Online Literary Magazines

Newest online literary magazine sponsor listings:

decomP

Web: http://www.decompmagazine.com
Email: decomp.magazine@gmail.com
Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: yes Reading period: year-round Response time: 30 days or less Payment: no Contests: no

Publisher's Description: decomP is an online literary magazine that is updated monthly. We have been in existence since April 2004 and we were originally called Decomposition Magazine. We have contributors from all over the country, and recently, have begun to see a large fan base in places like London and Scotland. We publish prose, poetry, art, and solicited book reviews.

POST NO ILLS

Web: http://www.postnoills.com
Email: post.no.ills@gmail.com
Kyle Dargan, Editor
Dept. of Literature, CAS
American University
4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20016
Frequency: Bi-Monthly Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: yes Reading period: Year-round for website content, September-November for print content Response time: three months Payment: $50 for reviews, and essays. Two Copies for creative work (fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, etc.) Contests: no

Publisher's Description: POST NO ILLS, a web-based and print annual magazine publishing book reviews, interviews, and multimedia, aims to provide a participatory venue for balanced arts criticism and commentary as well as interdisciplinary exchange between artists and arts administrators in various fields.

Ramble Underground

Web: www.rambleunderground.org
Email: editor@rambleunderground.org
Frequency: Quarterly Simultaneous submissions: Yes Email submissions: Yes Reading period: Closed to general submissions from 3.15 to 5.15 and 9.15 to 11.15. If you would like to submit during these times, please consider our short fiction contest. Response time: 3 to 6 months Payment: yes (see website) Contests: yes (see website)

Publisher's Description: Ramble Underground is a quarterly journal of Fiction. We believe that art begins beneath the surface. It's not hanging on the walls of rich folks' houses or written within the bounds of proper storytelling and literary etiquette. We seek literary bravery.

In the Mist

PO Box 231
Gunnison, CO 81230
Web: www.inthemistmag.com
Email:  themistmag@ol.com
Frequency: biannual Simultaneous submissions: Yes Email submissions: Yes Reading period: year-round Response time: 6 weeks Payment: No Contests: No

Publisher's Description: In the Mist is an online outdoor literary magazine for women. We're interested in traditional and nontraditional forms of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction that tell a story about women who play, or write about playing, in the mist.

 

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2River

7474 Drexel DR
University City, MO 63130

Web: www.2River.org
Email: submissions@2River.org
Frequency: Quarterly ISSN: 1536-2086 Simultaneous submissions: no Email submissions: yes Reading period: year-round Response time: 1 day to 3 months Payment: no Contests: no Note: see website for chapbook details

Publisher's Description: Since 1996, a site of poetry, art, and theory, quarterly publishing The 2River View and occasionally publishing individual authors in the 2River Chapbook Series, as well as podcasting 2River authors from the Muddy Bank blog.

 

The 2nd Hand broadsheets

 

21 Stars Review poetry, prose

27 rue de fleures poetry

3 A.M. Magazine interviews, fiction, poetry, music, criticism, nonfiction

 

3rd Muse Poetry Journal poetry

42opus literary arts

5_Trope poetry, prose, fiction, reviews, new media

55 Words fiction

 

63 Channels poetry, art, music

91st Meridian inter/transnational poetry, critical theory, fiction, nonfiction, essays

971 Menu fiction

 

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The Abacot Journal fiction

Abalone Moon

Web: www.abalonemoon.com
Email: amjrnl@yahoo.com
Frequency: 2-3x/yr ISSN: 15567-1496 Submission info: see website Payment: no Contests: no

Publisher's Description: Abalone Moon publishes poetry, interviews, photography and visual art. We publish poetry and art that is seamless in its craft and originality, and both universal and current in its content. Many of our issues follow individual themes. We also publish two or three poet issues.

 

Absent Magazine poetry, prose, translation, music

Abyss & Apex fiction, poetry

 

Action, Yes poetry, prose, criticism

The Adirondack Review poetry, fiction, artwork, photography, nonfiction

Admit Two all literary forms

Albatros poetry

alice blue poetry, prose

Amarillo Bay fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction

Amistad

anderbo.com

270 Lafayette St., Suite 1412
New York, NY 10012
Web: www.anderbo.com/
Email: rrofihe@yahoo.com
Frequency: continuously updated Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: yes Reading period: year round Response time: 4 weeks Payment: no Contests: yes (see website)

Publisher's Description: "Best New Online Literary Journal 2005" - storySouth Million Writers Award. We publish, and always looking for, excellent new fiction, 'fact,' poetry & photography.

