Writer’s Literary Journal Listing
Able Muse Review – year round; 4000 words
Agni – Sept 1- May 31; no word limit
Alaska Quarterly Review – Aug 1 – May 15; up to 50 pages; mail
Alice Blue Review – web journal; up to 2000words
American Literary Review – Oct. 1 – May1; up to 8000; $3 fee
American Short Fiction – year-round; no word limit; $3 fee
Amoskeag – Aug 1 – Nov. 1; 2500 words; mail
Antioch Review – reading Sept. 1 – May 31st; mail; up to 5000; publish 3 stories/issue
Apalachee Review – year-round; up to 25 pages; mail
Apple Valley Review – year-round; online; 4000 words
Arkansas Review – year-round; no limits mentioned; mail
Armchair/Shotgun – year-round (currently closed); up to 8000 words; remove name
Arroyo Literary Review – Dec. 1- May 31; up to 4000 words/3 pieces at a time; mail
Arts and Letters – Aug. 1- Jan 31.; up to 25 pages
Ascent – year-round (website not very helpful)
Assissi – year-round; up to 20 pages
Bayou – Sept 1- June 1; up to 7500 words
Baltimore Review – Aug 1- Nov 30/Feb 1 – May 31;
Bartleby Snopes – up to 3000 words; provides feedback!; free online
Bat City Review – June 1 – Nov. 15;
Bear Deluxe – year-round; 4000 words; only through Doug Fir Fiction Award; environmental
Bellevue Literary Review – Sept 1 – June 31; 5000 words; health/healing/etc.
Bellingham Review – Sept 15- Dec. 1; no limits; $2 fee
Bellowing Ark – year-round; no limits; mail
Berkely Fiction Review – email submissions;
Blackbird – online; Nov 1- April 15; 8000 words
Black Clock – reading opens in Fall 2014
Black Warrior Review – Aug 1- Oct 1 and Dec 1 – March 1; 7000 words; 1 submission/6 months
Blotterature – Aug 1 – Oct 31; Feb 1 – May 31; 4000 words
Blue Lake Review – online journal; year-round; 10000 words
Blue Mesa Review – Sept 1 – May 31; up to 30 pages
Bosque – July1 – Aug.1; 5000 words; email
Boston Review – Sept 15 – May 15; up to 4000 words;
Boulevard – Oct. 2 – April 31; 8000 words; $3 fee
Brain, Child: The Magazine for Thinking Mothers – year-round; 4000 words; email
Briar Cliff Review – until Nov. 1; 5000 words
Bull: Men’s Fiction – unable to figure out their submission guidelines
Callaloo – year-round; 10,000 words; no simultaneous submissions
Calyx – Oct 1 – Dec. 31; 5000 words; $5 fee ($3 student/low-income)
Canteen – year-round; 4000 words
Carolina Quarterly – Sept 1 – June 1; 7500 words; looking for more non-fiction; $3 fee
Carve Magazine – y ear-round; mail or online ($3); up to 10000
Chariton Review – submissions during contest
Chattahoochee Review –year-round (except Jan.); 6000 words
Chautauqua – Aug 15 – Nov 15/Feb 15 – April 15; themed issues; 7000 words
Chicago Quarterly Review – year-round; 5000 words
Cimarron Review – year-round reading;
Cincinnati Review – Aug 15- April 15; up to 40 pages
Colorado Review – year-round; 15-20 pages
Columbia – March 1 – Oct 31; no word counts listed
The Common – Sept1 -Dec 1; March 1 – June 1; 10000 words; strong sense of place
Confrontation – Aug 16- May 1; 7200 words; Mail
Conjunctions – web and online; year-round for online; no word limits (use common sense)
Crab Orchard Review – Aug 15 – Oct 1; Oct 1- Nov 10; themed issues; (submission guidelines
hard to figure out)
CrazyHorse – reading Sept. – May 31st.; $3 fee
Cream City Review – Aug 1 – Nov 1 (themed issue); Jan 1 – April 1(Spring issue); 20 pages
Crucible – only contest guidelines indicated; email submissions
Cutbank – Sept 15 – Feb 1 (print); 8500 words; online journal – year-round; themes
Cumberland River Review – Sept-April; 5,000 words
Denver Quarterly – May 15 – May 31(??); 15 pages; mail
Descant – currently closed; check Oct. 2014; no limits; email submissions
Dogwood – July 1- Sept. 15; 22 pages
Ecotone – August 15- April 15; up to 30 pages; $3 online fee
Electric Literature – not currently open to submissions; no info as to when open again
Eleven Eleven – Sept 15- Oct 15( accept the first 200 submissions); 7000 words
Epiphany – no submission guidelines; online subs but currently closed – website indicates they
are open (??)
