Home » NewPages Blog » Magazines » Magazine Stand

NewPages Blog :: New Magazine Issues

Stop by the NewPages Magazine Stand to find the latest issues of your favorite online, print, and electronic literary magazines.

Magazine Stand :: Colorado Review – Fall/Winter 2025

Colorado Review Fall Winter 2025 magazine cover image

The newest issue of Colorado Review (Fall/Winter 2025) addresses many kinds of knowing and unknowing through essays, stories, and poems — people reaching for what evades them — sometimes glimpsing it, sometimes grasping it, sometimes missing it altogether. In each of the works, what is imagined, desired, feared, forgotten, or remembered can both tease and torment. But sometimes the remedy is trusting intuition, even in the darkness. As we move closer to the darkest days of the year, these contributors offer a way to find a bit of light: Dana Cann, Thea Chacamaty, Amanda DeMatto, Shira Dentz, Allison Hutchcraft, Katherine Irajpanah, Mark Irwin, Jenna Johnson, Robert Krut, Daniel Kuo, Heather Kirn Lanier, Christine Larusso, Ezra Garey Levine, Andrew Maxwell, Jenny Molberg, Nathaniel Perry, Jacques J. Rancourt, Marney Rathbun, Mariah Rigg, Madeleine Scott, Craig Morgan Teicher, and G.C. Waldrep.

Magazine Stand :: The Malahat Review – 232

The Malahat Review 232 cover image

The Malahat Review 232 features the winner of the 2025 Far Horizons Award for Short Fiction, “Little Paradiso” by Gladwell Pamba as well as poetry by Daniel Naawenkangua Abukuri, Ambrose Albert, Isobel Burke, George Elliott Clarke, Marlene Cookshaw, Guy Elston, John Lent, Edward Luetkehoelter, Ismail Yusuf Olumoh, Elizabeth Philips, Ben Robinson, Mark Truscott, and Jade Wallace; fiction by Daryl Bruce, Brett Nelson, and Jean-Christophe Réhel (translated from the French by Neil Smith); and creative nonfiction by Paul Dhillon, and Karine Hack. Cover art: Labyrinth 8 (detail), 2021 by  Chukwudubem Ukaigwe, (photo: Steven Cottingham).

Discover loads more great lit mags with our Guide to Literary Magazines, Big List of Literary Magazines, and Big List of Alternative Magazines. If you are a publication looking to be listed in our monthly roundup or featured on our blog and social media, please contact us.

Magazine Stand :: Jewish Fiction – 41

Jewish Fiction logo

Jewish Fiction announces their 41st issue! This fabulous new issue contains 15 stories originally written in Ladino, Hebrew, and English, and includes, in celebration of the upcoming holiday, two stories set on Chanukah. Readers have free, online access to works by Dvora Baron, Elia Karmona, Michoel Moshel, Miryam Sivan, Steve Saroff, Galina Vromen, Jessica Keener, Jake Wolff, Sky Sofer, Cynthia Gordon Kaye, Alanna Schubach, Jordan Silversmith, Hal Ackerman, Joe Kraus, and Leon Craig.

Discover loads more great lit mags with our Guide to Literary Magazines, Big List of Literary Magazines, and Big List of Alternative Magazines. If you are a publication looking to be listed in our monthly roundup or featured on our blog and social media, please contact us.

Magazine Stand :: Bennington Review – Issue 14

Bennington Review Issue 14 cover image

Editor Michael Dumanis opens Bennington Review Issue 14 reflecting on the power of language — its creative limits in art, its manipulation in politics, and its real-world consequences — from Russia’s censorship during the Ukraine invasion to the U.S. government’s rhetorical distortions. Like many efforts in the arts, the NEA withdrew Bennington Review‘s funding due to newly politicized priorities. Dumanis acknowledges the support of readers for sustaining the journal and introduces the writing and art that challenge language’s constraints.

Contributors to this issue include Natalie Shapero, William Ward Butler, Aaron Baker, Steve Fellner, Lauren Swift, David Baker, Jen Frantz, Daniel Borzutzky, Randall Potts, Paul Ilechko, Jonathan Duckworth, Stevie Edwards, Michael Quattrone, Maggie Dietz, Delilah Silberman, Sébastien Luc Butler, Maja Lukic, Julia Thacker, Jenny Grassl, Johanna Magin, Angie Macri, Yerra Sugarman, Chelsea Desautels, Joe Hall, Xiadi Zhai, Virginia Konchan, Chris Vasantkumar, Austin Araujo, Jill McDonough, Aza Pace, Sasha Burshteyn, William Virgil Davis, Jeff Hardin, Michael Waters, Kirsten Kaschock, Kevin Mclellan, Beth Weinstock, D.C. Gonzales-Prieto, Olatunde Osinaike, Cortney Lamar Charleston, Matthew Klane, John Dermot Woods, Tyler Barton, Elizabeth Hart Bergstrom , Tom Howard, Jordan Hubrich, David Stuart Maclean, Daniel Kleifgen, Aryn Kyle, Brian Schwartz, Laurence Ross, George Choundas, Emmeline Clein, and Justin Quarry.

Calling Poets with Books :: One Poem Reviews

The Lake online magazine of poetry and reviews logo image

The Lake online poetry magazine publishes the best contemporary poetry and reviews monthly. Poet and Editor John Murphy is a champion of poets, both emerging and established, offering the unique monthly feature called ‘One Poem Reviews.’ Murphy says he started this because “it’s not easy getting a book or pamphlet accepted for review these days. So in addition to the regular review section, the One Poem Review feature will allow more poets’ to reach a wider audience — one poem featured from a new book/pamphlet along with a cover image and a link to the publisher’s website.”

If you are a poet, One Page Reviews invites you to share a poem from a recently published collection The Lake readers. This is a great way to get more exposure for your book, make some sales, and connect with other poets.

All you need to do is read the current issue or peruse the archive to get some idea of The Lake‘s aesthetic. If The Lake is a good match, send three poems from your book, a .jpg of the cover and a link to the publisher’s website.

The Midwest Quarterly – Fall 2025

The Midwest Quarterly Fall 2025 magazine cover image

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought is published by Pittsburg State University with the objective to discover and publish scholarly articles with a broad range of subjects of current interest. The newest issue (Fall 2025) features the articles “Place, Identity, and Resistance in the River Poetry of Emma Perez and Natalie Diaz” by Donna Castandeda; “Love Male Neurosis, and the Tale of two Women in Bram Stoker’s Dracula” by Michael Justine D.J. Sales; “Treasure Island Comes of Age: One Hundred Years of Prequels, Sequels, and Retellings” by Christine Schott; “Who Killed the Duke of Gloucester? History in Shakespeare’s Richard II” by Gary Grieve-Carlson; and “Unearthing the Patriarchy: Cancer, Trash, and Ugliness in Terry Tempest Williams’ Refuge and ‘The Open Space of Democracy'” by Marci Heatherly. The issue also includes essays by Michael Milburn, Thomas Fox Averill, Stephen Bunch, and John Daley, as well as poetry by Kevin Brown, Bradley Samore, Mark Neely, Lauro Palomba, J. R. Solonche, Elizabeth Rees, and Pierre Minar.

