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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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American Scholar

Print magazine for Non-Fiction,

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.

Domain authority: 66 🌍 Territory:  USA πŸ’° Submission fee: $0 Frequency: 4 times a year Online submissions: Yes Submission guidelines

Copper Nickel

Print magazine for Fiction, Poetry, Non-Fiction, Translations,

Copper Nickel ‰ÛÓ the national literary journal housed at the University of Colorado Denver ‰ÛÓ 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 ‰ÛÏnotable‰Û in the Best American Essays anthology

Domain authority: 43 🌍 Territory:  USA πŸ’° Submission fee: $0 Frequency: 2 times a year Online submissions: Yes Submission guidelines

BOMB

Print & Online magazine for Fiction, Poetry,

BOMB Magazine has been publishing conversations between artists of all disciplines since 1981. BOMB‰ÛΒͺs founders decided to publish dialogues that reflected the way practitioners spoke about their work among themselves. Annually, BOMB serves 1.5 million online readers through its free and searchable archive and BOMB Daily, a virtual hub where a diverse cohort of artists and writers explore the creative process within a community of their peers and mentors.

Domain authority: 66 🌍 Territory:  USA πŸ’° Submission fee: $3 Frequency: 4 times a year Online submissions: Yes Submission guidelines

Commonweal

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

Commonweal's mission is to provide a forum for civil, reasoned debate on the interaction of faith with contemporary politics and culture. Read by a passionate audience of educated, committed Catholics, as well as readers from many other faith traditions, Commonweal presents well-argued, respectful points of view from across the ideological spectrum.

Domain authority: 63 Average visits: 118,000/month 🌍 Territory:  USA πŸ’° Submission fee: $0 Frequency: 12 times a year Online submissions: Yes Submission guidelines

The Common

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

The Common is an award-winning print and digital literary journal published biannually, in the fall and spring. Issues of The Common include short stories, essays, poems, and images that embody a strong sense of place. The Common Online publishes original content four times per week, including book reviews, interviews, personal essays, short dispatches, poetry, contributor podcasts and recordings, and multimedia features.

Domain authority: 44 🌍 Territory:  USA πŸ’° Submission fee: $0 Frequency: 2 times a year Online submissions: Yes Submission guidelines

Nimrod

Print magazine for Fiction, Poetry, Non-Fiction,

Nimrod International Journal, founded in 1956 at The University of Tulsa, has been active in the discovery and publication of new writers for more than 60 years. Nimrod has also encouraged and rewarded new writers for more than 30 years through The Nimrod Literary Awards.

Domain authority: 67 🌍 Territory:  USA πŸ’° Submission fee: $3 Frequency: 2 times a year Online submissions: Yes Submission guidelines

Ninth Letter

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

Ninth Letter is a collaborative arts and literary project produced by the Creative Writing Program and School of Art & Design at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Edited and designed by faculty and students as part of the core curricula of both programs, the journal's mission is to present original literary writing of exceptional quality, illuminated by cutting-edge graphic design.

Domain authority: 52 🌍 Territory:  USA πŸ’° Submission fee: $0 Frequency: 2 times a year Online submissions: Yes Submission guidelines

Crab Orchard Review

Print & Online magazine for Fiction, Poetry,

Crab Orchard Review was founded in 1995. We seek diverse voices capturing the range of contemporary American writing and hope in our online version to explore more international concerns as well. We are currently building our print archives online to share with readers our over 20 years of publication.

Domain authority: 77 🌍 Territory:  USA πŸ’° Submission fee: $20 Frequency: 2 times a year Online submissions: Yes Submission guidelines

London Magazine

Print magazine for Fiction, Poetry,

The London Magazine publishes literary writing of the highest quality. We look for original poetry and short fiction that startles and entertains us. Reviews, essays and features should be erudite, lucid and incisive.

Domain authority: 46 Average visits: 8,900/month 🌍 Territory:  UK πŸ’° Submission fee: $0 Frequency: 6 times a year Online submissions: Yes Submission guidelines

Litro

Print & Online magazine for Fiction, Non-Fiction,

We began as a free print pamphlet featuring just one short story, then a pocket-sized monthly magazine ‰ÛÓ still free ‰ÛÓ with a handful of short stories and the occasional spot of nonfiction and poetry for the reading pleasure of London commuters. We aim to discover emerging writers and give them a platform to be read alongside stalwarts of the literary scene.

Domain authority: 51 Average visits: 84,400/month 🌍 Territory:  UK πŸ’° Submission fee: $0 Frequency: 12 times a year Online submissions: Yes Submission guidelines

MSLEXIA

Print magazine for Fiction, Poetry, Non-Fiction,

It‰ÛΒͺs time to see your name in print ‰ÛÒ send us your previously-unpublished submissions for inclusion in Mslexia. There are 14 opportunities to submit for women writers of all specialisms: poetry, fiction and non-fiction, with five slots kept solely for subscribers to the magazine.

Domain authority: 53 Average visits: 52,400/month 🌍 Territory:  UK πŸ’° Submission fee: $0 Frequency: 4 times a year Online submissions: Yes Submission guidelines

New Yorker

Print magazine for Fiction, Poetry, Non-Fiction,

The New Yorker is a weekly magazine offering a signature mix of reporting and commentary on politics, international affairs, popular culture and the arts, science and technology, and business, along with fiction, poetry, humor, and cartoons. If your story makes it onto the pages of the New Yorker, you've made it.

Domain authority: 95 Average visits: 34,600,000/month 🌍 Territory:  USA πŸ’° Submission fee: $0 Frequency: 52 times a year Online submissions: Yes Submission guidelines

Ploughshares

Print magazine for Fiction, Poetry,

Ploughshares has published quality literature since 1971. Best known for our award-winning Ploughshares literary journal, we also publish Ploughshares Solos ‰ÛÓ digital-first long stories and essays ‰ÛÓ and a lively literary blog. Since 1989, we have been based at Emerson College in downtown Boston.

Domain authority: 61 Average visits: 176,000/month 🌍 Territory:  USA πŸ’° Submission fee: $0 Frequency: 3 times a year Online submissions: Yes Submission guidelines

Paris Review

Print magazine for Fiction, Poetry, Non-Fiction,

The Paris Review is a quarterly English language literary magazine established in Paris in 1953 by Harold L. Humes, Peter Matthiessen, and George Plimpton. Since relocating to New York City, it has become one of the world's pre-eminent publications of its type.

Domain authority: 79 Average visits: 2,100,000/month 🌍 Territory:  USA πŸ’° Submission fee: $0 Frequency: 4 times a year Online submissions: No Submission guidelines

Tin House

Print magazine for Fiction, Poetry, Non-Fiction,

Tin House offers an artful and irreverent array of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and interviews as well as columns on food and drink, and out-of-print and underappreciated books. Perhaps most indicative of the magazine‰ÛΒͺs mission to stake out new territory and showcase not only established, prize-winning authors is its commitment to including work by undiscovered writers.

Domain authority: 66 Average visits: 35,800/month 🌍 Territory:  USA πŸ’° Submission fee: $0 Frequency: 4 times a year Online submissions: Yes Submission guidelines

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