Epoch – mail; no simultaneous submissions; Sept 15 – April 15; no limits
Event – year-round reading (some months editors are not reading, but you can still submit and
wait); mail (Canada address)
Fantasy and Science Fiction – year-round; no limits; mail; no simultaneous submissions
Farallon Review – year-round (but closes periodically); 10000words; mail
Fiction – Sept 15 – April 15; no limits
Fiction International – Oct 1 – Feb 15 – Fluids theme; no limits noted
The Fiddlehead – year-round; mail (Canada); 6000 words
Fifth Wednesday – Aug 15 – Jan (?); 12000 words
Five Chapters – web journal; publishes a short story in five parts each week.
Five Points - Sept 1 - April 1; up to 7500 words;
Fjords Review – year-round; more than 4 pages; flash option; $4 fee; occasional free sub periods
Florida Review – Aug – May (year-round for subscribers); up to 25 pages; $3 fee
Flyway – Sept 15- May 15; 5000 words; environment/human place (but all subjects considered)
Fourteen Hills – Sept 1 – Dec 1/March 1 – June1 (1 sub/period); 25 pages; unsure of fee
Fugue – Sept 1- May 1; no limits; $3 fee
Gargoyle – online/print; reading begins Feb 1, 2015; no other guidelines
Gemini – year-round; email or mail submissions; no limits
Georgia Review – Aug 15 – May 15; mail or online ($3);
Gettysburg Review – Sept1 – May 31; mail;
Ghost Town/ The Pacific Review – Aug 1 – April 15; 7500 words
GlimmerTrain – year-round; multiple contests; accept long works
Grain – Sept1 – May 31; 5000 words (include word count); mail (Canada address)
Granta – currently closed (as of August); check back in a few months
Green Mountains Review – Sept 1 – Dec 1; no other guidelines provided
Greensboro Review – year-round (will hold work during non-reading period) up to 7500 words;
$3 submittable fee
Grey Sparrow – year-round; email submissions; no gratuitous drug use or other kinds of abuse
Guernica – year-round; themed issues; email submissions
Gulf Coast – Sept 1 – March 1; $2 fee; 7000 words
Hanging Loose – year-round; mail; no other guidelines
Harpur Palate – Sept1 – Nov15; Jan 1- April 15; 6000 words
Harvard Review – Sept 1 – May 31; 7000 words; $3 fee
Hawaii Pacific Review – year-round; online journal; 6000 words
Hayden’s Ferry Review – year-round; no limits; $3 fee; themed issues
High Desert Journal – year-round; 5000 words; Interior west writers on any issue/outsider
writers on themes of the interior West
Hobart – web journal; 2000 words; themes and general subs
Hotel Amerika – Sept 1 – May 1; mail; no simultaneous submissions
Hudson Review – Sept 1 – Nov 30; 10000 words; mail
Hunger Mountain – currently not open for general subs; will open soon
Idaho Review – Sept 1 – May 31 (?); up to 25 pages; 1 submission per year
Image – year-round; 6000 words; mail
Indiana Review – up to 8000 words; closed currently
Inkwell – year-round; online journal (?); no limits mentioned; themed issues; email submissions
Iowa Review – Sept-Nov. reading period; 25 page limit; mail or online submissions ($4)
Iron Horse Literary Review –themed issues – check dates; 5500 words
Jabberwock Review – Aug15 – Oct. 20; Jan 15- March 15; $2.50 fee;
Jelly Bucket – Jan 1- June 1; 5000 words; 1 submission/period
The Journal – year-round; no limits indicated
Joyland – regional writing; year-round; email submissions; 10000 words
Juked – year-round; no limits; print and online mags
Kenyon Review – Sept 15 – Jan 15; up to 7000 words;
Kugelmass – year-round; 4000 words; humor – particularly seeking essays
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet-Small Beer Press – year-round; no limits; mail; no
simultaneous submissions
Lake Effect – year-round; up to 15 pages (query if longer); mail
Lalitamba - A Journal of International Writings for Liberation – no guidelines; Mail
Literal Latte – year-round reading; up to 6000; mail submissions only
The Literarian – not reading submissions
Literary Review – currently closed/open in fall; themed issues
Little Patuxent Review – Aug – Nov 15/Jan 1 – March 15 (unthemed); themed issues; 5000
words; must be US Resident
Los Angeles Review – currently reading (reading period not indicated; 4000 words and under
500 words; $3 fee
Louisiana Literature – no limits; no simultaneous submissions
Louisville Review – year-round; no limits
Lumina – year-round; 5000 words
Lunch ticket – reads year-round; currently reading for YA issue; up to 5000 words; no
identifying information on piece.
