New & Noted Literary & Alternative Magazine Issues
NewPages receives many wonderful literary and alternative magazines each month to share with our readers. You can read more about some of these by clicking on the link to their sponsor information or blog post. If you are a publication looking to be listed here, please visit our FAQ page.
February 2025 Featured Publications
Baltimore Review, Winter 2025
Online publication of new poems, short stories, creative nonfiction, and winners of the publication’s winter contest. See sponsor blog post here.
Black Warrior Review, Fall/Winter 2024
The new 2025 Masthead of editors uphold the tradition of publishing literature that challenges norms and amplifies marginalized perspectives. See sponsor blog post here.
december, 35.2
Features winners and honorable mentions of the 2024 Curt Johnson Prose Awards for fiction and nonfiction. See sponsor blog post here.
Folly Journal
A new, high-end print journal featuring cultural commentary, creative writing, and “carefully crafted scandal.” Read the New Lit on the Block blog post here.
Fruitslice
If you’re a fan of the niche, tear jerking, semi-bizarre, and fully Queer, Fruitslice is the perfect publication for you! Read the New Lit on the Block blog post here.
HEART, No. 19
Hailing from South Carolina’s Nostalgia Press, this issue features the 2024 HEART Poetry Award winner as well as many more new and established poets. Read sponsor blog post here.
The Lake, February 2025
Available online and features new poetry, reviews of full collections, and sample poems from newly published books of poetry. See sponsor blog post here.
The Main Street Rag, Winter 2025
Featuring an interview with Doralee Brooks: Poet Laureate, Educator, and Editor of The Gulf Tower Forecasts Rain: A Pittsburgh Poetry Anthology. See sponsor blog post here.
The Malahat Review, 229
Featuring the 2024 Constance Rooke CNF Prize Winner, new poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and reviews. See sponsor blog post here.
The Midwest Quarterly, Winter 2025
A special issue, “The Future. From a Woman’s Perspective,” guest edited by Judy B. Smetana. See blog post here.
The Missouri Review, Winter 2024
Themed “Sanctuary,” this issue features winners of the 2024 Perkoff Prize along with new fiction, poetry, and essays. See sponsor blog post here.
Posit, Issue 38
“the art and literature in this issue offers wisdom and succor for our troubled psyches readers” See sponsor blog post here.
re•mediate, Issue•1
A new online publication which centers on what is traditionally called human-computer collaboration. Read the New Lit on the Block feature here.
South Dakota Review, 58.3 & 58.4
Readers will enjoy a slew of new poetry, short stories, and an essay in this double issue. See sponsor blog post here.
More Publication New Issues
A Public Space, 32
Arc Poetry, 105
Communities, Spring 2025
Copper Nickel, Spring 2025
Cream City Review, 48.2
Event, 53.3
Bay & Lesbian Review, March-April 2025
Epoch, Spring 2025
Hanging Loose, 116
Hominum, Issue 8
The Hudson Review, Winter 2025
Ibbetson Street, 56
Indiana Review, 46.2
Lilipoh, Winter 2025
The Louisville Review, 95
Mid-American Review, 43.1
New Ohio Review, 35
One Story, 321
Poet Lore, 119
Poetry, March 2025
The Prairie Schooner, 98.1
Salt Hill, 52
Southwest Review, Winter 2024
The Tusculum Review, 20
World Literature Today, March/April 2025
See January 2025 new issues here.
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