Lit Mags

M Review poetry, fiction, nonfiction, commentary, art, photography [o]

The MacGuffin

The MacGuffin, a national literary magazine from Schoolcraft College in Livonia, Michigan, is a collection of the best poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction.
Read more about The MacGuffin
www.schoolcraft.edu/macguffin/

 

Mad Hatters' Review fiction, poetry, art [o]

The Madison Review poetry, fiction, art

Magnapoets poetry

Magnolia poetry, fiction, nonfiction, art, photography [o]

Main Street Rag

Not for the faint of heart. Our literary magazine features some of the best writers in the small press alongside up and coming voices.
Read more about Main Street Rag
www.mainstreetrag.com/

MAKE

Chicago is a storyteller’s city, and MAKE is the story’s magazine. Chock full of fiction, poetry, essays, art, and reviews, MAKE is substantial in both feel and scope.
Read more about MAKE
www.makemag.com/ 

 

make/shift journalism, essay, fiction, poetry, art, review

The Malahat Review

One of Canada’s most admired journals, publishing contemporary poetry and short fiction by emerging and established writers from across the country and around the world.
Read more about The Malahat Review
web.uvic.ca/malahat/

 

Mandorla poetry, criticism, art, translation

Mannequin Envy poetry, art [final issue coming in Spring 2010] [o]

Manoa

Manoa is a unique, award-winning literary journal that includes American, Asian, and Pacific fiction, poetry, artwork, and essays of current cultural or literary interest.
Read more about Manoa
manoajournal.hawaii.edu

 

Mantis poetry, criticism, translation

Many Mountains Moving

Many Mountains Moving fits into the literary tradition of authentic representation, a 'slice of life,' with a keen eye for high-quality work.
Read more about Many Mountains Moving
www.mmminc.org/

 

Mare Nostrum poems, essays, traveler’s tales, fiction, translations

Margie poetry

Marginalia literary nonfiction, fiction, poetry

Mary Magazine poetry, prose, interviews, reviews, new media, sound [o]

The Massachusetts Review poetry, fiction, articles, essays

matchbook short stories, prose [o]

Matrix essays, fiction, poetry, reviews

MAYDAY Magazine nonfiction, microfiction, poetry, political/cultural commentary, translation, visual art [o]

The Maynard poetry, fiction, art, nonfiction [o]

McSweeney's prose [o]

The Meadow poetry, fiction, nonfiction, screenplay, artwork, graphic design, comics, photography

Measure poetry, interviews, criticism

Memoir (and)

Memoir (and) is a nonprofit literary journal dedicated to memoir in all forms, from the traditional to the experimental.
Read more about Memoir (and)
www.memoirjournal.com

 

Memorious poetry, prose, interviews [o]

Menda City Review fiction, commentary, book reviews [o]

Meridian poetry, prose, interviews, artwork, photography

Mezzo Cammin poetry, essays [o]

Michigan Quarterly Review

Publishes essays, memoirs, interviews, fiction, poetry, and book reviews, including an annual theme issue, for an intellectual, but not necessarily academic, readership.
Read more about Michigan Quarterly Review
www.umich.edu/~mqr/

 

Mid-American Review poetry, fiction, nonfiction, essays, reviews translations

Midway Journal drama, fiction, poetry, nonfiction [o]

The Midwest Quarterly poetry, essay, review

the minnesota review poetry, fiction, interviews, reviews, essays

Minnetonka Review

Minnetonka Review is a national independent print literary journal, featuring only the finest and most engaging fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction by both seasoned writers and newcomers.
Read more about Minnetonka Review
Minnetonkareview.com

 

MiPOesias poetry, fiction, recipes, essays, reviews, interviews

Miracle Monocle poetry, fiction [o]

Miranda Literary Magazine

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. [o]
Read more about Miranda Literary Magazine
www.mirandamagazine.com

Mississippi Review

Mississippi Review features National Book Award winners, Pulitzer Prize winners, National Book Critics Circle winners as well as hundreds of new writers.
Read more about Mississippi Review
www.mississippireview.com

 

The Missouri Review poetry, fiction, nonfiction

Mizna poetry, prose, art, Arab America

Modern Haibun & Tank Prose haibun, tanka prose, articles, essays, reviews, interviews

Modern Haiku haiku, haibun, essays, reviews, artwork

Moloch poetry, fiction, artwork [o]

The Mom Egg poetry, fiction, prose, art, features, reviews [o]

Monday Night poetry, prose

Monkeybicycle poetry, prose

The Monongahela Review poetry, prose, visual art [o]

Moon City Review poetry, fiction, nonfiction, criticism, translations, art

moonset poetry, photography

The Moose & Pussy poetry, fiction, art, nonfiction, essays, comics

More than Thought poetry, fiction, criticism, reviews [o]

Moria poetry, poetry reviews, theory articles, e-books [o]

Mudfish

Mudfish, a journal of art and poetry, takes its title from the Nigerian storyteller’s stool. It is highly acclaimed, full of daring and breathtaking work.
Read more about Mudfish
www.mudfishmag.com [link not working]

