New & Noted Literary & Alternative Magazine Issues
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February 2026 Featured Publications
Baltimore Review, Winter 2026
Writing from the Baltimore area and beyond, featuring contest winners as well as fresh works of creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry. See sponsor blog post here.
The Common, Issue 30
Featuring an interview with Teju Cole and a special portfolio of art and poetry from Ukraine. See sponsor blog post here.
The Dolomite Review, Inaugural Issue
The Dolomite Review launches open-access, reader-focused Midwest literary journal prioritizes design and regional sensibility. See sponsor blog post here.
The Fiddlehead, Winter 2026
This new issue features creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry exploring crisis, myth, risk, luck, debt, and human fracture. See sponsor blog post here.
The Fool’s World
An adventurous magazine publishing travel-themed literature, fostering risk-taking, and expanded distribution. See New Lit on the Block feature here.
The Lake, February 2026
This issue gathers lyrical, reflective poems exploring memory, craft, identity, and loss, moving through landscapes across diverse voices. See sponsor blog post here.
The Midwest Quarterly, Winter 2026
This issue examines authenticity in the AI age through critical essays on ethics, equity, journalism, education. See blog post here.
The Missouri Review, Winter 2025
Themed “Strange Bedfellows,” this issue brings together a diverse mix of writing that reflects its theme of unexpected connections. See sponsor blog post here.
Posit, Issue 41
“Every work in this issue brings its own courage to the challenge of carrying on in these troubling times.” See sponsor blog post here.
Shenandoah, Fall 2025
Featuring the Hope Prize winner, interviews, poetry, fiction, nonfiction, comics, and a new series on craft. See sponsor blog post here.
Sky Island Journal, Winter 2026
Sky Island Journal champions writing as hope, freedom, and empathy, remaining independent, accessible, and defiantly optimistic. See sponsor blog post here.
Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine, Fall/Winter 2025
New fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and visual imagery “that doesn’t merely strike a familiar chord but enriches our experience.” See blog post here.
The Tiger Moth Review, Issue 15
This online literary magazine issue features globally diverse works exploring nature, resilience, family, illness, and fragile hope. See sponsor blog post here.
Vita Poetica Journal, Winter 2026
Featuring poetry and nonfiction to help guide readers to break out of their ‘immobilities’. See sponsor blog post here.
More Publication New Issues
The American Poetry Review, Jan/Feb 2026
antae, Issue 5
Arc Poetry, Fall 2025
Arkansas Review, December 2025
Aromatica Poetica, February 2026
Big Other, January 2026
Burningword Literary Journal, January 2026
Cider Press Review, February 2026
Event, 54.3
Free Inquiry, February/March 2026
Hanging Loose Press, 118
The Hudson Review, Winter 2026
Image, Winter 2025
Indiana Review, Winter 2025/26
The MacGuffin, November 2025
The Main Street Rag, Winter 2026
Midnight Mind Magazine, Winter/Spring 2026
One Story, 333
Poetry, March 2026
Prairie Schooner, Fall 2025
Prairie Schooner, Winter 2025
South Dakota Review, 60.1
Southwest Review, Winter 2025
subTerrain, 101
subTerrain, 102
Zine Machine, Winter 2026
See January 2026 new issues here.
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