Literary Journals and Contests Submission Guidelines
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- A Public Space
- AGNI
- American Poetry Review
- American Short Fiction - A quarterly, American Short Fiction strives to discover and publish new fiction in which transformations of language, narrative, and character occur swiftly, deftly, and unexpectedly. They are drawn to evocative language, unique subject matter, and an overall sense of immediacy.
- Antioch Review
- Artful Dodge - an Ohio-based literary magazine that publishes work with a strong sense of place and cultural landscape.
- Arts and Letters
- Arts and Letters PRIME
- Bear Deluxe Magazine - an environmental arts magazine published in Portland, Oregon, since 1993. Though they do look for place-based fiction, they’re not seeking stories with overtly environmental themes. “Stories that find cultural connections beyond purely a sense of place, or take radical new approaches, catch our attention,” says editor-in-chief Tom Webb.
- Blackbird
- Black Clock – Black Clock will open for submissions again in the Fall of 2012
- Black Warrior Review
- Boston Review
- Boulevard
- Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art – not accepting general
submissions at this time. However, we ARE accepting entries to our
annual writing contest.
- Colorado Review
- Crazyhorse
- Cream City Review
- Electric Literature
- Fence – If responses to your work tend to include, “I don’t get it,” or “What does it mean?” there’s a chance it belongs in Fence. Begun in the late 90s by graduates of the University of Iowa’s MFA program, Fence created a place for the writers who took up where the language poets left off.
- Fiction
- Five Points is out of Georgia State University and has published work by Madison Smartt Bell, Ursula Hegi, and Alice Hoffman. Prefers stories or self-contained novel excerpts in the 7500-word range.
- Georgia Review – “We seek the very best work whether by Nobel laureates and Pulitzer Prize winners or by little-known (or even previously unpublished) writers.”
- Gettysburg Review
- Glimmer Train – Monthly competitions.
- Gulf Stream
- Harvard Review
- Hayden’s Ferry Review
- Hunger Mountain
- Indiana Review
- Iron Horse Literary Review
- Kenyon Review
- Massachusetts Review
- McSweeneys Quarterly
- Meridian
- Mid-American Review
- Missouri Review
- Nashville Review
- New England Review
- New Ohio Review
- New Yorker – Founded in 1925 by Harold Ross, The New Yorker continues to be one of the most venerated publishers of short fiction. As such, it has helped make the careers of writers including John Updike, Haruki Murakami, Alice Munro, and Raymond Carver.
- Ninth Letter
- North American Review
- Notre Dame Review – Published semi-annually by the University of Notre Dame’s English Department, the Notre Dame Review offers innovative literary fiction. It has a circulation of 1,500 and has won Pushcart prizes in fiction and poetry.
- One Story publishes one story every three weeks in an artful, easy-to-read format, with the belief that stories are best read alone. Has published work by Judy Budnitz, Alix Ohlin, and Gregory Maguire. Simultaneous submissions OK. Submit literary fiction of 3,000-8,000 words Sept. 1-May 31.
- Paris Review
- Ploughshares
- Portland Review
- Potomac Review
- Prairie Schooner
- Quarterly West
- Redivider
- River Teeth invites submissions of creative nonfiction, including narrative reportage, essays, and memoirs, as well as critical essays that examine the emerging genre and that explore the impact of nonfiction narrative on the lives of its writers, subjects, and readers.
- Sonora Review
- Southeast Review
- Southern Review
- Southwest Review
- StoryQuarterly
- Sycamore Review
- Third Coast
- Tin House
- TriQuarterly – Out of Northwestern University, TriQuarterly was founded in 1958 and has been described by the New York Times as “perhaps the preeminent journal for literary fiction” in America. Has published John Barth, Chaim Potok, and Joyce Carol Oates. Their reading period runs Oct. 1-March 31.
- Virginia Quarterly Review
- West Branch
- Willow Springs
- Witness
