publishes poetry, visual poetry, book reviews and art for each issue. It aims to support poetry, poets, and literary citizenship. The editors seek well-written work that appeals to a large audience, and they tend to...
Lines + Stars began in 2006 as a means of establishing a new creative forum in Washington, D.C., a city that all-too-often coasts on its more mechanistic pursuits. As of 2017, they operate out of Baltimore, Maryland. L+S Press, their...
Lit Shark Magazine is a welcoming and inclusive space to poets, fiction writers, memoirists, essayists, readers, and shark fans alike. Lit Shark serves to entertain and educate its community about creative writing, marine life,...
Canada
Literary Heist gives a voice to transformative writers and aims to democratize the literary and art world. The editors are looking to showcase good work that comes from new and existing writers and artists.
Worldwide
Literary Mama celebrates the physical, psychological, intellectual, and spiritual processes of motherhood across race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, age, material resources, or status. The journal publishes six times a year,...
Literary Veganism is looking for animal or environmentally friendly writing. Authors do not have to be vegan to submit, but many readers are vegan.
Litro USA is the U.S. edition of Litro, founded in London in 2005. The U.S. organisation was established as a New York–based 501(c)(3) in 2017. It publishes fiction, creative nonfiction, and translation with an...
India
The Litt le Journal of Northeast India is interested in the everyday stories of people, places, and things based on or inspired from Northeast India. Their published poems, flash fiction, photographs, artwork, interviews, and...
United Kingdom
The London Magazine is the United Kingdom’s oldest literary magazine, proud to have published some of the biggest names in literature including Angela Carter, Joan Didion, T. S. Eliot, Sylvia Plath, George Orwell, Jean Rhys, and Virginia...
Founded in 1997, the Long River Review is an annual journal of literature and art staffed by undergraduates at the University of Connecticut. Today, Long River Review is dedicated to championing the best work from emerging...
Italy
Lotus-eater is an online literary magazine based in Rome.
Founded in 2009, Lowestoft Chronicle is an online literary magazine, published quarterly, accepting flash fiction, short stories, poetry, interviews, and creative nonfiction. Preference is given to humorous submissions with an emphasis...
Lucky Lizard Journal was founded in order to oppose journals that had strict editorial focuses. Lucky Lizard Journal wants poetry of all types from all sorts of people. There must be good effort put into submissions, and that is...
Lullwater Review is Emory University’s nationally recognized student-run literary review founded in 1990. Our annual issue is published both online and in print. We are based in Atlanta, Georgia, and are named after the beautiful...
Macabre Magazine is dedicated to publishing high-quality horror fiction and nonfiction that nods to the genre’s iconic roots. The editors’ goal is to provide a platform for works that explore fear in both familiar and innovative ways,...
Spain
The Madrid Review is a new, volunteer-run, bilingual (English/Spanish) literary and arts magazine based in Madrid, Spain. It publishes poetry, fiction, art, and interviews worldwide, with a focus on new, emerging, and established writers...
The Main Street Rag prefers poetry that is alive with the poet’s own experiences, fiction that is character-driven and often quirky. Reviews, interviews should query first, and they are the two items for which they pay in cash.
Mania Magazine is a small, independent literary magazine dedicated to your 3 AM works. They accept fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, artwork, and photography. Lights off, laptops on, release the mania!
Map Literary is dedicated to celebrating quality works of new literature. Rather than aligning with any one aesthetic, they aspire to promote the finest provocative writing of the time, publishing semiannual issues of original fiction,...
The Markaz Review is a literary arts publication and cultural institution that curates content and programs on the greater Middle East and its communities in the diaspora. The Markaz signifies “the center” in Arabic, as well as Persian,...
Marrow is a literary magazine committed to publishing work that explores dark spaces. The editors are interested in writing that uses compelling language and imagery to remind them what it means to be human, that makes wonderful the...
The Massachusetts Review is an independent quarterly journal of literature, the arts, and public affairs. MR has deep local roots but an international scope, with an emphasis on work that provokes debate, challenges ideology,...
Maudlin House is a new kind of publishing house for the twenty-first century. They want to challenge your perspectives, help you find your inner poet, expand your empathy, and take you to places you’ve never been. They’re devoted to...
India
Meraki Review is an international literary magazine that aims to corrode the cages of realistic thinking and help teenagers spread wide the wings of their psyche. It aims to be a global platform that shines spotlight on hidden voices and...
Founded in 1998, Meridian has featured the works of numerous Pulitzer Prize winners, National Book Award winners, and established writers. However, as a magazine edited by young writers, it values nothing more than showcasing tomorrow’s...
Metphrastics is an online poetry journal inspired by works in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The editors publish ekphrastic poetry responding to the Met’s permanent collection and special exhibits—all areas, including...