 

Mudlark poetry, essays [o]

Murdaland crime fiction

Mythium poetry, fiction, nonfiction

 

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n+1 nonfiction, literary fiction, politics, culture

NANO Fiction short stories, prose, experimental works, comics

nanomajority literature, art [o]

Narrative Magazine

Narrative is the leading online publisher of first-rank fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Narrative is dedicated to advancing the literary arts in the digital age. [o]
Read more about Narrative Magazine
www.narrativemagazine.com

 

Natural Bridge poetry fiction, nonfiction, translations

Naugatuck River Review poetry

The Ne'er-Do-Well fiction, nonfiction

New American Writing poetry, fiction

New CollAge poetry, fiction, nonfiction, artwork, hybrid

The New Delta Review poetry, fiction, essays, book reviews, interviews, artwork

New England Review

New England Review distinguishes itself with a fine blend of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction that is both challenging and inviting to the general reader.
Read more about New England Review
cat.middlebury.edu/~nereview

 

New Genre science fiction, horror fiction

New Letters

The international magazine of writing and art.  Essays, poetry, fiction, interviews, reviews, features, and special issues delighting readers for over 72 years.
Read more about New Letters
www.newletters.org/

New Madrid

New Madrid is the national journal of the low-residency MFA program at Murray State University.
Read more about New Madrid
www.newmadridjournal.org/

 

New Millennium Writings

An annual anthology filled with vibrant imagery, word craft and pure story telling talent. NMW is a winner of a Golden Press Card Award for Excellence.
Read more about New Millennium Writings
www.newmillenniumwritings.com

New Ohio Review

NOR is particularly, though not exclusively, interested in work that blurs conventional boundaries and resists easy definition.
Read more about The New Ohio Review
www.ohiou.edu/nor/

New Orleans Review

New Orleans Review, publishing contemporary poetry, fiction, nonfiction, art, photography, and film and book reviews, is engaging, challenging, surprising, and always good looking.
Read more about New Orleans Review
neworleansreview.org

 

New Plains Review poetry, fiction, essays, creative nonfiction drama, art, photograpy

Newport Review poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, mixed forms, photography [o]

The New Quarterly

The New Quarterly is an award-winning magazine that celebrates the best in contemporary Canadian fiction, poetry, and talk about writing.
Read more about The New Quarterly
www.tnq.ca

the new renaissance

Publishing the best work of emerging and established writers and visual artists, along with cutting-edge lead articles of social/political significance, and bilingual pieces.
Read more about the new renaissance
www.tnrlitmag.net/

 

New River Journal writing, digital art [o]

New South

New South publishes quality fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction from both established and emerging writers, regardless of style, subject or genre.
Read more about New South
www.review.gsu.edu

 

The New Verse News poetry [o]

The New York Quarterly

Since 1969, the New York Quarterly has been devoted to excellence in the publication of the best cross-section of contemporary poetry.
Read more about The New York Quarterly
www.nyquarterly.org/

 

New York Tyrant poetry, fiction

Night Train poetry, fiction [o]

Nimrod

Nimrod discovers new writers of poetry and prose in two annual issues: a thematic issue and an Awards issue.
Read more about Nimrod
www.utulsa.edu/nimrod/

 

Ninth Letter

Ninth Letter is a journal of art and literature featuring a wide range of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and visual art in various media.
Read more about Ninth Letter
www.ninthletter.com/

 

NōD Magazine artwork

NOÖ Journal poetry, short fiction, monologues, essays, art, photography [o]

Noon fiction

The Normal School poetry, fiction, nonfiction, reviews, criticism, recipes, video, audio

The North American Review poetry, fiction, nonfiction

North Atlantic Review poetry, prose, short fiction, essay, song

North Carolina Literary Review poetry, fiction, nonfiction, interviews, articles

North Central Review poetry, short fiction, drama, creative nonfiction, mixed genre

North Dakota Quarterly poetry, fiction, nonfiction, criticism

Northwest Review poetry, fiction, essays, translations

No Tell Motel poetry [o]

Notre Dame Review poetry, fiction

The November 3rd Club political poetry, fiction, nonfiction [o]

nthposition poetry, fiction, nonfiction, reviews [o]

nthWORD poetry, fiction, articles, visual art, satire [o]

 

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Oak Bend Review poetry, fiction, musings, art, photography

Obsidian poetry, fiction, drama, nonfiction, African Diaspora

Ocho poetry

Octopus Magazine poetry [o]

Of(f)course poetry, fiction, essays, reviews, concerts, art [o]

Off the Coast poetry, photography

The Oleander Review poetry, fiction, nonfiction, visual art

One Less Magazine poetry, prose, artwork

One Page Stories fiction, memoir, personal essays [o]

One Story short fiction

On Spec

On Spec is a magazine of “fantastic” literature—science fiction, fantasy, horror and magic realism. We focus on character-driven work.
Read more about On Spec
www.onspec.ca

 

 

On the Premises fiction [o]

Open City poetry, short fiction

Open Letters Monthly poetry, prose [o]