 

The Angler flash fiction

Anti- poetry

 

Apocryphaltext poetry

Apple Valley Review

Web: www.applevalleyreview.com
Email: editor@ leahbrowning.net
Frequency: Semi-annual Simultaneous submissions: no Email submissions: yes Reading period: year-round Response time:
1-12 weeks Payment: no Contests: no

Publisher's Description: An online literary journal published in the Spring and Fall. Each issue features a collection of beautifully crafted poetry, short fiction, and essays. All work published in the Apple Valley Review during a given calendar year is considered for the annual Apple Valley Review Editor’s Prize.

Arch

c/o L. Revard
Campus Box 1122
English Dept., Washington University
St. Louis, MO 63130
Web: www.artsci.wustl.edu/~archword/
Email: archword@artsci.wustl.edu
Frequency: Annual Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: yes Reading period: year-round Response time: 2 months, see website Payment: no Contests: no

Publisher's Description: Arch publishes interviews, translations, poetry, fiction, & essays from new and established writers. Arch is run by graduate students and advised by faculty from many different disciplines. We span departments, and we hope to build new and enduring relations between the many types of readers inside and outside the academy.

 

Archipelago poetry, prose, art

Arkansas Literary Forum poetry, prose

Arsenic Lobster poetry

 

Ascent Aspirations fiction, poetry, essays, reviews

Avatar Review prose, poetry, reviews, interviews, art

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Babel Fruit

Web: www.babelfruit.org
Email: editors@babelfruit.org
Frequency: Quarterly Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: yes Reading period: year-round Response time: up to three months Payment: no Contests: not yet

Publisher's Description: Babel Fruit is an independent initiative developed in cooperation with the International Cities of Refuge Network. Focusing on "Writing Under the Influence of the Other," we publish all genres. The literature may be a response to another culture, sub-culture or the other within. We invite recorded readings and book “previews”.

 

Barcelona Review short fiction, articles, essays

Bare Root Review poetry, fiction, nonfiction

Barefoot Muse poetry, prose

Barnwood poetry

BathHouse all forms of visual/linguistic art

Beltway Poetry Quarterly poetry by authors who live or work in Washington D.C.

Big Bridge articles, art, fiction, poetry, reviews, interviews

 

The Big Ugly Review poetry, fiction, nonfiction, photo-essay, music, short films

Blackbird poetry, fiction, personal essays/memoirs

BlazeVOX poetry

Blithe House Quarterly lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered fiction

Blood Lotus

Web: www.bloodlotus.org
Email: bloodlotusjournal@gmail.com
Frequency: quarterly  Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: yes Response time: 3 mos. Payment: no Contests: forthcoming

Publisher's Description: The editors of Blood Lotus, a young online literary journal, are passionate writers and fierce critics. We know what we crave: writing that is well-crafted and takes risks with fresh, evocative, visceral language and imagery. Please visit www.bloodlotus.org for submission guidelines.

 

Blood Orange Review poetry, fiction, nonfiction

BluePrintReview poetry, prose

Bold Type fiction, nonfiction

Born Magazine literary arts and interactive media

Bosphorus Art Project Quarterly themed poetry, prose

Boxcar Poetry Review poetry, artwork, photography, interviews, reviews

Brevity nonfiction

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Cadillac Cicatrix

21800 Parrot Ranch Rd
Carmel Valley, CA 93924
Web: www.cadillaccicatrix.org
Email: caddymag@gmail.com
Frequency: semi-annual ISSN: 1934-2969  Simultaneous submissions: yes with notice Email submissions: yes Reading period: year-round Response time: 3-6 months Payment: no Contests: yes (see website) Publisher's Description: Cadillac Cicatrix publishes innovative, emerging, and established writers and artists online and in limited print editions on a semi-annual basis. From the creators of NorthernPros.com

 

The Cafe Irreal irreal fiction

Caffeine Destiny poetry, essays

Calabash poetry, short stories, prose, one-act plays

Carve Magazine

PO Box 701510
Dallas, TX 75370
Web: www.carvezine.com
Email: editor@carvezine.com
Frequency: Quarterly Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: no Reading period: year-round Response time: 3-6 months Payment: no Contests: yes (see website)

Publisher's Description: Carve Magazine is honest fiction. With a new editor since January 2007, Carvezine.com features a new site layout and new short stories quarterly. We publish the kind of stories that linger long after they are read—stories that are honest, that are willing to reveal the flaws and the beauty hidden in each of us.

