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journalBoston University journal publishing poetry, fiction, and essays with an international bent. Pays contributors.
Boston University journal publishing poetry, fiction, and essays with an international bent. Pays contributors.
Colorado State University literary journal publishing poetry, fiction, and nonfiction since 1956, with an active book review and interview series.
Biannual literary journal at the University of Colorado Denver, founded by Jake Adam York in 2002 and relaunched under Wayne Miller; known for translation folios and paying $30 per printed page.
Online poetry journal focused on new and emerging voices; pays for poems and runs frequent contests.
University of Houston-based literary journal publishing poetry, fiction, nonfiction, art, and literary translation twice a year, plus an ongoing online-exclusives series; pays contributors.
Quarterly journal of art, literature, and religious faith, known for serious, non-doctrinaire engagement with belief; pays contributors.
Founded in 1962, the University of Michigan's flagship interdisciplinary literary quarterly publishing poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and translation, with an active online counterpart (MQR Online).
Nonprofit Minneapolis press founded in 1980, known for ecological and place-based literature, publishing poetry (Ada Limón, Jake Skeets, Fady Joudah) alongside literary fiction and nonfiction.
Middlebury College quarterly known for launching major poets and writers early in their careers; pays contributors and recently added poet Matthew Olzmann as poetry editor.
Oakland-based independent press (founded 1999) for innovative poetry and fabulist fiction, publishing primarily through a slate of annual juried contests (Open Book, 1st/2nd Book, Chapbook, Broadside, and Fabulist Fiction Chapbook prizes) and distributed by the University of Chicago Press.
Online poetry-only journal publishing weekly; pays $50+ per poem and runs several prizes.
Emerson College quarterly, each issue guest-edited by a prominent writer. Pays; small online submission fee.
Founded in Chicago in 1912; the oldest monthly devoted to verse in the English-speaking world. No fee; pays by the line.
Los Angeles poetry journal known for accessibility and its Poets Respond series. No fee, pays, fast responses.
Louisville nonprofit independent press publishing poetry, short fiction, and essay; discovers new work chiefly through the Morton Prize in Poetry and Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction.
Washington and Lee University's long-running literary journal, now published online twice yearly; pays $100 per poem.
Monthly online literary magazine publishing flash fiction, fiction, poetry, and memoir, known for a voice-driven, pop-culture-inflected aesthetic and an active contributor-focused blog (Lip Service).
College of Charleston literary journal, formerly Crazyhorse (founded 1960, renamed swamp pink in 2022). Publishes poetry, fiction, and nonfiction twice a year and pays contributors.
University of Cincinnati literary journal publishing poetry, fiction, and nonfiction twice yearly, plus miCRo, a weekly online series of works 500 words or fewer; pays contributors.
University of Georgia quarterly of essays, poems, fiction, and art. Pays contributors.