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Narrative Magazine is a nonprofit literary magazine accepting year-round submissions of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and multimedia, with a submission fee and payment to authors.

The Masters Review: New Voices is an online and print publication focused on publishing and supporting new and emerging writers, especially in literary fiction and narrative nonfiction.

Open to: Emerging writers only; writers with single-author novel-length work published or under contract with a major press are ineligible.

The Masters Review Short Story Award for New Writers is a bi-annual contest recognizing outstanding unpublished fiction or narrative nonfiction by emerging writers, offering publication, agency review, and cash prizes.

Open to: writers who have not published a novel or memoir with a major press are eligible; friends, family, and close associates of the guest judge are not eligible.

Michigan Quarterly Review is a prestigious literary journal publishing fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and translations in both print and online formats, with regular themed issues and annual prizes.

Dogwood is an annual literary journal publishing poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, with an annual contest awarding $1,000 in each genre.

Open to: Current and former employees and students of Fairfield University, and current/former students of the editor, are ineligible. Incarcerated writers may submit year-round by mail or email with no fee.

LIMINAL.SPACES is a minimalist magazine focused on literature and visual art exploring environmental themes, accepting fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and art with both speculative and realist elements.

I-70 Review is a literary magazine that publishes poetry and fiction, accepting submissions annually from July 1 to November 30.

Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review is a progressive literary magazine publishing fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and visual art, with annual awards for fiction and magic realism.

The Drift is a magazine of culture, literature, and politics publishing essays, fiction, poetry, and short reviews, with a focus on new work and new ideas by young writers.

The Lemonwood Quarterly is a literary magazine publishing quarterly issues of short stories and plays, with a focus on adult female protagonists, and pays $200 per accepted piece.

The Missouri Review is a well-regarded literary magazine publishing poetry, fiction, and nonfiction of general interest, open for submissions year-round and paying $25 per printed page.

The Georgia Review is a prestigious literary journal publishing fiction, poetry, essays, and reviews, with annual reading periods and payment for contributors.

Open to: We do not publish work by current University of Georgia students.

StreetLit publishes gritty, street-focused fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and manuscripts, often accompanied by custom pixel art, and runs themed issues and contests.

Overland is a triannual Australian literary journal publishing fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, with a focus on underrepresented voices.

Driftwood Press is an independent literary magazine and press publishing fiction, novellas, poetry, and more, with a focus on craft and language.

Blue Mesa Review is a biannual literary magazine publishing poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and art, with a focus on work from or about the Southwest and marginalized communities.

The New Quarterly is a Canadian literary magazine publishing short fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction exclusively by Canadian writers.

Open to: Canadian citizens, current residents (landed immigrant, refugee, or student) living in Canada, or members of the First Nations, Inuit, or Métis peoples

West Branch is a literary magazine publishing poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and translation, with annual reading periods and payment for accepted work.

Cleveland Review of Books is a literary magazine publishing critical nonfiction, fiction, and poetry with an emphasis on formal innovation and engagement.

McSweeney's Quarterly Concern is a prestigious literary magazine publishing mostly fiction and some nonfiction, with a strong emphasis on original, non-AI-assisted work.

Colorado Review is a literary magazine publishing fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and book reviews, with a focus on contemporary themes.

The Dublin Review is an Irish literary journal publishing fiction and nonfiction, with a focus on underrepresented voices.

Grain Magazine is a Canadian literary journal publishing poetry, fiction, and literary nonfiction, with regular and special submission windows and a focus on diverse voices.

Open to: under-represented and/or marginalized writers (i.e. Black, Indigenous, or Person of Colour, 2SLGBTQ+, or Disability) may submit during this window.

Copper Nickel is a literary magazine publishing poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and translation folios, with two annual reading periods and payment for accepted work.

Broad Ripple Review is an online literary magazine publishing formally precise, emotionally resonant, and intellectually ambitious literary fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and criticism.

The Ex-Puritan is a Canadian literary magazine accepting fiction, poetry, nonfiction, interviews, reviews, and experimental/hybrid work year-round from writers worldwide.

Tongue publishes English translations of contemporary literary prose, including short stories, novel excerpts, and creative nonfiction, from any language.

Body Shots is an annual short-fiction anthology from Subtle Body Press seeking bold, voice-driven short fiction of any genre.

Torch Literary Arts publishes original fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and scripts by Black women writers, featuring Friday Features and paying $150 per accepted piece.

Open to: Black women writers, 18 years of age or older.

Chestnut Review is a quarterly literary magazine publishing poetry, flash (fiction and nonfiction), and prose (fiction and nonfiction), with a focus on beautiful language and narrative.

Open to: Must be at least 18 years of age.