 

Cautionary Tale fiction, nonfiction, poetry

 

Cellar Roots poetry, prose

Cella's Round Trip poetry, flash fiction, nonfiction, digital poetry, art, shockwave, movies

 

The Centrifugal Eye poetry, essays, reviews

 

The Cerebral Catalyst fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics, novels, essays, columns

 

Cezanne's Carrot

Web: www.cezannescarrot.org
Email: query@cezannescarrot.org
Frequency: quarterly ISSN: 1930-2878 Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: yes Reading period: year-round Response time: 1 week - 4 months Payment: (see website) Contests: (see website)

Publisher's Description: Cezanne's Carrot publishes high-quality fiction, creative nonfiction, and art that explores spiritual, metaphysical, transformational, visionary, or contemplative themes.  We prefer work that celebrates the higher aspects of human nature, the integration of inner and outer worlds, and the exciting threshold where the familiar meets the unknown.

 

Cha poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, reviews, art, photography

Chantarelle's Notebook poetry

 

Chickenbones poetry, fiction, essays

The Chimaera poetry, fiction, nonfiction

ChiZine poetry, fiction

 

Clapboard House

Web: http://clapboardhouse.wordpress.com/
Email: clapboardhouse@msn.com
Frequency: quarterly Simultaneous submissions: Yes (encouraged) Email submissions: Yes Reading period: year-round Response time: 2-6 weeks Payment: No Contests: No

Publisher's Description: Clapboard House is built on traditional American South expectations of great story—beautifully written. However, we welcome writers from any locale. Send us stories and poems that explore the frailties and the beauty of our hearts and minds, remembering our expectations, and we’ll find room for you in our house.

 

Clarkesworld science fiction, fantasy, horror

Cliterature poetry, short stories, nonfiction

Coconut poetry

Conte poetry, prose

 

Contemporary Poetry Review poetry criticism

Contemporary Rhyme rhyming poetry

Contrary poetry, fiction, commentary

convergence poetry, short fiction, art, photography

The Cortland Review poetry

Cosmoetica poetry, essays

Cricket Online Review poetry, fiction, essays, sound, film, short drama, visual art

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Damselfly Press poetry, fiction, nonfiction

The Danforth Review short stories

Dark Sky Magazine

Web: darkskymagazine.com
Email: editor@darkskymagazine.com
Frequency: weekly Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: yes Reading period: year-round Response time: prompt Payment: no Contests: soon

Publisher's Description: Dark Sky Magazine is a weekly publication out of Charleston, SC. We feature photography, literature, film, and art. Send work you know is your best and we'll be in touch.

 

Dead Mule poetry, fiction, essays

decomP

Web: http://www.decompmagazine.com
Email: decomp.magazine@gmail.com
Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: yes Reading period: year-round Response time: 30 days or less Payment: no Contests: no

Publisher's Description: decomP is an online literary magazine that is updated monthly. We have been in existence since April 2004 and we were originally called Decomposition Magazine. We have contributors from all over the country, and recently, have begun to see a large fan base in places like London and Scotland. We publish prose, poetry, art, and solicited book reviews.

 

Defenestration poetry, fiction, nonfiction, art

The Del Sol Review poetry, prose poetry, creative nonfiction, short stories, flash fiction

Delaware Poetry Review poetry

DIAGRAM text, images, sound, new media

diode poetry journal

Web: diodepoetry.com/
Email: submit@diodepoetry.com
Frequency: 3 times a year Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: yes Reading period: year-round Response time: 4-8 weeks Payment: no
Contests: no

What is electropositive poetry? It's poetry that excites and energizes. It's poetry that uses language that crackles and sparks. We're looking for poetry from all points on the arc, from formal to experimental (no light verse or erotic poetry, please). Simultaneous submissions are welcomed, but please notify us if they're accepted elsewhere. diode does not accept previously published work.

