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Best Literary Magazines of 2019

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Getting your work published in a literary magazine can help you reach new audiences and launch your writing career.

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Oxford American

Print & Online magazine for Fiction, Poetry, Non-Fiction,

The Oxford American is a nonprofit, quarterly literary magazine dedicated to featuring the best in Southern writing while documenting the complexity and vitality of the American South. Over its quarter century, the Oxford American has won four National Magazine Awards‰ÛÓincluding an award for General Excellence in 2016.

Average visits: 137,400/month 🌍 Territory:  USA 💰 Submission fee: $0 Frequency: 4 times a year Online submissions: Yes Submission guidelines

Crazy Horse

Print & Online magazine for Fiction, Poetry, Non-Fiction,

Founded by the poet Tom McGrath in Los Angeles in 1960, Crazyhorse continues to be one of the finest, most influential literary journals published today. We look forward to another 50 years of the publication of McGrath‰Ûªs visionary foray into the world of letters, and hope you‰Ûªll join us in encountering the best new writing we can publish.

🌍 Territory:  USA 💰 Submission fee: $3 Frequency: 2 times a year Online submissions: Yes Submission guidelines

The Normal School

Print & Online magazine for Fiction, Poetry, Non-Fiction,

The Normal School is a bi-annual print and online journal featuring nonfiction, fiction, poetry, criticism, journalism, author interviews, and multi-media texts. We dig quirky, boundary-challenging, energetic prose and poetry with innovations in content, form, and focus, which isn‰Ûªt actually as high-falutin‰Ûª as it sounds.

🌍 Territory:  USA 💰 Submission fee: $3 Frequency: 2 times a year Online submissions: Yes Submission guidelines

Fifth Wednesday Journal

Print magazine for Fiction, Poetry, Non-Fiction,

Fifth Wednesday Journal is a nonprofit, independent literary journal published twice a year in print. Our mission is to bring the finest fiction, poetry, essays, photography, interviews, and book reviews into your everyday life. We're defining literature. In real context.

🌍 Territory:  USA 💰 Submission fee: $0 Frequency: 2 times a year Online submissions: Yes Submission guidelines

The Sewanee Review

Print & Online magazine for Fiction, Poetry,

Founded in 1892 by the teacher and critic William Peterfield Trent, the Sewanee Review is America‰Ûªs oldest continuously published literary quarterly. SR has a long tradition of cultivating emerging talent: we published excerpts of Cormac McCarthy and Flannery O‰ÛªConnor‰Ûªs first novels, and the early poetry of Robert Penn Warren, Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, and Christian Wiman.

🌍 Territory:  USA 💰 Submission fee: $0 Frequency: 4 times a year Online submissions: Yes Submission guidelines

The Sun

Print magazine for Fiction, Poetry, Non-Fiction,

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‰Ûªs pages explore the challenges we face and the moments when we rise to meet them.

Average visits: 166,800/month 🌍 Territory:  USA 💰 Submission fee: $0 Frequency: 12 times a year Online submissions: Yes Submission guidelines

New England Review

Print magazine for Poetry, Non-Fiction, 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.

🌍 Territory:  USA 💰 Submission fee: $2 Frequency: 4 times a year Online submissions: Yes Submission guidelines

Southern Humanities Review

Print & Online magazine for Poetry, Non-Fiction, 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.

🌍 Territory:  USA 💰 Submission fee: $3 Frequency: 4 times a year Online submissions: Yes Submission guidelines

New Madrid

Print magazine for Fiction, Poetry, Non-Fiction,

The editors invite well-crafted, compelling submissions of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Quality is the determining factor for acceptance in New Madrid.

🌍 Territory:  USA 💰 Submission fee: $0 Frequency: 2 times a year Online submissions: Yes Submission guidelines

FIVE80 SPLIT

Print & Online magazine for Fiction, Poetry, Non-Fiction,

Let the power of your imagination be your guide. We‰Ûªre interested in stories, essays, and poems that speak to this idea of Transcendence.

🌍 Territory:  USA 💰 Submission fee: $0 Frequency: 1 times a year Online submissions: Yes Submission guidelines

American Chordata

Print & Online magazine for Fiction, Poetry, Non-Fiction,

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.

🌍 Territory:  USA 💰 Submission fee: $0 Frequency: 2 times a year Online submissions: Yes Submission guidelines

Anima

Print magazine for Poetry,

Anima is a journal for contemporary poems which dare to look beyond the materialist paradigm of mainstream western culture.

🌍 Territory:  UK 💰 Submission fee: $0 Frequency: 1 times a year Online submissions: Yes Submission guidelines

Anomaly Literary Journal

Online magazine for Fiction, Poetry, Non-Fiction,

Anomaly Literary Journal, founded by LorcÌÁn 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.

🌍 Territory:  USA 💰 Submission fee: $0 Frequency: 2 times a year Online submissions: Yes Submission guidelines

The Antigonish Review

Print magazine for Fiction, Poetry, Non-Fiction,

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.

Average visits: 349,600/month 🌍 Territory:  Canada 💰 Submission fee: $0 Frequency: 4 times a year Online submissions: No Submission guidelines

Chicago Review

Print magazine for Fiction, Poetry, Non-Fiction,

Since 1946, Chicago Review has published a range of contemporary poetry, fiction, and criticism.

🌍 Territory:  USA 💰 Submission fee: $3 Frequency: 3 times a year Online submissions: Yes Submission guidelines

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