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Best Literary Magazines of 2023

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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 134 magazines that match your search 🔦

Georgia Review

Print magazine for Fiction, Poetry,

The Georgia Review seeks to create a lasting environment for literature by supporting writers at every stage of their careers. Committed to the art of editorial practice, the Review collaborates with authors of essays, stories, poems, and reviews in pursuit of works of enduring appeal that engage with the evolving concerns and interests of readers from around the world.

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

Virginia Quarterly Review

Print magazine for Fiction, Poetry, Non-Fiction,

From its inception in prohibition, through depression and war, in prosperity and peace, the Virginia Quarterly Review has been a haven for the best essayists, fiction writers, and poets, seeking contributors from every section of the United States and abroad. It has not limited itself to any special field. No topic has been alien: literary, public affairs, the arts, history, the economy. If it could be approached through essay or discussion, poetry or prose, VQR has covered it.

Average visits: 272,400/month 🌍 Territory:  USA 💰 Submission fee: $0 Frequency: 4 times a year Online submissions: Yes Submission guidelines

Threepenny Review

Print magazine for Fiction, Poetry, Non-Fiction,

There are vanishingly few magazines left in this country which seem pitched at the general literary reader and which consistently publish such interesting, high-quality criticism, reflection, argument, fiction, and poetry. Threepenny is thankfully still out there.

Average visits: 44,600/month 🌍 Territory:  USA 💰 Submission fee: $0 Frequency: 4 times a year Online submissions: No Submission guidelines

American Short Fiction

Print magazine for Fiction,

Issued triannually, American Short Fiction publishes work by emerging and established voices. These are stories that dive into the wreck, that stretch the reader between recognition and surprise, that conjure a particular world with delicate expertise — stories that take a different way home.

Average visits: 28,200/month 🌍 Territory:  USA 💰 Submission fee: $3 Frequency: 3 times a year Online submissions: Yes Submission guidelines

Yale Review

Print magazine for Fiction, Poetry,

In a land of quick fixes and short view and in a time of increasingly commercial publishing, the journal has an authority that derives from its commitment to bold established writers and promising newcomers, to both challenging literary work and a range of essays and reviews that can explore the connections between academic disciplines and the broader movements in American society, thought, and culture.

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

McSweeney's

Print magazine for Fiction,

Arguably America's most esteemed journal of humor writing. Submission to be made separately for their web and print editions. Short stories, flash fiction, and personal essays are not something we typically run on the website. Instead, we're in the market for short, conceptual humor. We strongly recommend reading through our archives to get a sense of the style of writing we're after.

Average visits: 1,600,000/month 🌍 Territory:  USA 💰 Submission fee: $0 Frequency: 4 times a year Online submissions: Yes Submission guidelines

Iowa Review

Print magazine for Fiction, Poetry, Non-Fiction,

We publish a wide range of fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, translations, photography, and work in emerging forms by both established and emerging writers. Work from our pages has been consistently selected to appear in the anthologies Best American Essays, Best American Short Stories, Best American Poetry, The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses, and The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories.

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

American Poetry Review

Print & Online magazine for Poetry, Non-Fiction,

The American Poetry Review is dedicated to reaching a worldwide audience with a diverse array of the best contemporary poetry and literary prose. APR also aims to expand the audience interested in poetry and literature, and to provide authors, especially poets, with a far-reaching forum in which to present their work.

Average visits: 11,700/month 🌍 Territory:  USA 💰 Submission fee: $3 Frequency: 6 times a year Online submissions: Yes Submission guidelines

Poetry

Print & Online magazine for Poetry,

Poetry regularly presents new work by the most recognized poets, but its primary commitment is still to discover new voices: more than a third of the poets published in recent years have been new to the magazine. The magazine has since been in continuous publication for more than 100 years, making it the oldest monthly magazine devoted to verse in the English language.

Average visits: 8,700,000/month 🌍 Territory:  USA 💰 Submission fee: $0 Frequency: 11 times a year Online submissions: Yes Submission guidelines

Zoetrope All-Story

Print magazine for Fiction, Scripts,

In 1997, Francis Ford Coppola launched Zoetrope: All-Story, a quarterly magazine devoted to the best new short fiction and one-act plays.

Average visits: 27,700/month 🌍 Territory:  USA 💰 Submission fee: $0 Frequency: 4 times a year Online submissions: No Submission guidelines

Epoch

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

EPOCH magazine publishes fiction, poetry, essays, cartoons, screenplays, graphic art, and graphic fiction. The magazine is edited by faculty in the Department of English Program in Creative Writing at Cornell University.

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

TriQuarterly

Online magazine for Fiction, Poetry, Non-Fiction,

TriQuarterly is the literary magazine of Northwestern University and of the MA/MFA in Creative Writing program.

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

Alaska Quarterly Review

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

Alaska Quarterly Review publishes fiction, short plays, poetry, photo essays, and literary non-fiction in traditional and experimental styles. Although we publish established writers, most of our content comes from unsolicited submissions and the editors are committed to publishing new and emerging writers.

🌍 Territory:  USA 💰 Submission fee: $0 Frequency: 2 times a year Online submissions: No Submission guidelines

The Missouri Review

Print magazine for Fiction, Poetry, Non-Fiction,

The Missouri Review is based at the University of Missouri and publishes four issues each year. Each issue contains new fiction, poetry and essays. We also run author interviews and found-text features where we print never before published works such as a short story by William Faulkner or one of Tennessee Williams' plays.

Average visits: 13,000/month 🌍 Territory:  USA 💰 Submission fee: $3 Frequency: 4 times a year Online submissions: Yes Submission guidelines

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