 

DMQ Review poetry, visual art

Dogmatika fiction, poetry, essays, articles

 

Dogzplot fiction, poetry, artwork

 

Double Room prose poetry, flash fiction

Dream People fiction, novel excerpts, reviews, interviews, artwork

 

Drunken Boat poetry, essays

Ducts poetry, fiction, essays, profiles, reviews, drama, art

Earthshine

Web: www.ruminations.us/esIndex.htm
Email: poetry<at> ruminations.us
Frequency: not yet determined Simultaneous submissions: no Email submissions: yes Reading period: year-round Response time: 1-2 months Payment: see web site Contests: no

The voice of Earthshine is one of reflection, compassion, humanity, and reason. If the world is to be saved, the poets will be needed; they who see the connections between all things, and the patterns shared. We seek poetry of high literary quality which will illuminate our readers

 

Eclectica Magazine , poetry, essays, creative nonfiction, drama, reviews, humor/satire

elimae poetry, fiction

Eleventh Transmission poetry, fiction, articles, photos, video, audio, music, reviews

Elsewhere

Web: http://elsewherejournal.org/
Email: editor@elsewherejournal.org
Frequency: semiannual  Simultaneous submissions: Yes Email submissions: Yes Reading period: 9/1 - 5/1 Response time: 2 months Payment: No Contests: No

Publisher's Description: Elsewhere is a journal dedicated to publishing a broad range of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction that embraces a "storied relationship" to place. The name and online format of the journal echoes the principles our endeavor. In cyberspace, we're no place but every place. We're here. We're there. We're Elsewhere.

 

Emprise Review fiction, nonfiction, poetry, photography

 

Emrys Journal poetry, fiction, nonfiction

Entelechy poetry, fiction, discourse, reviews

Expose'd poetry, fiction articles, reviews, art

 

Externalist poetry, fiction, nonfiction, artwork, photography

 

eratio poetry

Etude: New Voices in
Literary Nonfiction

Web: http://etude.uoregon.edu
Email: etude@uoregon.edu
Mailing address: School of Journalism and Communication, 1275 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, 97403-1275
Frequency: Quarterly Simultaneous submissions: query first Email submissions: yes, query first Reading period: year-round Response time: 3 weeks Payment: no Contests: no

Publisher's Description: Etude, an online quarterly since 2002, showcases narrative nonfiction and immersion reportage by new and emerging writers. Published at the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication, the magazine celebrates evocative storytelling, fresh perspectives and intelligent voices. We also publish multi-media pieces, book reviews and essays.

 

Evergreen Review poetry, fiction, articles, essays

Exquisite Corpse fiction, essays, drama, art, music/sound

 

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Failbetter fiction, poetry, art

Fawlt poetry, fiction

 

Fickle Muses poetry, fiction, reviews, essays, art

 

Flutter poetry, book reviews, art, photography

The Foliate Oak poetry, flash fiction, nonfiction, art, photography

For Poetry poetry

Free Verse poetry

Freight Stories fiction

FRiGG poetry, fiction

Fringe poetry, fiction, nonfiction, essays, art, mixed genre

Front Porch poetry, short stories, novel excerpts, nonfiction

FuseBox no longer published

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Ginosko Literary Journal poetry, fiction, nonfiction, excerpts, art, photography

Great Works innovative poetry, prose

Green Hills Literary Lantern poetry, fiction, nonfiction

Green Silk Journal poetry, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, interviews

 

GutCult poetry, book reviews

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Hamilton Stone Review poetry, short stories

The Heron’s Nest haiku

The Hiss Quarterly poetry, prose

Horse Less Review poetry, fiction

 

Hospital Drive fiction, poetry, nonfiction, photography

Hot Metal Bridge poetry, fiction, nonfiction, criticism

HOW2 poetry, visuals, multimedia

The Hyper Texts poetry

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Identity Theory poetry, fiction, essays, interviews, reviews, political musings, art

Inertia poetry, fiction, critical prose, personal essays

 

In Posse Review poetry, fiction

In the Mist

PO Box 231
Gunnison, CO 81230
Web: www.inthemistmag.com
Email:  themistmag@ol.com
Frequency: biannual Simultaneous submissions: Yes Email submissions: Yes Reading period: year-round Response time: 6 weeks Payment: No Contests: No

Publisher's Description: In the Mist is an online outdoor literary magazine for women. We're interested in traditional and nontraditional forms of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction that tell a story about women who play, or write about playing, in the mist.

 

Innisfree Poetry Journal poetry

Insolent Rudder flash fiction

Is Greater Than articles, essays, interviews, photoessays

Istanbul Literature Review poetry, short stories, articles

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Jacket poetry, creative prose, reviews, interviews, author photos, articles

 

jerseyworks poetry, translation

Jim Baen's Universe science fiction, fantasy, serials, nonfiction

JMWW

Web: http://jmww.150m.com/
Frequency: quarterly Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: yes Reading period: year-round Response time: up to 10 weeks, usually sooner Payment: copy to those included in yearly print anthology Contests: varies; see website

Publisher's Description: JMWW is a quarterly literary e-zine out of Baltimore publishing fiction, poetry, flash fiction, essays, and creative nonfiction. They also feature one or more visual artists per issue and interviews with writers and artists. They regularly nominate writers for the storySouth Million Writers, Best of the Net, the Pushcart, and other online awards.

