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.
May 2025 Featured Publications
AGNI, 101
Essays, poems, and stories that offer soaring gestures of imagination to match the inescapable world. See sponsor blog post here.
Baltimore Review, Spring 2025
New creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry in an open-access online quarterly. See sponsor blog post here.
The Greensboro Review, Spring 2025
Featuring the Robert Watson Literary Prize winners as well as much more new fiction and poetry in a pretty pink package. See sponsor blog post here.
The Lake, Winter 2025
Hailing from across the pond, this online monthly generously shares new poetry, sample poems from published works, and reviews. See sponsor blog post here.
The MacGuffin, Spring 2025
This issue features winners of the Poet Hunt 29 with judge’s commentary as well as new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. See sponsor blog post here.
The Main Street Rag, Spring 2025
Loaded with new poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and an interview with artist and musician Anna Pauscher Morawitz. See sponsor blog post here.
The Malahat Review, Spring 2025
Read the 2025 Open Season Award winners in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, as well as many other new works to round out the issue. See sponsor blog post here.
The Midwest Quarterly, Spring 2025
Themed “Library Issue(s)” guest edited by Sara DeCaro. See sponsor blog post here.
Sheila-Na-Gig, Spring 2025
Featuring Editor’s Choice Award winner Vincent Caseragola with 44 new and returning contributors. See sponsor blog post here.
Sky Island Journal, Spring 2025
Accomplished and emerging voices side by side in this online journal of poetry, flash fiction, and creative nonfiction. See sponsor blog post here.
South Dakota Review, 59.2
New poetry, short stories, essays, and a hybrid excerpt from Sutured Memorī, by Michelle Naka Pierce. See sponsor blog post here.
Valley Voices, Spring 2025
Dedicated to the late Dr. Jerry W. Ward, Jr., this issue is themed “River and Land: The Mississippi Delta.” See sponsor blog post here.
Wordrunner eChapbook, Issue 54
Celebrating their 15th Anniversary, readers can read or download this anthology of new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. See sponsor blog post here.
More Publication New Issues
Arc Poetry Magazine, Spring 2025
The American Poetry Review, May/June 2025
Atlanta Review, Spring/Summer 2025
Communities, Summer 2025
Free Inquiry, June/July 2025
Gay and Lesbian Review, May/June 2025
The Hudson Review, Spring 2025
The Kenyon Review, Winter 2025
Louisiana Literature, 42.1
Nelle, 8
Ninth Letter, Fall/Winter 2024-25
One Story, 324
Poetry, June 2025
Raleigh Review, Spring 2025
Rattle, 88
The Sewanee Review, Spring 2025
Space and Culture, May 2025
Subtropics, Spring/Summer 2025
Third Coast, 54
Translation Review, April 2025
The Wallace Stevens Journal, Spring 2025
Willow Springs, Spring 2025
See April 2025 new issues here.
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