Our mission is to print the best poetry: any style, format, or subject matter.

Carve publishes HONEST FICTION, poetry, nonfiction, interviews, art, and more in quarterly print and digital issues and hosts the annual Raymond Carver Short Story Contest. We seek to foster camaraderie among writers and readers and celebrate literature with our borderless and diverse community.

Cave Wall publishes the finest poetry written by today's established and emerging poets. Each issue publishes black and white art by one artist, as well.

Cleaver Magazine shares cutting-edge art and literary work from a mix of established and emerging voices. Cleaver publishes poetry, short stories, essays, dramatic monologues, flash prose, and visual art.

Founded in 1956 and published three times a year, Colorado Review features contemporary short fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction (memoir, personal essays) by both new and established writers. CR additionally sponsors the annual Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction and the Colorado Prize for Poetry.

The Common publishes fiction, essays, poetry, and images that evoke a modern sense of place.

Literature from Texas and Beyond

Since 1987, Concho River Review has been publishing established and emerging writers from all over the country while keeping a focus on the Southwest.

Court Green is a space where all kinds of poems are welcome!

Crazyhorse has been publishing the best emerging and established writers for over fifty years.

A quarterly online journal of new poetry and prose.

One of the oldest quarterlies in the nation, Cimarron Review publishes work with a wide-ranging aesthetic: the bold and ruminative, the sensitive and shocking, imaginative and truth-telling. Cimarron seeks the finest stories, poems, and essays from working writers across the country and around the world.

Cherry Tree is an annual print journal that publishes the best poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and literary shade. Produced by the Literary House Press.

Coal Hill publishes an online, multi-genre literary journal in February, June, and November of each year. Each issue features 8-10 poets, 4-5 prose writers, and 2 in-depth book reviews. At least 30% of the journal is comprised of Pittsburgh writers. (Our definition of Pittsburgh writer is simply that you live or have spent significant time in the city.)

The Courtship of Winds is a semiannual online journal that publishes poetry, prose poetry, fiction, essays, art, and short pieces of drama and music.

Collateral showcases literary and visual art that reveals the impact of military service and violent conflict beyond the combat zone.

We explore the art of fiction with a focus on the elements of craft. We feature new and republished fiction, critical pieces on craft, interviews, book annotations, and more.

Chinese Literature Today grants the world direct access to China through high-quality translations of the most important modern literature of China—fictional works that have sold millions of copies, poems that have found resonance in many souls, and literary essays that illuminate the many facets of Chinese literature and culture.

Club Plum Literary Journal publishes flash fiction and prose poetry by emerging and established authors whose absorbing tales and imagery unravels in voices either understated or lyrical but always powerful.

Consequence is an international literary journal that addresses the effects and realities of war and geopolitical violence using literature and visual art to offer emotional as well as intellectual access to the experiences of victims, combatants, and witnesses of these conflicts.

Chestnut Review features poetry, short fiction, flash fiction, art, and photography from around the world. We are a writer-centered, selective publication with online quarterly and annual print publication. We pay our artists and staff and respond to all submissions within 30 days.

Change Seven is an online literary journal. We seek to publish the best available fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, visual art, book reviews, and more from both established and emerging talents.

Cutleaf is an online literary journal published by EastOver Press. We feature work that responds to our common experience and reflects our differences. We welcome poetry, short stories, essays, and other nonfiction from established and emerging writers.