 

Journal of Literary Disability literary criticism

Journal of Truth and Consequences poetry, fiction, nonfiction, visual art

Juked

Publisher's Description: Fiction, poetry and photography, updated two to three times a week.  In publication since 1999.

 

kaleidowhirl poetry, flash fiction

Kartika Review Asian-American fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, essays, poetry, visual art

KGB LitBar stories, essays, features, reviews, previews, videos, artwork, music

keepgoing fiction, nonfiction, poetry, photography, music

Kennesaw Review poetry, short fiction, essays

The King's English

3114 NE 47th Ave
Portland, OR 97213
Web: www.thekingsenglish.org
Email: thekingsenglish@comcast.net
Frequency: 2-3x/year Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: yes (only) Reading period: year-round Response time: 4-6 weeks Payment: yes (see website) Contests: no

Publisher's Description: The King's English may be the only online literary journal devoted to novella-length fiction and long personal essays. Also publishes book reviews and poetry. Its high editorial standards have made it the winner of the Million Writers Award for being the "Best Publisher of Novella-Length Fiction" three years in a row.

 

Konch Magazine poetry, short stories, essays

Konundrum Engine Literary Review poetry, prose, features

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La Petite Zine poetry, fiction, essays, interviews, reviews, art

Lemon Puppy Quarterly poetry, short fiction, essays, first chapters, plays, photography

Lily poetry, fiction, art

Literary Fever poetry, fiction, reviews, art

Literary Mama fiction, poetry, nonfiction, criticism

LITnIMAGE flash fiction, shorts, art

Locuspoint poetry

 

Lone Star Stories specululative fiction, poetry

 

LOST Magazine fiction, nonfiction, art, photography

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M Review poetry, fiction, nonfiction, commentary, art, photography

Mad Hatters' Review fiction, poetry, art

McSweeney's prose

Memorious poetry, prose, interviews

Menda City Review fiction, commentary, book reviews

 

Mezzo Cammin poetry, essays

Midway Journal drama, fiction, poetry, nonfiction

milk magazine poetry, prose, art

 

Miranda Literary Magazine

Publisher's Description: Miranda Literary Magazine is an online e-zine that has been developed by a group of creative artists and writers to promote and focus on the best writing, art, and ideas of our time.

 

Modern English Tanka tanka, waka, articles, essays, reviews, interviews

Moria poetry, poetry reviews, theory articles, e-books

Mudlark poetry, essays

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Narrative Magazine fiction, poetry, nonfiction

The New Hampshire Review poetry, reviews, art

The New Verse News poetry

New Works Review stories, articles, diaries, art

Newport Review poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, mixed forms, photography

No Tell Motel poetry

Noneuclidean Cafe poetry, fiction, articles, interviews, book reviews, photography

NOÖ Journal poetry, short fiction, monologues, essays, art, photography

Not Just Air fiction, creative nonfiction, verse, essays, reviews, plays, mixed media 

The November 3rd Club political poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction

nthposition poetry, fiction, nonfiction, reviews

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Octopus Magazine poetry

On the Page Magazine poetry, fiction, nonfiction, art, reviews, interviews

Open Letters Monthly poetry, prose 

Oregon Literary Review fiction, drama, nonfiction, poetry, art, music

Our Stories

Web: www.ourstories.us
Email: editor <a> ourstories.us
Frequency: quarterly Simultaneous submissions: yes for contests, no during open submissions Email submissions: yes, only Reading period: year-round Response time: 3 weeks to 3 months Payment: no Contests: yes (see website)

Publisher's Description: Our Stories publishes the very best contemporary short stories from emerging writers and we interview established authors. We pay particular attention to the submission process; all stories are thoroughly read and reviewed by our staff and individual feedback is given to every author who submits to Our Stories.

 

Oxford Magazine fiction, poetry, new media, essays

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Paradigm

Web: www.paradigmjournal.com/
Email: mailbox@therainfarm.com Frequency: quarterly Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: yes Reading period: year-round Response time: 8-10 weeks Payment: no Contests: yes (see website)

Publisher's Description: Featuring new, exciting voices alongside established writers and artists, Paradigm is a quarterly online literary journal that is eclectic, surprising, and innovative. Published through Rain Farm Press, Paradigm is unbound by genre and open to all fiction, nonfiction, poetry, essays, scripts, art, and photography.