Discover loads more great lit mags with our Guide to Literary Magazines, Big List of Literary Magazines, and Big List of Alternative Magazines. If you are a publication looking to be listed in our monthly roundup or featured on our blog and social media, please contact us.

Magazine Stand :: AGNI – 102

AGNI 102 literary magazine cover image

Editor William Pierce opens AGNI 102 with his thoughts on “Mattering,” starting with this thought: “There is a rift, in our troubled century, between imaginative writing and the various mainstream U.S. cultures. I get the sense from conversations, articles, and shifts in educational curricula that a growing contingent fears literature (why else would they work to restrict access?) and an even larger group dismisses it as irrelevant. Those reactions are nearly opposite, but together, they have me thinking about how literature matters. Can fiction, poetry, and essays be a meaningful force for truth? And how — considering that word imaginative — do they stand apart from the various modes of distraction and deception?”

AGNI 102 explores this through works related to crisis and talismans, with the threaded objects of Lia Purpura fronting an issue intent on noticing, holding, and putting forward. Siew Hii, Carl Phillips, and Denise Duhamel (in poetry) and Donald Quist and Rilla Askew (in nonfiction) confront the wiliness of false narrative. Stories by Scholastique Mukasonga (translated by Mark Polizzotti) and Niamh Mac Cabe, with poems by Megan Fernandes and Fereshteh Sari, trace the veins of complicity. And stories by Subhravanu Das and Reyumeh Ejue, with poems by Brenda Hillman, Kimberly Quiogue Andrews, and Peter Balakian, discover honest, tenuous shelter.

Magazine Stand :: The Missouri Review – Fall 2025

The Missouri Review - Fall 2025 literary magazine cover image

The Fall 2025 issue of The Missouri Review (46.3) is themed “Under the Influence,” which opens with Editor Speer Morgan’s commentary, “Much of this issue concerns altered states of consciousness caused by illness, personal struggles, and drugs.” and goes on to explore how altered states — especially those induced by alcohol — shape personal experience and historical events. Speer traces alcohol’s long cultural role from colonial America’s heavy consumption to his own ‘youthful encounters’ with drinking. Like Speer’s commentary, this issue features works that provide a collective reflection on society’s evolving relationship with alcohol and its lasting impact, as well as other ‘influencers.’

Readers can enjoy debut fiction from Arabella Sanders, plus new stories from Seth Fried, Philip Hurst, and Brecht de Poortere; new poetry from Kai-Carlson Wee, Rebecca Foust, and Campbell McGrath; new essays from Jacob M. Appel, Molly Rideout, Cara Stoddard, and S.L. Wisenberg; features on Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Marlene Dietrich; and an omnibus review of four short story collections from Robert Long Foreman.

Discover loads more great lit mags with our Guide to Literary Magazines, Big List of Literary Magazines, and Big List of Alternative Magazines. If you are a publication looking to be listed in our monthly roundup or featured on our blog and social media, please contact us.

Magazine Stand :: New England Review – 46.3-4

New England Review double issue 46.3-4 cover image

Editor Carolyn Kuebler opens the New England Review double issue (46.3-4) by explaining, “It is both an emerging writers issue, with a full two hundred pages dedicated to discovery, and a ‘regular’ issue of NER, where experienced writers and translators have found a home for their newest work. The result is this spectacular new volume, with its thick spine and swirling cover art, which we hope will offer enough color and light to see you through the long winter ahead.” This volume features fifty-eight authors and translators, half of whom have yet to publish a book in any genre, including new work by Devon Walker-Figueroa, Yael Herzog, Kaveh Bassiri, Nathan McClain, Jessie Li, Bruce Snider, Jackie Chicalese, and Lukasz Grabowski; translations from the Slovenian, Japanese, Catalan, and Greek, and much more, with cover image by Shanti Grumbine.

Magazine Stand :: The Lake – December 2025

The Lake online magazine of poetry and reviews logo image

This month’s issue of The Lake is now online featuring poetry by Angela Arnold, Zhu Xiao Di, Margaret Galvin, Usha Kishore, Alexandra Monlaur, Kenneth Pobo, Tony Press, Debbie Robson, David Mark Williams, Greg Wood. Reviews of newly published collections of poetry include Sarah James’ Darling Blue, Rachael Bower’s Bee, Claire Pollard’s Lives of the Female Poets, and Amina Alyal and Sarah Wragg’s Unheimlich at Home.

Discover loads more great lit mags with our Guide to Literary Magazines, Big List of Literary Magazines, and Big List of Alternative Magazines. If you are a publication looking to be listed in our monthly roundup or featured on our blog and social media, please contact us.

Magazine Stand :: Valley Voices – Fall 2025

Valley Voices Fall 2025 literary magazine cover image

Valley Voices is a biannual journal of prose, poetry, interviews, and criticism from writers and scholars from the Mississippi Delta and beyond. The Fall 2025 issue includes the special features “Photographing Nature” by Jerome Berglund; “African American Tanka” by Kevin Powell, Lenard D. Moore, L. Teresa Church, Gideon Young, Opal Palmer Adisa, Tara Betts, S. Shaw, Charlie R. Braxton, and Gina Streaty; and Ce Rosenow’s review of Runagate: Song of the Freedom Bound by Crystal Simone Smith. Editor John Zheng in his introduction writes, “Editing an issue of Valley Voices is like an escape to nature or a way to forget the self.” The same experience awaits readers in the essays and criticisms of Howard Lee Kilby, Charlie R. Braxton, Bernth Lindfors, Carolyn Wilson-Scott, and Sydney Bowen-Sweet, and poetry by JC Alfier, Tobi Alfier, Matthew Brennan, Lenard D. Moore, Andrew Riutta, Jerome Berglund, Mike Spikes, Beth Brown Preston, Ron McFarland, Thomas Piekarski, George Freek, and Ken Letko.

Discover loads more great lit mags with our Guide to Literary Magazines, Big List of Literary Magazines, and Big List of Alternative Magazines. If you are a publication looking to be listed in our monthly roundup or featured on our blog and social media, please contact us.

Magazine Stand :: Libre – ‘Surrealism Tomorrow’ with Pratt Institute

Libre Issue Four in partnership with Pratt Institute cover image

Libre’s newest release, Issue Four, was created in partnership with Pratt Institute’s art department with the theme, “Surrealism Tomorrow.” Libre looks to create partnerships that continue this support of humanitarian / disability-centric publications, and this issue’s work is thanks to contributions from Pratt’s staff and students, notably Luka Lucic, Associate Professor of Pratt Institute’s Department of Social Science and Cultural Studies, who provides a forward for the issue.

Libre editors write, “What Pratt’s artists are doing here is similar to an extrication process: abscessed tooth, shiny molar of a fate dealt in decay and lonely back-waters of the diseased gum, brought alive again by cut, strategy, and replacement. These ten students aim mightily towards examination of illness, resuscitation of generational trauma, and archival of death and doubt under the intelligent pretext of heroic foundational upheaval. They mix media with grief and paint water from inside the artwork instead of out, and we’re no longer the lonely examiner but the paint fiber. Mix your hands in mud sometime and place them against something else white. Stand back and point with one hand, saying, ‘this is me, this is who I’ve broken into.’ You’ll understand the point of Issue Four then.”

