2nd Hand
Considers sparkling prose submissions of less than 2500 words (good short drama also considered) to both its printed broadside and for its web site. If you are submitting to the web site, send your submission in a word document saved in Rich Text Format (
Absinthe Literary Review
Call for submissions for ALRâ??s annual Eros and Thanatos issue. Please send your best transgressive workâ??fiction, essay, and poetryâ??dealing with the moist fecund issues of Eros and Thanatos. All submitted works must contain substantial elements of sex, dea
Aesthetica Magazine
Aesthetica Magazine is a literature, arts, music, and film publication that promotes creativity, equality, and diversity. Aesthetica has been short listed for community project awards, and believes in arts for al
Banipal
Banipal is throwing open doors and windows on contemporary life from the Arab world, Banipal is the only magazine to present contemporary Arab literature in English translation. New poetry, short stories, novel extracts, interviews, profiles, appreciation
Dark Animus
Dark Animus is interested in original, dark, gritty pulp fiction (science fiction, horror, fantasy, weird â?? other) that captures the imagination of the reader. I'm after stories up to 8,000 words (2000-4000 words is ideal) and bear in mind that shorter stories have a greater chance of acceptance. Query if you have longer stories. If something can hold my attention, and I think itâ??s brilliant, I will not refuse it.
DESCANT
Now in its third decade, Descant is a quarterly journal publishing new and established contemporary writers and visual artists from Canada and around the world. Begun in 1970 as a mimeograph, Descant has evolved into an exquisitely produced journal of int
Harpur Palate
Established in 2000 as a semiannual literary magazine, Harpur Palate publishes works of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry that demonstrate attention to craft, structure, language, and the story well told. Harpur Palate is produced by graduate students in English at Binghamton University and named after the University's Harpur College of Arts and Sciences and for its distinctive taste in literary fare. To sample some of our prose and poetry, click on the cover art below.
Harvard Review
Harvard Review publishes short fiction, poetry, essays, drama, and book reviews. Previous contributors include Seamus Heaney, John Updike, John Ashbery, Helen Vendler, Jess Row, Robert Coover, David Mamet, and Jorie Graham. Harvard Review also publishes the work of emerging and previously unpublished writers.
KISS MACHINE
Kiss Machine sprang from Toronto's tiny Petrified Press in 1996, and has since proved a spirited foray into independent art, literary culture, and political views. In an effort to highlight the surrealism inherent in day-to-day life, each issue features t
Magma
Magma is a magazine of poetry and writing about poetry, published three times a year in Spring, Autumn and Winter, in full on paper and in selection on our Web site. We look for poems which give a direct sense of what it is to live today - honest about feelings, alert about world, sometimes funny, always well crafted. When we decided on the title Magma, it was to suggest the molten core within the world, hidden as deep feelings are and showing itself in unpredictable movements, tremors, lava flows, eruptions.
Mslexia
Mslexia will get you noticed. In the four and a half years since the magazine was launched, Mslexia has become the magazine for women writers to submit to. Publishers, literary agents and BBC radio producers scan Mslexia every quarter on the lookout for fresh talent. Many women have launched their writing careers in the pages of the magazine. We do not accept email submissions, except from overseas writers. We promise a response within three months of any closing date.
NFG
NFG is a glossy, beautifully designed Canadian literary magazine, which features art, new writing, poetry, comic strips and regular writing competitions. Current issue includes 12 hard-hitting pieces of cross genre fiction, including the excellent â??Euthanasia Day at the Childrenâ??s Shelter,â?? by Linda J Dunn and Kaolin Fireâ??s hilarious, â??The Last to Have Sexâ??; 12 soul-stirring poetic interludes; 2 pages of international art; and Marc Hirschfieldâ??s comic strip, â??Withdrawl.â?? The magazine prides itself on its submission process. All submissions are viewed and acknowledged personally via e.mail from receipt of the work to its conclusion, with editorsâ?? comments available if your work moves up for review. Well worth the $17 for 3 issue subscription and highly recommended. Click image to subscribe or order current issue on NPG website.
PRISM INTERNATIONAL
A quarterly magazine based in Vancouver, whose mandate is to publish the best in contemporary writing and translation from Canada and around the world. Started in 1959, it is the oldest literary magazine in Western Canada. Its archives are a Who's Who of modern and contemporary literature. It welcomes writing from both established and unknown writers, from Canada and from around the world. Send original, unpublished material in English. Do not consider multiple submissions or work that has already appeared on the Internet, unless it has only been posted to writersâ?? forums for discussion. Limit the number of items in a submission to one prose piece, five poems, or one short play. Translations are sought in all genres and must be undertaken with the permission of the original author.