 

Parlor Journal poetry, prose drama

 

Past Simple poetry, fiction, art

 

The Pedestal Magazine poetry, fiction, book reviews, interviews

Pemmican poetry

Pequin prose, plays, excerpts, recollections, narratives, photography

Per Contra poetry, fiction, nonfiction

Perigee poetry, prose, visual art

Persimmon Tree

1534 Campus Dr
Berkeley, CA 94708
Web: www.persimmontree.org
Email: editor@persimmontree.org
Frequency: quarterly Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: yes Reading period: year-round Response time: 12 weeks Payment: no Contests: no

Publisher's Description: Persimmon Tree is an online literary magazine by women over sixty. It includes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and art. Associated with Mills College, it showcases the often-unrecognized talent and skill of older women.

Pif Magazine

Publisher's Description: PIF Magazine, one of the oldest, continually published literary zines online, has undergone an new editorial make up but continues to publish original works of fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, essays, and books reviews, and anything in between.  Since 1995, PIF has published established authors such as Amy Hempel, Richard Yates, and Thomas E. Kennedy, as well as unpublished writers whose works arrive as unsolicited submissions.

 

Pindeldyboz fiction, cartoons

The Pittsburgh Quarterly poetry, prose, artwork, photographs

Plankton poetry, fiction, art

PN Review poetry, translations, articles, reviews, interviews, features

poemeleon poetry, essays, interviews

Poems Niederngasse poetry

Poetic Diversity poetry

 

Poetry Bay poetry, essays, reviews, interviews

Poetry International Web poetry, translations, news, essays, interviews, discussion

Poetry Magazine poetry

Poetry Midwest poetry, micro-fiction, nonfiction

Poetry Sz poetry by international writers

POST NO ILLS

Web: http://www.postnoills.com
Email: post.no.ills@gmail.com
Kyle Dargan, Editor
Dept. of Literature, CAS
American University
4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20016
Frequency: Bi-Monthly Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: yes Reading period: Year-round for website content, September-November for print content Response time: three months Payment: $50 for reviews, and essays. Two Copies for creative work (fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, etc.) Contests: no

Publisher's Description: POST NO ILLS, a web-based and print annual magazine publishing book reviews, interviews, and multimedia, aims to provide a participatory venue for balanced arts criticism and commentary as well as interdisciplinary exchange between artists and arts administrators in various fields.

 

Prairie Poetry poetry

 

Pregnant Moon Poetry Review poetry

 

Prick of the Spindle

Web: www.prickofthespindle.com
Email: pseditor< at> prickofthespindle.com
Frequency: Quarterly Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: yes Reading period: year-round Response time: 6-8 weeks Payment: no Contests: upcoming, see website

Publisher's Description : Prick of the Spindle is an online literary journal publishing poetry, fiction, nonfiction, essays, reviews, and drama. Issues are published quarterly and will include author interviews, as well as the best contemporary writing among burgeoning and established writers.

 

Pulp.net fiction

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The Quarterly Conversation book reviews, essays, interviews

Ramble Underground

Web: www.rambleunderground.org
Email: editor@rambleunderground.org
Frequency: Quarterly Simultaneous submissions: Yes Email submissions: Yes Reading period: Closed to general submissions from 3.15 to 5.15 and 9.15 to 11.15. If you would like to submit during these times, please consider our short fiction contest. Response time: 3 to 6 months Payment: yes (see website) Contests: yes (see website)

Publisher's Description: Ramble Underground is a quarterly journal of Fiction. We believe that art begins beneath the surface. It's not hanging on the walls of rich folks' houses or written within the bounds of proper storytelling and literary etiquette. We seek literary bravery.

Raving Dove

Web: www.ravingdove.org
Email: editor@ravingdove.org
Frequency: 3 per year Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: yes Reading period: year-round Response time: Up to 3 1/2 months max Payment: When funding is available/see website  Contests: When funding is available/see website

Publisher's Description: Raving Dove is an online literary journal dedicated to sharing thought-provoking writing, photography, and art that opposes the use of violence as conflict resolution, and embraces the intrinsic themes of peace and human rights. Published in February, June, and October, Raving Dove welcomes original poetry, nonfiction essays, fiction, photography, and art.