Artists’ works are featured along with their statements and bios. Libre is a free, open-access journal.

Magazine Stand :: Mudfish – 25

Mudfish 25 literary magazine cover image

Mudfish 25 is marked by generous representations from many Mudfish writers, such as Stephanie Dickinson, Doug Dorph, Tim Macaluso, Richard Fein, Paul Wuensche, Dell Lemmon, Tom Hunley, Angela Schmidt, Robert Clinton, Paul Schaeffer, Joyce (Chunyu) Wang and many others. Stacy Spencer, winner of the 18th poetry prize judged by Vijay Seshadri, and the two honorable mentions, Elisabeth Murawski and Ann Robinson, set a standard of excellence from which there is no decline. One poem will have readers thinking, ‘yes, this is what poetry is,’ and the next has them thinking, ‘no, this is what poetry is,’ and they are right every time. For the first time, the publication has a single artist, Jack Pierson, whose nakedly gorgeous and varied art unifies all of Mudfish so that it reads like a single poem, a moment’s thought.

Discover loads more great lit mags with our Guide to Literary Magazines, Big List of Literary Magazines, and Big List of Alternative Magazines. If you are a publication looking to be listed in our monthly roundup or featured on our blog and social media, please contact us.

Magazine Stand :: The Writing Disorder – Fall 2025

The Writing Disorder Fall 2025 cover image

The Writing Disorder publishes quarterly online issues of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, art, interviews, and reviews, highlighting emerging and established writers while blending experimental creativity with classic storytelling. In addition to the mesmerizing artwork of Tom Plamann, the newest issue (Fall 2025) features fiction by Nia Crawford, C. Inanen, Roberto Ontiveros, Sohana Manzoor, Denisha Naidoo, Lia Tjokro, Andy Shocket & Paul Cesarini, David A. Taylor; poetry by Kevin Dwyer, John Grey, Cynthia Pratt, Juanita Rey, Erika Seshadri, Allen Seward; nonfiction by Daniel Buccieri, A. M. Palmer, Robert Eastman. Book reviews in this issue include Eject City by Jason Morphew, reviewed by Patricia Carragon; The Idea of Light by John Ronan, reviewed by Kristin Czarnecki; Sojourns by John Drudge, reviewed by Peter Mladinic.

Discover loads more great lit mags with our Guide to Literary Magazines, Big List of Literary Magazines, and Big List of Alternative Magazines. If you are a publication looking to be listed in our monthly roundup or featured on our blog and social media, please contact us.

Magazine Stand :: Blue Collar Review – Summer 2025

Blue Collar Review Summer 2025 literary magazine cover image

Blue Collar Review Summer 2025 issue is a collection of poetry focusing on “the oppressive reality of mindless labor and the dictatorship of bad managers and bosses we are all familiar with in the workplace. . . on the inseparability of war and climate destruction. . . on our struggle for the necessary fightback from the workplace to national politics and the necessity of building a movement capable of defeating this fascist regime and the corporate empowerment at its root.” Contributors include Cathy Porter, Kurt Nimmo, Jessie Kiefer, Roy N. Mason, Gregg Shotwell, Josh Medsker, Emma Weiss, Mary Franke, Dave Seter, Matthew Feeney, John Maclean, George C. Harvilla, Dave Roskos, Mitch Valente, Stewart Acuff, Andrew Slipp, and many more. Sample poems are available to read on the publication’s website.

Discover loads more great lit mags with our Guide to Literary Magazines, Big List of Literary Magazines, and Big List of Alternative Magazines. If you are a publication looking to be listed in our monthly roundup or featured on our blog and social media, please contact us.

Magazine Stand :: South Dakota Review – 59.3 & 59.4

South Dakota Review 59.3 & 59.4 literary magazine cover image

The newest South Dakota Review is their annual double issue, jam-packed with enough poetry, short stories, and essays to last you through a long, hard winter, yet light enough to pack in a carry-on as you travel for the holidays. Contributors to this volume include Brandon Amico, Natalie Bavar, Annette C. Boehm, Frances Boyle, Will Burns, Justin Carmickle, Teresa Carmody, C.S. Carrier, KJ Cerankowski, Shane Chase, Amanda Chiado, Abigail Cloud, Travis Cohen, Lauren Crawford, Taylor De La Peña, C.G. Dominguez, Puneet Dutt, Tyler Dunston, Angelica Esquivel, David Greenspan, Dariana Alvarez Herrera, Whitney Koo, Diane LeBlanc, Kristina Martino, Kylie Martin, Abhishek Mehta, Casey McConahay, Amy Monaghan, Syan Mohiuddin, Sam Moe, Sam New, Kathy Nelson, Kris Norbraten, Ralph Pennel, samodH porawagamagE, Adrian Quintanar, Suzanne Manizza Roszak, E.B. Schnepp, Steven D. Schroeder, Robert Stothart, Liam Strong, Tanya Sangpun Thamkruphat, Emily Townsend, Ann Tweedy, William Woolfitt, Miles Waggener, John Yohe, Sophia Zhao, and Jianqing Zheng.

Discover loads more great lit mags with our Guide to Literary Magazines, Big List of Literary Magazines, and Big List of Alternative Magazines. If you are a publication looking to be listed in our monthly roundup or featured on our blog and social media, please contact us.

Magazine Stand :: The Main Street Rag – Fall 2025

The Main Street Rag Fall 2025 literary magazine cover image

The Main Street Rag Fall 2025 issue opens with the feature “The Art of Welcome: Joel Matthews in Conversation” an interview with Jess Hylton. ‘Stories & Such’ contributors include Paula Brancato, Michael Matejcek, R. M. Kinder, Stephen O’Connor, Carlos Ramet, Timothy Reilly, and Mark Spencer, and poetry contributors include Joel Matthews, Rebecca Brenner, Ralph Culver, Tom Husson, Matthew James Friday, Michael Gaspeny, Tim Jones, Chuck Joy, Richard Cecil, Elizabeth Libbey, Preston Martin, Benjamin Nash, Fred Pelka, Livingston Rossmoor, Abbie Bradfield Mulvihill, Alissa Sammarco, Rikki Santer, Claire Scott, Matthew J. Spireng, Geo. Staley, Deborah C. Strozier, Tad Tuleja, James Washington, Jr., Ramiro Valdes, Mark Vogel, Jennifer Weiss, Gerald Yelle, Ronald Zack, and John Zedolik.

Discover loads more great lit mags with our Guide to Literary Magazines, Big List of Literary Magazines, and Big List of Alternative Magazines. If you are a publication looking to be listed in our monthly roundup or featured on our blog and social media, please contact us.

Magazine Stand :: Broadsided – Fall 2025

Broadsided Fall 2025 cover image

The editors of Broadsided Fall 2025 are grateful to share eleven collaborations accompanied by thoughtful conversations about process, response, and the creative life of the writer and artist. Every November since 2012, Broadsided has presented works by writers creating in languages Indigenous to the Americas — sometimes wholly, sometimes in part. This is Broadsided‘s annual Translation feature, partnering with poets and scholars to solicit and select these poems. In this year’s folio, editor Inés Hernandez-Avila has selected work by two poets working in Mapudungun, the language of the Mapuche people of Chile, and she also offers history, context, and story to the beautiful work. Teachers: Broadsided also has a new lesson plan to support classroom use of Broadsided‘s publications, which are free to download, print, and share.