Madison Review – Sept – Dec./ Feb – May; 30 pages; $2 fee
Make – unable to find submission guidelines
Manhattanville Review – web journal; open until March 31;
Manoa – not currently accepting submissions
Massachusetts Review – Oct. 1 – April 30; 8000 words/30 pages; $3 fee; mailed ok
McSweeney’s – Sept 1- May 31; no length limits;
Memorious – year-round; no limits; online journal
Meridian – Aug 15- Dec. 12; Jan 15 –April 14; no limits indicated; $2 fee
Michigan Quarterly Review – year-round; up to 7000 words; mail
Mid-American Review – year-round; 6000 words
Minnesota Review - Aug 1- Nov 1; Jan 1 – April 1; 10000 words
Mississippi Review – submissions only received during contest on Aug 1 – Jan 1; $15 fee; 8000
words.
Missouri Review – no length restrictions; $3
Mount Hope – year-round; 5000 words
n+1 – print and online journal; difficult to find submission guidelines
Narrative – contest ends July 15; year-round reading; April 1-15 – no fee/otherwise $3 fee; 5002000 for short short; up to 15000; accepts novella length
Nashville Review – Sept 1 – Oct 1/Jan 1 –Feb 1/ May 1 – June 1; 8000 words; one
submission/reading period
Natural Bridge – year-round (do not read in summer, but will read it when fall term begins); no
limits; $3 fee
New England Review – Sept. – May 31st; $3 fee
New Letters – Oct 1 – April 31; 5000 words; mail
New Madrid – Aug 15 – Oct 15; Jan 15 – March 15; 20 pages; themed issues
New Millennium Writings – Jan – April; contest submissions in fall (online subs for contest);
mail
New Ohio Review – Sept 15 – April 15; mail or online ($3); no length noted
New Orphic Review – year-round; 10000 words; mail (Canada address)
New Orleans Review – web content – up to 2500 words; science fiction open to Dec. 2014
New South – year-round; 9000 words; $3 fee
Nimrod International Journal – Jan 1 – Nov 30 (closed in Dec); 7500 words; mail
Ninth letter – Sept 1 – Feb 28; up to 8,000 words; submit only 2 pieces per reading period
Noon – yearly publication; mail
The Normal School – Sept 1 – Dec 1/ Jan15 – April 15; no length limits noted
North American Review – no simultaneous submissions; not currently open for fiction.
