New & Noted Literary & Alternative Magazine Issues
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October 2025 Featured Publications
About Place, October 2025
From the Black Earth Institute, this journal unites artists and scholars using art to advance justice, spirituality, and environmental interconnectedness. See sponsor blog post here.
Bellevue Literary Review, 49
BLR’s ‘Animalia’ issue explores humanity’s shared vulnerability, connection, and kinship with animals through illness, love, and loss. See sponsor blog post here.
Cypress Review
A new online magazine of literature and art publishing diverse, heartfelt literary and visual works with professionalism, kindness, and thoughtful editorial collaboration. See New Lit on the Block post here.
Jewish Fiction, 40
Enjoy 12 stories originally written in Ladino, Yiddish, Hebrew, English, and for the first time: Georgian. See sponsor blog post here.
The Lake, October 2025
New poetry from emerging and established writers as well as reviews of recent books and sample poems from new collections. See sponsor blog post here.
New Letters, Summer/Fall 2025
Featuring acclaimed authors, poets, essayists in print and its award-winning New Letters on the Air program. See sponsor blog post here.
Posit, Issue 40
Works that confront darkness, mortality, and injustice, yet affirms resilience and transcendent light amid uncertainty. See sponsor blog post here.
The Shore, Issue 27
Publishing poetry online, this autumnal issue celebrates change and the haunting promise that nothing will ever be the same again. See sponsor blog post here.
South Dakota Review, 59.3 & 59.4
See sponsor blog post here.
Southern Humanities Review, 58.3
This issue spotlights Auburn Witness Poetry Prize winner and runners up, nonfiction, and cover art. See sponsor blog post here.
Wordrunner eChapbook, Issue 55
A chapbook fiction collection by Scots author Don J Taylor available to read online or in Kindle edition. See sponsor blog post here.
More Publication New Issues
The American Poetry Review, Sept/Oct 2025
Catamaran, Fall 2025
Copper Nickel, 41
Cream City Review, 49.1
Geist, Fall 2025
The Hudson Review, Autumn 2025
Inch, 65
Jabberwock Review, Summer/Fall 2025
The Kenyon Review, Summer 2025
One Story, 329
Poetry, October 2025
The Schooner, Winter 2024
Southwest Review, Autumn 2025
Western American Literature, Summer 2025
World Literature Today, November/December 2025
See September 2025 new issues here.
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