Discover loads more great lit mags with our Guide to Literary Magazines, Big List of Literary Magazines, and Big List of Alternative Magazines. If you are a publication looking to be listed in our monthly roundup or featured on our blog and social media, please contact us.

Magazine Stand :: The Lake – November 2025

The Lake online magazine of poetry and reviews logo image

The Lake November 2025 is now online featuring new poetry by Hua Ai, Phil Kirby, Celia Lawren, Martina Maria Mancassola, Gabrielle Munslow, Bethany Pope, Hannah Stone, Rowan Tate, and Sarah White. The Lake also features reviews of new books of poetry. This month, Hannah Stone reviews Katrina Porteous’s Rhizodont, Charles Rammelkamp reviews Andrew Hemmert’s No Longer at This Address, Dustin Pickering reviews hubbies, edited by Jagari Mukherjee. The Lake‘s unique feature One Poem Reviews features one poem from a recently published full collection. November features poets Gopal Lahiri and Abigail Ottley.

Discover loads more great lit mags with our Guide to Literary Magazines, Big List of Literary Magazines, and Big List of Alternative Magazines. If you are a publication looking to be listed in our monthly roundup or featured on our blog and social media, please contact us.

Magazine Stand :: Baltimore Review – Fall 2025

Baltimore Review Fall 2025 literary magazine cover image

Baltimore Review Fall 2025 invites readers to enjoy new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, online, with a special “micro” feature in this issue. Contributors include Mikki Aronoff, Allison Field Bell, Brett Biebel, Nina Boutsikaris, Mike Bove, Jiordan Castle, Ron Dionne, Dana Brewer Harris, Andra Huang, Abbie Kiefer, Rebecca Klassen, Veronica Kornberg, Helen Meneilly, Megan Nichols, Christopher Notarnicola, Per Olvmyr, Matt Poindexter, Z. Yasmin Waheed, Claire Wyatt, and Allison Zhang.

Discover loads more great lit mags with our Guide to Literary Magazines, Big List of Literary Magazines, and Big List of Alternative Magazines. If you are a publication looking to be listed in our monthly roundup or featured on our blog and social media, please contact us.

New Lit on the Block :: Aorta Literary Magazine

Aorta Literary Magazine logo

Shaking up the noise that surrounds us daily, Aorta Literary Magazine captivates readers with its fascinating vibe and theme, publishing poetry, fiction, personal memoir, critical essay, photography, and visual art from contributors ages 13-25 every three to four months online.

Aorta Literary Magazine’s name originates from the word “Aorta,” a major artery in the heart. “Aorta represents life and the rawness of life,” states Founder and Editor in Chief Claire You, “just like how, without the aorta, humans would not be able to live. In another aspect, the aorta speaks to being human and what it means to be human. Whether that be the cultural or personal aspect one may have, our literary magazine wants to know! We want to help teenagers and young writers from diverse communities make their writing and art come alive. The editors and audience of Aorta Literary Magazine are always learning a new lens of humanity from our submissions.”

Continue reading “New Lit on the Block :: Aorta Literary Magazine”

Magazine Stand :: Apple Valley Review – Fall 2025

Apple Valley Review Fall 2025 cover image

The Fall 2025 issue of the Apple Valley Review features short stories by Jack Jenkins, Timo Teräsahjo (translated from the Finnish by the author), Sohana Manzoor, Daniel Southwell, and Daniel Choe; a piece of creative nonfiction by Yi Li; and poetry by Steph Sundermann-Zinger, Ekaterina Kostova (translated from the Bulgarian by Holly Karapetkova), Luis Alberto de Cuenca (translated from the Spanish by Gustavo Pérez Firmat), Mario dell’Arco (translated from the Romanesco by Marc Alan Di Martino), Paul Dickey, DS Maolalai, and P M F Johnson. The cover image is by French photographer Jacques Dillies.

Magazine Stand :: Sky Island Journal – Fall 2025

Sky Island Journal Fall 2025 Issue 33 cover image

Sky Island Journal’s stunning 32nd issue (Fall 2025) features poetry, flash fiction, and creative nonfiction from contributors around the globe. Accomplished, well-established authors are published — side by side — with fresh, emerging voices. Readers are provided with a powerful, focused literary experience that transports them: one that challenges them intellectually and moves them emotionally. Always free to access, and always free from advertising, discover what over 160,000 readers in 150 countries, and over 1,200 contributors from 58 countries, already know; the finest new writing can be found where the desert meets the mountains.

Magazine Stand :: New Letters – Summer/Fall 2025

New Letters Summer/Fall 2025 literary magazine cover image

The Summer/Fall 2025 New Letters upholds their mission to celebrate exceptional literary writing worldwide, continually honoring emerging and established writers and providing readers with exceptional content in print.

Filling out this 200+ page issue is fiction by Julia Hou, Heather Bell Adams, Anthony Varallo, Michael Rogner, John Haggerty, Brian Ma, Elsa Court; essays by B.A. Howard, Allison Weissman, Aleina Grace Edwards, Krista Eastman, Gwyneth Henke, Hector Domingue; poetry by Albert Goldbarth, Heidi Seaborn, Simone Muench & Jackie K. White, J.A. Holm, Gabriel Costello, Dustin King, Lance Larsen, Stacy Gnall; plus a chapbook by Morgan Cross and featured artist Hubbard Savage.

New Letters also hosts the award-winning New Letters on the Air, sharing writers’ voices and preserving decades of recorded literary history available open-access on their website.

Magazine Stand :: Bellevue Literary Review – 49

Bellevue Literary Review - 49 literary magazine cover image

Bellevue Literary Review Issue 49 is themed “Animalia” with a foreword by Assistant Nonfiction Editor Alanna Weissman, which begins, “Health and illness may be the most universal experiences we have as humans, as we know so well at Bellevue Literary Review. But this extends beyond homo sapiens into every corner of the animal kingdom; all species, from blue whales to the smallest insects, inhabit fallible bodies. While there are countless differences among the millions of members of taxonomic kingdom Animalia, navigating the boundary between health and illness is a rite of passage we all share. It is this uncanny sameness, and yet manifest difference, that we seek to illuminate with our Animalia theme issue.”