Open Minds Quarterly poetry, fiction, essays, mental illness

Opium fiction, poetry

Oranges & Sardines poetry, art

Orange Coast Review poetry, fiction, nonfiction, art, photography

Oregon Literary Review fiction, drama, nonfiction, poetry, art, music [o]

The Other Journal critical essays, reviews, creative writing, visual/performance art [o]

Other Voices (Canada) fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, visual art

Otoliths (Australia) poetry, vispo, fiction, essays, photography, artwork [o]

ouroboros review poetry, art

Our Stories

Our Stories, an online magazine, publishes short stories from emerging writers and interviews with established authors. Every submission receives feedback from their editors. Don't just submit. Learn to receive. [o]
Read more about Our Stories
www.ourstories.us

 

out of nothing image, sound, text, digital art [o]

Oval prose, poetry, visual art

OVS Magazine poetry, art

Oxford American fiction, nonfiction, photography, poetry

Oxford Magazine fiction, poetry, new media, essays [o]

Oyez Review poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, art

Ozone Park poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, plays, translations [o]

 

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Pacific Coast Journal poetry, short stories

pacific REVIEW poetry, fiction, nonfiction, art, photography

Packingtown Review poetry, prose, drama, cultural commentary

Paddlefish poetry, fiction, nonfiction, essays, memoir, photography

Painted Bride Quarterly poetry, fiction, essays, reviews, artwork [o]

PALABRA poetry, fiction, short drama, novel excerpts

Palehouse poetry, short prose, essays, one page experiments

Palimpsest poetry, prose, artwork

PANK Magazine

PANK Magazine publishes new, bright, quirky poetry and prose. [o]
Read more about PANK Magazine
www.pankmagazine.com

Paradigm

Featuring new, exciting voices alongside established writers and artists, Paradigm is a quarterly online literary journal that is eclectic, surprising, and innovative. [o]
Read more about Paradigm
paradigmjournal.com

 

ParaSpheres fiction

The Paris Review

A quarterly that has consistently sought out strong new voices in the literary world. Now edited by Philip Gourevitch.
Read more about The Paris Review
www.theparisreview.org/

 

 

Parnassus poetry, criticism, essays

Parthenon West Review poetry, translations

Passager poetry, fiction, memoir

Passages North

For thirty years, Passages North has published quality fiction, nonfiction and poetry from both established and emerging writers.
Read more about Passages North
myweb.nmu.edu/~passages/

Paterson Literary Review

The Paterson Literary Review (PLR) is a multicultural literary review established in 1979.  PLR features work by well-known writers as well as by writers who will soon be well-known.
Read more about Paterson Literary Review
www.pccc.edu/poetry/ 

Paul Revere's Horse

Paul Revere’s Horse is a print journal that publishes exploratory prose and poetic texts, translations, poetic reclamation projects, interviews, and other literary investigations.
Read more about Paul Revere's Horse
www.paulrevereshorse.org/

 

Pax Americana poetry, prose, multimedia [o]

Pearl poetry, short fiction, black and white artwork

The Pedestal Magazine poetry, fiction, book reviews, interviews [o]

Pemmican poetry [o]

PEN America poetry, fiction, conversation, criticism, memoir

Pequin prose, plays, excerpts, recollections, narratives, photography [o]

Per Contra poetry, fiction, nonfiction [o]

Peregrine poetry, fiction, short personal essays

Perigee poetry, prose, visual art [o]

Perihelion poetry [o]

Permafrost poetry, fiction, nonfiction, artwork

Persimmon Tree

Persimmon Tree is an online literary magazine by women over sixty. It includes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and art. It showcases the often-unrecognized talent and skill of older women. [o]
Read more about Persimmon Tree
www.persimmontree.org

PHOEBE

For 33 years, Phoebe has supported new writers, whose voice, form, and subject matter vigorously appeal to the senses, intellect, and emotions of our readers.
Read more about PHOEBE
phoebejournal.com

Pif Magazine

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 nonfiction, essays, and books reviews, and anything in between. [o]
Read more about Pif Magazine
www.pifmagazine.com

 

Pilgrimage poetry, creative prose, personal essays

Pinch poetry, fiction, nonfiction, art

Pindeldyboz fiction, cartoons [o]

Ping Pong fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art

Plain Spoke poetry, fiction

Pleiades poetry, fiction, essays, reviews

Ploughshares poetry, fiction, nonfiction

PMS poemmemoirstory

A journal of women’s writing with selections reprinted in Best American Poetry, Best American Essays, New Stories from the South, and Best Creative Nonfiction.
Read more about PMS poemmemoirstory
www.pms-journal.org/

 

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

poemeleon poetry, essays, interviews [o]

Poems & Plays poetry, drama

Poesia poetry [Spring 2010 forthcoming final issue]

Poet Lore

The oldest continuously published poetry magazine in the United States. Poet Lore publishes contemporary poetry.
Read more about Poet Lore
www.poetlore.com

 

 

Poetica poetry, short-short fiction

Poetic Diversity poetry [o]

Poetry

The oldest, boldest, and most distinguished monthly for and about poetry in the English-speaking world.
Read more about Poetry
www.poetrymagazine.org/

