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2River

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

Abalone Moon

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

anderbo.com

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

Apple Valley Review

Publisher's Description: An online literary journal established in 2005 and published in the Spring and Fall. Each issue features a collection of beautifully crafted poetry, short fiction, and essays. All work published in the Apple Valley Review during a given calendar year is considered for the annual Apple Valley Review Editor’s Prize.

Arch

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

Babel Fruit

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

Barnwood

Publisher's Description: A feast of some of the best new poetry, served online by The Barnwood Press. Granting the criterion of high artistic quality, the editor strives for an eclectic taste, asking poets to show readers what can be done in the art, and offering a collection of poems that demonstrates a wide range of artistic purposes and aesthetic effects.

Blood Lotus

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

Cadillac Cicatrix

Publisher's Description: Cadillac Cicatrix publishes innovative, emerging, and established writers and artists online and in limited print editions on a semi-annual basis. From the creators of NorthernPros.com

Carve Magazine

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

Cezanne's Carrot

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

Clapboard House

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

Dark Sky Magazine

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

diode poetry journal

Publisher's description: What is electropositive poetry? It's poetry that excites and energizes. It's poetry that uses language that crackles and sparks. We look for poetry from all points on the arc, from formal to experimental (no light verse or erotic poetry, please).

Earthshine

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

Elsewhere

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

Etude: New Voices in
Literary Nonfiction

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

JMWW

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

Juked

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

The King's English

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

Miranda Literary Magazine

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

Opium Den

Publisher's Description: Opium Magazine is a literary humor publication that features fiction, poetry, cartoons, odd games, quirky art and, soon, short films as well. The website is updated daily, and the print magazine has been published semi-annually since its debut in August, 2005. Featured artists include Etgar Keret, Diane Williams, Dennis Cooper, Pia Z. Ehrhardt, Roy Kesey, Kim Chinquee, Tao Lin, Bruce Bauman, and Jack Handey.

Our Stories

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

panamowa: a new lit order

Publisher's Description: panamowa: a new lit order, is a quarterly online literary and arts journal dedicated to publishing the highest quality work by emerging and established women writers and artists. While we especially encourage women to submit, we will also consider work by men.

Paradigm

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

Persimmon Tree

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

Pif Magazine

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

Prick of the Spindle

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

Raving Dove

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

SNReview

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

Spindle

Publisher's Description: Spindle is an online literary magazine with a twist, featuring creative non-fiction, poetry and short fiction by, for and about New Yorkers -- literal and spiritual. Showcasing emerging writers, artists, musicians and other notable New Yorkers, it offers a multi-faceted look at New York City and the world beyond through the eyes of both those who love it and hate it, and in many cases, a peek inside the minds of the people themselves.

Steel City Review

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

STORYGLOSSIA

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

StoryQuarterly

Publisher's Description: Annual anthology of short stories. Publishes contemporary American and international literature of high quality, in a full range of styles and forms.

 

SUB-LIT

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

Thieves Jargon

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

 

 

 

 

 

Wild River Review

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

 

 

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