 

RealPoetik poetry

Review Americana poetry, screenplays, fiction, creative nonfiction

Rhythm poetry

 

River Walk Journal poetry, fiction, nonfiction, reviews, art

riverbabble poetry, short fiction, criticism

r.kv.r.y. poetry, fiction, nonfiction, shorts

 

Road Runner Haiku Journal haiku

 

The Rose & Thorn poetry, fiction, nonfiction

Rougarou poetry, fiction, nonfiction, book reviews

 

rumble micro-fiction

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Salt Magazine short stories, essays, articles, reviews

 

The Salt River Review poetry, fiction, reviews

Saw Palm poetry, fiction, nonfiction, reviews, interviews, art, photography

The Scrambler poetry, fiction, reviews, music, photography

The Scruffy Dog Review interviews, fiction, poetry, articles, book reviews

Sea Stories memoir, poetry, fiction, nonfiction, art

 

Segue poetry, fiction, nonfiction

sfwp fiction, book reviews

 

Shadow Train poetry, translations, articles

Shampoo poetry

Shelf Life articles, poetry, fiction

 

Shit Creek Review poetry

Silenced Press poetry, prose

 

Six Little Things short works, art

Sliptongue Magazine erotic fiction

Slope poetry, criticism

Slow Trains poetry, fiction, essays

Small Spiral Notebook no longer published as of December 2007

Smokebox poetry, fiction, essays, culture, music, sports, photography

SmokeLong Quarterly flash fiction

Snakeskin poetry

 

Snow*Vigate poetry, prose poetry, flash fiction, short essay

SNReview

Publisher's Description: Publishes short stories, poetry, and essays that challenge imagination. The writing does not promise to change the nature of the world, literature, or the reader. It asks—without relying on palled plots, cliché characters, or tired tropes—that the reader look at that which makes us real.

 

SOFTBLOW

SoMa Literary Review creative work related to San Francisco

Spindle

Web: www.spindlezine.com/
Email: submissions@spindlezine.com
Frequency: Monthly Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: yes Reading period: year-round Response time: 1-3 weeks Payment: no Contests: yes, see website

Publisher's Description: Spindle is an online literary magazine with a twist, featuring creative non-fiction, poetry and short fiction by, for and about New Yorkers -- literal and spiritual. Showcasing emerging writers, artists, musicians and other creative types, we are dedicated to the fundamental idea that cultural diversity, not cash or pseudo-celebrity, rules everything around us.

 

The Square Table fiction, creative nonfiction, reviews, interviews, art, photography

Steel City Review

Web: www.steelcityreview.com
Email: editor@steelcityreview.com
Frequency: quarterly Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: yes Reading period: 9/1-5/31 Response time: 9 weeks, max Payment: no Contests: no

Publisher's Description: Turn to Steel City Review for stories that combine techy, mechanical, dry and scientific issues with juicy plots and characters you'd like to chat with.   Stories in SCR are about implements, code, machines; academics and workers, and about the true Steel City: Pittsburgh, PA.

 

Stirring poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction, photography

Stone Table Review short stories, essays, poetry, drama

STORYGLOSSIA

Web: www.storyglossia.com
Email: editor@storyglossia.com
Frequency: bi-monthly ISSN: 1545-2824
Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: yes (only) Reading period: year-round Response time: 30 days Payment: no (see website) Contests: yes (see website)

Publisher's Description: Storyglossia, the black hole of online literary journals. Once you click in, you can't get out...we dare you to visit. Million Writers Award winner for "best online publication" in 2006.

 

Storyscape fiction

storySouth fiction

The Straddler

Web: www.thestraddler.com
Email: info @ thestraddler.com
Frequency: Quarterly Simultaneous submissions: Yes Email submissions: Yes Reading period: year-round Response time: 2 months, max. Payment: Not as of now (see website) Contests: (see website)

Publisher's Description: The Straddler is an interdisciplinary journal of culture, publishing innovative criticism, essays, art, poetry, fiction and interviews, all of which aim to examine and transform their cultural context. Dismissing neither academically nor popularly informed criticism, The Straddler offers more than either, at present, provides.

 

The Straight Jacket short stories, essays, political commentary, personal memoirs, poetry, book excerpts

Strange Horizons speculative fiction, poetry, articles, reviews, art

Stride Magazine poetry, articles, reviews

SUB-LIT

Web: www.sub-lit.com
Email: fiction@sub-lit.com
Frequency: quarterly Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: yes (only) Reading period: rolling basis Response time: less than 60 days Payment: no Contests: no (coming soon)

SUB-LIT thinks that there's not enough sex, drugs, and rock and roll in the literary world. We're intent on publishing the best in literary dissidence, and are always seeking interesting, subversive, and experimental fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and art.