North Carolina Literary Review – Jan 1 – Feb 15 – for competition; fiction only accepted in
contest
North Dakota Quarterly – Sept 1 – May 1; no length limits; mail
Northern New England Review – year-round; Sept 1 – Oct 31 for yearly publication –
submissions after 10/31 held until next year; 2500 words; mail
Notre Dame Review – Sept – Nov/Jan – March; mail
Oklahoma Review – Aug 1-Oct 15, Jan 1 – March 15; up to 30 pages; online publication
One Story – Sept 1 – May 31; 8000 words;
Orion – Sept 1- 15 (3 open submission periods/year); 5000 words
Orange Coast Review – not currently open
Oxford American – 4 reading deadlines for issues; no length limits
Pacifica Literary Review – Sept 15- May 15; 6000 words (flash 500-1000); themed issues
Pearl – Jan – June; 1200 words (4000 for contest); mail
PEN America – no unsolicited subs right now
Per Contra – 4500 words; email submission
Persimmon Tree - must be over 60 yrs + female; year-round; 3500 words
Phoebe – Aug 15 - ??; 4000 words
The Pinch – Aug 15- April 5th; 5,000 words; up to 3 flash pieces in one set
Pleiades – Aug 15- May 15; no limits indicated
Ploughshares – June 1 –Jan 15; 6000 words; $3 fee
PoemMemoirStory – exclusively women writers; Jan 1- March 31; 15 pages;
Portland Review – reading until Sept 1; 5000 words;
Post Road – Feb 1 – April 1/ June 1 – Aug 1; no limits; $3 fee
Potomac Review – Sept 1 –May 1; 5000 words;
Prairie Fire – year-round; 10000 words; mail (Canada Address)
Prairie Schooner – Sept 1 – May 1; no limits
Prime Number – year-round; online journal; 5000 words
Prism International – year-round; 25 pages; $3 fee;
Puerto del Sol – Sept 15- Dec 1; Jan 1 – March 1; no limits mentioned
Queen City Review – up to 5000 words; rolling submissions- reading from Dec. to April 30th.
r.k.v.r.y. – Sept 1- May 31; work should relate to theme of recovery (in all its forms); 3000
words
Redivider – year-round; 10000 words;
Red Rock Review – Sept 1 – Nov 30/Jan 1 – May 31; no simultaneous submissions; 5000 words;
email submissions
Reed – current reading period ends 11/1; 5000 words;
River Styx – May 1 – Nov. 30; no limits; mail
Roanoke Review – Sept 1 –Jan1; online journal; 5000 words
Room Magazine - women only; year-round; 3500 words
Ruminate – currently accepting stories for contest; difficult to find other submission guidelines
Salamander – Sept 1 – April 30; no limits
Salmagundi – Nov 1 – Dec 1; 12000 words; email submissions
Salt Hill - Aug 1- April 1; 30 pages
Santa Clara Review – no guidelines – online submissions
Santa Monica Review –year-round; mail
Seattle Review – year-round; long form – 40-90 pages; no simultaneous submissions
Sewanee Review – Sept 1 – May 31; mail
Shenandoah – Sept. 12-April 5; 20 pages;
Slake – indefinite hiatus
Slice – Jan 1- March 1; themed issues; 5000 words
Sonora Review – Sept 1 – May 1; 10,000 words; 1/6 months; $3
So To Speak – Aug 20-Oct 25/ Jan 1 – March 15; 4500 words; contest in spring reading season
South Carolina Review – mail; no simultaneous submissions
South Dakota Review – year-round; 6000 words; from or about American West
Southeast Review – year-round; 7500 words; 2/year
Southern Humanities Review – year-round; 3500-15000 words;
Southern Indiana Review – Sept1- April 30; short stories/novellas/novel excerpts
Southern Review – reading Sept. – Dec. 1; mail; up to 8000 words
Southwest Review – Sept - May; 3500-7000 words; character-centered stories; $2
Sou’wester – Aug – early Spring (?); 1/period; no limits noted
Story Quarterly – up to 6000 words; $10 fee + issue
Subtropics – Sept1-April15; $3 fee (except Setp1-15);
The Sun – mail; year-round; only publishes 1 fiction/issue; discourages simultaneous
submissions
Sycamore Review – Sept 1 – March 31; 2/year; (stories with good endings)
Tampa Review – Sept 1 – Nov. 30; mail or online ($3); up to 5000;
Texas Review – Sept 1 – April 31; no simultaneous submissions; mail or online ($3);