 

 

Poetry Bay poetry, essays, reviews, interviews [o]

Poetry East poetry, translations, criticism, interviews, and art

Poetry Flash

Publishes reviews, essays, interviews, poems, calls for submissions, and contest information for all creative writers, with comprehensive literary listings for the West.
Read more about Poetry Flash
www.poetryflash.org

 

Poetry International poetry

Poetry International Web poetry, translations, news, essays, interviews, discussion [o]

Poetry Kanto poetry, translations

Poetry Magazine poetry [o]

Poetry Miscellany poetry, essay, translation, photography

Poetry Northwest poetry

Poetry Porch poetry [o]

PoetrySky poetry [o]

Poetry Sz poetry [o]

Poets' Quarterly reviews, interviews [o]

Polyphony H.S. poetry, fiction, nonfiction

POOL poetry

Porchlight poetry, fiction, nonfiction, photography, graphic art, comics [o]

Portland Review

A cutting edge literary journal of short fiction, poetry, art and photography. Founded in 1956, published thrice yearly by Portland State University.
Read more about Portland Review
www.portlandreview.pdx.edu/

 

POST NO ILLS

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. [o]
Read more about POST NO ILLS
www.postnoills.com

 

Post Road poetry, fiction, nonfiction, criticism, drama, art

Potomac Review poetry, prose, art, photography

P-queue prose poetry hybrid

Practice poetry, prose, mixed genre, art

The Prague Revue poetry, fiction, reviews, drama, essays, photography

Prairie Fire poetry, fiction, nonfiction, photography

Prairie Margins poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction

Prairie Schooner

Prairie Schooner, a national literary quarterly published since 1926, is home to the best fiction, poetry, essays, and reviews by beginning, mid-career, and established writers.
Read more about Prairie Schooner
prairieschooner.unl.edu

Prick of the Spindle

Prick of the Spindle is a literary journal publishing poetry, fiction, nonfiction, essays, reviews, and drama. Issues are published quarterly and include author interviews. [o]
Read more about Prick of the Spindle
www.prickofthespindle.com

 

Prism Review poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction

Prune Juice senryu, kyoka [o]

A Public Space poetry, fiction, nonfiction, translations, novel excerpts, artwork

Puerto Del Sol poetry, fiction, essays

 

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Qarrtsiluni nonfiction, poetry, short fiction, photographs, digitized artwork, short films [o]

Quarter After Eight prose

The Quarterly Conversation book reviews, essays, interviews [o]

Quarterly West poetry and prose

Quercus Review

QR is a prominent literary arts journal, publishing award-winning authors and artists from around the world. QR continues to discover new and emerging voices.
Read more about Quercus Review
www.quercusreview.com

 

Quick Fiction flash fiction

Quicksilver poetry, fiction, nonfiction [o]

Quiddity poetry, prose

Quills Canadian Poetry Magazine poetry

Rabbit Light Movies video poetry [o]

Raleigh Quarterly poetry, fiction, essays [o]

Ramble Underground

Ramble Underground is an online quarterly journal of fiction. We believe that art begins beneath the surface. We seek literary bravery. [o]
Read more about Ramble Underground
www.rambleunderground.org

 

Raritan poetry, essays, fiction

Rattle

RATTLE is the journal for people who love poetry—whether they realize it yet, or not.
Read more about Rattle
www.rattle.com/

 

Raving Dove

Raving Dove's mission is to share thought-provoking poetry, prose, and art that champions human rights and social justice-and opposes physical and psychological violence in all its forms, including war, discrimination against sexual orientation, and every shade of bigotry. [o]
Read more about Raving Dove
www.ravingdove.org

 

The Reader (UK) poetry, fiction, nonfiction, articles, reviews

Read This poetry, fiction, nonfiction, essays, drama, photography, graphic art

REAL (Regarding Arts & Letters) poetry, fiction, nonfiction

RealPoetik poetry [o]

Redactions poetry, poetics

Red Cedar Review poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction, black and white photography

Redheaded Stepchild poetry [o]

Red Rock Review

Dedicated to publishing the best literature available. We have published authors from all parts of the country.
Read more about Red Rock Review
sites.csn.edu/english/redrockreview/

 

Redivider

Redivider features a fresh and eclectic selection of poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, and art by both emerging and established artists.
Read more about Redivider
www.redividerjournal.org/

 

Reed poetry, prose

Relief poetry, prose

Reverie literature by African Americans

Review Americana poetry, screenplays, fiction, creative nonfiction [o]

Review of Contemporary Fiction criticism, book reviews

Rhino

RHINO features innovative poetry, short shorts and translations. Literary Magazine Review believes RHINO is “an annual that anyone interested in American poetry should attend to.”
Read more about Rhino
www.rhinopoetry.org/

 

Rhythm Poetry Magazine poetry [o]

Ricepaper Magazine fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translation, play excerpts, visual art

Right Hand Pointing poetry, fiction, art [o]

