The Georgia Review
journalUniversity of Georgia quarterly of essays, poems, fiction, and art. Pays contributors.
University of Georgia quarterly of essays, poems, fiction, and art. Pays contributors.
Ohio State University's literary magazine, publishing poetry, fiction, and nonfiction since 1973; co-administers the Wheeler Poetry Prize with Ohio State University Press.
Storied Ohio journal founded by John Crowe Ransom. Reads in short windows; pays contributors.
UMass Amherst quarterly of literature, arts, and public affairs, known for pairing poetry and fiction with politically engaged essays and administering the annual Anne Halley Poetry Prize.
University of Missouri quarterly literary magazine founded in 1978; accepts submissions year-round and runs the Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize and Perkoff Prize. Pays contributors.
Quarterly of fiction, poetry, and its landmark Writers at Work interviews. Pays for accepted poems.
America's oldest continuously published literary quarterly, founded 1892. Pays contributors.
LSU quarterly founded in 1935 by Robert Penn Warren and Cleanth Brooks, publishing fiction, poetry, and nonfiction; issues sold individually.
Wendy Lesser's Berkeley quarterly. Free to submit and pays well ($200 per poem).
Online poetry journal that published short, high-compression lyric work monthly from 2011 until its final issue in November 2024; submissions are now permanently closed but the archive remains online.
Online literary magazine from Tupelo Press publishing poetry, prose, cross-genre work, translation, and reviews in rolling numbered issues.
Online literary journal publishing poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and reviews, known for pairing American writers with international writers in translation.
Bucknell University's literary magazine, founded in 1977, publishing poetry, fiction, translation, essays, and reviews; twice-yearly issues plus occasional themed folios. Pays contributors.
Quarterly online journal of short poems, micro-essays, book reviews, interviews, and pedagogy papers, edited by Katie Manning since 2015; free to submit, with optional reader tips to contributors in lieu of standard pay.
Literary journal published by Eastern Washington University's MFA program since 1977, featuring poetry, fiction, essays, and in-depth author interviews.
San Francisco literary magazine founded in 1985, known for showcasing West Coast writers and paying contributors for fiction, poetry, and essays.
Online magazine and community hub famous for its Where to Submit lists; ceased publication in 2021.
The celebrated Portland magazine closed its print quarterly in 2019; the book press and workshops continue.