Contributions to this issue include fiction by Don Zancanella, Zelime Lewis, Thomas Wolf, Nathan Gower , Mark Gallini, Jason Richard Phillips, Martin Piñol, Thomas Anderson, Daniel Reiss; nonfiction by, Kate Broad, Emilie Pascale Beck, Margaret Brosnahan, Angela Tang-Tan, Deborah Derrickson Kossmann; poetry by , Ashley Oakes, Subhaga Crystal Bacon, Suzanne Underwood Rhodes, Ted Kooser, Misha Tentser, Fez Avery, Leonora Simonovis, Linda Neal, Dave Malone, Amanda Quaid, Terrance Owens, Emily Couves, Caroline Barnes, Brett Warren, Nancy Mayer, Tammy C. Greenwood, Jen Karetnick, Cat Wei, Irene Sherlock, June Rowe, Nancy Kay Peterson, Andrea Giedinghagen, Megeen R. Mulholland, Rebekah Denison Hewitt, Michele Evans, Olivia Ciacci, Maurya Simon, Melissa Joplin Higley, Ocean by J.P. White, Rachel Dillon, Laurie Kutchins, Kate Stoltzfus, James Gonda, Diane Gottlieb, and Jayne Marek, with cover art by Maya Perry.

Magazine Stand :: Posit -Issue 40

Posit Issue 40 magazine cover image

The open-access, online journal Posit publishes innovative, eclectic poetry, prose, and art, supporting diverse creators while promoting inclusivity, excellence, and aesthetic expansion. Issue 40 is now available for readers to enjoy works that confront darkness, mortality, and injustice, yet affirms resilience and transcendent light amid uncertainty with poetry and prose by Martine Bellen, Brenda Coultas, John Gallaher, Oz Hardwick, Dennis Hinrichsen, Emily Kingery, Joseph Lease, Mia Ayumi Malhotra, Ma Yongbo, Stephen Paul Miller, Bryan Price, Gary Sloboda, and visual art by David Hornung, Sharon Horvath, and Shari Mendelson. Cover image: Chasing the Deer by Shari Mendelson (2022).

Discover loads more great lit mags with our Guide to Literary Magazines, Big List of Literary Magazines, and Big List of Alternative Magazines. If you are a publication looking to be listed in our monthly roundup or featured on our blog and social media, please contact us.

Magazine Stand :: About Place Journal – October 2025

About Place Journal October 2025 literary magazine cover image

About Place Journal‘s latest issue, “On Freedom,” features poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, visual art, video, and hybrid works that question what freedom means in our turbulent world. The pieces in this issue explore freedom’s dual nature: liberation from oppression and the power to create, speak, and flourish. Authors and artists also speak to the small habits that sustain our daily capacity for liberty. Through formal innovation and boundary-crossing creativity, our contributors show how art itself is an act of freedom as they map territories of intimate personal moments and bold political landscapes.

Magazine Stand :: The Lake – October 2025

The Lake online magazine of poetry and reviews logo image

The October 2025 issue of The Lake is now online and includes new poetry by Bartholomew Barker, Salvatore Difalco, William Ogden Haynes, Sarah James, O. P. Jha, Beth McDonough, Gloria Ogo, Kenneth Pobo, J. R. Solonche, and Kate Young. The journal also publishes reviews of new books of poetry: Hannah Stone reviews Peter Spafford’s Sun Tanking; Charles Rammelkamp reviews Brian Gyamfi’s What God in the Kingdom of Bastards and Natalie Scenters-Zapico’s My Perfect Cognate; and Shanta Acharya reviews Maggie Brookes-Butt’s Wish: New & Selected Poems.

The Lake understands, “It’s not easy getting a book or pamphlet accepted for review these days. So in addition to the regular review section, the One Poem Review feature will allow more poets’ to reach a wider audience — one poem featured from a new book/pamphlet along with a cover JPG and a link to the publisher’s website.” This month shines a light on works by Loralee Clark, Matthew Paul, Smitha Sehgal, and Julia Thacker.

Discover loads more great lit mags with our Guide to Literary Magazines, Big List of Literary Magazines, and Big List of Alternative Magazines. If you are a publication looking to be listed in our monthly roundup or featured on our blog and social media, please contact us.

Magazine Stand :: Jewish Fiction – 40

The newest issue of Jewish Fiction celebrates their 40th! “Forty is a symbolic number in Judaism,” writes the publisher, “signifying wisdom and maturity, and we are very proud to have published 640 stories, originally written in 23 languages, as we reach this symbolic milestone.”

Issue 40 features 12 stories originally written in Ladino, Yiddish, Hebrew, English, and for the first time in Jewish Fiction: Georgian. “Shemariah’s Last Word” by Gerzel Baazov has been translated from Georgian into English by William Tyson Sadleir. Readers will also enjoy works by Ilana Rudashevsky, Rashel Veprinski, Jane Mushabac, Judy Lev, Michael Vines, Damian McNicholl, S. C. Gordon, Marla Braverman, Mordechai Salzberg, Kathy Bergen, Adi Dvir.

Magazine Stand :: Wordrunner eChapbook – Issue 55

Wordrunner eChapbooks Issue 55 cover image

Wordrunner eChapbooks is a hybrid of online literary journal and chapbook collections. Their 55th issue is a fiction collection, available to read online or in Kindle edition: The Boy David: Island Tales & Talk of War, a brilliant rendering by Don J Taylor of troubled times in the Hebrides and Scottish highlands and during the first World War..

With the exception of the title story, these tales take place in the islands and highlands of Scotland where, in a remote hamlet, a grieving widow seeks peace of mind; a boy is disillusioned by his philandering, mostly absent, naval officer father; a villager is proud to serve in the Royal Observation Corps, protecting the UK against potential Russian attacks; a boy struggles to learn trigonometry while his stylish teacher flirts with his older sister, scandalizing their recently widowed father. In stark contrast to these island tales, “The Boy David,” an excerpt from the author’s unpublished novel Merely Players, takes place on the Western Front in 1916 France, where the Scottish “Boy David” unit (as in versus Goliath) adopts a starving, rascally and nameless French lad whom they call Davie.

Also available online are all previous Wordrunner eChapbooks publications: 28 fiction, 7 CNF/memoir, and 5 poetry collections, each by one author — plus 15 anthologies by multiple authors and 2 Micro-Prose issues.

Free submissions for their Micro-Prose Issue 3 will be open October 1-31.

Magazine Stand :: The Shore – Issue 27

The Shore poetry journal Issue 27 celebrates change through shifting shades, morphing shapes and evolving identities, with art by Melissa Marsh completing this issue’s haunting promise that nothing will ever be the same again.

Readers can freely access this online publication, with transformational work by Ashe Prevett, Natalie Homer, Jane Zwart, Jacob J Billingsley, Julia Liu, Ruby Cook, Daniel Lurie, Elizabeth Hazen, Sarah Giragosian, Mubashira Patel, Esmé Kaplan-Kinsey, Anastasios Mihalopoulos, Yong-Yu Huang, Patricia Davis-Muffett, Eleanore Tisch, David Eileen, Amelia Yuan, Ali Beheler, Zackary Jarrell, RK Fauth, Haley King, Caitlin Scarano, Marc Alan Di Martino, Joshua Zeitler, Lily Daly, Michelle Ivy Alwedo, Margaret Hanshaw, Natalie Eleanor Patterson, Gavin Garza, Andrew Kelly, Melody Wilson, Cora Schipa, Alicia Rebecca Myers, Sara Hovda, Caleb Braun, Allison Wu, Ana Paneque, Andy Breckenridge, Jane McKinley, Anders Villani, Hazelyn Aroian, Brendan Payraudeau & Laurel Benjamin.