Third Coast – Sept 15 - ??; 8000 words; 1 at a time
Theepenny Review - Jan 1- Jun 30; no simultaneous submissions; 4000 words;
Timber Creek Review – year-round; 10 pages; online journal; 1 at a time/3 per year;
Tin House – Sept 1- May 31; themed and non-themed issues; 10000 words; 1 at a time
TriQuarterly – Oct 15 – April 15 (could be July 15 – confusing); 3500 words;
Tweed’s (The Coffin Factory) – year-round; $15 fee (submit up to 3 pieces and get copies of
current issues)
Upstreet – Sept 1 – March 1; 5000 words; 2 at a time;
Vermont Literary Review – Sept 30 – March 31; 4000 words; mail; no simultaneous submissions
Virginia Quarterly Review – June 15-July 31/Oct 1 – Nov 15; 2000-10000 words;
Wake: Great Lakes Thought and Culture – open in Fall; no limits
War, Literature, and the Arts – year-round; could not find submission guidelines
Water-Stone Review – Oct 1- Dec 1; 8000 words; $3 fee; 1 at a time
Weber Studies – year-round; 4000 words; mail or email; focus on contemporary American West;
West Branch – Aug 15- April 1; 30 pages; 3 subs/period
Westchester Review – must have connection to Westchester region; 5000 words; mail or email;
Western Humanities Review – Sept 1- April 15; 7500 words; $2 fee;
Willow Springs – Sept 1 – May 31;
Witness – Sept 1 – Nov 15/Jan 15 – March 31(themed issue); no limits noted
World Literature Today - see calendar for important themes/dates; 2500 words
Yale Review – no guidelines other than reading mag; mail
Zoetrope All Story – up to 7000 words; contest submissions accepted online (perhaps all subs?)
Zone 3 – Aug 1- April 1; no limits noted
ZYZZYVA – Aug 1 – Nov 30; Jan 1 – May 31; no limits; mail
Pushcart Prize nominations as provided by Clifford Garstang at cliffordgarstang.com
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Ploughshares
Conjunctions
Tin House
Southern Review
One Story
Paris Review
Zoetrope: All Story
A Public Space
Threepenny Review
Kenyon Review
Georgia Review
Noon
McSweeney’s
Gettysburg Review
New England Review
Missouri Review
Ontario Review ©
Iowa Review
New Letters
Virginia Quarterly Review
Agni
Boulevard
Shenandoah
Epoch
American Short Fiction
Antioch Review
Sun
Narrative
Ecotone
Five Points
Mississippi Review
Bellevue Literary Review
StoryQuarterly
TriQuarterly
Witness
Colorado Review
Glimmer Train
Prairie Schooner
Hudson Review
Michigan Quarterly Review
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Crazyhorse
Yale Review
Willow Springs
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Alaska Quarterly Review
American Scholar
Idaho Review
Cincinnati Review
Third Coast
Image
Oxford American
Post Road
Chelsea ©
J Journal
Little Star
Manoa
Pen America
Speakeasy ©
Florida Review
Indiana Review
Massachusetts Review
New Orleans Review
News from the Republic of
Letters
Sonora Review
Water-Stone Review
Black Renaissance Noire
Caribbean Writer
Harvard Review
Mid American Review
Pinch
Pleiades
Raritan
Salmagundi
Univ. of Georgia Press
Wigleaf
Granta
Beloit Fiction
Black Warrior Review
Fiction
Fiction International
Hopkins Review
New York Tyrant
Ninth Letter
North American Review
Sewanee Review
Southwest Review
Another Chicago Magazine
Appalachian Heritage
BkMk Press
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Blackbird
Event
Fourteen Hills
Gulf Coast
Northwest Review
Notre Dame Review
Other Voices ©
River Styx
Western Humanities Review
[sic]
Akashic Books
American Letters &
Commentary
At Length
Boston Review
Briar Cliff Review
Brooklyn Rail
Brooklyn Review
Calyx
Carve
Chautauqua
Cimarron Review
Columbia Review
Confrontation
Crab Orchard Review
Daedalus
Electric Literature
failbetter.com
Faultline
Fifth Wednesday
Inkwell
Paper Street © (?)
Passages North
Press 53
Redivider
Southampton Review
Sou’wester
The Journal
Timber Creek Review (?)
Turnrow
West Branch
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