Want to share your creative writing with a wider audience? Flaunt the status of being a "published author" to the world? Or build up your CV/resume for grad school? Consider publishing your work in any of the outlets below, using these tips. Remember--publishing takes time, and you'll get rejected more than you're accepted! Stay patient, and don't take rejections to heart. ​​

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• A basic guide to literary journals and magazines

• How to submit your writing

• How to tell if a journal is a good fit for your work

• Mistakes to avoid when submitting

• Research journals to submit to using Duotrope

• Chill Subs submission opportunities database

• Heavy Feather Review submissions list

• Midst Press: watch poets write!

 

 

National Undergraduate Literary Magazines

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• 30 N/North Central Review (North Central College).

• The Albion Review (Albion College). 

• Analecta  (UT Austin). 

• ANGLES (St. John Fisher College).

• The Blue Route (Widener University).

• Bridge (Bluffton University). 

• The Broken Plate (Ball State University)

• Collision Literary Magazine  (University of Pittsburgh).

• Dark River Review (Alabama State University)

• Equinox (University of Arkansas).

• Furrow (UW Milwaukee).

• Glass Mountain (University of Houston).

• Inscape (Washburn University)

• Kudzu Review (Florida State Unversity). 

• Long River Review (University of Connecticut)

• Mangrove (University of Miami). 

• Mistake House Magazine (Principia College).

• The Mochila Review (Missouri Western State University).

• Nebo (Arkansas Tech University). 

• New Limestone Review (University of Kentucky). 

• Oakland Arts Review (Oakland University)

• Outrageous Fortune (Mary Baldwin College). 

• Owen Wister Review (University of Wyoming).

• Plot #2 (Ashoka University)

• Polaris (Ohio Northern University). 

• ​Prairie Margins (Bowling Green State University). 

• The Quaker (Malone University)

• Quirk (University of the Incarnate World)

• Red Cedar Review (Michigan State University).

• Red Rook Press 

• Runestone (Hamline University).

• Sagebrush Review (University of Texas at San Antonio).

• Short Vine (University of Cincinnati).

• Sigma Tau Delta Rectangle (for members of Sigma Tau Delta).

• Sink Hollow (Utah State University).

• South 85 Journal (Converse College).

• Sucarnochee Review (University of West Alabama)

• Underground (Georgia State University)

• The Vermillion Literary Project (University of South Dakota).

• Voices (Midwestern State University). 

• Zaum (Sonoma State University)

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Good Literary Magazines That Are Easier to Break Into

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• A Dozen Nothing

• Able Muse Review (metrical rhyming work) 

• About Place (poems of place)

• The Afterpast Review 

• Anomaly Poetry

• Apricity Press

• As It Ought to Be

• Atlanta Review

• The Avalon Literary Review.

• Axon: Creative Explorations

• The Bangor Literary Journal

• Barnstorm Journal

• Beestung (nonbinary writers)

• Better Than Starbucks (takes rhyming work) 

• Black Coffee Review

• Black Stone/White Stone

• Bleach

• Blood Tree Literature. 

• The Bluebird Word

• The Blue Nib Literary Journal

• Book of Matches

• The Bookends Review (takes rhyming work)

• Canary (environmental work) 

• Cantos

• Canyon Voices

• Cathexis Northwest Press

• Change Seven Magazine

• Clementine Unbound (takes rhyming work)

• The Closed Eye Open

• The Courtship of Winds

• Crack the Spine.

• Delirious Hem (work about literature, film, and TV)

• Delta Poetry Review

• Drunk Monkeys

• Embark 

• Emerge Literary Journal

• Eunoia Review.

• Euphony Journal

• Exit 7

• Feral

• Flare

• Flycatcher (a journal of place).

• Griffel

• Gyroscope.

• Harbor Review

• Hare’s Paw

• Hog River Press

• Hole in the Head Review

• Identity Theory

• Imitation Fruit

• Invisible City

• Jellyfish Review. ​

• Jet Fuel Review. 

• The Keeping Room (women writers)

• Landlocked

• Libre

• Litro. 

• Loch Raven Review

• Luna Station Quarterly. 

• MacQueen’s Quinterly (takes rhyming work and humor)

• Masque & Spectacle.

• MisFit Magazine

• Mockingheart Review

• Molecule.