Rio Grande Review fiction, poetry, non-fiction, translations

A River & Sound Review poetry, fiction, humor, nonfiction [o]

riverbabble poetry, short fiction, criticism [o]

River Styx

River Styx is a multicultural literary and arts magazine that has been publishing thoughtful yet accessible literature and art since 1975.
Read more about River Styx
www.riverstyx.org/

 

River Teeth

River Teeth - Where good writing counts and facts matter.
Read more about River Teeth
www.ashland.edu/riverteeth/

 

 

 

Rivets poetry, fiction, artwork [o]

r.kv.r.y. poetry, fiction, nonfiction, shorts [o]

Road Runner Haiku Journal haiku [o]

Roanoke Review poetry, fiction

roger

roger, an art & literary magazine, features fresh, energetic literary fiction, poetry, and translations by established and emerging writers, both nationally and internationally.
Read more about roger
departments.rwu.edu/creative_writing/roger/

 

Room poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction, art

Rose & Thorn poetry, fiction, nonfiction [o]

Rosebud poetry, creative prose, art

Rougarou poetry, fiction, nonfiction, book reviews [o]

Rough Copy poetry, fiction, nonfiction, interviews [o]

The Round poetry, prose. visual art

rumble micro-fiction [o]

Ruminate

Ruminate is for everyone who has paused over a good word, a real story, a perfect brushstroke—longing for the significance they point us toward.
Read more about Ruminate
www.ruminatemagazine.com

 

Rust+Moth poetry, photography, art [o]

 

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The Saint Ann's Review

The Saint Ann's Review is an eclectic compendium of the best-crafted writing around.
Read more about Saint Ann's Review
www.saintannsreview.org/

 

Salamander

Specializes in publishing highly accomplished poetry, fiction, and memoirs by writers who deserve a wider audience for their work.
Read more about Salamander
www.salamandermag.org

 

Salmagundi essays, reviews, interviews, fiction, poetry, columns

The Salt Flats Annual poetry, fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction

Salt Hill poetry, fiction, nonfiction

The Salt River Review poetry, fiction, reviews [o]

The Sand Hill Review poetry, fiction

The Santa Clara Review poetry, fiction, nonfiction, art

Santa Fe Literary Review poetry, fiction, nonfiction, art

Santa Monica Review

SMR features smart, funny, politically-engaged, avant-garde, language and character-driven literary fiction and nonfiction. SMR showcases Southern California writers.
Read about Santa Monica Review
www.smc.edu/sm_review/

Saranac Review

The Saranac Review publishes the best fiction, poetry and non-fiction of emerging and established writers from Canada, the United States and internationally.
Read more about Saranac Review
research.plattsburgh.edu/saranacreview

 

Saw Palm poetry, fiction, nonfiction, reviews, art, photography [o]

Scalped poetry, fiction, prose, art [o]

Scarab (iPhone) poetry, prose [o]

Scheherezade's Bequest poetry, fiction [o]

The Scrambler poetry, fiction, reviews, music, photography [o]

The Scruffy Dog Review interviews, fiction, poetry, articles, book reviews [o]

Sea Breeze Journal of Contemporary Liberian Writings poetry, prose [o]

The Seattle Review poetry, prose

Second Run poetry, fiction, plays, essays [o]

Segue poetry, fiction, nonfiction [o]

Seneca Review

Seneca Review specializes in innovative poetry, translations from around the world, and the lyric essay. Work from the magazine is regularly featured in annual anthologies.
Read more about Seneca Review
www.hws.edu/academics/SenecaReview/

 

Sentence prose poetry

The Sewanee Review

Having never missed an issue in 113 years, the Sewanee Review is the oldest continuously published literary quarterly in the country. Begun in 1892 at The University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, the Review is devoted to American and British fiction, poetry, and reviews--as well as essays in criticism and reminiscence.
Read more about The Sewanee Review
www.sewanee.edu/sewanee_review

 

sfwp fiction, book reviews [o]

Shadow Train poetry, translations, articles [o]

Shady Side Review poetry, fiction, nonfiction [o]

shaking like a mountain poetry, fiction, nonfiction, art [o]

Shampoo poetry [o]

Shape of a Box video poetry, prose [o]

Shelf Life articles, poetry, fiction [o]

Shenandoah

“Shenandoah has long been a showcase for exceptional writing.” -- The Washington Post Book World.  For 55 years Washington and Lee’s lively gallery for the literary arts.
Read more about Shenandoah
shenandoah.wlu.edu/

 

Shit Creek Review poetry [o]

sic poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, memoir, art, photography

Sidebrow poetry, prose, art [o]

The Sienese Shredder poetry, critical writing, art, music

Silenced Press poetry, prose [o]

Silk Road

A literary microcosm of the known world, takes readers places – real or imagined, minute or vast, evolving or timeless.
Read more about Silk Road
silkroad.pacificu.edu/
 

 

Sinister Wisdom poetry, short fiction, essays

SIR! poetry [o]

Siren poetry, prose, nonfiction [o]

Sirena poetry, essays, translations

Six Little Things short works, art [o]

sixth finch poetry, art [o]