New Lit on the Block :: Cypress Review

Cypress Review logo

In a world seemingly filled with harshness and hard edges, Cypress Review offers writers and readers a space that cares about helping people share their stories with professionalism, responsiveness, and kindness. The publication is “affectionately named after Cypress Street in Philadelphia,” according to Founder & Editor-in-Chief Shaina Clingempeel. “I wanted our name to have a friendly feel that speaks to what we do here at Cypress, and the publication is open to writers of Philly and beyond, with two online issues per year of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, photography, and visual art, cycling through genres in each issue.”

Continue reading “New Lit on the Block :: Cypress Review”

Magazine Stand :: The 2River View – Fall 2025

The 2River View Fall 2025 poetry magazine cover image

Produced by 2River, The 2River View Fall 2025 issue celebrates 30 years of publishing and is now available to read online as well as in a downloadable format. This newest issue features poetry by Marc Petersen, Deborah Brown, Victoria Chan, John Davis, James Engelhardt, Carmen Fought, Hilary Harper, Carol Hart, Ahrend Torrey, Julie Marie Wade, and Lindsay Wilson. In addition to the text, 2River provides a Soundcloud audio recording of the authors reading their works.

2River also publishes individual authors in the 2River Chapbook Series. All their publications are available to read free online as well as download in printable formats.

Discover loads more great lit mags with our Guide to Literary Magazines, Big List of Literary Magazines, and Big List of Alternative Magazines. If you are a publication looking to be listed in our monthly roundup or featured on our blog and social media, please contact us.

Magazine Stand :: Blink-Ink – #61

Blink-Ink #61 literary magazine cover

Blink-Ink #61 features ‘the best stories of approximately fifty words’ about “Phones.” As the editors write, “When Alice Cooper sang ‘The telephone was ringing,’ he established a real sense of urgency. Somebody had to deal with the phone! What happened? Now our devices natter away, pulling us this way and that.” The editors asked for stories about how phones and our relationships to them have changed us and our behaviors – past, present, future — pretend, or all too real.

Stories include “Busy Signal” by Robin Stratton, “If the Three Little Pigs Had Smartphones” by Emma Phillips, “A Treehouse Extraction” by Carolyn R. Russell, “Sleep Mode” by Rahel M. Hollis, “Democracy v2.0” by Chris Lihou, “Full Charge” by Kristina Warlen, “Butt Dialed” by Barry Basden, “Where One Phone Breaks, Another Appears” by Mir Yashar Seyedbagheri, “Party Line #2” by Susan Borgersen, and many more, including cover artworks.

Cover art: Modern Fairytales by Francisco “Pancho” Graells

Magazine :: The Malahat Review – 231

The Malahat Review issue 231 magazine cover image

The Malahat Review 231 features winners of the 2025 Long Poem Prize judged by Klara du Plessis and Khashayar “Kess” Mohammadi: “Hold a Memory” by Monica Kim and “Boomtimes” by Hamish Ballantyne. The Long Poem Prize is offered every second year, alternating with the Novella Prize.

The issue showcases the best submissions in contemporary poetry by Gbolahan Badmus, Rosebud Ben-Oni, Kate Reider Collins, Kevin Irie, Daniel Good, Veronika Gorlova; fiction by , Katherine J Barrett, Courtney Bill, Jaime Forsythe, C. White; creative nonfiction by , Meghan Fandrich, Jillian Stirk, Moez Surani. Cover art: Terra Solis by James Nizam, and reviews of new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry books.

Discover loads more great lit mags with our Guide to Literary Magazines, Big List of Literary Magazines, and Big List of Alternative Magazines. If you are a publication looking to be listed in our monthly roundup or featured on our blog and social media, please contact us.

Magazine Stand :: Tint Journal – Fall 2025

tint-journal.jpg

Issue #14 of Tint Journal (Fall 2025), the magazine for English as a Second Language (ESL) writers is where readers can find works on the theme of “Patchwork.” Tint Journal’s second themed issue includes 24 new poems, short stories and nonfiction essays by writers identifying with 22 different countries or regions on this Earth and speaking 21 different first languages who explore the topic of “Patchwork” from a variety of angles, from assembling flyer packs to musings on one’s name, to “Layers of Home.” This issue is yet another celebration of the multivocality of ESL writing and the unique assemblage of every voice in a second language.

Contributing writers and artists include fiction by Tilbe Akan, Chelsea Allen, Áron Bartal, Niels Bekkema,Smita Das Jain, Galina Itskovich, Christian Nikolaus Opitz, Anna Pedko, Johan Smits; nonfiction by Ekow Agyine-Dadzie, Karen Cheung, Anneliz Marie Erese, Sue Tong, Helin Yüksel, Alina Zollfrank; poetry by A.D. Capili, Elina Kumra, Marisol Moreno Ortiz, Hajer Requiq, Rudrangshu Sengupta, Vasiliki Sifostratoudaki, Sarp Sozdinler, Shaira Sultana, Leila Zolfalipour; and art by Douglas Campbell, Cyrus Carlson, Haley Cole, Taylor Daukas, Vanesa Erjavec, Atzin Garcia, Julia Groß, Yewon Kim, Anna Kirby, Anna Major, Milena Makani, Matthew McCain, Joykrit Mitra, Michael Pacheco, Ann Privateer, Radoslav Rochallyi, Eryk Siemianowicz, Maheshwar N. Sinha, Kim Suttell, Brigitte Thonhauser-Merk, Harald Wawrzyniak, Chynna Williams, Leila Zolfalipour.

Magazine Stand :: Palooka – Issue 15

Palooka Issue 15 cover image

Palooka celebrates 15 years of supporting the literary arts community as a global literary magazine of ‘daring’ fiction, poetry, nonfiction, artwork, photography, and graphic narratives by new, up-and-coming, and established writers, artists, and photographers. All of Palooka’s published content comes from unsolicited submissions. In keeping with their moniker, Palooka ‘upholds, encourages, and fights for underdogs’ and ‘only pursues the writing and art they love.’

Readers can enjoy this celebratory issue with fiction by Katherine Flynn, Jacqueline Kaufman, Kevin Novalina; poetry by Yvonne Higgins Leach; nonfiction by Eric Day; Ian Dooley’s graphic narrative “The Little World,” and a portfolio of artwork by Judith Skillman. Some content is available for readers to access online.

Discover loads more great lit mags with our Guide to Literary Magazines, Big List of Literary Magazines, and Big List of Alternative Magazines. If you are a publication looking to be listed in our monthly roundup or featured on our blog and social media, please contact us.

New Magazines August 2025

stack of magazines outside with trees in the background

Discover new works to read with NewPages.com New & Noted Literary & Alternative Magazine Issues, highlighting literary and alternative magazines with new issues of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and art.

Each month, we offer readers a round-up of new issues with content blurbs for our featured publications. The newest in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, comics, artwork, photography, media, contest winners, and much more!

Find out more about many of these titles with our Guide to Literary Magazines and our Big List of Literary Magazines and Big List of Alternative Magazines.

Want your publication listed here or featured on our blog and social media, please contact us.

Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to stay the most up-to-date on all things literary!

