New & Noted Literary & Alternative Magazine Issues
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April 2025 Featured Publications
Alaska Quarterly Review, Winter/Spring 2025
Check out vibrant literature in this new issue and captivating new videos on AQR‘s YouTube Channel. See sponsor blog post here.
Apple Valley Review, Spring 2025
Blooming with new short fiction, poetry, personal essays, and translations in an open access online format. See sponsor blog post here.
Bellevue Literary Review, Issue 48
Featuring winners and honorable mentions of the 2025 Bellevue Literary Review Prizes as well as new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. See sponsor blog post here.
Black Warrior Review, Spring/Summer 2025
Using a variety of forms, Atefat-Peckham reflects on a life of loss and grief, celebration and sorrow. See sponsor blog post here.
Blue Collar Review, Winter 2024-25
“Working class writing often evokes our class mood and these poets are pissed!” See blog post here.
Broadsided, Spring 2025
In celebration of National Poetry Month, eight writers and artists collaborate for this Spring 2025 folio. See blog post here.
Jewish Fiction, Issue 39
Celebrate the “Festival of Freedom” with this issue of 15 captivating stories from diverse authors in Italian, Polish, Hebrew, and English. See sponsor blog post here.
The Lake, April 2025
Online readers are treated to new poems, reviews of poetry books, and sample reviews from recently published collections. See sponsor blog post here.
The Missouri Review, Spring 2025
Themed “Outsiders,” this issue features winners of the 2024 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize. See sponsor blog post here.
New England Review, 46.1
Enjoy vibrant prose and poetry that enhances the literary ecosystem in this newest issue filled with poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and translations. See sponsor blog post here.
Plume, 164, April 2025
An engaging monthly of fresh poetry, reviews, translations, and conversations. See sponsor blog post here.
Silly Goose Press
Inviting readers to enjoy “the magical within the mundane and the mundane within the magical.” Read the New Lit on the Block feature here.
South Dakota Review, 59.1
Featuring a diverse range of poetry, short stories, and essays from contemporary literary voices. See sponsor blog post here.
Thema, Spring 2025
This issue’s target theme is “My Favorite Bookmark,” expressed through poetry, stories, art, and photography. See sponsor blog post here.
Thorn & Bloom, Issue 01
Thorn & Bloom, a bold new literary magazine cultivating self-care as resistance published by redrosethorns Ltd. Liability Co., has released its first issue! See sponsor blog post here.
Tween Magazine
A new print magazine that offers girls “a screen-free chance to engage, learn life skills, build confidence, and find inspiration.” Read the New Lit on the Block feature here.
More Publication New Issues
Cider Press Review, April 2025
The Citron Review, Spring 2025
Clade Song, 14
Cola Literary Review, Spring 2025
The Collidescope, April 2025
Dorothy Parker’s Ashes, April 2025
Doubly Mad, Spring 2025
The Dribble Drabble Review, Issue X
Flash Fiction Magazine, April 2025
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Furrow, 2025
Good Life Review, Spring 2025
Gooseberry Pie, Issue 31
Gyroscope Review, April 2025
Hazlitt, April 2025
Heron Tree, 11
Hinterland, 16
Image, 124
Michigan Quarterly Review, Spring 2025
The Milking Cat, April 2025
Molecule, Spring 2025
Notre Dame Review, 59
Pennine Platform, 97
Planet Drum, Winter 2025
Poetry, May 2025
Pulp Literature, Winter 2025
Salmagundi Magazine, Spring-Summer 2025
Santa Monica Review, Spring 2025
South Dakota Review, 59.2
Southwest Review, Spring 2025
Tar River Poetry, Spring 2025
See March 2025 new issues here.
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