Skidrow Penthouse

Skidrow Penthouse is an elegant 300+ page journal that contains the richest and widest possible range of poetry, fiction, and art.
Read more about Skidrow Penthouse
www.skidrowpenthouse.com/
 

 

Slab poetry, fiction, art

Slant poetry

SleepingFish prose, art, photography

Sleet Magazine

Sleet Magazine proudly presents extraordinary fiction, poetry, and irregulars online. Sleet: intelligent, sexy, writer-friendly. “Sleet is so f***ing cool.” – Suzanne Nielsen. [o]
Read more about Sleet Magazine
Sleetmagazine.com

 

Slice short fiction, nonfiction, novellas

Slipstream  poetry, artwork, black & white photography

Sliptongue Magazine erotic fiction [o]

Slow Trains poetry, fiction, essays [o]

Slush Pile poetry, fiction, music, movies, art

Smartish Pace poetry

Smokebox poetry, fiction, essays, culture, music, sports, photography [o]

The Smoking Poet poetry, fiction, nonfiction, reviews [o]

SmokeLong Quarterly flash fiction [o]

Snakeskin poetry [o]

SNReview

SNReview is a quarterly online literary magazine (available in print) of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. [o]
Read more about SNReview
www.snreview.org

 

Sojourn fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, translation, scripts

Soliloquies (Canada) poetry, fiction, nonfiction, drama, visual art

Solo Cafe poetry, book reviews

SoMa Literary Review creative work related to San Francisco [o]

Somnambulist Quarterly poetry, fiction, photo essays [o]

Sonora Review poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction

So to Speak poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and visual art.

Soundings East poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction

Sous Rature poetry, prose, cross-genre, art [o]

The Southampton Review poetry, fiction, nonfiction, art

The South Carolina Review poetry, fiction, articles, essays, criticism

South Dakota Review poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, essays

The Southeast Review

Florida State University’s literary magazine of merit, publishing quality fiction, poetry, and nonfiction since 1979
Read more about The Southeast Review
www.southeastreview.org

 

 

Southern California Review poetry, fiction, drama, screenplays

Southern Humanities Review

Fiction, poetry, personal and critical essays, and book reviews on the arts, literature, philosophy, religion, cultural studies, and history by new and established writers.  Also publishes translations.
Read more about Southern Humanities Review
www.auburn.edu/english/shr/home.htm

 

Southern Indiana Review poetry, fiction, nonfiction, artwork

Southern Literary Journal scholarly essays, articles

Southern Poetry Review

Southern Poetry Review celebrates 50 years of publishing some of the best poetry in America from leading writers around the world.
Read more about Southern Poetry Review
www.spr.armstrong.edu/

 

The Southern Quarterly poetry, fiction, nonfiction, reviews, interviews, visual art, music

The Southern Review

The Southern Review is an elegantly designed literary quarterly dedicated to publishing only the finest in poetry and prose by new and established writers.
Read more about The Southern Review
www.lsu.edu/thesouthernreview/

 

Southern Women's Review poetry, fiction, nonfiction, photography [o]

South Loop Review:
Creative Nonfiction + Art

South Loop Review: Creative Nonfiction + Art is a literary journal of Creative Nonfiction and Art. We publish essays and memoir in lyric and experimental forms.
Read more about South Loop Review
english.colum.edu/southloop

Southwest Review

Striving to publish the best in essays, fiction, and poetry both nationally and internationally.
Read more about Southwest Review
http://www.smu.edu/southwestreview

 

Sou'wester

Publishing the finest fiction, poetry, author interviews, translations, and creative nonfiction for nearly a half-century. Our only literary creed is excellence.
Read more about Sou'wester
www.siue.edu/ENGLISH/SW/

 

 

The Sow's Ear Poetry Review poetry, mixed media, art

specs fiction, non-fiction, cultural criticism, artwork, poetry

Spindle

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. [o]
Read more about Spindle
www.spindlezine.com

 

Spinning Jenny poetry

Splash of Red

Online literary arts magazine based in Asbury Park, NJ for poetry, prose, and art. [o]
Read more about Splash of Red
www.splashofred.net/
 

 

The Splinter Generation poetry, fiction, nonfiction, art [o]

The Spoon Cafe nonfiction, fiction [o]

The Spoon River Poetry Review

Contemporary poetry in English from the U.S. and around the world in English translation. Recent poets include Alicia Ostriker, Beth Ann Fennelly, and Stuart Dybek.
Read more about The Spoon River Poetry Review
www.litline.org/spoon/

 

Sport Literate creative nonfiction

Spout poetry, fiction, art

Squid Quarterly prose poetry, fiction [o]

Stickman Review poetry, prose, artwork [o]

Still poetry, fiction, nonfiction [o]

Stirring poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction, photography [o]

Stone's Throw Magazine poetry, fiction, nonfiction, art[o]

Storyglossia fiction [o]

Story Quarterly fiction, nonfiction

Storyscape poetry, prose, art [o]

storySouth fiction, poetry, art [o]

St. Petersburg Review

A culturally diverse independent, international review of contemporary literature.
Read more about St. Petersburg Review
www.stpetersburgreview.com/