Magazine Stand :: Baltimore Review – Print Annual 2025

Baltimore Review 2025 literary magazine cover image

Baltimore Review 2025, an annual print compilation published by The Baltimore Review, features the poems, fiction, and creative nonfiction — the work of 63 writers — in the summer and fall 2024 and winter and spring 2025 online issues. The book also includes the winners of the summer 2024 (Final Judge Kathy Flann) and winter 2025 (Final Judge Francine Witte) short-forms contests: Amanda Auchter, Taylor Ebersole, and Al Dixon (summer 2024) and Dawn Dupler, Marika Guthrie, and Kayla Rutledge Page (winter 2025).

The Baltimore Review, founded in 1996, is a literary journal publishing poems, fiction, and creative nonfiction. The journal’s mission is to showcase Baltimore as a literary hub of diverse writing and promote the work of emerging and established writers from the Baltimore area, from across the U.S., and beyond. Visit the journal’s website to read current and past issues, and to submit your own writing.

Meet the editors at the upcoming Baltimore Book Festival (September 13-14), Baltimore Writers’ Conference (November 15), and AWP 2026.

Magazine Stand :: The Main Street Rag – Summer 2025

The Main Street Rag Summer 2025 literary magazine cover image

The Main Street Rag Summer 2025 issue opens with an interview with Chuck Joy, poet and playwright, whose newest book of poetry, White and Blue, is forthcoming later this year from Main Street Rag.

Also included in this summer issue of The Main Street Rag is prose by Jackson Herring, Nathan Rohan, Fiona Sinclair, Scott Bassis, Margaret Benbow, and Dr. John A. Wilde; poetry by Rick Adang, Kenneth Baker, Rachel Barton, Francis Carpentier, Gianna Improta, Sasha Reese, E. Laura Golberg, Patricia L. Hamilton, Jane Hammons, Daniel Edward Moore, Colleen S. Harris, Mark W. Kumming, Craig Kirchner, Donald Levering, Alison Luterman, Daniel Thomas Moran, Will Nixon, Paul Rabinowitz, Anne Rankin, Laura Ann Reed, Timothy Robbins, R. James Sennett, Jr., Robert Sparrow-Downes, Diane Stone, Linda Stryker, Richard Allen Taylor, Jim Tilley, Dan Veach, Eric Weil, and Daniel A. Zehner.

Readers can also find book reviews of Love Sick Century by Elly Bookman, Bus Poems by Michael Franchioni, Midlife Calculus by Britt Kaufmann, and Only Believe by Jennifer Bartell.

Discover loads more great lit mags with our Guide to Literary Magazines, Big List of Literary Magazines, and Big List of Alternative Magazines. If you are a publication looking to be listed in our monthly roundup or featured on our blog and social media, please contact us.

Magazine Stand :: The Missouri Review – Summer 2025

The Missouri Review - Summer 2025 literary magazine cover image

The Missouri Review Summer 2025 issue is themed “Location, Location, Location,” as Speer Morgan comments in the Foreword, “Location is as important in literature and art as it is in real estate. When and where and among whom — setting and milieu — anchor readers and allow them to enter an imagined world.” Referencing the unique perspectives of Honoré de Balzac, Andrew Wyeth, and Syd Mead, Morgan concludes, “The essays, poems, and short stories in this issue of TMR are quite different yet illustrate that location in art matters. These writers all take us somewhere special.”

Additionally, readers will enjoy new fiction from Katherine Cart, Thea Chacamaty, Maria Kuznetsova, and Perry Lopez; new poetry from Andrew Hemmert, J.S. Westbrook, and Emma Winsor Wood; and new nonfiction by Seán Carlson, Zack Ford, and Rose Whitmore. Also included is an art feature about the painter Suzanne Valadon. The publication’s feature ‘Curio Cabinet’ highlights “Alfred Cheney Johnston: Master of the Publicity Photo” and his “contributions to the iconic flapper figure.”

Discover loads more great lit mags with our Guide to Literary Magazines, Big List of Literary Magazines, and Big List of Alternative Magazines. If you are a publication looking to be listed in our monthly roundup or featured on our blog and social media, please contact us.

Magazine Stand :: The MacGuffin – August 2025

The MacGuffin August 2025 literary magazine cover image

The MacGuffin August 2025 features an expanded (and expandable fold-out) art portfolio of Sculptor Pascal Piermé to celebrate their fortieth volume in print. Returning contributor Max Blue offers a review of an obscure film by French auteur Jacques (“An Appeal to Unreason: On L’essai, the Banned Film of Jacques), and Ron McFarland revisits in poetry what is undoubtedly Vivaldi’s most famous work (“L’inverno”). Go for a ride with Angela Townsend’s nonfiction work, “Out to Dinner,” but do pull off for a pit stop to get the car’s-eye view in Colby Vargas’s fictional “Beast Runs.” Multidisciplinarian Laura Vogt bridges poetry and prose in a two-part mini feature, “Three Words for What We’ve Lost,” and in the poem “When My Kids Start to Speak English,” Kuo Zhang bridges cultures in a bilingual household to close the issue.

Discover loads more great lit mags with our Guide to Literary Magazines, Big List of Literary Magazines, and Big List of Alternative Magazines. If you are a publication looking to be listed in our monthly roundup or featured on our blog and social media, please contact us.

Magazine Stand :: The Fiddlehead – Summer 2025

The Fiddlehead Summer 2024 literary magazine cover image

Welcome to The Fiddlehead’s Summer Creative Nonfiction issue!

Summer is a time to enjoy the great outdoors, but make some time in your schedule to enjoy an extra large helping of the best creative nonfiction The Fiddlehead could find! Inside this collection of 23 pieces, readers will find a diverse series of forms, including flash, hermit crab, lyric, collage, and diptych essays, along with personal narratives, a conversation between two nonfiction writers, and more traditional forms.

The issue features the winner of the Creative Nonfiction Collective’s 2025 contest, Karen E. Moore’s “Our Reflection in Flames.” The contest judge Danny Ramadan describes this piece as “a genre-bending essay on loss, grief, sorrow, and the aftermath of an intense trauma.” Other writers featured include Brian Braganza, Harper Hugo-Darling, Line Dufour, Ariel Gordon, Kevin Kellman, Frances Peck, and many more!

Stay tuned to The Fiddlehead website for details about a hybrid launch in September, as they continue to celebrate 80 years of publication!

Cover art: S’more Please by Terry Price.

Magazine Stand :: Chestnut Review – Summer 2025

Illustration of monarch butterflies on milkweed flowers with the text "Chestnut Review for Stubborn Artists Volume 7 Number 1 Summer 2025."

Providing “a literary home to stubborn artists and writers,” Chestnut Review maintains a strong business model, paying writers and staff while maintaining financial transparency. Their summer 2025 issue is available open-access online, with an interview by Kate Caraballo with Zaynab Iliyasu Bobi, author of Uncensored Snapshots, as well as poetry by Amy Thatcher, Bethany Jarmul, Emma Bolden, Joemario Umana, Noreen Ocampo, Oladosu Michael Emerald, Ossian Houltzén, Sayuri Matsuura Ayers, Tim Stobierski, Zaynab Iliyasu Bobi; prose by Esme Kaplan-Kinsey, Mhembeuter Jeremiah Orhemba, Pauline Holdsworth, Sara Quinn Rivara, Yasser El-Sayed; and artwork by Camellia Paul, Jacelyn Yap, Mike Wheeler, Sholanke Boluwatife Emmanuel, and Rachel Feirman, whose gorgeous work, Monarch and Milkweed, is featured on the cover.