Red Dirt Review
Welcome to the Red Dirt Review Online. This is an exciting time for us as we seek to elevate and promote the literary landscape.
The Land-Grant College Review
The Land-Grant College Review is a handsomely designed literary magazine based in New York City. It publishes short stories. In 2004 the LGCR was the only literary magazine nominated by the editors of the Utne Reader for an Independent Press Award.
TriQuarterly
TriQuarterly is a not-for-profit national literary magazine published three times a year at Northwestern University that features fiction, poetry, literary essays, and graphic art. Founded in 1958 as a faculty and student magazine, TriQuarterly was reshaped in 1964 as an innovative national publication aimed at a sophisticated and diverse literary readership. The physical aspect of many literary journals today derives from the creation of the TriQuarterly design in 1964.
Watchword Press
Watchword Press is a nonprofit publishing house dedicated to producing, publishing, and disseminating cutting-edge literary works to a wide audience. We seek to publish emerging writers who are generally underrepresented by the larger, market-driven, commercial publishing houses. While we publish a variety of works, our main focuses are on emerging American writers and Eastern European translations.
32 POEMS
A semiannual journal, easy to carry and inviting to read. Each issue contains only 32 poems so that readers may give intimate, unhurried attention to each. The editors of 32 Poems feel that a poemâ??s publication should not begin its disappearance; it is th
34thParallel
"Writing Beyond the Lines" 34thParallel is an online and print version literary magazine featuring poetry, prose, interviews and art. Our goal is to provide a platform for new and emerging writers and artists. Through inteviews, we focus on the writer--seeking to reveal what inspires them and to challenge others to create. Our only criterion: send us your best!
AMARILLO BAY
Amarillo Bay publish the highest quality fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction written in English anywhere in the world. Their editors will consider submissions from both unpublished and established writers. They prefer mainstream literary fiction but
Anon
Anon is a print-based poetry magazine to which poems are submitted anonymously and assessed 'blind', using procedures similar to those used by poetry competitions. Poems that are accepted for publication are published under the names of their authors â?? that is to say, the anonymous process only applies to the assessment procedures, not to publication. Poems that are rejected remain â??anonymousâ?? â?? the editor does not discover the names of poets he rejects.
APPALACHIAN HERITAGE
Founded in 1973 at little Alice Lloyd College in the heart of the Eastern Kentucky mountains, Appalachian Heritage, a literary quarterly, quickly attracted the Appalachian Regionâ??s most prominent literary figures. Features poetry, short stories, literary
Arbutus
Arbutus is an online literary journal publishing in February and July each year. They publish an eclectic mix of quality poetry, prose, and hypertext in all genres and are interested in memorable pieces on any subject full of rich detail and sounds. Pleas
ARETE MAGAZINE
Tri-quarterly arts magazine. An excellent British journal of contemporary literature and contemporary writers, edited by Craig Raine. Publishes fiction, poetry, reportage and reviews.
Ascent
Published quarterly, Ascent accepts unsolicited manuscripts of short fiction (under 4000 words), poetry, short philosophical essays on life and the human condition, and reviews of current published works. The emphasis for short fiction is on science ficti
BATHTUB GIN
A biannual literary/art magazine, seeking poetry, short prose, one-act plays, essays, excerpts from novels, reviews, and other unclassifiable musings that have some kick to them. Bathtub gin publish poetry, short fiction, drama, essays, artwork, and much
BIRMINGHAM WORDS
Birmingham Words is a magazine for the best in new writing, available for free download in PDF format. Issue 1 featured work from New York comic-book artist Jeff Lewis, poets Padmakara and David Calcutt, an interview with author Don Mullan and fiction fro
BLACKMAIL PRESS
Blackmail Press was created to give poets, students and poetry readers in New Zealand a site to read, submit and find great poetry. The impetus was to provide a site that is a safe environment for poets to share their works. BMP has only one guideline for
blue skies poetry
blue skies poetry, an online journal, provides a forum for emerging and established poets to find a wider audience for their work, with a particular emphasis on writing by Canadians.
BOMB Magazine
For 24 years BOMB Magazine has been facilitating conversations between artists of all stripes: painters, actors, poets, directors, musicians, novelists, sculptors...BOMB records deeply personal reflections on art and life, legendary exchanges which can only be found in our pages. No other arts magazine pays such close and serious attention to developments in new art and writing, regardless of commercial appeal or name recognition.
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