The Straddler

The Straddler is an online interdisciplinary journal of culture, publishing innovative criticism, essays, art, poetry, fiction and interviews, all of which aim to examine and transform their cultural context. [o]
Read more about the Straddler
www.thestraddler.com

 

Straightjackets Magazine short stories, essays, political commentary, personal memoirs, poetry, book excerpts [o]

Strange Horizons speculative fiction, poetry, articles, reviews, art [o]

Strange Machine Poetry poetry [o]

Straylight poetry, fiction, photography, art [o]

Stride Magazine poetry, articles, reviews [o]

SUB-LIT

SUB-LIT, an online magazine, 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. [o]
Read more about SUB-LIT
www.sub-lit.com

 

subTerrain poetry, fiction, nonfiction, art, book reviews

SubtleTea poetry, prose, essays, reviews, novel excerpts, visual art [o]

Subtropics

Subtropics is committed to publishing the best new poetry, fiction, literary nonfiction, and translation by emerging and established writers.
Read more about Subtropics
www.english.ufl.edu/subtropics/

 

 

Sugar House Review poetry

Sugar Mule poetry, fiction, nonfiction [o]

The Summerset Review short fiction, essays [o]

The Sun fiction, poetry, essay

Sunday Salon poetry, nonfiction, interviews [o]

Sunsets & Silencers poetry, fiction, nonfiction, essays, art, photography, comics [o]

Super Arrow text, art, folio [o]

Superstition Review

Founded in 2007 by faculty and students from Arizona State University's Polytechnic campus, Superstition Review, an online magazine, is committed to publishing fresh fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, book reviews, interviews and art. [o]
Read more about Superstition Review
www.superstitionreview.com

 

Survivor's Review fiction, essays, poetry [o]

Suss poetry, fiction, nonfiction, interviews, reviews, gossip [o]

Swamp poetry, fiction, nonfiction, memoir [o]

Sweet poetry, nonfiction [o]

Swell GLBT fiction, nonfiction, poetry [o]

Switchback fiction, nonfiction, poetry, critical essays, art [o]

Switched-on Gutenberg poetry [o]

Swink poetry, fiction, essay, memoir [o]

Sycamore Review poetry, fiction, nonfiction, book reviews, art

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

 

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Taddle Creek fiction, poetry

Talking River poetry, fiction, nonfiction

Tampa Review

Tampa Review is a literary gallery space in print, presenting new writing and visual arts from Florida and the world.
Read more about Tampa Review
tampareview.ut.edu/

 

 

Tarpaulin Sky poetry, short fiction, reviews [o]

Tar River Poetry poetry, interviews, reviews

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

Teacher's Voice poetry, short short stories, essays, creative nonfiction [o]

Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments poetry, essays, fiction, articles, reviews, interviews, artwork [o]

Texas Review poetry, short fiction, nonfiction

THEMA

THEMA is a theme-related literary journal of stories, poetry, artwork and photography.  Each issue has a different unusual theme.
Read more about THEMA
members.cox.net/thema/

 

Thieves Jargon

New writing every day, M-F. Five years running. [o]
Read more about Thieves Jargon
www.thievesjargon.com 

 

 

 

Think Journal poetry, fiction, novel excerpts, essays, artwork

Third Coast poetry, fiction, nonfiction, drama, translations 

The Threepenny Review poetry, articles, criticism

TIFERET

TIFERET offers poetry and prose from a variety of spiritual and religious traditions.
Read more about TIFERET
www.tiferetjournal.com

 

Tin House

A highly acclaimed quarterly literary journal based in Portland, Oregon, and New York City, and distributed throughout North America.
Read more about Tin House
www.tinhouse.com

 

Toasted Cheese poetry, fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction [o]

Torch poetry [o]

The Tower Journal poetry, fiction, essays, art [o]

Town Creek Poetry poetry [o]

Trickhouse poetry, prose, visual art, video, sound, interviews [o]

Triggerfish Critical Review poetry [o]

TriQuarterly

TriQuarterly is an international journal of writing, art, and cultural inquiry.
Read more about TriQuarterly
www.triquarterly.org/

 

 

Tuesday poetry, photography

The Tulane Review poetry, prose

Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature articles, notes

turnrow poetry, prose, essays, interviews, visual art

The Tusculum Review poetry, fiction, essays, one acts, mixed genre, art

Twelve Stories short fiction [o]

Two Hawks Quarterly fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, genre x [o]

Two Review poetry, nonfiction [o]

 

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Umbrella poetry, prose, art [o]

Underground Voices poetry, fiction, nonfiction, flash fiction [o]

upstreet

An award-winning literary annual containing quality, cutting-edge fiction, cnf and poetry, with an author interview in each issue. “…rampant with talent.”—Berkshire Bright Focus
Read more about upstreet
http://www.upstreet-mag.org

 

Vallum poetry, essays, interviews, poetry reviews, art

Valparaiso Poetry Review poetry, book reviews, interviews, essays [o]