• Mulberry Literary

• Not Ghosts but Spirits (women and queer writers)

• Novus Literary Magazine

• Offcourse

• Open Journal of Arts and Letters

• The Opiate (focused on form) 

• The Orchards Poetry Journal (for writers over 50)

• Origami Poems Project.

• OVS Magazine. 

• Oyster River Pages.

• Peatsmoke Literary Journal

• Panopy, A Literary Zine.

• Parentheses Journal. 

• Passager 

• Peauxdunque Review

• Persimmon Tree (for women over 60)

• ​The Phare

• Pithead Chapel.

• Poetry South.

• Ponder Review.

• Posit (for women over 50)

• Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry

• Quartet Journal 

• Raven’s Perch

• Red Eft Review

• Red Fern Review

• Rise Up Review (protest poetry)

• River Heron Review

• RockPaperPoem

• Rusty Truck

• Sad Girl Diaries

• Sand Hills Literary Magazine

• The Scarred Tree

• Seashores Haiku Journal (haiku)

• Shark Reef

• Sheila-Na-Gig

• Sky Island Journal

• Slippery Elm journal

• Smoky Quartz

• Soundings East Magazine

• South Florida Poetry Journal

• Stickman Review (activism, young writers)

• Sublimations

• Suburban Witchcraft​​​​

• Sugar Mule.

• The Sunlight Press

• Third Wednesday

• Tiny Wren Lit​​​​​​

• Tipton Poetry Review

• Unleash Lit

• Up the Staircase (takes rhyming work)

• Vilas Avenue

• Waccamaw.

• Weatherbeaten.​

• The Wild Word

• The Woolf

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More Competitive Literary Magazines 

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• 3Elements Review

• Adanna (women writers)

• Alium

• Anthropoid

• Arkana Magazine 

• The Banyan Review

• Barnstorm

• Barzakh Magazine

• bath magg

• Bear Review

• Berkeley Poetry Review

• Blue Earth Review

• BODY

• Booth

• Bracken

• Briar Cliff Review

• Brooklyn Review

• Calyx

• Cold Mountain Review

• Comstock Review

• Conduit

• Descant

• The Dewdrop

• Door Is a Jar

• Doubleback Review

• Dream Pop Journal

• Driftwood Press (prose poetry)

• Dunes Review

• The Elevation Review

• FIYAH (speculative fiction by Black writers)

• Fourteen Hills

• Glass: A Journal of Poetry

• El Portal

• elsewhere 

• Figure 1

• Foundry

• The Fourth River (place-based writing)

• Fugue

• Gargoyle Magazine

• Glassworks

• Grist

• Halfway Down the Stairs

• The Headlight Review (themes of medicine, illness, disability)

• The Healing Muse 

• The Hopper (environmental literature)

• Indianapolis Review

• Iron Horse Review

• Janus Head

• La Vague

• Lunch Ticket

• The Madison Review

• The Manhattan Review

• The Marrow Poetry

• Mary

• MAYDAY Magazine

• The Maynard

• Midway Journal

• MIDLVLMAG

• Moist Poetry Journal

• The Moth Magazine

• Mount Hope

• Nashville Review

• Occulum

• The Offing

• Oxidant Engine

• Palooka

• The Passionfruit Review

• The Penn Review

• Phoebe Journal

• Pidgeonholes

• The Pinch

• Pinwheel

• Powder Keg

• Prelude

• Psaltry and Lyre

• Puerto Del Sol

• Radar Poetry

• Raven Review

• RipRap

• River & South Review

• River Teeth (nonfiction)

• Rogue Agent

• The Rupture

• Scapegoat Review

• Screen Door Review  (queer Southern writers)

• Slab

• So to Speak

• Split Lip Magazine

• Stirring (for Southern writers)

• Swamp Ape Review

• Sweet

• SWWIM Magazine

• Susurrus 

• Thimble Literary Magazine

• Thrush

• Tiger Moth Review

• Timber

• Tinderbox Poetry

• Tinge Magazine

• Twenty Bellows

• Two Hawks Quarterly

• A Velvet Giant

• Water-Stone Review

• Waxwing​

• West Trestle Review

• Westchester Review

• Whale Road Review

• Wordpeace (social justice writing)

• Your Impossible Voice

• Zocalo​

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