 

SubtleTea poetry, prose, essays, reviews, novel excerpts, visual art

Sugar Mule poetry, fiction, nonfiction

The Summerset Review

Sunday Salon poetry, nonfiction, interviews

Superstition Review

Web: www.superstitionreview.com
Email: superstitionreview@asu.edu
Frequency: 2xyear Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: yes Reading period: fall (Sept and Oct) and spring (Febr and March) Response time: 2 months Payment: no Contests: yes

Publisher's Description: Founded in 2007 by faculty and students from Arizona State University's Polytechnic campus, Superstition Review is committed to publishing fresh fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, book reviews, interviews and art. Named after the stunning Superstition Mountains near our campus, the Review is an integral part of several undergraduate programs at ASU.

 

Survivor's Review fiction, essays, poetry

Sussurrus: The Literature of Madness fiction, poetry, reviews, articles, interviews artwork

Swell GLBT fiction, nonfiction, poetry

 

Switchback fiction, nonfiction, poetry, critical essays, art

Switched-on Gutenberg poetry

The Sylvan Echo fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, book reviews, critical writing, art, photography

 

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Tarpaulin Sky poetry, short fiction, reviews

Tattoo Highway poetry, short fiction, cross-genre, new media, photography, graphics

Teacher's Voice poetry, short short stories, essays, creative nonfiction

Terrain.org editorials, poetry, essays, fiction, articles, reviews, an interview

Tertulia Magazine poetry, fiction, commentary, reviews, nonfiction, art

Thieves Jargon

Publisher's Description: Weird writing (and art) every week.

 

 

 

Thug Lit fiction

 

Toasted Cheese poetry, fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction

Triple Canopy prose, photographs, video

Triplopia poetry

Two Hawks Quarterly fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, memoir, cross genre, video

Typo poetry

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Ugly Cousin poetry, fiction, flash fiction

 

Umbrella poetry, prose, art

Underground Voices poetry, fiction, nonfiction, flash fiction

UpRightDown fiction, poetry, art, photography

Valparaiso Poetry Review poetry, book reviews, interviews, essays

Verbsap short stories, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, novel excerpts

Vestal Review flash fiction

Vibrant Gray poetry, fiction, nonfiction

The Vocabula Review essays, poetry, fiction

Void Magazine

War, Literature & the Arts fiction, poetry, personal essays, memoirs, visuals, book reviews, scholarly essays

wheelhouse poetry, fiction, essays, art

Wicked Alice Poetry Journal poetry

Wild River Review

Web: www.wildriverreview.com
Email: info@wildriverreview.com
Frequency: Every 3 weeks ISSN: 1932-362X Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: yes, only Reading period: 1-3 months Response time: only to acceptances (see guidelines) Payment: yes (see website) Contests: no

Publisher's Description: Wild River Review, a cutting edge online literary magazine, presents a world of voices in conversation. Timely, provocative features, and interviews with some of the word's greatest artists and writers, including: Orhan Pamuk, Kiran Desai, Nadine Gordimer, Neil Gaiman, Freeman Dyson. Blogs that keep you plugged in. Plus fiction, poetry, comics, and more.

 

Womb Poetry poetry

Women Writers: A Zine fiction, book reviews, critical essays

Word Catalyst poetry, short stories, art, photography

Word For Word poetry, prose, poetics, criticism, reviews, visuals

Word Riot book reviews, author interviews, fiction, nonfiction, poetry

Wordgathering disability poetry

Words Without Borders international literature

Word Smitten interviews, fiction, articles

 

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Ygdrasil international poetry, short stories, drama

zafusy poetry

 

 

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Poetry Resources Online

 

ARRAS

The Atlantic Online Poetry Pages

Cave Canem

Cleveland State University Poetry Center

Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP)

Electronic Poetry Center (EPC)

From the Fishouse

Little Magazines

Poetry Portal

The Poetry Society of America

Poets & Writers

Poets House

Small Press Center

Literary sites

Abroad

Atlantic Online

The Blue Rose Bouquet

Borzoi Reader

Eyeshot 

Hudson Valley Writers' Center

MagSampler - Literary & Writing mags

The Modern Word

National League of American Penwomen

The Page - Poetry, essays, ideas

Poetry.org

Poetry Daily

Poetry West

Quick Muse 

The Sacramento Poetry Center

Southern Scribe

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