Versal

Versal carries on Holland's merchant tradition by collecting high quality fiction, poetry and art from around the globe and redirecting it throughout the world.
Read more about Versal
www.wordsinhere.com

Verse

Verse focuses on contemporary poetry in English and translation, innovative short fiction, interviews with writers, and criticism.
Read more about Verse
versemag.blogspot.com/

 

Vestal Review flash fiction

Virginia Quarterly Review

Vulcan

Recovering originality through treason || Read by criminals and illiterates || Finding neology in the portmanteau || Vulcan publishes writing, art and photography that is incongruent with the norm...
Read more about Vulcan
www.vulcanfire.org

 

Waccamaw fiction, poetry, nonfiction [o]

The Wanderlust Review poetry, fiction, nonfiction, drama, photography, artwork [o]

Wag's Revue poetry, fiction, nonfiction [o]

Wallace Stevens Journal articles, poetry, book reviews, news, bibliographies

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

Wasafiri (UK) fiction, essays, articles, interviews, reviews

Washington Square poetry, fiction

Water~Stone Review

"Water~Stone Review is one of the most elegant, substantial literary journals anywhere on the American scene....It will nourish and uplift you."  Naomi Shihab Nye
Read more about Water~Stone Review
www.waterstonereview.com/

 

Wazee poetry, fiction, nonfiction [o]

We Are Champion poetry, fiction [o]

Weave Magazine

Weave is a biannual art and literary publication with a tendency toward feminist topics, magical realism, and dark humor.
Read more about Weave
www.weavemagazine.net

 

 

Weber poetry, fiction

West Branch

“There is only one word for this journal: superb.” — NewPages.com. Poetry, fiction, essays, and reviews from the Stadler Center for Poetry.
Read more about West Branch
www1.bucknell.edu/WestBranch/

 

 

Western American Literature criticism, interdisciplinary literary work

Western Humanities Review poetry fiction, creative nonfiction, criticism

wheelhouse poetry, fiction, essays, art [o]

Whitefish Review fiction, poetry, photography

Wicked Alice Poetry Journal poetry [o]

Wilderness House Literary Review poetry, fiction, nonfiction, art, book reviews [o]

Wild River Review poetry, fiction, memoirs, essays, novellas [o]

Wild Violet poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, art, reviews, interviews [o]

Willow Springs

Willow Springs is a national literary journal affiliated with Eastern Washington University's Inland Northwest Center for Writers. We publish fiction, poetry, literary nonfiction, and interviews.
Read more about Willow Springs
willowsprings.ewu.edu/

Witness

Blends the features of a literary and an issue-oriented magazine to highlight the role of the modern writer as witness to his or her times.
Read more about Witness
witness.blackmountaininstitute.org

 

Women Writers: A Zine fiction, book reviews, critical essays [o]

Word Catalyst poetry, short stories, art, photography [o]

Word For Word poetry, prose, poetics, criticism, reviews, visuals [o]

Wordgathering disability poetry [o]

Wordletting poetry [o]

Word Riot book reviews, author interviews, fiction, nonfiction, poetry [o] 

Words and Images poetry, fiction

Words Without Borders international literature [o]

Workers Write! prose

World Literature Today

The award-winning World Literature Today, your window to world literature and culture for over eighty years.
Read more about World Literature Today
www.ou.edu/worldlit/

 

 

The Write Place at the Write Time poetry, fiction, photography, artwork, interviews [o]

The Writer's Block poetry, fiction, reviews, photography, artwork [o]

 

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Xcp Cross Cultural Poetics poetry, poetics, ethnography, culture

Yale Anglers' Journal poetry, prose, art

The Yale Review poetry, fiction, reviews

The Yalobusha Review poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, artwork, black and white photography

Yemassee poetry, fiction, nonfiction

Yellow Medicine Review

A platform for scholarly and creative expression of international voices. Each issue edited by a different Indigenous writer and contains only work from Indigenous perspectives.
Read more about Yellow Medicine Review
www.yellowmedicinereview.com

 

Ygdrasil international poetry, short stories, drama [o]

Zahir

An online journal of literary fantasy, science fiction, and magical realism.
Read more about Zahir
www.zahirtales.com/

 

 

Zaum poetry, prose, fiction, visual art

Zoetrope: All-Story short fiction, one acts

Zoland Poetry poetry

Zone 3

A well-established literary journal that publishes fiction, poetry, art, and creative non-fiction. Recent contributors include A. Van Jordan, David Keplinger, Paulette Roeske, and Michael Blumenthal.
Read more about Zone 3
www.apsu.edu/zone3/

 

ZYZZYVA poetry, fiction, nonfiction, translations, art, photography

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2River

Since 1996, an online 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. [o]
Read more about 2River
www.2river.org/

 

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

3rd Muse Poetry Journal poetry [o]

5 AM poetry

6x6 poetry

10x3 plus poetry

13th Moon poetry, fiction, art, photography

14 by 14 sonnets [o]

32 Poems poetry

34thParallel fiction, poetry, art, photography

63 Channels poetry, art, music

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

322 Review poetry, fiction, nonfiction, mixed media [o]

580 Split poetry, fiction