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Best Literary Magazines of 2018

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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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We found 95 magazines that match your search 🔦

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.

Domain authority: 44 🌍 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.

Domain authority: 36 🌍 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.

Domain authority: 33 🌍 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.

Domain authority: 11 🌍 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.

Domain authority: 30 🌍 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.

Domain authority: 18 🌍 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.

Domain authority: 9 🌍 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.

Domain authority: 43 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.

Domain authority: 55 🌍 Territory:  USA 💰 Submission fee: $3 Frequency: 3 times a year Online submissions: Yes Submission guidelines

One Story

Print magazine for Fiction,

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 ‰ÛÓ through One Story, One Teen Story, education, community, and mentorship.

Domain authority: 52 Average visits: 25,400/month 🌍 Territory:  USA 💰 Submission fee: $0 Frequency: 10 times a year Online submissions: Yes Submission guidelines

Zyzzyva

Print magazine for Fiction, Poetry, Non-Fiction,

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.

Domain authority: 50 🌍 Territory:  USA 💰 Submission fee: $0 Frequency: 3 times a year Online submissions: No Submission guidelines

Agni

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

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.

Domain authority: 90 Average visits: 9,000,000/month 🌍 Territory:  USA 💰 Submission fee: $0 Frequency: 2 times a year Online submissions: Yes Submission guidelines

Orion

Print magazine for Fiction, Poetry, Non-Fiction,

The first issue of the Orion Nature Quarterly was published in June 1982, and in its editorial George Russell, the publication‰Ûªs first Editor-in-Chief, boldly stated Orion‰Ûªs values: ‰ÛÏIt is Orion‰Ûªs 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.‰Û

Domain authority: 72 Average visits: 80,800/month 🌍 Territory:  USA 💰 Submission fee: $0 Frequency: 36 times a year Online submissions: Yes Submission guidelines

Callaloo

Print magazine for Fiction, Poetry, Non-Fiction,

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 ‰ÛÏBlack South Journal,‰Û whose function was to serve as a publication outlet for marginalized writers in the racially segregated US American South.

Domain authority: 87 🌍 Territory:  USA 💰 Submission fee: $0 Frequency: 4 times a year Online submissions: Yes Submission guidelines

Massachusetts Review

Print magazine for Fiction, Poetry, Translations,

The Massachusetts Review is one of the nation‰Ûªs leading literary magazines, distinctive in joining the highest level of artistic concern with pressing public issues. As The New York Times observed, ‰ÛÏIt is amazing that so much significant writing on race and culture appears in one magazine.‰Û MR was named one of the top ten literary journals in 2008 by the Boston Globe.

Domain authority: 44 🌍 Territory:  USA 💰 Submission fee: $0 Frequency: 4 times a year Online submissions: Yes Submission guidelines

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