Getting your work published in a literary magazine can help you reach new audiences and launch your writing career.
Filter through 100+ magazines by format (print or online), traffic, and category. We’ll be updating the list throughout the year, so be sure to bookmark this page!
Print magazine for Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Translations
Copper Nickel — the national literary journal housed at the University of Colorado Denver — was founded by poet Jake Adam York in 2002. Work published in Copper Nickel has appeared in the Best American Poetry, Best American Short Stories, and Pushcart Prize anthologies, and has been listed as “notable” in the Best American Essays anthology
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The American Scholar is a quarterly magazine of essays, fiction, poetry, and articles covering public affairs, literature, science, history, and culture. Published since 1932 for the general reader by the Phi Beta Kappa Society, the Scholar considers nonfiction by known and unknown writers, but unsolicited fiction, poetry, and book reviews are not accepted.
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The Massachusetts Review is one of the nation’s leading literary magazines, distinctive in joining the highest level of artistic concern with pressing public issues. As The New York Times observed, “It is amazing that so much significant writing on race and culture appears in one magazine.” MR was named one of the top ten literary journals in 2008 by the Boston Globe.
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Callaloo was founded in 1976 by its current editor, Charles Henry Rowell, when he was teaching at Southern University (Baton Rouge). He originally described the fledgling periodical as a “Black South Journal,” whose function was to serve as a publication outlet for marginalized writers in the racially segregated US American South.
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The first issue of the Orion Nature Quarterly was published in June 1982, and in its editorial George Russell, the publication’s first Editor-in-Chief, boldly stated Orion’s values: “It is Orion’s fundamental conviction that humans are morally responsible for the world in which we live, and that the individual comes to sense this responsibility as he or she develops a personal bond with nature.”
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Commentary is America’s premier monthly magazine of opinion and a pivotal voice in American intellectual life. Many of Commentary’s articles have been controversial, and more than a few have been hugely influential, touchstones for debate and discussion in universities, among policy analysts in and out of government, within the ranks of professionals and community activists of all kinds, and in circles of serious thought worldwide.
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Print & Online magazine for Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry
AGNI was founded in 1972 at Antioch College by undergraduate Askold Melnyczuk, a then-aspiring (now accomplished) writer with his own vision of a vehicle for alternative news, visual arts, and literature. Melnyczuk was interested in creating a magazine that would feature a new generation of writers and visual artists.
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ZYZZYVA is a critically acclaimed print journal, introducing readers to new work from the best contemporary writers and artists since 1985. Based in San Francisco, we have established a vigorous tradition of finding and fostering new talent, in our backyard and beyond.
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One Story Inc. is an award-winning, 501(c)(3) not-for-profit literary publisher committed to supporting the art form of the short story and the authors who write them — through One Story, One Teen Story, education, community, and mentorship.
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Since 1946, Chicago Review has published a range of contemporary poetry, fiction, and criticism.
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Founded in 1970, The Antigonish Review is the third longest-running creative-writing journal in the Maritimes and one of the oldest continuing literary magazines in Canada.
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Anomaly Literary Journal, founded by Lorcán Black, Oliver Tatler, Roseanna Free and Joseph Birdsey, came into being from a conversation in a beer garden in Covent Garden, London in 2015. We wanted to create a literary journal that, from the outset, selected only the best of up and coming poets, artists and writers.
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Anima is a journal for contemporary poems which dare to look beyond the materialist paradigm of mainstream western culture.
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Print & Online magazine for Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry
American Chordata is a biannual magazine of bright voices in fiction, nonfiction essay, and poetry, as well as art and photography. We are founded on the belief that a good literary magazine can celebrate sophisticated design and earnest expression on the same page.
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Print & Online magazine for Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry
Let the power of your imagination be your guide. We’re interested in stories, essays, and poems that speak to this idea of Transcendence.
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The editors invite well-crafted, compelling submissions of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Quality is the determining factor for acceptance in New Madrid.
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Print & Online magazine for Non-Fiction, Poetry, Short Fiction
Southern Humanities Review publishes fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. $1,000 and publication in SHR will be awarded annually to one poem of witness by an American poet. Full guidelines on our website.
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Print magazine for Non-Fiction, Poetry, Short Fiction
NER was founded by poets Sydney Lea and Jay Parini in New Hampshire in 1978. By publishing new fiction, poetry, and nonfiction that is both challenging and inviting, New England Review encourages artistic exchange and thought-provoking innovation, providing publishing opportunities for writers at all stages in their careers.
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The Sun is an independent, ad-free magazine that for more than forty years has used words and photographs to evoke the splendor and heartache of being human. The personal essays, short stories, interviews, poetry, and photographs that appear in The Sun’s pages explore the challenges we face and the moments when we rise to meet them.
Domain Authority: 58 Average Traffic: 166,800 🌎 Territory: USA 💰 Submission Fee: $0 Sales per issue: <1,000 Frequency: 12 times a year Online Submissions ✔ 📋 Submission Guidelines
Founded in 1892 by the teacher and critic William Peterfield Trent, the Sewanee Review is America’s oldest continuously published literary quarterly. SR has a long tradition of cultivating emerging talent: we published excerpts of Cormac McCarthy and Flannery O’Connor’s first novels, and the early poetry of Robert Penn Warren, Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, and Christian Wiman.
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