Chestnut Review also offers weeklong creative retreats for writers, providing workshops, professional feedback, and community in a supportive environment, with upcoming retreates in Wales, United Kingdom, and Merida, Mexico.

Magazine Stand :: Revolute – Volume .006

Revolute .006 literary magazine cover image

Revolute, a digital literary magazine published by the Randolph College MFA program since 2019 has students contributing to every part of the publication process. Volume .006 features an interview and CNF from Lauren W. Westerfield whose book Depth Control: Essays and Autofictions (Unsolicited Press) was published spring 2025. The online issue also includes poetry by Jared Beloff, Mirande Bissell, Robert Krut, Tina Posner, Mary Simmons; fiction by Jon Doughboy, Teresa Milbrodt; and nonfiction, Jeff Dingler, Jess Lettieri, Sara Javed Rathore, Rachel M. Reis.

Discover loads more great lit mags with our Guide to Literary Magazines, Big List of Literary Magazines, and Big List of Alternative Magazines. If you are a publication looking to be listed in our monthly roundup or featured on our blog and social media, please contact us.

Magazine Stand :: Plume – #168

Plume #168 literary magazine cover image

The newest online issue of Plume: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry (#168) features Hester Knibbe’s “The homeless roamer,” translated from Dutch by Arno Bohlmeijer; Elí Urbina’s “Beyond the Unnamed Thickets of Silence,” translated from Spanish by Jeremy Paden, and works by Tara Skurtu, Sydney Lea, Mary Jo Salter, Jane Springer, Gary Soto,  Sharon Dolin, Christopher Buckley,  Christina Pugh,  Billy Collins, Ron Smith, some of which include audio recordings, and commentary from the poets and translators.

The issue also includes “A Master of the Living Art: A Conversation with Paisley Rekdal by Frances Richey” and featured essay, “Obeying the Call of Luminous Things: Writing in Paris with Czeslaw Milosz by David Havird,” which “exegetes the Nobel Prize winning poet, Czesław Miłosz’s Aristotelean obsession with particulars over against ‘universals,’ which he referred to repeatedly in his poetry as ‘luminous things.’  In so doing he reveals just how effectively and memorably Miłosz transformed the recondite expression of philosophical parlance into ‘memorable speech.’”

Discover loads more great lit mags with our Guide to Literary Magazines, Big List of Literary Magazines, and Big List of Alternative Magazines. If you are a publication looking to be listed in our monthly roundup or featured on our blog and social media, please contact us.

Magazine Stand :: Permafrost – Issue 46

Permafrost Issue 46 literary magazine cover

“America’s Farthest North Literary Magazine,” Permafrost is a literary journal run by the MFA program in Creative Writing at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Readers can enjoy both print with online access and online-only issues each year featuring high quality poetry, prose, and hybrid works from both established and emerging writers. The newest print issue (46) includes poetry by Joshua Boettiger, Margaret Carter, Tyler Heath, Carol Durak, Emily Wall; fiction by Charlie Rogers, Alex Juffer; nonfiction by Brian Benson, Angela Townsend; and a hybrid piece coupling poetry and art by Dale Williams. Cover art: “Germination Sequence” by Kyle Agustines, 2024. Visit the Permafrost website to read the full content online.

Discover loads more great lit mags with our Guide to Literary Magazines, Big List of Literary Magazines, and Big List of Alternative Magazines. If you are a publication looking to be listed in our monthly roundup or featured on our blog and social media, please contact us.

Magazine Stand :: River Heron Review – 8.2

River Heron Review Issue 8.2 literary magazine cover image

Publishing poetry online since 2018, River Heron Review 8.2 features an interview with Rosa Lane and new works by Christine Degenaars, Jessa Queyrouze, Michael Lauchlan, Chrissy Stegman, Darren Demaree, Daniel Lurie, ariel rosé, Kathryn Petruccelli, William Rieppe Moore, David Eileen, Mike Bove, Cole Pragides, Alison Tanik, Rebecca Faulkner, and Lauren Elaine Jeter. Included in this update is the River Heron Poetry Prize 2025 Issue, spolighting the work of Winner Alison Tanik, Winner and Finalists Julia Foshee, Annette Sisson, and Maria Surricchio.

River Heron Review offers structured and generative workshops facilitated by experienced writers and editors following the Amherst Writers and Artists model of positive reinforcement to guide each writer in developing their unique voice. Limited seats are also still available for the River Heron Review Recharge: A Poet’s Retreat focusing on “Rewilding the Poem” scheduled for October 2025.

Discover loads more great lit mags with our Guide to Literary Magazines, Big List of Literary Magazines, and Big List of Alternative Magazines. If you are a publication looking to be listed in our monthly roundup or featured on our blog and social media, please contact us.

Magazine Stand :: Thorn & Bloom 02: Breaking the Cycle

Thorn & Bloom 02 magazine cover image

Following the acclaimed launch of its debut issue, Thorn & Bloom — the literary magazine redefining self-care as resistance — presents its bold second edition, Breaking the Cycle. This quarterly publication continues its mission to fuse personal healing with collective liberation, now turning its lens toward dismantling oppressive narratives that bind us.

Thorn & Bloom 02: Breaking the Cycle features bold voices that interrogate societal conditioning and explore how unlearning can forge pathways to personal and political freedom. Where the first issue laid the foundation for self-care as radical honesty, this edition pushes further, offering language as a tool for fracture, freedom, and rebirth, all through essays, poetry, fiction, and expert insight.

“True liberation begins when we disrupt the stories imposed upon us,” says the editorial team. “This issue is an invitation to unlearn, to rise, and to rewrite.”

Inviting readers are over two dozen contributors, including Kara Dorris, Agbeye Oburumu, Grace Flaherty, CJ The Tall Poet, Rita Moe, Melanie White-Heron, Kristy Ettel, Mars Gorman, Mary M. Brown, Margaret Gibbs, Taslym Umar, Tinamarie Cox, and Rachel Turney, among others.

Rooted in inclusivity and empowerment, Thorn & Bloom is a haven for stories that break open and build a new, where vulnerability meets defiance, and self-care becomes revolution. Here, storytelling is not just art but alchemy, turning pain into power and words into weapons of liberation.

Magazine Stand :: Sky Island Journal – Summer 2025

Sky Island Journal Summer 2025 cover image

Sky Island Journal’s stunning 32nd issue (Summer 2025) features poetry, flash fiction, and creative nonfiction from contributors around the globe. Accomplished, well-established authors are published — side by side — with fresh, emerging voices. Readers are provided with a powerful, focused literary experience that transports them: one that challenges them intellectually and moves them emotionally. Always free to access, and always free from advertising, discover what over 160,000 readers in 150 countries, and over 1,100 contributors from 57 countries, already know; the finest new writing can be found where the desert meets the mountains.